Friday, September 07, 2007
Today has been amazing... what can I say but give God ALL praise and glory.. there was so much joy tat I literally jumped up and down in my room for almost 5 secs haha.. truly the words of Isaiah were true. "So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand... For I am the LORD, your God, who takes hold of your right hand and says to you, Do not fear; I will help you." (Isaiah 41:10,13)
so what exactly happened? two words. International History... When I did my IH paper, I felt that it was the worst of all the papers I did... not only did I not finish doing it, I thought tat I did the questions horribly... when I left the exam hall I just knew that I was gonna fail... just last week i think, I've had 2 nightmares where I failed IH... it was really scary... till today...
Today, I was in school for open house preparations.. was just standing there when Mr Ngoei popped out of no where and approached me... he started with his usual, ur hand writing is bad and time management thing... While he was doing that... I was just expecting him to go on about how badly I did... how rubbish my arguments were... but no... Instead, he told me... I think you can get an A during the A lvls for Hist... I was stunned and shocked.. as in seriously... I was just amazed... ended up, he told me I had a high B for my IH for prelims...
Looking back... God had been trying to comfort me all along... just yesteday and the day before I was reading Isaiah.. and after today, I look back and I see where it all fits together.
Isaiah 42:6, 14-15 says:
"I, the LORD, have called you in righteousness;
I will take hold of your hand.
I will keep you and will make you
to be a covenant for the people
and a light for the Gentiles,
"Do not be afraid, O worm Jacob,
O little Israel,
for I myself will help you," declares the LORD,
your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.
"See, I will make you into a threshing sledge,
new and sharp, with many teeth.
You will thresh the mountains and crush them,
and reduce the hills to chaff.
and in Isaiah 43:11-12:
I, even I, am the LORD,
and apart from me there is no savior.
I have revealed and saved and proclaimed-
I, and not some foreign god among you.
You are my witnesses," declares the LORD, "that I am God.
what can I say but to give all praise and glory to God.. this isn't the first time He did such a thing... it seems that God always uses my weaknesses and my 'lack of preparation' (not because I don't want to study, but because of the long periods I spend with Him), to do something unbelievable and impossible, that I and all around me may know that this is the work of the Lord.
Shine O Lord... Shine through Your servant... You have heard my prayer to "do mircales in my life... [to] glorify Yourself in me... [to] do impossible things in my life that when others look at me, they will now that it is impossible and look up and praise You... [for] my life [to] be a signboard showing that You alone are God" (31/8/07)
11:59 PM
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Friday, August 31, 2007
Heyy ! back here again from what seems to be occasional visits of this good'ol blog of mine.. it sure has been a while.. my prelims just ended abt a week ago.. and have been pretty slack-ish this past few days.. got to more free time now, which is a good and bad thing.. on one had certain days I spend long hours with God.. on other days.. I tend to prioritise fun before God.. sorry abt that God...
Well.. I just had a wonderful quiet time abt an hour ago.. in fact... I felt led towards the end of my qt to come and blog and just to testify abt Him! haha.. so here we go...
Frenzy fills our lives because if we stop running, we may have to face an empty silence or a nagging voice from God. Many a times, we listen to the loud voices of the world saying, "prove that you are worth something; do something revelant, spectacular or powerful and then you will earn the love you so desire". If you find youself reluctant to enjoy God's presence in certain moments of life, that may be a signal that you have fears about whether God loves you. when we embrace our self-importance, it becomes clear that we want to be loved and valued. God's love tackles us, telling us that we can quit asking what we must do to be loved and valued because his answer is nothing. He already loves and values us deper and steadier than any human could.
-extracted and paraphrased from Jan Johnson's "Enjoying The Presence of God"
11:51 PM
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Tuesday, July 10, 2007
wow.. I'm truly surprised at ppl who actually still visit this good'ol blog of mine.. wow.. it sure has been a while since I last blogged... Been so busy too!! not to mention the yr went by so fast... I can't believe my last blog was in feb ! haha and on Orientation summore!! haha..
Oh well.. I'm in school now n I think I have PE NOW! haha.. I'll actually think abt reviving this blog.bye.
2:59 PM
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Tuesday, February 20, 2007
you know for this past few days... one thing has been constantly on my mind... Orientation 2... Deciding whetheror not to take part in O2... Was asked once last week and I rejected them... and jsut yesterday.. I was approached again and was asked... and now... I'm seriously at a loss on wat I should do...
I really really want to go for O2 but then I know I'm just gonna get myself more busy.. though it's only 3 school days... and not to mention I dun really have the support of my CF comm and madams.. sigh...
God, hear my plea and lead me the way everlasting.. the way tat wld give You the greatest glory
9:00 PM
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Sunday, January 21, 2007
My blog feels so left out on all the activities I've been busy with this past month... well.. I'm not gonna go blogging abt everything that happened.. haha.. too many things.. it's almost crazy.. from Orientation in the first week, to studying, to Masterlife just yesterday...
but you know... today in church, when I was waiting for my mum... When Angel, Jon n Portia asked me to go do tat 'puppy dog' face... it really brought back memories.. and suddenly I just felt so sad that I was unable to have lunch with them... arghh.. I miss spending quality time with my church friends... I miss you guys!!! :( I miss all the crazy moments we used to have just hanging out, taking neoprints, and Jon, talking with u till really really late into the night... I really dunno wat else to say but.. I love you guys n I treasure every moment spent with u all...
will it be the same?
8:39 PM
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Saturday, December 23, 2006
wow... how time flies and how things to do just piles one on top of the other... didn't even have time to blog abt my Taiwan trip before I was off to OGL camp... well just to briefly sum up wat I did in Taiwan... I shopped ALOT (practically bought a whole outfit including jacket and shoes) ate ALOT (Taiwan fried chicken almost everyday?) and not to mention met LOADS of ppl there... I met like Mr Tanu, Mr Sim, and Caleb and his family + Grace like twice !! and also met Joanne at some hotel and one J2 AC girl which was on the same tour as I... it's as if everyone's going to Taiwan !!! haha... oh well.. didn't get to meet Javis though.. oh well...
Before I could do much, the day after I was back in Singapore I was in school (again) settling Clan stuff for orientation and Steph happily wasn't there, leaving lonely'ol me to figure out cheers for our clan but thanks be to God that we had an extension and
all most of our cheers turned out fine for OGL camp !! not to mention during the camp itself, there were so many new creative cheers haha...
Sunday wasn't much of a Sabbath this time... after enjoying the fellowship of my church ppl in the morning, I had to rush off to Faith Methodist for their Celebration Sunday and share abt the mission trip which I had to speak off the top of my head haha.. but praise God, it went well (: after tat some of my CF comm members went off to Vivo where... we walked ard aimlessly for abt an hour and finally settled down at Starbucks where I had a nice cold coffee.. after tat, mum came and had nice Indian food !! haha :D
Monday came and so did OGL camp for the next 4 days.. it was a day camp and it sure was draining... but hey.. it was REALLY fun! apart frm making new frens and changing the way I tot of some ppl, I really had loads of fun playing all those dirty muddy games ! haha.. and I must say... the rain made everything so much more fun... minus the lightning of course.. Mr Joel Mark and his cat 1 haha.. can't wait for the make up OGL camp the Orientation ! muahaha... the only thing I'm really quite worried abt is the March-In dance... it's not easy to dance that dance ok !! and yes I know I look weird doing that banghra dance thingy especially with someone so good at it.. RAWR... I need to practice !! I wonder how I'm gonna dance in my costume though... hrmmm... oh well..
Looking back this whole holiday... I must say it's the busiest I've ever been fr school activities at least... I need to study and stop wasting time playing useless computer games, conquering cities etc... ahha.. good thing my game didn't end off at a very good note n now I dun really feel like playing haha.. I thank God for that actually haha :D
wow.. it's already Christmas eve.... once again.. how time flies... but you know.. you guys out there... even in all the festivities, let us not forget the true meaning of Christmas... It's not abt Santa... neither is it abt Frosty the snowman haha.. and it's not quite abt giving more than it is a gift... you know... abt 2000 yrs ago.. God, the creator of the universe, the all powerful God.. came and penetrated the universe and bounded Himself as a man to be born as Jesus Christ.. a child that would one day grow up and change the world.. a child that would finally reconcile man with God... Hallelujah!
11:52 PM
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Friday, December 08, 2006
you know... I feel like I'm only blogging on days I leave for something or days I come back from something... haha.. so yupp here goes... I'm leavinf for Taiwan tmr! well.. actually.. I gotta be awake in 3 hrs time and I kinda have to be at the airport by............ 6am ! yupp flight's probably at 8am.. so in abt.. 7hrs I'll be on nice little SQ flying to nice little Taiwan! haha
well.. anyways, the past few days have been well.. quite busy here and there.. although yesterday I had the opportunity to stay at home the whole day and I play my nice little new game called... Medieval II Total War.. it's really fun and all.. heh... then suddenly I receive a call out of no where telling me I gotta go for some history Society gathering which, my fault, I kinda totally forgot abt.. haha..
ok I can't take it anymore.. my back is seriously killing me... I better go slp. good nite ppl (: God bless
11:06 PM
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