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Meeting the familiar at the un-familiar

2009-08-05T10:11:00.000-07:00

Work has been crazy, and it is not something I would have expected. When I first started the current project, I keep telling myself that next month would be better, but when the next month come, I realized things is still the same, or worst.

One day my boss tell me that it will only get worst, so actually we are already in a better stage. ....... oh well, I guess that reminds me one thing at least, be positive and stop complaint too much.

Even tho i have been here for about 5 months, sg is still a little un-familiar to me.

the other day I received this encouragement sms from my frez, telling me to take care, not to worry so much about work, and remind me do not let work be my God.

I used to received this sort of encouragement sms(s) when I was still in ocf back in monash, after so long I left ocf, this sort of encouragement became un-familiar to me. But when I saw the sms from my frez the other day, the blessing from it is still so familiar.

reading a familiar sms in a un-familiar place.....

and sometimes we are so busy that, something familiar can become un-familiar.

I am Back

2009-06-25T08:30:00.000-07:00

Its been long time since I blog the last time, life been busy over here in singapore, I practically living in the office more than I live at home.

I enjoy my work very much, but it was much demanding than I expected. However, I just thanks God that I have the best boss in the world, my colleague are fun to work with, so .... what more I can ask for.

I also thanks God that I have settled in a church and a cell group as well, the cell members are fun, cell group meeting every friday in a similar manner to ocf, ppl are fun within the cell, ....so what more I can ask for..

I also met this guy in the office, who is also from hong kong and came to singapore to work by himself, we both became good friend, and I am not the only sei hong kee anymore ... so ...what more I can ask for ....

the only thing i can't take it is that, early in the morning, trying to squeeze in to the train, when my nose is almost touching other ppl shoulder, some ppl still trying to read newspaper ....... kill me please ....

work is tough, but God is good ....... and today is FRIDAY ....... weekend is coming !!!

and last week I went to my boss wedding.

Love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another

It is so sweet to hear my boss testimony about how he met his gf, and going through so many difficulties together, and now finally getting married.

28 Jan 2009

2009-01-28T06:08:00.000-08:00

I am addicted to animate lately, my friend introduced me to this animate series (Gundam seed and Gundam seed destiny), i finish 50 episodes in less than one week........ and i am still watching now ...... but i must say i really like it a lot haha .... (which i didn;t expect it)

chinese new year is good, been eating a lot ....... been really slack and can;t wait to start work .....

Leaving australia

2008-12-29T19:42:00.000-08:00

I haven;t been blogging since my parent arrived, time really flies and now i am leaving australia, many things happened in the past 4.5 years, I failed, was discouraged but I learnt a lot from others. I really enjoy the time where my family was around, can;t really remember when was the last time we went out as a whole family (mu, dad, my bro and I), but now my parent have gone home, and I am leaving for singapore to start my new career.

I am sitting at Adelaide airport now waiting for my transit flight to take off, just trying to think back what has happened in not only the past 4.5 years, but all the way in the past 10 years, I realized that God has been so good.

I pray that God will always protect my family!

holiday

2008-11-18T08:14:00.000-08:00

YEA ... is holiday, and i feel more tired in the holiday then the exam period .....

been watching movies at home and going out, tomorrow is surfing - round 2.

this is going to be my home in Singapore (well....not my home, but it would be my temporary home in the next one year)

once my friend asked me how do I define a beautiful eyes, well ... make ups can help for sure, but its only temporary, but a beautiful soul define a beautiful eyes, which is permanent.

I need to focus

2008-11-06T23:51:00.000-08:00

oh my gosh ..... I been having difficulties to focus on my last paper, really in a holiday mood ever since I finished my last paper a week ago, been watching TV series and movies........I have already watched about 20 movies in the past week ........

i need to focus ......

and yet....i just played guitar ...... and now i am blogging .........

i need to focus ...........

and yet .... i am surfing the internet and looking for new movie to download ....... (i downloaded this movie called "August Rush", is about this boy believe that music can connect people and can also help him to find his long lost parent ..... GOOD MOVIE

i need to focus .......................

and yet, i am checking out when is the next episode of heroes going to be released ...

i really need to focus ......................

student diary

2008-11-04T07:23:00.000-08:00

I was looking through my student diary the other day, there are many advertisement you could find inside the diary.

I remember someone told me before that, if you want to advertise inside the student diary, you have to pay about 100 plus for 1/3 of the page.

as I flipping through the diary, there is adv for subway, learn how to drive, and the defense department of Australia which occupy on whole page.

and i guess one which occupy more space will represent the importance and interest of the reader.

another adv which also occupy one whole page is "unwanted pregnancy", hahaha

not long ago, there is a debate about passing the Abortion Law Reform Bill, and the bill was passed in the end.

has our value system changed over time? what wasn't considered as ethical might seem normal now. The law is suppose to guide our actions, and somehow it could also reflect the value system in the current society. If there isn't much issue about un-wanted pregnancy, would there be a need to enact the abortion law reform bill? how do people view relationship nowadays?

my last exam of my entire course

2008-11-01T01:55:00.000-07:00

Very soon, I would have completed all the units of my entire course, at last after 4 years plus of studies in Uni, I have enough already, now is the time to get ready for work.....

I am still not very ready going to Singapore to work, it is just too comfortable for me to stay in australia, looking back to the past 4 years of my uni life in Australia, sometime I wonder how would it be different if I never got a chance to join OCF, I think OCF really play a big part of my uni life. I have made so many friends in OCF than I actually made in my course, just thanks God for giving me the opportunity to know about ocf.

I feeling excited about going to work, becoz I can finally apply what I have studied and continue to learn more, I like studying in general. (except the time when i was studying for my management exam ...... ><).

I still remember when I first arrived in Singapore, in last than two weeks after I was enlisted into the army, without knowing much about Singaproe itself, I was trying to adjust myself, it wasn't easy to me at first, I even had difficulties understand what other people were saying most of the time, there were like more than two dialects in every conversation.

After my ORD, I told myself that the two and half yrs of NS experience was really good, but that is enough, I will never come back for it or re-service anymore......but now...i am going back singapore to work ..... ><...that means I have to do my re-service and IPPT and all ........

again .......... God alwasy give me something I dun want .......

but I really looking forward to my new job in singapore, looking forward to meet new people, to learn new stuff, to be assigned to somewhere that I haven;t been before, looking forward to join a new church ......

...... and still looking for a place to stay there .....

14-Oct-2008

2008-10-13T04:01:00.000-07:00

my project is due this fri .... trying my best to get everything done ....is like...never ending......

decided to work in singapore, it is not what I alwasy wanted from the beginning, but it turn out that there is a better opportunities, better offer in singapore than here in australia.....

i pray for one thing, but God always give me soemthing that i do not want, ...but i guess only God knows what is the best for me and i am sure i can see the benefits for it later on in the future

i went for the half marathon on sun, running such a long distance with just one hour of sleep the nite before, it was really tired, but i really enjoy it, even thought I didn;t have friend to run with me, but there were so many random people cheering you up as you running, giving you a high five as you going pass them ....... i enjoyed it so much, but I can barely walk after that .. ><

busy week

2008-09-22T20:43:00.000-07:00

Its been crazy for the past month, been sleeping late and not eating proper foods ... thanks God I am making progress for my project, I can sort of see the light at the end of the tunnel ..... and i believe there is a rainbow outside too ...

If you asked me one month ago, I can almost certain telling you that I would want to work in Australia after I graduate, but for the same question now, I will say that there is possibility I will work in singapore or hong kong, simply because there is better opportunities which allow me to learn more.

Having second interview tomo, so I hope everything will be fine..

We alwasy try to pursuit what we think is the best for us, but very often we will get something else in the end, I guess only God knows what is best for you and me, and the interest thing is that, God will only reveal your path one step ahead.

Looking at some old OCF pics, just reminds me the fact that I am leaving OCF soon ......

9-9-08

2008-09-08T08:52:00.000-07:00

My laptop died last friday, without any warning, without any sign ..... and it is a new latop ...well .....

so i sent my laptop to the repair center ..... and i received a sms from the repaire center says that they have already received my computer, and it will take approximately 5 days to diagnose the problem....

i was like ..... how efficient is that .... -__-

this is a vid clip from this super old movie back in 1986 "CrossRoads"....a story about this boy who loves music, and i think this vid is really cool .......

so ...enjoy ....

My favourite "HongKee" song

2008-09-04T07:20:00.000-07:00

This is my favourite canto song from this old rock band in hong kong back in 1980 ...... opps...so old .....but I really like them, they have already disbanded, but some of their songs still touching many people nowadays. The reason I like about them was , they didn;t write song and lryics that people like to hear, but they compose songs that reflect their life, stories and some social issue during their times, in other words, they were not so commerial as some other aritists, and that was the reason why some people hate them ... (as u know,...most ppl like this aristic becoz of his/her pretty face)

Here is song by Beyond call "海闊天空" ..... which sometime inspire me during "down" moment sometime.....

Dennis ... my guitar buddy, best friend and bro in christ, love this song as well, but because of the fact that he can;t understand a word of chinese, he was trying hard to read the subtitle.....and now, i am trying my best to do the translation for him, and to whoever reading and listening this song...haha ....

verse 1:

Today, I am walking by myself, it is snowing and I feel very cold, all I have with me now is just my lonely heart, and that makes me feel like I am on a remote place all by mysef

All these years, I been trying hard to fullfill my dream, and I feel lost now.Everything seems changing, except my dream and the sky still remain the same.

verse 2:

So many times, people laughting at my "childish" ambition, but I never give it up.For one moment, I thought I have lost everything, can I really fullfill my dream?As time goes by, I feel like giving up my ambition, can anybody understand me? can anybody hear me?

Chorus:

To the people who around me and care about me, please forgive me for my childish behaviour, my dream might seems impossible to you, but I am not going to give up.

However, I am really scared, I don't want to fail, but no matter what, I will never give up, even though there is not even one person in this world have faith in me.

Bridge:

I won't be intimitated, it is myfreedom to pursue my ambition, even if I have to walk thousand miles, I will still keep going and sing this song as an encouragement to myself

Sorry that my english isn;t good enough and I did my best for the translation .

hahhaha

enjoy !!

1-9-2008

2008-09-01T10:19:00.000-07:00

I had a really busy week last week, just thanks God that I manage to survive , but it is not the end yet, still have my on-going project to continue. However, it is really good to know that I can always share with someone about my life. I was talking to my friend about how stress I feel about my project and stuff, I dun usually talk to him much, but just happen that he was asking me how are you on msn, and what can I pray for you, and that was how we started sharing, it is so amazing that even thought we don;t know each other well, but because of the same believe and faith, this is how we connected to each other. So we spent some time to pray over the phone, and I really feel the joy after that.

and i just realised the different between happiness and joyful, the first one is depends on the circustance or the environmen around us, whereas the second is base on God grace and no matter what happen in the external environment.

so ...like I alwasy say to my friend on msn ... "alwasy look at the bright side" ...ha ..... and after u looking at the bright side, .....then look at the brighter side ......

recently the news about Mike Gug is all over the internet... I was really shocked by it .....but what amazed me the most is about Mike's wife....

after all the thing that has happen, she said to the media that "I love my husband, and I will stand by him at this difficult time " ... i wonder how many can say that .......

and ...somethng really funny .. ( at least to me is ..,)

i was in my tutorial for my advance accounting theory, which my tutor is also the lecturer, and she alwasy expect us to prepare all the tutorial questions before hand, as usual, she will start off her tutorial like this: ...

Lect: So, eugene , can you answer the frst question, ......
eugene: um ....sorry, I did all the question except the first one.....

Lect:...oh really ..... nvm, we will come back to you later >< .... how about david, can you answer the first question ...
David: um ....... I am sorry, I did all the question except the first one

Lect: um ...... ok ..we will come back to you later, how about you wendy, can you answer the first question, or you going to tell me the same thing?
Wendy: Yes I can answer the first question, because I didn't do all the questions except the first one....

and everyone in the tutorial started laughing....

hahahaha

ok ..is time to sleep

Love one another

2008-08-17T05:28:00.000-07:00

What is love? I guess we all have different definition of Love, and rachel Ongkili gave a very good attitude about Love.

"To love people with no string attach".

I guess it is the hardest thing to do, to love with no string attach. What we do is usally has a motive or reason.

1 John 4:9
This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.

Well, God sent his one and only Son not only to particular group of people, but to the whole word, knowing that there are some people going against him or will still refuse to believe in Him at the end of the day, but He still chose to die for all of us.

I went to check the definition of "Love" from this online dictionaries, and this is the explanation that I got from it:
- a profoundly tender, passionate affection for another person
- a feeling of warm personal attachment or deep affection, as for a parent, child, or friend.
- sexual passion or desire
- a love affair; an intensely amorous incident; amour .... etc

with mention of the attitude of sacrifice or whatsoever....

it seems like the world has a quite different view on Love than 1 John ....ha

really glad that I went to the LTC on saturday, it was really good, and there is alwasy something new to learn.

anw......just a song that I like from the new Hillsongs album

With Everything

Open our eyes, To see the things that make Your heart cry

To be the church that You would desire

Your light to be seen

Break down our pride, And ll ewalls we've built up inside

Our earthly crowns and all our desires

We lay at Your feet

Let hope rise, And darkness tremble

In Your holy light

That every eye will see

Jesus our God, Great and mighty to be praised

With everything, we will shout for your glory

1 August 2008

2008-07-31T07:19:00.000-07:00

Suppose to be sleeping by now, but I just can't sleep ......

Was having real problem with my project this semester...and also with one of my subject. It just seems to be so hard, and sometime i just have the feeling that ..no matter how hard i try , i am still not getting anywhere...

having some misunderstanding and lack of communication with my team mate, and therefore make the progress of the project even slower.

but really thanks God today that I had the opportunities sit down with one of my team member, and shared with her how i felt about the project, difficulties and stuff. So we sort of re scheduled our time line, at least thing seems like getting back on track now, which is good.

King David in the bible, from a small little character, to be the king over many people, and to the time where he was surrounded by thousands of enemies, but yet...no matter what his situation is, he choose not to be intimidated, does not run and does not keep slient.

"To the Lord I cry aloud"

sometime we got to make a conscious decision, declare who our Lord is.

"This is our God" Hillsongs 2008

Your grace is enough

More than I need

At Your word I will believe

I wait for YouDraw near again

Let Your Spirit make me new
I will fall at Your feet

I will fall at Your feet

And I will worship You here
Your presence in me

Jesus light the way

By the power of Your word

I am restored

I am redeemed

By Your Spirit I am free

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Freely You gave it all for us

Surrendered Your life upon that cross

Great is the lovePoured out for all

This is our God

Lifted on high from death to life

Forever our God is glorified

Servant and King

Rescued the world

This is our God

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anw....check out this small kid...i wish i could play like him one day..... and i like Bon Jovi....

a random pic

Leaders retreat

2008-07-30T09:33:00.001-07:00

Had a really good times at leader retreats, We had fun, fellowship and sharing. We had good foods, and games,

Monopoloy

How many sheeps were there???

This is 1 dollar, this is 5 dollars ..... what is this??

Johnny Johnny Johnny ...... opps

and pictionary

the retreats was really a great opportunities for knowing the cell leading better.

serving in ministry could be really tired sometime, but together we could make it happen, and it could very fun too ......

and of course......we got so tired after the camp.....

Psalm 55:3
"with whom I once enjoyed sweet fellowship as we walked with the throng at the house of God"

29 July 2008

2008-07-28T09:22:00.000-07:00

Care Chrous

Trusting Him seems so simple but yet so hard to do

"Do not let your heart be troubled. Trust in God" John 14:1

anyway ..... happy birthday to jemo at 7 browns

simple music

2008-07-26T09:33:00.000-07:00

Just want to blog about my fiji mission trip last year and how I discovered the power of simple music.

It was really a wonderful experience for me to go for this mission trip with Jeremy Gan, still remember the nite before the trip, I was packing my bags and making sure that I got all my medication for my skin. When I first touch down at Fiji international airport, I discovered that the airline company lost all my bags, together with all my medication ......

I sms my friend back in ocf, who was all in winter camp, they prayed for me, and thanks God I managed to find a pharamcy in Fiji and got most of my medication back.

Throughout the trip, we (Jeremy and i) had a chance to went for the leadership training course with some youth leaders at the local church in fiji, We also had a chance to visit some of the primary school there and tell the kids about God etc.

Everyday morning, we started off with a worship, then continue with the sermon for the day, the amazing thing is that, there is only one guitar (a very old guitar), but the worship was just so good that even can compare with the hillsongs worship. The people there just sing with their hearts and souls, and the most important thing is that, they know who their audience is.

they did a special performance for us, "One way" the Fiji version.

the guy holding the guitar in the pic, he is SO GOOD, with just one guitar, but makes me feel like i am at sydney hilsong conference

everyday after lunch, we will just sit by the sea, look at God's creation and sing a song to Him.

You do not need to know all the chords on your guitar, or every single technique that you require to make the funny cool sounds, what you need is just your heart for music, ability to connect yourself with the guitar, and knowing that God is the only audience. It is not easy to do that, I would say that it is a gift from God for thosewho can do it, and I can never do it....ha

So .... I really respect those who have the gift.

Jason Marz with just one guitar to capture the attention from the audience. (just fast forward and start watching from (1:30 sec)

"A song should be one that without lryics, the melody speaks"

Winter camp (clayton) 2008

2008-07-22T07:35:00.000-07:00

I was meant to share this after winter camp, but I thought I could just wait until I shared in the retreat camp.

Winter camp for me is like a stopping point, after 3 yeas in OCF, I must say that it is really tired to server in ministry , together with studies, sometime I just feel very stressful, and when you got too busy with stuff, it is very easy to forget the reason behind of your doing.

This year winter camp is like me driving a car, running out of petrol and needed a refuel, till now, this verse is still always in my mind:

Psalm 27:4

One thing I ask of the Lord, this is what I seek:

that I may dwell in the house of the Lord

all the days of my life,

to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord and to seek him in his temple.

I guess God spoke to me in this verse about three things:

- If God is standing right in front of me now, and grant me anything I ask for, the first thing that came to mind could have been: please make me the greatest person in the world, or something like that. I remember when I first led a bible study, it was so difficult for me, and I kept trying to be someone else because I just felt that other people is always better than me.

but in verse 4, "One thing I ask for, this is what I seek" . it just makes me realised that is not about who I want to be, but What I am seeking . The best leader should be one that can be yourself and influence others with the real you inside. God make everyone of us unique. All I need is to dwell in the house of the Lord and understand His way.

- "that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life" .........This is my last semester, I do not want it to be the end of my christian walk. To dwell in the house of the Lord all days of my life, not part of life.

- "to gaze upon the beauty of Lord"...when i am too busy in the ministry, we just forget that God is always there for us, and we become too lazy to seek Him.

for the rest of my semester, I just going to try my best ( in my studies, my project, ocf etc), and believe that He has got the best plan for me to maximise my life and time.

"Your name high" Hillsongs 2008

Psalm 118

2008-07-17T08:31:00.001-07:00

The common word in our prayer very often is "Please", we alwasy ask help from God, and forget about saying Thank You to God for every small little blessing in our life.

and sometime we dont need a particular reason to say Thank you to someone, but just because of love. God sent his precious son to die for us not because of what we have done, but because of who we are.

10 things to thank God for today.

-> the orientation at Hays college went really well today
-> birthday party at jasmine's place with all the awesome foods (so no more instant noodles)
-> preparation for welcome nite went well
-> i got myself a poodle dog!! (not a real one...haha)
-> learnt a new song today (hillsongs - run)
-> managed to find my text book in the library
-> weekend is coming !!!
-> added a new friend on facebook today !! (joel Gn)
-> manage to get the info about Hays college from cheekai, so that i can continue my work for them
-> found a way to send sms for free from the internet

"Every day may not be good, but there's something good in every day, stay positive"

I used to listen to this song everyday, just makes me forget about all my trouble, ha

Psalm 118 - Shane & shane

give thanks to the Lord for He is good

His love endures forever

He is my strength and He's my song

His love endures forever

i will proclaim what He has done

His love endures forever

i will enter and give thanks to Him

this holy gate the righteous may enter

i will give You thanks

You answered me, You are my salvation

this is the day the Lord has made

i will rejoice and be glad in it

this is the day the Lord has made

A new CD

2008-07-16T07:20:00.001-07:00

I got a new Cd today.

When I looked at the songs list of the CD that my friend gave me, I was like shounted it out, becoz it has a song that I wanted for very very long time. The first time I heard that song was in OCF easter camp 2008, someone was performing that song as a presentation, her voice was so nice, the lyrics was so simple but somehow so real to me, and the melody is so peaceful too.

and here is the song

Five Loaves and 2 Fishes

A little boy of thirteen was on his way to school

He heard a crowd of people laughing and he went to take a look

Thousands were listening to the stories of one man

He spoke with such wisdom, even the kids could understand

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The hours passed so quickly, the day turned to night

Everyone was hungry but there was no food in sight

The boy looked in his lunchbox at the little that he had

He wasn't sure what good it'd do, there were thousands to be fed

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But he saw the twinkling eyes of Jesus

The kindness in His smile

And the boy cried out With the trust of a child he said:

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"Take my five loaves and two fishes

Do with it as you will I surrender

Take my fears and my inhibitionsAll my burdens, my ambitions

You can use it all to feed them all"

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I often think about that boy when I'm feeling small

And I worry that the work I do means nothing at all

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But every single tear I cry is a diamond in His hands

And every door that slams in my face, I will offer up in prayer

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So I'll give you every breath that I have

Oh Lord, you can work miraclesAll that you need is my "Amen"

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So take my five loaves and two fishes

Do with it as you willI surrender

Take my fears and my inhibitions

ll my burdens, my ambitionsYou can use it allI hope it's not too small

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I trust in you I trust in you

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So take my five loaves and two fishes

Do with it as you will I surrender

Take my fears and my inhibitions

All my burdens, my ambitionsYou can use it all

No gift is too small

I wonder if I was that boy, looking at all the people that waiting to be fed and with the little that I have in my bag, what would be the first thing that came to my mind? Would I ever try and believe that my little can feed the thousand? Do I have enough faith?

But he saw the twinkling eyes of Jesus
The kindness in His smile
And the boy cried out With the trust of a child

Sometime I am tired of talking to other people, after you met so many people and old enough, just feel that some people like to wear a mask, when you go into the corporate world, people just get more complicated. We become more logical to the things that happen around us and like to reason throught many times.

However, somehow God just make me understand that something can't be understand in a logical way, micracle will happen in different form, and all we need is the childlike faith.

Children are very real, they say what they think. With the small little faith they have, it might change the world one day.

"By faith the people passed through the Red Sea as on dry land;but when the Egyptian tried to do so, they were drowned" Hebrews 11:8

just a random pic to share

The Eiffel tower, when something so big can be so small sometime

16 July, 2008

2008-07-15T07:52:00.000-07:00

It is just the first week of the seemster, and I can already feel the stress and all ..... but thanks God there is something call music, which can also take away your stress at the right time....

Here is a song that they alwasy like to sing in City life church, which I like it very much.

"Say So" by Isreal and NewBreed

First day of the semester .

2008-07-12T20:23:00.000-07:00

I received my parking fine on the first day of my semester, I woke up at 1030am this morning which i was meant to be up at 830am......as usual, it didn;t happen and I had to quickly change and just jumped into my car.

I had class from 11am tis morning to 5pm without any break, thats why I couldn't go to the car park and move my car.

So when I finished my class at 5pm, walking toward the car park and anticipating the fine ticket on my windscreen.

$23 fine doesn't expensive, but it worth 2 meals plus one breakfast, I guess for my next fews day I will be eating instant noodles again.....

The new challenge for me in his semeste is about tutoring, I had a chance to tutor one of the IT subject. I did the same subject in about two yeas, this subject is about how to store data in a computer by designing a database, which require drawing a lot of diagram conceptual diagram to represent some of the real world situation. I like this subject very much, I guess I just like drawing diagram and represent my thoughts in some sort of diagram.

And the best thing of it is that .... I have my own office !! ...well ...not exactly my own, I share the office with 3 other people, but I have the key to access to the office any time I want and free printing......
And lastly, we went to pacific house for dinner on sunday nite, just to enjoy the last day of the holiday. The foods was so yummy.

Yummy foods doesn;t come with a cheap price, as a result, my menu for dinners this week will probably looks like this:

Tue to Sun: Instant noodles

Come and meet Sam

2008-07-12T20:10:00.000-07:00

What if your best friend gave your a present on your birthday, and tells your that it is a very expensive gift in there. Without opening it, you wll never know what is inside.

God wants to give us a gift, but without taking a step to acknowledge it, we will never fidn out what it was.

"Truth is not determined by majority vote. It is, by definition, objectively true whether anyone believes it or not. The world was still round even when most of its inhabitants believe it was flat. God is still God even when millions deny Him. His word is still His word, not withstanding all those who try to explain it away"

My new DVD

2008-07-09T07:59:00.000-07:00

Got a new DVD/CD

The new Hillsongs live album is out and I got myself the DVD+CD, which i haven't bought any "original" CD for long time. I was very happy and cant wait to go home listen to the new songs.

so I rush back home and put in the DVD to my computer , then click on the play button............but.....

the DVD-ROM was not working anymore !!! ..... thats mean I can;t play my new DVD......... >< ar................................................................. my laptop is just 6 months old...and the DVD ROM is not working now. ....what the !!!!!

but................thanks God I got another desktop computer, which was given to me by one of my ocf friend(KH) FREE ...... yea...thanks God for the blessing...

and i looked around my room, I found many stuffs was given to me for free......such as........

This white board hang behind my door, I dun use it often but i like it...haha (thanks to Jamie)

This Elvis Presley photo, a birthday gift gift from my uncle. I am not a fan of him, but I like poster and stuff...haha (Thanks o my uncle)

This lamp is given by derek (ex-ocfer).....haha....(thanks to derek)

I alwasy wanted an acoustic guitar, thanks God one of my housemate bought an acoustic guitar but seldom plays it, so I can have the guitar as if it were mine...haha .... (thanks to jesslyn)

This lava lamp was a gift from elaine and steve as Bday present ....... thanks to the couple...haha

Tic Tac

2008-07-08T09:53:00.000-07:00

This is just to show how much i love Tic Tac

Bought one whole box of Tic Tac, which has 73 of them in it and came with the rack !! Mango and tropical favour....haha

and...it was on discount, only 13 bucks for so many of them.....

9 July, 2008

2008-07-08T09:23:00.000-07:00

In the previous post, archeologists were trying to prove if the bible was correct. to me, the bible is real, a history book which recorded what happned in the past, and also to tell us what gonna happen in the future.

and........"It is written, Christ is risen"

"Stronger - Hillsong Live"

There is Love That came for us

Humbled to A sinners cross

You broke my shame and sinfulness

You rose again victorious

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Faithfulness

None can deny

Through the storm

And through the fire

There is truth that sets me free

Jesus Christ who lives in me

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You are stronger

Sin is broken You have saved me

It is written Christ is risen

Jesus You are Lord of all

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No beginning And no end

You’re my hope and my defence

You came to seek and save the lost

You paid it all upon the cross

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Let Your Name be lifted higher

Be lifted higher

Science and Christianity ?

2008-07-08T08:08:00.000-07:00

The story of the Jericho City

In the modern day, there is this nation call Egypt, and Iraq. Between them, there is a nation call Isreal.

Look closer to the map above, you can see Isreal.

Whn you look closer to Isreal, you can see the city call Jerusalem, to its right, is the city call Jericho.

Jericho city was a city mentioned in the bible and also archeologists have found prove for the existence.

Scientific view: The Jericho City was existed in the past and was destroyed in the late Bronze Age, about 1400 BC year.

In the bible: Joshua was leading his army for the invasion of Jericho city as God had promise them the promise land.

Scientific view: archeologists found in the region of the Jericho city with ruin of tumbled walls, preliminary conclusion for the reason of destruction of Jericho city was earthquake.

In the bible: Joshua, as instructed by God, led his army and marched around Jericho city seven times, they shouted on the seventh day, then the city collapsed,Joshua and his army went in to the city and destroyed everything.

Scientific view: To find prove for what it said in the bible, archeologists collected different facts.
They found enough evidencethat the walls of Jericho falls not by earthquake. Jericho city was in the high land, archeologists also found evidence says that the mud brick wall fell and became a ramp for a mean to be able to ascend to the city. A layer of burned ash was also found in the ciry, which the archelogist suggested that city was burned by fire.

In the bible: The bible said that Joshua led the Isrealites army into Jericho and destroyed/burn the city

The standing wall:

Scientisfic view: all the walls was fallen, but archeologists found a section of the mud-brick wall over two meters tall remained and it had houses built against.

In the bible: Rahab, who helped the spies from Joshua's army and let them escaped Jericho city to report back to Joshua, and she believed in God being faithful, because of that God promised to spare her and her family's life from the attack of the Jericho city.

Scientific view: the standing wall was the only wall remain standing without any damages. The location of it was at the North side of the jericho city, which was the direction where the spies from Joshua;s army went in to the city. It is believed that the standing wall could be the house of Rahab.

God is powerful and real, He does miracle in the bible, after so many years, scientist or archeologists trying to prove the Bible, and it seems like more and more evidence were discovered.

Bible could be just a story book to someone, but to me it is more like a history book which recorded what had happened in the past.

Jericho city was destroyed by Joshua and his army, which believe only in one God, the God who did, is doing and will do micracle.

God is the same for yesterday, today and tomorrow.

thinking.....listening

2008-07-06T11:36:00.000-07:00

When you have problem, you will just keep thinking about it, and wonder if God is listening to you, or is He near?

Is He listening to us? Or should we ask another question, are we listening to Him? Are we too distracted by our current situation and actually letting His thoughts or voice passing by?

I want to know God's thoughts... the rest are details.
Albert Einstein

We can always focus on"listening" when things are going well, .......... but when things gone badly, we complaint....................."Do we fear Him for nothing?"

"In the Secret by Shane and Shane"

in the secret in the quiet place

in the stillness You are there

in the secret in the quiet hour

i wait only for You

cause i want to know You more

i want to know You i want to hear Your voice

i want to know You more

i want to touch You i want to see Your face

i want to know You more

just a random pic to change the mood from the serious post

7 July, 2008

2008-07-06T08:35:00.000-07:00

"Be strong and courageous, Do not be terrified; do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go", Joshua 1:9

No matter waht we do, there should alwasy be an attitude of excellence, and do not give up, the victory is already there, just need to believe and proclaim it.

What matter the most is not the result, but the process which will make us grow.

Just to share a song that i like here :)

DESERT SONG Words and Music by Brooke Fraser

This is my prayer in the desert
When all that’s within me feels dry
This is my prayer in my hunger and need
My God is the God who provides

This is my prayer in the fire
In weakness or trial or pain
There is a faith proved
Of more worth than gold
So refine me Lord through the flame

I will bring praise
I will bring praise
No weapon formed against me shall remain
I will rejoice
I will declare
God is my victory and He is here

This is my prayer in the battle
When triumph is still on its way
I am a conqueror and co-heir with Christ
So firm on His promise I’ll stand

This is my prayer in the harvest
When favour and providence flow
I know I’m filled to be emptied again
The seed I’ve received I will sow

Do not worry

2008-07-05T09:35:00.000-07:00

I am that kind of person that like to worry a lot, but here is some fact that could give me a reason not worry so much.

A study was done recently about the things that people worry about.
Here are the results:

40% of the worries were about things that never happened or would never happen.
30% of the worries were things in the past for which they could do nothing about.
12% were worries about health and worry actually worsens your health.
10% were about petty or minor worries.
Only 8% of the worries were about anything substantial or legitimate and of that 8%, half, or 4%, of them were out of the person’s control.
That means only 4% were something that they could actually do something about.

Mattew 6:34Therefore, do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble on its own.

No matter what we do, just do it with the right attitude, never giv up and God will take care of the rest.

city at night:

4 July,2008

2008-07-05T09:06:00.000-07:00

Was playing my guitar and realised how amazing music could be. There are only 7 notes in the musical world, but different arrangement of the notes, different beat of playin, and different tempo of the presentation, can create 100 millions different songs, or even more than that in this world. All it was just came from the 7 notes......

thank you God for giving me a guitar and the opportunites to experience the power of music.

5 July, Saturday

2008-07-04T08:16:00.000-07:00

It has been long time since we went for house-outing (7 browns), today finally we got a chance, but too bad voon wasn;t here to join us.

I dun usually eat hot and spicy stuff, but this thai restaurant was really good, I like the Tom Yum chicken soup the most, it was sour and spicy.......

And lastly, here is what city looks like at nite....so beatiful

Hello - to myself

2008-07-03T08:29:00.000-07:00

This is the first time I started writing a blog.....i can;t believe i am doing this...haha...

i told myself once before that I will never started a blog, and now i am posting my very first blog post.....>< .... I just finished my exam and gonna to have a two weeks holiday. having nothing much to do and decided to do something different, i ended up writing this blog now.....well...i guess it is also a good idea after all to keep my parent updated what is happening in my life.

just a random pic