Sweet, Sour, Salty, Bitter and Spicy in January 2012

It is always hoped that everything can start well in the first move. However, things are often not within our control.  Few days after January 1 we started to "wage wars" against the final exams. Perhaps this semester is the worst ever during my university life. I think that is why people are scared final year in accounting course. And still my coursemates and I always "fight" until the last day of final exam weeks. 

Therefore, it wasn't a good feeling because we had to suppress our Chinese New Year mood for the sake of our final exams. How suffer it was!

And finally it is Chinese New Year, and it is still Chinese New Year. However, it is better to start continue with our Final Year Project (FYP). How can we have mood to do that??? Oh GOD please give me strength and determination to do that! It is better to suffer now than later.

My Year 2011 Life Testimony

We wouldn't know sweet an apple is if we don’t want to try to have a bite; similarly we wouldn't know how true GOD is if we don’t experience HIM personally. GOD is real! I want to give all my praises to HIM for everything that I had gone through in year 2011.

For the first five months, it was my internship period. I want to thank GOD for the senior manager and seniors who are willing to help and teach me if I have any problems with my work patiently. Besides that, I want to thank HIM for the audit partner who often generously provided us tea-breaks (with kuehs, pizzas, grilled chicken wings etc) and sometimes small birthday celebrations for the staffs. I think that is an encouragement to work harder. Before we ended our internships, we even had Indian buffet farewell lunch with all the staffs. Furthermore, most of the clients are kind.

From June to August, those months were my long semester breaks. Besides having good rests, GOD guided me with my Japanese Language Proficiency Test (JLPT) and protected me while I was away from my hometown.

After the end of the breaks, the remaining months in that year were the first semester of my final year of study. It was quite challenging, hectic and tough life that period. Without HIM, I don’t think I can go through all those I had gone through.

One of these challenges is my Final Year Project (FYP). I got stuck in the beginning when I wanted to find a supervisor. I realized that many good supervisors had no quota to accepting new supervisees. In the midst of worries and fears, I managed to find a supervisor at very last minute, as we had deadline for the submission of supervisor form. The supervisor questioned me whether I have met with other supervisors as her quota was full. I told her the truth, and she, in the end, just accepted my request.

On the other hand, in the beginning of this semester, I also experienced unsuccessful quizzes. What does that mean? Basically, that means that the quiz was kept postponed for 2 times; we studied that same thing over and over again for 3 times, but fortunately or unfortunately there was no test. I don’t know how to describe the feeling but I know it was complicated. Then the third time was the real one.

Apart from that, another lecturer often wanted us to present our learning topics in the first few weeks of the semester. Unfortunately, one of the presentations did crash with one of the quizzes. But later the lecturer said that the presentation would be postponed during a class few days before the day of presentation.

When I think back about the time crash, if there was not any postponing, I believe I would have problem to settle two things at a very short time, which is around 1 or 2 days. Thank GOD for saving me because I believe what the Scripture in 1 Corinthians 10: 13 says. Basically, it tells us that GOD knows our limits and HE will not give us trials that we cannot endure, unless HE provides us way out. Praise the LORD!

Apart from those events, it is sad to say that 3 out of 6 subjects that I took this semester are tough subjects in my course. Assignments are hard, and exams are super hard! Especially the final exams when we even don’t have enough time to study properly. But before I experience my hardest time in final, GOD has let me experience how real HE is by previous experiences. Those events prepared me for the hardest moment. If I can bear with small trials, then I can gradually endure the next level trial. Therefore, I believe that GOD will also guide me in my finals. I need to learn to surrender all my fears and burdens unto HIM, as mentioned in Matthew 11:28-30 from Bible “ ²⁸Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened and I will give you rest. ²⁹Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. ³⁰For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”

I believe that if I trust in HIM continually, I would be able to experience and witness greater things in my life. Before I end my testimony, I want to thank GOD again for HIS guidance and protections for my family, relatives, girlfriend and friends, besides me.


May God continue to bless, guide and protect me in year 2012. Let me experience HIM more.


To GOD be the glory.