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# Lots of stuff
I actually have lots of stuff to blog about.. but i wonder why i never get down to doing it?
Among the things that are on my mind... hmm.. let's see..
1)Be thankful for what I have
2)Don't be jealous of what i don't (and this IS different from point 1)
3)Top Gear is a really funny show
4)Lots of things happening in this small period of time called.. JUNE
5)How am i getting to tuition tmr?
6)Actually, it's not tmr cuz it's 2am and why am I sleeping at 4am every morning?
7)Internet fast for 24 hours. Wow. Food.. pls?
Ok, among the things i wanted to blog about... cockroaches. People in Singapore, scared to death of it. Malaysia, it's also known as a quality rating of a mamak shop. Here are 3 interesting cockroach tales from Malaysia. Not for the faint of heart. Or those who use soap before meals.
Story 1
I wasn't there so I'm jz retelling this one. Few of my friends were at the mamak stall and there were about 6 big sized guys at a table nearby. Cockroach came walking TOWARDS the guy, he scares it away, it comes backa second time. Guy scares it away, again. The third time, being fed up, the cockroah FLIES at the guy. Makes the first scene with screams. Then later, everyone knew the place was infested with cockroaches, but who cares right? Let's see. Above their ehads was a wire that connected the exterior lights to the power supply and walking along that wire was.... yup.. a cockroach. One of the 6 big guys spotted it and people started staring at it. My friends also looked. Apparently everyone was looking. The cockroach did its little tightrope act across the wire... and eventually was above the table of the 6 big sized guys. Then it stopped, lost it's balance, dangled.... and fell off!! The 6 guys were screaming like little girls apparently, and as if that wasn't bad enough.. as the cockroach fell... it started to flap it's wings (why did God give them wings anyways??) and flew just before it hit the table. That was it!! Everyone scrambled away... Really funny!
Story 2
Now this happened to me. Was in my friend's car (whose name i will not mention to protect.. erm.. reputation?). OK, giving him credit, it was his dad's car. And we stopped at a mamak to see if it was open, but it was closing and as we went back into the car, i saw a baby cockroach on the dashboard. As the driver was too afraid to do anything, i scooped it up with a tissue and threw it away. Few days later.. he picks me up along with other friends for a mamak session. We leave and as we get back to the car, we were joking about cockroaches, but guess who wasn't? The baby cockroach on my seat as my friend pointed out. I quickly took another tissue and tried to clean it up, when my friend realised he was referring to a different one. There were TWO cockroaches on the seat I was gonna sit on. Then as i tried getting rid of the two, we spotted a third...!!!! So cockroach count now : 4
Few days later, he shows up in the infamous car once again and to our disappointment, no cockroach this time.. Had our mamak session, till late.. then... as we were heading off.. there it was.. on the dashboard... cockroach no.5! So yup, that's that with the infamous car... Dun think i ever wanna sit in there again cuz it makes u feel things crawling around and up your legs when actually nothing is there.
Story 3
Yes, there is still one more story! This time we were at center mamak, and we were there quite early after tuition. Not too bad, 10plus, but we were watching NBA Eastern Conference Playoff Game 4, Pistons againts Celtics. Pistons won... oh yeah...!! BUT BUT buttt... sometime around the 3rd Quater, 4 cockroaches came out from behind a "wall" and we were like.... "pls don't fly" And we continued watching as they crawled around the menu, the drinks, and we postulated that a lizard got ambushed by cockroaches as it went behind a whiteboard and never to be seen again. Then came the brave and adventurous one that crawled towards us. My first reaction? SLAM!! Squished it. And so we thought that was it and continued watching as both the Celtics and Pistons screwed 3point after 3point shots.. it was 0-7 for both teams up till end of 3rd quarter i think. Then we looked beneath the table... and the cockroach had sneaked below the table leg! With only ONE leg working... so my other friend killed it a second time with his slipper. And he said he could feel it squirming about beneath his slipper.. On to the 4th quarter of the playoff game. As I sneaked peeks beneath the table to see if the cockroach had indeed resurrected, my friend told me to stop doing that cuz it freaks him out a little. So yeah, we watch the second half.. happy that the cockroach died after being killed twice. And while the Celtics were being creamed and called a timeout... we looked under the table.. and like the Toyota Hilux that Top Gear couldn't kill.. the cockroach was STILL creeping away!!! At 1 milimetre a minute... but it was MOVING!!! smash... the third time.. and this time, the white innards of the cockroach was clearly visible on the floor... And guess what... it was STILL KICKING... we turned it over.. and realised it had NO INNARDS left... we left it there to die... the fourth time...
OK, end of gross stories. Doubt anyone would be interested to read till here anyway, but it's QT time soon (= Time to listen out to what the most important voice has to say. At close to 2.30am. Nice and quiet somehow in KL. The loudest thing at this time.. well.. the keyboard of my father-in-law (think my wife, and see ifu can relate) and when im on QT, it's.. well.. bugs banging into the light. Haha.. yes, even on the 8th floor there are bugs...
Among other things.. no idea why but i was honestly SCARED when i saw the church camp duty roster (and that' show it's spelled FX, not rooster or roaster!=) Guitar 1 (And as my sis pointed out, there's only 1 guitar. so why guitar 1?), Service 4 - Kenneth Wilson. Consolation? Gab's is the PW leader, FX is on keys, and i've at least seen one fo the two backup singers, and Ade is on sound with Faithe on projection. Wait.. why did i say i WAS scared? I still am!! The last time i played the guitar for YA service, it was quite disastrous. When I played it at Infaction, I snapped a string which sliced my finger a wee bit. And now.. church camp?! Training is in order! Oh, btu a little surprise, Amanda Chong on projection! COOL!!
OK OK, it's starting to become obvious why I DO sleep at 4am everynight now. but before I go... eh.. it slipped my mind. Oh yes.. tuition. Helping my mom out with tuition, I once again realise how sad it is to be... so... poor in english. There I am, standing in front of about 15 students about 5 hours go, reading out the simplest passage in my life and explaining my guts out what physiotherapy and aromatherapy are... and i totally didn't realise they didn't understand a THING I WAS SAYING!! I decided to just quiz them on "simple" words in the passage.. "Girl in the blue jacket, what does "rapidly" mean? The whole class doesn't know... And i asked what does "indication" mean.. no idea.. what does "yearned" mean? TWO ENTIRE CLASSES got it WRONG... God, I honestly feel SAD for these kids. I am like.. almost cheating their money. There i was yesterday trying to excite them about a mini essay they were to write about the first car trip in the world (when the car was first invented) and tried to explain to them things like what a carburetor was, what a radiator does, what's the difference between leaded and unleaded petrol... and.. all that time.. i think the hardest word theyunderstood was "car"...
/faint
OK, that does it for this round of blogging. Txs for reading, u're appreciated!
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(Monday, May 26, 2008-)
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# I am
Sad. As a person and personally
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(Saturday, May 24, 2008-)
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# One Way
Okay, first off, replies to shoutboxes
Dawnie - Hehe!! get PSP soon k!!
Shums - IGNORES YOU....
- Okay im not that evil, yeah, i wish i could have been there, and pls lor, it's not expensive, u know how much it costs to SET UP one Mardi Gras? Let me tell you it runs into 5 digits! And I dun mean Ringgit. Yeah, haven seen u online in ages!! Where have u been hiding? Or u block my MSN!!!! Hoorrrr!!1!! And yeah, it's nice to be back, though not for too long... Can get bored quite easily.. hehe.. But food here still rocks lar, SG should really learn a thing or two about mamak stalls!
Yumei - Hehe! How come u're broke? Maybe u can win more money at the mahjong table! Hehe!! Hint hint!
Okay, now back to the initial post itself (yes, there was actually a deeper reason to this post than replying those 3 ppl)
Have been in malaysia for about 6 days now. Initially it was very depressing coming back here and hearing how disgustingly corrupt the country is. Then it got worse hearing how things are, with news about my cousin and how doctors can be so NEGLIGENT and get away with inflicting such excruciating pain and then charge us for it. Then of course came the fact of who I am, away from the easy life in Singapore. Reality hits. And it doesn't use a baseball bat, it comes with a bulldozer AND a wrecking ball.
Then, the magic of QT came. Not so much of those whole sermon revelation kind of thing, but rather from listening to this very old and familiar song. For those of you that might know, actually i think only 1 person knows, but, oh well, have been struggling with this issue for about a month already? Then the release came.
One Way, Jesus,
You're the only one that I could live for
Simple chorus, yet, it never came with such simple truth. Well, at least truth for me lar, for the millions of you who already know it, be thankful lar hor...
And yeah, for me, it struck me again that I'm only to live for one person. Not to impress anyone, not to prove to anyone, not to convince even myself. That simple. The only reason I hunger, the reason i cry out in desperation, my reason, it's You. I don't have to be good enough, or even achieve a certain standard. But it's just a life lived for You. Yes, there are His standards that I strive to achieve, but I meant more of what I was trying to achieve before this. Yes, the pressures to "perform" do come everytime "that" happens, but I remember this chorus, that the only one I live for is You, Jesus (=
Now for the bridge
You are the Way, the Truth and the Life
Jesus said He is the Way. To me, it's quite obvious that there are many ways to go about life. There's the mega on-fire, siao ons, ultra radical Christian.
There's the I'll live my life the way I see best, according to my convictions.
There's the dun pressure me, I'm doing much better than the rest of the world already way.
Then there's the Way.
Oddly enough, before Christians were called Christians, they were called followers of "The Way". Cool eh? And i think this is really significant as it means that there is really only ONE WAY to live our lives. And deriving from that fact, there are obviously OTHER ways as well. And in the end, I choose that no matter what great teachings come about, what "seasons" come and go in YA, what "level" we choose to come up to, I will hold on tight to The Way, and how He lived His life. Like what Hosea preached, the double doctorate of Jesus,
We are to be poor, hungry and desperate to preach, heal and deliver.
And if being hungry and desperate means to engage in prayer, then it's time be serious about that. If it's stepping up in preaching the word, not from the pulpit but from the stage of life, it's time to up my game. If it's humbling myself, knowing im nothing, and that God has to come through for me, i'll cling on to my Mighty Deliverer, my Triumph and Truth (=
Yup, it's time for life to be so peculiar that it is called "The Way"
Then, the truth. Cuz im blogging like days after the revelation, I'm not so clear and sharp already about this point, but in essence, He is The Truth. What He says, He will do. Like Gabriel said, the promises in the Bible are not to taunt us, but for us to grab hold of and see a true God come true for us. The "sad" thing about Him being THE Truth, it makes EVERYTHING else lies. Scientology, Atheism, Many-paths-one-God, Mediocrity, Antinomianism, Insularism, Materialism, Karma and whatever else the world deems acceptable, there is only ONE standard. And only one "Man" has claimed to be that standard. And since He is The Truth, the true reason can only be found in Him.
Finally, the life. I've often said to people (and very wrongly I'll admit now) to "get a life" or to even say that when I'm in uni, I have "no life". I know it's kind of a slang thing, but taken literally, Jesus is The Life. That's quite funky if you think about it. The Christian life, is The Life, when we choose to follow The Way in all truth. It's really quite exciting to fulfill the full mandate thrust upon us as Christians. We will truly be living the life with The Life in us (=
Okie, that's about it for this edition of Kenneth's musings on songs. Anyone got any nice songs to recommend? If not Hillsong and Planetshakers will keep on being on the Song of the Day kind of posts.
I WANT A PSP!!
and that olympus game, crisis core, patapon, syphon filter : logan's shadow, and various other blow-em-up games (= whee~~
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(Wednesday, May 21, 2008-)
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# Update
Im in Malaysia and I need to blog soon. Just keep on coming online after a full day when im dead tired, so guess what, I'm not blogging again.
Actualy, jsut to brag, i watched Iron Man with Cal Vin today. And to you Singaporeans reading my blog, the movie cost RM7, thats about $3. yup, my popcorn and drink cost RM6.20, thats even less than $3, so in total, ticket, popcorn and drink, still cost less than a movie in SG. Heee... the only few things i can brag about malaysia, dun be jealous k, cuz the next post will be depressing. you have been warned! Toodles! (what on earth does that mean??)
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(Tuesday, May 13, 2008-)
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# Outing
At Chellie's place now. Spent half the day here, and still here watching 50 First Dates. Watched No Reservations earlier and had mahjong session too! But i didn't get to win any i think. Anyway, more updates on what happened after GDOP.
GDOP was quite normal. Met only one person i knew other than the emmanuelites. Ok, ryte now dun really feel like blogging either. Half watching 50 First Dates, half sleeping, and half surfing the net. So that's one half too many to do ryte now.
Tomorrow will be cell group. Yay. And looking forward to it after 3 weeks. In the meanwhile, all the best to fangxian and co.
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(Monday, May 12, 2008-)
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# Guess Who's Back?
ME
Guess who/what didn't come back with me to PGP? My room key...
lol
It's in Bedok.... In Sennett, in my church bag. Aahhhh... sians...
And i think i planned my holidays wrongly... i really hope dry run is this thursday, then solves my holiday problem...
Ok, Kenneth is quite confused. Not upset or anything cuz i know God has a plan and purpose for everything. Just wish it could be easier, but You give and take away, Lord, blessed be Your name (=
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(Thursday, May 8, 2008-)
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# Guess Who's Back!!
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(Tuesday, May 6, 2008-)
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# SIAN
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# Sian
Today is officially a sian day. A sian season? Hope it ends soon (=
I end my last paper this sem on Thursday, 11am. Anybody free to go out? Pls? =\
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(Monday, May 5, 2008-)
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# Seasons
There was this song that really spoke to me a lot today. Think it's really nice and meaningful. It's Love Enough, by the Under 21 UNITED band, but i was listening to the iHEARTrevolution version, but either way, it has a really meaningful first verse and pre-chorus. Love the last two lines of the chorus too! Ok, i love the first line too.. haha! In other words i really like the song! oh, did i mention i love the last line of the bridge too? Speaking of Hillsong (actually, united, but i just want my thoughts to appear as if they flow in a non-random manner)... their 2008 album due in July is called This Is Our God.
AND I WANT IT!!!!
ok, on to not so obvious reason of me bringing up that obvious fact is that Stephanie is going to Australia roughly the time of the album release!! So if she sees it, she may buy the album for me!! (but sadly, im still gonna have to pay for it... in singapore dollars...)
And now flowing from stephanie, to other people related to her, namely rebecca and claire. Met up first with Claire, and thank God i used my brain and not get off at the 2nd bus stop... (no txs to Bec and her sense of direction) Then we waited for Bec who was nearest yet LATE. But at least the food was good. The three of us initially ordered Cheese Raymond (as Bec calls it, go figure) at this place called Full House, a Korean restaurant. Then Bec graciously offered to change hers to Kimchi Raymond. The cheese was really cheesy.. but NICE! The price wasn't, and idun think i'll be going back there anytime soon.
But there was internet connection there though, and my wife was around. Hehe, got the network password from the waitress. The number is like a malaysian handphone number, and Claire/Bec thought i asked for the number of the waitress.... swt..
Anyway, where does stephanie come in? Well.. Miss Clarity Cafe.How i agreed to even enter that place is beyond me. They even got me to take one photo there.. but iwas obviously not in a photo mood.Why? If u ever see the pics, u'll know. For now i shall save what is left of my dignity.
Why no more dignity? Cuz i was hanging out with a drunk Stephanie. She was seriously drunk... and even itchy that day! Had fun playing weird lame games, then we played bridge with smelly cards. Haha.. Claire is apparently some DH bridge queen, but quite blur... There were some owning games, like the notrump that Bec owned with diamonds, or some silly games where Claire/Bec instantly lost a 4 bid within the first 4-5 sets. But overall it was a fun night!! Funny last minute photo before bus 10 brought us home...
Oh man.. back to the title of this Post... Seasons.. Was talking about Love Enough which has nice lyrics.. well, shujing said something quite true in church just now, about how there's like seasons to the songs that mean a lot to us. But slightly deviating yet remaining on the same topic (i know the GP tutors are cringing at such vagueness), was also listening to Bishop TD Jakes sermons on youtube, seasons in life are so important.
Ok, now the post gets more serious.
In my life, I always have ups and downs, which ought not to be. Dowan to be a roller-coaster Christian swayed about by every wind of doctrine (ok, not that bad la) more like swayed by the winds of emotions and emo-ness... haha! And like what the good Bishop reminded me, the devil is the last person u wanna fight when u're down, cuz he knows exactly what to give to you to get you to cave in. If you're a smoker, that free cigarette will just appear, if you're a shopaholic, that sale will just begin, and if you're me.. haha... dun think will say what here la k?
But back to seasons, there are those ups and down seasons which is bad.. but then there's also the seasons in life.
And for me, right now, i believe my season is preparation. Im quite excited about excellence. Had the chance to talk to jiayi about it quite a lot when i dragged her to church from NUH.. hee.. sorry bout that, last minute change of plans...
But there are lots of things God is dealing with me in my life. Not so much the deliverance from demons or purging/refining by fire kind of mega drama. It's more of the character of who I am and what I choose to stand for. Those things that if i don't change, nobody other than God will know. It's those things that God cannot change in me, that I have to say "No" (or yes) to by myself. Not the relying-on-my-own-strength kind of saying No, but more of a, I-want-to-grow-to-be-more-like-You-Jesus kind of No (or yes). Yup, there are lots of things in which i plan to grow. Let's see, maybe i'll just write it out to sort my thoughts, cuz i know people read my blog, but they never really read through the whole entry when it drags like this. Hehe.. so things i need to work on, well, excellence in copyright handling. Namely my huge collection of illegal Christian songs... and the stuff i download off the net, but that's easier to throw away. Next, excellence in responsibility. In going the extra mile for the things im responsible in doing. Lastly, would be excellence in relationships. To be a man of God. To be able to look back and say, Kenneth at 21 is definitely more mature than when he was pre-21. And no, i don't mean i want to look older, i look old enough thank you. there are some others, but, for another time.. this post is already taking ages.
So back to seasons, i think God is really funky with having seasons. Cuz if the earth had no obliquity, that would be the end of seasons, but 23.5 became the magic number. But back to the really main point, i think it's good that God has seasons for us in our lives where we deal with different things. Cuz if God were to change all of me at one go, i think i'll die of depression of what a sad/lousy/pathetic/loser/lame person i am. But God chooses to bring me through the valleys, time after time, season after season. Yup, thanks God for 23.5.
So two songs come to mind. One's rather childish and i think only Amandaz might know. haha! Here goes
Little by little, everyday,
Little by little, everyway,
Jesus is changing me,
He's changing me,
My precious saviour,
I'm not the same,
Person that I used to be,
Since I made that turn-about-face,
I've been growing,
In His grace,
Jesus is changing me.
And the other more "grown up one" is
You are forever in my life,
You see my through the seasons,
Carry me with Your hand,
And lead me in, Your righteousness,
And I, look to You,
And I, wait on You,
I'll sing to You Lord,
A hymn of love,
For Your faithfulness, to me
I'm carried in,
Everlasting arms,
You'll never let me go,
Through it all.
I think there's a bridge to Through It All, but you get the point. No bolds this time, cuz nobody really reads lyrics anyway when they're like 15 meters scrolled down from the post. But yup, this is the song for the day. Songs, oh well. hehe
Ok, people im thankful for today, Megan and James (=
People i met randomly that made my day, Gavin, Kelvin, Lydia, Shujing, Winnie and of course, PS MARK (=
Yup, this tooklike an hour to type, so yay. It's done!!
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(Friday, May 2, 2008-)
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# Good (it's) Morning
It's 9.50am and i should be back at the books soon.
Haih.. it's been quite an eventful night. Yes, i actually did study so that's a major improvement. But the interesting stuff only happened after i fell asleep. Or rather, tried to fall asleep...
At first it was way too hot.. then couldn't sleep. Then after that, kept waking up and the worst was 4am... then after that... it was too cold to sleep.. Then cannot sleep again.. Then woke up 1 hour before my scheduled alarm... ahhh.. Just thank God it's morning and im alive.
EG1108, here I come. Be nice. Pls.
Before i go off for my second last paper, songs of the day. Yup, there's two today (=
Great and Mighty
Overwhelmed
Yup, you guessed, my playlist was set on Artist : Planetshakers
More on these songs later (if i have time that is)
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