Friday, November 28, 2003
wahaha...at last i can find a place here where i can check emails and blog!! well yes i'm still in indonesia to renew my passport, bad news is due to the hari raya lebaran the immigration office will only reopen on monday 1st dec. meanwhile i can only wait and try my best to enjoy the so called holiday. missed a lot of things man..and i can't believe that i'm going to miss tmw ESS also. guys i'm not there but i'm sure you all have done your best this week, tmw will see harvest amen? i've been praying a lot for all of you and the group, i guess that's the least that i can do =)
well let me share my days here hahah...
day 1 - sat 22nd
went back immediately after i shared testimony with kehan on ss. that was a good experience, kinda nervous at the beginning especially backstage but when i stepped on the stage felt ok already haha... hope that it inspired the ppl to go for camp, won't miss it for the world! reached home at night and yah quite expected i was scolded again for my stubborness of staying in spore and not wanting to work in jakarta hmmm...
day 2 - sun 23rd
couldn't find my birth certificate, forgot where i put it. meaning couldn't renew my passport. total nightmare.... scolded again and i was faced with the possibility of staying here for months as i need to make new birth certificate first. miss the camp, miss the christmas, miss the harvest, for a moment i thought i'm doomed. got no other place to turn to except God, read Mark 11:22-24 walk by faith not by sight. i just prayed and prayed, hoping for a miracle that the birth certificate will just pop up. after that i tried to search the whole cabinet and wardrobe again and hahahah this time it really popped up out of nowhere... hahah up until now god never stop to amaze me!!
day 3 - mon 24th
immigration will only open on 1st dec so this one week i can just wait and relax, read a lot of books.. well besides bible, manga actually haha... i think one piece is really one great masterpiece man! love it a lot, i'm highly recommending this even to non-manga lovers!
day 4 - tue 25th
wondering how's the bulletin doing, camp, ushers? so sorry and thanks a million to jerel for helping me to make sure the bulletin's all ok; shu zhen to help me with all the ushers, floor managing and camp, i feel bad liao to leave a lot of things not done... haiz
day 5 - wed 26th
just resting and ate a lot yah...really a lot... my dad came back from beijing and surprisingly he didn't scold me at all this time and wanted to help me to renew my passport asap. haha i think i can come back latest by next wed...
day 6 - thu 27th
wondering how was the mission's nite... should be a lot of fun. watched kill bill, hmm what a classic, i was very impressed.. it's totally bloody but cool... no wonder it's R(A) really cruel...
day 7 - fri 28th
haha found an internet centre so here i am now blogging while listening to nobuo uematsu's composed songs aka final fantasy theme, not a bad place at all and i feel like i can stay here for hours...
ok shall pray for tmw ss, miss you all
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Tuesday, November 18, 2003
wah dead tired but today was really great man.. we had a district meeting just now. jasmine showed us using lego bricks of how to build our district's wall... yeah now not big and tall enough, but from now till jan, we're going to continue adding on the no of bricks with each converts... it was great to visualize it! 2 retained cv in each cg!! yeah man!!
and for the first time i learned the dance hahaha... because today before district meeting started, we had to present either cheering, drama or dance, so there were 3 groups. at first i wanna choose the drama, but decided on dance instead where mei hua and jon tried to teach all of us some of the machi steps hahah very interesting... the drama team was very funny also, lots of hidden talents in our poly hmmm...
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the retreat was so fun...and relaxing. haha most of the time we just slacking around. when we reached sp hq, started with a lot of games. learned this "chop chilly chop chilly chop chop chop" game which was super funny and with so many ppl playing, the game was even more fun! got to know everybody better once again, we were just playing all the way... played cards, ps2 and had a very nice korean noodle supper hehe... but i slept in the aircon room without blanket wah couldn't sleep well, it was really too cold.
oh i learned a bit how to play drums! yes thanks to ray for teaching me, i could get the beat this morning! so fun man, i think i should practice more everytime i'm in the hq. i could see lots of us taking turns in trying out the drums haha... and before we left the hq, me, nel, yy and sam kept playing the "crazy taxi" (ps2) wah that was a one very interesting game! i think the retreat was really fun! oh before you think that how come this cls retreat all bout playing, well we did have worship and teaching time in the morning ......
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Monday, November 17, 2003
oh the main character!!! ^_^
Which One Piece Character are You?
quiz by orangeday.net
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just wanna make a comment on unexpectedly a lot of ppl basketball play yesterday. started from the great challenge from germs and junyao (that i heard won by germs) to most of np guys came down led by sam who at the beginning numerous time rejected me and meihua's invitation to go down with reason of wanna pack up the house and would rather play soccer with his bro hahaha... i didn't join of course as i know perfectly well i would just end up chasing the ball throughout. and quite disappointing that we couldn't play badminton...fully booked haiz! anyway i think all of them were having fun, have a felling that they wanna do it again.....
tonight we're going to have Cls retreat continued with district meeting on tue, let's come on time ppl..don't miss the district meeting!
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Saturday, November 15, 2003
great job ppl, we had 6 visitors today and a convert!! *clap clap* everybody's hard work and prayer pays off today and some of them were only confirmed last minute, really praise God! after ss and dinner we went to take a walk so called shopping together haha and at the end we ended up choosing the best neo-print machine to take pic together. was really fun but yah as usual my energy dries up faster on sat so i decided to go home earlier...zZzZz
PS. we have a new star haha miss ashley....
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Friday, November 14, 2003
hei we've finished the doctrines class!! amazing we could cover the whole thing in 3 days, and i think all the presentations were great! what a good experience and i did learn a lot from it also. hope it's not too confusing as we all taught in the simplest and fastest way.
oh yesterday i went out with huimin and haili yes at last can get to meet her. we went to marina square and spent an hour looking for the so called coffee shop, i always think that marina square is a confusing place with all the colourful lifts and everything o_0
anyway after dinner we passed by pan pacific hotel and realized that the lift was transparent and can see the outside view. this huimin haiz had an idea of us taking the lift to the highest floor as we could see view of singapore hahaha... so we just acted as if we were hotel's guests and took the lift. went all the way up and true enough we could see the singapore river from afar and many things.. beautiful man.. but yes it was quite scary as we all have phobia of height hahah....
thinking >> we've done half of our 40 days fasting.. that's fast!!
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Wednesday, November 12, 2003
wow ended cg very early today... yah ate too many kinds of fruits i think haha...
we've entered the second foundation class this morning, one more session and everybody should know the doctrines well and besides that we had a very funny creativity class today where every group must acted an advertisement of coke creatively, the first group was super funny, especially the dance was so comical, yah sam and the group...haha had a good laugh. our group acted on powder-woman, i think all of us really enjoyed the time man... hmm creativity, sometimes we do forget about it, must have freshness, think out of the box!
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don't miss the friday class, with all the presentations, gonna be a great learning!!
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Monday, November 10, 2003
Joke of the Day
A blonde is terribly overweight, so her doctor put her on a diet. "I want you to eat regularly for 2 days, then skip a day, and repeat this procedure for 2 weeks. The next time I see you, you'll have lost at least 5 pounds."
When the blonde returned, she shocked the doctor by losing nearly 20 pounds.
"Why, that's amazing!" the doctor said, "Did you follow my instructions?"
The blonde nodded... "I'll tell you though, I thought I was going to drop dead that 3rd day."
"From hunger, you mean?", asked the doctor.
"No, from skipping."
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great day- woke up very early to accompany my parents to china embassy then rushed down to sp hq for our foundation class of basic christian doctrines. there were some miscalculation in teaching time, so during break time me, pearline, nel, mei hua and sam just gathered in the room to quickly solve the problem and prayed together for it. the whole class went well at the end, was a very good learning. it's really a pity if you missed it, we're gonna continue on wed and fri...prepare well for your presentations =)
thinking >> why does a bass guitar weigh so much???
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Sunday, November 09, 2003
today we had out first community care, that was one very good experience. our whole poly district went to "sun love home" this place at hougang for mental disabled, most of them are elderly ppl. i think at the beginning all of us were a bit confused of what to do and how to talk to them. couldn't really understand what they're saying so most of the time we just smiled and nodded. i got this very funny feeling when i talked to them, it was quite touching.. there was this one woman whom i was talking to, when the song "yue liang dai piao wo te xin" (is this how u spell the song?) came out, she asked me to dance with her, then she kept saying "I can't remember" in chinese and she looked so so sad... while we were dancing suddenly she just hugged me tightly, i think i was a bit surprised... didn't know what to say so i just hugged her back and gave her pat in shoulders. she must have gone through a lot in her life... they're like in different world, when i saw all of them, you can't help to have deep compassion for them. if only they know God too....
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The Beatitudes
"Blessed are the poor in spirit,
for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Blessed are those who mourn,
for they will be comforted.
Blessed are the meek,
for they will inherit the earth.
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness,
for they will be filled.
Blessed are the merciful,
for they will be shown mercy.
Blessed are the pure in heart,
for they will see God.
Blessed are the peacemakers,
for they will be called sons of God.
Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness,
for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me. Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you.
Amen....
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Friday, November 07, 2003
we've finished the bible seminar!! that was a great learning... today we learned lots bout gifts, 3 days just passed so fast, but it's good to learn more bout Him, next time should have more people!
just got back from chiew fang's bday celebration at sp hq haha we ate too much... haiz miscalculation bought too much food for the steamboat. and the funniest thing was buying food task given to me and pearline, the most cannot choose food one.. i think we struggled in carrefour for at least an hour? anyway the time spent was fruitful, it became girls' night as sam couldn't make it due to his exam tmw. i think we ate a lot and mostly were veggie, it's quite a scary sight... toilet became our fave hang out place after that hahahah.....
and i realized that there's always one question comes out everytime girls get together, questioned by our shepherd jasmine yes hahah and this one surely gets all of us excited to find out about others' answers yet unwilling to share yours hahah.... i think i don't need to elaborate anymore. anyway it was really fun and we got to know one another better once again... CF, pearl, nel, liyan, meihua, jasmine and me...! happy bday CF!!
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Thursday, November 06, 2003
yap just came back from some matrix-revolutions, that's a good one, well totally not realistic story but cool nevertheless. actually first plan was to have steamboat but cancelled it last minute and changed it to movie instead, almost couldn't get a ticket, well at least thank god we're not sitting at first row. either the cinema's too cold or the movie's quite exciting, i found myself shaking throughout... hmm i think it's the cinema's too cold hahah...
anyway it ended very late and yeah we missed the bus...haiz then we waited for night-rider quite long just to realize that it's not operating on week-days aahhhh.... no other choice, everybody chipped in shared a cab... double haiz...
that was a great time of fellowship together, where we can just relaxed and enjoyed the time.... even cheng2 suggested to have more family affairs. hmm?? i'm not caring enough is it? hahah.... yah in today's bible seminar also mentioned about "human being is a mental being" needs to be cared, not just working as a system all the time; sometimes we tend to neglect our own ppl or taking them for granted for the sake of our goal, hmm must be balanced.... but.... we still have to remember our cg404 ok and work hard for it!!!
thinking >> the ecclesiology bible seminar is interesting, gotta save energy for a full day teaching tmw!
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Monday, November 03, 2003
oah....my whole body's aching....!! yeah this is all because of lack of exercise, haiz can't blame anyone. last night went for some badminton showdown with shirls, ruth, shu zhen, ethan, dewen and junyao. i think we played for hours, felt so good man...i've lost my skills, haven't been playing for years. now i'm suffering for it but then kinda wanna do it again hehehe.......
went down to shatec again today with danny. ok we're gonna have steamboat this wed, let's see lots of ppl coming ok! very encouraged by danny's vision of seeing shatec students in different courses in our group, then we can have good food every week hahaha... oops that's not the main reason, pls don't misunderstand....
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Sunday, November 02, 2003
check this out! this is our e-invite for 15th nov ESS... cool man! http://www.freewebs.com/specials/a_fair_xchange.html and our dearest huimin will be inside hehehe.....
had meeting at sp hq this morning, had a shock.... they bought a set of electronic drum and bass my goodness.... so cool... after the meeting we all just crowded there and took turn in playing the drum, but i found the bass guitar more interesting haha kept on holding to it and tried to imagine myself as a musician. wah i like the hq more and more now, interesting...
after much persuasion and calling from jasmine, we finally abandoned the drum and bass and went to have lunch together haha... ate fish ball noodle soup without chilli, first time in my life, but surprisingly it tastes ok, brings out the original flavour haha (comforting myself).....
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Saturday, November 01, 2003
oh dead tired but what an interesting day today... we had our 60sec ESS where poly yes our district won the game **yeah clap clap** thank god for everyone... a pity that i didn't really see the whole games as i was busy running around hmm.. hope that i'll get to wear more casual clothes on duty like today next time... and oh i think deco team did a very nice job with all the balloons.
today's prayer meet was electrifying with the extended praise and worship, as i came from the back and saw how everyone's just went mad for god... it was great man... and ministering also.
spent the night time with np people, and we... me, pearline, adeline,lilian and huimin went to ps just for a walk. half way i just felt so tired and sleepy that i think i looked like a walking zombie zZz *yawn*... next time we shall hang out more ok sorry for today and btw hehe happy bday pearline....
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