[Happy sha-la-la~] 1st milestone with you!

I made a request if we could just celebrate significant occasions and do without the monthly milestones. So I happily making my way to dinner with the simplest mind of anticipation in enjoying yummy food. When I saw you from afar, you looked at me weirdly and it explained later. Cause you were trying to hide the surprise from me! hahaha! I really never expected this, who doesn't love flowers??? And they are so colourful! So moved by your thoughtfulness, cause I don't like red, so you did not choose the red & pink roses. Happened that the next option has yellow roses~ And yes! You wrote me a message!! It has been awhile since I last saw your handwriting, of course I'm keeping it.

We went for our comfort Japanese food "Chirashizushi Shou" located at Thomson Plaza, they served rather reasonable portion and I strongly recommend their fresh oysters!! (It's always so juicy and "plump" most of the time.)  

Thank you for spending the rest of your evening with me!! And who cares about what you dressed in, already told you to come in your comfortable wear (and you wore the tee I bought)! ^^

 

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Kind gesture.

My monthly donation to my previous company has terminated after my credit card expired, my years of contribution has renewed with my recent participation in food donation. 

Actually I didn’t even pay attention to the announcement until one of my colleagues emailed the whole office to pool for it, but there was not much details about the pooling, so I decided to make my own donation. 

You know sometimes you really have to believe fate?

The food donation drive only runs for 2 days, I couldn’t make it on the first day because I went home late from work due to the bus I took broke down. I didn’t want to be super late for dinner, my shopping has to be pushed back. So the night before the last day of the food drive, I couldn’t buy a lot as I was carry some bulky gift and ended up with 2 packets of coffee and 1 packet of Milo. And I decided to try my luck in getting another packet of Milo from the convenient store that is within my workplace.

It’s about 10mins walk from my office to the drop off location and the convenient store is along the way. Unfortunately it didn’t sell Milo but I saw biscuits which was suitable and I bought 4 of them which completely filled my recycled bag. When I was making payment, I was then realised that the biscuits I took was on offer that wasn’t tagged on the display. Wow! It’s like I am being rewarded for buying more!

It really felt great to make a small contribution! And one of the ladies who was volunteering at the location even helped me picked a very nice looking apple as a token of appreciation!

Thank you, it has been awhile to feel positive from my inner self!!

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Sensei! My mentor, my life giver, Mr Ikeda!

I’m from Soka Gakkai, it’s a Japanese Buddhism. Thanks to my mum’s religious faith in Soka, I am a fortune baby (born under the practice of this wonderful Buddhism). Although I am a fortune baby, I wasn’t all along active when it comes to my faith practice. My mum brought my elder sister & I to participate in Primary Division, I stopped joining after my elder sister graduated from PD. So I was not active at all until I scored terribly for my O level and my score couldn’t get me into any polytechnic. It was a terrible feeling of fear… I started to pick up my faith again, picking up my gongyo beads and chant. At times I chanted with tears, my prayer was to get into a polytechnic and in return I will continue with my faith practice and show my gratitude through my actions. 

My very first sincere prayer I have set, it was answered. Of course, I encouraged myself to make my first step towards my faith practice, my mum went around asking for me and even accompanied me to my first institution meeting in the Student Division, that’s how I find my place in RPSD. My first encounter was with Huimin, she has a pair of tiny eyes which added a degree of seriousness to her facial expression when she wasn’t smiling. I get to know Emily when Suyi/Huiping actually suggested to Emily & I could meet up and attend our next meeting in TSC since I never been there on my own before. That’s how I became acquainted with Emily! I knew Junhu through Emily’s masterwork of using my MSN while I was away from my laptop. We only have like 6 members in my batch, subsequently, Krystal changed her school, she left RPSD but we welcomed new member, Ynez. Because my batch was small, it was very easy for the 6 of us to be quite bonded, and overall members in RP are not that many and we were just gained “independence” from NYP or NP, I very much knew almost all my seniors. 

As I pen down my thoughts, reminiscing the times when I was actively participating in Soka Gakkai, despite learning the fundamentals of faith, practice & study, there was tons of fun too… We even had regular sport connect besides campus connect (study sharing) and also chalet! Of course, I had my downs too… Going through and bearing the pain of loss, and that very year which I had to go through the pain over 3 times. And the physical tiredness from participating NDP & Chingay which I could never experienced if I’m not into practice. 

Through all the years, I really made a lot of nice friends, most importantly, I forged a very valuable friendship with Emily & Huimin! 

After I graduated from SD CIC, I moved on to being a district leader. But later on, I dropped out from being district leader “voluntarily”, even after knowing that this will be my last straw of being active in Soka. I decided to go solo and find my way to join a cultural group, Soka New Century Orchestra. It’s my 8 years in SNCO, and I am still in touch with Soka. 

All thanks to Mr Daisaku Ikeda, our Sensei. I seriously think that no one, no one is ever able to reach the same level of work he has done and he is definitely irreplaceable. He has dedicated more than half of century of his life into this, I cannot imagine the immerse amount of work and sweat he put in while keeping up the constant changes in society and also the growing of demands to continue propagating human revolution. Without his unwavering faith, I might have missed out lots of things in my life! Because of him, I get to realise I truly like music (though I’m not a pro), enjoying my weekly practice. Almost half of my lifetime I have spent in Soka Gakkai, half of me is what this organisation has shaped me into. 

Sensei, thank you for opening up a window for me when I really need it! Thank you for allowing me to have fun, laughters and also sadness with tears. You will always be in my prayers, sending you my daimoku, so you can carry them along in your next life! Thank you my Sensei! *Happy tears

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My trumpet... My commitment... ^^

It has been superrrrrr duperrrrr long that I have last blogged, not that I lost my "interest" in it, but i practically have no time... Yeah, time management issue right? *Guess so* Anyway~~~

          

*7 June' 15: My very first audition, marked my start of my journey in SNCO!

I just want to have a shout out here! Lol! The love-hate relationship with..my trumpet! With the appearance of 3rd party *braces*, I don't know if I should cry or jump in joy.... *sigh* I thought my lips have been seasoned by now, a year passed, it should bear the abrasion.. Bloody hell it didn't, added on to my frustration! 

        

*31 Jan '16: First performance with SNCO *fellow trumpeters*!!

I love and enjoy the fun during each & every practice despite the dreadful journey to Boon Lay & the sleeping devil pulling me back to bed, other than that it's perfectly... AWESOME!! Despite not being exceptionally excellent player *though I longed to be one*, but it's really my, my good fortune to be part in SNCO!! It's my dream came true!!! Hahaha!!

Must really thanks my primary school classmate, Huihong... She pulls me into band and that's how everything started! She's to blame for my 肉体上的 pain... *sobs* hahaha! I doubt she will swing by here though~~~ Moving on >>>>

  

*29 May'16: 2nd performance :) with all the other xiaomeis & xiaodis!

 

Can't wait for another year whereby I can, hopefully to remove my braces~~~really really hope to become good use to my section rather than being burdensome to them... And now I'm occupied one of their parts, which is the 3rd trumpet! Lol! I'm sure that comrade of ours is looking forward to that day to have it back! Really wish to stay at where I am for the longest!!!!

*29 Oct' 16: With the Super "classical" version of performance, whole new level and experience for me! - I was questioned shouldn't I be in kotekitai before going into SNCO? I only know the existence of SNCO~~~ lol! But come to think of it, partly because of Li Li!!! She knows I played instruments so she ask me to go to SNCO audition! Hahaha!

I totally fell in love with SNCO, being together with all the seniors & juniors... Slowly slowly get to know all the little siblings, I really hope we can continue to strive together HAND IN HAND!!! I'm so grateful to my fellow trumpeters for accepting meeeeeeeeee!!! Everything about me!! *Super big smiles*

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