Greetings from Hangzhou!

Life has been pretty full of ups and downs here in Hangzhou, so much to update, yet so hard to type it down into words. I am greatful of God's love that sustains me every single day and His promises that strengthens me whenever I feel weak. 

Having to know so many awesome and great colleagues that I have never thought that they could be so nice to me, and also learning the basic fundamentals of hotel management was an eye opening experience for me. I'm pretty thankful of the fact that our internship for F&B is rotatable, which means having the opportunity to try out different F&B departments in Four Seasons, unlike the other interns here that have to be stuck in one department throughout their internship days. 

But even though the days here are pretty enjoyable, there were still times where God places challenges in my life, the challenge of loving the unlovable, the challenge of discovering your true self and having to discern whether it is right or wrong and even putting my whole heart and soul into believing and trusting God behind every circumstances that happened in my life. To be honest my time spent with God was not as productive as who I am back in SG, I spent lesser and lesser time following up on online sermons from church and even writing my own journal. But I really thank God for placing people in my life to make be accountable for whom I am, with Jinfeng giving me online shepherding, my mom skyping me every single day and of course, friends whom I missed which makes me appreciate the goodness of technology today. :D 

God being real, disciplines me whenever I am disobedient. Gastroenteritis gave me a huge discipline on the food I'm eating as it became a source of temporal means that fills up my heart whenever I am feeling down, bingeing on junk. But it was an eye opening experience, going to the A&E in the middle of the night with only two nurses on duty, having a super weird injection and queuing and squeezing into one consultation room with the other patients waiting to see the doc. It's really.... unacceptable in SG yet an eye opening experience for me. 

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Missing Singapore, appreciating my home became what I reflect on every single day. My heart breaks sometimes, when I had so much to catch up on with the life back in Singapore after long tiring days at work, that I started asking myself why the heck am I doing here...... but God constantly reminds me of how He has placed me into this internship placement and how I just have to trust Him in the plans He have for me here, even though I am still figuring it out. But whatever the case, God's mercy is new everyday. :) 

And so, 81 more days back to Singapore. 

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