A tribute to Ying Shien and other miscellaneous things

Well, it's been quite eventful since the last time I blogged, which was about 12 days ago. Within that time, I finished my final exam last friday and have since been mostly enjoying myself and occasionally doing some job hunting. On the 'enjoying myself' part, been mostly busy playing a new DDR (Dance Dance Revolution, for the uninformed) game I bought to play on my bro's PS2 the day before my final paper. I got the dancing pad ages ago to play on my computer, but the game I had for the PC sucked so I couldn't really play. Now everyday I'm happily jumping around in front of my television to techno music and looking like a blady fool until my brain spazes out and I can't tell the up arrows from the down arrows anymore. FUN!

On the 'job hunting' part, I haven't really gotten much done and still busy looking for good companies to apply for. I've actually become interested in applying for work in Singapore, even though before this that was the last place I wanted to go to coz' I hear working life there is super stressful. The place I'd really like to work in is Australia....but since finding a job there is going to be tough considering I'm a fresh grad with no working experience, I guess it would be better to get some work experience around here first, preferably in a reputable place like Singapore (sorry Malaysia, patriotism definitely ain't in my blood. :P Might help if perks were distributed based a person't merit instead of their race! You did NOT read this). Would be the best if I could fnd a Singporean company that sends their employees to Australia or some other overseas place for training! But that's certainly easier said than done.... Plus if I can get a job there, I'd earn a lot more than what I'd get here, and still can come back to Malaysia to enjoy all the good food and buy cheap stuff unlike if I wre in Aus. Then maybe one day when I'm more employable, I can find a job easily in Aus and haul my @$$ there for good. Hehe, but right now I first need to worry about finding a good job. Bleh. Dreams are so much harder when you have to work at them. -_-'

Anywayz, just yesterday I went for a funeral service for a young girl from CBC Puchong, which is the same church as me but different branch, so I didn't know the girl at all. Her name was Kim Ying Shien, and she was only 15 years old when she was diagnosed with acute leukemia last month. Over a span of a few short weeks, her condition deteriorated so quickly, even with chemotherapy, that she passed away on Monday this week.

I don't know what compelled me to go for the funeral of the girl I didn't know at all. I suspect a combination of nothing better to do, plus curiosity of what a funeral would be like in my church since I'd never experienced a CBC funeral before, had something to do with it. Which I guess sounds like dumb reasons to go for a funeral, so sue me. :Þ Anyway, I quickly found out that it was quite unlike any conventional funeral. Amidst all the crying and touching eulogies about what a wonderful girl Ying Shien was, how she was willing to bear the blame of other people's wrong, how she was didn't complain at all throughout the pain of her condition and chemo, the family of the girl and the youth of her church also played several worship songs. To most people, it would seem silly, for the family to still praise God after a sudden death of a loved one. It would be difficult for most people, even Christians to even think of praising God after something like this. But through their sorrow, they could still sing praise to God.... and after several people explained the events that led up to Ying Shien's death, such praise didn't seem so mind-boggling. Her father and several church friends, including the youth leader, told of how throughout the weeks from the time of her diagnosis to her death, they prayed very hard for her to recover. But over time, they said, God spoke to them and told them it was time to let her go. The father also said that he had a vision of his daughter being carried by Jesus throughout the time of her leukemia. He was helping to bear her pain, which was why she didn't complain once throughout her condition and after chemo, which I hear is a pretty painful process. I think somebody else had another vision about Ying Shien being with Jesus when she died, but I can't really remember the details. :P All I know it the family is rest assured they know where their daughter and its the best place she could ever be in. And even though most of the family was still in tears, the father looked quite joyous. After seeing his daughter suffer for weeks and praying desperately for her to be healed, he had learned that healing was not meant to be and he learned to let her go, knowing she would be going to a better place. A time of sadness and joy at the same time for him I guess.

Well, I didn't know this girl at all, but she was definitely loved by many. Anyhow, one day whem it's my turn to go up there, I guess I'll have my chance to get to know her. Kekekeke. Hope I can bring my DDR along with me. :Þ