Thursday, March 27, 2008
i'm sure everyone knows the 'exciting' election for the next US president that has been going on lately. i don't particularly follow it closely compared to my sis, but these videos are too good to be missed. made by each of their supporters: (do watch in order)
starts with obama.
and we have clinton..
here's the best part.. McCain.
LOL! shirls laughed to tears.
the bodyless poor guy.. the raining poor guy..
it's interesting to see different kind of supporters each of them attracts.
personally, as i belong to the younger generation, obama is my choice.
especially after clinton made the super boo boo over bosnia trip.
i don't know what to say. lol. shame on her.
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Wednesday, March 26, 2008
below photos are all thanks to junming ^^
if you're wondering what we're doing with yin san, this was taken last nite right after the last session of our 6 parts old testament class (hope sem) and yes yin san was our dear instructor.
it's been a tiring (seriously) but fruitful 6 weeks. i think yin san's a great teacher and all her testimonies on the indo group are very inspiring.
most importantly, i did learn a great deal from this class.
i've been re-reading old testament and with more understanding, i am able to appreciate the 'stories' more. the truth is, there are so many things that can be applied. i'm definitely amazed by the lives of many who have been used by God so greatly despite of their imperfection.
humility, willingness, obedience, faith. basic characteristics that can bring you far.
someone bought a new camera and decided to practise with it on sunday =P
what we did after service:
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Tuesday, March 25, 2008
i need more leave.i can't take leave for nic's wedding, i can't take leave for the weekend malacca missions trip, i can't take leave for core team retreat in malaysia. this is becoming frustrating. lol.
i have to think of things that i can thank for instead...
1) i have a job, i receive good pay every month
2) my company is full of great colleagues
3) i am able to go for my long awaited japan trip next month
4) i am allowed to go for church camp in june
5) i should be able to take leave for my cousin's wedding in sept. early leave is needed for tight fitting purpose...
okay.. i am still blessed compared to many others after all.
i met nic last nite, it was very fun talking to her. lol. one thing that i realized from pris, nic and my cousin's wedding preparation, it's really tough to prepare for one. the amount of time and effort.. all the planning... enough to make one looks haggard and stressed.. and i thought bride should be joyful and relaxed...
if it's really that hard, then i think i will skip the party if i ever get married in the future. lol.
anyway, the days are getting nearer.
3 more days before pris' big day. we threw her a bridal shower last week, it's very interesting.
we gathered together making sushi, elaine drilled her with all the questions =)
then we headed on to central and made her walk around with all the bridal shower's props. i really salute her courage even when she was asked to do so many things, including the extreme swing ><
well hope that she had fun. our leader certainly did.
btw, the movie that i fell asleep on.. it was horton. not that it's bad. just that.. well.. i was tired. LOL. but it's good to hang out for movie with cg members..
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Saturday, March 22, 2008
beautiful.i just came back from sounds of spring date with vannessa. she's been wanting to watch a real orchestra and i seriously didn't mind paying another visit to esplanade concert hall.
it's funny but i really enjoy watching orchestra, getting old perhaps.
as the title indicates, today was all about 'spring'... the musical pieces were lively, cheerful and of course beautiful >_<
something (or someone) really really annoyed me though, the lady who sat beside me.. she was truly distracting..
she was focusing more on flipping through the concert guide book rather than watching the real deal. through-out. she kept on moving on her seat -_-
i was very much tempted to ask her "excuse me, what's so interesting in the book? can you please stop flipping through it, keep quiet and just watch?!?"
but as nice or perhaps coward people pleaser as i am, i didn't do that. i let her go. i decided to try my best to take her as invisible and focus on the conductor instead.
sigh.
sometimes i really wonder... if you are not interested, why are you even there? perhaps she was dragged there by her friend. well, it's obvious that she's bored considering that she kept on looking at her handphone.
it's really really distracting when you move so much on your seat. not to mention coughing.
i was having this imagination of beautiful flowers on a beautiful field as i listened to the violins and suddenly someone just had to make some noise and burst my bubble of thought. roar.
ok i think i should stop rambling here. if i want no distraction, i should just get a vip box seat next time.
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Monday, March 17, 2008
freddie highmore week.
i had a great weekend.
met up with weiling and justin on fri nite.. it's been a while.. after planning for quite some time.. we decided to go to magic wok, thankfully it didn't rain though the weather looked really really bad.
after the good dinner, we took a slow walk to cathay to catch 'spiderwick chronicles'. i've been waiting for it and the movie turned out to be better than what i expected! freddie highmore is such a lovable boy and he acted as twins in this movie (2 person with 2 diff personality), the movie was fun, enjoyable, light hearted... we walked out of the theatre with smiles.. LOL. i love it.
sat was danny & rachel's wedding. reached the church pretty early to do the set-up. the laptop gave me BIG problem... the projector just couldn't give me the signal.. until 10 mins before the guest arrival time.. yes.. so you can imagine how anxious i was deep down in my heart.. imagine if it couldn't work.. what will happen to the wedding, seriously. but God was merciful LOL so it turned out well at the end.. we got the signal and we had a great wedding ceremony going on.
rachel's very pretty ><
it was such an amazing sight when the bride walked in and the bridegroom sang for her... that moment.. hmm.. i think the best word to desribe that is.. beautiful. yah. beautiful scene ^^
i went home early and decided to clean up my room (turned it upside down) and i slept before 10pm.. all my tiredness accumulated from the whole week...
on sunday, we had easter ss! the short drama (mime) was really good ^^ yes they deserve affirmation...
after lunch, mei and i went to shop for sandals again.. my feet were in pain, i could barely walk properly. anyway, the good news is, i found a pair that look really similar to my old fave URS sandals.. the one that i loved so much.. lol.. i was (and am) really happy to find that pair.. a long lost item.
then, we met up with the rest to celebrate eugene's bday in advance at bakerzinn. as usual, bday is always the time for gathering =p
then, we met up with the rest to celebrate eugene's bday in advance at bakerzinn. as usual, bday is always the time for gathering =p
we headed to cine to catch 'august rush', yet another good movie. i simply enjoy watching freddie highmore. the boy is special.
and of course the movie has really great music! i mean.. really really really great music. LOL. i love it.
i don't think i will skip any of his future movies....
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Friday, March 14, 2008
you know those moments that you're about to talk to your boss about something 'bad' and you're just hesitating on your desk, thinking on how to start the conversation, praying that boss is in a good mood, hoping that he will not scold etcwell i just had that..
sometimes i wish that i could just ignore certain things but avoiding cannot be done forever, so i mustered all my courage and 'chanted' one of my fave verse, if God is with me, who can be against me? as i walked to my manager's office.
LOL.
i just love moments like this.. knowing that i'm in good hands.
it's good to see the sun today too! the weather has been really really bad.
last nite i went to rachel's wedding rehearsal, it was raining but stupid (or lazy) me didn't carry umbrella from office. i was stuck at the bus stop, wondering if i should just run to the church and endure 5 minutes under the rain. i did at the end and it was a bad choice... the good thing about it, i wasn't late.
i was feeling a bit weird in the beginning considering that i didn't really know anyone there (except for the bride and the bridesmaid), then i saw a few familiar faces like kevin, emma.. well.. familiar faces. it's interesting.
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do not be stingy with encouragement.
i was thinking about this today.
this week has been really great. i feel that there's certain breakthrough in my walk with God.
last week, i spent more than 4 hours in the salon just to fix my stubborn hair, so i decided to read the book that roy & shuz gave me- just walk across the room by bill hybels. i haven't finished reading it, but the book talks mainly about evangelism and how simple it is actually, all you need is to just 'walk across the room'.
when you happen to be at the same time and same place with certain strangers, sometimes the holy spirit will just tell you 'hey, why don't you talk to this person?'
seriously, you won't know how you will make a difference to this person. it may be a long process, there may be no result soon, but at least you know that you're doing something. you are throwing a seed. you are sowing. others may reap it. it doesn't matter.
courage. that's one thing that we all need.
at that moment, i decided to close my book and started to talk to the 2 girls who were busy putting all the 'chemicals' onto my hair. we simply had a small talk together, sharing about certain things at work.. it was not that hard after all ><
i am so glad that i did. well, reading tons of books is not enough, i need to apply it.
on tue (hope sem class), yin san asked us to grab someone that we didn't know at all and pray for one another, prophetic prayer. a girl from tertiary group whom i've never talked before approached me, so we started praying.
i've never been really 'prophetic' before so it was pretty scary when i'm being asked to.. but certain things just started to come into my mind and naturally being spoken out. at the end of the prayer, this girl looked at me and her face seemed to glow, she thanked me and told me that my prayer was really spot on, and she thanked me again and again.
at this moment, i told her 'no, i should thank you instead'
i felt really encouraged. God could use me to speak into a stranger's life.
this week, another 3 brothers affirmed me for what i've done during the cg's pnw and the short sharing. i have to say, once again i felt really encouraged. i just did my best and let God take control. i didn't realize what kind of impact it could bring to another.
God can use me. i'm happy that He does.
sometimes, all we need is just a bit of encouragement and affirmation, it makes a big difference.
of course we don't serve and do things with only affirmation as an objective, but knowing that what you do matters and helpful for other people is a real great feeling.
so i thank the Lord for all these ppl around me who are great encouragers.
maybe because my love language is words, it matters even more =)
in returns, i gotta ask myself, have i encouraged someone else lately?
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Sunday, March 09, 2008
pris claimed that she's an angel in disguise (she has a halo!) LOL
it's been quite a while. i guess i've lost my motivation to blog.. well partly due to my busyness, and yes because i'm lazy too.
i've been out everyday, reaching home feeling really tired and my way of relaxing is more on watching prison break season 3 or reading eyeshield21 manga.. no other time for other things =P
i can hardly remember things that have been going on.
well we had our first combined unit sowing event some sat ago, decided to go to national museum to check out on the greek masterpieces.. yes.. a very unique activity indeed... i was pretty unwilling at the beginning haha but went there anyway. it turned out to be pretty fun (esp the first and the last half an hour there). we took many silly pictures wearing the greek robe.
after the dinner, germs had this idea of eating cheesecakes at great world city, so off we went.. extremely fattening activity but it wrapped the day up nicely. cheesecakes.. what else can i say.
i went to watch 'there will be blood' as well. we loved it so much, i think it's a great great movie. daniel day-lewis is captivating.
last week was also the first time we had combined adults cg at nexus. ps jeff shared an extremely funny and refreshing teaching about the importance of cg.
cg is your family.. and it's definitely more than just a cg meeting. it's a life form. it's really sad if you're not enjoying your cg.. i really think so.
i have been attending hope sem's class for the past few weeks, entering the 3rd week of old testament last tue, we had a map test! i haven't studied for many many years, so you could imagine how hard it was for me to memorize things again. anyway, the test was not that hard, but it's pretty disappointing that i couldn't get full mark, i was really hoping for it ><
there will be another test this coming tue...
think back again, i've learnt so much just during these 3 sessions. abraham, isaac, jacob, joseph, moses and so on and on.. they're just ordinary people with many flaws but God used them greatly. obedience and faith. that's the key. i'm looking at old testament from a different angle now.
to be continued..
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