Friday, December 19, 2008

Better than the riches of this world, better than living the life that I want to, better than getting what I say I need, that's just the start.
Better than the sound of my friend's voices, better than the love anyone could give, God's love is.

What a wonderful camp. Like seriously speaking, I've really learnt a lot of things from this camp especially that I think will be able to stick with me for my life. Life changing lessons they are. About how meditation is a noisy affair, and a personal lesson for me about how I've been seeking the human and fleshly nature concerning both everyday life and in God's work. Just to explain the latter, I realise for myself I've been seeking more for the experience to coin it a good camp/talk/session or whatnot. But now I realise that there's something that surpasses it all, and that's prayer. Cus for me, it wasn't so much an emotional camp and Holy Spirit moving that really makes a there and then huge impact like the ones I experienced in CS retreats and last year's MM camp and the likes of it. It could be that I was possibly disconnected from God this time, but I feel very refreshed and just optimistic and positive about life now. And it wasn't an emotional camp!

But I realise that God has opened my eyes to see that what's important for God's camp and even for life itself, is that we are to become prayerful men, cus although it wasn't all powerful and moving in the emotional sense, it was a powerful camp in other ways undoubtedly. For example, we had 3 new believers! And indeed the whole of heaven is rejoicing. The camp people, though few, were totally different from previous camps cus they were all optimistic, spontaneous and eager to share God's love. Indeed God's love is so powerful, and what korkor Su min said is so true about recieving God's love and using it to love others for we cannot give what we do not have. And I can only say that I see the love of God and the work and grace of God working throughout the whole time in the camp. Amazing grace! And how wonderful and refreshing it is to see people united in heart and singing praises to the Lord almighty.

There too freedom in Christ, no fear, no oppression, no chains. And so I cast my sins and burderns upon Christ who by His stripes has healed me and praise Him, committing my life to Him once again, not for my glory or for self centeredness, but for love sake, for Christ's name. Its really wonderful the camp. The weather too was great, and I give thanks to God for the perfect, for indeed it is perfect, weather that He blessed us with. When we had outdoor sports, the clouds shielded us from the sun, it was cool and windy, and it didn't rain. Contrasting back to how the weather in Singapore is always hot for the half part of the day, rainy for the second, its by God's merciful hands that kept the weather perfect for the camp. And we give thanks and praise to Him.

A wonderful camp. Wonderful wonderful camp that has my faith up and running the way it should as a normal christian. What sidney shared is real, and the life that I had been living without God's power, thinking that camps and retreats are merely momentarily spiritual boosters is totally false. Cus then the battle of the mind would have been lost and we'd yield to the devil's lie. Instead all normal christians should live powerful, faithful and above all, love filled lives that is God centered and God fearing. And again I thank God for His amazing protection for all the campers, from injuries, and taking the devil's plans and turning them around for His glory. This I have seen, first hand, how God is able to take something seemingly horrid and turn it into something that bless people, something that is good. I hear that being spoken many times, but now I realise the true meaning of it, and the awesomeness of Jesus, the title of Christ, our saviour.

Praise God for all things, and may I continue to yield to His goodness, His love, and keep in His path of righteousness, not straying to the left of the right. Pray that I might be a good sheep following closely to my Shepard's staff.

All glory to God

Word of the Day; 5:15 PM

Sunday, December 07, 2008

Yohoho! What a merry day to-day! Dorothy and David got married! Haha, first time I see David so happy sia. Like you really could see him smiling from ear to ear. Could really see the full expression of joy and happiness in his face! Yup, so like aft playing combat arms till 5 am in the morning, I overslept! (duh) and woke up at like 10.30 when the weddings at 11am. Ok, so my bro was like, HEY, GEDDUP ALR! and I was like, hurhuh? Actually I wanted to go bath and stuff before going for the wedding, cus its like Chee's and Dorothy's big day, butttttttttt... in the end I just took some random cloth and wearing the shorts that I slept in, got drove to church. Ewwww. Gross, yes, I was feeling all ickky and stuff too ok. But it was a happy day! And I surprisingly didn't get all crappy and moody (cus I do when I don't bath and am tired). Happy day it was indeed, with all the good cheer and stuff. And he sang a song! So touching, like they both cried and all. I wonder what it'd be like if I ever do get married. Must be a wonderful indescribable feeling.

But anyway, so after the song singing and crying and e usual wedding stuffs etc, we all went down to have free lunch! Which was actually quite yummy. Ok so aft tt, we were supposed to have cell, so I rushed back home and reached home only at 2.30 when cell's at 3! argh. Thought of cabbing down there thinking that I'd make it in time only to realise that all my shirt and pants hasn't been ironed. double argh. Sooooooooo, ended up leaving the house only at 3.30. Luckly I quickly got a taxi that cabbed me down to Uncle Andrew's place. Time of arrival, 4!

That wasn't the end of my ''troubles'' though. Turned out that I couldn't get into the condo's lift without a card, so I was like stranded downstairs their house calling the people upstairs who all had their HPs turned to silent. Blah. But again, happy day, some indian guy came out of the lift and opened the door, so I could get in. Hurra! Cell itself was interesting. It made me think (alot? not really.. but not say little) about myself and my life and my relationships. About love and all. oH and I must say that ISSAC IS SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooOOOooooooooooo CUTE! Super adorable child la can!! Omg, if I ever do have a kid, I want him to be just like issac. So cute! Too bad I think he's kinda scared of me or smth. Nvr play with me de :( Oh but on a good note (happy day again), I made a new baby friend called elisha. Idk whether spell correct or not. So many cute babies running around. Aww.

Word of the Day; 12:06 AM

Thursday, December 04, 2008

OK! I'm about to complain a lot about what a sucky gradnight it was by itself, if not for the great friends there. The food sucked for $80, like some lame potato soup thing and vegetables with oyster sauce on it -.- I mean it wasn't bad, but for 80 bucks?! Kinda expected better food.

And the itinerary was really wth. Like most of the time we were just waiting, bored to tears for the next course to come. The J1 counsellors really did a crap job of the whole promnight imo. They probably had more fun than we had really, and nobody was listening to the MCs 2/3th of the time. Bored bored bored. But good thing there were dominic and huiying to talk to, so they kinda saved the day. Not to mention table hopping to Louis and Novyn's table to talk and bla. I guess everyone would agree that the only thing that rescued the prom from being a total bore was the people there.

Oh and everyone looked damn shuai and pretty la. Especially Novyn and Luoling in the photos. Like I really couldn't recongnise Luoling at all. (seriously) I think I know why already though. Cus like usually she's those kinda ah lian chio bu type, but suddenly with all the make up and stuff, she's some classy chio person. Super zhai man she. And Novyn I think looked the most different in a good way in the photos. Of course then there's the usually shuai ge and chio bu like Louis and Kate they all los. Well, at least for kate it's true la, but for louis... maybe I think its cus he wear anything also ah beng looking so no difference. xD Orh tt means I say wrong liao, not shuai ge le.

Oh oh back to complaining. So the money didn't go into the food, it didn't go into the entertainment, and it darn well didn't go into the service, cus I think PizzaHut has better service. Like our cups were perpeptually empty and we had to go get spoons and other stuff by ourselves. So where did all the money go? It went into the lucky draw! A PS3, iPod touch and some camera and lotsa vouchers. Wonderful. And like the people who won the top 3 prizes were all girls. I mean, PS3?! Wharos. Don't play already la, later need to repeat. Just gimme e ps3 or smth.

Then later we took lotsa photos! And a whole bunch of rachel's friends with cameras ask me to take photos for them when I was on the way back from the toilet. Soooo, I think you owe me man. Oh and there was this super cool jedi knight guy, tc's friend. Hahaha, super hilarious looking la. Some more he had this flower stucked to his robe, so I thought at first he was some Japanese samurai or something. Talking about photos, jason! huiying! whoever else has the photos! Post it up or smth!

Ok then later we went clubbing at zouk. It was OK la. More fun than I thought it would have been. And I met marcus john and qihang there. -.- I still haven't figured out how you all got into the 18 and above floor. But then again, since its TP's post prom, I guess they all got lobang bah. Oh and we had too, cus Ian help us cut queu so we only waited like 1hr plus before going in. Didn't have enough disposable cash to blow it on drinks, so I didn't get drunk. But later Louis brought me inside the crowd on the dance floor and tt was REALLY fun. Like seriously can get super high la. Haha. I don't mind going again actually. Wa and the music was crazy loud. Like the subwoofers didn't just make your eardrums go thud, you could even feel it inside your chest la. Shiok man.

Ok so I spent like around 150 bucks in one day. I don't know how that happened too, but it just did. Sigh. Cab and stuff eh. Oh and I got LOST before the prom. So annoying la please. I should have just taken taxi from the start. Eh and after clubbing which ended at 3am, (Why don't they just let it go on till the morning?) we were wandering aimlessly around till 6 before taking the MRT back home. And then, KO.

Next up is the Korea Ski trip which I think is gna be damn fun! Yayy! So exciting. I can't wait for it! Oh and just to qualify, I think the real fun was in the pre prom prep, going out shopping with your friends and playing pool and stuff, and the clubbing. Yup! Overall, it was one heck of a memorable night! Loved it. ((:

And people with the photos, please send them to me! Thank you!

Word of the Day; 12:34 AM