Notebook of DREAMS

three cheers for me.

this blog belongs to DESIREE tan zhi ying.
desiree will be turning 21 on the 24th december 2009. she will love anything you give her, including your hugs and kisses.

you can add desiree on msn at crushgirl_18@hotmail.com or add her on facebook.
desiree studied in st. anthony's canossian primary and secondary school and later moved on to tampines junior college.
she is currently in SMU, doing her bachelors in business management and hopes to graduate by 2011.
right now, she doesn't need anything except an INTERNSHIP.

desiree is a CATHOLIC and she attends the 11am mass in the Church of the Holy Trinity every sunday with the SERAPHIM choir.
desiree is attached to the FIDES family in SMU. her life would be so different if she didn't have her Faith.

she loves to eat any kind of ICE CREAM and wouldn't mind chocolates as well.
she loves to shop and has a soft spot for shoes and dresses.

3:41 PM

Sunday, July 27, 2008

Event 2
Meeting a US Military Officer

On Thursday night, after the Papal Arrival procession at Barangaroo, Samantha and I decided to go our own way to St. Brigid’s Church for a session on SEX. Haha, yes, it was about sex. We thought it would be more of a sharing session when they broke us up into groups, but the lady, from Macau (if I remembered correctly), finished early at 8.15pm instead of 10. We had extra time to kill before we got back for our nightly session at 10.45pm at Paul Street.

So Samantha and I wanted to walk around. And we did. However, we did not expect this US Military guy to join us. He not only joined us, but he shared his entire life story with us.

Well, first of all, he is only 27, and he had three lovely children and a beautiful wife at home. I saw a picture of his baby girl, and she was so cute. How I wish I could cuddle and hold her tightly. As a military officer, he doesn’t always get the chance to go back to a wonderful home at 6pm every day. Instead, he only gets to see his family once a year, sometimes else than that. How many of us in Singapore would ever think of this? How many of us would be able to struggle with staying away from our family, our growing children and getting the chance to only see them once a year?

And, as a military officer, there are just so many things that he has to do which is contrary to what the church teaches. One of the Ten Commandments teaches us not to kill. But for him, he has to. He has to so that his comrades will not die, to protect his people, to stay live. For him, he said he had to struggle with that for a while, but somehow, after being to Iraq, Afghanistan and so many other countries, he has gotten used to it. (not that he is taking a gun going around to shoot people now)
For me, I can never imagine myself put into the situation where I have to decide between taking someone else’s life or allowing myself to take someone’s life. I don’t think I would be able to make that serious decision within a split second and most probably, I would be dead by then.

I think the fact that he is still alive and that God allows him to go back to his family once a year is just a miracle in itself.

So for all the people reading this, please pray for all the men and women sacrificing their freedom to protect their country. Pray for world peace and that less people will lose their lives during war. Pray for the women who have to face separation from their husbands. And pray for the children who would only be able to experience their father’s love from afar.

1st session of Theology of the Body.

Look at the amount of people in the auditorium!!!

This was a poster put up for pilgrims all over the world to paint. It wasn't taken on the last day, so i guess a lot of colours weren't added yet. I bet the picture on the last day turned out to beautiful.

At the Asian Youth Conference.
Saw Germaine from NUS-CSS.

Look at how desperate the people were in just wanting to get the chance to take a glance at the Pope on stage. (Did i mention i was one of them?)
The picture below is every worse!!!

Love,
Desiree