Friday, January 30, 2004
really praise the Lord.. He's been really blessing me haha today i realized that my colleagues are indeed very nice people. cos it's fasting day and they were having spaghetti for lunch oh boy... but then the auntie specially put aside some and pack it nicely for me to eat when i break fast and my fave milo too... ooh.... so nice of her... besides that i was asking them to donate for cbf, at first i didn't really know what to say man but then just arggh chiong ah....and they all donated hahaha... indeed when we do things for God, He will definitely bless.
last night i was just clearing up some stuffs from my drawer. found a lot of encouragement, bday cards,etc.. some of them were really very old... as i read them again wah really felt encouraged!! they reminded me of a lot of things, really wanna thank God for those ppl... it's so good to affirm and encourage one another, you wouldn't know that a card from you can really brighten up a person's life...
Hebrews 3:13
But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called Today, so that none of you may be hardened by sin's deceitfulness
PS. so sorry to those ppl who always kena suan by me...
(T_T)
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Wednesday, January 28, 2004
one lesson learnt : even when you're busy talking, take note of what you put in your food!!!
last night i went to taiwan xiao che again, this time with andy. i was so focused in talking to him so when the food and "famous chilli" came, i just anyhow put the chilli to my noodle. didn't realize how many drops i put until i saw andy's eyes turned to a goldfish. according to him, about 6 drops... gosh it's HOOOTTT!!!! for those who know, taiwan's chilli -- 1 drop can make you sweat.... anyway after andy left, toilet's my hang out place... diarrhoea.. expected ... (T_T)
am so sleepy now, last night slept like almost 4 am?? talked too much with germs.. but it's an enjoyable session with nice chocolates hehe..... 31st jan... let's do our best man!!!
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Sunday, January 25, 2004
Thought For The Day
Luke 9:57-62
The Cost Of Following Jesus
As they were walking along the road, a man said to him, "I will follow you wherever you go."
Jesus replied, "Foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head."
He said to another man, "Follow me."
But the man replied, "Lord, first let me go and bury my father."
Jesus said to him, "Let the dead bury their own dead, but you go and proclaim the kingdom of God."
Still another said, "I will follow you, Lord; but first let me go back and say good-by to my family."
Jesus replied, "No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for service in the kingdom of God."
can i really leave behind everything for God? my family, my money, my comfort?? i can sing songs like i offer my life... i live for you... but is it really what my heart and body doing now? being Jesus' disciple is not as easy as going to church and care group meetings, it takes whole lot more than that.... the question is--- am i willing?
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Saturday, January 24, 2004
back again.... the chinese new year was quite enjoyable haha a great time of gathering with family, and believe it or not, i learned how to play mahjong with my parents and it was fun hahaha (we didn't gamble just in case you're wondering). my parents moving out to another city soon, so i had to pack up some of my stuffs there, saw some of my old diary books, had a very crazy laugh over what i wrote there, some stooopid things that i did during my sec school days...sigh... those were the days...felt like ages ago.... anyway i'm going to miss my home a lot, my bedroom and the nice london jigsaw puzzle hanging on the wall, won't be seeing that anymore. next time i have to fly all the way to meet my parents...hmm.....
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Tuesday, January 20, 2004
Strange happening in a hospital!!
There was this case in the hospital's Intensive Care ward where patients always died in the same bed and on Friday mornings regardless of their medical conditions. This puzzled the doctors and some even thought that it had to do with the supernatural. Why the death? So the doctors decide to go down to that particular ward to investigate the cause of the incidents. Come Friday morning, everyone at the hospital ward nervously waited for the terrible phenomenon to occur again. Some holding wooden crosses, prayer books and other holy objects to ward off evils.........
Just before the expected time......
TO BE CONTINUED
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i feel bloated... just got home not long ago from our reunion dinner at charl's house. thank God for her and her family to prepare everything... well even though the steamboat + chilli combination made our food looked like laksa especially cheng2's one, it was a great dinner overall hhaha... we started off late, why? because this huimin gave wrong instruction to cheng2 and clarence to take bus 143 instead of 145, they ended up back to orchard after one big round-- mrt from orchard -> to toa payoh take bus -> back to orchard... hahaha it's ok huimin, God still loves you!
i'm going back tmw, happy new year everybody if you're celebrating. but remember our focus. let's really break 15 this sat ok!
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CONTINUED FROM ABOVE
Then Ah Soh, the part-time Friday cleaner, comes in and unplugs the life support system so that she can use the vacuum cleaner.
hahahahaha........... o_0
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Sunday, January 18, 2004
wonder why they really can shop...haha had a great time of dinner and shoppin after meeting just now, cancelled the steamboat, went to cafe cartel instead, and it's really a lot of food man and i found myself kept asking sam to help me take water (cos he's the one who sat nearest to water) haha...and while jasmine, jenny and sam discussin bout some books; me, nel, meihua, chiew fang and liyan were literally having lame jokes competitions ehm actually only meihua who entertained all of us hahaha........ me and nel laughed until couldn't stop while the rest giving funny expressions, was it just us who can get the jokes? 0_o
anyway it was a great time of fellowship, this is indeed church family. this morning went to adult ss, as usual there's something different about it. got to know emmiline the lasalle girl, a very interesting one. let's pray together for lasalle!
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Saturday, January 17, 2004
a day of receiving a lot of impartations... i feel like i can still hear pastor's voice-- sharing Christ is like a beggar giving food to a beggar; or like you're someone on a boat and you see a lot of ppl drowning; it's not really a great or honorable thing to be able to share Christ, it's just sooo normal and reasonable to do that! -- we have to change our mindset! let's bring ppl to know the goodness of God this week amen? even though in midst of cny, but i think we can still do a great job for God, not just staying at home and slacking around with lots of foods and tv programmes. we can even be salt and light in family!
this week's gonna be a fruitful one also, tmw we're gonna have early reunion dinner with ddmm team-steamboat! yeah! then on tue we're gonna have another early reunion dinner in unit level! i'm so excited!! not about the food but really the community! isn't it great that you can spend cny with both own family and spiritual family? i'm going back to my hometown this week, i'm gonna miss all the cny events for intl students, even outing together with jasmine's team.. wah.... but anyway i'll enjoy myself back home also at least got a lot of food there haha.....
ok shall rest now, my head has been pounding all day, cos of the flu -- cough -- total headache (T_T) thank God i could pass this day well, even the follow-upper classes... very inspiring class, back to basic yet reminded of a lot of things. tmw morning am going to adult ss haha got one lasalle student that's going to be introduced to us, pray that this will be a great seed there!
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Thursday, January 15, 2004
The Power of Creativity
A blind man sat on the steps of a building with a hat by his feet and a sign that read:
>> "I am blind, please help".
A creative publicist was walking by him and stopped to observe he only had a few coins in his hat. He dropped a few more coins into his hat and without saying anything, took the sign, turned it around, and wrote on it. He placed the sign by the blind man's feet and left.
That afternoon the creative publicist returned by the blind man and noticed that his hat was full of bills and coins. The blind man recognized his footsteps and asked if it was him who had re-written his sign and he wanted to know what did he write on it?
The publicist responded:
>> "Nothing that was not true, I just rewrote your sign differently".
He smiled and went on his way. The blind man never knew but his new sign read:
>> "TODAY IS SPRING AND I CANNOT SEE IT".
>> ---- Change your strategy when something does not go your way.
>> ---- Present yourself in a different way when things are not working out.
>> ---- A change in outlook can turn your life around.
haha God has really been blessing me in my work, for the past few days i've been released early, always not more than 5 pm which actually i have to stay until 6 plus or even 7pm. lots of things that i still need to learn there, really praise the Lord for this opportunity, what a great experience... now am ready to become mother 0_o hahahah oops just kidding ok kidding....
last night we had a "chicken" cg, cooked too long and turned out salty wah... but the potato salad was yummy. anyway really glad to see cheng2 again in cg, not just in helpin out cookin haha but as really his presence. but lots of ppl are sick now.. even i think that i'm going to also.. gotta pray for physical strength! thank God for danny as he went down to shatec alone, he got some good contacts there! there's gonna be a revival there amen? and for thames + informatics -- MI2 still going on! NAFA-- your journey just started ok! anyway some ppl were asking me what is 20/150/700? well it's our goal for end jan in unit/district/youth! let's all do our best for it!
^_^
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Monday, January 12, 2004
praise the Lord, i feel so refreshed and happy today, even though it's monday and i was expecting a very tiring day at work. it turned out everything's great, i feel great. i enjoy taking care of the kids now, including the changing diapers hahaha and today i was unexpectedly released very early..... anyway cheng2's back from china, so great to see him today, same as usual. we had a great dmm together at my fave taiwan xiao che hehe... this week till 24th so many things to do ppl, let's pray hard and work hard for 20!
^_^
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Saturday, January 10, 2004
praise the Lord....what a wonderful day! learned a lot especially in clm, reminded me lots of things. especially balancing in grace and truth, how true indeed!
today we went out for some short shopping time with andy also haha haven't been doing this for a time, i think i was quite excited seeing all the earrings and skirts, maybe it's time for me to do some shopping. i feel that andy can be my image consultant, quite surprised that he commented i should have long hair-- short doesn't suit you... o_0 wow first time i heard this, usually ppl say the opposite... anyway it's great that we know one another better now. saw my old class mate today also haha he's the shepherd of huimin's friend who came today to ss, what a small world....
it's been quite a rough week with lots of things going on but God is indeed good all the time. we have to be spiritually well all the time, it's a lifestyle not just on activities. it's about how you handle your life, your problems... tmw we're gonna have a great time of quarterly planning, have to rest my brain tonight!
^_^
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Wednesday, January 07, 2004
what a blessing to be a student! now that i'm officially must wake up at 7 every morning to go to work all the way till night, i think my student's days are better... hmm anyway praise the Lord i've found a job yup as shuzhen's colleague pre-school teacher. quite amazing that the job was very tiring yet fruitful, the kids are very cute... even for myself who actually has no compassion like them a lot. today's just the first day, the place was nice also. i have to enjoy this job if really wanna last for long run hahah.... gotta do a lot of planning, suddenly i realized i don't have much time left for pastoral and ministry, really need God's strength and wisdom...
last night we had a follow-upper class which really reminded me a lot of things, all basic stuffs yet very important. sense of urgency, word of God as foundation must be laid strong. then pearline stayed overnight at my house to learn and fix her blog. we did it till 4 am then still talked a lot... ended up slept at 6 am which left me only 1 hour to sleep, no wonder i feel like out of space today 0_o anyway her blog is nice now...go and check it out! thank God for her haha quite amazing when i trace back how we've become goodie friends now.
let's pray for success in thames+informatics pioneerin tmw ppl, and Nafa also!! can't waste any more time, though i can't be there *sigh* but i think we'll all be fruitful wherever we are amen?
thinkin>> converts and ehm... coffee bean's white choc dream hahhaaaha...
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Sunday, January 04, 2004
a very interesting combined team meeting today haha with all the performances and everythin...
anyway i just finished meeting with germs and huimin, a great time indeed.. talked too much i think girls... this week we're gonna see many great things amen? school's restarting! time to start the surveys, sowing, evax all over again!
20 by end january shall be done!
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Saturday, January 03, 2004
we give thanks we give praise
for we know that all things work together for our good
we give thanks we give praise
for by faith we know your grace will see us through
God reminded me once again today, be joyful and thankful for all things. heard a bad news this morning, my grandpa is dying. suddenly i realized that i do love him, everything seemed blur when me and my sis tried to call back home and we just couldn't get them. i just cried and cried and it was like only few minutes to prayer meet, my eye-bags looked even worse than how they already were in the morning. but i really wanna thank God that i know Him, the greatest comfort of all, was really refreshed in prayer meet, all things work according to His plan indeed. and really wanna thank my sheeps also, was very touched by their care and prayer. i'm just so thankful that i'm in God's family!
anyway i just know that with God i can be joyful, not just outward but really in my heart.
what an amazing God that we have!
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Friday, January 02, 2004
You are a Sleepy baby. You drift in and out of slumber and you never seem to get enough rest. You're not always aware of your surroundings and you're really too tired to care.
What kind of baby are you?
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i think my new year resolution should be not sleepy anymore.. zZz.... anyway just talking to huimin last night about her resolution, thank God for you girl, must always discipline yourself to be faithful to it ok! school is reopening, ppl please plan your time schedule well, always be kingdom-minded, seek God in your most stressful time like project deadline etc, i'll be very grateful if you don't tell me that cannot come for ss,cg or meetings because of project's not done... haha anyway it's going to be great, time to reach out to all the students once again... CG404? will be done!!!
>> specially for my dear ex-shepherd... happy bday jaslin! ^_^
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Thursday, January 01, 2004
it's 2004!! that's fast...really fast!!! the retreat was great... the most relaxing retreat i've ever attended haha with so many free and easy time and no teaching, this time retreat was purely for relaxing and fun. the place was nice too, unexpectedly with comfortable bedrooms and clean toilet err well at least it's clean at day 1....
day 1-- 30th dec
all cls gathered at tampines mrt. went to the doctor in the morning cos of my annoying cough, the medicine was making me drowsy all day so i was more to enjoying the steamboat quietly rather than being the loudspeaker on day 1 haha... then when all of them were watching pirates of carribean.. cheering for orlando bloom and johnny depp, i chose to sleep instead -- totally defeated...
day 2-- 31st dec
this is the ultimate.. with all the people arriving, we're ready for the theme party. the preparation was a chaos man, could see how everyone was so panicky, walked here walked there, trying to make sure their costume and make up were ok. nyp did a very good job, they dressed up like real pirates especially lalita, i'm totally impressed, that is really spirit of excellence. after that we had to do some fashion show so called performance, errm i think i looked really ermm terrible as i needed to be bride of chucky... anyway DI you did a great job too and that's why we won the most creative award!!! clap clap clap hahaha... that's a good murder scene, thank God for huimin's loud scream and danny + germs great preparations for us.
the countdown was wet yup that's the word. thanks ray for introducing me a new kind of shampoo-- coke shampoo... it's super sticky... grrr i shall remember this!!! but i could see everybody really enjoyed the time together specially the water balloons war time. glad to see many newbies and nonbies came. i got to know more friends thru this retreat also, there's this sp guy called arden really impressed me wit his great guitar skills....
didn't sleep at all haha expected actually... me, jasmine, pearline, ray, adeline and guowei were battling to conquer the world in "risk", it's a super long battle and at the end finally ray won the game brilliantly around 7am haiz... but it's a really nice game, at least not bad for me as beginner....
anyway it's over now and i can feel the medicine's working, am going to sleep... what a wonderful year behind in 2003, we shall do even better this year amen?
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