dinner with dear's family & k-box! finally!

Yesterday, i went for dinner with dear's family and it was fabulous. The alacarte buffet was so sumptuous and i ate till i was bloated. The food was mouth watering...shark's fin soup, scallop, crab, prawns, fish, pigeon's soup, beef, venicent, mango pudding, herbal jelly, vegetables, honeydew sago etc etc.... whoa! The food was so good! Thank dear's family for being so nice to invite me along =) i really enjoyed myself sharing with his parents about our mission trip experience and all. Thank God that all went well...God is good!

us at simpang bedok after dinner at noble house.

hee...decided to take a shot of dear's car for fun. i'm quite wu liao hur hur.

and because i've been itching to go k box...and it has been a while since i last went...dear and i went for k lunch at marine parade today. We had fun singing..and we found out that they have christian songs! we saw the song 'so you would come' and we were curious..so we just picked that...and to our surprise! it's christian! hee hee. so cool. =)

a picture of us at k box!

Then, we went to walk around and sat down at venezia ice-cream shop (where hui lin used to work) and shared a cup of ice-cream. we talked for quite a while about our feelings for the mission trip...the struggles we personally went through...and how God has strengthened our relationship through this trip. Thank you dear for reassuring me today also, that no matter what struggles we have to face, you will always be by my side and together with God, things will work out according to His plan. Thank you for that affirmation. love ya.

and being a photo whore...we went snapping again. anyway, i like this photo! hee =) the pink background is nice.


anyway.....

on a more serious note...

this blog is not just updates about our dates or activities we do together. more importantly, we want our relationship to be a living testimony to many, and how God has been leading us. Just wanna share that currently, dear and i are facing a struggle with my parents. Apparently, I thought my parents were getting more open and have been considering to accept my dear as my boyfriend. But sadly, my parents just told me yesterday night, after the dinner i had with his family, that i shouldn't be serious with dear as yet. Rather, just be good friends for the time being coz i'm still young and i still have 3 years of school and at least 1-2 years finding a job and all. i was really quite upset, coz i've already committed myself to dear and God when i agreed to be in a relationship. And it's really a struggle for me, as on one hand i really love my dear and we know we are part of God's plan, yet on the other hand, i really want to honour my parents, be a filial child and not hide things from them.

sigh. dear and i was discussing about it today...and i guess we both could understand where my parents are coming from. My parents are personally pretty conservative, and they love me. My mom is not a christian, and perhaps don't understand what it means by being 'the one'. My parents don't want me to get hurt in a relationship, and always wish the best for me, hoping that my first boyfriend would be my last. They find us too young, and that i still have time to open up my options and see if i can find another guy, rather than commit myself so early. I don't really agree with them, for i know both dear and i have that conviction that we are "the one" for each other. And we've seen how God has guided us. Truly, i know God allows obstacles to come in between us, to strengthen our relationship and for us to grow.

And today, as we chat, we tried to put ourselves in my parents' shoes. If i were my mom or dad, i would probably be wary of my daughter's boyfriend as well...coz i wouldn't want her to get hurt and be taken advantage of. Whereas, it's different if my son brings back a girlfriend...as a parent, i wouldn't be that wary of his girlfriend as compared to my daughter's boyfriend.

However, it's really tough for us coz i personally do not have personal talks with my parents. It really takes a lot of courage to talk about love and issues like these. Yet, i know i've got to break the ice and talk to them..and let them understand what my relationship with dear entails...and how very sure i am that i love him. We both know that my parents need to build that trust in my dear..and it's gonna take time. We'll try not to be impatient, even though we really hope my parents would accept him and things would be so much easier...but God has His plans and i would like to ask all who are reading this to pray for us, to pray for God's guidance.

Truly, we want to build a household of faith, not a superficial and shallow relationship, but one that is built on a foundation of God's love. Together as one body in christ, we grow in love and in faith.

Lead us Father...we were once lost, but was found.

Be our shepherd, and lead us as your sheep.

Amen.