Saw 3 is coming!!!!
cool... do take a look...
Friday, October 27, 2006
Thursday, October 26, 2006
GFG @ Botanical Garden
Praise the Lord! really! cause He had stop the rain so that we can have fun... come to think of it... i think God send rain to clear the air of the filthy smog so that we can breathe better! haha... the moment all brothers reach the place, the sky began to clear and dada~ the rain stop! Thank you sooo much, Lord!
[on our way to the swan lake... the brothers actually go gaga over the 2 swan and one loser duck! really! the duck is very loser! it is a swan wannabe!]
[Fall in... reliving the army days... 1 2 3 4 5 6 and no blank file!]
[the losing team of the "dog and bone" have to prepare sandwiches for the winning team... hmm... putting burning coal on their head]
[playing ball in the field... need more explanation?]
[hang on, edwin... just hang on!]
[flince-terpillar will turn into a butterfly one day!]
[macho brothers on the trees... wonder where are our Janes?]
[the thinking game... this game reconfirmed that i am good only in chiong chiong games... just chiong, run and endure... any game that dun need brain and i will rock big time... but this thinking game... sobz]
[nope! your eyes din played a trick on you... our jasmine was there during the second game onwards... it was great to hear her opinions and views regarding BRGs...]
[the machos of NUS...]
Saturday, October 21, 2006
bro... brother... brotherhood...
today KC and kinwee came to HQ for dinner...[always KC around never kinwee] a pleasant surprise... haha... after dinner, we went to the brick staircase behind HQ and begin our MAN'S TALK... sharing about our CGs... and matters of the heart... not sure how long we were sat there... but i really enjoyed such fellowship... such is wat i call brotherhood...
Friday, October 20, 2006
pig trotter part 2...
here are some of the pictures taken during the filming today... haha..
in case you are wondering why this tin is in the picture... this tin happens to be my co-star... mr tin has been with me through thick and thin... haha... and he is the "kopi-O ta bao"...
oh oh... i kenan worm again! this time at feng seng that side... found this "green wormie" in my ban mian... i think God knows that i need to extra protein...
in case you are wondering why this tin is in the picture... this tin happens to be my co-star... mr tin has been with me through thick and thin... haha... and he is the "kopi-O ta bao"...
oh oh... i kenan worm again! this time at feng seng that side... found this "green wormie" in my ban mian... i think God knows that i need to extra protein...
Wednesday, October 18, 2006
pig trotter...
Okie... can... i will meet you at 1pm at Yishun MRT... yupz... yes... i will bring another set of clothings... okie.. see you... bye
i argeed to be chun's lead actor in her video project! oh man! wat have i gotten myself into!! immediately, i can imgaine me doing all the NGs and stalling the progress of the whole film making. btw, chun is the newest sister to NUS family.
i am good... in fact.. gifted at making a fool of myself... talented at clowning around... "annointed" to make people laugh... but to be serious and act in front of the camera is different... the lens seem to have an invisible power that can make people make mistakes... haha... sorry, chun.. for the NGs...
just as i was filming yesterday... something hit me... *ping* *ouch*
comfort zone... comfort zone... the reason why i wanna hit myself in the head is i still hate to move out of my comfort zone. filming is new to me... esp acting with people with so much stage experience. [chun and her frens are involved in chinese drama. i had seen one of their performance... if not world class... it is durian class standard!] thank God that in the end i managed to do wat i was suppose to do...
i am going to film again on thursday... hope that i wouldnt create troubles for the editing crew... haha...
note:
1. shared moments
this few hours of filming... it brings me to chun's world. helps me to understand her better. do wat she likes to do. this experience is something we will definitely talked about and laughed about... shared moments are effective in fostering relationships... so brothers, we must have more of shared moments together... so that in reliving the memories, we can laugh at one another and remember that times that we spent... sounds mushy? k la. a bit...
2. christian walk is a duh.. a walk.. not treadmill... not jumping on the spot to reach God... a walk.. walk with God... there will be times where we had to step out of our comfort zones... it is not easy... but remember that whenever we step out with God holding our hands... we trust in Him more... we grow more...
i argeed to be chun's lead actor in her video project! oh man! wat have i gotten myself into!! immediately, i can imgaine me doing all the NGs and stalling the progress of the whole film making. btw, chun is the newest sister to NUS family.
i am good... in fact.. gifted at making a fool of myself... talented at clowning around... "annointed" to make people laugh... but to be serious and act in front of the camera is different... the lens seem to have an invisible power that can make people make mistakes... haha... sorry, chun.. for the NGs...
just as i was filming yesterday... something hit me... *ping* *ouch*
comfort zone... comfort zone... the reason why i wanna hit myself in the head is i still hate to move out of my comfort zone. filming is new to me... esp acting with people with so much stage experience. [chun and her frens are involved in chinese drama. i had seen one of their performance... if not world class... it is durian class standard!] thank God that in the end i managed to do wat i was suppose to do...
i am going to film again on thursday... hope that i wouldnt create troubles for the editing crew... haha...
note:
1. shared moments
this few hours of filming... it brings me to chun's world. helps me to understand her better. do wat she likes to do. this experience is something we will definitely talked about and laughed about... shared moments are effective in fostering relationships... so brothers, we must have more of shared moments together... so that in reliving the memories, we can laugh at one another and remember that times that we spent... sounds mushy? k la. a bit...
2. christian walk is a duh.. a walk.. not treadmill... not jumping on the spot to reach God... a walk.. walk with God... there will be times where we had to step out of our comfort zones... it is not easy... but remember that whenever we step out with God holding our hands... we trust in Him more... we grow more...
Monday, October 16, 2006
father and son...
a great story for:
it brought guilt...
it brought shame...
it brought realisation...
it brought inspiration...
it brought hope...
one day... i will tell a story. such as this...
Eighty-five times he's pushed his disabled son, Rick, 26.2 miles in
marathons. Eight times he's not only pushed him 26.2 miles in a
wheelchair but also towed him 2.4 miles in a dinghy while swimming
and pedaled him 112 miles in a seat on the handlebars--all inthe same day. Dick's also pulled him cross-country skiing, taken him on his back
mountain climbing and once hauled him across the U.S. on a bike. Makes taking your son bowling look a little lame, right?And what has Rick done for his father? Not much--except save his life.
This love story began in Winchester, Mass., 43 years ago, when
Rick was strangled by the umbilical cord during birth, leaving him
brain-damaged and unable to control his limbs.
"He'll be a vegetable the rest of his life." Dick says doctors told
him and his wife, Judy, when Rick was nine months old. "Put him in an
institution."
But the Hoyts weren't buying it. They noticed the way Rick's eyes
followed them around the room. When Rick was 11 they took him to the
engineering department at Tufts University and asked if there was
anything to help the boy communicate. "No way," Dick says he was
told. "There's nothing going on in his brain."
"Tell him a joke," Dick countered. They did. Rick laughed. Turns
out a lot was going on&n bsp;in his brain.
Rigged up with a computer that allowed him to control the cursor by
touching a switch with the side of his head, Rick was finally able
to communicate. First words? "Go Bruins!" And after a high school
classmate was paralyzed in an accident and the school organized a charity run
for him, Rick pecked out, "Dad, I want to do that."
Yeah, right. How was Dick, a self-described "porker" who never ran
more than a mile at a time, going to push his son five miles? Still, he
tried. "Then it was me who was handicapped," Dick says. "I was sore
for two weeks." That day changed Rick's life. "Dad," he typed, "when we were
running, it felt like I wasn't disabled anymore!"
And that sentence changed Dick's life. He became obsessed with
giving
Rick that feeling as often as he could. He got into such hard-belly
shape that he and Rick were ready to try the 1979 Boston Marathon.
"No way," Dick was told by a race official. The Hoyts weren't quite
a single runner, and they weren't quite a wheelchair competitor. For
;few years Dick and Rick just joined the massive field and ran anyway.
Then they found a way to get into the race officially - in 1983 they ran
another marathon so fast they made the qualifying time for Boston
the following year. Then somebody said, "Hey, Dick, why not a triathlon?"
How's a guy who never learned to swim and had n't ridden a bike
since he was six going to haul his 110-pound kid through a triathlon? Still,
Dick tried.
Now they've done 212 triathlons, including four grueling 15-hour
Ironmans in Hawaii. It must be a buzzkill to be a 25-year-old stud
getting passed by an old guy towing a grown man in a dinghy, don't you
think? Hey, Dick, why not see how you'd do on your own? "No way," he says.
Dick does it purely for "the awesome feeling" he gets seeing Rick
with a cantaloupe-sized smile as they run, swim and ride together. This year, at ages 65 and 43, Dick and Rick finished their 24th Boston Marathon, in 5,083rd place out of more than 20,000 starters. Their
besttime - Two hours, 40 minutes in 1992--only 35 minutes off the world
record, which, in case you don't keep track of these things,
happens to be held by a guy who was not pushing another man in a wheelchair at
the time.
"No question about it," Rick types. "My dad is the Father of the Century."
And Dick got something else out of all this too. Two years ago he
had a mild heart attack during a race. Doctors found that one of his
arteries was 95% clogged. "If you hadn't been in such great shape," one
doctor told him, "you probably would've died 15 years ago."
So, in a way, Dick and Rick saved each other's life.
Rick, who has his own apartment (he gets home care) and works in
Boston,and Dick, retired from the military and living in Holland, Mass.,
always
find ways to be together. They give speeches around the country and
compete in some backbreaking race every weekend, including this
Father's Day. That night, Rick will buy his dad dinner, but the thing he really
wants to give him is a gift he can never buy.
"The thing I'd most like," Rick types, "is that my dad sit in the
chair and I push him once."
Here's the video.... Copy this URL into your browser
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryCTIigaloQ
it brought guilt...
it brought shame...
it brought realisation...
it brought inspiration...
it brought hope...
one day... i will tell a story. such as this...
Eighty-five times he's pushed his disabled son, Rick, 26.2 miles in
marathons. Eight times he's not only pushed him 26.2 miles in a
wheelchair but also towed him 2.4 miles in a dinghy while swimming
and pedaled him 112 miles in a seat on the handlebars--all inthe same day. Dick's also pulled him cross-country skiing, taken him on his back
mountain climbing and once hauled him across the U.S. on a bike. Makes taking your son bowling look a little lame, right?And what has Rick done for his father? Not much--except save his life.
This love story began in Winchester, Mass., 43 years ago, when
Rick was strangled by the umbilical cord during birth, leaving him
brain-damaged and unable to control his limbs.
"He'll be a vegetable the rest of his life." Dick says doctors told
him and his wife, Judy, when Rick was nine months old. "Put him in an
institution."
But the Hoyts weren't buying it. They noticed the way Rick's eyes
followed them around the room. When Rick was 11 they took him to the
engineering department at Tufts University and asked if there was
anything to help the boy communicate. "No way," Dick says he was
told. "There's nothing going on in his brain."
"Tell him a joke," Dick countered. They did. Rick laughed. Turns
out a lot was going on&n bsp;in his brain.
Rigged up with a computer that allowed him to control the cursor by
touching a switch with the side of his head, Rick was finally able
to communicate. First words? "Go Bruins!" And after a high school
classmate was paralyzed in an accident and the school organized a charity run
for him, Rick pecked out, "Dad, I want to do that."
Yeah, right. How was Dick, a self-described "porker" who never ran
more than a mile at a time, going to push his son five miles? Still, he
tried. "Then it was me who was handicapped," Dick says. "I was sore
for two weeks." That day changed Rick's life. "Dad," he typed, "when we were
running, it felt like I wasn't disabled anymore!"
And that sentence changed Dick's life. He became obsessed with
giving
Rick that feeling as often as he could. He got into such hard-belly
shape that he and Rick were ready to try the 1979 Boston Marathon.
"No way," Dick was told by a race official. The Hoyts weren't quite
a single runner, and they weren't quite a wheelchair competitor. For
;few years Dick and Rick just joined the massive field and ran anyway.
Then they found a way to get into the race officially - in 1983 they ran
another marathon so fast they made the qualifying time for Boston
the following year. Then somebody said, "Hey, Dick, why not a triathlon?"
How's a guy who never learned to swim and had n't ridden a bike
since he was six going to haul his 110-pound kid through a triathlon? Still,
Dick tried.
Now they've done 212 triathlons, including four grueling 15-hour
Ironmans in Hawaii. It must be a buzzkill to be a 25-year-old stud
getting passed by an old guy towing a grown man in a dinghy, don't you
think? Hey, Dick, why not see how you'd do on your own? "No way," he says.
Dick does it purely for "the awesome feeling" he gets seeing Rick
with a cantaloupe-sized smile as they run, swim and ride together. This year, at ages 65 and 43, Dick and Rick finished their 24th Boston Marathon, in 5,083rd place out of more than 20,000 starters. Their
besttime - Two hours, 40 minutes in 1992--only 35 minutes off the world
record, which, in case you don't keep track of these things,
happens to be held by a guy who was not pushing another man in a wheelchair at
the time.
"No question about it," Rick types. "My dad is the Father of the Century."
And Dick got something else out of all this too. Two years ago he
had a mild heart attack during a race. Doctors found that one of his
arteries was 95% clogged. "If you hadn't been in such great shape," one
doctor told him, "you probably would've died 15 years ago."
So, in a way, Dick and Rick saved each other's life.
Rick, who has his own apartment (he gets home care) and works in
Boston,and Dick, retired from the military and living in Holland, Mass.,
always
find ways to be together. They give speeches around the country and
compete in some backbreaking race every weekend, including this
Father's Day. That night, Rick will buy his dad dinner, but the thing he really
wants to give him is a gift he can never buy.
"The thing I'd most like," Rick types, "is that my dad sit in the
chair and I push him once."
Here's the video.... Copy this URL into your browser
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryCTIigaloQ
Sunday, October 15, 2006
heaven's cheering!!!
2315hrs on 14th of october 2006...
a great cheer came from heaven...
a "boohoo boohoo" from chen xiang ann...
wanna give thanks to God
for bringing her to service
for touching her heart
for giving her courage
for saving her
Lord... we await to see more of You in her life.
transform this new sister's life and bless her greatly
amen.
in case you are still reading "WAN BAO"
she is none other than zhi chun aka cookie monster.
welcome to the family, sis. it is the greatest and best
decision you have ever made.
also wanna give thanks to zheng zhong and michelle.
learn a lot from them. thanks.
a great cheer came from heaven...
a "boohoo boohoo" from chen xiang ann...
wanna give thanks to God
for bringing her to service
for touching her heart
for giving her courage
for saving her
Lord... we await to see more of You in her life.
transform this new sister's life and bless her greatly
amen.
in case you are still reading "WAN BAO"
she is none other than zhi chun aka cookie monster.
welcome to the family, sis. it is the greatest and best
decision you have ever made.
also wanna give thanks to zheng zhong and michelle.
learn a lot from them. thanks.
start with yourself
friday i saw jun kee at the HQ... he gave me this look that says "man! wat are you doing here?" sigh... he is right... wat am i doing here! so old oredi.. still at HQ... anyway jokes aside.. i am now at the stage where many, the likes of alan, chek wei, hanhui, sijia and many others have been and crossed...
so... you might ask.. wat is this stage that i am at now? this stage is the point where i have only a few months left before moving on* [correct as of 12th october 2006] i am sure many have these in their minds...
1. wat are the areas that i can leave a print behind?
2. wat legacy do i wan to leave?
3. wat do i want people to remember me of?
4.or in army term: "last burst of fire!"
permanent contributions
the sermon titled "why do i work like a dog?" by Pastor Jeff struck something deeply in me.
why do people want to work like a dog... the only reason is satisfaction! satisfaction that comes are after completing something... closing a deal or something. but temporal success cannot satisfy us for we are beings with the concept of eternality placed. thus like the 1st sermon point, we want to make permanent contributions. to have a legacy left behind. not so much about people remembering who we are.. but rather people remembering what we had done and thus encouraging people to do the same in the future...
how then can i make permanent contributions?
survival --> success --> significant
we need to move pass "survival stage" and "success stage" before we can be "significant". when a person just joined a company, the first thing he needs to do is to build relationships in the company. mix well with the rest of the staffs and learning the ropes. the second thing is to start closing deals and show people "what he is made of". only then, can that person start to make an impact in ppl's lives. because he has shown himself to be credible....
in the spiritual aspect... it is the same... when a new believer first comes to know God, he must first be able to "survive" and fan his passion for God. [reasons for 24 hour CAPI, right]. next he should have some success under his belt. these success are the fruits of the spirit that became evident in his life as he grow in the Lord and they can be breakthroughs as well... like having a deeper trust and faith in the Lord. then he can influence ppl with wat he has learnt. even better is that he raise up as a leader and impacting even more ppl! extending his sphere of influence...
how then can i survive and be successful?
"you cant give what you dont have"
a simple truth... so simple that poeple will say "you been you dont know?" [ellson will say: "wa lau... so simple! you also dun noe meh!" the simplicity of the truth is often the reason why people are unable to live it out fully in their lives. this truth can be illustrated easily in quantitative sense like:
1. yeah.. i am free... let spend some time together...
2. no probs... i just got my salary... i can lend you some money...
however, when it comes to the intangibles... it is no longer that straight forward...
the intangibles.. things that cant be measured... cant be seen... such truth will escape under the mist of ignorance...
the reason people want to stay back to help out in student ministry or just to leave a biblical legacy behind is that they want to add value to the group. however, unless we have some valuables to impart, we cant add value to people at all... we simply cant give wat we dun haf...
i quote from John C. Maxwell's book...
to be a person that adds value to others, we need to
a. recognise our value
once, Gary Smalley ask his audience whether they want the 50 dollar note in his hands. all hands shoot up . then he crumpled the note and ask the audience. once again, all hands shoot up. after that, he dropped it to the floor and grind it with his shoe. picking the crumpled note up, he asked the question again. needlessly to say... all hands shoot up again. the value of the note hasnt change no matter wat gary did to it. like the note, we have values as well... we are valuable in God's eyes.. no matter how we or others look at others, the value remains...
b. accept your value
"acceptance" comes from the Latin ad capere that means " to take to oneself". this means, process of accepting others is the act of self-acceptance.
c. increase in your value
duh... no explaination needed right?
d. believe in your value
just like praying... we should believe and have faith in the prayer that we made before God. we should recognise, accept, increase and believe in our values...
i have been reading to add value to myself... so that i can add value to the group... wat about you?
so... you might ask.. wat is this stage that i am at now? this stage is the point where i have only a few months left before moving on* [correct as of 12th october 2006] i am sure many have these in their minds...
1. wat are the areas that i can leave a print behind?
2. wat legacy do i wan to leave?
3. wat do i want people to remember me of?
4.or in army term: "last burst of fire!"
permanent contributions
the sermon titled "why do i work like a dog?" by Pastor Jeff struck something deeply in me.
why do people want to work like a dog... the only reason is satisfaction! satisfaction that comes are after completing something... closing a deal or something. but temporal success cannot satisfy us for we are beings with the concept of eternality placed. thus like the 1st sermon point, we want to make permanent contributions. to have a legacy left behind. not so much about people remembering who we are.. but rather people remembering what we had done and thus encouraging people to do the same in the future...
how then can i make permanent contributions?
survival --> success --> significant
we need to move pass "survival stage" and "success stage" before we can be "significant". when a person just joined a company, the first thing he needs to do is to build relationships in the company. mix well with the rest of the staffs and learning the ropes. the second thing is to start closing deals and show people "what he is made of". only then, can that person start to make an impact in ppl's lives. because he has shown himself to be credible....
in the spiritual aspect... it is the same... when a new believer first comes to know God, he must first be able to "survive" and fan his passion for God. [reasons for 24 hour CAPI, right]. next he should have some success under his belt. these success are the fruits of the spirit that became evident in his life as he grow in the Lord and they can be breakthroughs as well... like having a deeper trust and faith in the Lord. then he can influence ppl with wat he has learnt. even better is that he raise up as a leader and impacting even more ppl! extending his sphere of influence...
how then can i survive and be successful?
"you cant give what you dont have"
a simple truth... so simple that poeple will say "you been you dont know?" [ellson will say: "wa lau... so simple! you also dun noe meh!" the simplicity of the truth is often the reason why people are unable to live it out fully in their lives. this truth can be illustrated easily in quantitative sense like:
1. yeah.. i am free... let spend some time together...
2. no probs... i just got my salary... i can lend you some money...
however, when it comes to the intangibles... it is no longer that straight forward...
the intangibles.. things that cant be measured... cant be seen... such truth will escape under the mist of ignorance...
the reason people want to stay back to help out in student ministry or just to leave a biblical legacy behind is that they want to add value to the group. however, unless we have some valuables to impart, we cant add value to people at all... we simply cant give wat we dun haf...
i quote from John C. Maxwell's book...
to be a person that adds value to others, we need to
a. recognise our value
once, Gary Smalley ask his audience whether they want the 50 dollar note in his hands. all hands shoot up . then he crumpled the note and ask the audience. once again, all hands shoot up. after that, he dropped it to the floor and grind it with his shoe. picking the crumpled note up, he asked the question again. needlessly to say... all hands shoot up again. the value of the note hasnt change no matter wat gary did to it. like the note, we have values as well... we are valuable in God's eyes.. no matter how we or others look at others, the value remains...
b. accept your value
"acceptance" comes from the Latin ad capere that means " to take to oneself". this means, process of accepting others is the act of self-acceptance.
c. increase in your value
duh... no explaination needed right?
d. believe in your value
just like praying... we should believe and have faith in the prayer that we made before God. we should recognise, accept, increase and believe in our values...
i have been reading to add value to myself... so that i can add value to the group... wat about you?
[3 oct 2006] rem wat you are good at...
while i was writing the previous blog... about the cg outing at botanical garden... something caught my eyes... a photo of ven holding her drawing... it was a pencil drawn picture of a fruit basket. hmm... suddenly i rem that i used to draw with pencils as well... [yes.. i draw with pencils... some use poster colour.. crayon... blah blah.. i like pencil!!] that thought brought me into "stand by room" state... i search high and low for pictures that i had drawn before... haha.... WANG TIAN BU FU YOU XIN REN!!! i found a tiny book that
contains some of my drawings... hmm.. i think it rekindle my passion for drawing again... while i start to draw again... share with you wat i had drawn oredi...rem wat you are good at... according to research... in US, nearly 85% of the people felt that they could work harder on the job. and more than half of them claimed that they could double their effectiveness if they wanted to... why you ask? it is because very few people are working in their areas of strength. who likes to work in the area of weakness.. duh! yupz... that's why we must always asking ourselves wat are our strength... wat are the things that we are good in.... and then to remind ourselves of it.. so that we can continuously improving ourselves in those areas!!
there are some of the strength my cg ppl possessesjiadai - energetic...
guan - willingness...
eric - detailed...
gx - gifted in writings...
ven - simple child-like faith...
ruisi - dancing...
kaili - "can do" spirit...
we all have so much in us... so much that we can offer to God... wat's yours...
NUS100... you are with me?
[28th sept 2006] CG @ botanical garden
clap clap everyone!!! this is our very 1st* cg outing of the "a cg outing per month scheme". haha... and the organisers are....... dai and si!!!!! clap clap! they really put in lots of effort in their planning and i believe that the ENTIRE cg is very blessed by them!!! thank God for you two!!! there's some of the things we did there!
if i can cook, so can you... not nice? too bad! eat everything!!
firstly, we have to randomly picked a person to bless him/her with a home made meal. and woah X woah! i am very impressed with the food that my cg came up with. they really took a lot of efforts in doing so. the love and the desire to bless the other person is sooooooooooo much that they spend a lot of time preparing the food. so sorry GX, i had made quite a lousy meal for you... haha... din realised that my house dun haf much things. sorry.. my bad!
me tarzan... you jane...
after that, we roamed around the garden.... and we found this tree that's very near to our pinic ground. haha... it was a cool looking tree [looks very much like the HAI ZI SHU tree] and we decided to climb it. you know something... when kaili told me that her frens called her xena... i din really believe her... i was like.. oh oh.. okie.. xena har.. okie lor.. but then... woah!!!! kaili climbed the tree like nobody's business. cant say that she did it with grace... but it was much better than most girls could havedone. oh great one... xena! i am not worthy!!! haha... sad to say... the tree wasnt very big... haha... and our dear GX had no more space on the tree so he did not climb it... but he made candid shots by pretending to support the tree. haha....
i tell you har... this one har... this is...
this activity requires us to bring something to show and to tell to the rest... thanks kaili for her wonderful photos... thanks ven for her drawing book... thanks jiadai for her musical notebook. thanks GX for his army pic. and shame shame on those who din bring anything!!!!! hahaha... ellson also din bring *shy shy* haha... but we made up with juicy stories and sharings!!! haha...kkk.. sorry that i din bring any stuff...
ready... get set... draw!!!!
haha... this is unbelievable... the whole cg then use crayon and water colour to paint pictures!!!! haha... it feels sooooo funny... feels like entering some drawing competition in primary school... thank God for you all!!! everyone had played a part in making it possible! btw.. GX and Ven... the next outing better be good! if not... if not... if not daidai will cry!haha....
[27th sept 2006] fun times at liquid kitchen
it has been a long time... too long in fact... that i almost forgot how soothing and relaxing it can be.... just to drink and chat.. having some mindless stupid games with frens... it just did that... at liquid kitchen... the drinks and food are not exactly first class... but the friendship is the main dish... i totally enjoyed the time there with them...
the gang consist of myself, eric, edwin, nicholas, jesse and yi shyan. we played asshole-tai-dee [i think is spelt like this], piggy and truth or dare... some cliche games.. but it was fun! haha... anyway i was late due to tuition and then i had a conference call with ben and jan, thus i wasnt really connecting with them for about 50% of the time. haha... but i made up by making my presence felt for the other 50%. making fun of myself and others. most of the time others.... haha.... the rubber band joke on yi shyan... and the big mouth/ leo joke on jesse. haha... really really enjoyed myself... wonder if they enjoyed as much... :P
just as we are laughing at the dares and truths that we had shared.... suddenly... a question
popped out! a question that is beyond the league of "truth and dare""ellson... how do you keep being focused onto God?"wa lau.... what kind of question is this? not really the kind of truth or dare genre... but i am glad that he asked me that.... it gave me a chance to share to people... a chance to be open to people.. a chance to build deeper relationship... a chance to encourage and hopefully inspire the rest... at least i hope that i did... :)i believe God allow everyone of us to go through suffering... trying times... hardship for a reason... if not for reasonSsssss. when we had gone through it with Him, we grow stronger..we grew more assured of his Presence... we will trust Him more and more!!! and more importantly... we serve as living testimonies of His goodness and we will be encouragements to ppl around us.
will be looking forward to more supper/drinking times with ppl....
P.S. the singapore sling at liquid kitchen[serangoon] is not nice!!! dun order!
[5th sept 2006] steve's dead
i was still watching his crocs files just weeks ago. this croc hunter... steve irwin was killed in a freak accident...he lost his life to a stingray... wat a way to die... i had always imgaine him being killed by snakes or croc... somehow it seems more honorable to him. now that he is really gone... i am stunned...
this million dollar questions come in... is he saved? wat are his wife and 2 kids going to do in the future? i think finance shouldnt be a problem for them as steve is quite freaky rich. but i am saddened by the fact that his kids will be without a father to guide them... i hope things will turn out well for them...
in the msn, i saw many frens putting (tu) on their nick... in memory of steve. that's how i noe about his death... so... steve.. i shall too put a (tu) on my nick... thanks for all the joy and laughter that you had brought me... the croc files... i wonder if mediacorp will still show them...
[1st sept 2006] standard chartered marathon 2006
the map of the marathon route. i am training for it. it is really not easy. the mental and physical strain it has on the body... really hope i can finish it like a man!
the marathon is like the walk like God... this is a super over used cliche but yet... it is very true. in a race, we should never start fast... we should run slow and once we get the hang of it, we can increase the speed a little. but even so, we must keep checking our bodies. our feet, legs, heartbeat rate and etc.... if we felt that we had pushed too much, we got to slow down a little before the damage sets in. this may even force us out of the race..
in the run... in the marathon... the reason why we run is to complete the marathon... and if possible win the race. the reason SHOULD NOT be overtaking people. it MUST NOT be the reason. but while winning the race, we will of course overtake ppl. but we have to be careful and not keep pushing ourselves to overtake ppl and then in the end.. get burnt out... there are so so so many examples that we can see during races.
likewise, the walk with God is the same also. serving is important. but taking care of our spiritual health is just as important if not more important. let us not serve till the extent that the ministry becomes god and neglect our relationship with God. let us serve because of who God is...
i am going for my run le. bye
[1st sept 2006] my birthday presents
these are the stuff i gotten for bday! a big big thank you to all who had blessed so much with cards, gifts and time... thanks!
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