Yeah it felt like ages since I saw the rest of u... not counting edmund and crystal =)
Just a quick update, dcltp camp took its toll on me, ended the camp feeling extremely tired physically. Fell a lil sick thereafter, throat infected. Worked on my term paper due tmr, rested, been reading as well.
I just came back from Prudential, had a long day of "orientation" there. Gave me a better picture of what the industry is about, and while I didn't join, I am praying through in hope of making sense of this whole thing.
Praise God, our Jehovah Jireh! Got a tuition assignment out of nowhere, and its xingcong's cousin... her mom remembered how I taught her in the past and approached me to help her for a JC subjects. Means I gotta revise though, haha. Perhaps this additional income will tide me through August and June when matric gets busy... perhaps... Trust that God is sovereign. =D
Random thought. Supper, movie, left4dead, ktv, pool, bowling, jamming. (hope this doesn't stumble anyone who's studying hard :p)
See u all, let's come together soon. =)
By 
SL, at
February 26, 2009 at 6:47 PM
Hey!
yea I haven't seen you guys in ages haha (i think it's 2 weeks, but really seems like a long time)..
apologies for not being able to make it for the run, i was giving tuition all the way at sembawang. My student stays close to chong pang camp, my very first camp after coming out from BMT during NS. Going back there really brings back memories, not good ones unfortunately! =p
couldn't make it on saturday for service as well.. I was emcee for the Toastmasters Speechcraft workshop that morning, but by the time things were over it was like 3pm -.- .. Omg it was so fun, I really enjoyed myself. 47 people turned up that morning, way better than previous workshops, which we ran with OSA's help. And 26 people signed up to become Toastmasters on the spot! Obviously convinced that having good communication skills would serve them well in the future =)
Cheers to toastmasters! We'll be running the same workshop on monday 7pm, but unfortunately I can't host it again because of taiji date with edmund... but i'll be sure to train my replacement and make sure he brings glory to our club! Really pray that the event on monday will be successful, if not even more successful! =)
As for my stomach prob.. it seems to have got worse! *sobz*
Maybe because in school no more crystal to share my troubles.. =P
But oh well, I'm really praying for it to heal... will be seeing my specialist again on 9th march. Hope things turn out ok!
By 
, at
February 27, 2009 at 4:37 PM
to john: you make me sound like aunt agony. LOL.
Ha, i finally recovered physically from DCLTP.I slept before 11pm everyday this week.And this morning i was still trying hard to stay awake for a training i attended. hehe..
I've been going home from work this whole week which is really rare. :P My mum was "come home more often then i cook good food for you to eat." :) And she did..though not my favourite. i'm still craving for bim bim bak although i had it 2 weeks ago.
An update at work: I'm more like a chemist:P. The chem lab is my 2nd home. and this afternoon I was trying to dissolve tablet coat powder. You know your tablet that has colour..go smell it.. i think they all smell the same LOL.
It's the weekends! I'm glad i'm seeing you guys tomorrow!
By , at
February 27, 2009 at 8:09 PM
>>and i live just for you my lord.
hey isnt this the song played during svc? Yeah its the lyrics that make the song!
By , at
February 21, 2009 at 12:41 AM
>>and i live just for you my lord.
B1爱 B2 & B3
C G
我看见你的CG
Am F
有种特别的感觉
C Am
让我不断想
F G
不敢再忘记你
C G
我记得有一群人
Am Em
永远留在我心中
F G C
我每天只想这样的想你
G Am
如果真的是明天
F Em
耶稣突然要回来
G Am F G
我会努力好好对你比以前多好一点
Em Am
不管路有多么远
F Em
一定会让它实现
G Am F G
我会大声在你耳边对你喊(对你喊)
[chorus]
C Am
我爱你爱着你
F Em
就像 B1爱B2
F Em
不管有多少风雨
F G
我都会依然陪着你
C Am
我想你想着你
F Em
不管有多么的苦
F Em
只要能让你开心
F G
我什么都愿意
C
这样爱你
Repeat Chorus – Change B2 to B3.
Thanks Michelle and Xinyi for editting the lyrics and printing the lyrics!
Thanks Crystal for being so creative and coming up with a short skit before the song.
Thanks Ian MC and SL for being so supportive in singing the song even though its pretty last minute.
Thank you Lord for giving me this opportunity to bless through playing the guitar and for the song idea that You dropped in my heart.
Oh yea those who took photos please upload k?
~Edmund~
Thank God for ur heart bro. And for the effort, even though I din have much time to guide u along this one. =)
Hope it was a blessed V-day for all, both in terms of what we give and what we receive.
By SL, at
February 15, 2009 at 1:18 AM
so sweet! :)
By , at
February 15, 2009 at 3:20 PM
我爱你爱着你
就像 Michelle 爱 B1
不管有多少风雨
我都会依然陪着你
我想你想着你
不管有多么的苦
只要能让你开心
我什么都愿意
这样爱你
=)
Edmund, thanks for leading us in this song!
Michelle
By LoVe*m|cHeLLe*AnGeL, at
February 15, 2009 at 4:47 PM
>>and i live just for you my lord.
>>and i live just for you my lord.
Point 1: If you cant love God, the perfect being who is love incarnate, then you cant love anyone. Thus Maker.
If you cant love your own brothers and sisters in Christ, how to love someone who will be deeper in your life. Our r/s with our care group members, sheep and shepherds is not as deep as one with our mate. Get the family love right.
Point 2: Ask Paul. Some of us are chosen by God to spread the message in ways and/or places where a family will be a problem. Celibacy is a gift given to those who will be given special anointing to go forth and spread the message. A wife could be a potential hindrance in the spreading of the gospel.
Point 3: Pray to God and ask him to reveal when is the right time for you to take initiative. If she is really "THE ONE", God will not give her to someone else while you are confirming His call.
Point 4: We should not be lonely in this life because we have God. This question might be answered that God wanted Adam to multiply the human species so made him a mate. It could be that God already knew Adam would fall regardless of Eve so gave him someone physical to keep him company.
Good Questions. My answers are just off the top of my head. Feel free to rebutt.
By Ian, at
February 12, 2009 at 11:14 PM
heys leaving a comment
1. the order is a guideline for preparation bah.
2. R/S with God strong is great! probably other considerations like finances or your R/S with the other half, are in their minds.
3. hmm take the initiative lo. if God confirm with u he/she is the other one... God should also have confirmed with he/she that u are the one too... haha
4. I believe even after marriage or courtship, loneliness still lingers lor. Good thing that you have someone to share your loneliness with.. hee
By , at
February 15, 2009 at 12:06 AM
Thanks for the replies... appreciate the effort put in to think about this area of our lives, which I would describe with a phrase someone used recently (to describe sth else): "It's always there, whether or not we talk about it openly". I hope the sermons and your attempts to process what was shared can help u guys to have a stronger understanding and firmer convictions towards relationships. And really apply it to daily living.
Points on my mind..
1. Yup the order is a guideline... so what's the rationale behind such a guideline? Ian shared a possible perspective... any others?
2. What are some of the things we should really consider when we're deciding whether to enter BGR?
3. Anyone wants to share their take on loneliness? Is it the same as "being alone"?
SL
By SL, at
February 15, 2009 at 1:37 AM
Crystal's turn:
I think the order does matter. Sometimes we might just think of jumping to the third point of a mate and if we do, the world just revolves around the two of us and the other person becomes our god. just like what the sermon said, if we do not learn to submit our hurts, burdens etc to god, we just bring them along and we may end up hurting the person. And men will fail us because we're all not perfect. So when the person fails us, how? who do we turn to? And if the relationship doesn't have god in the picture, who's to be the judge when we quarrel etc, because i would say i'm right and he'd say he's right. So the relationship with god for both parties must be strong first in order to obey god' word and let god be the authority in the relationship as well.
Not only that if we jump straight to the person, it may be a perceived mindset/fabrication of your mind on how the person is like.
2) If the person's relationship with god is strong enough now, good, they'll also recognise that singlehood is the best time to serve god. To be involved in a committed relationship requires time and effort and once we're in the family group, things will take a turn for the slow as we have other priorities in life as well. paul said in 1 cor 7:32-35 that a unmarried man/woman's concerns are the affairs of the lord. And if you're going to get married for life, spending more than enough time with each other, why not choose to wait for a few more years. You'll get sick of each other in marriage LOL. kidding.
We may choose to wait also cause of the other factors: whether we are managing our lives well and am able to manage someone else's lives. whether the right one has come.Whether the person meets the criteria that you set in looking for a future life partner. whether you guys have the same life vision for god.
Whether we're financially independent and am able to start/provide for a family.. and this doesn't just involve 2 people but 6 (ur parents and spouse's parents).
3)i believe that if i'm so sure that's the right one, and god thinks so too, god will bring us together. he's not so 'chek ah' to let my "chosen one for me" be snatched away. I agree with what ed and ian said about praying about the timing.
4) 1 lonely person + 1 lonely person = 2 lonely people.. we've heard this from last year's healthy relationship seminar.. how if we're unable to cope with loneliness we'll just bring this burden to another person.
Marriage isn't the answer to loneliness. some after marriage may still experience this especially when their needs aren't met..or felt that they couldn't be understood.
Loneliness isn't being alone.. at times we need time to be a-lone where we just chill out by ourselves.. Even within a crowd, we can be lonely, where we feel we're not connected, or where we can't connect or hardly know the group of people.
By , at
February 15, 2009 at 1:33 PM
Glad to hear all the view points that are in line with WOG, which is the manual of your lives. As u r keeping the commands of the Lord/ principles n be careful to follow them, they will surely bless ur life, both present and future, as well as those ard u. =) Just to add on one key point that we should not miss as we are seeking God's guidance in preparing ourselves being the best (be it marriage or singlehood) for others (life partner or our family), which is the purpose of marriage. Ultimately if the marriage is not for honouring or glorifying God in achieving its purpose (thru sharing the same vision and direction), it will not be blessed by God.
Ha just to share my little exp of how God tested me n strengthened my conviction in this aspect in the past/ when I was younger. When I was in yr 1, I rem one of my follow-upper shared that her shepherd told her that if the purpose of marriage is not for glorifying/honoring God, the marriage won't be blessed. At that moment, her heart was shattered bcos the reason for her getting married is having children as she loves children v much. The moment I heard that, my heart was shaken too. Ha cos the reason I wanna get married is simply wanting a family and I'm really tired of moving ard yr aft yr and therefore I desire a place of belonging and a home for me n my family. Another time that I was tested was when my ex-roommate shared w me that one of her main criteria seeking her future life partner is that her husband must love God more than her. Again, my heart was shattered realising that the selfish inner me wanna that special one to love me more than anyone. And I'm really v thankful for the above 2 persons sharing their views w me, which benefited me much to build the right conviction and foundation in this aspect of relationship too. Of course, it doesn't mean that if we can't see the exact purpose God's bringing the two together like both are teachers or both r going XXX for church planting, the couples r not blessed by God. Through all the right channels God used to bring the two together (WOG, godly counsel and common sense - shared by sisters' gfg), the couple will be blessed by putting God at the center of their lives in all their major decision making, which in this aspect glorifies God as they seek their purposes in life and in marriage.
Relationship is about love and commitment. And marriage is a lifetime of love and commitment to your life partner and your family. The qns posted are good preparation for us entering into this committed r/s at the right time. We will never be prepared enough for r/s or to get married as it's the life-time lessons to be learnt and we need to be at least on the right track and have reached certain maturity n conviction n preparation to start it.
Hope it offers a more balanced view pt to the topic.
By , at
February 15, 2009 at 3:30 PM
>>and i live just for you my lord.
haha funny
By , at
February 9, 2009 at 11:11 AM
>>and i live just for you my lord.
>>and i live just for you my lord.
Thanks sis =)
Upon realising this, the next step will be to identify the things that God reveals to us and where He would want us to do something about, and then act upon it. I'm refering to specific things, not in general. In that way we train ourselves to be doers of the Word, where our faith (and head knowledge) and our actions work together to strenthen our faith and Godly convictions, mentioned in James 2:22.
"You see that his faith and his actions were working together, and his faith was made complete by what he did."
By SL, at
February 4, 2009 at 9:24 PM
>>and i live just for you my lord.
So do hope to hear from you guys :)
As for life.. haha.. this is my 2nd day back at work after a week's break and I'm craving for my break! haha. Another intern and I just realised that our next break will be Good Friday. So unless my company gives us more off which I doubt they will, my next break will only be Good Friday.
I thank god for this opportunity for doing my industrial attachment to give me a taste of working life. It's really not easy juggling work,family, friends and ministry. And I don't have to bring work home and i'm already experiencing the lack of time. So imagine what it'd be like for our leaders who have to bring work home to do. prepare teachings.meet people. etc.
I was whining to god about how i'm lacking the time to do what i need to do - prepare for shepherings, spending time with god, doing reflection( i'm currently reading He chose the nails by max lucado and it has a study guide with questions..been wanting to answer them /pen them down but haven't been able to) read my HR reading, having more sleep etc etc.. and it dawned on me that only at times like this that I learn to depend on god on what I need to accomplish and when I do, I'd know its done by god's grace and it was made possible because god intervened. Jehovah Jireh- the lord our provider.
So even as school gets busier for all of you guys (for me as well) , projects assign mid terms, do remember its these times of stress that we should depend more on god and commit our 'to do' lists into god's hands.
Hope to hear from you guys soon!
Crystal.
Hey!
Personally, I love reading blogs rather than writing them ha. For various reasons, it's been a really really looong time since I shared or wrote anything online..
Maybe I'll take a small step here by sharing a lil:
Think many people are puzzled as to why I work so hard, teaching tuition while studying. Actually, it's not much of a struggle at all. Currently, I've 5 students, which means 10 tuition hrs a wk. Spread out over a 5-day work wk, this means working just 2 hrs a day, for 2k a month! Where to get jobs like this nowadays? So the time commitment isn't a lot, and in fact I'm still looking for students! I can take 2-3 more, so if you guys know of any, can recommend haha!
But if i had to choose between my studies and tuition, naturally it'll be tuition. I can fail my modules, but my students cannot fail their chemistry. This is my teaching motto.
Giving tuition generates very strong cash flow for me right now, which is a good thing. Especially because I'm not planning to work (in the 8-5 sense) after I grad. So if things don't work out, at least I still have plenty of cash, so I don't need to beg on the streets! =p
So tuition for me is something like a job right now. One that takes precedence over my studies anytime!
ANd btw, I check the blog everyday too! To listen to the worship songs mainly haha... Although I do check out the updates section also! =)
By , at
February 4, 2009 at 10:15 AM
Hmmm.... I am kinda lazy to log into the blog to update my life.
I finally reached back to a point of normality in my r/s with God. The doubts do not come so often and I am trying to make sense of whatever I read in the Bible. Small steps towards the big steps.
I was quite inspired by Min Er and her prayer sheet. I am deciding to try it out. I.E. pray for some people and events everyday. Changing the content everyday so as not to make it a rote. I will pray for the same thing if I do not see improvement or gain enlightenment, but just not the next day.
I would like to ask that you guys pray for me to have discipline in my workplace, at home and most importantly, away from either. Been wasting my time these few weeks. Not reading my readings and not having the urgency to complete my reports.
I'll talk more at a personal level maybe next time. Some things are better left off the public domain where unfriendly (read random people not people we know) eyes can see and abuse. :P
Noah aka Nuaz
By Ian, at
February 4, 2009 at 6:26 PM
>>and i live just for you my lord.
