Quick Recap~~~

Just want to quickly update what happened back on 8th March 2011... Amidst my frustration of waiting and dealing with JYJ concert tix, God still shows His love and kindness to me without limit :) The day started and ended as follow:

• Mom and Dad happened to arrive on-time. Note that they were flying Garuda, which is infamous for their unpredictable delays. And it made me realised how He made me get up, had shower and finally took exactly the right bus to arrive on-time at the airport. I think I waited for around 5 minutes only and my parents already walked out from exit A/B... Gosh!!! And the taxi didn't queue up at all... So all good.
• Mom and Dad stayed at Addison Hotel on Anzac. This hotel didn't have proper trolley to have patrons carry their luggages upstairs. Mom and Dad had one small luggage each, but then they had two HUGE luggages which apparently contained me and my sisters' stuff... Imagine we had to manage to carry all of them to their room at level 2. But somehow we managed to do so without anyone complaining or getting hurt :p Praise the Lord again. And more importantly, they LIKED the room! Excellent!
• Getting contact lense and taking dad to his GP. God had also arranged the time so well that all of these activities were done perfectly, even still allowing Mom to shop some bread at Coles. Although it started with Dad's GP closed for lunch at first, but at the end, things were running very smoothly. My personal miracle happened here. When I was picking up my contact lenses, I already planned to get help from the optometrist there to put them on, coz I really suck at this. Guess what?? I took only LESS THAN FIVE MINUTES to put both of lenses into my eyes whereas normally I took at least 10 minutes to get one done properly. Who else if it's not His invisible but true hands who helped me back then??? Gyaaahhhh~~
• The make-up! Mom did so well and waaaayy better with my make-up compared to one I had for my Bachelor. I meant the make-up before was great too, but this time was actually greater!!! I felt very good since I was still at home and it was the first time I looked myself at the mirrors provided at gown collection point and told myself that I looked pretty! Coz I really liked how I looked back then XD It was quite hard to believe that it was really me :p LOL! So, thank God as well for that :)
• The pre-graduation activities. Me and parents arrived at uni at about 4.45PM and my ceremony was the 6.30PM one... I was worried because other than queuing for gown collection, Mom and Dad wanted to take photos and ordered some placates and graduation DVD. All these activities, plus lining up and I needed to register by 6PM... I was wondering how they would all fit in such limited time frame. But praise the Lord, the gown collection and other activities didn't have long lines and I managed to finish everything on time and registered 5 minutes before 6PM XD
  
• One little detail, but I was so sure that was one of the important factor that made that day very blessed. Mom and Dad actually managed to get some sleep during their flight from Bali. Apparently the flight was pretty empty and they managed to get all 4-seats empty each, so they could actually lie down and slept comfortably. I was actually worried they didn't get enough sleep and would be completely worn-out during the big day. But God had even taken that point into account and set it up nicely from the beginning XD Amazing!
• Friends attending... Was a bit taken aback coz Evi notified just the night before that she couldn't attend the actual ceremony coz she needed to be at her bro's school... As usual, responsible big sister ^^ And I was stupidly scared that no one would even turn up to take photos XD This time, I really didn't invite a lot of people to attend (and a bit regretful to find out later how Nina and Justina would love to attend too T.T) coz I thought I didn't have enough time to take photos with all those pre-graduation activities listed above to do. But God really intended to make that day perfect for me that He actually sent most of the people I invited showing up! Even one of my friend who was unsure he would be able to come due to work actually spared his time to come down from his office and shared my joy (thanks Gordon!). I was so busy taking pictures with everyone and felt bad coz I didn't properly attend to each one of them due to all of them coming down at once... Really praise the Lord and I prayed that He blessed these people for they were used by Him to make me specially happy girl that day ^^
• The graduation ceremony. Really really thank God that I DID NOT FALL! Not when I was walking on the stage to receive the award, and not when I walked down the small set of stairs to return to my seat, coz some girls did fall... Phew~~
• Post-graduation dinner. Was lovely too ^^ Perfect to end and wrap up the day. Going home felt 120% blessed and very happy inside! Evi and Julz stayed up for sometimes before leaving back home too. These two were my special guests :P Oh oh, didn't expect to see Nita turning up after the ceremony! She was there to attend her friend's ceremony too. Very very happy to see her and amused to see how she was excitingly reunited with Julz.... High school buddies ^^
  

That's about the size of it... BIG, hey?? And it was amazing coz up to the point when I was leaving for uni, I was still worried and felt sick inside thinking about JYJ tix which were still unsure back then.... I think coz I was cancelling my order from JYJ Indo, then I would need to get them to refund my money. At that time I didn't have any idea if the money could ever be refunded, and didn't want to think the end of it when I had to talk to my mom and told her the worst possibility that the money was gone... But when I started meeting people, maybe coz I kept smiling and smiling, all the worries disappeared and replaced with joy and happiness! I didn't even remember a thing about JYJ anymore afterwards. Really a good and very well needed distraction!

That day made me learn two things. First, when you smiled, it really had the power to shoo away any uneasiness weighing down inside... Second, I remembered the night before the day I was praying to Him with this sense of hopelessness because I really couldn't imagine how tomorrow would turn out to be. I had so many thoughts in my mind and I just figured out I couldn't handle all of them well. I couldn't even think of a way how to try to manage all of them to make sure they would be in right places. Picking up parents, picking up contact lenses, and graduation ceremony at night... Gaaahhh~~ Really thought it would all be messy and just had a glimpse of it in my mind already tired me out on top of JYJ stuff. So I told God that I'm leaving everything in His hand because I couldn't and didn't want to think about any of it anymore. It felt too much. I said please helped me to go through tomorrow, and made things right for me. That only, and see what He did the next day... Definitely this day taught me the power of prayer which said with full surrender of your problems to His hands. I suppose, it was a strengthening event to me in dealing with JYJ stuff. I have been praying, and I need to also strengthen my faith that everything has been in His care, and surely would turn out in the best way for both me and Evi :)


Ms. J :)