Life update

It’s nearly a year since I moved to London. Life has been both exciting and not so exciting. We have just celebrated our 1st wedding anniversary and we have both settled down well.

This is the first time I have experienced the ‘full season’ from Summer to Spring. The season I love the best? Everyone would definitely say the same-SUMMER! Where the weather is warmer, the flowers are blooming and people are everywhere to enjoy the nature and sunshine. The my-not-so-favourite season? WINTER! Gloomy weather, cold and rarely see the sun. It’s as if the sun is ‘hibernating’ during winter. If you do see the sun during winter, you would hear people ‘rejoicing’, yea, it’s that ‘sampat’ (crazy).

Well, gone are the days where I used to wake up at 10am, and just ‘lepak’ (relaxing) at home. I have since volunteered my time to help out in church. Holy Trinity Brompton has 3 blocks of office, each block has 4 floors, and they have 300+ staffs! So instead of finding jobs online, I decided to just spend my time helping out, at the same time to build up my confidence.

I supposed you could call it God’s favour, all my life I have pastors surrounding me. I have the privilege to work as PA for Pastor Noah back in Youth Aflame. Those ‘tormentoring’ times is coming in handy 🙂 We had Pastor Victor and Pastor Kelly as our marriage counsellor, and now, I’m working for one of the clergy in HTB. He’s in charged of many departments with one of it was Global Alpha Training (GAT). It’s more of organizing spreadsheets and emails. Alpha International week is coming up, so I’m gonna be even busier helping out.

London, can be both a exciting and not so exciting place to be in. It’s a huge metropolitan city where you get to meet many internationals. I get to meet a German lady (who loves Malaysian food!) and a Philippine lady under one roof (in the office). You get to meet different cultures and you exchange your experience with each other. But it could also be a lonely place if you don’t have much friends, since London is very individualistic. I think every big city is almost the same, where people in the city care less about other people around them.

It’s been a very interesting year for me. I can’t wait to look forward to what God has installed for me. Cheers!

Life is abt growing 🙂

 

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1st Wedding Anniversary

At this date one year ago, I could still remember we were busy preparing ourselves for the BIG DAY. It felt like it just happened yesterday! A thousand blinks of the eye (feels like one blink), a year has passed. We would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who has impacted our lives.

First and foremost, we want to thank God for bringing us together, not just the 2 of us, but 4 big families 🙂 Foos, Chews, Hoois and the Tans. And sustaining us through our 8 years of LDR. We really want to be a blessing to other people through us.

Of course, without our families, we won’t be here! Thanks mum and dad (both sides) for bringing us up and raising us the best you could ever do. Couldn’t say enough thank yous on the sweats and tears you guys have gone through for us. We will try our best to bring the next generation :p (akan datang, not yet, be patient ya!) know you guys are itching to have grand kids :p To our siblings, the fights and laughter we shared, without you guys, life is just so dull, haha.

To our marriage counsellor, Pastor Victor, Pastor Kelly, Pastor Noah, Florence and Gianna too! We like to say a big thank you for guiding us through, and giving a positive influence into our marriage life. We always enjoy catching up with you guys whenever we could when we are in KL. 

To Youth Aflame, thank you for lending a hand during our wedding day. Your ‘labour’ will always be remembered :p Miss you guys back home. I really miss those days where we used to spend most of the Sat and Sun in church. Keep on building the next generation! You guys are doing well.

To our friends, thank you for for crossing into our path, your friendship to us means a lot. We like to specially single out 2 of our very close friends- Yurie and Tjin Earl. Yurie, thank you for being such a great friend and a brother to us and especially to Shern. To Tjin Earl, congrats to you too on getting married in March. We have known each other since form 6, and stuck by each other ever since. 

Thanks Yurie and Ying Dee!

We enjoyed ourselves today by going out for nice dinner. First year into our marriage, we have learned a lot even though we have dated for 8 years. Learning each other’s habits, patterns, likes and dislikes. Learning to resolve conflicts, to care for each other. To be more understanding and gentle to each other. We really enjoy each other’s companionship. 

                                       

 

 Thank you everyone for your well wishes! You guys are truly a great blessing to us! Cheers!

Love,
Shern & Rachel

Manchester, Liverpool, Royal Wedding…

It was a very long bank holiday. Good Friday and Easter is a national bank holiday, so Shern decided to take 3 more days off to make it one week. Good chance to get out of London!

So on Monday, we travelled up to Manchester by Virgin train. It only took us 2 hours and 40 mins to reach. Reached there about 1pm, check into the hotel and have lunch in a Japanese restaurant. Although we are not Man Utd supporters, that doesn’t stop us from visiting the stadium. It has 74,000 capacity but we were surprised to see how small it is. Doesn’t feel that big :p. After the stadium tour (wasn’t too happy how long we waited) we went for dinner. The only thing that brightens the day! The dinner was nice! The restaurant was quite empty because of Bank holiday, so the food came quite fast. Oh! I forgot, it was also the first time I saw tram!! Yes! Tram! Manage to get a ride on it.

The next day, took a train to Liverpool. I must say, it looks cleaner and nicer.

Checked in to hotel ( which we didn’t really enjoy :s) and went straight into Liverpool stadium. Went for tour and finally get to go into dressing room. The first time we went, the dressing room was under refurbishment. Had a good tour and went for dinner, the dinner was just so-so. Packed up and went back home the next day on Virgin train. The most comfortable train ever! 🙂

Friday came, and it was huge! Estimated about 2 billion ppl watched it. People all over UK came down to crowd London, to see the wedding of the year, Prince William and Kate Middleton. All the media and pressure around them, I bet it must be nerve wrecking to walk down on the aisle. It was one of the longest runway for the bride to walk. They praised Kate for being able to keep her wedding gowns design in secret. No one knew till the wedding day! The whole nation was celebrating and everyone was so happy for the couple.

Quite an eventful week. Can’t wait to go back to KL!!!!! Well, not that soon, but soon. 😛

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