What does He mean?

Went for an x-ray @ CMPB this morning...

While waiting for my bus home...
This weird old man [probably 60 years old] sat next to me and started a conversation with me...

[old man]: What's the time?
[me] : 10am [Smile]
[old man]: really?
[me] : ya
[old man]: Now no bonus... how to work?
[me] : huh?
[old man]: No bonus. Don't work lor. Yesterday Lee Hsian Loong came? You know?
[me] : Oh? Issit?
[old man]: You know? Lee Kuan Yew's son. Lee Hsian Loong?
[me] : Ya...
[old man]: Now. Singapore companies no bonus. Lee Hsian Loong said. Don't work lor. No bonus no nothing. Work what? What's the point of working?
[me] : Ya ya
[old man]: You don't have much benefits at work, do you?
[me] : Me? Ok la.
Old man stand up and walks away...

Hmm... ????

Jesus is my ark...

Went to see 'The Days of Noah' @ GV Plaza Sing with Richard...
It had not come to my notice that the film was actually done by a Hong Kong Chinese church association. Wow...
The message was a real impact. The movie showed the details of how Noah's ark had rested on the Mount Ararat @ Turkey after the Great flood 5000 years ago. It was said that Mt Ararat was real holy. It even showed us that there has been occasions where red snow falled on the mountain and after, brought great harvest... but few years ago. the red snow happened... but the harvest wasn't a good one. A warning. A sign. A message... Archeologists even managed to dig out wood that is 5000+ years old... suggesting that it belongs to the 'Ark'... and they proved that God's greatest flood back then had killed civilsations or even buried them... Leaving an early Japanese civilisation under the sea. But some years back, the Turkey government had place an order that no one were to explore Mt Ararat due to military reasons. But there was this turkish guy who managed to do secret climbs and even found the entrance of the founding of the Ark... They was even one part of it where there were spiritual presence guarding the ark. The locals there called it the Satan Valley. The cameras had difficulty focusing it. It was really scary.

Guys. The end of days might seem very near. It must a reminder to me from 'Daddy'. We must start to have a sense of urgency to His people and God now. According to Pastor Ben, he said that there are 1/3 of Singaporeans(3-4 millions populations) who are christians... including the Catholics, i guess. That means around 1.5 millions singaporeans are not saved yet. Let's start throwing our life-saving ring floats to those people out there. We may be on Jesus' ark already but we are not to be selfish. Jesus' great commission awaits us...

Learned something today...

Read:
Hebrews 12:1-11

Do not despise the chastening of the Lord, nor detest His correction.
—Proverbs 3:11

Bible In One Year:
1 Chronicles 17-19

Many Christians have to be lovingly roughed up before they will grow up. Although the heavenly Father never allows His children to suffer needlessly, sometimes He lets them experience hard knocks so they'll become mature believers.

The need for "bad weather" to stimulate growth can be seen in nature. Scientists say that the seeds of some desert bushes must be damaged by a storm before they will germinate. They are covered with hard shells that keep out water. This allows them to lie dormant on the sand for several seasons until conditions are right for growth.

When heavy rains finally come, the little seeds are carried away in a flash flood. They are banged against sand, gravel, and rocks as they rush down the slopes. Eventually they settle in a depression where the soil has become damp to a depth of several feet. Only then do they begin to grow, for moisture is absorbed through the nicks and scratches they picked up on their downhill plunge.

Similarly, difficulties may be needed to wake up a sleeping saint. This may hurt for a while, but if we yield to the Lord we will find that life's bruises can mark the beginning of spiritual advances. We may prefer to remain "seeds," but He wants us to become "fruitful trees." —Mart De Haan

Should Thy mercy send me sorrow, toil, and woe,
Or should pain attend me on my path below,
Grant that I may never fail Thy hand to see,
Grant that I may ever cast my care on Thee. —Montgomery

Membership class...

Membership class was very encouraging today...

Learnt a lot from Pastor Dinah and Pastor Ben...
Meihwa was LEADING 'PRAISE & WORSHIP' too... WOOO!!!.... LOL

Pastor Dinah taught us abt a lot. Eg.

'The last place to be converted is your wallet'

Our church is as strong as the weakest member

Our church is not made up of superstars

Pastor Ben was explaining more on our church structure...
like we are a church movement. We do not have any denominations.
We are also not an independent church like CityHarvest or New Creations.
I thought CityHarvest was 'charasmatic'?

Anyway, really had a great time there...

Was discouraged a couple of months ago... but Pastor Dinah taught me one thing...

'Regardless if we walk, run, skip, hop, jump, leap, fly (lots of faith)... We will reach the endpoint God has in store for us?'

Amen? AMEN!!!

Praise the Lord!!!

It's blessed to be blessing...

My dad had gotten some food fair coupons for this Wesley Methodist Church located at Fort Canning Hill... It's their 120th anniversary... and they were doing some charity bazaar... so Richard, Ricky, Mummy, my Grandaunt and I went to have some fun... We had $300 worth of coupons, i think... Really didn't know how to spend them all. So I decided to bless my DI sisters... Had some popiah, laksa and snacks... It was crowded...



After that, Richard and I went to play pool as it was still early for service...
It's been so long since we last played pool together... and still he won me again... 3 vs 2... LoL

We reached Nexus at around 4 as Richard had ushering to do... Then after the youth ministry, there was this silly brother lying down outside the door... one leg slipper/one leg shoes... haha



LoL...Silly boy... While waiting for service to start, I blessed most of my DI family with lollipops and cutey bookmarks... ^_^



Today's service was by Pastor Ben!!! Yeay!!! Welcome back!! So long never see him already... Today's service was very informative. He said he was starting a new series for us... called the tabernacle series...

Click here to read more abt the study of the Tabernacle.

After service, we had dinner at Starhub Foodcourt as usual... After that, the guys didn't know where to head to... Then, for Richard & Meihwa... they were practising for their performance(praise & worship) for tomorrow's membership class...



Got to go then... Got membership class tmr... Feeling very tired now... It's been one long day... God bless everyone!!! ^_^

Cool Blog....

Hope Anew
- Exploring the wonders of a surrendered life -

Came upon this blog... Pretty cool... Go check it out...
Click the picture above...

如果难过 请你忘了我...

To: XXX

"I'm trying to care...
I know you have exams...
It's not that I dun wanna see you...
I wanna see you too...
You think I like this?
You assume I don't love you...
that I don't care about your feelings...
If I don't, why have i done so much?
If this is the much faith you have in me...
Forget it then... I'm not THE best guy then... BYE..."

翻着我们的照片 想念若隐若现
去年的冬天 我们笑得很甜
看着你哭泣的脸 对着我说再见
来不及听见 你已走得很远
也许你已经放弃我 也许已经很难回头
我知道自己错过 请再给我一个理由 说你不爱我

就算是我不懂 能不能原谅我
请不要把分手当作你的请求
我知道坚持要走 是你受伤的藉口
请你回头 我会陪你一直走到最后

就算没有结果 我也能够承受
我知道你的痛 是我给的承诺
你说给过我从容 沉默是因为包容
如果要走 请你记得我

如果难过 请你忘了我

* I'm human too... I have feelings too...

Superstar Super Concert...

Cried your way to sleep that Junyang won’t be able to sing on Singapore Indoor Stadium?

Wish you can hear Sin Huey’s husky voice again?

If your answers are a Yes, Yes and YES!!, then here’s a huge rainbow for you on this dreary rainy day: The Project SuperStar hotties are back for a concert!

Expect to see Kelly Poon, Tan Wei Lian, Hong Junyang, Chew Sin Huey and many other SuperStars in a highly anticipated concert of the year!

SuperStar Super Concert
Date: 30 September 2005
Time: 8pm
Venue: Singapore Expo

Concert tickets are priced at S$38, S$58, S$78, S$98 respectively. Tickets will be on sale from 1st of September @ all Sistic outlets!

[Click here to see the original article]

God... I never guess I would be working with...

I just found out today that...
my department supervisor is actually the cartoonist for [Mr Kiasu]!!!



And.... another guy from my department is the cartoonist for
The Straits Times...
Feel So honoured... So blessed and encouraged...

Happy Birthday Cedric and Stephen...

Congrats to those who went for the water baptism today...

And happy birthday to the 2 birthday boys who had their early b'day celebrations today at their home... inviting all of us for dinner...



Thanks Cedric & Stephen!!! Happy birthday to you two again...
Loads of fun... and took loads of pics on the way home... haha...
[Click the badge above to see the photos taken...]

Oh, this week, we also have Shelby celebrating her birthday...
Happy birthday to you too!!!! ^_^

God blessed Saturday...

The 'F' word talkshow was hilarious...

Darn funny and entertaining...
Indeed, I do agree with Richard...
ESS by the university guys are done darn professionally...



After that, I had to rush to a Japanese festival carnival at the Changi Japanese Primary School... Had to rush down in Kimono... As usual... the carnival was an eye-opener to my friends... It's a pity my Di-family couldn't come to see the cute japanese kids fishing for baby goldfish using paper nets...

A weird friday...

Today... Finally...
The course conducted for officers [at my camp] is finally over...
Finally... A time to rest...

After work...
No one was at home...

So I went to meet Joseph for dinner.
He was working at Life Bookshop [@ Suntec] till 9:30pm
So after that we went down to FAT MAMA at Cuppage for dinner...
Bumped into Zhonghuan & Jingmin along the way there... [One after another, I dun mean them together, LoL]
Joseph bought a book called "My final answer"...
It's the Christian version of "Who wants to be a millionaire?"...

We had loads of fun with it...

[借口] - Jun Yang

To: Jun Yang...

It was really unexpectation who would go into the finals ultimately...
But well, you've went this far...
and you've did your best...
You've won millions of hearts... and done your family, frens and country proud...

I just wanna stress again that you are already a superstar...
If someone really have great taste, I believe they will scout u again to publish an album... If I have the money, it would be my honour to work with you...

Lastly, you did the greatest job an entertainer would bring...

You have been strong... and you've never gave yourself any [借口]. So dun cry, dun be disheartened... the path in front of you is bright & far still...

* Thanks for 'touching' me... LoL... You motivated me...

Best wishes,
Tobias.

Happy Birthday Junyang!!!

I doubt JY will drop by here...
But just wanna wish ya a happy birthday today!!!

You did well for tonight's show...




Weilian didn't do too bad either... it's such a pity both got sick on the recording day... Wishing you guys both good health soon...

Noah's ark remains found?

Happened to bump into the GV website...
and saw this...


The Ark has been buried under the ice atop the perpetually snow-covered Mount Ararat for thousands of years. A secret has been kept by a Kurds’ family over 4 generations in respect of the location of the suspected Arks’ remain. In 2004, the first Chinese expedition team made a ground-braking adventure onto the elevation of 4,200 meters of Mount Ararat and filmed the Noah’s Ark at the closest possible distance. Presenting the in-depth research made in eight countries interviewing scholars in Israel, Australia, USA, Canada, China, Egypt, Peru and Japan, the film reinforces the truth of the biblical accounts of the Deluge and the Ark from the perspective of history, archeology, meteorology, geology and ecology

Noah is one great man God used... You can read more abt him in the early chapters of the book of Genesis.

Anyone wanna watch the movie with me? Looking for Kaki-s now!!! ^_^

To any hoppies... Do take note...

An email forwarded from my ministry unit leader...

Dear leaders,

To-date, we have 99 people who have registered for the water baptism. Praise God!

The function room in the Costa Sands Resort can only seat 350 people. Thus, we can't have everyone to be in the room.

Instead, we encourage the following people to be in the function room:

Baptisees ・ family members and friends
1 accompanying member/care leader for each baptisee
Baptisees ・ ULs and above

The rest of the CG members who want to support them can either go directly to the seaside (Area between barbeque pits 38-39) or wait outside the function room.

Refreshments will be provided outside the function room. The water baptism at the sea will start at about 4.15pm.

Looking forward to a great time of celebration!

Thank you for your understanding and support.

Ee Lee, Tan
Membership Executive
Ministry Division
Hope Church (Singapore)

I'm a year old in the army...

Today marks my 1 year anniversary in the Singapore army...

Still remember the day when I first set foot on the Tekong island...


Bald, lonely, missing home, family & friends...

Indeed, the army has made me grown. Made me see many things...
Made me make new friends... made me rely Him more...

BMT was the most memorable period in my army life...
So fast, and I'm already a one year old army boy...



* 1 year and 2 months more to go till ORD

Thank God for we can thank Him...

I was waiting for bus to go home after work today...
   and suddenly...
A thought came to my mind....

What if there was no tomorrow, no oxygen,
no Singapore, no earth,
no you, no me,
no nothing...



Let's thank God that we can thank Him for He gave us life...
Let's praise God that we can praise Him for He gave us life...

I notice a lot of youngsters are like spoilt children nowadays...
They only care about playing, handphone and money...
They want it... [means they want it regardless what]...

Let's just think... what if you were told that God wants you dead tmr...
What are the real important things you wanna do?

*Live ya life to the fullest... Be thankful...*

He can create us... and He can also destroy us...

"Father Lord, Thank you for Your gracious love...
We really do not deserve all this...
For You even let Your son to die on the cross for us, for our sins...
For this, we Your children are more than thankful and grateful...
And we want to spread Your Word, and do Your will... for You Lord...
Thus we offer ourselves to Your service, Father...
Make full use of us, Lord, let Your will be done, Lord...
We ask u for Strength, and wisdom as
our own wisdom and strength cannot be compared to Your universal almightiness...
We are proud to be your children, Father...
And We are proud to praise and pray to you all these...
in our most greatest saviour's name,
JESUS CHRIST...
Amen"

Uncontactable for the time being...

Hi guys...

I'll be fasting from handphone...
haha... no la...

Due to financial problem,
I'll be suspending my handphone account for a while...
You can still contact me via email or msn.... ^_^

Sorry for any inconvenience caused... >_<

PS. If u guys have any tuition or assignment jobs, pls do let me know...
*I have distinction for E-maths, Accounts, Japanese for my O-levels...
I'm really in need... But because, I'm in NS and I cannot work any jobs with CPF, or else I'll be charged... And NS only pays me very low wages... Sigh

God... Please bless me Lord... For my family and for blessing others...

Saturday service day...

Got an invitation card to the Starhub Lifestyle fair at Suntec...

Saw Taufik Batiksa & Sly [Joseph was with me]...


Oh ya... I-mode is finally coming to Singapore!!!
We'll finally be able to use Japan phone-sets!!! Hoooray...
All thanks to Starhub!!! Yeay!!


Oh, Donnie's cute younger brother [sylvester] came for service today...


Had paper steamboat for dinner... [Kami Nabe]


What a saturday...

It's Jane birthday

Hi Jane,


if you are reading this...


Happy birthday to you!!!
Happy birthday to you!!!
Happy 21st birthday!!! ^_^
Happy birthday to you!!!

*Sorry that I didn't get u any present... Facing some financial difficulty...

Jiabin's hospitalised...

A colleague of mine from my army camp just hospitalised...



His name is Jiabin...
He's from CityHarvest...
And he's working to reachout to the Japanese society...
God Bless Him and the works thru Him...

But for now,
He's hospitalised due to prolonged fever for these 2 weeks...
So serious that he was unable to get out of bed to see a doctor...
The doctor mentioned that he has lung & heart infections...

"Father Lord, I pray to you for healing for my brother Jiabin...
He has such a desire to serve you Lord... and for your people, Lord...
Thru You, you gave him grace, life and strength...
So now, I just wanna ask you to bless him with health...
So as he can do greater work for you Father,
For he glorifies You Father, He glorifies Ya name and word...
We have the faith you will cure him from his sickness...
and thus I leave him in your graceful hands,
So I pray this in our most gracious saviour & healer's name, Jesus Christ...
Amen..."

*PS... JB, I'll be praying and fasting for you hor... Get well soon, alright ^_^

Interesting neighbour...

Happened to bump into one of my neighbour's blog...
Joseph's blog
Very interesting personality...


Wonder if God will let me outreach to him?? hehe

I'm fasting today...

Today's my first time fasting...
Hungry... haha

[To be continued...]

Happy 40th Birthday, Singapore!!!

It's Singapore's 40th Birthday today!!!
And it's also my first time fasting today... haha...
Fasting for the nation! ^_^ Fasting for peace and prosperity to our country!!!

We got together at the 'Ministry house' @ AMK at 5pm today...
where Donnie gave us a treat on his Pasta culinary skills...
Sumptious... Delicious... Yummy... [>_< But I was only break fast at 6pm]
Thanks Donnie... & Thank God for Donnie...

We also watched [X-men 2] on vcd while enjoying Donnie's blessings...

At 7pm, we left for the Esplanade... to see fireworks from the parade...
They were beautiful but they were kinda blocked in view by the trees... AND town was SUPER, and I really meant SUPER crowded...

After the fireworks at 8pm, we wanted to leave for Marina South to meet up with Joseph, Cedric & the rest... But I was so blur... and gave the wrong directions...
So we ended up at the far side of marina square... below Nicoll Highway...

And there was no way to get across the big "Singapore river"...
The way up the nicoll highway was extremely far away... [I think... suntec there]

So we decided to walk to Raffles Place to take the train there...
We got there at 9 and took a short shuttle in.... Just in time to see the 'Superstars' on stage...

The concert place lingered a smell of natural fertiliser though... so we didn't wanted to stay long... and headed to the coffee shop nearby for dinner...



We joked and chatted alot at the coffee shop and Joseph & co joined us when the concert ended... I was surprised to see that they had actually received goodie bags from the concert... And Joseph & I were fooling around with the complimentary bandana... LoLx...

Kinda tired for one whole day of national celebration...
Am so glad i'm finally home...

GTG now... Happy Birthday again, Singapore!!!