Saturday, February 28, 2004

Question of the day : Where is the wealthiest place in the world?

a) USA
b) Europe
c) Nose .. you can get alot of gold from there
d) Cementry O_o

haha .... wad do u tink it's the ans ??
Well if it's a, b, dun look at c ... den it's wrong ... well it's in D..... y ? Y is the cementry the richest place in the world? Look at it this way ... Six feet under the layer of soil .. lies the bodies of humans with untapped potential ... unfinshed dreams ... unused Talents. Don't you tink if the great dreams fulfilled by this people would amount to a great wealth [assuming they dreamin big and not dirty]. This brings to the title of the sermon preached today .... The Potential Principle

Defn of Potential: It's the dormant ability, reserved power, untapped strength, unused success, hidden talents and uncapped capability of men. In short it is an unexposed ability and latent power of men.

Extra words of wisdom:

1) Our life is like a cup. God pours "potential" into it to fill up our cup. Hence the term living life to the fullest is to maximise and use up all your potential .... by pouring it out .. every single drop of it

2) The greatest tragedy in life is not death ... It's to waste the potential of life in you.

3) The greates threat of being what you could be is complacency

4) We are born original .. so let's not die as a copy ... use your potential

5) To die with ability is therefore to die with irresponsibility

6) What is good is often the enemy of the best

7) Nothing great in life is instant ... hard work is required

Hmm a great principle .. yah yah ?
Well tat's food for thought ... and to my christian friends something to take note.

As i was travelling back... i felt kinda awkward ... cos i am stucked between one of my Christian friends and another visitor to our church .. Dorothy :). Both of them were toking abt Chinese Musics which i have totally no idea who sings well or what songs rock in the chinese world .. cos i am not really in-tuned to chinese music. So the bla bla bla bla .. and me being in the middle just look at one side. .. den turn to the other side ... back and forth ... like those stretchin exercises you do before PE. (". ) (. ") (" .) (. ") Finally my friend left cos he has to go back to school to take his textbook .. which he forgotten to take home ... haha so left me and her. The sad thing about me is i am not proficient in Chinese .. it's very hard for me to communicate wif her. But she turns out ot be a good conversationalist. Well she got a grade 8!! at the age of ten for Piano ... and now she has a diploma as a pianist... dunnot wat level liao.. She told me she can play any songs ... just by listening to that song.... no need for any score-book. power huh? She noes chinese Gu zheng and Guitar too. Her mother is a violinist. Superb men. A real music-oriented family. And i also find out that students in China study up to 12 hrs a day !! aas in they spend 12 hrs in school ... from 0630 to 2100. Hardworking huh ?? ... She always get full marks for maths ... [--]' child prodigy ... artistic .. plus child prodigy men ... lol i got a hp number :) so next time need help can ask her ... hope she dun use funny equations to teach me can liao. And the school system is even worst than Singapore from wat i heard. Their teachers use books to bang on students .. and call them stupid. Seems ordinary to everyone there. Very strict and harsh school system. So S'pore kids dun complain so much men =P
okay tat's all for my sharing abt today .. tired [zz]" need to sleep (@.@) zz

Friday, February 27, 2004

Times of hardship are only gonna make you stronger ..

Well firstly, i wanna say CONGRATZ .. too all my fellow friends who have received their o-level results ... so far ... from wat i heard .... all have done better than my o's ... hmm something must be wrong >_< .. Nevertheless .. if tat particular person i noe din do well and is reading my blog now ... just wanna say dun give up .... cos .... refer to above .... its not just a revelation from god .... its a propelling force that i believe anyone can apply in their life in the future.

Well another thing i wanna say is ... i've quited hockey .... severed all ties to it.... Reasons ?
1) Lost of interest
2) Inconfident of getting into team ... [b'cos i skipped a number of trainings (--)" ]
3) Need to re-direct my goals and focus now
Men i noe some might feel that i am a quiter .... but i just wanna say i need to find something more meaningful or at least something that i feel happy doing and not b'cos of just for the sake of doing it. I have been a real real bad example as a christian in my past 1 yr in JC life .. seriously .. honestly .. and sadly ..... ~~ which brings me to my next point

Cell Group
Cell group today was a real disaster for me at first. It sorta brought about alot of feelings and thought at one go in my mind thru the whole sermon - which are not good. My incompetency, lack of faith, inferiority, disappointment and fustration all come into me at once. Its like being in a school lecture .. when your frens share with you a bad news ... one after another .... how can u concentrate on the sermon. But the strange and encouraging thing is that the sermon speaks about the power of our Father .. more specifically speaking in tongues ... it reinforces and reminds me the power and significance of tongues in our Christian faith.
Being depressed throughout the whole sermon ... I've have the burning desire to tell Karista how i feel and how the devil is torturing me ... At the end of the sermon ... we isolated ourselves from the group and i poured out my feelin's and thots to her ...

She listens and smiles ... seemin to know wat i am about to say or the idea i was trying to bring up ... so wat's the whole fuss abt ? ... Well i dun mind sharing one or two out of the millions of thoughts ... One of it includes wat my GP teacher told us in class today.. well i sorta feel she is anti-christ though she din use strong words against my faith. The problem is i can't really argue with her ... not that she is right ,... but b'cos I've not been a good example myself. I've been in a trance thru'out Gp lesson and i feel like a boy all by himself .. Drowning in a swimming pool. Depressed . It's hard to map out my feelings at that time. But I've been noticing that i have always been comparing myself with others.. not that i wanna copy them but I've always felt .. grrrr alone .... all thru the years ... A really depressing teenage ... though i have laughs once in a while with my frens .. somehow i dun feel close to them, ... close to anyone ... not even my parents .... Well i aint gonna turn this blog to a self-pity or anger-trashing thingy ... I din managed to conveyed to my cell group leader .. karista how I've been feelin this whole 1 year .... But she told me a lot of things which i think is enuff for this moment to drive me past for a breakthrough. Words that i'll never forget is to learn to do things that are urgent/important/or needed to do and not to depend totally on my feelings .. in fact... I've been always telling myself .. and in sec sch days ... my friends " do not let your emotions control your thinking ... rather let yr faith and understanding affect yr decisions." She also shared about victorious living in christ ... having trust .. truth and thanksgiving .. :) she really enlighten me alot today. After the talk .. Chua and karista lay hands on me and prayed for me. After that .. Chua gave me a warm brotherly hug ... =) its warm

Well god has really showed grace thru' this period .... i need to repent on my back-sliding ... and further more Thank you lord for feeling me the warmth in my heart in times of cold and darkness :). I'll continue to long for this warmth ..

Wednesday, February 25, 2004

Chaplin's Hour
Well for today's Chaplin .. we were not in the usual LT3 but now having it in the Auditorium. Y? ... becasue a new group is performing in Chap's hour and the grp is known as 247 aka twentyfourseven. We have the normal prasie and worship before the group take over the performance.

It was really itneresting ... the speaker [dunno wat's his name] was preaching about the purpose in ourl ife and how god is raising up a young generation of youths to stand up and fulfill the great commission .. [ "you will be my witness in Jerusalem and in Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the Earth." Acts 1:8 ]. So after his speech they began performin their 1st skit.

The 1st performance is verry funny =D .. haha i dunno how to xplain wad they were doing ... basically they are in a straight row ... and all started off by saying a cheer .... den the 1st guy step out and tells us who he wants to be .. After that he proceed to perform an erractic actions which are amusing ... and he goes about saying this " stop .. hold back... get off the track " err haha something like tat ....argghhh ... dunno how 2 xplain but it's just funny .... after we watch all of them do together ...

The 2nd performance was a dance - more precisely a storm.. yeaa ... those leg banging on the floor thingy accompanied by various cool noises. Very nice dance :) ... After that ... they performed another skit .... this time it's about how a girl's heart [flower] is constantly shattered by other men [the guys pluck off the petals of the flower] ... and how broken she is at the end of it. Atlas god took away the broken heart and gave her a new life[ another fresh white flower] :) very touching short skit :) ... The last skit was about satan's hold on today's world and how he hold sinners as captives. At the end of it Jesus died on the cross to save the sinners from satan's cage. A very nicely done skit ) ... They end off the whole thing with a 247 dance ... which is a hip hop kinda dance :) way cool....

Well y do i suddenly wanna blog this ? B'cos i am really touched by their skits ... and their message they bring forth ... Hope someday you guys can get to see their performance :) .. their webbies is at www.247worldwide.org
Chaplin's Hour
Well for today's Chaplin .. we were not in the usual LT3 but now having it in the Auditorium. Y? ... becasue a new group is performing in Chap's hour and the grp is known as 247 aka twentyfourseven. We have the normal prasie and worship before the group take over the performance.

It was really itneresting ... the speaker [dunno wat's his name] was preaching about the purpose in ourl ife and how god is raising up a young generation of youths to stand up and fulfill the great commission .. [ "you will be my witness in Jerusalem and in Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the Earth." Acts 1:8 ]. So after his speech they began performin their 1st skit.

The 1st performance is verry funny =D .. haha i dunno how to xplain wad they were doing ... basically they are in a straight row ... and all started off by saying a cheer .... den the 1st guy step out and tells us who he wants to be .. After that he proceed to perform an erractic actions which are amusing ... and he goes about saying this " stop .. hold back... get off the track " err haha something like tat ....argghhh ... dunno how 2 xplain but it's just funny .... after we watch all of them do together ...

The 2nd performance was a dance - more precisely a storm.. yeaa ... those leg banging on the floor thingy accompanied by various cool noises. Very nice dance :) ... After that ... they performed another skit .... this time it's about how a girl's heart [flower] is constantly shattered by other men [the guys pluck off the petals of the flower] ... and how broken she is at the end of it. Atlas god took away the broken heart and gave her a new life[ another fresh white flower] :) very touching short skit :) ... The last skit was about satan's hold on today's world and how he hold sinners as captives. At the end of it Jesus died on the cross to save the sinners from satan's cage. A very nicely done skit ) ... They end off the whole thing with a 247 dance ... which is a hip hop kinda dance :) way cool....

Well y do i suddenly wanna blog this ? B'cos i am really touched by their skits ... and their message they bring forth ... Hope someday you guys can get to see their performance :) .. their webbies is at www.247worldwide.org

Tuesday, February 17, 2004

He has made us competent as ministers of a new covenant - not
of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the
Spirit gives life.

--2 Corinthians 3:6
New International Version

THOUGHTS ABOUT TODAY'S VERSE...
A new covenant -- God willingly entered into a new agreement
with us, his creatures, sealed it with the blood of his Son
Jesus, and sent the Spirit to give us the power to live the
life of this new covenant. God has made a covenant of love and
grace with us. The Almighty has then turned around and made us
worthy and competent to share that covenant with others. Now
wonder it is life-giving: it brings life to us and through us!



Saturday, February 14, 2004

JJC Funfair
Ermm interesting ... haha men i met sooo many friends ... Friends from primary school ... Friends from my secondary schools ... At not forgetting frens from my current junior college ... Coolz~~ Some of my friends are running stalls .. and some in particular are having very very good business ... $200 of sales in around 4 - 5 hours :P .... haha anyway ... really great to see friends .. and my ex-junior from scouts and ex-bio teacher ,.. mdm balli... ^^

Service was goooood ..... really
It's about thinking with excellence ... i shall again fill by blog with words of wisdom from my church ..

1) Virtue => Excellence or efficiency

2) Excellence means to exceed a given standard that is ordinary, average, terrible or unworthy

3) It also means to be superior in quality, greater in quantity, to transcend your job description and to undo yrself each time

3) "Quality never happens by chance, it is always the result of high intention" (Will Foster)

4) The call of god is a call of excellence - never a call to mediocrity

5) Deal with your petty issues (Songs 2:15) .. Cos Disorder brings more disorder

6) Do not hope for opportunity to come .. prepare for it instead .. [b'cos opportunity only knock on yr door once]

7) Details determine destiny

Atlas 7 characteristics of a person of Excellence
a) Physical Health (no blemish)

b) Grooming (Be Appealing to others)

c) God's Wisdom

d) Knowledge

e) Initiative (quick to understand)

f) Ability to serve

g) Good communication skills

Friday, February 13, 2004

Love is in the air .... in SAJC at least
Today is red day ... declared by the student councils of SAJC .. actually [to those who are oblivious ... it's freindship week tis week and tml's valentine's day] for this whole week ... the stu council has prepared wonderful services to us ,... such as the sales of balloons .. pop corn ... ice cream [yumz] and floss candy !! and everyday is dedicated colours ... so the whole week is symbolised by colours which change everyday ... and today it's RED day ... haha no big deal anyway =P

Today is one of the sweetest day in my sajc life ... y ??? cos most of de girls are giving out sweets and chocolates :) ... and yummy they were. Their [ the sweets ] primary purpose is to fulfil the satisfaction of chewing and enjoying the sensation of melting the chocolate. Their secondary purpose would be to keep me awake during lectures [nn]" ... Anyway ... really glad that de girls gave us sweets ... well de boys in our class presented the girls with roses ... and real fresh roses ... not artificial ones :). A very hearty day ... ain't it ... sweeet .!

Cell group was quite nice ... after my gym training ... i din do much workouts :P cos must preserve energy for tml's match. Kampade~!=D ... okie .. dat's all for sweet day ... the day b4 valentine's day .. and to all my frens ... Happy *(^^)* day !!! Make your friends extra happy by doin something special for them ...

Legend
(^^) = heart-shape ..

Thursday, February 12, 2004

Sad day ...
i flunk my GP assignment ... i did badly for my maths test today ... :| ... feel like an iiiiddddiiioooottt ~~~~ zzz demolarised to the extreme ... and ya i skipped hockey training for the 1st time this year ... Wat's wrong with my life men ......... Somehow i feel that tis is not the way i suppose to spend my college life ... How can i reverse the equation to get better outcomes [u_u] ... i would appreciate inspirational verses ...

Wednesday, February 11, 2004

Blah blah blah ...

3 simple words of wad happen today~!! :|
You are BRUCE!
What Finding Nemo Character are You?

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Tarzan!


What movie Do you Belong in?(many different outcomes!)
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Angel
You are one of the few out there whose wings are
truly ANGELIC. Selfless, powerful, and
divine, you are one blessed with a certain
cosmic grace. You are unequalled in
peacefulness, love, and beauty. As a Being of
Light your wings are massive and a soft white
or silver. Countless feathers grace them and
radiate the light within you for all the world
to see. You are a defender, protector, and
caretaker. Comforter of the weak and forgiver
of the wrong, chances are you are taken
advantage of once in awhile, maybe quite often.
But your innocence and wisdom sees the good in
everyone and so this mistreatment does not make
you colder. Merciful to the extreme, you will
try to help misguided souls find themselves and
peace. However not all Angelics allow
themselves to be gotten the better of - the
Seraphim for example will be driven to fighting
for the sake of Justice and protection of those
less powerful. Congratulations - and don't ever
change - the world needs more people like you.


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hehe did 3 quizes ... very tired now =|

Tuesday, February 10, 2004

Class outing ... or strictly speaking school excursion ~~

Hehe ... Tuesday ... men we should have hockey training today .... but because of this excursion ... there will be no hockey training for me ... hehe [ and i get to get home early .... y? cos the place we're visiting is @ chinatown !! =P ] Coolz ... After school [ last period bio] ... our class continued to rot in the Lecture theatre while everyone else left. Initially we planned to go chinatown and " walk walk " ... street-stroll ... haha ... but in the end we end up @ harbour front .. having snacks and toking rot as usual. Dan's lameness have been wide-spreading to everyone ... lol and everyone seems to be lame today... And ya ... our class like jon said ... is very enthu about angel and mortal game ... the boys are guessing their angels[girls] and vice versa ..... lotsa stuffs ... and speaking about this ... !!! my angel is verrrry lazy ... almost all the guys has received their gifts and i seem to the only one left :( .... lazy angel .... even i got my own mortal her gift !! gotta *arbish* *kapow* my angel until she send me a gift. hmm back to the subject.

Ya ... ate stay noodle at harbour front ... continue to tok tok tok ... and soon we board the bus to the tea-house. ya tat's rite ... tat's the place we r supposed to be in ... so it's chinese-tea learning for us !! [ just fore curious minds -- the tea-house is just across the street from fairfield methodist church .... which was my kindergarden sch =) ]

We settled down on the third floor ... and the person-I/C began explaining how to prepare chinese tea with the tea set and tea powder .... After learning .. we get to prepare the tea ourselves :) ... hehe yummmzz did i mention there is dessert ?? =P i shall simply describe the procedures ... put tea bag in to tea pot ( using wat marc call "spatula") after sterilizing the utensils with hot water. Place hot water inside and pour in out after 5 secs ... fill it up and pour it into cups after 30 secs ... haha tink i am missing out in some details ... anyway ... to taste the essence of chinese tea .. you have to rely both on yr taste buds and nose to smell the fragrance of the tea from the cup :) ... wat they call sweetness in the smell .. helps to enhance the taste ..

We get to exp not just the aromatic chinese-teas ... we get to eat tea-biscuits and tea-boiled eggs and desert .. and really it mind sound weird but they taste great .. Especially the biscuits :) .. Jasmine flavoured and ?? flavoured cookie. After that we played games as usual ..... the number game " zhong1 mi2 mi4 ma3" So whoever got the unlucky number have to be forfeited =) ... The 1st forfeit was to eat the tea leaves :) ... the 2nd punishment is to eat calcium carbonate ... haha the egg shell from the tea-boiled eggs ... 3rd punishment ... guess what ... to do a dance .... have u watch American idol ?? but even if u dun ... i guess u would noe who is william huang :) and the person must sing and dance like him !! hahah very funny ... men and guess what .... when it was my turn .. i only have 2 numbers to choose ... 147 ... and 148 .... hehe and men i am blessed :P .. i din get to do the dance and singing haha ... marc got the golden opportunity instead ... and he did the dance very well ... all of us laugh our hearts out .... really funny ... After a few rounds of games .. it was homeward-bound soon .. we took a few class photos before we left that place .... it was a real fun visit ... got to taste good food and had a real relaxing time there ... :P

[BRR ... back tooo reality ... arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh .... got 2 upcoming test these week ... [--]' may god blast me ... lol bless me i mean ] dun take it too serious, god ...

Monday, February 02, 2004

Public Holiday ..
What can i blog today ? ... my feelings thru' the whole week i guess .. It's beem a while since i really settle down and do my homework and learn my test properly ... i've not really plan well about wat's coming up next .... [very unlike me] ... i tink i am evolving to a lazy little boy ... tinking about today's date feb 2nd .. i'vve just realised how close it is ... one month has passed ... i am getting lesser and lesser time for my academic work. Tisi s bad ... and yet i keep playing com games .. which is reallyu pathetic ... feeling guilty after playing days and hours of com games. I've lost control over my discipline to get stuff down and resist temptation .. >_< .. Haiz i really hope ... but noo hope is irrevelant ... time is precious ... descision must come soon ............ How do i clear away all the nonsense in my life ... my spiritual life ain't progressing ... ..... Leaders have talked to me .... somehow ... i tink i have to find time and talk to myself. to really slap myself hard to reality ... will it be tonight ??

Sunday, February 01, 2004

Inspired by miss pearl =D ... i decided to add in lyrics for perfect ~!!! :D ..
[2nd secret reason y i add in : i din actually noe the whole lyrics of the song =P shhh]

Perfect by Simple Plan
Hey Dad look at me
Think back and talk to me
Did I grow up according
To plan?
Do you think I’m wasting
My time doing things I
Wanna do?
But it hurts when you
Disapprove all along


And now I try hard to make it
I just want to make you proud
I’m never gonna be good
Enough for you
I can’t pretend that
I’m alright
And you can’t change me

[Chorus]
‘Cuz we lost it all
Nothing lasts forever
I’m sorry
I can’t be Perfect
Now it’s just too late
And we can’t go back
I’m sorry
I can’t be Perfect

I try not to think
About the pain I feel inside
Did you know you used to be
My hero?
All the days
You spent with me
Now seem so far away
And it feels like you don’t
Care anymore


And now I try hard to make it
I just want to make you proud
I’m never gonna be good
Enough for you
I can’t stand another fight
And nothing’ alright

[Chorus] again

Nothing’s gonna change
The things that you said
Nothing’s gonna make this
Right again
Please don’t turn your back
I can’t believe it’s hard
Just to talk to you
But you don’t understand

[Chorus] and [Chorus] again