New cure for coughing individuals! Drink coke. Serious!
Most of you will know that I've been coughing badly ever since I came back from Indonesia.
No, I didn't go to the doctor cos' I don't want my parents to spend so much money on me.
I keep going out, so each time I do that I'll need to spend money.
Taking money like this makes me feel guilty.
So I just told them that the doc would give the same kind of medicine which we still have at home. Those black coloured liquid which causes drowsiness.
But I wasn't consistent in taking the med.. and the cough persisted for almost a month.
On Saturday night, however, I drank a HUGE cup of coke at the cinema.
And ta-da, I'm healed! hahaha... God heals in strange ways.
I slept like a log on Saturday night. Or rather, Sunday morning.
You'll never guess what I dreamed of.
Well, part of that dream came true. It was freaky.
I dreamed that I had menses and I stained both the front and back of my shorts.
Then when I woke up and went to relieve myself in the morning, I saw blood -___-
Yesterday afternoon was like hell for me.
I went to church in the morning, and was fine.
I went for lunch with my family plus grandparents, and was fine.
I went to Sheng Siong with them, pushed the trolley, was damn sian, and was (still) fine.
I took a nap upon stepping into the house... dunno why I was that tired.
Then I woke up quite suddenly with a strong urge to go and shit.
this post is going to be gross. you've been warned.
So I went to the toilet and tried to shit. Ok, I did shit.
I had constipation la.
There was an excruciating pain in my stomach.. and nothing I did could ease that pain.
I tried sitting in different positions, leaning on the wall to my right, leaning back, grabbing my dad's trousers which was hanging on the wall (and dropped afterwards), shifted my legs here and there but to no avail.
I tried praying, but all I could say was "Lord, help me..." in desperation.
It was so terrible, I couldn't even say a proper prayer.
The song we sang for ministry in church that morning was on repeat mode in my head though.
"Through it all, I know my God is in control"
and I held on to that though it seemed I was going to die just by sitting on the toilet bowl
The pain seared for a long time.. was just... tormenting.
which left me drenched in perspiration.
I clutched my stomach the whole time. It was so painful, I was close to tears.
Ah I dunno how else to describe.
Then the moment I feared arrived. I wanted to puke.
I vomited my lunch out.. it felt horrible, could see the chicken rice there...
Maybe that's how God helped me, because after puking, I felt a lot better.
All the energy was drained out though. I was dead beat after the battle with my digestive system in the toilet.
This sucks especially when you're having your 'time of the month'.
As if the cramps help at all...
After what felt like hell in the toilet, I managed to drag myself to my bag to get my phone. haha.
It was THAT bad.
Replied msges... there was one from a blur Timothy (happy birthday, boy!) that read
"Ahh wait. Im confused. I was msging my cousin ur msgs and msging u my cousin's. Both ur numbers so similar." Lol, so cute, I couldn't resist putting this up here.
I didn't take my dinner that night, for fear of vomiting.
I only ate some sweets and some oreo cookies later in the night.
Feeling better now, that's why I'm online blogging and conferencing with Jia Yan and Kenneth on the phone.
Watcnight service, watchnight service!
Monday, December 31, 2007
Sunday, December 30, 2007
As 2007 comes to an end, i will take only fond memories with me, leaving unpleasant ones behind.
I will release regrets and guilt I still cling on to.
Thank You Lord for seeing me through the year, for it has been a year of ups and downs.
The common tests, exams, SYF, Japan trip, handbell performances, prelims, O levels, church events, mission trip ... ... ...
God saw me "through the seasons".
Glad to say that my faith has been strengthened.
The road ahead is narrow
The way is sometimes steep
And only the committed claim the prize
But standing at the finish
With arms outstretched to greet us
Is the One who has endured the race
And paid the final prize
Dare to run
With our eyes fixed on Jesus
Following the footsteps
of the One who's gone before us
Dare to run
In the power of the spirit
Born to be victors
in the race already won
Dare to run
With that, I'd say I'm ready for 2008
I will release regrets and guilt I still cling on to.
Thank You Lord for seeing me through the year, for it has been a year of ups and downs.
The common tests, exams, SYF, Japan trip, handbell performances, prelims, O levels, church events, mission trip ... ... ...
God saw me "through the seasons".
Glad to say that my faith has been strengthened.
The road ahead is narrow
The way is sometimes steep
And only the committed claim the prize
But standing at the finish
With arms outstretched to greet us
Is the One who has endured the race
And paid the final prize
Dare to run
With our eyes fixed on Jesus
Following the footsteps
of the One who's gone before us
Dare to run
In the power of the spirit
Born to be victors
in the race already won
Dare to run
With that, I'd say I'm ready for 2008
Saturday, December 29, 2007
ok, i know my testimony's overdue.
i'm still working on it. just taking a break by blogging.
at first i thought that i wouldn't be able to produce one.
but how can one go on a mission trip saying they don't have a testimony? it's ridiculous.
haha.
so yea i dragged myself and started a new word document.
and everything just flowed quite nicely.
it's 3 pages and counting.
i dunno how to reduce it to 1 page later.
i'm taking SO freaking long to complete ONE testimony. lol.
that's funny.. to think that i actually thought i would only write half a page.
kinda underestimating myself... or rather, God's blessings.
it's like writing an essay!!!
uncle Dong's chasing for the CP data, but Beatrice has yet to send out the template..
how to key in?
i just sent Bea and Stacia the scribing journal which lacked info and yet was overloaded with details. contradicting huh. it was 10 pages long la -.-
now there's the testimony which i'm rushing to complete...
and next there's the CP data, still awaiting the template! roar.
school's starting next week leh. so fast.
now i'm not sure i'm looking forward to it. SRJC. hmm.
went to clarke quay and bugis with yi jia on monday. spend money spend money $_$
bought clothes lor. and caught up with her.. never see her for awhile.
then went to fiona's party at her house. turnout wasn't that fantastic but we enjoyed ourselves la, with the movies and food and countdown.
we created a din there. no other household seemed to be counting down to christmas!
and of course, the sms lines were jammed.
tuesday.. i stayed home to pack my room (i tried, really!)
and watch tv :) i love mediacorp.
andrew asked if i wanted to go out but i was a good kid, i stayed at home. haha.
conferenced with 4 other people until about 4.45am.
wednesday... went to church to help out for the notice board.
there was a power failure halfway and shoutss of "aiya wo de work mei you save leh!" were heard around the office. super funny.
some of us slected and printed out all the pictures and captions. yeong worked on the summary.
time did not permit us to work on the notice board itself, we only got most of the materials for the board ready.
church office is a cool place.
thursday was clique outing. er, slightly more than half the clique.
we went to vivo. i tell you ah,
EVERYWHERE ALSO SALE.
i couldn't resist the temptation and bought a top which was on offer.
like it a lot, you see. even had to borrow money from lai theng.
then we watched I am Legend without popcorn =(
brilliant show, i almost grabbed LT when those zombies suddenly jump out. i'd say it should be rated for gore instead of violence! very sad when the doggie died.
friday.. spent the whole day packing my room. looks a lot neater now.
i pasted the sec 1 to sec 4 class photos and peer lite photos on my bed frame.
so every time i walk in, it's like an influx of PL lites staring back at me. haha.
couldn't go out with char seow and fiona cos' i've been going out a lot. no money sia.
anyway they watched I am Legend. if i went with them, they'd have to watch another movie.
later on, going to lunch at home, go to macs to meet the sec 2s and 4s from the mission team '07 and eat SHAKER FRIES =P, go to church to do the board, go for youth service, go to marina south for steamboat with the SYF team =D, then midnight movie with ling ying and ethel.
Lord please hold back the cumulonimbus clouds!
whoo!
...
...no whoos to the spending money part.
i'm still working on it. just taking a break by blogging.
at first i thought that i wouldn't be able to produce one.
but how can one go on a mission trip saying they don't have a testimony? it's ridiculous.
haha.
so yea i dragged myself and started a new word document.
and everything just flowed quite nicely.
it's 3 pages and counting.
i dunno how to reduce it to 1 page later.
i'm taking SO freaking long to complete ONE testimony. lol.
that's funny.. to think that i actually thought i would only write half a page.
kinda underestimating myself... or rather, God's blessings.
it's like writing an essay!!!
uncle Dong's chasing for the CP data, but Beatrice has yet to send out the template..
how to key in?
i just sent Bea and Stacia the scribing journal which lacked info and yet was overloaded with details. contradicting huh. it was 10 pages long la -.-
now there's the testimony which i'm rushing to complete...
and next there's the CP data, still awaiting the template! roar.
school's starting next week leh. so fast.
now i'm not sure i'm looking forward to it. SRJC. hmm.
went to clarke quay and bugis with yi jia on monday. spend money spend money $_$
bought clothes lor. and caught up with her.. never see her for awhile.
then went to fiona's party at her house. turnout wasn't that fantastic but we enjoyed ourselves la, with the movies and food and countdown.
we created a din there. no other household seemed to be counting down to christmas!
and of course, the sms lines were jammed.
tuesday.. i stayed home to pack my room (i tried, really!)
and watch tv :) i love mediacorp.
andrew asked if i wanted to go out but i was a good kid, i stayed at home. haha.
conferenced with 4 other people until about 4.45am.
wednesday... went to church to help out for the notice board.
there was a power failure halfway and shoutss of "aiya wo de work mei you save leh!" were heard around the office. super funny.
some of us slected and printed out all the pictures and captions. yeong worked on the summary.
time did not permit us to work on the notice board itself, we only got most of the materials for the board ready.
church office is a cool place.
thursday was clique outing. er, slightly more than half the clique.
we went to vivo. i tell you ah,
EVERYWHERE ALSO SALE.
i couldn't resist the temptation and bought a top which was on offer.
like it a lot, you see. even had to borrow money from lai theng.
then we watched I am Legend without popcorn =(
brilliant show, i almost grabbed LT when those zombies suddenly jump out. i'd say it should be rated for gore instead of violence! very sad when the doggie died.
friday.. spent the whole day packing my room. looks a lot neater now.
i pasted the sec 1 to sec 4 class photos and peer lite photos on my bed frame.
so every time i walk in, it's like an influx of PL lites staring back at me. haha.
couldn't go out with char seow and fiona cos' i've been going out a lot. no money sia.
anyway they watched I am Legend. if i went with them, they'd have to watch another movie.
later on, going to lunch at home, go to macs to meet the sec 2s and 4s from the mission team '07 and eat SHAKER FRIES =P, go to church to do the board, go for youth service, go to marina south for steamboat with the SYF team =D, then midnight movie with ling ying and ethel.
Lord please hold back the cumulonimbus clouds!
whoo!
...
...no whoos to the spending money part.
Sunday, December 23, 2007
what's happening
What is Christmas?
We Are The Reason
David Meece
All rights reserved. International copyright secured.
CCLI song #18682
I went to Malacca with my family a few days ago.
Omg la, I LOVE the food!! Good food, good shopping, ... ...
What's more, it's safer than JB where crime rates are high.
My parents bought me 2 pairs of jeans (total RM 89.90), a bag (42), a pair of flats (29.90), pair of slippers (25.90 minus 20%), belt (15), skirt (109 minus 10%), shorts (79 minus 50%).
Haha.
I heard from the cell that they didn't go for midnight movie cos' "don't have Joyce's father to send (them) home" -___-
Next year la next year. We can also go on the 1st Jan after watchnight service =)
Conferencing is fun! *winks at newly-formed midnight gang*
I got to know Kara's cell a lot better. I. Think..
After giving out the presents on her behalf. Though I still can't remember most of their names.
Jia Yan has chicken pox. Lai Theng just recovered. Fiona has stomach flu and is on the road to recovery. My mum has fever. I'm still having a bad cough.
Wah, what is this?! Attack of the viruses or what...
Love Actually rocked. The drama team was really good, their acting can get them a place in MediaCorp la. hahah.
Food was good too. Ok I dunno what else to blog about... XY i updated =)
We Are The Reason
David Meece
Key: G
Verse:©1980 Word Music, Inc. (a div. of Word Music Group, Inc.)
G Am/F#
As little children we would dream of
B Em Dm7 G C
Christmas morn and all the gifts and toys
G/B Am7
we knew we'd find,
B Em Em/D
but we never realised a baby born one blessed
Em/C# Cmaj7 Am7 D7
night gave us the greatest gift of our lives.
Chorus:
G Am/G
We are the reason that He gave His life,
Dsus D G
we are the reason that He suffered and died,
D/F# Em Am7
to a world that was lost, He gave all He could
D7 G
give to show us the reason to live.
Verse 2:
G Am/F#
As the years go by we learned more
B Em Dm7 G C
about gifts, giving of ourselves
G/B Am7
and what that means.
B Em Em/D
On a dark and cloudy day a man hung crying
Em/C# Cmaj7 Am7 D7
in the rain because of love, because of love.
Bridge:
Eb Bb/D
I've finally found a reason for living,
Bbm Ab/C
it's in giving every part of my heart to Him,
Abm/B Eb/Ab Cm7
In all that I do, every word that I say,
F Ab E
I'll be giving my all just for Him, for Him.
Chorus 2:
Amaj7 Bm7/A
And we are the reason that He gave His life,
Bm/Ab G/C# F#m7 A
we are the reason that He suffered and died,
Dmaj9 A/C#
to a world that was lost,
Bm Bm7/A
He gave all He could give,
Bm/Ab G/C# F#m Fmaj7
to show us the reason to live.
D A
He is my reason to live.
All rights reserved. International copyright secured.
CCLI song #18682
I went to Malacca with my family a few days ago.
Omg la, I LOVE the food!! Good food, good shopping, ... ...
What's more, it's safer than JB where crime rates are high.
My parents bought me 2 pairs of jeans (total RM 89.90), a bag (42), a pair of flats (29.90), pair of slippers (25.90 minus 20%), belt (15), skirt (109 minus 10%), shorts (79 minus 50%).
Haha.
I heard from the cell that they didn't go for midnight movie cos' "don't have Joyce's father to send (them) home" -___-
Next year la next year. We can also go on the 1st Jan after watchnight service =)
Conferencing is fun! *winks at newly-formed midnight gang*
I got to know Kara's cell a lot better. I. Think..
After giving out the presents on her behalf. Though I still can't remember most of their names.
Jia Yan has chicken pox. Lai Theng just recovered. Fiona has stomach flu and is on the road to recovery. My mum has fever. I'm still having a bad cough.
Wah, what is this?! Attack of the viruses or what...
Love Actually rocked. The drama team was really good, their acting can get them a place in MediaCorp la. hahah.
Food was good too. Ok I dunno what else to blog about... XY i updated =)
Wednesday, December 19, 2007
Old times
God has blessed little Singapore
1) by crowning Hady Mirza as the Asian Idol
2) with 43 gold medals (if i'm not wrong) at the recent 24th SEA games
(1) really caught me by surprise. When I saw it on the cover of The Straits Times, I was like "WHAT?! Hady????" It was totally unexpected, considering what I read another day about Sg Idol judge Ken Lim saying there's not enough support coming from Singapore. But I am nevertheless thrilled and proud to say that Singapore may be small, but she does have very talented citizens =)
43 golds may seem like nothing compared to the mighty Thailand which won i-don't-know-how-many golds, but it's certainly SOMETHING especially since we have a much smaller population and land area as compared to the other south-east Asian nations. Haha. (by the way, KENDRICK LEE ROCKS) The government is spending a lot on developing sporting youth talents. I see a bright future ahead of Singapore =) Man, I AM proud to be a Singaporean!
I came across my sec 2 cell's blog.
At first I thought, we even had a blog in the first place? Wow!
Well that's how pathetic it is. We were called iteens. Something which I don't even remember until I read somewhere inside the one blog posts.
It was last posted by Ivan Ong, one of our cell leaders then.
This is what it contained
And there Ivan said, "You are going into the mission fields & do things unseen & unheard of before... and shake the world ..." which some of us just did this December.
Sigh... I miss those times! I wanna cry already la...
I've kinda forgotten how it was like back then when we were in P6, sec 1 and sec 2.
I'm getting old! If that's the case, cell leaders are growing oldER! lol..
Those were the days...
1) by crowning Hady Mirza as the Asian Idol
2) with 43 gold medals (if i'm not wrong) at the recent 24th SEA games
(1) really caught me by surprise. When I saw it on the cover of The Straits Times, I was like "WHAT?! Hady????" It was totally unexpected, considering what I read another day about Sg Idol judge Ken Lim saying there's not enough support coming from Singapore. But I am nevertheless thrilled and proud to say that Singapore may be small, but she does have very talented citizens =)
43 golds may seem like nothing compared to the mighty Thailand which won i-don't-know-how-many golds, but it's certainly SOMETHING especially since we have a much smaller population and land area as compared to the other south-east Asian nations. Haha. (by the way, KENDRICK LEE ROCKS) The government is spending a lot on developing sporting youth talents. I see a bright future ahead of Singapore =) Man, I AM proud to be a Singaporean!
I came across my sec 2 cell's blog.
At first I thought, we even had a blog in the first place? Wow!
Well that's how pathetic it is. We were called iteens. Something which I don't even remember until I read somewhere inside the one blog posts.
It was last posted by Ivan Ong, one of our cell leaders then.
This is what it contained
[Wednesday, November 16, 2005 . thoughts]
Hey!
Honesty when i read your posts and comments i really felt like crying, it may sound silly but i really love you guys(and gals!)... all of you! When i first started i was going through a reall rough patch due to a broken relationship and i was really considering if i should continue serving in teenz. During those early times, i really felt under certain & sometimes i would be really demoralized by the times when during cell discussion nothing would be said. Times like that really made me consider quitting and left me de-moralized but everytime i wanted to quit, God always made something good happen in cell and would remind me about all of you & that he always come through and that things would be even better then i could imagine... and look we are now! So different from how we started!
I'm really thankfully for each one of you.. you've all brightened my life up alot!(and im sure wan hui & joanne would agree.. haha) I think our cell has really changed alot since we've first started & now everyweek i look forward to seeing you guys at service! :)
I've really enjoyed the bondings & great times that we had.. (like waiting in the sun for hours to see hillsongs at FOP?)haha.. continue to grow in the lord & never lose sight of him okie? Draw nearer to him and be his good friend! :) I belive that you guys can do great things for God! Dont be afraid to dream BIG! During our last worship in the chapel i felt God saying that you(your generation of young people) are gonna do great works. You are going into the mission fields & do things unseen & unheard of before... and shake the world ...
I believe with all my heart that you guys will be able to do that, and do great miracles, heal the sick, raise the dead etc.. do things & go to places that we(my generation) have never been before... Amen! So never lose sight of God but instead always run to him when you are in trouble or tempted... lastly...
1 Timothy 4:12
Don't let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in life, in love, in faith and in purity.
Continue to shine for God!
Iv@n
And there Ivan said, "You are going into the mission fields & do things unseen & unheard of before... and shake the world ..." which some of us just did this December.
Sigh... I miss those times! I wanna cry already la...
I've kinda forgotten how it was like back then when we were in P6, sec 1 and sec 2.
I'm getting old! If that's the case, cell leaders are growing oldER! lol..
Those were the days...
Thursday, December 13, 2007
PAE result
I knew it! Posted to the school of my 5th choice! YM and I are going to be in the same orientation group, so at least there's someone I know. How cool is that?
| 1. | The results of your application are as follows: | |||||
| Posted Institution | : | SERANGOON JUNIOR COLLEGE | ||||
| Course Name | : | SERANGOON JUNIOR COLLEGE (SCIENCE) | ||||
| Course Code | : | 29S | ||||
| 2. | Please report to the JC/MI on 2 Jan 2008 at 8am. | |||||
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Rain Camp
Dear Lord, I am ever so thankful... for everything that happened since December 1st.. You showed me so much within a short span of 11 days, You helped me to control my feelings a lot better, and my faith has also been strengthened by heaps. Thank You Daddy for loving me so much. Thank You for sending so many nice people who shower me with words of encouragement. Thank You for helping me to look at the bright side of things... The list goes on and on, Lord. Really, I can never thank You enough.
Now, where, and how to start?
I think I'll just put up the Microsoft Word document on the scribing from the Aceh trip up here for download when I'm done with it. It's freaking long.
RAIN camp saw a strength of about 250 campers from kids as young as 11 years old, all the way to, hmm, 30 plus I suppose. As expected, Pastor Glenn was superb.. His preaching made an impact on many of us. He made the Word of God seem fun to read, adding in many bits of funny things for us to go -_-|| over or laugh our hair out ('laugh our heads off' is too common).
What really got me to my senses was how much Christ suffered and went through for a sinner like me. Like us. I've been hearing so much of "Jesus died for you" until I kinda took it for granted. *rush of guilt* But after watching that scene from the Passion of the Christ which was Mel Gibson's interpretation of how Christ was treated before and during crucifixion, I was struck dumb and reminded that this was how the King of kings willingly gave up His life for us. He did not just die like this, he was tortured, so gruesomely... all out of love.
A church camp is never complete without salvations..........
FIONA TAN do I see your hand up? Lol seriously, no regrets getting Fiona and Xi Ying to go for camp! I think God was a lot more real to them. Imagine my joy when Fio said the bible is a cool book, and when XY said she received the gift of tongues! =D =D
It suddenly dawned upon me that the psalm which I thought of on the first day of camp,“For you created my innermost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well“. Psalm 139:13-14 (NIV)
was linked to Pastor Glenn's message that very day. He had talked about how there are SO many galaxies in this universe, and how small pluto is.
Even so, "He determines the number of the stars; and calls them each by name." Psalm 147:4 (NIV), something Quek was telling me on the istimewa team's first night at Layeun (He, Guo Sheng and I were at the seaside staring at the starry sky then). This was mentioned by Pst Glenn.
Also, I was just pondering over how the bible says, "Consider the ravens: They do not sow or reap, they have no storeroom or barn; yet God feeds them. And how much more valuable you are than birds!" in Luke 12:24... which was later (also) mentioned by the pastor.
Imagine, us, so many of us humans, so much smaller and seemingly, more insignificant than pluto... yet God crafts each and everyone of us so carefully when the nucleus of the ovum and sperm fuses together. Haha, the study of biology and geography have made me appreciate God's works a lot more.
I don't think the entry of these verses into my tiny head was anything like a coincidence. More like God telling me "hey, this is how much I treasure you..."
We need the Lord, but these days there are too many substitutes out there eh?
"Why spend money on what is not bread,
and your labor on what does not satisfy?
Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good,
and your soul will delight in the richest of fare."
Isaiah 55:2
Likewise... the pleasures of the world are only temporary! It's eternal life after death that really counts. Lol.
Night games on the first day was omg. Haha.
I didn't play the ice-cream game whereby everyone in the group had to lie down and feed each other ice-cream. Cos' I was coughing. I'm STILL coughing actually.
The caterpillar game got my butt scratched by the grass... Mind you, we did it on the muddy field. The 'best' thing was I was wearing FBTs. The one uncle Dong describes as "banana shorts". So you get the picture. I hope I didn't expose too much.
The cobweb game is the one we almost always play at camps. To get every group member across without touching any of the strings. Each hole can only be used once. But we didn't complete it la.. They were carrying me through it and Evan shouted "support her butt!". -.-
Ok there were a lot of stations... and I don't want to describe everything.
Hehe. I slept like a log that night. Stacia told me she slept well.. We're trained already la, after Aceh, sleeping there was like whooooo, shiok.
For session 2 worship on the first day, I thought my cough would kill me and prevent me from singing. But it didn't. I even felt better la haha.
Session 3 worship was another story. During worship practice, I just stopped suddenly cos' all the phlegm was clogging up inside, and my --urgh-- singing would affect the rest of the team.
So yeah I went to sit down on the chair and watch the rest. This time it was so bad I thought, later don't need to sing already la, should have stayed with my camp group instead of leaving early for prac.
During the break I kope-d Fisherman's Friend from Melody, water chestnut from Abigail, lemon barely from Melody again, and then Pearlyn passed me a strepsil from Quek.
[was also during the break that I was described as Quek's "trump card"... which made me think of how the leaders in the worship team (and also out of the team la) never fail to keep on encouraging me]
It was like, prayers were answered! With the help of God and these people's lozenges and "magic drinks", I was alright during the worship itself =D It's a miracle, I was like transformed from a tenor to an alto within an hour! HAHA. Well yea... that shows how good my Daddy is.
I left halfway for my uncle's wedding dinner. He's someone I'm so NOT close to. I think I'm neither close to my aunts nor uncles from my mum's side.
Anyway the dinner was held at some restaurant near the campsite. After the dinner I called Wan Hui and she said they were still at church, and will only leave in 20 to 30 minutes. My dad then drove me all the way back. Along the way, I was actually quite worried that he can't drive back there on time.. But there was a still small voice which told me to trust God and be calm. True enough, the roads were smoother than usual, the traffic lights were mostly green (lol). Yeah then when I reached, everyone was getting up the buses, preparing to leave. Haha, this shows how God is faithful and just that little faith which I clung on to at that time can be magnified. So now I feel that I can trust Him even more.
On Monday, it poured when I was having lunch with Jace, XY and Fio. We wanted to go home. It was a bit difficult for XY and I cos' we had to cross the road. I thought, never mind la, just cross and get wet. However when we walked to the bus stop, ready to cross the road, the rain seemed to stop! It became a VERY slight drizzle so we happily walked across the road. It was only after that that it started to pour again. Another example of how God cares so much for me (us), even the slightest thing like letting us cross the road without getting too wet.
Lord, I'm truly amazed by You!
Now, where, and how to start?
I think I'll just put up the Microsoft Word document on the scribing from the Aceh trip up here for download when I'm done with it. It's freaking long.
RAIN camp saw a strength of about 250 campers from kids as young as 11 years old, all the way to, hmm, 30 plus I suppose. As expected, Pastor Glenn was superb.. His preaching made an impact on many of us. He made the Word of God seem fun to read, adding in many bits of funny things for us to go -_-|| over or laugh our hair out ('laugh our heads off' is too common).
What really got me to my senses was how much Christ suffered and went through for a sinner like me. Like us. I've been hearing so much of "Jesus died for you" until I kinda took it for granted. *rush of guilt* But after watching that scene from the Passion of the Christ which was Mel Gibson's interpretation of how Christ was treated before and during crucifixion, I was struck dumb and reminded that this was how the King of kings willingly gave up His life for us. He did not just die like this, he was tortured, so gruesomely... all out of love.
A church camp is never complete without salvations..........
FIONA TAN do I see your hand up? Lol seriously, no regrets getting Fiona and Xi Ying to go for camp! I think God was a lot more real to them. Imagine my joy when Fio said the bible is a cool book, and when XY said she received the gift of tongues! =D =D
It suddenly dawned upon me that the psalm which I thought of on the first day of camp,“For you created my innermost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well“. Psalm 139:13-14 (NIV)
was linked to Pastor Glenn's message that very day. He had talked about how there are SO many galaxies in this universe, and how small pluto is.
Even so, "He determines the number of the stars; and calls them each by name." Psalm 147:4 (NIV), something Quek was telling me on the istimewa team's first night at Layeun (He, Guo Sheng and I were at the seaside staring at the starry sky then). This was mentioned by Pst Glenn.
Also, I was just pondering over how the bible says, "Consider the ravens: They do not sow or reap, they have no storeroom or barn; yet God feeds them. And how much more valuable you are than birds!" in Luke 12:24... which was later (also) mentioned by the pastor.
Imagine, us, so many of us humans, so much smaller and seemingly, more insignificant than pluto... yet God crafts each and everyone of us so carefully when the nucleus of the ovum and sperm fuses together. Haha, the study of biology and geography have made me appreciate God's works a lot more.
I don't think the entry of these verses into my tiny head was anything like a coincidence. More like God telling me "hey, this is how much I treasure you..."
We need the Lord, but these days there are too many substitutes out there eh?
"Why spend money on what is not bread,
and your labor on what does not satisfy?
Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good,
and your soul will delight in the richest of fare."
Isaiah 55:2
Likewise... the pleasures of the world are only temporary! It's eternal life after death that really counts. Lol.
Night games on the first day was omg. Haha.
I didn't play the ice-cream game whereby everyone in the group had to lie down and feed each other ice-cream. Cos' I was coughing. I'm STILL coughing actually.
The caterpillar game got my butt scratched by the grass... Mind you, we did it on the muddy field. The 'best' thing was I was wearing FBTs. The one uncle Dong describes as "banana shorts". So you get the picture. I hope I didn't expose too much.
The cobweb game is the one we almost always play at camps. To get every group member across without touching any of the strings. Each hole can only be used once. But we didn't complete it la.. They were carrying me through it and Evan shouted "support her butt!". -.-
Ok there were a lot of stations... and I don't want to describe everything.
Hehe. I slept like a log that night. Stacia told me she slept well.. We're trained already la, after Aceh, sleeping there was like whooooo, shiok.
For session 2 worship on the first day, I thought my cough would kill me and prevent me from singing. But it didn't. I even felt better la haha.
Session 3 worship was another story. During worship practice, I just stopped suddenly cos' all the phlegm was clogging up inside, and my --urgh-- singing would affect the rest of the team.
So yeah I went to sit down on the chair and watch the rest. This time it was so bad I thought, later don't need to sing already la, should have stayed with my camp group instead of leaving early for prac.
During the break I kope-d Fisherman's Friend from Melody, water chestnut from Abigail, lemon barely from Melody again, and then Pearlyn passed me a strepsil from Quek.
[was also during the break that I was described as Quek's "trump card"... which made me think of how the leaders in the worship team (and also out of the team la) never fail to keep on encouraging me]
It was like, prayers were answered! With the help of God and these people's lozenges and "magic drinks", I was alright during the worship itself =D It's a miracle, I was like transformed from a tenor to an alto within an hour! HAHA. Well yea... that shows how good my Daddy is.
I left halfway for my uncle's wedding dinner. He's someone I'm so NOT close to. I think I'm neither close to my aunts nor uncles from my mum's side.
Anyway the dinner was held at some restaurant near the campsite. After the dinner I called Wan Hui and she said they were still at church, and will only leave in 20 to 30 minutes. My dad then drove me all the way back. Along the way, I was actually quite worried that he can't drive back there on time.. But there was a still small voice which told me to trust God and be calm. True enough, the roads were smoother than usual, the traffic lights were mostly green (lol). Yeah then when I reached, everyone was getting up the buses, preparing to leave. Haha, this shows how God is faithful and just that little faith which I clung on to at that time can be magnified. So now I feel that I can trust Him even more.
On Monday, it poured when I was having lunch with Jace, XY and Fio. We wanted to go home. It was a bit difficult for XY and I cos' we had to cross the road. I thought, never mind la, just cross and get wet. However when we walked to the bus stop, ready to cross the road, the rain seemed to stop! It became a VERY slight drizzle so we happily walked across the road. It was only after that that it started to pour again. Another example of how God cares so much for me (us), even the slightest thing like letting us cross the road without getting too wet.
Lord, I'm truly amazed by You!
Friday, December 07, 2007
www.notreligion.com my utmost for His highest says:
Do NOT bring disposable plates/cup/cutlery
www.notreligion.com my utmost for His highest says:
i thought the next word was underwear
joyce reminiscing, recalling facts says:
-____-
joyce reminiscing, recalling facts says:
very funny hor
www.notreligion.com my utmost for His highest says:
really
www.notreligion.com my utmost for His highest says:
i was like huh?
this is regarding the to-bring list for Rain Camp. haha crazy girl, this Jacelyn...
Do NOT bring disposable plates/cup/cutlery
www.notreligion.com my utmost for His highest says:
i thought the next word was underwear
joyce reminiscing, recalling facts says:
-____-
joyce reminiscing, recalling facts says:
very funny hor
www.notreligion.com my utmost for His highest says:
really
www.notreligion.com my utmost for His highest says:
i was like huh?
this is regarding the to-bring list for Rain Camp. haha crazy girl, this Jacelyn...
Wednesday, December 05, 2007
mission trip
The YPM mission troopers are back!
SO much has happened... so many events which I as the scribe failed to record omg. But still a lot la. Layeun Village is a beautiful [but (land) polluted] place.
This is weird, but my dad is having prata now with Uncle Dong, Freddy, Augustina and the unknown guy who shared a cab with Sheila (Tan) Beatrice and I.
I didn't want to go though I'd very much like to have prata too.
Do what there la, sit, stone and listen to them talk? How awkward.
Anyway I will not post about the mission trip today.
All I can say is, OUR GOD IS AN AWESOME GOD!!!!!!!! Amen? =)
Really loved the trip.
SO much has happened... so many events which I as the scribe failed to record omg. But still a lot la. Layeun Village is a beautiful [but (land) polluted] place.
This is weird, but my dad is having prata now with Uncle Dong, Freddy, Augustina and the unknown guy who shared a cab with Sheila (Tan) Beatrice and I.
I didn't want to go though I'd very much like to have prata too.
Do what there la, sit, stone and listen to them talk? How awkward.
Anyway I will not post about the mission trip today.
All I can say is, OUR GOD IS AN AWESOME GOD!!!!!!!! Amen? =)
Really loved the trip.
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