Andrew: Inside & Insights

The weekend over at Melaka was fruitful though tiring from the travelling up and down.

Another reason going back besides taking a break was to spend time with my family; visiting my roots.

I remember my childhood days where visits to Melaka were frequent for my family to spend time with my grandma and other relatives. But most of my relatives have already made Singapore their home.

Re-living my childhood memories is easy since most of the things in Melaka remains almost unchanged like the home my grandma lives. Even my aunties and uncles do not seem to age over the years.

This visit was primarily to celebrate my grandma’s 85th birthday. She has 9 sons and 1 daughter, so a grand total of 10 children. Grandchildren got aleast 13 and great grandchildren 5 and more on the way… Ha ha…

They say visiting your roots is good and I totally agree. When you study the past, you can understand the present and thus, be better prepared for the future.

For instance, most of my uncles love to drink. It made me realised why I picked the drinking bottle so easily in the past, cos I see them do it commonly when I was growing up. Indirectly, I modelled after them so that I could be part of them in order to be accepted as family.  

But of cos, family influence is just one factor. Ultimately, it’s the choices that we make in life as we assume responsiblity for our own lives.

In retrospect, now I see why God had commanded me to quit drinking; to free me and to change the curses to blessings on my family in the generations to come.

The future generations: My cousins, Jacintha and Aaron with grandma

In my own future family, I pray that I will be able to set an example of loving and serving God and His Church so that the generations of the next can model after and carry this lifestyle into their own families. Amen.

These are my two beloved nieces, Jacklyn and Jamie =) 

And here’s why I just adore them.

Watch the clip and see the make-funny-face dance…

Over the weekend I ended up in a squabble with my mum over the same nagging issues on our house chores. I hate cleaning up after the animals that my mum rears at home.

My home, it’s a mini-zoo and store house. I can clean the house, but the very next day it will be back to its original filthy state… *sianz*

I conveyed my happiness on the issue. She did the same, but her unhappiness is me.

I went out and as I walked I evaluated the situation and prayed for Holy Spirit to search my heart for any wrong in me. This commandment of God came to mind: Honor thy father and thy mother.

Haiz… at that point I knew that I had not been a good boy to God =p

Though I may have been right in what I said to my mother, but I had been rude and disrespectful in some ways with my spirit.

After an hour, I took the courage to face my wrong. I explained and apologised to my mum via sms. *Yeah!*

I “yeah!” cos this sort of situations are rare between my mum and me as we do not have this practice in communicating our feelings to one another. So its a breakthrough!

“Honor thy father and thy mother, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee; that thy days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with thee, in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee,”

Deuteronomy 5:16 (KJV)

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Yup! You guessed correctly!

They are both so cute with big dreamy eyes!!