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Hey folks.

How have your been?

Haven't been blogging for a while 'cause work was pretty unceasingly busy.

Good news though, after a little pitstop a few weeks ago where I was seriously wondering what I was doing elbow high in tracking and numbers related reports, S k y e Tan has been back on top since thanks to her very awesome God.

Another good news - Yesterday, I got my passport back. What happened, you ask? Well, I finally got my work permit :D

After moving here a year ago out of faith and a belief that God wants us here instead of Singapore for this season and after those months of struggling with visa and customs and all the challenges, hey hey hey, I'm a legit now ;)

And after that last stretch of stretching, guess what - My work permit took only about 5 weeks to be approved. I knew about the approval last week, just never had time to blog about it. Had to pass my passport to the migration agency and all that and it only came back today... well, yesterday with that matt plastic-y sticker stating I'm allowed to stay till *clears throat* 22 Apr 2009.

Very very awesome :)

It did mean that I couldn't do a monthly sojourn home like I planned to do so with this week and I couldn't get tickets for the May 1 stretch 'cause they have all been taken up. But I'm looking to speedily booking a trip for the next stretch of hols in June... there's a Selangor hol that falls on a Sat and at Maccers here, we are allowed to apply for the Fri or Mon off when that happens so I'm planning to see if I can take that Fri off and there was a Sat hol last month that I never replaced so I am going to see if I can take that on a Thurs and have a 4-day back home in Sg. It would be really good to just chill at home again with the cute lovely and loveable folks.

It's all really good.

You know, Melb might have ended in Feb 2005 but I kept looking back at it for a really long time but somewhere last year just before we entered 2007, when we found CCKL and the burst of conviction, realisation and understanding of the puzzle clicking into place happened, I found a purpose and clarity of why I'm here and a renewed sense of direction of why I had to leave and I can say with all that I am that I'm so glad I'm here now in Malaysia because I know I am perfectly where I am meant to be.

If you give me Melb to return to now, I would say no, however lovely it is still to me. But I'm called here, in Asia, to plant and grow that church that is relevant to this generation and I want to be here, hand to the plow doing my part to prevent young adults from falling away after they come back from overseas studies. I want to be right here in Asia doing my part pouring into young lives from near and far, affirming girls and women and all God's people of their purpose and potential. I want to build my Father's house right where I'm meant to be.

I can see my future clearly than I ever did before, despite still not knowing if or when Singapore can be where I live in again or what's really ahead.

But I can see clearly now and golly, every time I stop and look up and forward, I get this sense of baffled-ness and awe of how un-laden my heart now seems, how clearly so I can hear the beat of my heart and the taste of life on my face and lips. How it has been so for these few months.

I'm so very glad to be alive.

And I rejoice. For the King has come to give me life.