Thursday, October 30, 2008
Dear God.
Please give me Wisdom.
Amen
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
I think I just found the new love of my life. Potatoes shoo! Cassava Chips are here. Just as I was shopping around Watsons today on a facial mask spree, I chanced upon a big of chips. It looked good so I decided to give it a try. It is simply fantastic!!!! The brand is Cassava Papa, black pepper flavour.
The best thing is , their chips contain:
No Trans Fat
No Cholesterol
No Gluten
25% less fat than potato chips
50% more fibre than potato chips.
At $1.95, it is a steal! It is a lighter taste than potato chips. You don't feel sick of it easily. It tastes something like tapioca chips and has a certain bite to it. Definitely a MUST TRY! Kat says so!
Since I am on the topic of food, I found a fantastic product at 7-eleven last night. IT IS....Anlene Milk!!! It is not the normal kind, but a concentrate. Drinking one small packet of 125ml is equivalent to 4X the calcium of regular fresh milk!!! I got the value pack of 4 packets for $3.80. Since I dun really have daily intake of milk (does ice cream count???), I decided perhaps I should really start taking care of what I eat. Not so much of the amount. but the type of foods I eat.
As I was walking home today, I looked up and saw A huge layer of cloud above me. It was so dense that no sun rays could seep through and seemed as if it was the ceiling itself. It is really amazing when you look around you and see all the great creations. the trees, the sky, the animals. I got reminded of what we sisters talked about last night.
We touched upon the topic of Atheism. I personally find it very difficult to believe that earth was the result of a 'Big Bang' or some unknown reason, and the living organisms just started growing for some reason. As used by scientists, the term Big Bang generally refers to the idea that the universe has expanded from a primordial hot and dense initial condition at some finite time in the past, and continues to expand to this day. (taken from wiki)
Think about it, if you dismantle a mechanical pencil totally and put it in an empty container and start shaking, what do you think is the possibility of the pieces falling and turning into their respective places? It sounds impossible right? What reason then do you propose for the case of the formation of the Universe? Earth is so uniquely and precisely formed that there is no possibility that it could have been birthed by the Big Bang. The earth has an axis of rotation of 23.5 degrees (talk about precision). It is was perhaps tilted at any other angle, we would be experiencing an eclipse every 2 weeks. Another result would be the extinction of life on earth caused by the erratic climate conditions. Someone must have pieced together the different conditions of the Earth for life to have been possible. The atmosphere, the protective magnetic field, natural resources and ... ... ...
So the above explains why I am not an Atheist. Why I am a Christian? You may ask. Wells, its because I have experienced and am experiencing his goodness and work in my life. His faithfulness is something you cannot find anywhere else. There is no such thing as a coincidence either! :)
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
It is the birthday of a very dear sister tomorrow!!! Happy 20th Birthday Sher Li!!!Today was rather uneventful save for two. The side event was witnessing how you should handle a situation after you catch someone who tries to pick your pocket. This happened right outside Topshop at bugis. There was this office guy holding on to this Malay man. The poor guy was asking for help from bystanders to help him hold the guy down. However, as expected of Singaporeans, no one stepped forward. I was seriously considering what i could do. Given that firstly, I am a girl, not much of a build so I can't really help to tackle the guy. What can i do? Take off my shoes and try to knock out the pickpocket with it? I don't think so. Haha. Finally a kind hearted man helped to hold the office guy's stuff and call the police while the office guy held on to the pickpocket. Seriously I think the pickpocket was out of strength. His struggling had less vigor than a freshly caught fish. *Ahem* You know what I mean.
Moving on, the main event today was going down to bugis to celebrate Sher Li's birthday at Seng Kim's Father's Place. As usual, the food was great. The mongolian pork ribs are a must try! The fish head curry was great too! Be sure to try these two dishes if you ever happen to visit the shop.
It was a great time of sharing for us sisters. Sher Li, Jessie,Maureen were there. We had a fun tine crapping, sharing about life and cam-whoring. Jessie's camera is awesome man it is like the ultimate cam whore's must have!!!
We wanted to go for karaoke after that, but decided against it after looking at the price. It is simply not worth it! I hate Top One!!!!!!!! Give me Joo Seng any time!!! Currently chilling now at bugis macs typing out this entry.
Today's time of sharing and all girls outing is something I have missed, I only realised this after experiencing it today. Absence makes the heart fonder I guess! Today was also a day of great enlightenment brought about by some sisters! *Ahem* I shan't mention anything.
Did you ever know that the smell of the air changes throughout the night? My computer is beside the window in my room and I like to leave the window open to enjoy the night air. Cooling and soothing, bringing hints of scents with it through this window of mine. It is a portal to the night air.
Sometimes, the night air smells
sweet.
After rain, the night air has a tinge of
dampness to it and in wafts the smell of
dewSometimes, the night air is tainted with the smell of decaying
vegetationSometimes, the night air is
rich with something which I can' t tell.
Sometimes, the night air is
just air, without smell or whatsoever.
Do take time to sample the night air. It may be more exciting than you think. =)
Kat meowed at 1.45am
Tue started from Mon night for me. I had to make a decision at 11pm. Should I or shouldn't I go for the Gender Focus Group my Unit was going to have the next day???!!! The reason being, I was the only one from my CG who was going to go! Its so sad!!! I was even tempted to go for the Men's Ministry, at least my CG guys would be there... My brain worked at an amazing speed and promptly churned out 101 reasons for my not to go for the Gender Focus Group. No one from my group was going! Kat is going to be lonely! I would be too tired, having a project meeting after that and a birthday celebration at night. Botanical Garden is not somewhere I would frequent, Hot Sun, Bloodthirsty Insects etc etc etc... Not the best of places to be at. Never would I have thought that I would struggle in attending an unit event. My usual reply is to just say Yes, and await the event. But somehow, this event was something that came as a dread.
Haha however I thought through and decided, heck! I should just go, I had a feeling that I would take something away from this event more than just insect bites. This was really a chance to gauge for myself just how much importance I place on God's people and my priorities. Dragging myself from the bed was reallllllllly painful if you know what I mean. You just want to cancel everything and just plop yourself back on your pillow and snuggle up in your covers till your body restores itself to full power and gives you the signal to wake up. Grudgingly, I pulled myself out of bed and got ready, making a short prayer to God for myself to enjoy the event later.
What can I say, God really answered my prayer. I got off too a great start and really got to make a lot of new friends among the sisters from the others CGs, shifting from being merely acquaintances to sisters building relationships. I really enjoyed the fellowship which would have been very difficult. Got to talk more to Christine, Ivy, Joyce, Venetia and Jalea. We started off by having a picnic on the ground near the symphony stage. People brought HAM!!! Woohoo! We then played some games to really mingle around! It was great fun, no one cared about propriety or looking unglam, the atmosphere was really comfy. Kat managed to emerge from the games unscathed by the temp. tattoos. NO forfeit! =) After that came praise and worship haha! Do you have any idea how it feels like to praise and worship in the open for everyone to see? Do try it!
Next, we had a skit and teaching, both which were in my opinion very well prepared and enlightening. The explanations for the rationale of the BGR policy in the tertiary was really explained well and it really is not merely the autocratic charge taken by the church, but more of a question of self reflection. Do you know and understand what is agape love (unconditional love)? What are the implications of a relationship that you just plunge yourself into? Imagine having to challenge and encourage your husband to attend church and CG for the rest of your life! Woo!!!! Shivers up and down my spine in a BAD way! I am really glad that I chose to come to the event. It was 3 hours well spent.
I left a bit early to rush down to Bishan for project meeting. I walked back with Venetia and we really chatted quite a bit. We touched upon the issues for the heart, the NUS ministry and certain struggles in our life. Its really nice to have someone to have a fruitful and deep conversation with. This is something which I don't take granted for, its more difficult for me now to find people with the same heartbeat and convictions for God in NUS. I hope that God will work something in the hearts of the people in the NUS group and we will really become strong biblical people, committed to building up his church. Let's not just continue to stay unfinished as a house!
The project meeting was fruitful! Thank God! I met some of my ex students OMG! Haha! Oh something random. At the Botanical Gardens I saw loads of small kids!!!! So cute and adorable! I shall look forward to motherhood!
After the meeting, I rushed home and napped for 1 hour before getting ready for the celebration! Oh my Goodness! you have no idea how much I missed them, although Cai I see you a tad too much yah! Lol ok just joking! Its so difficult to find 6 people who have the chemistry and whom you are confident of sharing your life issues to. Its is not very often you can find friends that you can keep. Friends Forever! =)))))))) Moving on to the food, we ate at Waraku at Heeren. They had this ladies night offer which entitled you to half price off your bill with at least 4 ladies dining! Oh my goodness! It was just pure heaven for me! I ate Unagi Don. The Unagi was longer than my palm! I ate fried tofu (Sake Sushi still has the best). On top of that sashimi! Wooo! Tuna, Salmon and Yellowtail! (Shukudo's Swordfish belly sashimi is still the greatest) I almost decided at that point that I was going to marry a sashimi chef who could fish well. I would just take him out to sea, bring along wasabi, soy sauce, a sashimi knife and some sake! Then he would be my provider of instant sashimi! *Drools* I bet that you are drooling too!
Throughout dinner, the girls were laughing continuously at the things I said, funny... After
dinner came intense cam whoring! We took pics at various parts of Heeren, even at some makeshift walkway doing poses for the camera! I sure enjoyed that! Haha! Shall post up photos
Cai
The Bithday Girl
More photos will be up soon!
Sunday, October 26, 2008
Wells Sunday has sure been fruitful and eventful.
Started off the day by waking up at 7.45am, dragging myself outta bed for
Hopekids.
It is really great seeing all the kids and having fun with them. Back up singing went great too except
tt for praise the speaker on my side wasn't turned on
haha. Couldn't hear myself. The harmonies for worship went quite well. Its really funny watching the kids play games DURING SERVICE!!! They have a game component
lol! Its called
flippin cheese balls. Met a lot of familiar faces from youth, Peter, Yong Deng and even Alvin! Its really great to know that those people whom you were running the race for God with back then are still
running!
ONward people!!!
After
Hopekids Kat rushed back home. Collecting stuff for tuition later on and having a quick lunch. Lunch was finished in a record 8
mins. Don't think its too good for the stomach but oh wells what is one to do when time is running out.
Tuition was quite fruitful, my kid got back his results.
He got B4 for
eng(oh no!!!), A1 for math =) and A2 for Science.
Haha ok so I need to give him intense
English training! His
family is really nice. they are
Christians and his mother feeds me well!!! =)))))) I get fruit juices, buns,
baos and even glutinous rice dumplings.! God! You really understand me!
haha!
After Tuition, I rushed down to Orchard to meet up my Mom for some shopping. We bought 2 dresses and stuff. H
aha its really great shopping with her since I dun get to see her often and in addition, she pays for the shopping!!!
Haha the latter is secondary!
An interesting twist of events after shopping
cuz she asked if I
wanted to have dinner with my father. It really took some time for me to ponder if I should say yes, considering the emotional stress I was put through last Sunday. It was definitely not the happiest family time that I have had last Sunday. I would really prefer to forget it. Alas, I still went. Whilst taking the train, we helped a stranded Indonesian find his way to Mt.
Alvernia. (
Ahh now I know its near Novena)
Wells Dinner was eaten with apprehension, but thank God that no fights broke out and we attempted civil talk. The tension that was there for the past 6 days between me and my Dad was almost gone. And out of dinner, apparently I am going on a 3 day trip with my Mom to Bangkok to shop and my father agreed to sponsor my Taiwan mission trip! Yeah man! Praise God! Now, moving on to the food part!!!!!!!!!
We ate at Chinatown, not some fanciful place but my goodness the food was AWESOME! Shall upload pics and give my comments for each dish another day.
God really blessed my day
cuz we went to visit my aunt. (she felt down and fractured her leg. one of my triple whammy experiences that
occurred last Sunday. It shall be known as T.W. Sunday, 19/10/2008. that was definitely a spiritual attack.
Neway, god was really faithful to her and she was really blessed, too many blessings to type it all down.
Just a few:
-She managed to get the best doctor to operate on her, Dr
Ooi-She bought life insurance beforehand
-She got the full refund for her planned holiday trip
-A nice young man Kenneth introduced her to Dr.
Ooi. (P.s. if you are that Kenneth
pls leave a tag if you happen to see this)
-There were nice Christians in her ward
-etc etc etc ... ... ...
Although she didn't understand why this happened to her, she still has faith in God and thank God for that. How many a times have we turned our back on God, just because of our perceived 'betrayal or unfaithfulness' of him? I think we all need to grow in the aspect of faith. We have to realise sometimes that God is God and we are not and wouldn't you prefer to let him take charge of the situation? Rather than trying all possibilities you can
conjure up, only to be exhausted and broken at the end of the day? Even when T.W. Sunday
occurred, I came to a conclusion at the end of the day that those incidents must have happened for a reason. Remembering the book of Job (thanks brother for reminding me), it could have been God testing me. Will you only praise God in good times, then turn your back and curse him in your bad? I had prayed for more evident growth during corporate prayer meeting and I can see how God is using T.W. Sunday to grow me.
Firstly, for the incident regarding my aunt. each time I went there, it was with different family members. Each time, I ended the visit with a prayer for her. I realised at that point that I had never really
out rightly expressed
Christian faith in this manner to them. My mother was the one who even initiated for me to pray for her. (My mom had converted recently. Hopefully, my father will draw back to God again.) I had a good time to chat with my brothers concerning certain issues. God really turned the worst of situations into channels of blessings. If you see this, do pray for the recovery of my aunt's leg.
Secondly concerning the dispute in my family. i realised that I had been harbouring emotions towards my father for some time and that incident caused it to sorta erupt. I didn't blow up, but it was really emotionally stressful. However, God used the song 'So you Would Come' to help me forgive. Somewhere in the song it goes 'Nothing you can do can make him love you more, and nothing that you've done could make him close the door.' It made it
easier for me to forgive.
I really thank god for my Mom, there are so many bad tempers in the family but thankfully, she is very forgiving and sweet tempered. What would we do without her?
Lastly, I had been really troubled about my ministry. I am a very choleric and task driven individual. One of my greatest strengths and pitfalls. When things dun start improving, when people don't grow in the areas which they should be tangibly, I would be very harsh on myself.
Haha, my ex-shepherd Kiwi would know this best. I really hope to see breakthroughs, and a strong CG! God please read the previous sentence!
A bit random but oh wells, it just came into my mind. God! I hope to have a
never ending and
ever changing buffet in my house in heaven. Please let it be 85% meat!
Amen!
This will be an attempt to start and keep a blog. A place where I record the happenings in my life and hopefully touch and encourage people through my posts.
