Reasons

Why not SIngapore? Why Newcastle or for dat matter why Australia? Many r e reasons man...i can only recount dat which is not offensive, nor classified nor too personal n liable to hurt others..

first off, Engineerin is not ma cup of tea(so to speak)..i dun forsee myself doin engineerin till i'm 50 or 60..though its stable n well-payin..its taken mi 5 years to realise dis or rather, to face reality..i suck at maths n i hate maths deep down..i dread every single equation n formula i had to memorise n learn...as well as every test i failed..but plese dun think i'm a coward.i tried for 5 years after all..

for a long time i din noe wat else to do..then i remembered my design days back in sec sch..dat was alwaez my fav subject..next to History of course..after choosin JC instead of Archi or Design at Temasek Poly, i've now come full circle to where i was aftr sec 4..i love design..its in my blood..like one day mayb ministry..God gives us only so much rope to run aroun on a leash..finalli back to where He wants us to go..not dat i can say God told mi so or something..but there seems some poetic justice in my decisions la...

n theres Australia...Gabriel choice of cambridge opened a door i'd previousli told myself was closed..dat of overseas study...my parents wanted to send mi off to UK aftr my o's act or to New Zealand after i ORD'd...i steadfastli refused mayb cos i believed in buyin brand Singapore for a long time..wateva..anywae, i realised NUS Archi was way too strict oso la..n i had to do a whoppin 7 years to qualify as architect...n its not dat great here man..e nearest was Australia n Newcastle was a good mix of cost-effectiveness, location n frankly, academic recognition (n renown) for e course..

spiritualli, i prayed a lot bout it n i had peace to go for Australia...n i felt i should experience church worship n service overseas away from my comfort zone..i've spent all my formative years in Charis which i love but, i felt spiritualli, i needed to be placed in a different church environment away from my parents to grow more balanced n more fully..n its time to learn how churches overseas do things so as to gain from e Body of Christ abroad..I've alwaez believed Christians should not be so inward lookin... n dis fosters n helps mi build my thesis..

emotionalli, i felt some issues n relationships would onli be set rite n placed in perspective if i went away for a while...i dun wanna reveal too much but all i'll say is dat i felt if i remained here, some things would just be fulfillin Vonda Sheperd's song for mi, "Baby dun you break my heart...slow"...i need to move onin some issues basically..

i hate to leave my frens man...but absence does make e heart fonder n guys, i carry e memories, well-wishes n care u hav for mi in my bosom alwaez..."n frens are frenz forever if the Lord's the Lord of them...n a fren will not say never, cos e welcome will not end..though its hard to let u go, in e Father's hands we noe, dat a lifetime's not too long, to live as frenz..." as dat song goes..with u, i'll never walk alone...right Kumu?

Come Feb 8th, i'll say as Jesus said at Gethsamane, "The Hour is at hand, rise, let us be on our way"...indeed..