you know im so sleepy i feel that my eyes are gonna pop any moment. ah okay a quick post before i go SLEEP.

had the first Word For Life class yesterday. yeah its quite good lah, haha okay its very good i must say. u really get to learn ALOT and really helps to capture God's vision. attended CLC1 (Care/Cell Leader Course 1). its very interactive lah. and they had this part which is called the scavenger hunt. its like i was the leader of my group, so the leaders were called to a side and told that we are gonna help organise our group and get them to get the items asap. the items were 6 straws of 3 different colours, 5 Mentos sweets, and 4 watches. wah i tell ya here's the catch, the groups were told to be bad-spirited, and to be as rebellious as possible! even to be missing in action. so i was like got all the stuff already, then this guy from my group KEPT insisting that he had the straws, which obviously he didnt. LIAR! haha okay lah it's just an activity. i went to get the whole box of mentos sweets which he GAVE away till its left with 1 inside. like, what!!???

hah but okay lah its real fun and enlightening, taught us how important is it to have the CG function as a whole. and that everybody plays an important role. the rest of the lesson was rather fun and erm, much to be applied!

so after that i went home and packed and headed for chalet at Loyang. Like so sian can! its like bout 8+pm when i left home. oh i realised that Calvin was also having his class chalet at Loyang and we were like contemplating to do QT together! okay so i packed and stuff. got my guitar, soccer boots clothes and wadeva and walked to Bishan Mrt and took the long ride all the way to City Hall and then supposedly Pasir Ris Mrt.

okay here's the dumbest thing ever. i alighted at the WRONG STOP!!! oh man, i stopped at Tampines lah, one stop before Pasir Ris. then i was like walking through and remembered how i used to work in that area last year. haha walked to the bus interchange, and started looking for the bus which had 'Downtown East' under the number. Like, there wasnt at all! so i called Dixon and that question of "Where are you? are you at Pasir Ris?", haha it struck me real bad.

okay lah wadeva so eventually i got back to on the train and met the rest at Pasir Ris Mrt and then headed on to the chalet. was surprised to see Mrs Ngiam and Miss Tan there already. yeah so like just grabbed wadeva food there was left and erm played abit of soccer.

did nothing much at the chalet except teaching Nicholas and Paul how to play the guitar. oh and kinda helped Melcher with his worship songs and erm, had a good time worshipping and praising God. haha yeah its amazing how time flies.

But i dont like waste my time okay! yeah the chalet really gave me a chance to catch up on my SOW contact. Had a real long talk with him. You know its really amazing, when you open up your life to another, its that sense of complete trust. He kinda shared with me his doubts and stuff, and i would say it went very well lah. talked for like 2-3 hrs! yeah u know God was really prompting me man. the Holy Spirit was like proding my heart. especially when he shared with me his own life problems and doubts about God. i told him how God had changed my life, and changed me from who i was to who i am, and he shared with me how he's own 'Godly' encounters. wah its like God literally saying to me, "Bring him back to me." yeah but i guess everything has its own time. the answer would come like next next saturday. yeah he shared till he was nearly in tears lah. haha, i say, that's the power of God. im sure God was speaking and spoked to him.

"I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God made it grow. So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow." - 1 Corinthians 3:6-7

well anyway, went back and played more guitar till its bout 5.30am! and finally slept at 6am, squeezing on this bed together with the rest. haha like i had to wake up at 7.20am lah! u know i could barely open my eyes. packed and took a cab down to St Wilford Complex for the soccer match.

ay, its real bad to play a full soccer match, under the hot sun, with 1 hr of sleep, and no breakfast. its really terrible lah had this extreme headache. haha but it doesnt change the fact that we won by 5-0! haha and they didnt get a shot on target too lah! yeah played a real full match, but must say their keeper is really good yeah. awesomeness.

okay after the match i was just too hungry and sleepy. but i guessed that the sleepy part kinda dulled the hunger part. haha so bio, okay wadeva. so like went back home and fell asleep for bout an hour on my bed without having lunch. sheesh lah no good i know. well anyway, i was like dreaming of my getting late for church and immediately woke up, I REALLY WAS! aahhHH! its like 2.45pm and Word for Life classes at church starts at 3pm!! Wah okay i flew outta bed, gobbled down my already soggy lunch and cabb-ed to church. haha yeah arrived 15 mins late, and Jon smsed me to ask where i was. haha imagine that, your WFL instructor smsing you asking where, his student is. haha okay lah ex shepherd and ex CL haha so yeah.

well i didnt fall asleep during the WFL class! was really exhausted lah and the flu was like on its way. u know those which u get from lack of sleep. then Jon made me present the solutions on how to deal with people who does Superficial Sharing. wah its not easy man, imagine trying to teach like 60 others when u didnt even prepare! like first time for me somemore! haha okay lah, like didnt feel all that comfortable, but i managed to teach i guess, how they understand though!

okay after WFL classes we went out as a whole Caregroup to have a farewell dinner for Jon Tay and Shaun, as they are leaving for NS. i thought i was supposed to attend the cremation service for my granduncle but then i think its too late already. ate at the Breeks at Taka. ah uncheap! the service charge and GST totaled to bout 27 dollars! yeah, kinda spend close to $200 in total.

well so sad lah, Jon and Shaun leaving us. its like, one's our dynamic careleader and the other an important coreteam member. yeah so we took turns affirming them and yeah i guessed i affirmed them too. seriously man, without Jon's leadership this group wouldnt have grown to fast lah. Gideon prayed for them before we headed home.

AH OKAY. im done, so sleepy. didnt go for class chalet today as i dont wanna be so tired again for WFL tml. yeah wadeva nights.

okay so got to RC in the morning for the camp designing meeting. so we are supposed to come up with this Ancient China Robe for SDL Gideon. like sheesh lah so not easy, coz i dont watch like chinese drama shows so how i know wad does an emperor wear!! haha so we like kinda had to turn on the tv to this chinese show and erm, observe the emperor i guess. okay the meeting ended quite fast lah. so erm kinda called my sheep to go for shepherding! but guess he had to like go get his electric guitar. haha i didnt really mind, coz then can like find an excuse to use his place for shepherding and erm.. fiddle with that new accessory.

so kinda like tried to get as many people to Orchard as possible. wanted to like stroll Orchard without a real purpose like i used too. haha finally managed to get the Yu brothers and erm met Melcher at Orchard. haha kinda told them lots of stories and erm, haha had a good time lah. okay save the rest for chalet i guess, if i can make it there that is. ah really slacked and wasted time man. haha like just walk around for no apparent reason. okay lah must get used to this! well not really necessary though. its like so many of the kids there doing donations drives and surveys, so kinda got 'forced' to donate 4 dollars! nah i told myself like around this time one year ago that i would help these people, like donate to them. haha coz i once did wad they did last year and i felt so crappish that i got so little donations.

so erm yeah wadeva i leave out the whole day coz its so meaningless. yeah so eventually got back home. Gideon called me and asked whether i wanted to like go Bangkok with Freedy and him after church camp. hha i was like, " WHAT!? Bangkok?". oh he told me to call him back with my house phone, and i dial-ed the wrong number!! then there's this joker who answered and he put the phone by the tv, timely enough for me to hear some mediacorp actor using Hokkien. haha then he went like, "Hello. Hello. Hello. Hello. Hello. Hello. Hello." haha joker man. like didnt even let me speak lah. ah anyway, managed to get through to Gideon after the second try.

haha apparently Freedy's visa expired and erm has to go back to thailand, bangkok. okay lah, like called me to go along coz "the more the merrier". haha i was like hoping in the terms of "eh, lets go plant a church." haha no lah. just like erm thought it was somewhat like a mission trip. okay basically i guess the main objective is like to go there and have fun, AND at the mean time have a look at Hope Thailand, or issit Hope Bangkok. yeah should be an eye-opener and erm quite enlightening. at least we know how stuff is going on there. okay the conclusion is, I WANNA GO!!! yeah i wanna go badly. nah not really so badly, coz i know after Church camp im like gonna be half dead, then take a plane down to Bangkok for another 4 days!? haha see how lah. i'd be a green light, if my parents permit that is.

yups okay. erm haha was just talking to Michael online, and he had just came back from a funeral, my granduncle's funeral!! oh man i think if i went today i did see him there. yeah like wow lah, i think he went coz of erm, connections through the church helping the Boys Bridage. erm yeah.

so tml there's WFL class and class chalet and the funeral to attend. well let's see..

Oh i think im gonna volunteer myself to help out in the Chronicles of Narnia. HEY YOU! yes u can like go volunteer yourself too! haha coz their in need of man power. u dont have to be a Christian or wadeva okay. coz its like doing community work. there's like 4 different time groups to sign up for and erm different roles to help out in. haha i gonna grab people to go with me man, beats wasting time at home! haha okay u can claim CIP hours too lah but not much use to O level grads since all the certs. are already printed out.

ay had services today. the last part of the 10 part series of "God Is Nearer Than You Think". yeah Shirley did a wonderful job rounding up the series, and real glad to see so many more brothers and sisters accepting Christ.

after service met Debbie for a short briefing for the designing ministry for Camp. erm haha suppose to like design this majestic robe for our Sub-district leaders(SDLs). okay lah i aint suppose to like expose anything but im sure u all can just pick up from those rumours wads its about. well all i can say is, its gonna be a great camp!

ah after that had CG evaluation. i guess all this is for the CG to grow lah, though some erm comments and feedback when added up in total can be a big chunk to swallow esp the improvement points(negative points) yeah. so well, haha wadeva lah. i think those who were there know wad i mean.

had to be back home and then went for my granduncle's funeral. its at the All Saints Memorial Chapel. that place really brings back old memories man. there's where my own grandfather's funeral was held like 3 yrs ago. back then i was like still folding paper aeroplanes and feeding the turtles there peanut shells. oh man, yet another man of God lah. i think some of em even refered to him as a saint. not coz he's an all boy from SA or something lah. but just listening to his life testimony is a real encouragement man. He like kinda with his wife consent even pawned and sold all his property when he just married to help fund the church, so much so that even his 7 kids have to sleep on a wooden plank! He even set up many churches, the All Saints Memorial Chapel(where the memorial service was held at), set up the All Saints Home, set up the New Life Community Centre, set up the various schools among which is the present day Presbyterian High School! like goodness me!! u know all in all, he doesnt even own a single property! like i really wondered lah, would i be willing to give up my all, even dedicate my life so faithfully to extend God's kingdom and to God's calling? haha yeah. like, its really no easy thing to do lah.

anyway after servering for 54 yrs in the Bethel Presbyterian Church as a Rev. my granduncle erm passed away. yeah you know he preached God's Gospel for like 60-70 yrs of his life. okay i guess at every funeral there would be tears. yeah real sad lah like so many people were in tears and even those like real old senior citizens. it was rather crowded yeah. ah but nice to like erm see everyone. okay lah the occasion is saddening.

talked to my aunt abit. she was asking where i was going. i kinda said like St Andrews first choice and she went, "oh we would be old boys and girls of SA soon!" haha like i had NO idea she's from SA. strange man. her brother, my dad's from AC. and she's from SA? haha yeah why not lah. then erm my other uncle kinda talked to us. then when he found out i just ended my Os he's kinda shocked. then when we mentioned that i had just choose JCs he went like, "you know honestly i tell ya, u know wad does JC give u in life? NOTHING." haha than he kinda propangandraed me to go choose a POLY. like.. i just choose my schools and courses yesterday!! haha but in a way he's right lah. JC is just like another O level. i mean honestly would we really use subjects like Econs, Geography, and wadeva for our profession? let's say we decided to be a doctor, all the subjects would be of like no revelance lah. even the bio at JC level is too brief. ah but i guess no one wants to study for nothing. but i aint thought of a career yet! so yeah. JC then. haha then he was like saying, worse case senario go into a Uni overseas. ah like right.

okay so then im here back home. realised that God doesnt want me to go for my class chalet man. oh CG is on tuesday instead of monday. which i would be totally drained after the soccer match. i think i would end tuesday like both physically and spiritually drained. 2 over hrs of a full match and erm close to 6 hrs of spiritual stuff. im suppose to have some medical checkup on monday too! ah dont care gonna postpone it. oh and now i have to like attend the memorial and funeral and Cremation services from like till wednesday. AH how to go class chalet!!?? okay lah i guess this is wad i call making wise choices and pioritising. if it must that i think i would give class chalet a miss. sheesh see how lah.

did nothing much. except went with my sis to watch that 'the little prince' play. okay lah i didnt read the book so i had no idea wad to expect. oh man u know the moment i stepped into the lobby down at the singapore indoor stadium, i kinda knew that the play wasnt something which i expected. seated on the carpets at the waiting area were like 100 children from 'HOPE Childcare Centre", who were like less than 5 yrs old.. HAHA! like WAD!? so like not my age and my type of concert, i mean play.

well okay lah wad can i say? the play was quite entertaining, coz it's so kiddish! haha like, some Hi-Five show lah. they even made u do the actions along. haha oh man. well u know they got a girl to act as the little prince. haha so so funny. but its kinda erm, enlightening lah. at least i think my sister enjoys it.

okay the Q&A part was kinda like the highlight of the show though. those children asks such innocent questions lah! like haha something grownups can never think of. they asked like, "why did the little prince leave his rose?", "why do u keep smiling?", "why do u keep speaking like that?", and best of all, "are u a guy or a girl?" haha its VERY funny lah. then u hear the way the cast have to answer them, like, "because we are very happy doing our jobs and its alot of fun thats why we smile." and "he speaks like that coz its an accent. its a french accent." and "because guys have deep voices and hairy legs so u need a girl to act as a young boy." haha super lame lah. but well it was very entertaining.

well okay. at least the play went quite okay. oh gonna have quite a long day tml. my grand-uncle just passed away not long ago, so have to like go down to his church after my own church service for erm, to pay respects and attend his service. yeah kinda sad lah, though we aint real close. but its like losing a family member and a brother at the same time! u know wad i mean.

gotta have to like choose JC schools by today, since i wont have the time to do it tml, and erm, server's gonna be pretty heavy. realised that next week's schedule gonna be quite packed. esp from the 28 -30 Nov! SO happen its the exact same dates of my class chalet. and guess wad? i have Word For Life lessons at church on those very same days!! from 3-6pm. so gonna have to like juggle between those. gonna have CG before WFL class on monday at church itself! haha how cool is that. and have a soccer match on tuesday morning at 9am! so yeah. packed packed.

"For you are a people holy to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you out of all the peoples on the face of the earth to be his people, his treasured possession." - Deuteronomy 7:6



"You gave me life and showed me kindness, and in your providence watched over my spirit." - Job 10:12

well we kinda went back to school today for the PAE meeting to get back our report card and testimonial. yeah. u know i seriously felt kinda down lah, like it's really been 4 yrs already and we're saying goodbye to the school. well already got over the fact that our school's not gonna have the grad night due to poor response. but like, if so many today are willing to pay like $100 just to highlight their hair, wad's $30 for a secondary school graduation night!! its once in a life time lah. oh well lah. i guess different people view things differently.

yeah so like i was saying we got back our testimonials today. haha glad to see mine kinda long lah. the content is i guess rather appealing to the ears and eyes. wanted to like say good-bye and thank the teachers but so many were doing that, so we kinda played soccer one last time together in school.

by the time we ended soccer most of the teachers had gone back home lah. eh so made our way for a hair-cut. well since the hair cut place was just below my grandmother's apartment, being such a nice and caring grandson i decided to go pay her a visit! haha i tell ya boy was she shocked to see me lah. yeah been a real long time since i last went over to my grandmother's place. well i know she misses me! haha hope so anyway. its like she asks me such questions like, "how's your exams?", "Where you heading to?", "don't be home too late okay." haha yeah could literally feel that she misses me! haha okay wadeva. so kinda stayed a while and erm caught up with her and my aunt, before deciding to join the others downstairs. well my grandmother actually gave me some cash and insisted that i take it to like go spend lah. see so kind right!? well i kinda said i already had enough haha but guess i cant really turn her down lah. im not that bad! thank God for such a loving grandmother!

well it was still early! so we headed on to Orchard to stroll. then those JPA peeps kept approaching us. haha okay lah felt kinda guilty when one of them like asked real politely, "Can i have a minute of your time please?" and i like answered her and went, "er.. no." haha okay lah that kinda sucked i guess. i mean i was like in their shoes just one year ago! and i especially hate it when i got that kinda answers. haha wadeva lah. okay wont do that again. maybe i'll just go, "nah its okay" or something.

wanted to like catch a movie but i had to leave for the airport to get my family around 10pm. so went and walked and toured Heeren. hmm like when was the last time that i really toured and really browsed through HMV man. like so so long ago. oh managed to catch michael buble and josh groban in some concert on the DVD. wow real cool man. haha which reminded me how my cousin once told me, that when we are like in lower sec we listen to pop. then upper sec we get more into rock. then when we go to JC its like pop-rock and jazz! haha seems to be erm, coming true i guess.

well on the way out i kinda had this strong feeling that i was gonna meet someone man. then just the next second someone said 'hi' and i felt a tap on my shoulder. like wah! the Holy Spirit really is moving lah. haha but its joker melcher at work lah, okay i guess he kinda tapped me to erm signal me to accompany him into the phone shop.

well i did meet someone after all! i saw samantha from tuition while we were walking. like i taught i saw her but yet didnt. but okay the sms from her kinda diminished my doubts. well anyway, fianlly got back home lah.

well got back home, changed and made my way to the airport to get my family back from the hands of Macau and China! haha yeah the house has been too quiet these few days lah. speaking bout, "a house is not a home" man. haha so true. so waited a bit and finally saw this small little figure running down to the conveyer belt. haha yeah thats my sister alright. well glad to have them back, although almost instantly they started bombarding me with their stories and adventures. haha like Tom Sawyer and Huckerberry Finn. haha okay lah no link. sheesh lah my sister even made friends on the trip with some aunty who is a university lecture from some famous university in China, who took the same plane back. haha like wad! she's only like primary 1 somemore lah.

haha okay lah heard quite a bit. gonna share with ya only some alright. haha u know my sister had like, was trying to toy with the remote control of the television. okay this is wad i heard from my mom. my sis was playing with the television remote at the hotel in macau then she accidently pressed till the ADULT CHANNEL!! haha hilarious man. and u know in places like macau, the adult television really shows such RA stuff la. so my mom like kinda had to 'shield' the tv from my sister and tried to turn off the television. haha okay aint gonna tell ya anymore coz im lazy to type and i want you to ask me! haha alright.

right so everyone's back home and i dont have to like get my own meals any longer. ah come to think of it this week's kinda all packed. gonna have CG tml and my aunt got like tickets for our family to catch 'the little prince' play on friday. erm like well okay. so saturday is packed with church and sunday i gotta go shepherding! haha right. ah maybe i should like go volunteer myself for publicity for the show "Chronicles of Nandra" okay is that how u spell it. oh yeah camp com just told me i'd be helping out for church camp too. haha speaking bout servant leader man. Which reminds me of a verse i read yesterday for Quiet Time! okay gonna share it with ya'll.

I'm afraid it's been too long to try to find the reasons why
I let my world close in around a smaller patch of fading sky
But now I've grown beyond the walls to where I've never been
And it's still winter in my wonderland

I'm waiting for the world to fall
I'm waiting for the scene to change
I'm waiting when the colours come
I'm waiting to let my world come undone

I close my eyes and try to see the world unbroken underneath
The further off and already it just might make the life I lead
A little more than make-believe when all my skies are painted blue
And the clouds don't ever change the shape of who I am to You

I'm waiting for the world to fall
I'm waiting for the scene to change
I'm waiting when the colours come
I'm waiting to let my world come undone

When I catch the light of falling stars my view is changing me
My view is changing me

oh man. i just love the time i have now. did QT in the afternoon, something which i dont get to do very often. it's like i planned to read only a couple of chapters, but as i kept reading its like the hunger for God's words keep growing. ah awesome man. the presence of God is really overwhelming, i was felt very very refreshed, almost like how i felt during the june camp. it's really using God's words to 'Wash us clean'. then after extended QT abit so all in all took bout over an hour, though it felt like only a min!

haha yeah. sheesh speaking bout it makes me wanna do QT again man. haha. ay i guess the holidays isnt that bad after all lah. eh i strongly urge everyone to really make full use of this holiday and Christmas!

went for Robin's BBQ earlier on. well coz i needa get dinner anyway. finally wore the shirt that Matthias gave me. haha its like, after 1 month. anyway played bball. okay lah its quite fun i guess, haha tricks are much easier to do that soccer lah! well i guess its more or less easy to get the hang of also. haha okay im no pro okay im like a rookie!

oh u know when i was like in the lift leaving my house for the bbq the property agent downstairs like entered with 2 of her clients. the one of them asked her wad is the 1st floor called. haha i know sounds dumb, i wanted to like go 'Floor number 1' but then the property agent went like saying its the lobby and level 2 is where the swimming pool is. okay here's the funny part. the property agent added that the condo has 'awesome fengshui' and something bout the 'golden turtle arrangement!' HAHA i controlled and held back my laughter lah. she might as well just say that her golden turtle arrangement in it lies a golden egg, and that its hidden somewhere in the premises. like wad a swindler! haha okay lah i guess she's also got a family to feed. oh then she added that 'that's why the people here are doing so well(in terms of wealth) and that many had thus moved out and sold their flat at a high price' okay lah that part bout selling at high price is true lah, since property prices have gone up. haha okay, looks like i know who to look for if my O's results are terrible.

ah sleepy sleepy. hungry hungry; hungry for more of God's presence. haha okay dont wanna scare anybody off here. yeah so i guess its yet another day tml.

well the O's are over. yeah, its all over. no more of those horrid pages on plants and wadeva. but in a way, it doesnt feel at though i thought it would be. ya know, its like in a way, doesnt feel that complete!

so the past week went by with all the major papers. dont think i did well for physics at all okay, mcq is already like confirmed 8 wrong. Chemistry was the last paper and i kinda lost ALOT of marks by talking bout effervesence instead of a colour change. and u know which gas has bout 80% in the atmosphere. i so knew it was nitrogen but had to write nitrogen dioxide. ay nvm its okay i guess.

But i dont want it to end!! well okay maybe i really really do lah. so glad its all over. now can do all those stuff that i have been wanting to do. can like go serve God without the burden of Os.

so like decided to go with the class to watch harry potter at like 9.30pm lah, for several reasons. well anyway, was kinda glad and comforted to see that Orchard had like put up all those Christmas deco and stuff. u know it really really hit me that one whole year had passed since last Christmas. yeah, so fast okay. it's like, so sian! but then again im really looking forward to this Christmas. its gonna be like real cool, a time of bonding and stuff. we're even going carolling!! haha not those u find on the streets lah but door to door. and martin like just informed me that we'd be using this semi-electric acoustic guitar. haha right way cool.

well it's coming Christmas soon! loads of stuff are gonna happen. Church camp, Christmas harvest. ESS. i really like wanna use this opportunity to really go all out once again. ah im gonna do that man. gonna like bang hard on the guitar too. needa play for cg sooner or later also lah.

okay after Harry Potter, which i totally dont really seem to understand wads going on. okay i guess it doesnt really matter. was like so tempted to ask the rest during the movie to find out wads going on lah. but nah dont disturb them lah haha.

well okay eventually walked home at round 5.20am. yeah thats like real late. wanted to leave earlier okay! but paul went like wait for him to share cab, then after waiting he like said wait here wait there. wanted to be home to send off my mom, bro and sis. their like going overseas till wednesday. was too exhausted lah couldnt even wake up. haha but my sis was like came and hugged me awake and said goodbye. haha like so tv drama lah. but for primary 1 she better do that okay!! coz next time i doubt she would lah haha.

woke up and like decided to cab down to church. oh man i still cant over the fact that i have to wait 20 mins for a cab!! like might as well take bus and wadeva man. but wah i went to service feeling really tired but i guess Pastor Jeff did it again man. he really like gave me that spiritual refreshment i needed.

what struck me most was "God magnifests His power in the magnitude of the sense of faith, a sense of expectation." and Matthew 9:29, "According to your faith will it be done to you." its like had read that verse time and time again but the whole significance it carried finally hit home today. this Christmas, the atmosphere of faith is gonna be HUGE. and im expecting great things to happen from God!

yup okay after service made my way down for like a soccer match. so sleepy lah after everything. but guess it was a nice time we had. hah like all were so muddy and stuff and the only water source was a block away behind the garbage chute dumping area!! okay lah its very gross. i had my jeans and stuff okay! coz i like came from church. felt so very uncomfortable, but all is well after a bath!

then of course i slept. strange thing is that even the whole time i was sleeping i kept dreaming bout today's service 3rd worship song! "Throne of Praise" it's so nice lah. very ministering today.

yeah okay. so sleepy still. ay i'll end here.

today's service was SUPERB!!!!!!! the sermon was especially good. the speaker was Pastor Prakish from Hope Norway. ah u know how priviledge we are to have him today!! he's the fellow who is the coordinator for the WHOLE Hope Europe movement!!

the sermon was very wonderful lah. he doesnt use such bombastic words or deep stuff. but its the passion and spirit that he brings with him. wow man. haha im sure all of you got blown away by today's sermon okay. then after that the worship song made so much sense i just felt like going home and start praying till next morning.

since im being such a nice person. i'll just give u a brief outline of today's sermon.



Heroic Faith (Hebrews 11:13-16)

1) Confident Faith (v 13a)

Don't believe in circumstances, believe in God. which applies to especially my chemistry Os in like this friday.

To have faith is to believe totally. Because we do not see, we have to exercise faith.

Hebrews 11: 1

Let's look at biblical Abraham for example.

Genesis 12: 2-3
Genesis 15: 5-6

Abraham decided to believe in God not himself. And guess wad? God gave him, a 75 year all man, and his barren wife, a child.

And in Hebrews 11: 12, God gave Abraham decendants that were as numerous as the stars in the sky.

Today there are at least 30 million Jewish people around the world, the offspring of Jacob(Abraham's grandson).
There are around 1.3 billion muslims around the world today, the offspring of Ishmael(Abraham's and Hagar's son).
There are 2 billion Christians around the world, the offspring of Abraham.

So, more the half of the world consider themselves as the children of Abraham!!


2) Perservering Faith (v 13b)

God did not tell Abraham where he should go, but instead God led him step by step. For Abraham a 75 year old man, to leave a comfort life and put faith in God, not knowing what was going to happen, to pass through a desert. that was faith. what about you?

Genesis 12: 4-5

To be a Christian, God demands something from you!

Don't be a lukewarm Christian, take up God's call for our lives.

Many had paid a high price to follow God.
Moses, abondoned being the price of Egypt. (Hebrews 11:25)
Paul had been persecuted so many times. (Philippians 2:17)

None of us likes to be mistreated, but we are willing to sacrifice comfort to see the value of something.

Colossians 1: 28-29

Though it may seem difficult, God would be with you. (okay this really applys to me esp during Os..)

It is not easy, but we are priviledged to be blessed by God. Because by faith, we see victory.


3) Active Faith (v 14)

We have to do something for God, step out of our comfort zone.

People of faith aren't lazy, they work hard.

God can use you, dare to dream big for God.

Philippians 3:12



4) Firm Faith (v 15)

They chose not to go back.

Have firm and rooted faith. Stand firm with faith. Stand firm in what you believe.

Do not turn back. I find this point especially applicable coz many of us do feel discouraged at certain point of time in our lives whether we like it or not. it is especially important that we do pull through this period of time, with faith.

Luke 9: 62



5) Valuing Faith (v 16a)

Abraham had no absolute idea of what the land was going to be like.

They saw the value of vision. If we see this value, we would not quit, we would persevere.

Hebrews 11: 24-26

Moses chose to see the value of God's call.

Philippians 3: 7-8

Use whatever we have, for God's kingdom, and "for Your will be done."


Results of Heroic Faith

1 ) God is pleased. (v 16b)

To have faith in God is to honour Him.


2) God grants what one believes (v 16b)

The answer we want, is in God's timing. God certainly answers, but it is in His own timing.

It's either a yes, a no, or a not yet.

Faith sees the invicible, believes the incredible, and receives the impossible.

Continue our walk with faith, and our journey would certainly end in faith.


AHH so power right. okay this is like a very brief summary lah. oh well. so had DMM after service and CG evaluation. all in all ended like around 10pm. but it's all and totally worth it okay. i dont care whether i have like O's on tuesday, God's call for me certainly is of first piority. haha okay lah, say untill so erm.. wadeva man. yeah but its really true okay. nothing beats giving God your best. so, Study for Him!!

oh this is like, time flies man. okay, guess wad its like a week of Os have passed. duno wad i should be feeling man. u know aint really confident for some papers. but must say that somehow i made it though the pass few days, totally with the help of God. you know its like, somehow it doesnt really seem like i was doing the paper. its like if u know how much i prepared for the Os lah. 3 times less than prelims. haha and prelims was erm.. okay. u know its like, you can just stare at the question, then the whole thing seems to decipher in your head and well, God will make a way!

well you know duno wads wrong okay, i like had been getting this rampage of random dreams for 2 weeks running already. EVERYNIGHT!! and i have such a very tough time of falling asleep, like something's not settled. somethings bugging me!! well slept quite soundly last night lah. but its like my mom called me this morning and when she said, "it's time for exams." its like, snapped back to reality, snap back to O's.

okay back to wad happened. when's english O's arh, wednesday if i remembered correctly. i really did study for english okay. i read up so much and so much. remembered the format through and through. guess wad text-type came out for section 2 of paper 1?? SPEECH. which means, no format at all. which also means lots of marks gonna come from the paper itself. was bout this choosing of a course to learn for the december holidays. i went for the first-aid course. and u know wad i did to 'convince the class' not to choose the fitness one? i said we are a sports class! and its like simply just taking another PE lesson.. duno if we're allowed to do that. AY u know i didnt know that below those courses all those conversations on people wanting to choose that course.. i didnt know its by my classmates lah!! i thought they were like, different parts of my brain conflicting with each other like u know in tv shows. haha wadeva lah.

then u know i borrowed that pros and cons book from daryl, briefly read though. read bout divorce. AND OH MAN. no, divorce didnt come out. Marriage did! wah can u believe it!! so my whole essay was like 75% on FAILED marriages. oh i even wrote 'shot-gun' marriage lah. oh man. wanted to include gay marriages and feminism, but felt its kinda off for O level standard. ay but now kinda regreting i didnt. oh melcher made a good point by talking bout animal marriages. ay duno lah. all bout marriage being a promise. a commitment. a partnership. and all those stuff. no structure at all lah. like no planning and wadeva man. ah duno!

ay u know before english started i did a short praying. then i said 'Amen'. wah open my eyes the invigilator was beside me, staring at me. haha so malu can. dont care lah, she wanted my IC. oh so HAHA. okay..

well really chionged for bio which was on yesterday. went for our last bio tuition. ah so sad man.. and so scary too. like 2 years we've been speaking and dreaming about, yesterday.. then went through till so late. by the time i reached home was like 10+pm. and had to like somehow finish 12 chapters. ah chionged till 1am. went to bed, which again i had a real hard time to fall asleep.
woke up at 9.30am and studied the remaining stuff till like 1.15pm. AH LATE FOR Os!! okay made it like just in time to see my class-mates queueing outside the exam hall. u know i studied the whole book except the last chapter on Heredity and on Biotechnology(2 pages). Heredity is okay to give it a miss lah coz its like more or less know wads going on with uncle darwin and his theory.

so MCQ was a breeze! really man. its like 8 questions i did before. 4 of which we went through at tuition just like the daybefore the paper!! wow God bless man. finished it plus checking in 22 mins! ah my record time for bio. oh u know wad. i kept checking and checking. on like the 4th check, i went to like change that answer for the malaria question. coz its like, u check 4 times u ought to change at least something. AHH CHANGED TO A WRONG ANSWER!!

then during the break betsy told me to go read up on biotechnology. lazy man, didnt wanna stuff more bio inside my head. i dont want important stuff to erm, leak out. AAHHHH paper 2 first question was on bio tech!! its like WAD man.! the probability of that happening is like smaller than 1/150!! haha probability.. eh but bio paper 2 was like very easy. too easy infact im getting worried. oh and essay came out like environment question, bout air pollution. so i basically used geog stuff to throw inside my essay. talk bout lead to global warming.. floods, droughts, hurricanes, acid rain, economy suffers. HAHA okay i know its out of point, but still had time wad. oh and i think i didnt do well for that question. coz i like only used 2 examples of carbon dioxide and sulphur dioxide. dont make me name them please! its venturing into uncharted waters. its venturing into.. CHEMISTRY!!

but seriously its very easy. i think the marking's gonna be real tough. but its like, abit wasted lah. studied so much for just so little. Miss tan said the paper was 'insulting' us. oh well.

so it was Emath paper 2 today!! it all went well except for that dot diagram. i went to like draw a y-axis lah. duno can a not. oh and the first question i used similar triangles to solve. duno man. some says its possible, some says its not! oh well. u know amazing thing its like, im not the one doing the paper. no lah its that kinda feeling like, God's holding my hand and controlling my mind. haha the whole time the song 'You are the one' was playing in my head lah. and u know even those rather difficult questions especially for me. but i seriously tell you, God was there with me the entire paper. no such stuff as mental blocks or wadeva. is like, "let's kill the paper together" haha. so like, oh man. wad can i say? God bless.

aahh!!! it all begins. the main papers are like all coming! well its rather okay lah. saw the entry proof during the exams just now, like halfway there already.

well emath paper 1. relatively easy, though i spend 45 mins on that question 6 on number pattern! ah colleen told me the formulas last night can, and i remembered them and even used them. how can i forget it today man. its 3a + b not 3a - b!! well u know wad? that couldnt stop me man! like after 45 mins by God's almightly grace i managed to get the correct answer. it was like, i compared the given formula to my wrong working. tried to make em as similar as possible, and then realised that i was 1 number short, so i just plused 1 and there u have it. the perfect equation!! oh you can imagine how happy i was lah. well okay.

realised that i made a couple of careless mistakes. like percentage increase in Y being 300% instead of 400%. also that probability question i forgot to times 2 since u can pick the balls both ways. i didnt know how to explain the field A thing too lah, i did before okay!! just erm cant remember that tys answer.. didnt even check through lah. u can imagine how many more carelessness. like really no mood to check lah.

u know i spend the 4 hrs migrating from school to macs, to braddell heights cc and back to school, to the 5th floor, to the canteen and back to my sec 3 classroom. and i miraclously managed to photostat the whole theme on merger and separation into my head. and also that for venice. i felt like i was gonna explode lah! so tired okay. i was like feeling my eyelids closing and stuff.

well the paper was not that easy. souce-base like so foreign to me already. and my hands were not used to writing its like when i did my first souce-based question it wasnt my fingers moving it was the whole hand lah. so well. Guess wad!? may all glory and honour go to God coz out of the 4 themes i studied, 3 of them came out!! wah its like.! John 3:16 dedicated to me. haha okay rubbish. well u know i was so confused on which question to choose then for structured essay question. so i figured probably bout over 80% would do venice. srilanka had that kinda ancient feel attached. so i choose, beloved conflict among countries!!

ah u know i feel so uneasy now man. coz its like part b of the question its like so difficult!! the answer is not even in the book lah. like 2 pages on it but dont even talk bout how US is a help or hinderance to the korean war. so i went like, its a help coz it prevented south korea from being totally defeated, and its a hinderance coz it caused a war on a larger scale. then i tried to write the perfect conclusion. i looked at the clock, 15 mins more!! so i like wrote and wrote on my conclusion which eventually became as long as my essay itself. i talked bout how north korea may then try to spread communism into southeast asia even by means of force and more lives would be lost. then i wrote how US could have sparked off a world war 3 by invading into northkorea and subquently leading china to come into the picture.. like, please dont be out of point!! its bout the korea war lah. oh man wad u expect me to do with the 15 mins!! nothing to write man.

then finally when its over i found that im like the only one in the whole level who did on conflict in my school except from betsy behind me if im not wrong. then sunny called me lah and said that question was attempted by those who didnt study for the other themes! well colleen and my cousin wilmer confirmed it!! oh man. i wanna tell you, that i did study!! hope its like accepted man. haha wilmer was like writing all on 93.8 news. wad conflict over duno wad illness or wadeva.

WAH! huge relief man. ss is finally over. went like over the tuitions place and kinda did soccer for quite some time before that. met this guy from temasek sec. ah N levels and other exams are all over can! sec 4s are really suffering.

right. now its back to BIO!!! and english i guess. duno man. all the best all u peeps out there. Os are ending soon lah.

yup okay i just watched this really good documentary on discovery channel 'The Mummy Detectives: The Three Kings. i was like studying then wonder why Jason smsed me bout asking when Jesus was born so i kinda did wad he said and watched the documentary.

okay its truely enlightening lah. oh they traced it back to that Jesus was born about 6BC, didnt get to see how to trace it though. but it tallies with wad my study bible says, bout 6/8BC. well to be exact they traced it to 17th April 6BC. hmm okay.. but Christmas is SO not about to change i tell ya.. so from the route that the 3 wise men probably took, by the time they reached Bethlehem Jesus was about 8 months old? well not really proven lah, but just a rough estimation.

and it's been proven that the 3 wise men did follow a star, all the way, all the way, ALL the way to Bethleham, even after stopping to visit Herod. that star was Jupiter it says, and so happen in that period of time, Jupiter changed its course of obit to lead them RIGHT to Jesus. amazing okay.

and the bible states that the 3 wise men/3 kings were magi(s). and magi(s) were dream interpretors. so the dream about God speaking to them not to report back to Herod, yup they knew it was from God and thus, Jesus is safe and sound!!

Herod seemed to have suffered a combination of 3 diseases.. and well he did send for the killing of all the children below the age of 2. they were even showing the place where the bones were kept lah, and its still there, together with the bones of some adults.

okay here's the amazing part. u know where's the remains of the 3 kings now? in Germany!! its in this cathedral and has been there for like 8 centuries. apparently some queen went on a shopping spree and wanted to buy relics and artifacts related to Christ. so she bought the bones of the 3 wise men and put it in that cathedral, so says the painting on the cathedral, u know they even proved that the 3 wise men differed in age. one young, one middle-aged and one old! it's proven by science too lah.



okay u see that 3 stuff there. its the skulls of the 3 wise men.

eh rome claim's to have the umbilical cord of Jesus, duno where claims to have the blood of Jesus in a jar, and 3 other places claim to have the skull of John the Baptist.

well okay!! so wala. im off to studying bout the wonderful series of events that lead to merger.. i suppose.

this would be the 200th post i made. well okay not much of a relevance. eh guys.. Os are like 4 times time!! wow, so close. see the fullness of it yet? SEE how fast its gonna be over.

okay i guess O's are getting abit draggy. not that i am like totally confident to sit for the exam though, just that the anticipation is wearing out? or maybe im starting to get a little impatient.! haha duno man.


The Wonderful Cross
When I survey the wondrous cross
On which the Prince of glory died
My richest gain I count but loss
And pour contempt on all my pride


See from His head, His hands, His feet
Sorrow and love flow mingled down
Did e'er such love and sorrow meet
Or thorns compose so rich a crown?


Oh the wonderful Cross, oh the wonderful Cross
Bids me come and die and find that I may truly live
Oh the wonderful Cross, oh the wonderful Cross
All who gather here by grace draw near and bless Your name


Were the whole realm of Nature mine
That were an offering far too small
Love so amazing, so divine
Demands my soul, my life, my all


okay that was rather random. well anyway, Paradise Community Church came down today and gonna come down tml too, they are like Planet Shakers mother church lah.! okay like i really bother.. yes, i do! sheesh lah i wanna go. BUT, i guess at this point of time O's are more important. like wad Gideon said, "you are accountable for your studies." so yeah.

you know after Gideon challenged us on tuesday during CG and after reading the bible for QT its like. there's so much more to life than just Os man. haha. so yeah, get done and over with it and carry on with life i guess.