Hello!

I so totally agree with Angelica! I miss everybody back in KK!!! The first youth that I tried attending when I got here was Culture Star youth from Centre of New Life church, which is a charismatic church (think Skyline or Calvary Charismatic church.. the youth.. Haha..) Nice lah, the Sunday morning worship was like those youth rally we've been to xD Their youth is on Saturdays from 4.30pm to 7.30pm (weird yeah xD Hahaha..) But my mom don't let me go to that youth because when I go back I'll be walking home in the dark =( So yeah.. I felt bad when this girl smsed me to ask if I was going, and I told her the truth la. Sighs.

So looks like I'll be going to Living Waters Methodist Church with Justin.. their youth is after the Sunday morning service (which is very different compared to the previous church xD) It's more like ours, probably even a bit more mellow O.o Lol! Sighs. But yeah, like Angelica said, it's very difficult to try settling down in a brand new church especially when we've already established such good relationships and friendships in Grace Chapel =(

I haven't touched a piano since coming here! I hope I don't forget how to play O.O That will be scary, man, hahaha..

This weekend (1-3 August) there's this Festival of Praise at Singapore Indoor Stadium, and it will be featuring this Christian band called Parachute Band and Reuben Morgan (from HILLSONG!!!) The speaker is Mark Conner from Australia.. Actually this weekend is also Singfest (with acts from OneRepublic, Simple Plan, Pussycat Dolls and others!!) But the ticket is darned expensive =(( So yeah, the praise rally will be lots better anyway =D

Life here has been okay la. Finding places to eat is not difficult (I live in a commercial area and I'm quite near Orchard xD) I'm tired of Bugis Junction already lol. It's like 2 or 3 blocks away from my school. The only thing I don't like is walking all the way back to my hostel and climbing all the way up to my room on the 4th floor, especially when I'm all tired and carrying lots of stuff I needed to bring to school, or if I've been shopping (for things I need ah! not my clothes, shoes etc. etc).. It's very tiring, haha, and I usually start sweating already then have to go shower, but my room is almost always air-conditioned when I reach so it's a welcome relief, haha..

Lol I realized that I'm starting to write a novel like Ronan liao =p xDD Hahaha..

Miss everybody so much
XOXOs

words from my heart :)

guys..im so proud of u all!! tho starting youth fellowship at 740 is not exactly on time but knowing how late we used to start it off makes it sound so much earlier haha anyways, its truly a great start. its so nice to see how u guys r putting things up n changing for the better....together!!! tat's how it shud roll =p

i believe God is working in each of u, individually or as a group. continue to stand strong in Him.

somehow i cant believe im telling u guys all those but having problems myself :( actually i find myself struggling here. both spiritually in my walk with God n my personal life here. starting all over again in a new church is seriously not easy. things r sooo different. its as if i cant reli be myself like how i am in grace chapel cuz the culture n how things go arnd here is not the same.i miss how i can go crazy in church. i miss how i can reli pour out my hearts when i worship God.

as for uni, its reli getting pretty stressful.having assignment due almost everyweek. have to cope with the lecturer's speed of teaching. family problems...its just not helping in making me in my studies. things r so just so hard for me..or mayb its just that im not taking it the right way...i dunno :(

i reli wana go home :( i mis u guys..how i can put away all my troubles n worries whenever i have u all arnd to keep me happy.

sigh...thank God for this blog. or else i wont know where to reli pour out my hearts to..other than bugging justin every nite with all my problems..but its not like he has a choice cuz his ears belongs to me!!

p/s : justin if u dun agree to that talak 2 ah!!!

anyways..im looking forward in seeing u guys...never knew i'd miss u all sooooo much..love u peeps..muah~~

26 July 2008, Sat: An earlier-started YF

Well, here's a recap of what happened last sat. Here again i would like to thank you all reading this for playing your parts in making our YF started much much earlier compared to the week before even though you thought you might have done nothing. Man..we started about half an hour earlier, you know? haha..

Well, since i don't have much time and to avoid writing a novel about that day, so here's what we did:

We started having dinner at Damai about 6.35pm if i didn't remember wrong and with the help of Ivan and Edgar in transportation (thank you so much). And the YF worship team for that night returned to church earlier to practise after dinner by Ivan's car. Then, the other car with youths drove by Edgar arrived church about 7.25pm (if i didn't remember wrongly) and then we all started YF about 7.40pm..great improvement, people!

So after YF, Uncle Keat Heng took over sharing session since Uncle Chin wasn't able to come and he showed us a testimonial video of a mid-east Christian who was once a Muslim. And, just in case someone else read this blog, yup we know we can't try convert our fellow Muslims in Malaysia, ok? Moving on, overall the testimony was really something beneficial for all of us. The sad thing was that because of the audio system in Annex Hall, the clip's mid-eastern music basically drowned out the testimony. Really kinda hard to focus on what the guy was talking about because the music was really really disturbing. Really..if only i've recorded it. Or maybe, i'll try taking the video from Uncle and post it up here, haha.

Anywayz..the main thing was about the discussion we had after watching the about-17mins clip (imagine having the music blasting at you through out that period of time) led by Uncle Keat Heng. There were two really important and fundamental principles touched on by the guy in his testimony. As Uncle put it, if you take that 2 important principles away from Christianity, Christianity itself would have been pointless and meaningless.

What are the 2 principles? to be short:
1. We have to put our faith in the Word of God.
2. Only the Truth of God's Word will set us free from the bondage of sin.

So without the 2 points, it's meaningless saying you're a Christian. And the 3 verses that were related and brought out by Uncle was from Hebrews 5:12-14:

12 In fact, though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you the elementary truths of God's Word all over again. You need milk, not solid food!

13 Anyone who lives on milk, being still an infant, is not acquainted with the teaching about righteousness.

14 But solid food is for the mature, who by constant use have trained themselves to distinguish good from evil. (NIV)

So, the point is, we should not stop at the infant stage, only drinking milk. We need to constantly study and live out God's Word. Then only we start to mature.

And another point brought up by Uncle was the danger of the Loop. A spiritual loop whereby say, this week you felt bad and have done wrong so you kept reading and studying God's Word and pray. Then the next week, feeling good, you push back the time with God and start feeling lazy, giving excuses to postpone your own Quiet Time with God, your own Bible Study, etc. The example given was just a brief one but i'm sure you all who are reading this know what i'm talking about. Everyone experiences this Loop thing, i myself included. And so we must fight. The devil is trying to pull us away and so let us pray for one another, unloop this Loop and straighten the paths of our lives, that we may move forward together to follow God in Christ's footsteps and to be mature, not being spiritual cisterns like what Uncle Chin has taught us previously.

Let us not reload ourselves to go on a spiritual loop but reload ourselves with the spiritual ammunition from God's Word to keep us going straight forward. For the Glory of our GOD!!

If you had listened to the background song for this blog,
ARE YOU READY, GRACE CHAPEL LUYANG ENGLISH ASSEMBLY YOUTHS??

Your answers are for you yourselves and for God.

Well....

Erm, so i tried changin the template back to the previous one, put in JeremyK's banner design and it's just temporary..dunno how it looks to you all..i could only use Paint to resize the banner, don't have good editin programmes with me now in this comp i'm using..erm..i think this current's template let the posts more easier to be read..the previous stretched template kinda made me easily lose my attention..dunno why..haha..maybe it's just my prob..so,

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