I once thought I had to be 'good enough' to worship God, but apparently what I needed to do was to humbly reach out to Him because God has created the whole earth for this sole purpose: so that man would seek Him and find Him!

From one man he made all the nations, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he marked out their appointed times in history and the boundaries of their lands. God did this so that they would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from any one of us."
[Acts 17:26-27]

And it pleases Him when we seek His presence more than His blessings, and when we seek Him with all of our hearts, He will withhold no longer. The first time He unleashed His Spirit on me was when I desperately seek Him in my brokenness during a camp worship session, playing this song:

And yes, He's won my heart, right there right then! It's a whole new level of relationship with Him that I have since then. I experienced grace, and His presence was enough to set me free from the chains of fears. His Spirit leads me on!

Blessed everywhere we go =]

I have always been a home-girl before I embarked into my college life and maybe that affects my preference but most of the time I would rather stay at home than traveling to places alone. I will never ever plan a holidays by myself like some people would, unless it is free of course =p

And this year, I did get the chance to travel sponsored by Swiny to China, yes, I flew off Melb on 14 Oct ^o^ (I can't believe it was already last month! How time flies!) If u ask me why China out of all places ⌈it was just a suggestion from my supervisor and I thought that's a safe option compared to Hongkong, as I don't speak Cantonese at all..⌋ Sure, traveling alone to a land that I don't speak the language is so much more troublesome! Hence, I should minimize the possible hassle by not going to places without a chinese-speaking companion - and I have anticipated the trip will not be so much 'fun'. But God has got a different plan for me, He showed me that He could do more than I ask for and He is willing! =]

First day of the conference: nothing but registration, so we could go to the conference hotel anytime between 9am-4pm to register and that is it for the day. Fortunately it was written on the schedule so I didn't need to wake up early for nothing =p So I went to the venue at 10:30am and settled the registration very quickly, and I'd get to checkout the famous seafood place 'Shenjiamen', YAY!
What I didn't expect was I'd have a companion to go there!! This chinese guy that I met at the registration was so kind to come with me for lunch =D So, not only Shenjiamen mission accomplished, but also I made a new friend, JinDi is the name~~~ How good is God to me in this all-by-myself trip?

Second day: I came to the conference to listen to the guest speaker and sat next to a friendly girl who saw me with a handful of things and offered to put them on the empty seat next to her. Eventhough she only speaks Chinese, and my Chinese is not so good, we got the chance to chat and got to know each other's basic backgrounds =) It looked like she's not the type that chat much plus communication barrier made it harder yet she is quite a sweet girl, LiuWei. Although she left in the middle of the presentation and I thought ok byeeee, didn't think that I'd see her again, but only God knows ;)

Anyway, the presentations weren't quite related to my area of research & I was not interested to listen any longer so I also left the room, and apparently, JinDi saw me and called to arrange meet up for lunch and he asked if I'd like to join him and his friend from the same uni to go to Putuoshan after lunch, and Tadaaaa...♦ his friend is none other than LiuWei! What is the chance that the two out of hundreds people that I actually made friends with at different time, actually know each other! God is writing a story here!!!! Oh yea, the Author of my life story, Jesus, You are my BEST FRIEND, always surprises me in many ways!

And on the third day of the conference, we are divided into smaller groups for the presentations, and I chose telecommunication section (morning) over control system (afternoon) and while I was quite sleepy sitting in the room waiting for my turn, observing how the presenters talk about their stuff, and there was this girl who has brought some notes to present her project and she introduced herself in details like no other would! What's more, she is a PhD candidate too, not just a master student, and BUM! I just had the feeling that I could make friends with this girl... ♥ I WAS SO RITE ♥
Then we agreed to meet up for the day trip organized by the conference committee, + her bf & another friend from HangZhou, that made the 4 of us.. Then, + LiuWei was in the same bus with us & when she came to me I introduced her to Zhouli & she joined us since. Oh,God, You know I loved how they are so welcoming, what a nice group of friends for the beautiful day =D=D=D I am so blessed that I am not going for the day tour alone, that makes the day-tour from "it's allrite" to "AWESOME!"

Thank YOU Jesus for making me enjoy tht trip so much and not letting me feel lonely on my birthday this year ♥ ♥