Yes! We've MADE it !! It's my graduation day today, together with all my prayer buddies for the past 10 days!! its really God's anointing which has kept us cruxifying our flesh to wakie early in the morning to head down to HoG for 7am prayer meetings....Got our starbucks voucher today liao! yeahhhh....can go lah kopi liao!I felt greatly blessed!!! Many many blessings along the way! AMEN!My prayer WarriorsMy achievement!! Two Thumbs & Toes UP! Jack Neo did it again! His latest production Money Not Enuff 2 is simply AWESOME! The plot scenarios were so real! Its not that we are being unfillial but circumstances does play a part.. Anyway...Jack Neo's movies were indeed so touching! I am glad that he could be such a great market place salt n light for christ, to use his movie to bring warmth and message to the society! This is indeed considered shining in the market place - Entertainment world. My Achievement There is one additional goal added to my list for 2008, that is to attend the morning prayer meeting from 11 to 23 August. At first I was thinking of attending maybe only 50%, but after attending it for the first day, I decided to challenge my body and aim for 100% attendance to wake up early for the 7am daily prayers!I am glad that I have achieved 50% of my target...another 50% more! I really appreciate my most beloved church and I am proud to be one of them. They took care of our breakfast, providing us nice food to eat and drinks too! Imagine this, 3 locations with so many of us, they really spent alot of money to organise this....set aside the rental of the places. I really appreciate all the hard work our church staff put in as well as the love they have for us.... they remember all the details... So it is really our effort in small little details that determine our altitude... So I have to learn to be "C" in the things that I do... The cross in the pictures consists of 10 circles. When we attended the prayer meeting, we will be given one stickers with a verse on it. So mine is already half filled...! Horray and thank God for the strength and achievement! Waiting - Be Patient It's really good to know that God can use circumstance and people around us to talk to us. Even though God don't talk to us with audible voice, he can talk to us through the word of God (bible), through circumstances, through dreams and visions, through people including non-believer and even through animals!!!! (rem the talking donkey in the Old testament??!)I had a short but v meaningful talk with one of the brother on Friday after our morning "shower" at Heart of God. Although it was a v brief fellowship but both of us had a really good heart to heart talk and both felt encouraged by the Love and Protection hand of God in our life.... He has been praying for our needs regularly and I told him the same thing that I have been praying for him, especially in the area of finances... I really felt encouraged and blessed that God has given me the discernment gift. Even though I didn't talk to him often but I could sensed the difficulties that he has been going through... and I have been secretly praying for him... GOD MUST HAVE REVEALED IT TO ME FOR INTERCESSION PRAYER FOR HIM!I started my Friday morning (15 Aug 08) feeling very frustrated as I had difficulty in getting a cab to be there early for my morning prayer meeting at 7am. I went out early as usual but there were no signs of vacant CABS! ALL OF THEM WERE OCCUPIED AND THERE ARE 6 more other people in front of me waiting for a cab! In the end I reached power house at about 7.20am! 20minutes LATE! I PRAYED AND PRAYED FOR A CAB BUT NOTHING HAPPENED...NO CAB THUS MORE FRUSTRATED because I wanted to be there on time to pray.... I know I cant blame God for not answering my prayer for cab.... so I tried to cool myself down. Then the Holy Spirit prompted in my heart that there must be a purpose for a "waiting" period. HS told me to be patient and wait....fast or slow, I will still reach my destination!. Somehow this connects me up to something which I had been praying for! I realised that God wants me to WAIT PATIENTLY, IT WILL COME TO PASS, BUT ACCORDING TO HIS TIMING, not mine. :( It's God's plan. God didn't say NO to me, but he said WAIT, aka TAN (in hokkien) and NOT "BO" nor "TAN GU GU" (In hokkien) hahaha! This revelation comforted me, so immediately I tuned into prayer mode when I reached there. After prayer meeting, the brief conversation with the bro which I mentioned above, further confirmed that revelation I had while waiting for a cab that morning. We, human being, tends to treasure less the things which comes to us easily or readily available. We would only realised how important the thing was to us when we lose it. On the other hand, if we need to work and prayed very hard for it in order to achieved what we wanted, then we will treasure it MORE as it came with GREAT EFFORT! The same applies to why God wants us to WAIT for certain thingy! He is teaching us to learn to treasure the gift when we got it and also to prepare us so that we will be ready for it when it was entrusted into our hands. In addition, He wants us to know that He is still a Sovereign God! He is in control and not us....This is indeed a word of season for me.. WAIT WAIT, IT WILL COME TO PASS! AMEN! Morning 'Shower" 11 to 22 Aug 08 Our church is so GOOD! They went through so much coordination to organise the Morning Prayer from 11-15 and 18-22 Aug, from 7 to 8am at Heart of God Church! This reminded me of the morning showers we had daily in Israel on our phenomena BUS No. 1 (always number 1!)It really makes a different to start our day with prayers! Even though we are physically challenged, it really felt very refreshed and recharged and the whole day I felt v joyful....even though certain time I am abit tired.At first I am aiming to attend only 50% of the morning prayers. But then something pushed me to go and soak myself in God's presence and to have a fervent prayer life. Hence I decided to seek God on Monday morning....woke up early and rushed down to PaYa Lebar...I am really impressed with all of us...The crowd was overwhelming..... nearly full house capacity! Glad to know that we are all so on fire for God!!! The 2nd day worst...jam packed to overflow room and church decided to open a 3rd location at River Walk for the morning prayer to divert some of the crowd! Thank God! I dont wanna waste 10mins daily queueing to get to the hall.... I really must salute our church ushers and workers! They learnt from experiences very fast. The queue on the first day for the lift and the seats were a bit out 'Singaporean Style'. But on the 2nd day of prayer meeting, the logistics everything was in very good & orderly manner! A salute and clap to ALL OF US! National Day 2008 on 'SEA BOURNE" HAPPY 43th BIRTHDAY SINGAPORE!!! Yeahhhh the long awaited National Day celebration with my beloved friends on a YATCH finally came to past! Happy Birthday Singapore!We rented a yatch to enjoy the life of a Tai Tai..hahaha... We gathered at about 4pm at the West Coast Yatch Club. The yatch has a karaoke system, DVD and nice music to go along! Our first destination is to the St John Island. Had a nice swim (or rather FLOAT in the sea), a great yummy seafood dinner, enjoyed the National day fireworks on the sea and then sailed to Sentosa to catch a glimpse of the musical fountain! It was an awesome nite well spent! Although we didn't really get to see the formation of the heart shape by the air-force on air, (we only saw half the heart shape!), God is GOOD TO US! We saw a RAINBOW !!! It was awesome! Immediately I remembered God's covenant in the old testament, that's why there is rainbow until now!Our NATIONAL DAY THEME COLOURS aka red & white...ha did u noticed my tee is in Hebrew! a bit contradicting isn't it??The Heineken 'hotties' ahahhaaIt was great fun and I am really happy that God brought me friends who love water sports as well! I remembered I ever prayed "God, send me friends who love water sports like I do so that I could go scuba diving again since I lost my diving buddy years ago! Thank God He still remembered my prayer! And he also answered my prayer to have friends who love to fellowship and go roller blading! :) I really wana thank God for all the nice friends with the same hobbies =) Sumptuous mealThere were prawns, squid, crabs, vegetables, curry chicken, fish, chicken wings, rice, fruits etc!RAINBOW!! "Reap what U Sowed" Last Tuesday during choir prac, we were told to turn to our partner and gave each other a word of wisdom for our partner. It must be God's plan why me and Winnie were beside each other. We usually dont have the chance to sit with each other as she is in Oto and me in Sup. Word of wisdom Winnie shared with me: "Gerry, God says: You will reap what you sowed. Even if you dont see the results, But YOU WILL REAP WHAT I SOWED!!!" I cant remember the whole thing but this is the key message! Think I should meditate on this. Thanks dearie for the word of encouragement! MY DEAR SIS, IF U R READING THIS WHEN ARE U FREE TO FELLOWSHIP WITH ME AR .... Today is my first failed attemp to arrange fellowship with the choir taxi kakis lei... Think I won't be doing it any more...SIAN LIAO ... *blink blink*I felt God is really Good to me lor! He always encourages me before my every disappointments and discouraging moments. My mind is runny 'wild' again today. Why so many rejections? Why no fruits? Is there something wrong with me? I tried but always there are always shut doors. The more I tried, the more discouraged I become. So is it the best way not to involve too much so that I could avoid more disappointments? And I am being thread upon on my weakness today which further destroyed my confident and positive mindset!!! WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME! My mind seems to be running wild in alot of things now.... thoughts of being rejected, thoughts of being barren, thoughts of why I have to do it! & Thoughts of why I HAVE TO WAIT! WAIT UNTIL WHEN???I have been facing with challenges upon challenges recently... Work, family harrassment, rejections & what else to come???? Must I go through the same hardship as Paul in order to attain the best gifts in life?? Desert Song Follow up thoughts WOW! After I watched this YouTube testimony from the desert song singer, I felt so touched & stir up... I really admire her faith, love for God & endurance to stay focus & trust in God despite her pre-matured baby passed away abt 2 weeks before her recording of Hillsong's new album. I wonder will I be as strong like her. It's really not easy to be a Worship Leader. When a worship leader is facing with a very very 'bad day/season', they still have to bite their teeth to endure and to serve the people as they need to lead the congregation to Praise and Worship God.... doing it all out of Love for God and His people.I really admire her love for God, trusting and loving God despite the heart broken incident that happened... We definitely need Endurance , Childlike Faith to still trust in God in bad events that happened which we dont understand WHY.... That's really not easy... But I strongly believe in Rom 8:28! This is what she said:"Some times I dont feel like singing to God, I am now at the circumtance, but the circumstance doesnt change. I am still called to do what God has called me to do...God is still God, sitting on His Throne..... I still dont know why..part of me is still broken....But I know I need to keep singing and I know I will be ok...... In things we dont understand, LOOK TO GOD, DECLARE HIS WORD AND FOCUS ON HIS PROMISES!" After hearing her testimony....I nearly Sob Sob Sob...... No matter what happened and things that we dont understand:- JUST TRUST GOD- HE LOVES US- HE IS THE BEST GOD- HE IS OUR REDEEMER - HE WILL COMFORT US AND GIVE US REST- HE WILL GIVE US THE BEST GIFTS- He WILL HEAL US- HE WANTS TO PROSPER US- HE IS OUR VICTORY & HE IS HERE!- HE IS STILL GODAll of my life, in whatever seasons, Abba, I choose to trust in You! Intensive Spiritual Enhancement Program I look at my daily schedule and I am amazed! I dont have my own personal time after work except on Monday and Saturday. 5 Days a week I am involved with Intensive Spiritual Enhancement Program! Ha and I know my schedule is not really a killer compared to others..... That explains why I always sleep LATE! I need some time to relax and do what I like to do....ie surfing, blogging etc.Monday: Exercise day????(seldom materialised as its MONDAY BLUE!!)Tuesday: Choir practice at JWWednesday: Bible Study at Riverwalk (I love the fellowship after BS though)Thursday: Acting guitarist for another cgFriday: Attend my own cg and GuitaristSaturday: Family Day and Free day (My Sabbath)Sunday: Church and Fellowship DayWOW I only have Monday and Saturday FREE! I am not fulfilling my plan to exercise at least 3 times per week!!! (I dont have the luxury of time to do that!) I believe in the midst of all the involvement in church activities, I dont want to end up being a Martha! I want to be a Mary who cling to Jesus and not tik tik chor gang and missed out the best part in our life. I want to strike a balance being actively involved in church thingy but yet not neglecting my own free time, a time to seek God in my personal closet and Sabbath on Saturday. Hence the reason why I am persistent not to serve in choir on Saturday....which it is my only Sabbath day! =) My piority is God first, CG, then to strike a balance between my Family & Ministry. I felt happy being actively involve in spiritual enhancement program which can mold me into a better person and to stretch my capacity. (In case I am really being called into that thingy next year!) But I wanna strike a balance as well. I wanna have my one and only Saturday to spend time w my family. Oh come on! Dont look at me as if you are one of those Pharisees and self-rightoues freak! I am my own time manager unless God told me to do otherwise! =) Logos: "Keep Justice and Do Righteousness"!!! 6 Aug 08, a day which I kena arrow left right centre...from some one sided stories which she might have heard from a poisoning tongue. Come to think about it, I really pity the person as shim had been used by another person who harboured bitterness and hatred to do the silly thing in being so peronal. I must admit that I have been "mentally tortured & heart broken" by finding out so many accusations made throughout these few months. Unforgiveness, bitterness, politics, person who sows discords can be so SCARY!!! I have been sincerely treating her as a team but yet she has been slandering me with 'salt and pepper'. I could only conclude that the consequence was due to her own mouth. She dug her own grave ultimately. The saddest thingy was, she don't realise her own mistakes and she blame it all on me.. *sigh* maybe she listened to too much of the song from Akon "you can blame it all on me...blame it all on me....." Look! If you have not been spouting nonsense to others, would others complain to my superior, would I receive the tip to beware and to manage the slanderer well? I did not deliberately find out what happened but yet everything just surfaced naturally... Hence I believe justice prevails. So what was meant for evil from her towards me has turned against herself... and she reaped what she sowed. How should I response? NOTHING! I am tired...I just hope all these nonsense can be settled asap. I dont wish to explain anything nor am I to please anyone. I know God will be my ultimate judge and vindicator. I told God just now, I forgave these 2 persons.... God, even if the whole world misunderstands me, I know you never will as You know my heart's condition. It is as pure heart as a child =( (ahem put aside dirty jokes...hahahaha) oops! ahem.... SHHhhhhhhGod gave me a word from Isa 56: 1-2! I am so excited and comforted! Blessed is the man who Keep Justice and Do Righteousness! For God's Salvation and His righteousness are about to come!! On saturday, God gave me a word from 2 Cor 4:8-9 and 18....Hard pressed everyside BUT NOT CRUSHED!Thank You Abba for the pre-empt word from Cor, peace prayer during Tue choir practice and the logos tonite....Indeed I know I am not walking this tough season alone....God is taking good care of me! Thank you Abba! Thank You all my sweet friends! I really want to thank all my dear friends and thank God that I have so many wonderful friends around me! I really appreciated all your love and concern for me.... When I was so down today (early morning kena left right centre and back stabbed so hard), yet I felt so blessed and loved throughout the day with the love and care from my colleagues and friends....EVERY THING I EAT WAS BEING BLESSED TODAY!!! (haha eating something nice can cure a broken heart??? Haa =)... God is my ultimate strength and healer la! *blink blink*Thank you my dearest Hot Date and Angel for the beri beri nice Sun Moon Lunchie! (I love Japanese food!)Thank you my twin (look alike) for the Ai-Xin dessertThank you my choir partner for the nice cheese, egg and onion prata after Bible StudiesThank you Xiao Ding Dang for being around me everytime when I am in need of companion....Thank You Madam (aka police officer) for the word(or rather sms) of encouragement *grin grin* heheThank You my dear bosses for being so understanding and supportive! Most importantly, THANK YOU ABBA, for sending me so many nice friends around me to uphold & love me when I am in need of encouragement....Love and concern is something which money can't buy and this is the most precious thingy! I really felt so blessed and touched that I have so many friends around me through difficult times.....患难见真情！！ 谢谢你们！我真得很感激，受到你们的爱戴！ DESERT SONG - Hillsong I am listening to the new album by Hillsong, this song entitled "Desert Song" caught my attention, especially during FOP when Hillsong was leading the worship. The lyrics really encourage me and touches my heart especially this sentence "ALL OF MY LIFE, IN EVERY SEASON, U R STILL GOD!"This simple sentence touches my heart when I heard this song again in FOP. Its true that in every seasons, Good or Tough seasons, God is still my victory and my faithful God. Many of us tends to praise God & be so excited spiritually in the honeymoon seasons. But when tough seasons come, many of us moan, complain and blame God for not helping us and ultimately, some of us choose to "take a break" from God. God is everywhere! HOW CAN WE TAKE A BREAK FROM HIM?? He is omniscience! God loves us so much that even when we are faithless, He is still interested in our well-being....looking after us...even though we might not feel it or sees it! So it's really a matter of the condition of our heart. Many times we are blinded and being ungrateful. Even when God sent us messengers to remind us, "Hey! Come back! You have gone the wrong way!", its not appreciated! The messenger's love and effort are often down the drain and might even ended up being term as "FAN" (in chinese)! Its really a pity to see a once spirit filled person to become so DEAD, so BLIND and so COLD towards God and their friends.I really hope that all of us will remember this Desert Song when we felt dry spiritually....Sing this song and REMEMBER GOD WILL DELIVER US and PROVIDES and GIVES US THE VICTORY FOR HE IS OUR GOD NO MATTER WHAT SEASONS WE ARE IN! Dessert Song Lyrics:This is my prayer in the desertWhen all that's within me feels dryThis is my prayer in my hunger and needMy God is the God who providesThis is my prayer in the fireIn weakness or trial or painThere is a faith proved of more worth than goldSo refine me Lord through the flameI will bring praise, I will bring praiseNo weapon formed against me shall remainI will rejoice, I will declareGod is my victory and He is hereThis is my prayer in the battleWhen triumph is still on its wayI am a conqueror and co-heir with ChristSo firm on His promise I'll standBRIDGEAll of my lifeIn every seasonYou are still GodI have a reason to singI have a reason to worshipThis is my prayer in the harvestWhen favour and providence flowI know I'm filled to be emptied againThe seed I've received I will sow. Catch up with Israel friend Met up with Bus No.1 friend today to have nice dinner and La Kopi together!Its really good to get to know more spiritual friends from our Israel trip. Our conversation reminded me about Pst Ulf's message whereby he said God told him there will be 2000 people visiting Israel from his tour in year 2010...HENCE WE WANNA SAVE MORE MORNING AND BE AMONG THE 2000 chosen ones by God!!!! I DONT CARE I WANNA GO AGAIN!Iron sharpens iron, friends edify one another.... Can really see her passion for God and how God has blessed her in her work. Wow she is a Super C & D person lor! I realised that we MUST BE SUPER C in order to achieve much in everything that we do & D will follow suit if we are confident in what we are doing. Hence I will brush up my C'ness and work harder to serve better at work and in church. DISC is a platform to help us understand where is our strengths and weaknesses so that we can challenge ourselves to bring to a balance on each entity = D.I.S.C. Hence is not for us to incline to one or two entity & behave in that nature without any if our own effort to CHANGE to strike a balance.... Hence we have to be wise in understanding the use of DISC and not using that as a lame excuse to behave according to the individual entity. It is suppose to help us understand where is our weaknesses that needs adjustment. The battle indeed belongs to the Lord! Phew! What a stressful week at work these 2 weeks..... If its about endless workload, I wont be feeling so stressed up as I am sure I am able to manage my time well.. The things that made me so stressed up was the office politics and the manupilative spirit in one of my vendor....I didnt know I had so many darts firing at me until recently....There were many things which I learnt from this incident.- I AM PROTECTED BY GOD! All these things happened must be for a reason! - And when God is dealing with something or fighting a battle, HE DO IT VERY FAST AND CHOP CHOP settle liao.... He is not someone who will wait for days to consider what action to take HE DONT PROCASTINATE. He deals with things very swiftly! Either we move along with him or lag behind!(which many of us always procastinate in handling things and decision making!) - My God is such an awesome God with such great authority... I really felt so protected and love as I have my Almighty Abba Father to protect me...SO IS THERE ANYTHING FOR ME TO FEAR SINCE MY CONSCIENCE IS CLEAR!! - We dont have to worry about fighting the case on our own or clear our name & plead for innocence, I believe time will reveals our character. For those who believes in gossip without making their own discretion and judgement, what makes the person any better than the gossiper anyway?So it's very important for us to flow with God in every seasons..... HE INDEED MOVE ON VERY FAST! Just like when our cg restructured, HE moved on very fast! He cant wait for everyone! He cant simply sayang u so much and everyone has to wait for all the lost sheep to come back! So this is also one of His character! I also like to "chop chop" settle things one. No need to wait until when will I be ready la, wait until when I feel like it la, wait until when i am ready to take responsbility la...ALL THESE ARE NOTHING BUT EXCUSES...THERE IS NEVER A BEST CONVENIENCE TIME TO SERVE GOD! For we all know that the longer we wait, the more nothing comes out of it. The best way to handle our situation is to FACE IT. RUNNING AWAY AND AVOIDING TALKING ABOUT IT WONT RESOLVE ANYTHING BUT ENDS UP NOWHERE WITH NOTHING!!!!!!!!!!! 人言可畏 - Gek Sim Very very Gek Sim since last week onwards..... No wonder the bible warned us to be very careful with those who sow discord among others. I really dont understand what good does the person or anyone has to sow such discords? Why she would wanna 借刀杀人? Indeed, Unforgiveness and Bitterness are the root to ALL EVIL. I really wanna pray hard that I will have the wisdom to handle the situation diligently.In fact, I really wanna thank God for his protection and favour. Even though there were such bad accusation made, my boss trusted me and told me to beware of this person. Indeed, what goes around, comes around. The truth & rigtheousness will always prevails. As long as we did not sin against God nor institue any harm to others, God will protect me for NO WEAPONS FORMED AGAINST US SHALL PROSPER!!!No wonder have been prompted by the spirit to keep praying for favour at work & declaring that I am the head and not the tail, above and not beneath. I am very Gek Sim why people return Good for Evil. I did tried my best to help but many things were against it and so it did not materialised. Yes I must admit that I am a little discouraged and affected by all these but somehow I know its a spiritual warfare. Anyway, my market place is my territory! God place me here for a reason and God will be my ultimate protector and I am afraid of nothing. Those who scheme against God's anointed one will flee 7 ways (something like that....aiyo cant even rem the bible correctly! Must Go meditate some verses liao)Abba, please give me wisdom tomorrow to handle the situation. Please provide the best solution to protect my market place. Let there be unity, peace and love for my team. Fashion or Uncanny? Saw this man on MRT last saturday on MRT. I cant resist but to take a picture of him and his "COOL" dressing style....Dont even thk of punching him if he is your enenmy because his jacket is full of sharp material... I am wondering am I being too OLD FASHION or Out of season now...I cant appreciate his punky style lei...even though our church style is very hip type..but this style is simply too much for me to accept....Seems like I am being too auntie nowadays! New Vision One faithful nite after cg, there was a jaw drop question thrown at me......"Have I ever dream of being a ..... (ahemmm....u know what...dont even dare to write it out here!) My answer is definitely a NO NO NO at that moment! But before that, when I was in Israel, I kept hearing about that thing for next year! Then recently after that scary question, pastor preached and prayed for us to have new visions and dreams etc during service. In fact before he prayed on this, I saw a vision =( I saw a vision of the back view of a child holding Jesus hand both walking together. The little child's right hand is holding a sheperd's staff and the left hand is holding onto Jesus's hand. And there is a flock of sheeps walking infront of them..The best part was they look at each other and smile...... WAH......I kept tearing after I saw this vision! Bec I was thinking WHY WHY WHY! Anyway, the vision showed me that it is enjoyable to be a shepherd and you are in partnership with Jesus...all will be ok and enjoyable! BUT GOD! I thought my calling is suppose to be something else lei! Did I see wrongly last time???Then yesterday during CG, leadership was mentioned again..... If God has called us, and if we don't move with the calling, God will use someone else... So why let someone else do it?!Well...probably this is the season of stretching my capacity, being sensitive to the Holy Spirit and being train physically. In fact, it's true we have to move from glory to glory be it with our career or our spiritual life. So rather being the same without progress which will makes us felt frustrated or backsliding or being complacent, if we are wise, we will choose to flow under the covering of God's protection and to be obedient to His plan..For his plan is always higher than our plan, His thoughts are always higher than our thoughts! My hair is finally 'down' Finally my crave for letting my hair "down" was fulfilled, and in a godly manner....without compromising to my Godly values! Yippie!!!! Went to a nice place to drink and catch up with some chio bu and yan dao after BS today! Furthermore, we had a VIP from New Zealand with us as well....wow The night view from the balcony is fantastic! So LOMANTIC lor with my Long Island Tea.... but where is my Right Hand Man??? haha! Its indeed a long long time since I last cheong drinking....the last time was in Dec 07 Xmas which I only drank red wine...OMG! Its been like 7 months I never drink liao!! Who says christians cant drink and be merry? We do and have lotsa fun too! Haa I borrowed the guitar from the singer and began strumming our worship family chord! Wah am I gonna change the entire atmosphere to a holy place??? kekeke.... I realised that I can only play 'holy' songs! I better buck up and intune myself with more secular songs.....cant buried my talents in guitar isn't it?The smell of shisha really tempt me alot leh...fruity grape smell...Been a long time since I last try it with BC. Unbaked Chocolate Muffin This morning I woke up and saw a chocolate pile of unbaked muffin on my floor.... Its strange why there was no sweet aroma that would woke me up! WHO THE HELL LET LUCKY SLEEP IN MY ROOM AFTER MOM WENT TO WORK IN THE MORNING???Anyway this little brother of mine....I thk he is having stomach upset these few days.... he has been lao sai-ing very often....and limping, and he has niao shi jing also nowadays =( (age is indeed catching up with him...) Even though he is creating much inconvenience to us...WE STILL LOVE HIM ALOT! After all, he has been with us for a good 14 years by now.....I like to hug hug him and sayang him when I am free :D WAH LAU...anyway, back toreality, he is banned from my room from today onwards...I HATE CHOCOLATE UNBAKED MUFFIN! Hokkaido Food Fair - Singapore Isetan Singapore usually would organise the Hokkaido Food fair once a year. Every year I bet they really made a fortune out of it. Singaporean simply loves japanese food, or rather, we simply LOVE TO EAT! No matter how much it cost, WE WILL PAY AND EAT! Look at the crowd! This is not the ultimatum yet! I went with my family over 2 weekends! haha the first weekend was completely human jam packed bec we went there too late! Even the nice ice cream was sold out..so we decided to go there again the next weekend. AHA! but this time we went there earlier before the crowd floods in! I am satisfied as I managed to try the nice $5 ice-cream! Look at the pictures below, do u know what are we queueing for??? I thk we queued for about an hour for this! its CRAZY! we are all queueing for this thingy!!!!! Its worth the long wait for the yummy red bean and custard bun! Totemo Ooishii desune!!! Ureshii.....The things are rather expensive....I think we spent about S$180 (or more?) in total buying all those snacks etc.... Anyway, its once a year thingy and its good to eat and enjoy with family. Family are those whom we love alot but yet tends to neglect the most and take for granted the most too! Hence, must have a change of mindset and appreciate one another while we are still alive....When we are all pass on... It will be too late...Only can wait until we are all in Heaven, then we can meet again!More food pictures! Newly Decorated Room I spent my whole saturday afternoon packing my room, unpack my luggage finally, and washed all my clothes, sweep and mop the floor....By the time I finished all my chores, its already 7pm! Hmmm Maybe I started late at 2pm...nevertheless...I spent 5 hrs doing all these! Sucks big time man!But I am very happy of the outcome, I decorated my room a little.....with an ISRAEL FLAG and all my magnets which I bought there! I did a rough calculation, I almost spent almost about S$150 (after all the conversion) just on magnets alone! CRAZY ME! But I love to collect magnets from the places which I travelled to.... It is my hobby collection...Next time if I have a house, I wanna have a room with a wall FULL OF MAGNETS from all over the word :)The more I look at Israel's flag, the more I love it! The design and colour is so pure, simple and nice! The thing I regretted most was not to buy a bigger ISRAEL FLAG :( I should have bought the bigger one! Hianz....But I am very satisfied looking at the Israel flag every day, which will reminds me to pray for Israel daily! Plus the luminous stars that will grow in the dark near the flag...IT IS SIMPLY AWESOME!!!!My favourite FALAFEL!!!!Overview of the places VisitedThis picture shows the so called Goodies Bag from El Al for delaying our luggage...It was a rather complete as all I need was provided...They even included a very comfy pyjamas........Even though there was a delay in our luggage, all our basic needs were provided for and we can even claim it from our travel insurance! I cant help but feeling so blessed by God throughout the trip, remembering his blessings and protection..... Israelis Hotty - Ran Danker I bought Ran Danker's audio cd in Israel's Toer Records.and the MusiC video is one of the songs in the CD...Listen to the acoustic guitar! Wow its so nice!... How I wished my guitar skills can reach that level! I love his songs, they are all very nice! ....Enjoy the song (in hebrew)! Ran Danker - #5 ShavimRan Danker Feat ilay Botner - #2 Let's Leave#6 Ani Esh(I am a fire) Will You Follow Me? I had a wonderful QT earlier....although it was being intruded by people coming in and out of a locked door! Sighsss... I really wished I have a little more privacy :( When will I ever have my own home?The presence of God came "bammm" suddenly and the atmosphere of intense intercession prayers became so peaceful.. I was enjoying the presence of God then I heard Jesus spoke to me!!! I knew it in the spirit it was Jesus's still small voice! I wept and wept...tears dont seem to stop.... It was so good to be intimate with Jesus.... The feeling felt like this: I felt I was "suffering" so much in this world, then the person who loves me alot appear so close to me, I just wept like a baby, being comforted the one who loves me alot, enjoying the love and peace of God.Jesus said "Just believe and have faith that I love you...no matter what happen, I still love you. It is inevitable to have storms in our life on earth, just trust that things works for the good for those who love God...." I was then prompted to read Matt 8:18-26 (which is the 2nd time I was prompted to read this passage ever since i came back from Israel.) In the passage, Jesus was teaching about the price of Following Jesus...and then a storm happened when their boat was in the sea.... Then i was led to sing the chorus of "I surrender all".....I surrender all and I will Follow YouI surrender all and bring my life to YouI surrender all and live my life for YouI surrender all, I surrender allTo You, Jesus!WOW! I know God wants me to follow him...(but follow to where lei? Is this connected to the call for next year??? Or it is purely less of me and More of Him??) I will be praying for strength and protection when sailing through the storm... I really dont know what storm is ahead of me... :( But God is indeed God to always pre-empt me always! Well, the chorus of The surrender all song really minister to me. I know God is preparing me about wat is going to happen and I have to perservere! Storms will sharpen and mold us to be more Christ Like.... and THERE IS AN END TO A STORM! God wants me to FOLLOW HIM.... Uh Oh.... Well this will be preparation period.....There is a price to follow Jesus.... I am willing to follow, please help me to have the faith and boldness to obey, to step into the unknown, be willing to be stretched and train.... As Pst Svante preached in the Synagogue in Capernaum, when we think we dont have the talents, strength, capacity etc, BUT when we do it, we will receive whatever we need to accomplish it by obeying his calling...... Political Debate Sigh....I had a political debate with my Turkish friend toady. Its really a spiritual thingy which neither me nor him can resolved or understand from our religion point of views. I don't wana pursue for any human consent about my love and passion for Israel, most importantly for my God. I will continue to pray for Israel's peace and protection and against the spirit of anti-semitism.I just can't believe after all those stupidity "sacrifices" made by those insane terrorist, their supporters not only don't blame them for shedding innocent blood and they pushed all the blames to the land which was chosen by God... QI SIN! No wonder there is no peace!Well, Pst really planted the knowledge in me during my trip in Israel. I would never agree on anti-semitism and we must make a stand for it when there is a need so that these people will know that we dont stand in agreement with them and there is no 100% unity with their idea. Actually, I can save my breathe to even discuss with them...but i continued the debate because I wanted to know more..and why they had such ideology.Well, the tragedy of alienating the Jews must not happened again! In today's context, we must acknowledge the rising 'power' of "M" around the world now...even in Europe. We, being Christians, must really pray against the spirit of antisemitism. The tragedy of the Holocaust MUST NOT HAPPEN again! We must make a stand... and I WILL MAKE MY STAND...even if you are my friend...Sorry...different point of views.... If u still choose to love me as your friend, THANK YOU. If otherwise, GOD BLESS....I wonder why I seem to attract all the M into my life?? Where are all the GODLY PEOPLE?As we grow spiritually mature, we will understand that Christians are not merely about I, Me and Myself, MY needs, My wants, My life, My career, My dog, My Pet, My hobbies, My this and My that! We have to know what the world is facing such as the pressure that Israel is facing against its neighbour, the nearing of the coming back of Christ, the urgency to spread the gospel and most importantly, TO PRAY AND INTERCEDE for one another.... As written, much is given, much is required. Why cant we be gracious and pray/intercede for one another in love if God has shown us something about that person instead of merely passing some judgemental remarks? Well...different people has different faith level, different spiritual maturity and maybe even different pride level! hehe....I hope I will learn to live my life as if there is no tmr and fear God in every moment. Things Learnt from Israel When I was leaving for Israel, I told God I wanna have daily encounters with Him when I am there. But I don't! However, wat I learnt was, God is a Practical God...He dont usually works only with Goosebumps and supernatural act. He can works things around us so naturally and practically! Pst Ulf and Pst Svante commented that this was the first trip where things went on VERY SMOOTHLY! I really thank God for that! For instance, even though most of our luggage were delayed for 24 hrs, God indeed provided for us everything we needed for the first day! We had such a warm and comfy pyjamas by the airline and all toiletries were provided for. We even can claim from our travel insurance for the baggage delay....kekeke :) yeahhhhh first time I can claim from my travel insurance! So happy! kekeke Even though I did not have any goosebumps experience with God in Israel....I felt I am growing closer to God! I REALLY missed His presence at the wailing wall, I missed our daily morning showers on the bus...praising God and praying for Israel. I treasured my visits to every place which Jesus had been before....such as the synagogue, the dungeon, the beach where Jesus restored Peter with His love after His resurrection etc...the list go on.... I would usually quiet down my heart and talk to God at these various locations, touching the stones there, imagining myself in the time where Jesus was living then... even though I might be seen busy snapping picturess...(Bec I promised my friends to take ALOT of pictures to show them!), I won't risk wasting my one and only chance to speak to God at that very place....! Wonderful things learnt from Israel Trip:1. The burden to love, pray for peace and bless Israel and the Jews2. God spoke to me in Ps 73....Where he is my Strength & Portion forever...In things which I can't do with my own capacity, He will be able to shower me with the strength, patience and love! I felt so much in love with God the 2nd night in Israel, while praying in Grace and Shan's room! Maybe thats what contained me throughout.. I thought of giving up but God told me to influence by asking their involvement. So I obeyed! But the decision still lies within the individual, knowing the fact by asking might not be favourable. At least, I tried my best...not asking for human recognition but God's.2. Garden of Gasetheme, where Jesus prayed and made a decision to take up the cross and sacrificed his life for the sins of all mankind! Pst Svante shared a v wonderful message here! I learnt that every decision and strength came via PRAYER! Even Jesus had to PRAY! I grasped the chance to have a quick prayer inside the church, asking God for a direction and boldness to make the decision for next year.3. Faith Message shared by Pst Svante outside the Synagogue... - Sometimes God called us to do something which we feel we dont have the capacity, the talent etc to do it..which is a fact.... What we should focus on was....since God told us to do so, pray, do it! The moment we do, we will RECEIVE what we dont have and we will be able to accomplish the task! The question is whether we have the Faith to STEP OUT, OBEY, DO IT, RECEIVE IT! Pst Svante was so filled with the Holy Spirit and excitement while sharing the message! The message indeed sinked into my spirit!Standing inside Jesus's Synagogue!When I was in Israel, the idea and decision abt next year kept daunting me day n night! I was afraid to say yes to that! I dare nt commit....but after listening to what Pst preached at the Mt of Olives and at the synagogue...I will keep on praying about it! God showed me Matt 6:18 about the price to follow Jesus...WAH! Is that a confirmation and stretching of my FAITH LEVEL? Anyway, I still have abt 6 months to pray abt it. More or less, preparing my heart for it! This has never been in my mind before...never tot I would be called to go....4. Mensa Christi - A place where I heard the most important thing which touches my heart! This is the place where Jesus showed himself to the disciples after His resurrection. He asked Peter 3 times "Peter DO U LOVE ME?" Why asked him 3 times? Bec Jesus wanna restored Peter's faith because he had denied Jesus 3 times! Hallelujah! What a wonderful message! That was why the column of the church was built in heart shape...a place full of love and restoration! Mensa ChristiHeart Shape Columns RemainsI was very touched at Jesus's love for Peter (for us as well) because we might also have failed terribly, be it in spiritual or physical aspect...,no matter how bad the situation is, Jesus would still wanna restore us with His love! Overall, its about loving God, loving People and be gracious and merciful towards one another! In summary, even though I dont experience God with thunder & lightning encounters....but His love, His presence, His teachings etc....touches me and I am greatly BLESSED Pray & Bless Israel Hehe I really enjoyed the nite meeting in Israel with Pst Ulf...I bought one of Pst Ulf's book & wanted so badly for his autograph...THANK YOU I MANAGED TO GET his autograph after my 2nd try! God answered my prayer hehe !"Would u pls autographed my book??"Smiling from ear to earIts really a rare opportunity to be able to be so near to our pst's mentor, an apostle of God, without the 'men in black' asking you to step away... *grin grin*! There is so much freedom there and we were not restricted...which is something that I treasured so much...so that I might be able to linger around & rub some anoiting from them!!! That explains why we, the CHC'sters lingered around after the meeting, asking Pst Ulf for pictures and Pst Svante for autograph.. So now my book is v precious...I have 2 of my most treasured Pst's signatures in it :)I am very touch and encouraged by Pst Ulf and his wife's passion for Israel. It really touched my heart! I really appreciate their passion and love for Israel and the Jews....I told Sis Birgitta about my heartfelt appreciation about their love and their dedicated hardworks in of Israel...to pray and bless Israel and the Jews. I hope through my little converstation & appreciations, they would be a little encourage as well! Israel's Delicacy On the last day of the tour, a day which I wanna buy the local delighs! Yeah! I managed to buy some Israeli's delights to bless my CG, my colleagues & friends. OMG!The supermarket ran out of dried figs fruits!!!! I only managed to grab 2 small boxes of figs (Sad.sad...Gracie only managed to grab 1 box, so I sacrificed one box to her...hope she can bless her friends too!) So I also buy some dried apricots and 4 boxes of local dessert which is made of Sesame paste. Cant remember what is the hebrew name of it. It has a variety of flavours such as coffee, vanilla and chocolate, almond nuts and pistachio nuts etc...My cg really enjoyed the desserts lor! The dried figs, apricot and sesame all kena SAP KAH LIAO within minutes. All my effort to hand carry the heavy deserts are all worthwhile.... Glad to see them so happy enjoying the fruits and dessert. I think many of us have not seen how a fig tree fruits looks like...We read it in the bible so many times about fig trees and about it bearing fruits....The fig fruit is really v v v yummy....its so sweet and nice! No wonder Israel is the land flowing with milk and honey! =) SHALOM !!!Fig Fruit (looks ugly but yummyPistachio Flavoured Sesame PasteAlmond Nuts FlavourCoffee Flavoured "Victories" from Israel I am finally back from Israel after a good 10 days. Reached Singapore Changi Terminal Airport on 19 Jun around 7.30pm. I am starting to miss Israel and I really enjoyed my trip in the Holy Land.The living standards in Israel are soooo high compared to Singapore. Everything are so expensive.Even the toilet visit will cost at least 1 shekel (abt SGD $0.40). Well, I was prepared to spent all my money there (which I did) and even an excess of USD 83 on the plane. (heehee cant resist the temptations of shopping for Israelis goods) It was one of my desire to spend and bless Israel... So for this trip alone, i spent a total of about S$5600...all these are worthwhile! I will start saving for another trip to Israel few years later!A MacDonald big mac meal cost abt S$16 in Israel..... jaw dropped hor.... In singapore its only about $6+ to $7. So we can imagine how expensive it is there. An ice cream cone cost me about $5-6. An simple falafel cost about S$10-12. A salad meal cost about S$16.... hmmmm seems like we are all "robert head".... hehe On the Israeli airline, AL EL, i spent a total of USD130+ (oops... bec the steward is too cute to resist from not buying from him??? haaa joking la!) saw the nice Swarovski Star of David Pendant, I cant help myself from not buying it..... So I bought an AL EL airplane model, a hebrew CD, chocolate and Star of David Pendant.With the cute stewards and stewardess on Al El. (Giv, Yael & Lior)I am melting under Giv's 'wing'...hahaha My victory purchase with Giv (Richard Gere look alike Steward...blink blink!)Victories on AL EL (USD118)Al El Mini Fun Plane (USD 19)Star of David (USD 69)Max Brenner's Chocolate (USD 16) According to Giv, Richard Gere look alike air steward, he said this is a good choice!My overall victories from Jerusalem, Tiberias and Tel Aviv Leaving for Israel now Haha I am now at Singapore Changi Airport awaiting for my connecting flight to the Holy Land, Israel. Been looking for this trip for many months and now finally my dream is coming true! Thanks Cindy, Alison and Catherine for coming to the airport to send us off! Really appreciated your love and the blessings of food! I have an impt mission to bring the prayers of my friend and to put it at the wailing wall. So let's keep our fingers crossed that the prayers shall come to pass very very soon!See you guys after 10 days ....... Israel Trip 9 to 19 Jun Yeah! My long awaited is finally here! Its really expensive at S$4200 + misc for only 10 days......But its gonna worth it all to be in the Holy Land once in a life time. This year is Israel's 60 years of independence, so i really hope I can be a blessing to Israel by spending there. As the bible states, as we blessed the Jews, we in return will be blessed!HOPE I CAN HAVE A DAILY CLOSE ENCOUNTER WITH GOD THERE!Will be staying in Crown Plaza Hotel, one nite in the desert, another few days in another hotel....9 to 19 June 2008 will be a milestones in my life!!!Abba father, I wana have a close encounter with you daily, please fulfil my desire!!!