Sunday, March 30, 2008
really like this picture (taken in melaka) cos nath, clarice n ale posed like models from some teenage magazines.. (: haaa..
i've been reading and writing articles all day long! wah.. have been sitting in front of this 14inch overworked machine for too long a time.
cleared 4 Cultural Anthropology papers today, so in all 13 down but 12 MORE to go.
As part of my internship at GoForth 2008 NMC, I get to meet various people of different agencies. I met 2 yesterday from Wycliffe and they were just sharing about cultural anthropology, ethnography, church planting and all :) it's really cool to discuss with them what i've been reading for CA; i mean this pple have a wealth of experiences la..
God clearly has good people serving Him in the mission field :) praise GOD!
SJCp prayer meeting was totally cool yesterday :) 4 people gave thanksgiving and all 4 shared with so much joy (some even in tears) - really shows that we're all in a huge loving family.
oikos - greek for family :)
{2:10 AM}
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
minutes ago, i was just telling God that I'm just so tired physically and quite overwhelmed with the various commitments and work at hand; think i almost slipped into temporal depression
and u know what?
i received an sms from gloria.tan.lijia. an sms of encouragmt and thanks :)
God is just so obvious isn't He?
and when i smsed her to let her know what was gg on, she replied to say that she was doing her QT and felt led to sms me this.
this is like prayer-conferencing.. something which happened before! the other time was when i had needed to pay for mission trip but i didn't have any and then like in less than 5 mins, a brother sms-ed to say he wanna sponsor me. When i asked him what led him to, he replied to say that he was doing his QT and the HS led him to give.
i'm like basking in full assurance of His love, grace, mercy and everything else about Him. (:
a picture (above) i took at melaka (: me like it!
{10:21 PM}
Monday, March 24, 2008
headed towards melaka and bunked at a budget hotel with ruth, deqi, si qi, clarice and nath for 3 days during my 2-weeks break (:
transport and lodging was about $60 each and we really had a good time.
we went to "tan kim hock"; a shop which sells malaysian local products and guess what?! we really met mr tan kim hock himself! he was really nice to give all of one a bottle of honey lime juice for free (: kekekkekekkee
deqi's uncle, auntie and cousins were really nice to bring us around - wow.. really praise GOD for them
{7:55 PM}
mom was exceptionally excited about yu sheng this year.
she actually bought 4 sets and made us lao yu sheng on 3 separate ocassions. ha. but it was fun (: some backdated pics and the salmon was yummy!
{12:30 PM}
"meant to bee" - Andrew and Bilin's wedding - 22 march 2008
Chjmes Hall
"more of Him" - this song was a surprise dedication to Andrew from Bilin - i think it's such a beautiful song!
I stand before you now with a sacred vow
To love you for a lifetime to give you all my heart
but there's ONE who's there where my love will fail and He is all that I'm not
So now I must decrease, Usher His full glory in
May there be less of me and more of Him
When you see me
may You see reflection of One's whose perfection won't end
When you hold me may you feel the touch of the ONE who loves much more than I can comprehend
when you fall more in love with me, may you fall more in love with Him
As the years go by
May I always try to draw you closer to your one true destiny
My love for you is great but it's just a taste of what's waiting in eternity
{2:55 AM}
Saturday, March 15, 2008
thanksgiving!!!
some of my close friends know that i've been having some problem in my right ear ever since my return from Thailand.
it's like this constantly "stuff" feeling in my right and i would hear this fluttering sound (like you're standing in front of a fan) and can't hear really that well.
initially, i wasnt able to get enough rest because the sound really kept me up at night and when i work out, i could really hear the fluttering in according to my heartbeat.
after seeing the doctor for about 4 times, i finally gave in to the constant reminders from my mom to see an ENT specialist. I was given a hearing test and a scope.
I was disgnosed with tinnitus and was told that i've lost my hearing for low decibels. the specialist suspected that i may be having a tumour on the nerve of my right ear because she did all the tests for various factors such as ear infection etc but none fit the bill.
praise God, my MRI scan showed that I'm clear of any tumours but I still had the "noise" in my ear. The dr said that there isn't any known treatment for it and many who have this usually just live with the noise or that it ultimately would just go away after a prolonged period.
lately, the "noise" became really bad.. like really LOUD till it got to the point of irritation.
and this afternoon, while searching for a notebook, i came across my spiritual journal written in 2001 and saw this book excerpt (didn't note the source but it was recorded on the 16 June 2001)
"you see, most of us live within the "normal" realm of the possible, rarely venturing into the rarefied atmosphere of the "things thought impossible". We so often forget that the very step we have all taken to trust Christ for salvation, is to take a step into the realm of the impossible" to th e natural person, "for without faith, it is impossible to please God."
with that, i immediately prayed to God and asked Him for healing for my ear. I remember just stilling my heart before Him, acknowledging that He is the only one who is able to do all things and in faith, asked if He could heal me.. and even before I could finish the prayer, the noise stopped!
i was SUPERLY amazed. Praise GOD.
this thing happened too when i was in Thailand when I was awoken by a bad pain in my throat one night. i know that i brought quite a lot of different medicine for various ailments but I didn't bring any lozenges or throat infection medicine. and in my whiniest moment, i ask God if He could heal me.
and the next thing i know, i swallowed my saliva and realised that the pain was gone.
i was like really amazed!! i mean it was like instantly leh!!! GOD IS REALLY AWESOME :)
Rina, Priscilla and Amandaz: helloz too.. thanks for dropping by :)
HOOKeD!
night out with family for mommy's bday (: we went to hooked! at railmall..
kudos to bernard for being so nice to go despite being anti-fish.
God is really good (;
{8:24 PM}