(Tuesday, December 30, 2008-)
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# Answer
Coming soon!
Thanks to Aiks (who I now know reads my blog!). My March-April book is gonna be Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis. I think I should be able to manage!
Tmr's movie and minor (or major) work day
Eve may be badminton, oh wait.... can't have cell dinner, perhaps have to reschedule to lunch. Then appreciation dinner, then Watchnight!
Then it's 09, and let the battle begin.
WARRIORS ASSEMBLE!
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(Saturday, December 27, 2008-)
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# Random Thought
Why is free will so important to God?
He knew we could mess up, real bad. Yet He chose to give it to us, and after we made the mistake, redeemed us at the highest possible price, and still give us the choice to decide if we want to accept His redemption. Even when the fact that when we choose not to, it breaks His heart, He still gives us free will.
Why? Anyone?
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(Friday, December 26, 2008-)
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# Christmas for Two (=
Each moment I live,
By faith i believe,
With You I'm never alone,
Trust in You
If God never changes,
It must be me
You can't bear fruit unless you are joined with me
When you're joined with me and I with you, the relation intimate and organic, the harvest is sure to be abundant.
Intimate
A word that I would perhaps never dare to describe my relationship with You. I've always read/heard of people who are so close to You. Who know Your voice, whose lives are directed by You, who obey Your commands that are whispered in their ears.
I on the other hand, mostly need shouting for You to get my attention. I guess that's why You had to get my attention in LOUD Camp. I guess this is one area I need to get right with You.
Thanks for this idea of Christmas for Two. And even paving the way for it. I guess this is actually one of the ways that You are already showing me on how to go about doing this. Thanks!
Organic
Natural. I guess this one I can relate more to. It's something that is not superficial. And I have Ps Craig to thank for this. I dunno why it never occured to me before until I heard it from Him, but prayer really is talking to You. No more putting on shows, lengthy scripts, Christian jargon. My personal prayer life is really just me and You, and You and me. Currently it still sounds like a one sided conversation, but I know deep in my heart that You're loving every moment of it. How it's nice to have someone thinking of you, I bet for You, it's quite the same. You really love just being with Your people, Your creation.
And You were quite generous with this creation. Created a little lower than Yourself. Created with eternity in mind. And of course, greater love has no one than this, that a man lay down his life for a friend.
Let me put that in tonight's perspective. greater love has no one than this, that a man lay down his life for a FRIEND.
It's not just that You laid down Your life. You considered us Your friends. Great love is not when you lay down your life for your enemy, or because u're told by your commanding officer to go on a suicide mission for the sake of the country. Greatest love, is when you know someone intimately and organically, and with all the things you love and hate weighed out carefully, you choose to say it's worth it.
And I think that puts me in a pretty awesome place.
A lot of people say that You came for one reason and one reason alone, to make a way for us to get back to You and spend eternity with You. Yes, I not only believe that is the reason, it's also the MAIN reason why You came, but I know You came for so much more than that. You gave us the reason to live, not a reason to wait for eternity to arrive, but to live abundant, superfluous, of superior quality lives. You came here also so that we can enjoy heaven on earth. That Your kingdom come, Your will be done on EARTH as it is in heaven.
Pretty cool to do that for a friend isn't it.
And to top it off, even before I was repentant and had the whole "I-want-to-get-back-to-God" mode, the God I know, who knows me through and through, and through once more for good measure chose to say that I'm His friend.
And I think that was why He came this Christmas. Because He looked at me and told me, you're my friend, and I'm willing to pay top price to get you back. And when you get back, because I've paid top price, everything you could ever want or need, you can get it, but of course, be sure to put it on My bill.
That's Christmas, really Christmas, Christmas, really Christmas, Christmas, really Christmas, for Two (=
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(Thursday, December 25, 2008-)
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# Christmassss
Kenneth here wishing all his blog reader(s) and random people who happen to drop by a Blessed Christmas!
Let this be a day of rejoicing, cuz there's lots of reason to for this season!
Faith, Hope, Love and a dash of festivity (=
Let this be a day of rejoicing, cuz there's lots of reason to for this season!
Faith, Hope, Love and a dash of festivity (=
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(Wednesday, December 24, 2008-)
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# Todayyy
Hello,
Haven't blogged for fun in quite a while.
Today was a rather interesting day. Woke up with like 4 smses. 3 of them rather redundant! Haha!
Okay, i thought this would be a long post, but i realised there isn't much to talk about except that today was a day of interesting happenings.
For one, I ate at Thai Express, their famous Green Curry. Yay! Oh yeah, with Fangs and Yue Shan. Then after we stuffed ourselves with either curry or water (FX), we headed to Yamaha.
I think that was the longest time I've ever spent in a Yamaha store! Never knew that there were so many kinds of saxophones. And even worse, the variety of oils they have, can open petrol station. Slide oil, Rotor oil, Bore oil, and whichever oil u want, it probably comes in 3 varieties. Then I learnt the difference between a fake book and a real book. Yes, I know it sounds really stupid, but hey, there was this other guy who didn't know ok!
Then after that went to the arcade and on the way, met Tasneem and Vita (and her friend which wasn't introduced... oops!) Then we played some rather silly racing, in which one i wasn't linked, and the second time we played, I won! Amazing come from behind victory.
The major story is of course that basketball thingy, where u throw balls into the hoop (like duh), just that u get many many balls, many players, and sadly one hoopd (that moves even).
Played it quite a few times. Embarrassingly, our first score was 28! Like what on earth ryte? Well, it got better... much better! And the final one where I teamed up with Yue Shan, we reached 369!!! The high score for that machine! FIRST TIME i scored a high score in arcade! Wheee~~~ By the time it was round 4 (i never knew you could play so many rounds), my arms were getting tired laaaa~~ Oh well, happy with my high score still!
Then watched Twilight. For some unknown reason, I thought it was a horror show, but it turned out to be one of the funniest movies I've watched this year, next to KungFu Panda. It's really really funny cuz of it's MANY awkward moment-type jokes! Pepper spray, lol! It was probably one of those low key good movies. Apparently it's only good if you haven't read the book. More incentive not to read!
Then, of course came going back home. 14 took forever. But when it did, Patapons guided me home. Got my hands on a few nice items! 1 Super Cedar, 1 Mithril, 2 Fire Bows, 1 Ancient Bow and 1 The Butcher!
Ok, fine, here's the real deal of the night, results day!
I did ok.... actually, not ok. 4.4 for this semester. But thank God He pulled me through Thermo, B+. Overall CAP is now 4.52. Slipping away from 1st. God help me! Yeah, I gotta help myself too. Wanna know more, ask me la k?
Ciaoz. Tmr is writing card, playing badminton and steamboat day!
Haven't blogged for fun in quite a while.
Today was a rather interesting day. Woke up with like 4 smses. 3 of them rather redundant! Haha!
Okay, i thought this would be a long post, but i realised there isn't much to talk about except that today was a day of interesting happenings.
For one, I ate at Thai Express, their famous Green Curry. Yay! Oh yeah, with Fangs and Yue Shan. Then after we stuffed ourselves with either curry or water (FX), we headed to Yamaha.
I think that was the longest time I've ever spent in a Yamaha store! Never knew that there were so many kinds of saxophones. And even worse, the variety of oils they have, can open petrol station. Slide oil, Rotor oil, Bore oil, and whichever oil u want, it probably comes in 3 varieties. Then I learnt the difference between a fake book and a real book. Yes, I know it sounds really stupid, but hey, there was this other guy who didn't know ok!
Then after that went to the arcade and on the way, met Tasneem and Vita (and her friend which wasn't introduced... oops!) Then we played some rather silly racing, in which one i wasn't linked, and the second time we played, I won! Amazing come from behind victory.
The major story is of course that basketball thingy, where u throw balls into the hoop (like duh), just that u get many many balls, many players, and sadly one hoopd (that moves even).
Played it quite a few times. Embarrassingly, our first score was 28! Like what on earth ryte? Well, it got better... much better! And the final one where I teamed up with Yue Shan, we reached 369!!! The high score for that machine! FIRST TIME i scored a high score in arcade! Wheee~~~ By the time it was round 4 (i never knew you could play so many rounds), my arms were getting tired laaaa~~ Oh well, happy with my high score still!
Then watched Twilight. For some unknown reason, I thought it was a horror show, but it turned out to be one of the funniest movies I've watched this year, next to KungFu Panda. It's really really funny cuz of it's MANY awkward moment-type jokes! Pepper spray, lol! It was probably one of those low key good movies. Apparently it's only good if you haven't read the book. More incentive not to read!
Then, of course came going back home. 14 took forever. But when it did, Patapons guided me home. Got my hands on a few nice items! 1 Super Cedar, 1 Mithril, 2 Fire Bows, 1 Ancient Bow and 1 The Butcher!
Ok, fine, here's the real deal of the night, results day!
I did ok.... actually, not ok. 4.4 for this semester. But thank God He pulled me through Thermo, B+. Overall CAP is now 4.52. Slipping away from 1st. God help me! Yeah, I gotta help myself too. Wanna know more, ask me la k?
Ciaoz. Tmr is writing card, playing badminton and steamboat day!
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(Tuesday, December 23, 2008-)
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# It's Over
Yup. What hurts even more than screwing up Christmasquerade is that it's over... I really do miss the times when I get up just to meet up with the committee. #03-03, #02-01, bedok interchange, macs breakfast...
It was madness, in a nice way. Gonna miss working with you guys. Not that many combined CFC events up ahead, so yeah, it was truly great working with you, getting to know you guys and just spending lots of time together. Should have held more meetings! HAHA :P
It was madness, in a nice way. Gonna miss working with you guys. Not that many combined CFC events up ahead, so yeah, it was truly great working with you, getting to know you guys and just spending lots of time together. Should have held more meetings! HAHA :P
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(Sunday, December 21, 2008-)
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# Christmarredquerade
Well, that was it. I tried close to my best. I guess I may have rested too heavily on circumstances. Could have pushed for that extra mile. In my mind, it's engraved. What should have been. What could have been. Communication was perhaps the biggest failure. To transfer from my mind to another's. Gotta learn the fact that nobody else really functions like me. Need to know how to transfer info without it being lost in between.
I don't blame the comm. They did as far as they knew how. Many things I knew could have been done were not done, and that's where as a leader, I guess I failed to transfer my know-how of how to run an event to them.
Then I'm quite sure pride had an issue to play with it. The comm crumbled from 11 to 10, to 9, to 7, to 6. And I didn't get help. And in the end, I don't know what I did as co-chair, if I even acted like one. I passed out so many roles to others that I don't even know what I did for this event. I only know publicity I printed two week's posters, and the can drink one which was taken down and the signages for today. Other than that, don't think I did any other work... hmmm...
Anyway, this seems to be a self bashing session.
In the end, only one question MUST be answered. God, how do You feel?
I'm happy that there were salvations, and perhaps, even without Christ-marred-querade, they would have been saved at whatever service that today had. The only way to find out is to ask Him myself. So bye bye, and see you guys again. Im free Monday... roar....
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(Saturday, December 20, 2008-)
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# Christmasquerade
It's here
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(Tuesday, December 9, 2008-)
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# Twoday
Monday
Spent the whole day with Roland/Chellie/Ethan (=
Morning - cut my hair (yes i can hear the "finally"s in the background). Met at parkway and did some "shopping" for the day (= Then stopped by to borrow DVDs and buy fruits for Ethan!
Afternoon - Watched the Mummy 3, that Dragon dude one. Then cooked curry, okay, learned to cook curry from Roland. He's wayyyyyy more experienced than me. And the curry tasted graet too! (Yes I haven't had a stomach ache from my own cooking). Then after that we, duh, ate (=
Night - Played with Ethan a bit more, Roland mashed mangoes for him to eat, watched TV, and basically that was my day.
Yup, im leaving out the part from then onwards
Joke
Q - What car is a Biblical car for a cell leader to own?
A - A Honda Accord (go figure)
Credit - Pastor Craig Groeschel
Tuesday
Morning - woke up late cuz I snoozed the alarm too many times
Afternoon - reached katong shopping centre and met up with Winnie and Meredith (= Had lunch at some interesting place and was joined by Chellie, Ethan, Lydia and Adeline. We karaoke-ed (yes my first time :) from 1-4!! Sang lots of Chinese songs (not me la of course) The pros are definitely Dix and Adeline! Haha! The one who sang the least? Lydia!! OK, Ethan actually, but he doesn't count la. Then we hung around outside the toilet while deciding to go. Then we went to Chellie's
Night - Played mahjong! Then left for Sennett, Dix was kind to send me and the rest back. Txs! Now im here after Crisis Core, Powerpoint, MSN, Lifechurch.tv and.. wait, im still here (=
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(Friday, December 5, 2008-)
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# Posters
Have I said I love designing posters?
I'm currently in a black and white mood. That will sort of explain what you'll see in church.
Looking forward to Crisis Core!
To my team tomorrow, stick with me ya? I'll need your support!
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(Wednesday, December 3, 2008-)
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#
GOD OF MY YOUTH I REMEMBER
YOUR CALL ON MY LIFE TOOK ME O'ER
YOUR LOVE HAS SEEN ME THROUGH ALL MY DAYS
I STAND HERE BY YOUR GRACE
ON THIS ALTAR I'VE WRITTEN MY LIFE
TELLS OF THE STORY I HAVE WITH YOU MY LORD
I WANT THE WORLD TO KNOW
GOD OF MY FOREVER
AND FOREVER I'M WITH YOU
MY LIFE IS SAVED WITH A PRICE
YOUR SACRIFICE REDEEMED MY SOUL
GOD OF MY FOREVER
AND FOREVER I WILL SING
MY GREATEST HONOR WILL ALWAYS BE
TO SERVE MY LORD AND KING
GOD OF MY ALL I'VE SURRENDERED
MY HEART FINDS ITS REST IN YOUR WORD
PRAISES WILL NOT BE ENOUGH TO SHOW
HOW MY LOVE FOR YOU HAS GROWN
NOTHING MATTERS WHEN YOU'RE HERE WITH ME
IN THE END JUST TO HEAR YOU SAY “WELL DONE”
BOWING BEFORE YOUR THRONE
FOREVER AND EVER
JESUS YOU ALONE IN GLORY REIGN
FOREVER AND EVER
WITH YOU I WALK THIS NARROW WAY
YOUR CALL ON MY LIFE TOOK ME O'ER
YOUR LOVE HAS SEEN ME THROUGH ALL MY DAYS
I STAND HERE BY YOUR GRACE
ON THIS ALTAR I'VE WRITTEN MY LIFE
TELLS OF THE STORY I HAVE WITH YOU MY LORD
I WANT THE WORLD TO KNOW
GOD OF MY FOREVER
AND FOREVER I'M WITH YOU
MY LIFE IS SAVED WITH A PRICE
YOUR SACRIFICE REDEEMED MY SOUL
GOD OF MY FOREVER
AND FOREVER I WILL SING
MY GREATEST HONOR WILL ALWAYS BE
TO SERVE MY LORD AND KING
GOD OF MY ALL I'VE SURRENDERED
MY HEART FINDS ITS REST IN YOUR WORD
PRAISES WILL NOT BE ENOUGH TO SHOW
HOW MY LOVE FOR YOU HAS GROWN
NOTHING MATTERS WHEN YOU'RE HERE WITH ME
IN THE END JUST TO HEAR YOU SAY “WELL DONE”
BOWING BEFORE YOUR THRONE
FOREVER AND EVER
JESUS YOU ALONE IN GLORY REIGN
FOREVER AND EVER
WITH YOU I WALK THIS NARROW WAY
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(Tuesday, December 2, 2008-)
+12:33 PM]*
+12:33 PM]*
# More help
Once again
fx-Yup, that's the part
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(Monday, December 1, 2008-)
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# Bible Help
I know this is a rather odd place to ask but anyone who has time, can I ask if you could explain to me Psalm 5v5?
Not a matter of life and death, but I don't quite understand it...
OOoohh... Metonymy... never knew that literary device (=
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# The Little Things
The little things that remind me that IT is still where I belong. As much as I don't feel like admitting it for some weird sense of reversed insecurity, it reminds me that in this place, I can find where I belong.
Little things like a timeout. Little things like about 30 minutes of crisis core. And of course the not so little things like impacting lives.
Only what is done in the present can affect eternity. (I know not quite 100% true, but wells.. I dun claim to be Solomon who spoke 3000 proverbs)
Yup, 2 more to go. Gotta have faith for this one. Missed out on some % already in the sem for a missed assignment. But this is where I know it's God hand and not my effort (=
IT was good (=
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