My MonEy!!!

Hi all,

apologies for this really late email. I guess it's my guilt working in me that made me delay this as long as I can. :(

When I first knew of this project, I had plenty of big plans (my mum can be my witness). I wanted to buy gifts to donate to an orphanage, plan a christmas party for orphans etc. When some kind-hearted people started giving me the details of how difficult these plans can be to implemented, I hesitated. Hesitated I was, and then exams came. After that, I was left with very little time left to plan, as kaleo camp was up, then my adventure trip to Ipoh. Along the way, I wanted to make my plans work, but I kept shying away from asking the group to combine the money to do what I planned to do, as I heard their plans and felt that mine was really lousy (hmm, as I'm typing, I wonder if I have inferiority complex).

In the end, what happened was, praise and thanks be to God, I applied online to sponsor this child that stays in Dominican Republic in October. She is eight this year and a fixed amount of money will be deducted from my account monthly to help her. This money will help her and her family, be it health care or education (many have doubted and questioned me if this is reliable. With my limited IT skills, I google-d the foundation's name and came to believe that it is. If you have good ways to find out the credibility of companies, kindly enlighten me though. :)) I have been praying to God about it, hoping that it is not a hoax, and that I am really helping this little girl. I pray that God sees my intentions. Anyway, point is, when I calculated the amount I have donated in the month of 2008, starting from Oct, it adds up to just over $100.

Summary: the $100 has been put to further this little girl's well-being. For Christmas, I donated a further $30 bucks or so, and she got a pair of jeans as her christmas present. Yay! Thanks Mr. and Mrs. Chiang for sponsoring my new friend! :)

Lessons to learn:
1. I have plans, I have passion, I want to do things, but it's all in the mind, with no real actions.
2. I might be belittling the tasks that I have been assigned, even the tasks of God's (gulps), which is why my plans did not come to fruition.
3. I am easily discouraged (which begs the question, where does my confidence lie in?)

That's all from me. :)

Yin Ting