Teh Personal Stories from his Life

The time's tight.

2008-06-15T03:22:00.003+08:00

Been thinking recently of what to post, camp photos? Those unglam ones? Hahas. The next post probably. Cause I'm posting this at like what, 3am. -.- Gonna go sleep after this.

I really wanna see my vision coming to past yeah! There's so many things that're gonna happen, and in order to start small, the first one's Splash Mania.

What's SPLASH MANIA?
Is it a WATER FIGHT(Although I've no idea how you're gonna fight with water.)?
Is it a PUDDLE-SPLASHING COMPETITION?
Is it a WOW-ARENA BATTLEGROUND(Sorry for the no-link.)?
Is it a MANIA THAT INVOLES SPLASHING?

I'm sounding like an advertisement drive but yeah. Splash Mania is an upcoming event that's full of fun and excitement! It's a war game that involves water bombs, so prepare to get wet. :D

WHAT? A games event that's packed with full of joy!
WHEN? 18th June 2008!
WHERE? Labrador Park!(Meeting at Harbourfront MRT station first)
WHO? Bunch of exciting fun-loving people!
WHY? CAUSE IT'S GONNA BE FUN AND WE'RE STILL IN HOLIDAY MOOD!

Last one, How? Add me on MSN - Xia0SY@hotmail.com . The Xia0 is a zero not an O. As much as I don't like the email... Never mind. Contact me through my MSN, I'll be online most of the time. ^^;

Don't miss out on the fun yeah? (:

School's starting soon.
Holiday's homework heaping.

*Yawns*

; David

Oasis Camp!

2008-06-13T01:38:00.003+08:00

Fellowship of the Unashamed

I am a part of the fellowship of the unashamed. The die has been cast. The decision has been made. I have stepped over the line.

I won't look back, let up, slow down, back away or be still.
My past is redeemed, my presence makes sense and my future is secure.

I am finished and done with low living, sight walking, small
Planning, smooth needs, colorless dreams, tame visions, mundane
Talking, cheap giving and dwarfed goals.

I no longer need preeminence, prosperity, position, promotion,
Plaudits or popularity. I don't have to be right, first, tops,
Recognized, praised, regarded or rewarded. I now live by faith
Leaning on his presence, love with patience, live by prayer and labor with power.
My face is set, my gate is fast, my goal is heaven, my road is
Narrow, my way is rough, my companions are few, my guide is reliable
And my mission is clear.

I can not be bought, compromised, detoured, lured away, turned back,
Diluted or delayed. I will not flinch in the face of sacrifice,
Hesitate in the presence of adversity, negotiate at the table of the
Enemy, ponder at the pool of popularity or meander in the maze of mediocrity.

I won't give up, I won't shut up, I won't let up until I have stayed
Up, stored, up, prayed up, paid up and spoken up for the cause of Jesus Christ.

I am a disciple of Jesus Christ. I must go until he comes, give
until I drop, preach until all know, work until he stops me and when
He comes for his own he will have no problem recognizing me. My
Banner is clear because I am a part of the fellowship of the unashamed.

So cool right! Hahas, Pastor Shirley shared this during camp. ^^;

And yeap, I'm back from Oasis Camp! It's my 3rd camp so far, and things are still ever changing, from new campsite to new caregroup, everything just changes so much. Enjoyed myself, really felt that the $120 didn't go to waste at all. Thank God.
As said before, the true test for us is not during camp, but after camp. Whether the heart will still be burning, the burdens still there, and whether we're going to do something about them. I promised to Bernard that I'd give my all till God just opens up the doors of Heaven to flood us, as Brandon told me, exuberant growth. One to five to ten to twenty. Wow.

For now, my first goal is to see myself being a shepherd of two! By end of June. My stake this time round is my heart, whether I'm going to give my all into doing this. Central A has a goal of 35 as a whole, and Central A 3 has a goal of 12. We now have 'bout 8 people, just 4 more. I believe that we can do it! My goals all the way till 2009 start can be seen from my list of goals at the side.

Shepherd of 2 - End June
Pre-Careleader - End July
Careleader - End September

I thank God for having people like Bernard, Brandon, Daniel, Mingquan and so many more cause they are the ones who really believe that Maris Stella isn't a barren land at all. The school's been stagnant, for a long time. And even dropping in numbers. The 5 to 3 to 2. Yet, MSHS is still part of the 15 schools that Central wants to complete by CG08. Then I knew that, I'm not going through this alone. But with so many much more running this race with me. It's then that I am assured that I have people backing me up in this, and it's not that I'm the only one believing in me.

Another way that God really talked to me is that through Daniel. He spoke a word about us being like volcanoes and we are stirring the burdens within us to just burst everything out to share the Word and all. I look back, in X29 camp, didn't God gave me the very same vision? Except without any meaning behind it? When I first received it, I thought that God wanted to tell me that I'm a volcano, I'll explode, share the Word, the end, that's all. I finally got the grasp of it. The reason WHY I'll explode.

Hehe, camp's always a growth point for everyone. ^^;

I'll upload photos tomorrow up, still haven't received most of them yea. It's 1.49am and I didn't sleep since yesterday! Yeah, I didn't sleep when I reached home. ><" Felt refreshed instead when I reached home. Hahas.

Nights people, cause this camp isn't over yet, it's still within me.

; David

2008-06-09T00:54:00.001+08:00

God, camp is here. And I'm ready to receive. (:

; David

2008-06-08T01:04:00.001+08:00

Camp's coming, and I can't wait for it. (:

Yeap, I'll be gone from the 9th to 12th of June! See ya guys soon, most of ya in camp. :D

; David

High-ness In Progress

2008-06-06T00:50:00.003+08:00

Yeah! I'm HIP! Hahas, random thought. High-ness In Progress.

Been going for the mega event rehearsal quite often lately, wow, there's really alot of improvements ever since the start. Central let's jiayou!

Everyone has put in alot alot of hardwork into this, from the behind-the-scene people like decor, the script-writers(Weijun, Weiling, Yuxin, *Boss* Jingwen), advisors(*Auntie* Angela, Joanne), to the black people(Chisun, Phoebe, Natalie, ME!), and lastly the actors/actresses{Keith(Cool dude!), Yuxin(Fei sao!), Mingquan(Act-cool doctor!), RenTing(Bimbo nurse!), LiZhen(Manly nurse!) & Alvern(Slim surgeon!)}.

I wanna encourage all of you that no matter which side of the event we're putting our effort in, it's an overall effort that makes us succeed in this! Even the small roles are important, cause...

1 Corinthians 12:12 - 12The body is a unit, though it is made up of many parts; and though all its parts are many, they form one body.

1 Corinthians 12:14-27 - 14Now the body is not made up of one part but of many. 15If the foot should say, "Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body," it would not for that reason cease to be part of the body. 16And if the ear should say, "Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body," it would not for that reason cease to be part of the body. 17If the whole body were an eye, where would the sense of hearing be? If the whole body were an ear, where would the sense of smell be? 18But in fact God has arranged the parts in the body, every one of them, just as he wanted them to be. 19If they were all one part, where would the body be? 20As it is, there are many parts, but one body.

21The eye cannot say to the hand, "I don't need you!" And the head cannot say to the feet, "I don't need you!" 22On the contrary, those parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable, 23and the parts that we think are less honorable we treat with special honor. And the parts that are unpresentable are treated with special modesty, 24while our presentable parts need no special treatment. But God has combined the members of the body and has given greater honor to the parts that lacked it, 25so that there should be no division in the body, but that its parts should have equal concern for each other. 26If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it.

27Now you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of it.

I'll leave you to read that whole chunk. What I'm trying to bring across is that, without anyone, we can't make this happen. The parts that seem weaker are INDISPENSABLE, when one part suffers, ALL parts suffers together. So let's continue giving our best, for those who are gonna go on stage, continue giving our 110% heart and effort into acting! Those who still need to do decor and stuff, continue giving that 110% heart and effort into doing it! Cause at the end of the day, when the group wins, not only will the stage-people be honoured, everyone will be.

; David

P.S. HIP-py me.

Well...

2008-06-04T00:09:00.003+08:00

I've been on a craze of Counter Strike ahhhhh! Probably cause been playing DotA since a lot of years ago. (Anyone remembers 5.84c old? :P) Re-picked the real world instead of some fantasy. ^^; (I've not given up on it yet though!) Yeah.

Also, the mega event is getting more and more interesting hahas. From pulling in curtain, end up having something important to play in the drama, wow. I really didn't expect it. As mentioned before, when we are willing&faithful in the small things God give us, He'll continue giving us bigger things! In this case, yup hahas. I believe this is true for many of the actors and actresses also! Don't you agree? (:

Can't wait for camp to come in 6 days! Just so excited thinking about it.

This time gonna expect something new again! It's a new environment after all, meaning new places to have "night-shepherdings", new (romantic haha) places to play with the guitar under the moonlight(wow), it's that fun. Also, what's a camp without WATER BOMBS? It's gonna be refreshing & all. Last but not least, the last must-have in camp is God! Without Him, what's the point of having this camp? :P Expect new visions, new anticipations, new insights on the WoG, so much more.

It's impossible for me to describe camp fully through words, the best way is to EXPERIENCE it yourself! :D See ya at Oasis camp!

What's the week like without Word for Life? I realised that I've really benefited from going to In His Steps, practical applications, tons. Thank God for putting me in that class hahas, really enjoy it alot! Can tell that this $5 ain't gonna be wasted. (: Learning not to CRAP(Hahas, for those who know) and all, it's all just worth it.

First week of holiday has passed, now the second week is almost ending soon. Wow so fast. Third week's camp already, and fourth week got activities up. Time just flies. Gotta take this time to really think through, evaluate, and take a break. Cause the battle will continue to rage on for the next few months, gotta be prepared.

A Pure Heart
A pure heart, that's what I long for.
A heart that follows hard after Thee;
A pure heart, that's what I long for.
A heart that follows hard after Thee.

A heart that hides Your Word
So that sin will not come in.
A heart that's undivided
But one You rule and reign;
A heart that beats compassion,
That pleases You, my Lord.
A sweet aroma of worship
That rises to Your throne.

; David

It's You.

2008-06-01T01:36:00.002+08:00

You

You are the one, that leads me on
When I am down and in need
Cause there's no one else
Who can bring me through
Except you

The second I trusted in you
I've never regretted one bit
Cause everytime I lose my step
You are there to pick me up
Only you

My faithful encourager
My constant friend
I'll never say goodbye
Even till the end

; David

The Heart.

2008-05-28T23:23:00.002+08:00

Had shepherding today!
Haha had fun. Played Monster Hunter Freedom 2 at the corner of a Macdonalds with Bernard.
We saw Weijun & a few Hoppies. (Random thought, rememberance of the past ^^;)
Weijun was speaking super loudly!!! Hahas. We were 6m away still could hear him!
Played awhile, got tired so walked around PS. Saw Joanne & BK. Waved hi and all. Saw the new Comics Connection, woah it's like 3x the size of the old one. So cool! Bernard had to go for CLM, so went home.

Summarised alot, maybe cause I'm rushing yeah. Mom's been wanting to use the Internet alot lately. Scary. ):

Going for CIP again tomorrow morning, then having a Regina-tuition in the afternoon.
Rushing rushing rushing!

Nights.

; David

Tired-ness Over-taking M-e;

2008-05-27T23:59:00.003+08:00

Shagg'd.

Went for CIP in the morning at Redhill with Mingquan. It was boringgg. :X We were doing this Tinker Friend Project whereby we were required to enter data based on the calls that Tinker Friend has received over the years cause they didn't have computers in the past. It's a CIP project so I actually earn hours for it(yay), and I guess that's the reason why I'm doing it anyway. (: If anyone wants to join me in this journey of CIP-ness, drop me a tag at the side. Cause they are looking for more helpers also heh.

In the afternoon went to Great World City, wow it's been a long time since I've gone there hahas. Went there with Weijun & Kevin. Weijun was watching 200 Pound Beauty for the camp mega event, Kevin was doing his Maths while I'm playing my DJ Max. :P We were at Ben&Jerry's, to see Elise's first day doing work there haha. I feel bad cause we ate dumplings and MacDonald there before ordering ice-cream. Anyway we had 20% discount cause of her staff discount. I'm gonna go there often not because it's near my house but cause Elise is theree! And when she is there, ice-cream's cheap! Haha! Sounds so auntie. ><"

Afterrr that, went to Joel's house for caregroup! Caregroup was crazyy. As usual, CA3's up to its fun and nonsensical caregroup haha. And I became a last-minute guitarist during cg cause Huiyang wants to play the piano so I was like "Ok... Haha". It was successful anyway. ^^; Games was funny, Huiyang kept getting sabo-ed. And my Holy Comm. was also rather successful, managed to get the message across.

Teaching was the best. Self-teaching. Each of us had to make a point on the title, "What does our group lack in?". We had 4 points, Desperation, Care&Concern, Heart(Me!) and Unity. I guessed I realised this before Bernard was gonna mention it. That since we already know what's lacking in the group, why ain't we doing something about it? It's like, knowing it's there but not caring about it. A black spot in the middle of a piece of white paper. It's that obvious. At least we know, unlike not knowing at all, there's another issue altogether. About time to solve them.

What a long day, tomorrow's gonna be quick&swift. Shepherding! (:

I'd also like to take this time to wish Weijun a "Get Well Soon"! Cause his backbone has been having problems. Weijun, recover soon kay! Will keep you in prayer! :D

Nights.

; David

Holidays are boring. Joking.

2008-05-26T22:44:00.005+08:00

Alot of things have been happening recently hahas.
There's service, playing pool, Dotaing with friends, basketball~, and today!

Today's an interesting day. I went to Dhoby Ghaut to find Brandon in the afternoon, asked him for guidance in the ways of teh guitar. Managed to learn quite abit, thanks shifu! Haha. We were playing just outside PC Bunk, there were alot of people looking at us. And we were playing halfway when Winnie dropped by and dropped a hamburger for Brandon (so random!).

Application points for that afternoon:
- Take note of beat/rhythm (Listen carefullyyy)
- Palm mute with different styles (Down mute & Fret mute)
- Bass strum according to situ. (Down down down down down & it goes on and on)

In the nightttt, met Weijun after his dance workshop at Istana, went together to Novena for our Volunteers' Appreciation Night.

It was at Globetrotters, when we looked at the menu, it was $25 per person. Wow. The church paid for it, hehe thanks! And also, there were alott of adults. Only 4 youths were there. The food was nicee, buffet style. Dessert side, maybe not so nice. It was Mango & Pamelo Sago. I'll upload the photos another time. It's like mango milkshake with alot of the pamelo and sago inside. In the end we played Open Numbers & Number game to drink it. We kept taking more and more cups to play with! In the end the final mixture was Coke, Ice lemon tea, the 'dessert' & fruit jelly. Weijun lost the last game, but I agreed on the 50-50 before that, BUT he chose to take it all. Yay you rock! :D

More photos available at his blog~ isaac-cog.blogspot.com.

Ahh tired. Finished devotions, just in case if anyone wants to refer to my devotions for any reasons, the link is DavidOasisDevotions.blogspot.com.

Nights.

-david

If I don't believe now, I'll never.

2008-05-22T22:54:00.003+08:00

Lying on the bed,
Tearing till my heart aches.
Picking myself up,
Discouragement after discouragement,
How long must I endure this pain?

I'm already speachless,
On the edge of a cliff,
Hanging from it,
On a thin lil' string,
Slowly letting go bit by bit.

Walking on a beach,
Footprints in the sand,
No matter good or bad,
They just leave behind,
Look back but I sigh & cry.

In that small room,
Drawers of papers,
Full with information of life,
When I open some of them,
I feel so shameless.

But of course,
All of this ain't eternal,
For I know what's true,
Everything will be alright,
With you by my side.

Jumping off my bed,
Giving a wide smile,
Tears of sorrow turned into tears of joy,
Gotta continue enduring,
Picking up again and again.

Unexplainable joy,
Rushing into me like a flood,
Giving me that strength,
To continue hanging on,
And pulling myself up once again.

Looking deeper into the footprints,
No matter how bad they seem,
There were always the good times,
And times I was never failed,
That I could always count on to bring me through each day.

Someone enters the room,
Taking the papers away from me,
Starts signing names on them,
In pure red ink,
There I knew that I was gonna be alright.

When I look back at these times,
I see the reason why,
I could pick up, pull up, trust and believe.
It was because of you,
you who is always there for me.

Hebrews 13:5 - "Never will I leave you; Never will I forsake you"

-david

Headache sia.

2008-05-20T22:35:00.005+08:00

I've got a headache yes I do!
I've got a headache how 'bout you!
Hahas sorry. :P

Here are the SUPERRR late photos.

The friends that I can count on, no matter how silly they can be at times.

Hehe friends and me.

Woah nearly got ice-cream on me. *phew*

The firehouse! (It's free. :X)

Our overall bill was $98. Nice one lah haha.

One more photo!

Yay covered face HAHA. To prevent 100% zilian-ing. If somehow noticable, I cut my hair 3 days after my birthday! I find it too short. ><" Maybe it's me. Haha. Cause holidays coming alreadyyy you see. Hehe.

Recently not much, Central WFL, IPW Presentation, ya.
Tomorrow's an interesting day. I want to watch Facing the Giants! Buttt there's CIP BEACH CLEANUP until 6PM. It's like. Bus come at 1.30pm, reach there 'bout 2pm, brief maybe 10mins, so it'll be 2.10pm. CLEAN UP BEACH FOR 2 HOURS PLUS! Until 5? Then debrief till 5.30pm, take bus back to school, reach at 6. Wow. For the sake of CIP hoursssss, musttttt suffferrrr. We were also told that we needed to do CIP hours during holidays or else not enough to get our full CIP points, which is really not a good thing on the report book when it comes to Sec 4. (:

I'm rushing down to Dhoby Ghaut to find the rest of dinner after my messy cleanup thingay.

3 days of school left, before holidays. Gotta work harder! Or else later holidays no one to work on. And that's a sad thing.

Just a side note, Peida & I were inspired to create our own blog based on *censored*. It's not to be known till we confirm it. (: For now, it's our dirty 'lil secrettt.

Nights.

-david

P.S. 1st post of the year!

Happy birthday~

2008-05-17T00:36:00.004+08:00

364 days to my birthday!

YEAH YEE YEAH WOAHHHHH HAPPY BIRTHDAY.

Okay sorry got addicted to the song hahas. Dylan lah keep singing. -.-

Also, today was one of my most best best bestest days EVER.
Went to school, watched part of Ratatouiee(sp?) before recess, also checked results.
Got 7th in class. ): But thank God that my overall improved from 58% to 63%! That's 5% improvement heh! Alot to me. (:
After recess had some Marist Youth Day briefing, was half-asleep so didn't pay much attention. ><" The people behind me were darn distracting, kept laughing and talking, in the end when Mr. Wong stopped his presentation cause of talking people, he came to the back, BUT DIDN'T CATCH THEM even though they were still laughing. BUT caught others who were like talking lesser.
Weird teacher. :X

Anyways, last-minute planned thing that a few of my classmates celebrating my birthday at Swensens. We went there and was so much fun. Even though this bunch of people usually are suan-ing, fooling around, my closest classmates I ever stuck to. Thanks guys! :D

They went home after that while I went to find Bernard&Mingquan.
We went to the bubble tea shop there to slack from 4.30-6, with Mingquan leaving about 4? Can't remember.
Slacked all the wayyyyy until unit confirmation meet time.
Walked to bus interchange tireddd.
Met up with the rest.
We bought our dinner & headed off to the Bishan Community Centre Basketball Court BBQ pit. Haha long name.
(Didn't book the place btw. (: But can use de.)
AFTER WE ATE, we played GAMES!
First we played Blow Wind Blow, with Chisun as gamemasterr, he started off with "Since the weather is so hot, why not let's cool down by playing this game." Funny guy. :D
Second, played Polar Bear, with Mingquan as gamemaster, he started off with "Since the exams are over and all, why not let's take some rest." Our gamemasters always trying to be funny haha.
First round was a NORMAL round of Polar Bear, while the SECOND round...

This was when everything changed.
Weijun:
"Ok everyone go to sleep while I choose the polar bears."
*"chooses"*
"Okay now I've chosen the 3 polar bears, now everyone, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE MAY BABIES!"
Everyone opened their eyes then I was rather surprised haha. Cause I REALLY did not expect that they would celebrate at that point. x.x Great job at the surprise heh. Despite the fact that the candles melted. No wonder Mingquan went missing after explaining the game rules.

There were 5 of us, Bernard, Kevin, Sean, Suwanie & me!
We received this styrofoam board(that will be posted up) with cards on it, so nice!
They were rated according to this, G14(Suwanie&me), PG15(Sean), NC16(Kevin), M18(Bernard), like some movie rating hahas.
Had lots of fun taking photos, sharing wishes, like having cake fall from the sky.
We were supposed to share wish(es) each person so I shared...
"First, to see cake falling from the sky."
"Secondly, to see God's timing finally coming to past for me to grow this school."
"Thirdly, to improve on studies!"

The rest of the night were pretty much all on spending time with one another.

Thank God for the planners!
Thank God for the May babies!
Thank God for everyone who spent the day with me!
Thank God for everyone who sms-ed or/and wished me a happy birthday!
Thank God for this day!
Thank God for God!

This 14th birthday has been memorable, will never forget it hahas.
Came up with something small for this day. (heh)

(To the tune of 12 Days of Christmas)
On the day of my birthday many people gave to me
A Happy Birthday in a message
On the eighth hour of my birthday Mitchell gave to me
A bag that looks exactly like his (Note: He still has his one.)
On the tenth hour of my birthday my classmates sang to me
A birthday song that made me glee
On the fourteenth hour of my birthday some of them went with me
to Swensens to celebrate for me
On the fifthteenth hour of my birthday Alvin gave to me
A waterbottle with a Puma on thee
On the eighteenth hour of my birthday Dawn gave to me
A wallet that claimed of no money
On the last hour of my birthday God dropped in me
A message that said Matthew 5:16

Funny as it seems, the last one was true. To portray Jesus Christ in my life so that others may do the same too. Thanks God, got this verse while praying for my contacts at the midnight oill. (:

Posting up photos only tomorrow. ): Tiredd. Shagg'd.

Time to sleep. My birthday's over, tomorrow's another day. SERVICE! :D

Nights.

-david

P.S. I thank God for placing me in this world 14 years ago.

148th marks the day of a year;

2008-05-15T23:21:00.002+08:00

My 148th post on this blog.
Ever since 16th May 2007.
148 stories of a year in my life. Wow. Hahas.
Happy birthday bloggeh!
And to myself too! (:
Hahas really can't imagine, 148 stories in my life that make up a whole year.
That's very interesting.
I might go back to archives to see what I've cooked up since this day last year.

I went back to my older blog recently.
The one that started since Primary 5/6?
Wow, full of rubbish and vulgarities.
On the other hand, really showed me the difference between the past and present.
BIG DIFFERENCE.
Really good reminder. Hehe.

16th May is gonna be a fun day! Cause there's me in it! :D

Also, HAPPY BIRTHDAY KEVIN&CHERMAINE!
They also share the same birthday heh.

Nights, 24 hours of pure-me inside.

-david

Lord, thank You for this day.

Super random day;

2008-05-13T23:12:00.003+08:00

Today's been tiring...

I'm gonna be slightly random here before going back on topic. Recently I went out with Mingwei then we were slacking(after exams) so we were like walking around PS for 13 rounds. After that not done, went to the MRT station at Dhoby Ghaut, you know the travelator? From the NE line to the NS line side one vice versa, we took it 47 times. Just to pass time. Hahas had alot of fun with him.
BACK ON TRACK!

Got back some results.
It's like, I'm still happy even though my Maths was like crap.

English:
CA1 - A1
SA1 - A1
Chinese:
CA1 - B3
SA1 - A2
Maths:
CA1 - A1
SA1 - A1
Physics/Biology:
CA1 - C6(:X)
SA1 - B3
History:
CA1 - B4
SA1 - A2
Art:
CA1 - C5
SA1 - B3
Literature:
CA1 - A2
SA1 - A1
DnT:
CA1 - C6(X:)
SA1 - B3

Those were my goals for SA1... Let's relook at them!

English:
CA1 - A1
SA1 - A1
I'm only getting this back tomorrow so no regrets (yet).

Chinese: HIT
CA1 - B3
SA1 - A2
I hit my goal! Woot! :D

Maths: DIDN'T HIT
CA1 - A1
SA1 - A1C5
The most disappointing subject, even though expected it cause wasn't fast enough to finish the paper. ><"

Physics/Biology: DIDN'T HIT(SORT OF)
CA1 - C6(:X)
SA1 - B3B4
I gotta say, I'm impressed with my Physics. Scored A1. Got C5 for Biology, resulting in a pull down of marks to a B4. Thank God for this one. Phew.

History: DIDN'T HIT
CA1 - B4
SA1 - A2B3
Until this point I've been thinking, have my aims been one grade too high? Haha. Wasn't tooo happy with History but still really improved!

Art: HIT
CA1 - C5
SA1 - B3
Nothing to say, really happy with this one.

Literature:
CA1 - A2
SA1 - A1
Haven't got back yet, probably tomorrow.

DnT: DIDN'T HIT
CA1 - C6(X:)
SA1 - B3C5
Another sad subject, only improved by one grade... ):

Out of 6 subjects, I only hit my aims for 2 of them. At this point of time... My L1R5 is 14 points. ><" And it's excluding English. If somehow I reach my aim for both English&Lit, my points will drop to 12 points. Not bad, if I'm not wrong, I got way higher points in CA1 hahas. I'm glad to say that my results are finally coming back, except for Maths. Btw, if you noticed, all my subjects have improved EXCEPT Maths. ):

Gonna post up some photos tomorrow. Nights for now. Tomorrow having shepherding! :D

Nights.

-david

My birthday's coming in 3 days!

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2008-05-12T23:32:00.001+08:00

Quite late now.
Gonna go get some sleep.
Tomorrow's gonna be a day of school.
Getting back results.
Zomg.
Worried.
Nah. Not.
Cause You're with me.
Thank God.
Nothing to fear.
Maths... Lol.

Lord, let's go through tomorrow together and forevermore.

-david

Thank God.

2008-05-12T01:59:00.007+08:00

Not been updating frequently.
Just a few bits and nips here and there recently.

Art wasn't that bad after all! (:
My mom came for Mothers' Day service!
Central games is pure torture, running around while wearing formal.
We played Amazing Race around Orchard.
I feel bad if I don't apologise sooo, I'm sorry towards the person that I accidentally stepped/banged into while running around in Ngee Ann City/Taka!
Cause we were playing halfway, and it so happened that Daniel&I both saw RenTing at the same moment and both rushed to her at the exact same time andddd ended up I accidentally banged into someone. ><" Sorry 'bout that!
Anyways, my team got 5th out of the 11 teams! Great job and effort by Julius, Chermaine, Pearlyn(Should be... :X)! We did our best hehs.

Went for Global Day of Prayer today.
Was Security, ai zai. :D
Weijun & Chisun were Security too!
Very funn, especially after the event.
We shouted "SEE YOU NEXT YEAR *CLAP* *CLAP CLAP* *CLAP CLAP* SHUTTLE BUS IS OVER THERE *CLAP* *CLAP CLAP* *CLAP CLAP*" haha!
Until my voice was gone. ):
It was fun anyways hehs.
Gained a new experience.
Learnt that never be an usher again next year.
Joking about that point! (:
Photos and more info at Isaac-Cog.blogspot.com, Weijun's blog!
(Omg, look so weird in the photos ><")

The reason why I'm posting at 2.03am is because I've no school tomorrow!
It's upper sec Literature papers so I don't have to attend school. :D
Meaning one more day to sleep!
Not!
Having Central WFL tomorrow at 5!
Gonna be fun fun fun!

Getting back some of my exam results on Tuesday. ):
By faith can score. :D

Posting in point form is fun.
Seriously.
Everything just seems in order.
Sorta.

And and! My birthday's officially coming in 4 days! Woot! Then just another 730 days till I can watch NC16 movies. Bleh.
I know two other people who have the same birthday as me! - Chermaine&Kevin
No one else (yet).
The bulletin printed my birthday one day earlier. Sadded.

Cutting my hair soon tooooo. Noticed it's starting to become one big ball of hair. Literally.

This blog's birthday is also on 16th May! One year! Haha.

Going to sleep! :DD

-david

2008-05-07T23:57:00.003+08:00

Having. Art. Tomorrow. Stressed.

STRESSED OVER ART LOL.

PREPATORY WORK IS HARD.
And I'm still not sure whether I've done it right or wrong.
Pray that it's right cause I put alot of blood into this(haha).
JIAYOU FOR ME! HAHA! Also the rest of ya who are still having papers!

Last paper for me finally tomorrow! (:
FREEDOM DAY~~~
Sorry for being high, very happy. (:

-david

Made this post at like 12 midnight... After finishing my prepatory work.

U R Y

2008-05-06T19:57:00.004+08:00

Came back to blog again before my super-duper-crazy-study-night with Lit.

I was doing my quiet time.
It's actually one of my most successful worship quiet times.
There were times whereby my worship quiet times were disturbed by my family, MSN NUDGES(Haha.), and the *drr drr* sound from my phone.
Oh ya, my definition of a worship quiet time is when I spend time with God through singing/guitar instead of a 'normal' qt by reading and learning from the WoG, in order to kick it up a notch ya knoww.
This time round I changed everything.
Sister having tuition, so no sister-disturbances.
Parents not at home, so no parents constantly walking in and out + asking what I'm doing(always asking).
Grandpa knows I already ate and done everything I've to, so would never walk in.
Made my MSN become Busy to ensure no nudges nor sounds.
Made my phone to Meeting so that not even vibrations can be felt.
Kept house phones away from me.
Everything just seemed perfect.
So after that, I was thinking, what song does God want to drop into my heart today?
Prayed, no song dropped.
So I told myself, maybe God wants me to learn from His Word.
That's when I noticed Windows Media Player was on my bar.
I maximised it and played my playlist on random.
The first song that came up was U.R.Y..
My first thought, "I've never thought of that."
I went back to my old chord book (aka sermon book 4...) to find the chords.
From there, I had my little worship session with God.
I was slightly distracted cause I was going louder and my sister's tuition teacher was outside, till God dragged me into the song again.
Really felt His presence.
Two of us.
One room.
Nothing else inbetween.

So during worship He dropped me a chapter, Matthew 8:16-17.
Odd because I've never looked into that verse before.
Good because I know that He was really here.
I took a look, and decided, these two verses alone don't seem to make alot of sense by themselves. Then chose to look at Matthew 8 as a chapter.
The titles, The Man with Leprosy, The Faith of the Centurion, Jesus Heals Many, Jesus Calms the Storm, and part of The Healing of the Two-Demon Possesed Men. I don't quite understand The Cost of Following Jesus part of my understanding but I guess God'll reveal it as time goes by.
The reason why I looked into these few titles is because, they all talk about MIRACLES. And in the first few titles, excluding the last healing of the demon-possesed men, all the people had FAITH.

I knew God had reasons for dropping me the song and the verses. They are what I need most at this point of time.
Through the song, He reminded me..
The reason I'm living...
The reason I'm serving...
The reason I'm studying...
The reason I'm giving my all...
The reason I'm not stopping...
The reason I'm here...
The reason I'm doing EVERYTHING...
Is all because of Him.
I've been studying like nuts these past few days, and constantly spamming in a way, and not been really giving my all into Him. There are days that I know that I've skipped quiet time just because of studies. And I'm reminded, that the reason I'm first studying is because He first called me to, and there's no reason that I've to neglect Him because of something that He asked me to do. It's the priority.

Through verses, God reminded me. Through FAITH comes MIRACLES. NO FAITH = NO HOPE = NOTHING. It's more than just BELIEVING! It's BELIEVING in the UNBELIEVABLE and the IMPOSSIBLE. Before Jesus came to the people, they all had the mindset that "Oh you've got leprosy, you're dead meat.". No one believed that "I can be cured." until Jesus came! When He came, He healed illnesses and diseases that were impossible to heal! He had done the impossible!
So why aren't some of us having faith?
Honestly speaking, I've faith. However, I realised that many a time, the faith in me, believes in what's reality. Not the impossibility. When the odds are 1:100, sometimes I still think that, the odds are impossible. But I've got to say, this is wrong. I'm changing it, cause God has shown me the impossible through His Word and there is no way that I can't believe it cause His Word shows it all. I'm changing my attitude of faith to a 100% pure child-like faith. The faith that believes in everything, no matter how ridiculous it sounds. Everyone else who reads this, time to have your faith right if you've not yet.

I thank God for a meaningful quiet time, cause I've really learnt alot from it.
Maris Stella isn't barren anymore, for the fruit is plentiful.

Time to change. Everything.

-david

2008-05-06T17:15:00.004+08:00

Hahas. I've not been blogging recently, because of SA1! Because of it, I've been constantly sleeping late and have not much time for many other things. ): Even my quiet time was threatened haha thank God I didn't give it up.

Recently I've been reading up in the Old Testament quite alot, and came across this passage that's rather known.

1 Chronicles 11:10-47. These verses talk about David's Mighty Men, and I happened to be touched by these verses.

15 Three of the thirty chiefs came down to David to the rock at the cave of Adullam, while a band of Philistines was encamped in the Valley of Rephaim. 16 At that time David was in the stronghold, and the Philistine garrison was at Bethlehem. 17 David longed for water and said, "Oh, that someone would get me a drink of water from the well near the gate of Bethlehem!" 18 So the Three broke through the Philistine lines, drew water from the well near the gate of Bethlehem and carried it back to David. But he refused to drink it; instead, he poured it out before the LORD.

In verses 15-18, it talks about how David asks of three of his closest men to fetch some water from him, not from anywhere, but from a well that's near the gate of Bethlehem which at that time was the location of the Phihistine garrison. The men didn't not hesitate at all, there wasn't even a verse 17.5 in the middle that says that they hesitated whether to do it, but in verse 18, they broke through the lines of the Philistine which were very strong at that time, just to retrieve water from the well. I tell that David was testing them whether they were faithful to him or something but the task that he asked was really something not anyone would want to do. I've got two application points on this, how 'bout you? (:

Back to life, recently I've been getting headaches from studying hahas. First time! But I really think that this is what makes me feel so accomplished. The type that "No matter if I pass, fail, score, I'll still know that I've done my best and God's gonna do the rest."

Hahas randomly remembered this, while at Trumpet Praise at J8, I was walking past there then saw some very familiar Fairfield people - Reynard, Jingwen & 2-other-people-I-don't-know-lol. They were having a job attachment while the rest were at OBS. They work from 12-6! At first I thought it was not bad cause I THOUGHT there was pay. :X But okay lah, it's kinda fun being in there, as long as not really cooped up there for 6 hours for alot of days.

Gonna be slightly random so gotta just keep up. :D

Guess who gave it? Haha. My Barnabas gave it and he's Weijun! If you somehow can look closely, it says "Isaac (heart) David (smiley face)". It might look wrong, trust me I know... I've got alot of classmates who did..., but I really thank God that he bought me a bottle! Cause I noticed that many a time I had to borrow Moses' bottle to drink water hahas. Sorry! They even said that they were gonna buy me a bottle for my birthday. Haha. So now God has blessed me with a bottle! The disadvantage for me is that, SIZE! & WEIGHT! It's BIG and takes up 20% of my bag's space(speaking of which I'm getting a new bag soon!) and it's HEAVY when I fill it up with water. That was the reason why I stopped bringing my Nike bottle out a few months back.

Exams are finally gonna be over. 2 papers to go. Bio & Physics are tough papers. x.x Tomorrow's Literature and Thursday's Art. Gotta give in my final bit of strength left all into the papers. Yes, even Art.

Today I'm gonna share a chapter from the book of Psalms. The Psalm is...

Psalm 121

A song of ascents.
1 I lift up my eyes to the hills—
where does my help come from?
2 My help comes from the LORD,
the Maker of heaven and earth.

3 He will not let your foot slip—
He who watches over you will not slumber;

4 indeed, He who watches over Israel
will neither slumber nor sleep.

5 The LORD watches over you—
the LORD is your shade at your right hand;

6 the sun will not harm you by day,
nor the moon by night.

7 The LORD will keep you from all harm—
he will watch over your life;

8 the LORD will watch over your coming and going
both now and forevermore.

This chapter really brings alot of meaning. I'm actually look towards more of the first verse. Oh wells, no time to explain, I'll just put up my intepretation.

ILookToYouAndYouAreThere; david

Gotta choing Lit!

><"

2008-05-01T22:26:00.003+08:00

Finally, not that stressed anymore.

WEDNESDAY;

Yesterday was a quick day.
Finished off my Chinese paper 1.
Waaa, I'm very scared that I'll get super low.
Cause I had a stomachache throughout the whole paper.
Thought it was nothing but last 40 mins went to the toilet cause can't take it anymore.
By the time came back left only 30 mins.
Chiong-ed through my zuo wen. T.T
Prayyy that I can still score.
After the paper went home with Mingwei following.
Played Miami Vice with him until siao hahas.
Left my house after I showered and stuffs, and went to Bishan to find Dave.
Alot of time was spent because Mingwei wanted to find a power plug to charge the PSP cause his one already had no battery left. Haha.
I think people thought we were crazy or what, keep going into different areas(Coffee Bean, Mac, LJS, Mos, EVEN DELIFRANCE) to find a power plug.
Ended up going to the library where we met... SECURITY.

In this case I'll use *JIMMY* to replace the name.
The last time I went to the library on Monday(if I'm not wrong), I was disturbed by *JIMMY*.
That time there were a few others, I think Joel they all ya.
*JIMMY* came to us and told that no playing games were allowed cause several people weren't studying(haha) and playing games.
Okay so that's fine.
*JIMMY* came again afterwards and said no handphones to be put even on the ground, "please keep in your bag".
I was like "..." cause no one was doing anything with their handphones. At most sms, but there were so many people doing the same thing! I even saw an iPhone!
That's my first visit to the libraryyyyy that this occured.
I went again on Wednesday(yesterday) and guess what, met *JIMMY* again.
Mingwei and I were charging our PSPs at the power plug.
Okay one sense it was partly our fault for charging it there cause it was meant for laptops or something.
Then I was like, okay plug out the charger.
Decided to listen to music with it, in the end asked me to stop cause "it was too high-tech" to be used in the library. Even claimed that I was "playing games with the PSP" when she was looking at me from afar. I was holding a pen and book with my two hands, what could I possibly be playing?
Never mind. I'll not talk anymoree. Must maintain salt&light. (:
Went home after the incident.

Okay. Kinda late alreadeh. Gotta goo. x.x 10.54! Today was a very fun day hahas, more details tomorrow!

Just before I go off, my verse is...

John 14:27 - 27Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.

I chose this verse because I believe that most of us are rather stressed over certain papers that we always think we'll die studying for them. I wanna share this verse that let's be that 'eye' in the middle of the hurricane where when all things around us are going crazy, we can maintain that peace and calmness within us.

Second scenerio is that some of us are really trying hard to balance between ministry and studies at this time however I wanna encourage you that no matter how pressurised you feel inbetween them, take time to be at peace and don't give up!

JIAYOU BA BROTHERS&SISTERS! :D

GrantMePeaceWhenI'mStressed; david

2008-04-30T23:26:00.002+08:00

Finally a night of relief.

You know what? I was stuck at this word, "Wednesday", and couldn't continue writing.
Recently I've been having many blocks hahas.

Mathematician's block...
Writer's block...
Blogger's block...
LOGIC block...

And the list can go on and on and on. Exams for me this time round is really different, cause I really put in my 100 and not only 100 but 150% into it, heart, soul, mind, strength. And it's really burning all my brain cells. Experiencing this for the first time. :X

Nothing much to talk about. Probably talk about today in tomorrow's post. Now just gotta rest abit. (:

; david

2008-04-29T21:27:00.004+08:00

TIME TO RELAX! (Right.)

Tuesday;

Had History paper today, so kan-chiong!
I have to make a point first.
I studied on Chapter 8-9 cause I didn't understand them too well, during the NIGHT before the PAPER!
IN THE END, ONLY 4 fill in the blanks came out for those 2 chapters and ALL the Source-based and Structured Essay questions came out from Chapter 6!
Thank God I've read Chapter 6 quite well. But I was really sad when I realised Chapter 8 & 9 wasn't really tested. x.x
But really thank God that...
NO MORE HISTORY!
As mentioned before, I'm never taking History next year. :P
Time to burn teh textbook haha.

After the paper still had the New South Wales Science paper. -.- Mr. Shen didn't let us off until the paper timing was over lawl. Everyone finished early but he didn't want to collect the papers.

AFTER that paper was supposed to be Mr. Kan's 2nd Relief Make-Up Session. Cause that time he overslept then in the end did not come to school in the afternoon to teach us Maths. Then he was supposed to come around 11 but in the end reached at 11.30, telling us that he had some exam stuff on then only coming back at 12. I left earlier after collecting the Revision Practice paper though.

Went to find Dawn at Macs, met Joshua there too.
Studied at Coffee Bean, saw her classmates, Joyce, Brenda & Sherlyn.
Was able to concentrate despite the sounds caused haha.
Weijun & Brandon came after awhile, then we headed to Popular to buy my assessment bookk.
Decided on the forfeit of wasabi + bread(again!) for latecomers for caregroup.
ALOT OF PEOPLE HAD FORFEIT! Haha! I roughly know... Joshua, Kelvin(double for not bringing bible :P), Joel(no bible!), Xiangwei, Chisun, Bernard. If I'm not wrong that's all.
The photos are going to be up on Central A blog soon hahas.
Caregroup was fun, had worship followed by STUDYING!
I finished quite abit, left a TINYY bit left of revision to do.
Slacked with Bernard, Huiyang & Mingquan at the playground after dinner, lots of fun and laughter hahas. I love my new sheep-mates!

Went home after all the fun and joy, to be relaxing now hahas.
The only reason why I can relax is because tomorrow's Chinese paper 1, so meaning only composition and letter-writing. :D Nothing to study! Woot!
And Thursday's a HOLIDAY! So more time to relax! As in tomorrow haha. My Thursday's gonna be invested into studying for my Friday paper, which if I'm not wrong, is Maths.
And I'm meeting shep at evening tomorrow.

My verse today is...

Proverbs 3:5 - 5 Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding;

I chose this verse today cause even though my Chinese paper tomorrow has nothing to study for, I'm gonna still trust that God will help me to understand the paper inside out, filling my emotions into the compo and such. Never gonna trust in myself that I alone will be able to work through the paper and can get something good out of it. So ya, don't trust in ourselves that the paper is easy but trust that because of God, it'll be easy! :P

ITrustInYouNotMyself; david

2008-04-28T21:18:00.004+08:00

HEADACHE! ):

Monday;

Today's paper was English paper 2!
To say the truth, it was hard. ): I'm not expecting high for questions, only for summary.
Gotta keep clinging on to my faith that I'll get that A1 somehow.
After the paper went to Bishan with Dave & Mingwei to study(supposingly).
In the end I went with Peter and they went home haha.
Peter's house is very nice lah! When I went up, thought it would be an ordinary 5-room flat then in the end got veryy surprised. His house has 2 floors! Got staircase somemore! *envy* ><"
I met his siblings and parents too haha.
Enjoyed my time there, revised quite abit on History.
I'm having my History paper tomorrow btw. :D
After dinner(Fast over! Woot!), I went to Junction 8 to find Joel for more studying at Coffee Bean.
I literally chiong-ed my textbook.
Went home after that around 8pm.

Now I'm having a very severe headache hahas. Trying to relax abit.
I can say that I'm rather prepared for the paper tomorrow, all that's left is that I go through it one last time before going for the paper, just to get a refresh of it.
Today has been one of my most brain-juice-absorbing days ever.
Tomorrow also another one, cause I needa chiong Science(paper on Wednesday) instead. BOTH Physics & Biology. Biology is my FULL syllabus while Physics is my HALF, wa siaoooo. T.T
And there's caregroup tomorrow! That'll help me alot.
I thank God for today really, if not my History would've dropped further.(B4 already okay! ):)

Lastly, today's verse to encourageee all of ya is...

Luke 18:27 - 27Jesus replied, "What is impossible with men is possible with God."

This is simple, just believe that what we can't do, God can do! Cause we are only Man while God, well, is God! He is omnipotent, able to help us in all situations. Even if we are nearing our darkest and most hated subject paper, let's face it with God by our side! Give it to Him, ask Him for wisdom, and let Him do it with us. I decided on this verse cause of my History tomorrow, even though I'm not that good at it, I'll have faith in God that He'll bring me through it. :)

AllThat'sImpossibleForMeIKnowIsPossibleForYou; david

2008-04-27T22:51:00.004+08:00

Exams... Stressed. x.x

Sunday;

Slept until around 12 noon, shiok sia. Unfortunately, realised my cough and flu was still around. x.x
In the end still went to Bishan for study group!
Studied with Mingquan, Yicong, Huiyang & Joel at the library.
Managed to complete alot! Somewhat prepared for Maths & 1/2 of History. (:
Studied till around 6.30 then Yicong went home while the rest of us went to eat dinner at Subway.
Walked around for awhile after dinner, Huiyang left.
Weijun, Suwanie & Xiangwei came after that.
We went to Coffee Bean to resume studyingg.
I accomplished my brief revision on History while getting help from Weijun in Maths(Thanks zun!). Pras dropped by and Suwanie left half way.
Went home around 9 while the rest ate their 'dinner'.

I feel so detail-ish hahas. I'm probably getting abit pressurised cause tomorrow's English paper 2 and I'm not veryy sure on the language features. x.x Gonna pray hard that God's wisdom drops upon me and I get it right.
I enjoy exam periods, cause end school early! But, taking the time to study. ><" This time round exams for Maris Stella quite different, cause only one paper per day which means everyday end school around 10am instead of 2 papers that make me end at 12 noon. More time for breakfast. :P McGriddles! I always get the urge to eat the bread and meat separately, cause it just doesn't taste right together. :S

When I reached home just now, I ended up watching CJ7, cause my mom and sister was watching it in the room. The show's not bad! And the toy's getting cuter and cuter the more I look at it haha. Although, the rest of my night's gonna be spent on chiong-ing language-feature-searching, gonna get abit hectic.

Anyway, today's verse is...

1 Peter 5:7 - Cast all your anxiety on Him because He cares for you.

Let's really stop worrying and being troubled over the exams. Start having faith in God that it'll be smooth-sailing and we'll pass with flying colours! Stop thinking so much about the future and past. As it says, when you think too much about the past or future, you forget about the present. CA1 sucks? Who cares! Just work hard this time round! SA2? Who cares! IT'S SO FAR AWAY. JUST FOCUS ON WHAT'S INFRONT OF YOU! (: SA1, take it.

IWCAMAOYCYC; david

P.S. Don't forget...
HAPPY BIRTHDAY SHIRLEY!

I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me!

2008-04-26T23:17:00.003+08:00

Yoyo! Couldn't do anything last night, was too tired. x.x

Friday;

Yesterday was Sports Day!
And my SA1 officially started with English Paper 1...
The paper wasn't too bad, anticipated what was going to come out(letter of complaint, hoosha!), and wrote about My Beloved Pet[My Beloved(Imaginary) Pet]. I'm not worried about whether I was out of point but worried whether my content's not strong enough. ): Usually I'll be satisfied with my writings when I hand them up, feeling a sense of satisfaction ya know but didn't feel it yesterday. Oh well, gotta see what's the results after the exams.

For Sports Day, wow shoik'ness.
We were sitting at the area where all the people were crossing then it was veryy squeezy.
And something was wrong, there was no breeze at all. NO WIND. Everyone was sweating like siao.
(Zomg... I just heard the Rick Roll music on my TV...)
I only took part in one event on that day itself, the 4x400m relay.
Was expecting gold again(:X) like last year because we had our same team as last year but they decided to put it that two sec two's and two primary five's were in one team so my team got disbanded and I got another new team. ): Anyway, I didn't win anything for the event hahas.
Total I took part in 3 events(max.) for this year, 4x400m, long jump & 200m.
Got silver for both long jump and 200m, that keeps me happy hahas.
After Sports Day, I was superrr tired but still made my way down to Bishan for shepherding with Bernard.
We talked alottt, had fun chilling and catching up with each other's lives.
Yesterday wasn't that bad, although caused me to be severely(quite) sick.

Today;

Woke up to a flu and cough.
Thought it wasn't that bad, then headed to CG08 meeting.
Did clicking hahas. Screwed up quite abit cause wasn't prepared. ><"
Prayed alot for my papers, God please really bless me this time round. Will share my SA1 goals later.
Went for servicee after the meeting. Total fun'ness!
Special guest speaker Michael! He speaks with alot of wisdom yet understanding. Really enjoyed it.
I was ministered today, really.
After service, ate dinner then headed for IMPACT meet at Istana Park.
DIDN'T DO FORFEIT! :D Forfeit was to eat wasabi with bread. There's videos and photos if I'm not wrong, should be up on Central A blog soon.
I thank God for the day... Really refreshing.

I'm really looking forward to Oasis Camp upcoming June! Changed location to Downtown East resorts! Haha! Gonna be a time of fun and relaxation!
Going back to exams...
My goals for SA1 are very simple. CA1, if not obvious yet, is my result for CA1.

English:
CA1 - A1
SA1 - A1
Chinese:
CA1 - B3
SA1 - A2
Maths:
CA1 - A1
SA1 - A1
Physics/Biology:
CA1 - C6(:X)
SA1 - B3
History:
CA1 - B4
SA1 - A2
Art:
CA1 - C5
SA1 - B3
Literature:
CA1 - A2
SA1 - A1
DnT:
CA1 - C6(X:)
SA1 - B3

Yups. I need 70% for my ideal subject combination:
Compulsary subjects: English, Chinese, A Maths, E Maths, Social Studies + Elective Humans(which I'm planning on taking Literature)
Rest of subjects in my ideal combination: Pure Chem, Combined Phy/Bio, Pure Geog
Which means total 8 subjects.

Gotta work extremely hard this time round if I'm gonna get my goals. 25% is based totally on the exams itself. That's 1/4 of my total marks. ><"

Gotta jiayou already. Not the time to slack anymore. Cause, it's one of my main opportunities to be a Salt & Light. The rest of you too! It's one of the BEST opportunities ever to show the rest that we can excel!

Plus the fact that I'm putting a verse on my MSN everyday to remind me and the rest of the people on my list.

Today's verse is Phillipians 4:13.
It's a common verse, but who really takes it seriously? Sometimes some of us just reads it and say,"Ok, then?".

13I can do everything through Him who gives me strength.

Let's really ask God for strength for this upcoming mid-years, as we mug and get stressed, don't give up but continue asking for strength to perservere through this time. Cause through God, we can do EVERYTHING. So let's give our best!

ICanDoAllThingsThroughChristWhoStrenghthensMe; david

2008-04-23T12:24:00.002+08:00

Finally, after a long period of MIA-ing hahas.
Ever since 4th April, I've closed and open Blogger tons of times(Sorry blogger!). Never really felt the motivation to blog.

Recently I've been doing well...
Test results has been getting better and better.
Life's been going high. Just pray hard that I won't go low too much.
It's like a roller coaster ride, comparing spiritual and personal life. I mean, week in and out, End March over and stuffs.
Now End April is coming, I'm not worried that 2 days later is the SA1 but once end April is over and I've no sheep(by faith I have!) yet, there goes IMPACT for me.
Well, I'll continue to look out for that miracle. Fruits on barren land(once barren that is)

If you're wondering why I'm on at this time(12.30).
It's not that I've not gone to school today.
Nor that I've been expelled(like I would :X).
But, I'm having IT lesson! Hahas.
It's common for people to go online during IT lessons, it's like once in a whole year lah for me. Maybe not that exaggerating but ya. Finished my podcast episodes. At last. So got to use the computer in school.

Later meeting shep after 5-item test, gonna be fruitful. I've got a long day to go, God bless me.

My computer clock puts 8.35pm haha. Scared me for a sec.

Alright, going off, gonna continue laterr when I reach home.

-david

2008-04-07T22:53:00.000+08:00

Happy Spiritual Birthday, David. :)

2008-03-29T23:39:00.002+08:00

Haven't posted in a long time. Not gonna update what's happened over the time I've not blogged. Recently have not have the 'willingness' to blog. I tried for a few times but typed abit and just closed the window. "Sian lah don't want."

So yup now I'm partially back into the mood of doing so.

Actually my main purpose of blogging today is to let out everything in my mind right now. So if you can probably skip the next few paragraphs unless you really want to read. Skip until after the smiley face( :) ) then continue reading from there hahas.

LORD. LET'S TALK. Alright. I believe that You and I both understand how's Maris Stella doing right now. When I came in, there was 5, now there's only 2. The mature believers are all gone yet the younger ones stayed. And now, I've been waiting. Waiting ALOT. I was thinking, End March. This very service, a sign was gonna happen like the 3 signs You gave to Gideon in the Bible. I thought it was all your plan to tell me that something was gonna change. But yet, nothing. No results, no fruits, zilch, zero. End March, I expected something. I had goals. But hit none of them at all. I was thinking, since I'm moving to CA3 after this service, I should leave a milestone behind. But what we've seen, is not a milestone today, CA1 had a pitfall in statistics.

But now Lord, I've been re-encouraged and re-affirmed that I'm honoring You. And I believe that Your timing is coming. I really thank You for a very important gift I have. It's the gift of picking up. I pick up easily after I've fallen. I always have this mindset that when I fall, why waste time thinking about my falls, when I can pick up and continue? I've fallen MANY TIMES. I've waited for ONE YEAR. ONE YEAR. And I'll continue waiting. Cause it doesn't end until You come back. Until the day you return, I will never stop this enthusiasm. I have this simple mindset - Hit till I hit the spot. Even when I hit until my hands are injured, I take a short time, and continue hitting. This drives me on. Cause till the day I hit the spot, that's the day I reach my top, and that's the day I finally stop. And move on.

So Lord, I'm now giving it all to You. Whatever that's gonna happen to Maris Stella, I leave it all in Your hands. :)

As I was saying, recently many things like Subject Combination Talk, End March, has been revolving around. Things are getting stressful. Thank God next week's service is on handling stress hahasss.

Don't wanna talk much, cause really shagg'd right now.

2008-03-17T21:43:00.002+08:00

I'm ill. Darn. God. I. Still. Need. To. Evax. Tomorrow. And. I. Also. Have. Care. Group.

After the Learning Journey today, which I'll probably not cover due to my current state, I felt giddy. Until I 'fainted' on the MRT on the way home. Thank God Daryl woke me up. Ahh. Really need healing now. :(

My two ulcers are doing very well at hurting me... It's hard even for me to eat right now. Sobbed. Oh wells.

Tomorrow's gonna be tiring but God, with You, nothing is too tiring for me.

Ah well. Nights to teh world.

-david

2008-03-16T00:07:00.003+08:00

*Yawns*

My sister told Zyann this,"I want to bring people down and take care of them."

I think that's the child-liike faith we all should have in every single one of us. There's a big difference between childish and child-like. Childish = Immature whereas child-like = naive(in a good way) like a child. Remember when we once believed in everything the adults said? Like how the stork brought us or we were found on the road? Or Santa Claus coming every Christmas to give presents and the Easter Bunny knocking on the door giving us chocolate eggs? Everyone has their own times when they believed in many things that apparantly do not exist. Boy, how I enjoyed the times when my parents really put $1 behind my pillow while I slept and removing my dropped tooth. Let's maintain that faith. That faith to believe, not in tooth fairy but in GOD!

Those who want to be shepherds/careleaders, HAVE FAITH! Let's BELIEVE that it CAN be done. If we BELIEVED in things as ridiculous as vegetables eating us if we don't eat them, why can't we believe that we can be SHEPHERDS/CARELEADERS? Is it that UNBELIEVABLE? ..If it's so, I'm utterly disappointed in you.

I was utterly disappointed with myself. And I let it go in the end. Bernard made it clear. If GYSS can have converts like eating sweets, WHY CAN'T MARIS STELLA? Looking back, I'm 11 months old, close to my 1 year spiritual birthday. And Maris Stella, the only retained people, are still the same. Oh wait, it's decreasing. Maris Stella, when I came in it had 5 people. And now it's on the verge of being 2. NO GROWTH AT ALL. The only growth seen was when I came in on the 7th of April 2007. There were converts and visitors here and there but NONE of them stayed. WHY LORD? This land is NOT barren at all! There are fruits EVERYWHERE. Are there things stopping us? I believe Your timing is not that long. Damned.

I'm screaming now Lord. MARIS STELLA. NEEDS. to grow. END MARCH IS COMING.

I don't think you all know of the change yet. CA3 and CA4 are combining to form CA3. And CA1 is going to be left with FTPSS and GYSS with Weijun as careleader. Bernard is the careleader of CA3 and he's bringing Maris Stella along with him.

It's time to make that milestone happen.

All the other 18 schools, Easter's here. Let's make full use of it.

-david

Watched Passion of Christ, woah.

2008-03-14T00:02:00.002+08:00

Have not posted for the past one week and soo, start to revive again hahas.
Holidays pass very fast!!! First it was like, Friday and I still remember the class shouting "HOLIDAYS HUAT AH!" then running out of the classroom. Now it's already down to Thursday, and Friday tomorrow. 3 days left. Oh well.

I utilised this holidays quite well hahas.
Monday - Morning: Councillor Performance Interview
Afternoon: Multimedia Training(Photoshop)
Night: WAM Night

Tuesday - Morning-Night: Central Sentosa Event

Wednesday - Morning-Night: Metamorphosis & Extended P&W Meet

Thursday - Morning-Night: Central A Brothers' Day/Night

I've been waking up very early hahas. Thank God I can sleep more tomorrow. :D Cause... It's Caregroup day! And it starts at 4. But meeting shep at 2. x.x
Not gonna go into alot of details for what has happened recently. Too lazy to do so. :X

Hehes, Regina has been Holy Spirit baptised. :D Woot~ And also congrats to Chisun and Kelvin who also were Holy Spirit baptised!

*Yawn* Quite tired lawl. Watching Catdog. Nothing much's on TV, including the fact that it's so late at night.

Nights.

-davidd

Lord, I'm just so tired hahas.

Back after a long time;

2008-03-03T22:15:00.008+08:00

After a long long period... From my last post I estimate 2 weeks? :X Hehes. Here are all the mini-updates in my lifee. And my Common Test is over, and I got some of my results back, share them later. :X

Okay so recently this is what has been going on... I'll start with the bad news.

FIRST, I bought DEVIL MAY CRY 4 and ended up it hanged halfway through gameplay. It pissed me off. :( I tried changing it but they didn't allow, say they'll 'call me back again'. $89 for a faulty disc. Psst. Oh well.

And I got back my Common Test results.
English: B3
Chinese: A2
Science(Physics/Biology): C6
History: C5
Art: -NotYet-
Literature: -NotYet-
DnT: -NotYet- But expecting really low
Maths: B3

There goes my points. If I look at it now, L1R4 is 19 points. Gotta buck up. Even though it's only 15%, it's still alot. All I have left to do is to trust that God will make a way and the other 85% will be scored with flying colours. :)

That's the only bad news I have. :X

GOOD NEWS TIME!

On the 22nd of February 2008, my sister, Regina, received Jesus into her life! :D She walked down the aisle on that Saturday, woot. And now she's doing really well. Received her 'official document' from Central A hahas, I want one too!.

Next, on the 28th of February 2008, I ran the Annual Cross Country, 4.8km. Competing against the whole Sec 2 level, I got 10th! :D And got this medal and badge.

Hehs, there's also Peida who succeeded in influencing his class to bring guitars through him bringing his own!

Lastly, the most recent news, I got a PSP! :D

I love it alot haha! :) My faithful and never-failing travel buddy, always there when I'm on long rides. Brandon called it an ASD because it's Anti-Social Device. Meaning once you start playing it infront of others, you will be so engrossed that you won't be socialising with them. Lol. True to an extent. :P

Thank God for all the blessings all the while, I really enjoy every single one of them. Now all I need is to run time faster cause HOLIDAY STARTS IN TWO DAYS! :)

Nights!

-davidd`

Lord, You make my Day Shine.

2008-02-21T19:38:00.005+08:00

This is the photo I took with the small kid during caregroup hahas.

And if you somehow are blind or something, I finished my blogskin! Many people told me that my skin has been around since like... 4 months ago so it's time to revamp it. Yo Central A, remember all these past times? Hahas, will never forget them. All the fun, joy, laughter.

Yesterday had Archery training, injured my arm. Fired and the knotting point scratched across my arm. x.x The most painful injury I had ever since I started lol. The string didn't hurt me, cause the arrow still hit the board but the knotting point was too 'thick' and so *slash*. Daryl was setting up his bow and his bow got loose and flung onto his face, causing a near-eye injury, loads of blood. :X This training has so many injuries. :(

Today was a fast day cause I did not expect anything significant to happen. Supposed to meet Bernard for shepherding but he was meeting Brandon for shepherding. Lol. Postponed to Saturday morning. When I on my MSN upon reaching home, Weijun sent me the caregroup roster for the next upcoming months and specifically told me to look at my workload. Got abit shocked and surprised mixture after looking at it thoroughly lols. But still, I enjoy those roles, hehs.

I'm having my Literature paper tomorroww. This is my exam paper schedule for the week...

Monday: English(Comprehension)
Tuesday: History
Wednesday: Maths
Thursday: Chinese
Friday: Science & English(Descriptive Writing)

I've got alot of things to study. *sob* Good thing is that my Literature paper is an open-book test so we are allowed to write anything on the book as long as we only bring the book into the exam place. Woot. And Mrs. Champion told us about what was gonna come out, the structure that is.

There's also the bad news that for Science, I've got to do both Biology and Physics papers within 1 hour. Ouchh.

Hahas, speaking of which, since my Common Test is around the corner... I've got goals to set!

Expectations/Goals for Common Test:

English - A2/A1
Maths - A2/A1
Chinese - B3/A2
Science(Physics) - B3/A2
Science(Biology) - B3/A2
Literature - A2/A1
History - B3/A2
L1R5 - 15/12

If I can't even meet my expectations, gg. If you see, counting only these subjects, my L1R5 would be 15 points. Okay not bad but I really want to get at least 12 points hahas.

Yepp, that's all. Just before I end off this post, just wanna have a short prayer for all students hahas.

Lord, I pray for everyone's who studying now that we will achieve their goals and expectations for this CA. Bless us with energy, confidence, no distractions, focus, determination, so that we can study to the best we can. Lord let us work hard towards our goals, so that we may be a testimony of miracles. Even the last will be the first. And I pray for those in ministry that despite the fact that we are having all these tests and all, we will be able to manage our time properly and still have that spiritual fervor for You. Hello Love 2 will be even better than the first, cause we keep that passion burning even when times are getting harder. I thank You Lord, in Jesus' name I pray, Amen.

Jiayou ba people, let's do this together!

Nights.

-davidd

Common. Test. Kills. Brain. Cells.

CG's doing well.

2008-02-19T22:35:00.004+08:00

Today's been a really fun day hahas. In school, managed to keep myself awake the whole day. :X And also I was hyper during English, when there were only 2 parts in the question for summary, I shouted twelve. Thank God I didn't scream out loud.

And caregroup after school! Met Sean and Dave for lunch. Got to know more about how Dave's doing nowadays, good thing. After that Dave went home and we went to the playground at Block 113.

I got to know that place on Sunday when I was trying to find a place to slack abit before mugging so I saw this really 'ulu' playground and just settled down, playing with my lappie hahas.

At first I thought it was going to be a very quiet place so that I could just rest first while waiting for caregroupp time. Then this group of Guangyang girls sat down and started to chat and play cards lol. Sean and I decided to continue with our conversations and all despite being a little disruptedd.

And then after awhile Suwanie and her friend came by with cup noodles and bubble tea. Hahas quite surprised to see them there. Talked for 'bout 15mins then Sean and I left back to fetch Alvin from Bishan MRT. Realised that he didn't come so we just walked to ministry house.

Caregroup really lifted up my moods for the past few days. Games, which Chisun and I were partners, made us so rushed lol. Forfeit all push-ups and sit-ups. We won in the end anyways. :P

Taught me a very important thing though, cause my group's task 2 was to take photos with 2 random people we don't know so we actually found this small kid at first. I took a photo with him. xD Will show it tomorrow. And then we thought, kinda easy what. So we continued, and then saw this other two kids also with their maid. We tried asking but then their maid refused. :( Rejected. So it wasn't that easy after all. It's like evangelism when some people accept and reject us, we just need to pick up ourselves and strive on. Anyways what happened after that? We went to the playground and found a loophole in the task, that we didn't need to take a close-up shot or anything. So Chisun just stood in the middle of the playground and I took a photo of him with all the kids and people behind him in the picture. Woot! Thank God that evangelism never had a loophole though hahas. Easy way out.

And so we won the task, resulting in Peida and Sean losing. :P :X And we had worship after that. The song was Let the Rain of Your Presence. Screwed up abit here and there, but overall still okay. Re-said the sinners' prayer, thanks for going up that cross 2000 years ago. :) Ministered not only the peoples' but my heart too!~

Holy comm. was abit different... Peida made me do a play with him for holy comm. and Weijun recorded it down. If I'm not wrong something's gonna get posted up on the Central A blog and I'm not enjoying it one bit lols. The link's available at my links area, just updated it hahas.

Weijun taught teaching, Key in Breakthrough. Reminded me of the times when I was not willing to change some stagnancy in teh group and causing some problems in the midst. >.>

Bernard met Weijun and I for dinner after caregroup to talk about some stuffs. Things in Central A are going to be so different from now on hahas.

Jiayou ba shep, I have faith you'll get your appeal. :)

Nights..

-davidd

Everywhere that I go, let your presence flow on me...

2008-02-18T21:26:00.003+08:00

Hahas. Not been updating lately so here's a mini-update so far.

- Had shepherding with Bernard on Valentine's Day! And spent my V-Day also rehersing for ESS hahas. xD
- Saturday had Alvin and Fabian coming down for Hello, Love!
- Central A1 hit 17! 4 Marists!
- Sunday studied for Common Test, managed to complete so much hahas.

Monday;

Woot, today was rather smooth! But I felt very sians after school don't know why. -.- Cause I met Peida together to go to Toa Payoh and just cover with him the chords for Above All. Then met Weijun to practise tomorrow's caregroup songs called "insert song titles here". Hahas, can only reveal after caregroup cause can't let the rest know them! :P

Wanted to take a cab home but decided not to be so lazy hehs. $7 become a few minor cents. I'm saving! xD

And at home just need to chiong through a summary and some pieces and I'm done... Didn't go to WAM night just because of these. *sobs* It's okay ba, I believe that I've been wise to go home rather than Nexus this time. :)

Tomorrow's a Tuesday! A caregroup day! Fun! Exciting! Wahahas.

Wanted to upload photos but then nothing much new. :S Oh wells.

Nights...

-davidd

Hehe... Common Test coming wor...

2008-02-15T23:24:00.000+08:00

Just another update.
Just wanna say, my dad rawks big time.
Did something that really touched me. :)
Thank you, dad.

Nights..

-davidd

Lawls.

2008-02-15T23:14:00.002+08:00

It's 11.14, soon to be midnight. Very tired. BUT. It was all worth it. Tell you why tomorrow. :)

Today... Had a severe headache in school. Needed to be driven home by my dad. x.x Sians.

I'm really shagg'd lawl. Tomorrow gotta wake up super early cause of MM duty, if it wasn't for God I won't wake up that early at all lols. And I'm gonna do something special tomorrow. ;) I'll take lots of photos! :X

Oh well. Go sleep liao.

Nights.

-davidd

Thank God for blessing.

2008-02-13T22:02:00.002+08:00

My life just keeps getting crazier as each day goes byy.

Ah, neck sprain today, had to skip Archery (for the 2nd time -.-). Zomggg, Godd, why.. I want to welcome the new Sec 1's, been looking forward to this day lah.

Nothing much lately, except the mugging season is coming backk cause Common Test's just next week. Got lots of projects to hand up for CA1, History, Literature, DnT, etc. All within next week! Gotta stop procrastinating so much, bad habit. Trust me, I've said 'later' and 'tomorrow' one time too many this week. I just realised that. There are times like, be it homework, quiet time, even GAMING. I've procrastinated. "Come on, there's always time later." Right, that's when I notice why my time management has been that bad. Cause of my constant thinking of 24 hours is nothing small. Thinking again, I've treated 24 hours as 48 hours during this period, purposely extending the duration of certain tasks that shouldn't have been. Got a reflection point for this week alreadeh.

- Stop procrastinating and start self-disciplining.

Got alot of photos, wished I could upload them. But, as I've put as my learning point, due to time constraint unable to do so. :(

Sians.

Nighties.

-davidd

Yo sup sup yo sup sup yo~

2008-02-12T23:14:00.000+08:00

BUSY .

Nights.

-davidd

Ahhh... Lord.

2008-02-11T23:05:00.000+08:00

Lawl. I feel so blessed right now.

First thing first, my phone's fixed! Hahas, my sister fixed it with her magical hands. After it being spoiled for 2 weeks and going-to-repair, my sis fixed it! Woot thank God for her.

And alsoo, Central Prayer Meet rocks, really renewed me greatly. :)

School rawked, only Conversational Malay, Art, English and some Total Defence activity which we only played with the Hanah(?) painting lol.

Tomorrow get ready to cry, all the jialat lessons come out, DnT, etc. :X

But after school's CAREGROUP! So just need to PERSEVERE through that period of time hahas. :P

This week's gonna be another busy week I guess. Next week's Common Test already. So fast.

Oh well. Gotta catch some sleep. tireddness.

Nights.

-davidd

Lord, SLOW DOWN TIME LAWL.

2008-02-10T22:45:00.000+08:00

Hehehe.

Saturday, Sunday, weekends. Finishing so fast. Tomorrow's already school. :(

Service was greatttt. After service slacked for 7 hours straight. :X Then reached home slacked even more. :X Slacky day, bad for health. x.x But still, a way to release myself from the stress of CT coming soon. Lol.

And there's today, Sunday. I went studying with Suwanie and Sean at TCC(The Cash Consumer :X) for a few hours then Weijun and Edwin came. We went to Cafe Cartel to eat lunch and after that walked around PS, followed by going to Bugis. Edwin and Sean left when we went there. Browsed around, and bought a ______. It's a secret of what I've bought, cause I'm wearing it this Sat, only a few people know what I bought. A new style hahas. Got 'stunt' liao. :X Cost not so cheap sia. Hahas. Soon enough, Xiangwei came. Went shopping around more, Xiangwei bought a cardigan and a bag. Mingquan arrived so went to Pastamania to eat. Went home after eating. :)

If you notice close enough, all the places we ate at are not that cheap, neither am I rich lol. Spent closely to roughly $100 today, inclusive of everything. Wow. Gonna save up $5 each day from now on to discipline myself of my money. :D Sometimes I feel that I'm already very blessed, to have a pocket money of $10 a day, yet I still spend it all so fast away. People like BK don't even have half and they can go through a day nicely. So gonna make myself disciplined to spend only $5 a day.

LASTLY...

Chinese New Year's about to end... And Valentine's Day is just around the corner. The day of roses, hugs, kisses, expressions, and the list goes on and on. I'm spending my V-Day... alone hahas. While all my classmates have their 'steads', I'll probably be at home lazing away. :X The day when I end school early and it coincides perfectly well on a day when I'm most free, is this day. Lol. Hi God, wanna have a day with meh? :P Oh ye, Valentine's Day not only for couples and all but also expressing your love for your friends, family etc. so yupp. :) Bless one another with presents and such.

V-Day...

Nights.

-davidd

Lord, HELP.

2008-02-09T00:41:00.000+08:00

Everything seems to never go your way
You think life's unfair
That when you give your all
In the end you simply fall

This is to you now,
do not think too much
cause it's just moments away
before things fall into place

I'm so tired after the CNY IMPACT team house visitation.

From this whole day, I've learnt to cherish a very important firecracker. Central A, the family of God. I never fail to be renewed everytime I'm with them. Be it all the laughters, fun, or even the serious business, everyone's warm and welcomed. I thank God for this family. God, no matter how many hardships we have to go through together, I believe that we'll still come out in the end TOGETHER. No one left behind. Simply, because You're by our side.

Can't talk much. Getting rather late. Tomorrow service.

Nights.

-davidd

Not enough for PSP. :(

Chinese New Year's still here;

2008-02-08T01:18:00.000+08:00

The Chinese New Year period is not over yet. :P Today's been fun, be it hanging out with my couzzies or watching hours of mindless tv, it all ended well. Regarding angbao money, will think about whether to share it hahas. It's not alot but oh well. :)

School celebration was shoikk. Cause mainly I was doing the orange duty hahas. In the morning still had to do LATECOMING DUTYY. It's like, CNY still do latecoming hais. Seriously, where's the mood of the festive seasonn~ No choice, could see all the fed-up faces when they reported for being late. I was giving out oranges to the non-form teachers after my latecoming duty so enjoyed alot cause skipped most of the assembly. :X Really tiring cause need to run up down left right with a big plastic bag of oranges like Santa Claus.

After that went to RVPS to find teachers and catch up with the 6A peeps. Met Mrs Joanna Lee only, apparantly rest of the teachers went home liao lol. The security guard was kinder this time round, at least let us in without some creepy sign-in system.

All of us went to GWC to eat, then the guys went to play LAN hahas. It was frustrating as we tried the shop near Justin's house but no membership can't play, and they didn't have membership sign-up at that time. -.- Bo bian, all cabbed to Paradiz centre. We split up into 2 cabs so I accidentally told Andre's side to go to PENINSULA. But thank God called them to tell them lol. When we reached, ALL the shops(there were at least 5) either NO space or NO people under 16 allowed on school days, what rule is that lahh. So I chose the last resort, ask everyone to walk to CYBERDOME lol. Everyone was willing enough so we were like,"If there don't have I'm gonna kill myself liao". Phew, Cyberdome had space. So we DotA-ed and it was fun, although many mistakes made here and there, oh well, the whole point of it is to catch up with one another hahas.

Went home after that to go to my father's brother's house for reunion dinner. Very fullll. I enjoy going there, it's veryyy fun. :P They have a chihuahua also lol, hyperactive dog.

With a veryyy full stomach, went home.

Today mainly house-visiting, nothing much. Just more catching up with cousins and all. :)

Nights.

-davidd

Tomorrow IMPACT team coming over early in the morning!

Happy Chinese New Year!

2008-02-06T23:42:00.001+08:00

Yo!

Happy Chinese New Year!

I read many taboos about Chinese New Year, both ridiculous and sounds true alike. There are some my family follow too. Will talk about that later if I'm still having the mood to blog then lol.

And alsoo, Chinese New Year! First thing that reminds you of? Red packets lah, Blackjack/Mahjong/Gambling, goodies, reunion dinner, family gatherings, etc. PERSONALLY, when people talk to me about CNY, HONESTY, I think of red packets first hahas. It's really hard to take my mind off them really. Until I get married and having the need to give the red packets, which won't happen too soon yet, I'll continue to enjoy the 'receiving' only. :P

This is probably the second and final time of celebrating a new year, so let's really do all we can from now on. One month past through 2008, many things already changed in my life. It's interesting how time flies. Having fun or not. On Jan 1st, I was thinking how long it'll take to finish off Jan. And it's over. Now we're already in February. Very soon you'll see CG08 coming to past. And when that day comes, it'll be 2009, how fast's that? Let's take time into our hands hahas.

Happy CNY everyone, here's an angbao to you:

*opens* It contains a paper that says,"Please insert amount of money(min. $2) and pass it to David Lim Shing Yang of handphone number 9827****, 50% of all proceeds will go towards the Young Teen in Need of Cash Foundation.".

Have fun! :)

Nights, happy cny.

-davidd

Guitar.

2008-02-04T22:11:00.000+08:00

Today's been so... painful.
As in my ulcers in my mouth hurt like siao!!! T.T
Now still pain... Jialat lah lol.

Studies nothing much going on... Finished a piece of descriptive writing today, hopefully improved from the previous.

After school went to find shep with Peida at Plaza Singapura.
Bought my jeans and shirt for CNY! :D
Talked alottttt.
Rayman Raving Rabbids! So fun lol.
Random. :X
Anyways, really enjoyed the day.

Tomorrow's gonna be another exciting day ahead causee.
CAREGROUP DAY!
It's gonna be my first time being the caregroup guitarist hahas.
Pray hard I will do a good job at it. :)
The songs are really cooool.
Will reveal them tomorrow AFTER the caregroup.
Tomorrow's cg will be veryyy interesting cause of the CNY period.
Guitarism can be so hard at times...

Alright. Gotta catch some sleep..

Nights.

-davidd

Lord, tomorrow will be a day of glorifying You.

Lawl.

2008-02-03T22:47:00.001+08:00

It hurts me as much as it breaks Your heart.

Today's a busyyy dayy.

Went to Bishan stadium with Chisun, Sean, Kevin to run!
I woke up late, but everyone was late too so it was okay. :X
Completed 2.4km run, 400m sprint, 400m jog, yup. Quite fun hahas.
Made a new accomplishment! 2.4 by 11mins 40s. :)
Stopped after that cause my undigested food hit my ribcage pain like siaoo.

In the afternoon went to study with them.
Chisun cut his hair!
Practised Maths and P&W.
Met Weijun at 4pm.
Meanwhile went to find Yicong and friends with Sean.
Played around with one of 5566's songs with guitar. Then we were like in the queue waiting for them to come so funnyyy alot of people looking.
Run-through caregroup P&W with Weijun for 2 hours, ended up left fingers rough, right fingers painnn.
After which we went to shop for my clothing.
Bought new Converse shoes and Billabong shoes!

At night went with Weijun to find Taylor(ps spelling :XX).
Went to eat 'shuijiaomian'.
Then went to Tapz for awhilee.
Lastly headed to Mac to slack-talk.
Went home~

My day's been so tiring. And there's SCHOOL tomorrow! Hahas. Tomorrow's gonna be another great day ahead yo! Meeting Bernard for shepherding at PS! Shop somemore. :D

Can't wait for tomorrow. :P

Just realised got some Chinese jianbao :X

Nights!

-davidd

Lol, I feel so blessed.

Less than a day away...

2008-02-01T22:36:00.000+08:00

Lord... With all my HEART, with all my SOUL, with all my MIND, with all my STRENGTH, I BELIEVE by FAITH that what You've PROMISED will BE DONE.
MIRACLES WILL happen.
NOTHING is going to stop me from CLAIMING that LOST SHEEP by FAITH.
I KNOW You're by my side and You will NEVER just leave like that.

It's less than a day away, and I've no confirmed contacts or anything in fact. Anyway, no matter what the result is tomorrow, I'm gonna fulfil whatever that's written. God, I wrote it, signed it, it was an agreement between You, my shepherd, and me. Even if I've to reduce hair to 1cm, I don't care, cause I know I've tried my best. I've given all I have into this, and if there's still no fruits, I won't be content for sure, but I'll do what I've promised.

Since I'm left with less than a day, just gonna tell you all what I've promised.

During a particular shepherding, God, Bernard and I made a deal together.

Shepherd by 2nd Feb.
Yes - B&J Treat
No - GI Haircut

That's the promise I've made.

Lord, if You can hear me clearly, I. Don't. Care. About. The. Haircut. Why? Cause I know it's not gonna happen. What I've said above isn't gonna happen. Confirmation NEVER ends until 2.30pm. And I believe that I've still got that bit of time left in me. It's time, Lord, it's time.

I've been rejected, by many many people, many many times. I realised one thing in common. Have I ever given up? On them? Maybe. On myself? Never. I've persevered till now. And I ain't stopping here. The hill's getting steeper, but I'm getting stronger. Thanks. Even when I walk through the valley of death, Your presence is enough to make me feel warm. And now I can say I'm in the middle of it.

Oh Lord.

-davidd

I'll Never leave You;

2008-01-31T21:41:00.000+08:00

Guitarism is so underestimated.

Yesterday in school had Biology test. Really hope I do well for it, heard that alot of people are going to fail it ahh! I need those marks!

After school, things did not go that well neither. Had Archery. My score for 6 ends, which means 6 arrows each end, was 118. Why bad? It's 118 out of 360. I had 33%, which means 17% below average.

Conditions:
Date: 30th January 2008
Poundage: 26 pounds
Distance: 18m
Highest score: 37/60
Lowest score: 15/60

Typing it out cause I'm supposed to record it down lol. Thank God none of my arrows broke, I'm left with 6 out of 12 arrows... The Chosen Six to accompany me all the way haha. There's Archery tomorrow, better get a higher score... Sob. The Sec 1's are joining us starting from the week after CNY, and the Sec 1C guy who was veryy pro during the trials didn't got accepted. :( Oh wells, leave it to the coach.

Today...

Had Chinese test in the FIRST period and I DIDN'T STUDY!!! I hope I won't fail... :l I got nervousss and forgot all the words I'm supposed to know BUT forgot at that point of time. -.- Gone case lol.

Nowadays so many tests and stuffs going on... Having another test on Expanding & Factorising Algebraic Equations(I think? Lol.) next week. And the week after CNY gonna have a History class test... 2 weeks after CNY? COMMON TEST. G.G.
Gonna die studying. God help meeeeeeeee! 15% of the whole yearr!!!

I sound like I'm a nerdddd/geeeeek but in actual fact I'm concerned for my studies only cause of the fact that I need that ideal subject combination next year. Ok so maybe I'm slightly one. :l

Had shepherding today with Bernard and PeiDa. It's very fun causee Peida and I were crapping and playing all the way hahas. We ate Burger King and went to the library to slackkk until BK(Brandon Kang :P) came. Talkedd alot, then went home.

Can't wait for Saturday. Cause when Sat comes, it tells me that there's only 2 more days of school Monday to Wednesday then 4 days of holidays! Woot! :) Just need to perservere for ONE MORE SCHOOL DAY first.

Wait, 1st Feb's tomorrow. Which means... I've one day left to get my first sheep to come down for service!!! GOD PLEASE BLESS ME GREATLYYYY. I REALLY NEED YOUR BLESSING. Or else my hair's gone. Lol. :S I won't concentrate on the hair, nor the treat, but God and the sheep. Gotta be a righteous shepherd for God. Woe not to me, but to Mr. SA Tan.

Sians.. 10pm. Gotta sleep soon I guess. Nothing's gonna stop me from finding scattered sheep tomorrow morning. And I can bet on it. It's gonna take even more than 40 days of temptations to stop me. Cause tomorrow's the day when I shine, not for myself, but for Him.

Nights.

-davidd

I may be in this world, but doesn't mean I'm gonna fall to it.

2008-01-29T22:28:00.000+08:00

Caregroup's great.
School's great.
Oral's great.
Everything's great. :)

Nights.

-davidd

Yawns.

2008-01-27T23:19:00.000+08:00

Desmond and me, just finished a day of mugging and all.

Weekends just pass so fast, thank God that He's not the type that enters during Saturday mornings and leave at night but He's the type who stays throughout the WHOLE WEEK! :)

Yesterday was service day, did MM duty, went for Shepherds' Meet.
Gonna be a righteous shepherd for God.
The sermon and teaching was so obvious.
God was talking to quite a number of us.
Step up and lead!
But where to find the people to lead?
That's when we being the shepherds come in.
Let's give our best shepherds-to-be, and be a shepherd.

I'm gonna try to get Dave to recommit himself again, I'm not going to give up on this sheep. No matter how far he runs, I'll pursue him until the very end. Saw this cool shirt today, it said, "The journey is long, SO WHAT?". So what? God's there by my side, no one else can stop me from finishing this journey!

I'm reading this book borrowed from Weijun, entitled Just like Jesus. It's an interesting book, Max Lucado really puts the points straightforward with stories and so on that hit my heart.

And then today had study group with a bunch of fun and enthusiastic people all the way at Sembawang hahas. Finished my workload to hand up tomorrow, except ART which I'm doing later.

I've a new member in my family! And he's... not named yet.

Meet -insert name here-! I was surprised cause no one told me anything until I reached home lol. It's quite cute!!! Hahas. Another stress reliever, can use it as a stress ball. :X If I use it like that I tell you I also will get tortured the same way haha.

Okay, gotta chiong Art. Thank God for the day. :)

Nights.

-davidd

Even though not a puppy, but a hamster will do (for now :P)

Rushing, wished I could tesser.

2008-01-26T01:38:00.000+08:00

Ahh, I've been rushing around alot today lol. Started in the morning when all of us woke up at 6.30am and ended up having only 5mins to chiong everything before leaving the house. Unfortunately we left later so my dad had to rush my sister and me to schoool. After school rushed to CC for Archery, then rushed to Somerset for MM practise, and rushed home before my house door got locked.

How I wished I could tesser. I'll explain tesser again another time, but if you want you can just search it up on google by googling tesseract.

I'm super tired at the moment, this week has been tiring, and the week next will be even more hahas. It's time to renew and refresh myself during this weekend, and go back to school with an open and ready heart.

With all my heart, soul, might, I'll raise Your name up high.

Ok that was random but yup I really mean it.

Tomorrow's service day! Gonna be tiring but so much load of fun. :) I thank God for the fast week, and January's finally coming to an end, then it'll be 5 months till camp! Haha!

Gonna go get some sleep, shagg'ed.

Nighties.

-davidd

P.S. I need strength!

Stop, drop, but don't roll off.

2008-01-23T20:56:00.000+08:00

Yo! Just finished with my IPW homework... Took me 'bout 1 hour to complete, *pats myself on the back* Then realised I still got Chinese to finish, *sigh*. Oh well, hahas. I slacked for two hours before starting on my work so I guess this is self-retribution lol.

Had the Archery trials today, lots of fun teaching the Sec 1's how to shoot. Some of them got very high potential hahas, could already spot a few that would get in, there were also some who... well... made me feel scared. They aim until I don't dare stand near them sia. I remember last year during our own selections, meaning my batch, got one guy shoot the wall the arrow reflect back towards us. And it's quite hard to dodge the arrow you see, cause for the selections you only needed to shoot 5m away fom the board so yup it's very near.

Was supposed to meet Bernard today for SHEPHERDING with Peida but Peida had CCA and I accidentally told him that I couldn't make it so postponed to Saturday.

And I found a new way of relieving my stress in times of well, stress!

I decided to start a new character in Maple hahas. Say hello to SyDavid! I didn't have a name in mind so ya... haha. He'll be my stress-releaser when I'm super tiredd and in a slackish mood. He's in Aquila so feel free to add him! :D

Speaking of which, the news just showed something about 'O' level results so reminded me of my shepherd also! Bernard Ong is getting his results tomorrow!!! I'm gonna pray hard that he gets at least a B3 for Maths... Not really worried for the rest of his subjects, only Maths hahas. SHEP YOU CMI DE! And in this case, I'm talking about CAN make it incase you're thinking the other way round. :P

And I reflected on these lyrics.

This is my desire
to honour You
Lord with all my heart
I worship You
all I have within me
I give You praise
all that I adore
is in You

Lord I give You my heart
I give You my soul
I live for You alone

Every breath that I take
Every moment I'm awake
Lord have Your way in me

I was talking alot to Brandon and Weijun about this song, cause when the day comes and I become a caregroup guitarist, Weijun would want this song. So he told me to practise and ask Brandon as much as possible about this song hahas.

Back to my point, I prayed, then practised this song. I realised that for the first two-three times I played, I felt nothing. I recalled times when people said that when I play, there's no mood to it. And I understood why while playing this alone. I decided to read through the lyrics and grasp the meaning, and this is the outcome.

Surrendering all I have, it being my desire, all I have within me, I will give it all to You. I will give you my heart, give you my soul and with all my heart, all I adore is in You.

Actually this song is a simple song to understand. It's whether we mean it or not. Even the most heart-touching song cannot touch hearts if the people performing it have not been touched by it yet.

I thank God for this understandingg.

There's nothing much tomorrow, only interesting subject I'm looking forward to is still IPW, it really keeps me working hahas. After that gonna go back to RV to pick up my sister, meanwhile wishing a happy birthday to Mdm Mok. :)

I still remember the times I really made her go crazy in class. I hope she doesn't remember. :X

Okay, quite tired now, gonna go off.

Nights.

-davidd

*sigh* Work piling... Higher and higher...

EDIT:

Some random photos recently.

My ministry 'workplace'

Brandon and me~ I finally realised how natural smiles are always the best. :)

2008-01-22T22:57:00.000+08:00

Ahhh. Again, with less than like 20mins, to blog. Time's running fast haha.

Had English Oral and Maths Base Test(Proportion) today...
No one told me about the base test, I asked Dylan and he just told me, forgot. _.- This is the 3rd test I don't know about... Gotta make very clear sure about which tests did I not manage to take down. English Oral went pretty well, it's very funny how it happened haha. Before the exams we were in the classroom just reading books or doing work then I remembered there's this encouragement card from Suwanie that I have not read ever since it was given so I decided it was the best time to take it out. I realised that I have not opened it since the day it was given... Like, Saturday? Haha. It really helped me alot, even the message on the front of the card. :D Thanks for the card hahas.

Something sad happened though, the examiner, before I left, to indicate it was the end of the exam just said,"I'm done with you.". SCARY RIGHT? Really gotta pray that I got good marks. :)

My Maths, I'm foreseeing a 12/20 for Maths... :X I didn't have time to revise my direct proportion soooo, I only scored for map scale and inverse. x.x Die liao lol.

Then there's caregroup after school, which was really fun. CA1 and CA4 had combined caregroup! The song, Eagle's Wings, reminded me of how God's my refuge and I can count on Him to carry me through, all the time. The teaching, even though I learnt it before, once again reminded me on how God treats others. These few days have been rather rough, my attitude towards certain classmates wasn't the most bliblical ever, and I apologise for that. Lately I've been really stressed out in school, so I'm saying sorry if you've felt my wrath recently. Caregroup's a very renewing thing you see, it helps to renew your spiritual self after a week of tiredness and all. Yupp.

Today's been really tiring... Tomorow's Archery Selection Trials, really pray that the Sec 1's will do a great job, cause only 15-16 out of 41 people are going to be inside Archery. After that gonna go meet Bernard and Peida for 'shepherding' haha.

I thank God for this day, despite the fact that I'm nearly closing my eyes already... I've been truly blessed today by many people, and I hope to bless other lives in the near time. :)

PRAY FOR MY FIRST SHEEP TO COME TO PAST! THEN BERNARD WILL TREAT MY SHEEP AND I TO B&J! :D

-davidd

Oh Lord, 1 week++ left before my B&J TREAT! I'm gonna have to work hard...

Salt&Light in this World;

2008-01-21T22:45:00.000+08:00

Got barely 20mins or so to blog so yup gonna make full use of it. :)

Today there was a WFL on Walking Across the Room. It's really interesting how Zachery and Winnie puts it hahas. Evangelism can really be as easy as walking across a room. I thank God I attended this WFL, cause I decided to really give my best in getting at least 4 contacts before I leave school each day. Or else my hair's gone. More to that when I decide to talk about it. :) This teaching has really helped me to understand fully WHY I'm doing this and HOW to do this, really encouraged me alot. I've been rejected over the past week and so, but I'll perservere, like a cat, cause there are lost sheep all scattered across this land, waiting for us to just walk across and bring them back. I learnt alot, be it the fun activity or the footsteps.

Today's been a really exciting and yet exhausting day. Tomorrow's gonna be very jialat also but I believe I'll have fun in the end, cause of caregroup haha. I want to be a caregroup guitarist AFTER I get my first sheep, and that's a promise. Cause Brandon mentioned this criteria of being a cg guitarist, spiritual. Till I get my first sheep, I don't think I'll ever understand the true meaning of this word, so I shall make sure I complete this goal before completing my others.

Gotta go, my time's up haha.

-davidd

P.S. CAREGROUP GONNA BE FUN!

Time is flying... while having fun or not.

2008-01-20T23:05:00.000+08:00

As my last post suggests... My timetable has been really packed lately. Even at this time I'm supposed to go to sleep, been pushed alot of times already to go but I decided to just post before going.

Recently lots of stuffs have been going on, be it my really special shepherding, study groups, service, slacking, many many things. And these many things are those that really change my life. I realised, looking at myself 1 year back and now, wow I'm deeply shocked.

I thank God for this really great life-changing transformation that will be tedious but it'll be fruitful in the end.

Sorry can't post photos at all, seriously running out of time for everything lol.

They say time flies while you're having fun, I think you having fun or not, it'll still fly, without waiting for you in the first place.

Alright, got pushed again, fineeeee. I'm going to sleep.

Update soon.

-davidd

I simply pray for one thing, TIME.

Oh Lord... -.-

2008-01-15T22:18:00.000+08:00

Ahhh! I'm really going crazy!

Ok I've not posted for a loooong time and this place is getting filled with webbies. *clears* Anyway, I'm gonna scream out loud about my timetable before I chiong my work!

LORD!!! Why my timetable so jialat one?!

Monday: End at 1.50pm (FOR ONE DAY ONLYYY)
Tuesday: End at 3.30pm (+ CAREGROUP AFTER THAT!)
Wednesday: End at 6pm (CAUSE OF CCA!!!)
Thursday: End at 3pm (STILL VERY LATE!!!)
Friday: End at 6pm (CAUSE OF CCA ALSO!!!)

I mean seriously lah! I thought this kind of timetable will only occur to me for ONE WEEK but it's gonna be like that until the MIDDLE OF MAY leh! Waaa! I really feel like going nuts! I thought CCA would only be for FRIDAY but now they want us to join the SEC 1'S on WEDNESDAY! WHY? I mean seriously, I need to mug! Supposedly in the first place I thought you wouldn't touch my Friday's but no, I'm still not free from Friday! Friday's the day where I get to chill and do my work/study in a library which air-conditioned and allow me to take a step slower to renew my strength but noooo, now I've to stand up in a hot and stuffy area and hold a bow in my left and an arrow on my right, trying to aim some circle target.

But then, I don't mind the fact that I've caregroup/shepherding, basically ministry stuffs on those days but NOT some stuffs I don't really care about! :X Ok actually I do care about my CCA but I don't like it affecting TWO DAYS of my week. And I'm to live with this timetable for at least 5 months... So better start loving it. Sec 1 to Sec 2 is a really big advancement, lots more pressure and stress just because of SUBJECT COMBINATIONS.

I know that Maris Stella stopped offering double pure Science since last year, which is something I still can't get over, but there's really a big difference between one pure and combined AND triple pure! I want to do the middle but can't! Hais.

My time is seriously limited... I really need to catch up quickly or else I'm a goner.

On the good side, I'm really happy that I've got people that are backing me up while I'm on this mountain-climbing experience. It's a drop and you're gone thing so yup I thank God that when I'm gonna drop, I'm always lifted back up. I love this family of God. :D

*Yawn* Mom's gonna be home soon and I'm gonna get my supper soon. :)

-davidd

Lord, I pray hard, that my efforts will pay off really soon, Marists 7, remember that. Amen.

Darkest night;

2008-01-08T22:26:00.000+08:00

Lord, why am I facing the darkest night right before a few days of so-called fun, excitement?
Why am I feeling this situation that you're just simply not around?
Why don't I sense your presence during this important time?
All I need is an answer from you. An answer. An explaination. Just a short one will do, I just want to feel reassured.

And yet I'm not going to give in to the above.
Lord, I'm going to TRUST AND HAVE FAITH in You this night, even though how dark it may seem.
If you seem to be away, I'll run after You until I know you're there.
Cause I belive in You. No one else will do.
You are my only Hope. You are the Boat on which I Float.
You're the reason why I live.
You're the reason why I believe.
You're the reason why I stand.
You're the reason why I can.
You're the reason of my everything.
And I know, You'll be there, for me.
Anytime. Anywhere.

I feel so much reassured, thanks.

Nights.

-davidd

P.S. See you all on Friday, got Sec 1 Orientation camp till then. *I'm going to help out, I didn't retain...

Down down down...

2008-01-07T22:12:00.000+08:00

Ok continuing from yesterday.

Just a recap from yesterday, when you stop, you'll eventually fall. You might as well just not even start from the start? If you're planning to stop somewhere through, what's the point of even starting? Oh wait, you've no choice? No choice whether to start or stop? I'm telling you straight, you can choose to end your life by suicide ANYTIME. BUT, there's always things that will stop you from doing so. Same reasoning, you can choose to stop BUT there are things that will stop you from doing so.

Examples: Relationships(Family, friends, BGR, etc.), career(high-up job), and the list goes on.

Everyone has their own reasons why they're not stopping. And some people still end up losing their reasoning, and sad to say, leave this world. I'm not encouraging you to do the same but I'm trying to DISCOURAGE you from doing so and ENCOURAGE you to do the RIGHT thing.

Back to yesterday's "package". I've learnt from my History teacherrr. Sometimes in life, we don't even get to choose who we are stuck with. Classic example, classmates. "Eh that guy guai kia sia, don't find him lah." "Walao, you know that girl reputation like crap like that, still ask her out for what?" These situations happen ALL THE TIME. EVERYWHERE. EVERYONE. Yes, EVERYONE. Everyone has the experience of doing this. We judge others. That's the thing, sometimes we can't choose who we're stuck with. And we've to accept all of them as a package, no matter what. If you know you're gonna be with them for a year or so, START ACCEPTING THEM. KNOW THEM BETTER. UNDERSTAND THEM. This way we can TRAIN ourselves for the incoming times when these things will come again.

Likewise, project work. Sometimes we get to choose who we're with. Sometimes we're just randomly put together. And when you find that you're with someone who you can't cooperate well with, and he/she feels the same towards you, be the one who GIVES IN. It's for the benefit of the WHOLE GROUP. I know you won't want to get a "F" just because of this silly problem going on. Be the one to know that person better to work towards a common goal, the "A".

I'm gonna stop here, yupp. In conclusion. Accept All. The "A" to success is right infront of you.

For the past few days, been doing alot of work... Hahas. Gonna summarise in points.
- Chinese's really irritating, I mean, so much workload. -.-
- Math's fun! :X
- Got my $250 bursary~~~
- Chiong-ed homework with Clara.
- MARIS DIDN'T HIT OUR GOAL OF 1 CONVERT.

Ok that's my rough summary wahaha. Don't really remember much. Anyways, Marists, let's work hard together, TRUST one another, and complete CG08 together, as a group of strong blibical gentlemen of Christ.

Nights.

-davidd

Photos up soon. ><"

100th post!

2008-01-06T23:48:00.000+08:00

This might be a little sad butttt, HAPPY 100TH POST!!! to myself wahaha. Yup this is my 100th post lols.

Also...,

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CLARENCE!

Hahas, this is for not remembering your birthday for the 3 hours spent in that boooooooooring auditorium. :D

My Sec 2 teachers are soooooooo different. I've got fun, strict, identify-with-us, booring, exciting, interesting, all in one package of 2oo8.

While on this subjecttt, I'm gonna talk about the package thing hahas. Cause this is one of my goals for 2oo8, accepting people. One of the equations is, Love = Accept. When we love others, we accept them for who they are. We don't only look at their good points or point out their bad points, from the start of accepting them, we accept ALL of them. The WHOLE PACKAGE. Good or bad, you still accept it. That's something I really want to see this year not only for me personally, but the whole group of CA. Let's not leave anyone out but bring them in EVEN MORE. To make them feel welcomed.

Central A is a new group now, combining the land of even more Toa Payoh and Bishan which will allow us to ascend to GREATER HEIGHTS, SOARING over the barren land even more to SAVE SOULS.

There's this small passage about Aaron. He said this, "I will make a difference between My people and your people." Let us not be ordinary people wandering on the world but MAKE A DIFFERENCE in ANYWHERE we are now. Whether we're pioneering, growing our group, or studies, sports, let's do our best to be OUTSTANDING. RISE UP TO DO IT. Have you ever tried being a bird? When you fly, you fly. When you stop, you drop. You don't stop and just hang in the air, you'll drop, all the way.

When you rise, you rise. But when you stop, you drop. - Random thought

It's true. Listen. This not only applies to the x-tians but everyone. Even in the world, those who do not be the bosses will end up being? Workers. I'm not saying that workers are not important, even workers have their own importance in the group too. But, what I'm trying to say is, you are under ALL-RANGED FOCUSED-FIRE when you're all the way down. You can go out of job anytime, and never pick up. This is a mentality of the world, when you don't catch up, you're a goner. It's a survival-of-the-fittest in the world, and if you don't even give a care of doing anything, then just stop. Cause eventually you'll stop too, so don't waste your energy.

I'll continue tomorrow... I'm really going over my head cause I've seen too many people wasting their lives. So in order not to boom, tomorrow.

NIGHTS.

-davidd

I pray for people to stop wasting their lives like garbage.

Whole new year of skool...

2008-01-01T22:11:00.000+08:00

Yupsss it's a new year of school... Which means, new teachers, new friends, new books, new stationary, new year of EVERYTHINGG. Which includes... Haircut. Wahaha randomness ok here's the photos of my haircuttttt. :X

You seldom see me doing this hahas. :P I cut my hair with Weijun! We wanted Hair De Glory but in the end no choice closed so needa cut at EC House hahas.

Anywaysss, I would want to share all my resolutions but apparantly my mom wants me asleep asap so share them probably tomorrow or later(if my mom's willing of course).

For yesterday, Central A had its own CA East Coast Year-End Event! Hahas so cool. We cycled, played ballll games, anddddd someone nearly got thrown into the sea... *phew* It was pure funnn hahas. The videos can be found on Yicong's blog... It's under my sidebar. I was so 'high' lah yesterday. :D Thank God for the final day of the year to be such pleasureeee and memorablee, before school starts... Which is teh exact opposite.. I want to put up the photos but no timeeee. T.T I shall promise to post them up tomorrow... For sure.

To tell you guys the truth, I don't feel much of a difference between 2oo7 and 2oo8... As in the difference of the 31st of Dec and 1st of Jan, don't feel anything. x.x Buttttt I'll make sure it'll be a difference as the gap goes on to the 1st of Feb/Mar/Apr/May/Jun... Causeeee many things are gonna change around here. :) As time goes byyyyy, I'll constantly update the difference of every month... And it's one thing I'll never forget. :)

Gonna make sure I at least get to know one of those ~~cute little boysss~~ new Sec 1's in school tomorrow. Ok the striked out one sounds wrong... Fine. I'm gonna see at least 7 Marists by 1st Feb. :) 4 WEEKS/SERVICES, LET'S MAKE IT HAPPEN IN OUR SCHOOL! :D

Studies side... Let's do our best.. Even if we hate any subject haha. I'm trying to make myself like Chinese even though I really hate it lots, so you've to give your effort too wahahaa. :)

Ok can't post much.. Just got pwned by my dad. :( :P

Nights... Happy New Year... Haha..

-davidd

P.S. I REALLY DON'T WANT TO SLEEP AT 10.30PM!!!

Happy New Year!

2007-12-31T23:38:00.000+08:00

It's a 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 andd.....

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2008 EVERYONE! :D

Hehe... Didn't post for the last few days.. In the end today end of year already so fast. :X Anyways, HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!

2008 is a year of opportunities, a year of possibilities, a year of EVERYTHINGGGG! ANOTHER 365 DAYS! Let's make full use of them, and do the best we can with them! :) Let's not waste any day, but go through each day as if they were the last day of our lives! Spend each day wiselyyy, plan well cause 15mins of planning saves 1 day of hard work. :) I don't know if you enjoy hard work but I'd rather plan haha. JIAYOU BA EVERYONEEEEEEE! :D

Psalm 39:5 You have made my days a mere handbreadth; the span of my years is as nothing before you. Each man's life is but a breath. Selah

Our lives are but a breath, so let's cherish every moment we have. :)

-davidd

I thank You;

2007-12-25T15:57:00.000+08:00

Right... Finally back from my Genting trip hahas! :D I'll upload all the photos another timeeee, today's post gonna be on Christmas! :)

Yesterday Central A had our very own Unit Appreciation Night! I don't get it though hahas, I was so nervous lah while video-ing the appreciation for Brandon, and yet I can just say it easily when seeing him face to face wahaha.

That's the video of the unit appreciation hahas. Didn't get the opportunity to appreciate the group/a person in the group for 3mins soooo, I'm gonna put up my appreciation now! :D

I've seen Central A grow ever since it was there, 6 months ago to be exact. We faced ups and downs but I thank God that everyone is there to support one another! I thank everyone for your enthusiasm and hard work during this period to hit 25! Even though we were stagnant for the past few months, I thank everyone for their faithfulness towards this family hahas. Thanks for changing me, and I appreciate the effort by the pillars of Central A to grow everyone! I thank God for the vision for every school to have their own service in their very own school hall. :)

Then I want to appreciate my shepherd Bernard! You are the one who seen me through my whole time in church, I thank God for you. Without you, I won't be here today. Thanks for sacrificing to retain me hahas. And also, without you, I won't be who I am now! You've impacted my life in many ways, thanks. You are a great leader and role model for me to look up to! I thank you for being my shepherd, careleader, friend, and brother. Always looking out for me! Da ge shi dui de! :)

That's my appreciation for Central A and my shepherd! And nexttttt, the photos hahas.

Watching Mr. Bean's Holiday!

My first time eating log cake wahaha.

Central A eating log cake!

Central A camwhoreeee time haha.

Brandon and me!

Weijun and me!

Green/Black/Yellow lol'ness.

Again!

Chisun and me!

Zyann and me! (They say we look like bro and sis wahaha)

Suwanie and me! Black and white don't enjoy being friends wahaha.

Hahas camwhore with my presents and cards!

My presents and cards received from Central A! :D

That's alll. Merry Christmas everyone! :D

I wish you a Merry Christmas,
let all your wishes come true,
this time be a time of blessings,
and a joyful time ahead of you!

-davidd

P.S. Jesus, I really want that puppy.

Merry X'mas

2007-12-24T23:55:00.000+08:00

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

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Hahas, thanks Suwanie for giving this cute picture lols.

I wish everyone a joyful and merry Christmas! :D Gonna update later hahas. :) For now,

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR! :D

-davidd

Lord, I pray for everyone.

2007-12-18T22:03:00.000+08:00

Since this is probably my last few posts before I leave Singapore for the next 4 days... I'll just say everything I want to. :)

1. CENTRAL A1

Brothers, we made this pact together, not everyone was there, but still, we're all in this together, as one community. We WILL make it. We WILL succeed this. We WILL win this. Central A1 has been around for like what, 6 months+? We've been through bad&good times together. We've seen people come in and go, but the rest that are still in here, let us together understand that we will NOT be influenced by those who leave but STAY STRONG and CONTINUE STRIVING for HIM.

I've said we/us and together, why? Cause as mentioned, we're one community. We're not talking about any "I" or "me" here, we, are one group together, a band of brothers, ready or not, will get this job done. At the end of the day, "My good and faithful servantS", will all of us as a whole.

2. Central A

Most of us should remember this, yep, First Frontier Camp. We've bad hairdays, but that's not the concern. The thing is, look at this now.

Even though it's blur, you can roughly tell who's in there. This is well, X29 Camp. The official 6-month mark of Central A together. The very same place, the very time.
The only different? Not the same people. We see people in the first photo that aren't in the second photo, and that isn't good. We see people in the second photo that weren't in the first photo, that's good. I thank God for the people who came for the first time, but not the other way. Where are the people from the first photo missing in the second exactly... That's the question.

I've no idea but this Christmas, it's really the best time to bring them back. The Christmas service is probably like 4 days away? 4 days to pray/fast and ask them back. I know God will joyfully be there during service to melt and open hearts, that's for sure. It's us. I won't be there on the Saturday, BUT I'm still taking the effort and using the remaining time to go all out and invite people down. I'm not doing this cause Brandon said whoever doesn't bring anyone has to jump off the building, but I'm doing this for the people I'm trying to bring down. They aren't saved, anything can happen anytime.

I recently went to this funeral of a person who took care of me when I was a few months old till 3 years old. I've not seen him for 10 years even though he has taken of me during my first few years. I thank him for being there for me. He has that spirit of sacrificial when he doesn't expect me to repay him or even visit him at all. Even I myself do not know about him until his death.

I'm trying to say, HE DIDN'T KNOW GOD. ANYTHING can happen ANYTIME, ANYWHERE, ANYHOW. WE do not know WHEN, only GOD knows. And when His timing is there, that's it, one more soul gone. We may know God, but we're being selfish when we don't bother sharing Him to others. I'm trying to stress and emphasise the importance of the sense of urgency when it comes to such things. For all you know, anyone of us could just have a heart attack. Who knows? Only God. Yup.

Jiayou ba Central A. 25. End of Year.

3. Central

It's the same thing as what I wrote for Central A. Just read the 2nd point. Only 3 phrases changed.

Jiayou ba Central. 255. End of Year.

4. GENERAL

Hey peeps, take care k? Anything you do, do it the best you can! Don't let anything stop you, persevere and persist. Just make sure you're doing things that are beneficial and not only permissible. :)

5. PRAYER

Ok lastly, I'm gonna pray for everyone yup.

Lord, I pray for everyone that they will be safe, and will not fall sick or be hindered by anything unimportant during this season. I also want to bless the people who are still sick to be healed during this period, and those who are in need, be with them, encourage them, help them. Support them all the way. Do not let their problems overcome them. Thanks Lord, I also want to pray for the visitors this Saturday, let them really enjoy themselves Lord that You will melt their hearts and they will add to the number that are being saved. Lastly, I want to thank You Lord for always being there for me and everyone, when we are really in tough times. Thanks, continue being the best friend we can ever have. :) In Jesus' name I pray, Amen.

See ya guys, take care...

Nights, for the next few days.

-davidd

I really want to say this, but still I'm trying to make everyone feel happier.

X29 CAMP CONTINUED;

2007-12-13T23:00:00.001+08:00

This is the 3rd post for X29CAMP! Read the post below this for the rest of the photos!

Brandon&Me! Notice how different his hair is. :P And he's wearing the Marist PE shirt! Haha!

Brandon, Bernard, Me. Grandshepherd/Shepherd, Shepherd/Sheep, Grandsheep/Sheep. :D

-davidd

4th post coming up sooon.

X29CAMP! :D

2007-12-13T17:57:00.000+08:00

I would really love to tell the story of what happened during camp, and I will, for the next post that is. This post will be sole photos. :D

X29CAMP!

FIRST DAY;

Central A's load for camp! All... Messed up.

Centralites cheering for Central! :D

Central A1! :D

Central A, with its culture of opening sparkling juice every camp. And Brandon told me it was 51% alcohol! Which obviously wasn't... It's our 2nd time doing this already, let this culture continue working its magic in us.

DAY 2!

Massaging the person on your left to refresh yourself during sermon, and no, I wasn't sleeping.

DAY 3!

Central A1, the craziest bunch of peeps I know hahas.

DAY 4!

Central A, together as a whole.

X29, get it? ><" Anyway we look like we're flying hahas.
Weijun&Me being crazy. :P

Central A being fun as it is! :D

CENTRAL itself being fun as it is! :P

Bernard&Me showing our shepherd-sheep relationship hahas.

Brandon&Me being joyful!!!

Brandon&Marists, the Strong Brotherhood.

CentralNorth! :D

This is roughly all the photos I have ba for now. If anyone has anymore photos send me! Hahas. :D

News flash, I can't go for Christmas service/party. I'm leaving for Genting from Thursday/Friday to Sunday. So have fun everyone, hope to see you soon. Jiayou Central A, let's bring down all our friends. Jiayou ba everyone.

-davidd

Dry my tears.

I'm revived;

2007-12-12T18:36:00.000+08:00

X29 Camp Is Officially Over.

I'm finally back at last.
No one will stop me from realising This.
That God's supporting me all the way.
The Volcano is finally Erupting.
It had to overcome many Challenges to Wait for this Moment
Then It'll Spread Its Word Throughout the Barren Land.
I Responded, I Convicted, I was Called, now to do This.
I did not realise how many Problems I had that could Easily Stumble me.
But now God gives me this new Revival, in Camp.
No more living Comfortably.
No more Comfort Zones.
No more Laziness.
No more of such Nonsense.
Why?

Cause God told me so.

I'm not gonna explain what was done physically in camp, cause it's all in the book, I'm going to explain what exactly happened in the spiritual realm.

On the first day itself, I was already blessed with a Picture. A Picture of a Volcano. At first, I thought it was God's way of waking me up cause it appeared while I was going to stone during worship and erupted, causing me to stumble and fall, standing up again. I didn't think too much of It. But, what happened was, during alter call, it erupted a 2nd time, and I wasn't stoning, I was wide awake, worshipping Him.

I kept thinking about it throughout the night. On the 2nd day, I finally understood why. God spoke, moved His hand over me. I responded, and the volcano erupted again, this time round sweeping over the land. Further understanding, the volcano represented me. As you know, volcanoes do not erupt everyday. Therefore, after a long stagnant time, it's time for this Volcano to Erupt and Spread the Word of God throughout the Barren Land of this World. The time for me to rise is NOW, not 1 year later, not half a year, but NOW.

God, You're so Good. I cried on both the 2nd and 3rd night. But they weren't tears of sorrow. They were tears of joy and memorance. God brought me up to experience Him, and I can finally say that He's so much real than I've ever thought He was.

I still remember 4 days back when I was still in Outram MRT, nearly taking the wrong train until Clara told me. Then that 40-minute train ride, and at Woodlands MRT, waiting for people. And one flash, I'm back here at home, sleeping and taking a rest from all the craziness that happened. It's really fast, 4 days. But how people used it is a different thing. I can tell myself, I've made full use of the $120 and I'm not regretting it one bit. I thank everyone who actually helped to make this happen for me, including You God.

I'm really tired and shagged, so gonna just post up photos, will scan the YO! and camp schedule... Some other day when I wake up.

Daniel&Me, The District Leader and the Careleader-To-Be

Yongen&Me, The Two Clickers

Who said Multimedia wasn't a fun ministry?

Quote from Daniel,"Pastor playing cards while the church is working." Hahas. Don't worry Ps Shirley, we know you worked hard for camp. :D

The rest of the photos are with Zyann, Weijun and Elwin so can't get them for now. Will probably post them up tomorrow yupp.

Nights.

-davidd

I feel so tired
yet I still want to praise you

Ohhhh...

2007-12-09T00:36:00.000+08:00

The time has come to stand for all I believe in.

FRIDAY;

CLC1! Ps, it's really quite late nowww, can't talk alot about it, it's the last lesson, really learnt alott. I'll share some other time, I hope. :X

SATURDAY;

Stick-making dayy. Met Brandon and the rest for a mini-meeting, really decided to honour my word of saying 'Yes'. :D Then after that went to do sticksss. From 5pm-10.30pm. :X Lemme showw youu the process through photos.

Hahas, that's the process mainly. :P My finallllll version of the stick is still...

It isn't that nice-looking, but I'm telling you, it's got hardwork written all over it, ok it's David and Beloved but you get my un-literal meaning.

I also bought two books, Satan's Bait(Dunno exact title :X) and A Love Worth Giving by Max Lucadoooooo. :D Bringing the second book to camp hehs. My camp bag very jialat, I got camp bag, guitar bag, and floorball stick. x.x Can die de hahas.

Final Checklist for David SY:
[x] Opened heart
[x] Prepared objectives
[x] Prepared to complete objectives
[x] Packed stuffs
[x] Readied mind

It's time to go, and I'm investing $120 + 4 days into this, I'm not wasting this opportunity! My second camp so far, means 6 months have past, so fast hahas. Thank God for blessing me all these while, it's already another time. First Frontier wasn't successful for me, X29 will be a new chapter. :) Get ready everyone, cause David SY is ready. Are you?

-davidd

P.S. I'll be back on Wednesday. :D

Teh Last Suppeh;

2007-12-06T23:31:00.000+08:00

I believe in the one called God, I believe He's the one most worthy...

When the Sun decides to Shine...

Can't find any Christmas trees le. :( As in the huge ones hahas. So decided to post a random photo. :D

THURSDAY;

MORNING;

COUNCILMEETING! I chiong-ed to school in Marist Hiphop shirt and jeans when it was RAINING. ><" Thank God that when the bus reached the stop, it stopped raining though. I walked up the slope with a ease of mind.

Once I reached, saw manyy councilors, but Caleb was missing. Appeared soon after and we held the meeting in the canteen. Paid the $15 for council shirt... Hope it turns out nice... ><" It's like so expensive lah. :X Talked about the Christmas BBQ and Sec 1 Orientation camp, I really wish that I can go under Caleb's team, it'll really help me build the relationship with the Sec 1's. :)

After the meeting, went back to Chinatown to find Bernard and Weijun. They were eating congee at my house downstairs! We left for Weijun's house for him to do some stuffss and went to Bishan ministry house... PLAYGROUND soon after.

AFTERNOON;

CAREGROUP!
Caregroup attendance: Bernard, Isaac, David, Peida, James, Chisun
Caregroup total: 6

We were waiting for Braynard to appear so played some games like Bomberman, etc. But most of the time wasn't really playing lor, in the end we just tau-poked Sean all the way hahas. In the end Braynard didn't turn upp though. We decided to head back to Mcdonalds at J8 to fellowshipp. Left aroundd 5.30pm with Weijun and Chisun.

NIGHT;

ASSOCIATION DINNER!
Reached home, quickly showered and change to prepare for the dinner. I'll fast forward to the dinner itself. :P

Teh menu first...
1. Cold dish(The one with the prawn+mayo, jellyfish, oyster, etc.)
2. SHARKFIN SOUP + crab meat

3. Herbal duckie
4. Red fishy
5. Doggiee(Just joking, it's roasted chicken)
6. Mushie + Veggie
7. Glutinous(sp?) ricee
8. Yam paste + Ginko nutss

I ate until so full lah hahas. It's a once per year thing so yup quite happy. Although this time round didn't win anything from the lucky draw. :( I wanted the TV, but didn't get it, it's 1st prize btw lol.

Time to share my blessings for the weeek!

PHYSICALLY;
As you know, I went cycling with Weijun, Sean, Chisun on Tuesday! It's my only exercise for the week, thank God! :D

SPIRITUALLY;
I've cleared manyyyy misconceptions. And thank God for blessing me with the exact time to go for Word for Life. :D

FINANCIALLY;

I got my scholarship for last year's results, $100! :D Thank Godddddd.

Yup that's my blessings hahas. Tomorrow I'm having Bernard and Weijun over at my house for a CoreTeam Overnight Retreat. :D And not forgeting, CLC1 tomorrow also! :)

Nights!

-davidd

~~P.S. BLOGGER'S UPLOADING SYSTEM HAS ISSUESSSS.~~
It rocks now! :D

I thank You, all the time...

If I Had Wings I Would Fly;

2007-12-06T01:39:00.001+08:00

Tonight, it's between only you and me...

Taken at Parkway Parade, with Weijun and Sean.

Ok it's late, gonna chiong abit. >.>

TUESDAY;

CYCLINGDAY. Went to East Coast Park(again) with Weijun, Chisun and Sean to cycle. Finally wore the FBT singlet I bought few weeks ago hahas. Look so funny lahs. We cycled from 2pm-6pm... 4 hours long. After cycling, Chisun had to go meet his friend so said byee to him while the rest of us went to Parkway Parade to slack and have our dinner!

We spent like 2 hours just mindlessly roaming around hahas, it's a miracle for me cause I get really bored easily for such stuffs. :P Outside the shopping centre was this huge Christmas tree with many decorations and stuffs around it, Weijun and I took ALOTTT of photos there. :X If I'm not wrong he should be posting soon. o.o

Left the place at 10pm.. ><" I took the bus 197 back, confident that I'll not end up happening like what happened on Monday butttt, in the end I overslept, went past my stop like, 30mins. Luckily this uncle told me to quickly get off, then it was dam spooky la the place. So ulu one then so many trees, even the overhead bridge also very little lightings. I prayed like siao during that period of timeee, it was already 11pm at that time.

166 came and I just took it. I stopped at my stop(at last) and headed homeee, reached home around 11.45pm. Ahh. I thank God I reached home though. :D

Last photo to end off Tuesday.

Chisun and meh.

WEDNESDAY;

CLC1! Today we learnt Outreaching and Follow Up-ing! So fun hahas, split into 'caregroups' and the lessons were more interactiveee. I cleared some misconceptions in my mind phew. I thank God for equipping me with the right toolss. :)

After WFL, we(Yicong, Suwanie, Chisun, Sean, Braynard, me) went to Plaza Sing while the rest had some stuffs onn. Slacked aroundddd, *yawns*. Oh ya we saw POKEMON!

Wahaha, childhood memories.

I want you to listen to the chorusss that was played.
It's a whole new world we live in
It's a whole new way to see
It's a whole new place, with a brand new attitude
But you've still gotta catch 'em all
And be the best that you can be

Let's switch it abit.

It's a whole new challenge we're having
It's a whole new challenge to see
It's a whole new challenge, with a brand new attitude
But you've still gotta win 'em all
And be the best that you can be

Now, go back to the FIRST theme song of Pokemon, the oldest one EVER.

I wanna be the very best
Like no one ever was
To catch them is my real test
To train them is my cause
I will travel across the land
Searching far and wide
Each Pokemon to understand
The power that's inside

Pokemon!
It's you and me
I know it's my destiny
Pokemon!
Ooh, you're my best friend
In a world we must defend
Pokemon!
Our hearts so true
Our courage will pull us through
You teach me and I'll teach you
Pokemon
Gotta catch 'em all!

Every challenge along the way
With courage I will face
I will battle every day
To claim my rightful place
Come with me, the time is right
There's no better team
Arm in arm we'll win the fight
It's always been our dream

Now, watch as I change the bolded words...

I wanna be the very best
Like no one ever was
To -insert challenge- is my real test
To -insert challenge- is my cause
I will do the most I can
Trying hard each time
Each one to understand
The power that's inside

God!
It's you and me
I know it's my destiny
God!
Ooh, you're my best friend
In a world we must defend
God!
Our hearts so true
Our courage will pull us through
You teach me and I'll teach you
God
Gotta finish 'em all!

Every challenge along the way
With courage I will face
I will battle every day
To claim my rightful place
Come with me, the time is right
There's no better team
Arm in arm we'll win the fight
It's always been our dream

Pokemon isn't just some children show, it actually teaches us many values. There are values like perserverence, postive thinking, etc. There are many many values that are all inside this show. Sometimes we should just look back and watch this cartoon, it isn't harmful at all.

After all the slacking, we went homeeee.

Tomorrow's COUNCIL MEETING-CAREGROUP-DINNER. 3 events in a day, oh joy, rush day. >.>

GoodNight.

-davidd

Christmas List:
Naughty/Nice

All I Want for Christmas Is You;

2007-12-04T00:28:00.000+08:00

Your Love endures Forever...

Another Christmas tree! Haha! I'm obsessed with them during this period hahas. I took this inside Meridien while Bernard and I were walking back to the table.

MONDAY;

CLC1! I woke up at like 10am today... And kept rolling around on the bed for 1 hour+ cause it was so comfortable hahas. Didn't feel like getting up but realised that I was gonna be late so quickly got up in the end. Chiong-ed and went to Paradiz Centre to find Weijun and his contact. Played an hour of CS with them, really enjoyed myself hahas. I also found out that he was also in River Valley Primary! But graduated like 3 years ago lah. That's one more point to get closer to him hahas.

He left afterwards then Weijun and I went for WFL! We met the rest of the people outside Nexus then everyone went their own ways(sorta haha). I went for CLC1 with Suwanie and Yicong. Daniel and Shantelle(sp?) taught us, they were really funny teachers haha! I just want to quote a few sentences. :P

The role of a Coreteam member: Sunk deeply into the words and work of Christ in order to fulfil God's purpose in our life.

Faithfulness, Availability and Teachability are important parts of being a Coreteam member.

A successful shepherd-sheep relationship is when the sheep has shared so much to the shepherd until the sheep would feel insecure(in a good way)

Wanted to quote more but maybe next time cause I'm getting tired hahas.

After CLC1, went for dinner with the restt. Then Zyann, Peida, Yicong and Suwanie went home. Weijun went for his dance practise. Brandon went jamming for JC service. We met Sinyee, Clara, Chermaine, and some other people outside Dhoby Ghaut MRT then the rest of us(Bernard, Braynard, Mark and me) went with them to watch the 30-minute band performance outside the MRT station hahas. They played all the Christmas songs, enjoyed some, some really couldn't remember, even though they were classics.

After that took a bus home with Clara. We saw this show on the TV in the bus called Funniest Pet Videos so cute! I realised that pets can be really interesting if we want them to be hehs. Clara said they got natural talent to be like that de, cool huh. When she got off, I thought the bus would turn left after that, but end up turn right, I got off the bus at the Outram interchange lol. But still could go back in the end, heng never go to some ulu ulu place or else dunno how to go home liao hahas.

Reminder to self: Get off at the Outram MRT bus stop while taking 174

Last photo before I go off.

Braynard and me! Haha, hair so jialat. :X Taken before service startedd.

Nightssss.

-davidd

Few days more till X29.

All I Want is You;

2007-12-03T00:52:00.000+08:00

You are All I Want;

SUNDAY;

SPORTSDAY! My own one anyways. I prepared everything sui sui then in the end when I was leaving my house I realised that today's some Annual Teachers' Concert thingy for my music school so lessons were cancelled. Slacked at home for 'bout extra 1 hour then left for Toa Payoh to find Sean and Chisun. We tookaway Wonton noodles and went to Weijun's house to well, find Weijun lols. Ate, took the badminton stuffs, and went down to play badminton! It was funnn, finally getting to sport... Have not sport-ed for like... Many many many days.. I've not lost much of my touch, except sprained abit of my left arm, alright noww. Slacked all the way till 10pm after playingg.

My ulcerS hurt like crappp.

Ahh. Lol. My ulcers so painn. God please take them away! Tomorrow's Word for Life and I'm going to CLC1! It's time to make new friends and learn more skills that help to grow MARISSTELLAHIGHSCHOOL! :D

Nights.

-davidd

I will live for You, always;

Christmas season;

2007-12-02T00:09:00.000+08:00

All I want for Christmas...
Is... You.

This photo was taken yesterday when the Chinatown peeps(Angela, Clara, Yk, Isaac, Me) took a bus back homee. Anyways I'll come more to that later.

What's the first thing that comes to your mind when you first see this photo?

The kids may think of Santa Claus or presents,the greedy ones maybe candy canes or presents, the traditional ones may think of looking at photo albums beside a warm fire with your closest people, religious ones may think of the born of Christ or Hanukkah, the list goes on and on.

You may have even experienced good or bad memories during this small period!

Well, personally, if you ask me, the first thing I think of when I see such trees is Christmas itself. When I look back these past few years, my Christmas has always been very different. There were times when I experienced pain(physical/mentally), there were times I experienced joy and laughter. This Christmas, I look back into memory lane, and realise how many silly mistakes I made in the past during this time, and end up laughing at them. I guess at times we think we're mature, we might be not. I used to argue this point whereby I'm matured and I knew what I was doing but when I look again, I wasn't. Hahas, how funny those times were, thank God those problems never dragged long enough. :)

Back to lifee.

FRIDAY;

CAM&CORPORATEPRAYERMEET! It was a great time, had intense worship for CAM. Really heard from God LOUDLY, thank God. :) For prayer meet, it was another intense session really, shoik lahs. My voice was gone at the end of the meet hahas. Even though everyone was tired at the end, I believe that everyone heard a Word from God yesterday. :D

After the prayer meet, I went home with the Chinatown people! That's when I took the Christmas tree photo hahas. We decided to eat supper when we reached Chinatown so went to my house downstair's porridge shop! This shop arh, very special de, 24/7 open EXCEPT MONDAYS. Yupp. Their resting day is Monday. Hehs. Anyways, we ate, crapped alottt, it was funnn. :D Reached home at 1.30am. x.x

SATURDAY;

SERVICE! I woke up early and mapled. :X Then reached Cuppage by 10.40am. I saw Zyann and Suwanie but decided to not disturb them, probably shepherding or something. So I walked to the lift and saw Daniel and went with him to the America Room to practise his worship songg while waiting for Harvesters' Meet to start. Met the rest of the unit when walked to Nexus. The meet was greattt, prayed for our schools, learnt about the Truths about Temptations by Pastor Shirley. After that slacked aroundd with teh non-PCLM/CLM peeps until service startedd. People Matter to God by Pastor Shirley and Dennis! The teaching was so funny lahs! Hahas.

Thank God for these few days, really hit me alot, reminded me that the end of 2008 is coming and I've yet to solve some issues in my life. Time to get rid of them and gotta get ready to finish this 2008 with a big bang! *BOOM*

Watch out cause January's Harvesters' Meet, you won't be seeing only 3 Marists but you'll see 7 and even more Marists in PE attire sharing how God changed everything 180 degrees. :)

Nights.

-davidd

I'll serve...
With all my heart...
With all my soul...
With all my mind...
With all my strength...

Questions;

2007-11-30T01:27:00.000+08:00

Ok, Suwanie invited me to do her True Friend Test and so from there I decided to make my own also hahas.

Create your own Friend Test here

One question I didn't include there but I want you peeps to guess at my tagboardddd. Quite obvious de actually hahas.

Most admired character in the Bible:
A) Jesus
B) Isaiah
C) David
D) Paul

I'll reveal the answer, some days later hahas. :D

Okay anyways, continue on...

THURSDAY;

Caregroup day!

People attended: Bernard, Braynard, Isaac, David, Chisun, James, Peida, Elwin
Total attendance: 8
Roles:
Games: Isaac
Holy Comm.: David(:D)
Testimony: Elwin&Peida
Sharing: Bernard

Today's caregroup quite unique hehs. Weijun led games, and his game is called Guess the Photo. Basically, he'll show a photo that's zoomed in many many times and we have to try to guess the photo. When we think it's too zoomed, we request to be zoomed out abit more until eventually someone gets it! Very funnn hahas. I led Holy Comm. after that. It went quite smoothlyyy, except lappie wasn't working when I needed to see something. Oh wells. Elwin and Peida shared their testimonies! :)

Bernard shared a few points, and he mentioned something important,"It's not the number of contacts we have, it's the SOW that counts." At times we really have to think, are we evaxing and leaving the contacts aside? Do we take time to SOW on them? If we are just throwing them at one corner, then might as well not evax at all? Seriously, from my point of view, if you just evax, and not care about working on them, don't bother evaxing in the first place. There is really no point. You're wasting time, money, paper, trees, most importantly, lives. One life is wasted when you throw one contact aside. You may not see the importance in this one life but let me tell you, every life matters to God. I'm not directly 'shooting' or discouraging anyone here, but just wanna tell you this, please change. Not for me, not for your shepherd, not for your leaders, but for God.

Anyways, caregroup is more lenient this time round causeee as ESS ended and we're all getting ready for camp! This time is a time for rest, and renewal of our spiritual being and have a prepared heart for camp! Cause after that, it's time to work hard again cause the end of the year is coming. :)

Tomorrow's CAM. :D

-davidd

Christmas;

2007-11-28T17:51:00.000+08:00

Some things cannot be expressed through mere words that are black, blocky.

-davidd

Lalala;

2007-11-27T14:30:00.000+08:00

Some of us still living in dreams
when the most crucial period has arrived
The end of end times
The Omega
The End
is already here
and wasting our life away;

I'm gonna skip the whole of the previous week... Really can't remember much, gonna fast forward to yesterday.

MONDAY;

Membership class! I'm officially a member of Hope Church Singapore hahas. Pastor Shirley revealed her Chinese name, she said it's a secret. o.o And she taught us about membership also hehs. I shared testimony in class! I didn't expect that there were so many people, very nervous lols. But I really feel that there are people in there who needed to hear that story, to encourage themselves yups, cool huh. Here's my testimony just for readingg.

Hello I’m David from Central A and today I would like to share with you all how my life has changed after I have come to Hope Church!

Before I came, I was a really notorious person in school.

Every word that came out from my mouth had a vulgarity, I start to fight with others when I’m not happy or “bu shuang”. There was even this one incident that I hit this random guy who just walked past me, I just punched him in the face and spouted vulgarities at his face just because he was staring at me *paiseh*. I was prideful, always taking full opportunity to be the ‘teacher’s pet’, just that the teachers didn’t know that I was actually doing everything behind their backs!

I always claimed credit for everything I did and enjoyed being envied by others. Till now I still remember the countless times of project work that I have done that I made known to everyone how they were the best presentation. For some reason, Maris Stella High is not that well-known for presentations cause even our Head of Special Projects in the Student Council types our principal’s name from Brother Chanel to Brother Channel.

Moving on, I was also an independent person, and when I say independent, I don’t like others helping with things. Even during projects, there was once a Geography project and the credits ended up with only my name on it under all the titles, Leader, Information Finder, Presentation Prepare, Editing, etc.

And my time management was very haywire cause I didn’t really had a schedule at all, just slacking all day long. I used to just go home, on my computer, and just lay on the bed for the whole day, for all 7 days of the week. I didn’t care too much about homework haha, mostly rushing or copying them in the classroom before school starts. I even had plans like, if the subject was after recess, I would chiong them during recess or even during the lessons before recess.

Many people hated me, few actually enjoyed what I was doing, even parents treated me as a bad influence. The worst thing is, I enjoyed being like this!

One day, a guy by the name of Chicky brought me down for service through a survey. I tell you ah, I was really shocked that he just walked up to me with Braynard by his side while I was buying milo from the machine and the thing is, there were two giants in front of me at that time. Anyways, Chicky invited me down in the end! God’s perfect timing took place and I renewed my relationship with Christ once again on 7th April 2007.

Ever since then, I’ve changed, a lot. It wasn’t an easy time changing 180 degrees but now, I actually live a life that serves much more meaning than that! I finally knew and understood my life purposes, to serve God and others. I actually become more sociable, able to talk to strangers as if they have been my friend for 5 years, and the thing is, I actually had a circle of friends that are a good influence to me and helped me grow. I no longer throw punches around but I throw high-fives and waves haha!

I am no longer that lonely guy cause I have God always by my side, always free to console me when I’m down, free to listen to me when I have the urge to say everything on my mind, free to celebrate with me when I’m in high spirits.

My way of thinking also changes, I stop thinking negatively. I treat discouragements just as another challenge from God, and I put God in the picture, magnifying Him instead of the problem. I knew that when I focus on the challenges, I stumble and fall but when I focus on God instead, the challenges will fall. The bigger the challenge God gives, the bigger the victory I will receive and the best part is, He is always there to bring me through all the challenges or issues I face.

I grew from a person who was had many weaknesses, living a meaningless life to a person who actually have more strengths than weaknesses and living a purpose-driven life! I thank God for how He had planned my life, God is a great God Amen!

Thank God for giving me the opportunity to share my life-changing story! :D I was really shocked cause Brandon told me very early in the morning that I was selected to share. But still it went well. :)

Photo;

Sean, I, Chisun {The 3 new CA1 official members}

There's a Central photo but somewhere lols. :l

Yup that's all hahas. :D

TUESDAY;

Had shepherding just noww with Bernard! It was fun hahas, talk alot. :)

Now back at home, time to SLACK! :D

-davidd

No one could express;

2007-11-22T00:37:00.000+08:00

I'll bring you more than a song...

First and foremost...

Happy 14th birthday Dade! :D

Hahas, today, 21st November, is Dade's, aka Jessie's, birthday! :D Jiayou for CL hehs!

Back to todayyy..

CAREGROUP WEDNESDAY;

As the title suggests, there was caregroup today! And my mini-summary is as follows...

Caregroup amount: 10
Caregroup attendance: David, Isaac, Braynard, Brandon, Alicia, Dawn, Faith, Chisun, James, Peida
Caregroup roles:
Bulletin - David & Dawn
Games - Isaac
Holy Communion - Faith
Testimony - James & David
Worship - Isaac
Worship(Guitarist) - Braynard
Sermon - Alicia
Announcements - Isaac

Now more insights on caregroup!

I had shepherding with Bernard before caregroup, then when he was going to leave, it was already 1.15pm so I was thinking,"Jialat, need to chiong bulletin how arh?". I met Suwanie at the MRT station and we chiong-ed it together. I found it quite nice leh in the end hahas. Even though the lyrics abit squuezed but overall it's nice! :D We finished at 1.50pm and left.

We were walking then was going to take the bus when she opened her bag and realised that her wallet and handphone are missing. She remained calm then rushed to Coffee Bean to see if the items are there. Fortunately, they were still there hahas. Thank God for the stuffs being found. :)

We decided to walk cause the bus left, we reached the place at like 2.30pm... We were late but there were people still later than us. :P :X

Started at around 3pm, with Weijun leading games! We played Catch-The-Hand-If-A-Word-Starts-With-S and Watermelon lols. Basically, the first game is a game whereby you have to hold the finger on your right if the Gamemaster says a word from the sentence with a letter 'S' in it and siam your own finger from the person on the left who's trying to catch it. Second game's the same as Drinking Goggles, this game is easier to explain in reality hahas. :D Thank God for Weijun with games, really interesting and really got that mood in it.

Yicong led Holy Comm. and it was well done hahas. After that Sean & I did testimony! Ok time to talk about my testimony hehs.

Confirmation for last Friday was very jialat cause alot of contacts rejected me, but in the end, Andre was the only one who said "Should be, confirm by 10 tomorrow." So I constantly prayed, and God moved! Andre confirmed he was coming down in the end and he came, and renewed his relationship! Thank God for melting Andre's heart.
Materialstically, I was blessed with $50 HAHA. :X
And the last one's really not that 'important' in the way whereby I might get slaughtered if I mention it here. :D Two words - Open House. :P
Thank God for blessing with so much this week, every good and perfect gift comes from Him. :)

Worship was really niceee. Even though it was only Weijun's 2nd time leading worship, he really did a good job at it! His first time was also Heart of Worship but it didn't go too well, this time round he changed everything. :) It was really moving... Unfortunately... God actually told me to share a Word, and yet I didn't.

Basically He told me to remind everyone to constantly renew their spiritual life as some of us may face difficulties and might not put God in the picture and He just wants to say that He'll always be there, no matter if the world turns back on us, no matter if the sky falls, no matter how big the challenge is, He'll be there.

Just to say, those who were actually meant to hear this Word, please apply it carefully cause God really wants you to listen to Him. Sorry if you needed it but couldn't hear it this afternoon yup.

After worship, Zyann taught the teachingg. It was about Receiving a Victory from God. Really great teaching for this period of holidays, as we are going through different challenges, the bigger it is, the bigger the victory we'll get. :) This teaching is really practical and easy to apply, it's whether we want to or not, I don't know about you, but I will.

That's about it... Just another reminder...
ESS Playlist this Saturday! Remember to bring down your visitors! :D

Tomorrow's Central Sports Day, Weijun & I have came up with something that will really help alot for tomorrow's games. :) Come on, who says that brothers can't win at Captain's Ball? Even though the point system is... Haywired :P, I believe that we brothers can still win that $100! Jiayou! :D Let's show everyone that BROTHERS can win CAPTAIN'S BALL Amen! :P

Alright, that's a very very long post for a very very short day. :X

Good night!

-davidd

You're looking into my heart...

Photos, and more.

2007-11-20T21:01:00.000+08:00

The past few days really busy hahas so gonna summarise the past few days with one sentence or so. :X Add up with photos also hahas.

SATURDAY; Service

Gonna talk more on service. Before service I had my very first time doing Multimedia! It was really fun, even though abit nervous due to the whole service knowing if you did something wronggg. Nel sang Umbrella for song presentation, her singing very nice!!! Ahh. Sermon was on Defending our Faith, with Pastor Jeff speaking! Alter call... I managed to bring Andre down! And he renewed his relationship with Christ once again! Hoosha! 1 more for the Kingdom of God and 1 less for the Kingdom of Darkness. :D And surprisingly saw Geraldine and Joey also hahas and they converted too hehs. After service, Andre had to rush off to tuition then the BMM(Brandon's Mighty Men) had a meeting at Dhoby Ghaut MRT station. It was really interesting cause everyone of us had to teach one point from the teaching of How to Maintain Renewal in Spirit or something like that. ><" Forgot paiseh lols. We went to slack around after BMM then went homee!

SUNDAY; HopeKids

I've got a really fun equation!
Kids + Acappella = Cute voice!!! >.>

Weijun decided to have a photo of himself hugging the train from inside. :D

Oo... Pretty! ;D

MONDAY; Evax

Ok so yesterday we hit 23 contacts with only 4 people! Great job peeps! Thank God for everyone! Let's work hard SOW-ing on our contacts and God will see to the rest for us Amen? Jiayou ba CA1! Project 125 will soon come to past and camp will come by then. Let's do the best we can cause He will honor us even if no one else does. God will always see our effort even if no one sees it. :) We really have to hit that 15 we used to have and we should've continued having since a long time ago. It's not a goal, it's a constant.

Remember CAM game.. Big Fish Small Fish? Hahas..

I forgot to mention, every week after fasting, I'll buy myself a cookie from this Choc stall. It's a treat for myself after every evax and fast hahas. The cookie costs $0.90 btw lols. But I enjoy it all the same! :D

TUESDAY; Rotting at homee~

I've got caregroup tomorrow, gonna be another time of fun and learning. :)

K now to move on to misc. stuffs hahas.

RANDOM VIDEO!

If it's lagging, go to the URL itself... Pachebel's Rant, just click! :D

It's this video on this very popular comedian, he's ranting about Pachelbel's Canon hahas. Really cracks me up, can re-watch and re-watch and re-watch also won't sians! :D You can check out more of his videos at RobPRocks.com(cheesy web name hahas).

And next...

RANDOM PHOTO!

Presenting Central A's very own Unit Leader - Brandon Kang! Hahas. This was after Multimedia practise then we were leaving so randomly took a photo. :D If you're wondering or still don't know, he's the one who forgot to slide up the cover. :X

It's starting to rain again zomggg. Yay. Cool weather. :D The best weather to sleep, wrong time cause I'm not sleepy boo. Waa, really 'high' at the moment hahas. Alright, it's barely 9.32pm. Quite early reallyy. To me that is hahas.

-davidd

Good night.

Random Quotes;

2007-11-16T00:05:00.000+08:00

Ok so I didn't have enough time hahas. I'll change the background asap. :D

Today had COMBINED CAREGROUP. Aka sisters joining our caregroup today. CACG hahas. Anyways, gonna put some random quotes that was said.

While playing Big Fish Small Fish...

Bernard, while doing big fish action,"BIG SMITH". He acted as if nothing happened, after awhile then everyone started laughing HAHA.
Chisun, while doing big fish action also,"BIG SMISH". But this time everyone know liao lols.

While playing the 50 Cent game...

Everyone kept staring at Brandon LOL cause the coin don't know why always with him de. Ok this isn't a quote but it's still funny. :P

Met a new friend by the name of Jovinski, aka Bernard's classmate hahas. And Tzehin came for caregroup for the first time! :D

I'm gonna fast forward all the way till the time we were going home cause...

CLASSIC JOKE OF THE DAY:

Weijun took out his phone then wanted to make me stop laughing by taking a photo of me and said,"Always will work de!"
Then we were leaving and I started laughing out loud again, Brandon decided to take Weijun's phone and wanted to scare me also but in the end I laughed even louder. Why?

Brandon left the cover* closed.

*For those who know Weijun, they'll know that the camera lens need to slide up the cover first de

Today has really been a whack'd day hahas. :D

-Sy

You're looking into my heart...

More photos;

2007-11-14T23:10:00.000+08:00

For this post just gonna upload photossss and briefly say somethings. Lols. From now on gonna only update the more 'un-normal' events I face in life hahas. Cause holiday's a really crazy period. :D

K before photos. :D Just gonna list some stuffs I wish to accomplish by the end of the holidays for easy reference.

- BOOKS: Purpose-Driven Life, 3:16, Come Thirsty, Eye of the Storm, -Insert Random-Yet-Beneficial Book Here-
- SPIRITUAL: Shepherd by CAMP
- SHEEP: Bring down to camp
- BIBLE: Finish Old Testament
- PHYSICAL: Cycle at least once per week, adding on a few km each time
- MENTALLY: SLEEP EARLIER AT TIMES
- CONTACTS: At least ONE per week and retain at least TWO
- MARISTS: Caregroup by camp
- SPIRITUAL: PCL
- GROW: Find a spiritual buddy
- LIST: FIND MORE GOALS. :X

Ok I'll do the rest later. Gonna finish up my temporary background cause I can tell the pencil lines are getting irritating lols.

-Sy

How do I live by each day;

2007-11-14T01:55:00.000+08:00

I was asking myself today,"What am I really living for?" in front of my lappie and I noticed this encouragement on the screen.

every good and perfect gift comes from above :D God loves you david ! have a heart that seeks after God's very own :D YOU CAN MAKE YOUR PHILISTINE GOLIATH TUMBLE ! FOCUS ON YOUR GIANTS . you stumble . Focus On God - your giants tumble :D trust in God :D cast all your anxiety on Him for He cares :D

I really thank God for the person who wrote it there, really reminded me of why am I really living in the first place.

You were crucified;

2007-11-10T23:34:00.000+08:00

You lived to die, crucified and laid behind a stone...

I just wanna quickly finish up today's.

SATURDAY;

I woke up at like 9am and was supposed to meet Suwanie at Somerset MRT at like 9.50am to help out in Holy Comm. Then we reach the room got no one so just started first. Realised that I can actually do Holy Comm quite well hahas. I'll tell on more why later. Anyway, Bernard, not my shepherd but another guy, came then got we three doingg. The thing is, I can do Holy Comm fastt and so-called do it quite well for someone who's doing it for the first time lols. We finished doing at 11.15am btw. Suwanie said that usually they got like more than 4 people and finish around 11.30-12noon lols. So it was quite surprising hahas.

After that went to Graffiti Cafe with Weijun to draw on the tables hahas. As the name suggests, we are allowed to draw on the tables with anything we want as long as we're eating there hahas. We found a table that's quite plain and made it the Central A table hahas. It was really funnn. Chisun, Yicong and Brandon came along. We moved to Isle Cafe for the Core Team Meet.Braynard, Zyann and Bernard arrivedd after that.

Today's Core Team Meet was special cause we had a discussion session on our caregroup status. Things like our caregroup stability, evangelism were all brought up. Managed to learn quite abit from the meeting itself. :)

Proceeded to service after the meeting. The rest of the people came, including people who were MIA for a while! :D Welcome back hahas.

During prayer meet, nothing muchh. ><" Except we sang the song we sang for CAM. It's called... Forgot title. But it's a really nice songg that really thanks Jesus for His enduring love forever. And during praise and worship it was very fun. We decided that when the chorus starts everyone will jump as high as possible and it really happened. Praise was very very 'high'. :D Songs were Free, My Future Decided and Shout of the King.

Worship was a really crucial moment. The songs were Came to the Rescue and Above All. Above All is a really nice and wonderful song!!! It really moved me when the chorus went,"Crucified, laid behind a stone, you lived to die, rejected and alone, like a rose trampled on the ground, you took the fall and thought of ME ABOVE ALL..." Waa. Thanks Jesus again. :D

Sermon was by Pastor Shirley. It was about Confidence Builders. I think that this sermon is really important to many people cause this is the time of evangelism and we really have to have that spark of confidence and courage while outreaching to others. :D And she mentioned that a certain pastor is coming over to teach in X29... Guess who? :) Be there at X29 to know more HAHA. :D

After service... We went to Meridian to slack around and eat dinner. Saw Xiangwei! He finally came back from China hahas. And he bought me a voodoo doll, the keychain one lah of course, it's called Super Boy hahas. After slacking theree, went over to Plaza Singapura to slack somemore. Played abit of Guitar Hero 2 :X and went to Swensen's! Mingquan treated us to Earthquake and realised that they had an offer till Monday, BUY ONE GET ONE FREE ICE-CREAM LOL. Any ice-cream also buy one get one free so goood. I'm going there for shepherding on Monday hehs. We each forked out $1 and Mingquan paid the rest, thank God for you! :)

Zao-ed home after the 'feast'.

Tomorrow gonna go to HopeKids to help out again. Hurray. :P But hopefully no more water-spraying or else I'll really go nuts.

Good night.

-Sy

...and you still thought of me above all other things...

I give my all to you;

2007-11-09T23:46:00.000+08:00

I will love and adore you...

So basically now I'm waiting my shepherd to come onlinee then play DotA together so meanwhile while waiting, just gonna blogg abit.

FRIDAY;

Today's outreach and Central A Meet(CAM)! I went for outreach in the morning... Weijun called in sick until 12 noon so I was supposed to give direction. Ended up only Sean and I were there at 11 and Chisun turned up at 11.30. We had NO contacts at all in Toa Payoh so no choice, went to Bishan instead. Weijun came at 12.50pm.. Still no contacts at all. Decided to call it a day cause really can't find much people. Went for lunch and summarised the whole outreach.

I just want to say that I can roughly tell that we did try our best in this outreach. Be it that group of boys who were rude to us or the people who ignored us, we have taken the situation quite well. Really just want to say, let's continue doing our best. Cause when we do, we honour God and I believe that's the core principle. We may have none contacts at all today, but trust me, God has it all planned for us. Let's SOW on our current contacts and win their hearts over. :)

After lunch, went to ministry house for CAM with Brandon, Weijun, Chisun, Sean, Peida and me. We met Zyann and Suwanie while walking there and they were holding an umbrella lols. The weather was hottttt ye.

Anyways. Chisun and Weijun led games. We played Indian Poker and Guess What?. So fun hahas.

"Don't change!"
"Change lah!"
"DON'T CHANGE. TRUST ME LEH."
"CHANGEEEEE. You trust him or me?"
"Aiya, you change sure die one... Don't change... Now your card good enough."
"I tell you, if you don't change then sure die..."

It was really fun hahas the Indian Poker game. Then Guess What?

"Is it a living thing?"
"Can be... To a certain extent. You see this side is living, the other side, not living, depends how you look at it."
"Is it around here?"
"Yes it is of course."
"Is it edible?"
"Yes it can be, to a certain extent."
"Can it be found in this house?"
"Can be, to a small extent."
"WA SIAN SO MANY EXTENTS."
"YA LOR WHY SO MANY EXTENTS DE!"

The answer was orange btw. Lols. It was funnn. Brandon started talking to himself after awhile...

"Is it long pants? No it's not long pants. Is it short pants? No it's not short pants? Is it the keyboard? No it's not keyboard..."

Hahas. So funny. :D Can really cause brain disorder lols. Thank God for Weijun and Chisun! Really wonderful gamemasters. Hahas.

Then we had worship, led by Brandon. God dropped me a short clip today. He put me in this 'room' whereby all four sides are dark. And there's only this light that's keeping the room bright. It slowly moved away and I felt scared, and cold, a very very saddening feeling. It was really creepy. I kept crying out,"God, you are there right? I know you're there. I know it..." Then it ended there while I teared. Gonna talk more about it later cause it links. Thank God for Brandon. :)

We had teachinggg by Brandon again! Thank God for this really wonderful leader hahas. His teaching was really really long, about Knowing Our Identity. :D

After teaching had second worship! Now to link back to that coldness story. It continued after that. After being left alone in that scary place, that light suddenly began to move back, and it came back, I felt that warmth. That warmth of love. And God dropped me three very familiar verses.

Isaiah 41:10 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.

Psalm 119:105 Your word is a lamp to my feet
and a light for my path.

Isaiah 7:9b If you do not stand firm in your faith,
you will not stand at all.

He reminded me, how He's always there for me. Even when it seems like He's away, He'll still be around, no matter what happens. As long as we have faith in Him, He will always be there to guide us. He'll always help us in whatever situation we may be in. Thanks God.

Even though I did not manage to share what I've received from God today, I believe that everyone should know of this. Cause God's always in our presence and He will bring us through whatever test He may grant us.

CAM ended after that. CAM has been another experience that I will never forget. :) It's been an enriching and fruitful time. We slacked around abit after that and went for dinner at S11!

Before I continue...

People who came for CAM: Brandon, Bernard, Isaac, David, James, Elwin, Braynard, Peida, Chisun, Zyann, Suwanie, Yicong
Total number: 12

Back to dinner. We tookaway dinner and went to the playground to eat. There we had lots of fun cause we kept running around the playground, be it trying to hide bags or put slippers at the top of the playground roof, it was funn hahas.

Went home after that. :)

Today has been another God-driven day. Finishing my Purpose Driven Life book tomorrow. Which means... FOUR BOOKS TO GO! Hahas. Thanks God, for being You today.

And tomorrow will be SERVICE DAY! I'm going to Cuppage at like 10am in the morning to help out with Holy Comm. then go for Core-Team Meet at 12.30pm. And service at 2.30pm. :) I really need my first sheep by camp!!! :(

Good night.

-Sy

I want to know you more each day...

Never let you go;

2007-11-08T23:00:00.000+08:00

Lover of my soul...

Rush rush. My life's busy darn. It's both a good thing and a bad thing hahas. Good cause I don't waste any of my time... Ok waste as in doing nothing but actually using the most of every single moment I get. The bad thing is that I don't get much time to actually sit down and relax lols. :()

THURSDAY;

I was supposed to go for a P6 class reunion buffet at Jiehui's house but didn't go cause had caregroup. I still thank Jiehui for creating this opportunity for the 6A peeps to get back together, unfortunately I wasn't there. :S

I met Weijun to eat lunch and cut our hair before going for caregroup. Here's a photo of our trip to Hair De Glory. :)

Weijun and I after haircutt

Then we chiong-ed down for caregroup, everyone waiting outside the ministry house for us hahas. Went in, put down our stuffs and while waiting for everyone else who's arriving, took somemore photos! Hahas.

Chisun and I

The 3 Marists and 1 Unit Leader: (From top left corner to bottom left corner) Brandon, Elwin, ME and Braynard

When everyone arrived, we started gamess. Chisun led games btw. Thank God for him! :D His first time somemore! Really fun hahas. And Sean led Holy Comm. Thank God for him too hehs! :) It's also his first timeeee. Really creative with the coins and stuffs hahas. Oolong tea huh. :P

Weijun gave teaching and I also want to thank God for him cause he shared a word that really hit me alot. The way I won friends in the past. Ok to admit, I've lied about certain things in the past about myself but I believe that most of them have been cleared up yup. But still, I really think that I've changed alot ever since I came to know Christ. He really has been a great help to me, be it my confidence or strength, even realising who I really am. Really thank You. :)

Caregroup expectancy: 8
Caregroup attendance: Brandon, Isaac, David, James, Chisun, Braynard, Elwin
Total: 7

Ok, so we didn't meet our caregroup expectancy but at least we mananged to bring along a smooth and steady caregroup today. I'm not saying it's ok that we did not meet but I believe all of us have tried our best in inviting everyone else down even if they were not able to. And God honours that. :)

That's all yup. Tomorrow having Central A Meet(CAM) in the afternoon and outreaching in the morning. If you want to find me and do a short survey come down to Toa Payoh/Bishan Interchange area from 11am-1pm! Hahas. :D

Good night!

-Sy

I will never let you go...

The Heart of Worship;

2007-11-07T23:30:00.000+08:00

I'll bring you more than a song...

Just wanna talk abit about our lives cause I find this an interesting topic.

What's our life purposes?

Each of us have our own perspective on life purposes. Maybe your life purpose is to be a billionaire in the future or be the best soccer player!

Think carefully because this concerns the rest of our life. I'll talk about this from a x-tian approach.

Do not dwell in worldy desires for you do not bring anything back to Heaven in the end. Anything of the world is only temporary therefore we should really have eternal purposes. We came with nothing and we'll leave with nothing yup. Understand this, we are living in the world but we are not of the world so keep your eyes full focused on God as the big picture. Do not look into that small detail of the world but look at the big picture. And, put God in that picture as well.

Once you've done that, it'll be a whole lot easier. I'm not saying it's going to be easy to live the purposes God has given but with God, nothing will be impossible in your way. :D

I would like to go indepth but abit rush on time so will stop hereee. Just remember, put God as your priority and in every decision you make, then nothing will ever go wrong.

WEDNESDAY;

My resting day hahas. I went to find Mark, Suwanie and Yicong at Bishan Mcdonalds for lunch. Then we went to Marina Square to buy some stuffs and Bernard came along as well! After done with that, the sisters went back to Bishan for outreaching while the brothers went to Redhill for floorball!

There were many Central F people thereee. ><" But still managed to play alot hahas. Even though it was tiringggg, it was my first exercise ever since the injury I got from Escape Theme Park lols. I really have to re-build my stats or else can't run anymore le. >.> Besides, Central Sports Day is coming so have to train abit hahas.

Went home at around 7++pm. From then on have been slacking around and doing quiet time hahas.

Today has really been a great day for me to rest and I believe that it's time to get back on track. Tomorrow's caregroup! :D And I'm going to cut my hair with Weijun too hahas. :)

GOOD NIGHT.

-Sy

...for you not only require it but something to bless your heart...

You are all I need;

2007-11-06T23:38:00.000+08:00

Holy fire, burn away all desires that is not of You and is of me...

SUNDAY;

Weijun, Suwanie, Liyan and me went to HopeKids to help out! We all went there early in the morning and Zhicai, the one who was supposed to actually show us what to do, OVERSLEPT. We woke up early to eat breakfast and he end up not there. -.- It was fun, the kids really have attention disorder hahas. The guys are the more hyperactive ones, take waterbottle spray water, etc. It was a really enjoyable time overall. :D

After that, went to Plaza Singapura first for lunch, then go to Funan for guitar lessons while the rest went to Bugis first to buy stuffs. Ended up only learning for like 20mins then zao liao sians. Anyway I went to Bugis to find them later and we headed for Marina Square.

It was fun, just WINDOW-SHOPPING(hahas...) and playing around. We ate at Carls' Jr. and went to Esplanade at night! We slacked at the Skypark, watching the scenery, taking photos, etc. It's really place where you can destress alot. And it's only my 2nd time there lahs. Gonna go there often hehs.

Started to rain when we were about to go home yup.

MONDAY;

Went to evax in the afternoon with my caregroup, Bernard, Weijun, Sean, Chisun and Elwin. Project 125! :D We evax-ed from 1-4pm, gathering a total of 35 contacts. I met Brenda and Sherlyn while evax-ing hahas. Our goal was 43 but still, we were still doing quite well for a start. I really learnt alot from that day, met many kinds of people in the process also hahas. Met Suwanie to get back my jacket and pass her back her jacket. Broke fast at Mcdonalds. Went to arcade after that for some games and Life bookshop to look at books. Then went home! WHILE GOING HOME... I entered my train with Elwin and Suwanie pointed at herself... I then realised my jacket was still with her. _.- I was planning to wear my jacket on either Tues/Wed/Thurs/Fri but end up stuck with her.

TUESDAY;

Went for evax again! But before that went for shepherding with Bernard at Mcdonalds. Then went for evax... Today there was Weijun, Bernard, Peida, Sean, Chisun, Elwin and me but we only got 17 contacts.

CA1, even though we did not hit our goal, if we know that we have done our very best, I can tell you face to face that God honours us cause we have done our best and even if we don't get our desired number, it does not matter. I'm not saying that it's ok not to hit our goal BUT if God has planned this, let it be.

Evangelising is not only about giving this random person a paper and and a pen to write his particulars. It defeats the whole purpose if we only wish to finish the papers as fast as possible. What's our heart condition while doing this? If anyone knows that he has an unstable heart condition, DON'T turn up. TAKE time to reflect on yourself. Like what Bernard has said before, we are in a race. CA1 can move as one, but if anyone decides to slow down, we aren't waiting. We'll continue running to our best and if you wish to continue, then catch up again. You can slow down, but it's YOU alone. No one's going to be dragged down with you.

For those who think they can't do it, HAVE FAITH. Without faith, you can only say to yourself "I can't". HAVE FAITH and you WILL be able to have the STRENGTH and CONFIDENCE to do what you really wish to accomplish. With a strong firm stand of faith, NOTHING can shake you cause you're standing on the solid Rock.

On a side note instead, I believe that all of us have learnt alot during these two days. We have built a stronger bond between brothers, I can tell that we've become more united throughout this time. There may be a few of us who are doing it for the first time but be assured that there are always the rest and even God backing you up. Let's continue doing our best during this period because this period will not last forever and if you decide not to, you don't have to account to anyone except God. Jiayou ba CA1!

Back to my point, after evax-ing we had evaluation and talked about what we've done during these two days. I've made my point clear in the past few paragraphs yup. CA1, we have still only 10 more days of evax-ing before there is no time left. 10x3. We have 30 hours. Will you make full use of this time?

Then ate with Weijun, Sean and Chisun. After that met Zhicai. We ate abit more at Koufu, then went to Popular see see look look, zao-ed home.

There's floorball tomorrow and tomorrow's the resting day hahas so my rest = floorball. :D

GOOD NIGHT.

-Sy

Cause I want more of YOU and less of me...

Your love will never fail... Your love will never fail...

2007-11-03T22:51:00.000+08:00

I know you gave your one and only Son for us to know your name...

I decided to go through the folders in my laptop to see what's interesting and left there hahas. And I found this.

Don't care about the start bar but look at the contents lol. I'll go through gift by gift according to my score. It's 25 points if you're wondering.

25
Healing - I can tell I have this gift, although it's not at its highest potential but I believe that through time I'll be able slowly utilise this gift hehs.
Faith - Ok I believe that all believers should really have this gift with a score of 25 because we really need that faith to even start believing in the first place.

23
Craftsmanship - I can really work with materials, just random junk can be made into something hahas. And I often express myself through this aspect if you really know me well. :P
Intercession - The gift of talking. Even though I might be quite shy sometimes but when it comes to strangers I can usually talk well with them.

21
Hospitality - Simple, gift of warmth-giving hahas. Although this depends for me cause at times I really can't do it. ><"
Knowledge - I've nothing to say 'bout this really.

19
Prophecy - I can prophecy... It just doesn't come regularly in the way that sometimes it comes at the time I really don't want it to happen hahas.. :D
Mercy - It's only stuck at 19 because I don't have mercy when it comes to killing enemies in games. :P
Encouragement - When it comes to encouraging through writing, I can really do it but usually when it comes to talking, I can't do this as well as writing.

18
Missionary - Nothing to say..

17
Writing - Links to my encouragement gift. >.>
Helps - I don't really remember what's this but I think helping others... So ya, I do enjoy helping but it's just that I don't really help much at times cause I don't want to, for some reason.
Celibacy - The gift of... staying single in my whole life cause I want to stay faithful wholy to God. I might consider this HAHA.
Teaching - I can teach, just not as experienced as most people. ><"
Miracles - I've experienced many miracles before, most of them are done by others, only a few that I've really done... with God's help of course.
Wisdom - Let's just say I don't really have much wisdom lols.
Pastoring - Leads to teaching. :D

I'll continue the rest of my gifts some other time hahas.

FRIDAY;

Ok let's see how did I spend this day...? I can't remember much... Oh wait now I do hahas.

CENTRAL A MEET(CAM)

Yep. Ate lunch with Sean, Yicong and Suwanie then went to the ministry house! We played around with my lappie while waiting for everyone to come in, played songs, play with photos, etc. CAM started...

We had games by Suwanie and Yicong! We played the Tian Cai Fa Ming De Dao Zhuang Ju and What can I bring to the picnic? game. It was really fun... Actually want to aim Brandon to do forfiet but failed attempt. In the end the forfiet was to taopok Brandon hahas! Everyone joined in the fun hahas. Thank God for Suwanie and Yicong!

fter that had worship, the song was Draw Me Close, really had the urge to share a Word today but something happened.

God didn't drop me a Word like He'd usually do. God didn't gave me any visions like He'd sometimes do. God didn't give me any prophecies like He'd at times do.

He gave me a letter, it's the letter 'F'. While in the state of worship, no matter what I prayed, no matter what I thought of, this letter kept appearing. I still have no idea what it means but I know that God dropped this and I will treasure it.

After worship we had a teaching by Brandon! He led worship too by the way hehs. The teaching was called How to do Evangelism. We often do it, but not with the best methods in mind, the teaching told us how Paul wanted us to do it. It may not be the best method God wants us to know but it's one of the most effective ones we can use at the moment. Thank God for Brandon!

Then we had another prayer, really cried my heart out to God. Not literally cried out but in a spiritual mood. God reminded me of the first time I knew Christ, 4 years ago. The time when I was still a little kid. The time when I believed in everything that was told. The time when I still had... That full child-like faith.

We slacked around after the meeting, Brandon showed some of us the photos and videos he took in China! :D Then went off to S11 to take away food and go to the playground and feast together! We played games like the Tuki tuki tuki and Coffee and Tea game hehs. It was a really enjoyable time! :)

Went home after that, really tired.

Thank God for well, God yesterday. :)

SATURDAY;

I'll update... Later in the wee hours, 1am 2am when I really get refreshed again hahas.

-Sy

...to live within Your love, You even took my place knowing You'd be crucified on the cross, I know You really love me even though I'm so undeserving....

Lord... I'm not worthy of you, thanks lots.

2007-11-02T01:47:00.001+08:00

And with all I am...

Let's quickly go through this cause I'm blogging at 1.47am. Lols. Really busyy.

THURSDAY;

Ok so I went to find Dave around lunch time with Weijun. We both went to his house to find him hahas. We talked to him abit and got him to come down for caregroup! And if you're wondering, Thursday's usually caregroup day hahas.

Ate lunch at his house too, thanks alot Dave! :D

We went to ministry house and slacked around abit while waiting for the rest to come down for caregroup!

People who came down: Isaac, David, Braynard, Peida, James, Chisun and DAVE
Caregroup total attendance: 7
Caregroup expectancy: 7
CA1's goal: 15

CA1! Ok it's time we really looked back, when was the last time we hit 15? Never? Let's jiayou during this holiday ba. As we outreach, let's do the best we can and grow our schools together! :D

We had games in the nearby playground, played the same game as last week except it became Catcherman hahas. Then after that game we played back Bomberman and another two games I'll just call Tookie tookie and Tian Cai Fa Ming De Dao Zhuang Ju! It's funn, ask me if you want to learn how to play lols.

After games we went back to the house for discussion topic! Weijun led and I really believe that he really emphasised alot on the points Bernard made last week, kudos to him hahas.

Announcements firstt, then the Holy Comm. guy came in hahas. He really just came in from the door. Braynard led Holy Comm.! Kudos to Brayy too.

We had a teaching next by Weijun! It's one of my first teachings, well my first shepherding teaching, it's called the Four Heart Conditions.

- Hardened Heart
- Shallow Heart
- Divided Heart
- Responsive Heart

:D If you've been in Y-Hope for quite some time you should remember this teaching hehs.

Weijun and I shared testimony next! I shared based on SPIRTIUALLY, MATERIALSTICALLY and PHYSICALLY hahas. :D

It's been really funn. Would like to update every single detail but I'm short on time lols.

Just really want to thank especially Weijun for planning, leading this caregroup well! Thank God for ya! :D

After caregroup, some of us went to eat dinner, found the sisters there too. Dinner finish, went to Life bookshop to look for books. Did I mention I borrowed the Purpose Driven Life from Weijun and 360 degree Leader from Weijun's primary school teacher lols. I'm planning on finishing the first book within one week and the 2nd by 3 weeks time. :D Must jiayou in finishing these books lols.

We even played catching and hide 'n' seek around J8 lahs. _.- Even though I was injured still play sians lols. It was fun overall hahas. Went to the arcade but just walked around, tried the catch toy thing but failed. ><" Then arcade closing so zao to Macdonaldss. Slacked abit, then went home..

Sorry these past few days really no mood to update fully, very very tired lehs. Tomorrow got (CAM)CENTRAL A MEET so it's gonna be a whole new day of fun. :D

GOOD NIGHT.

-Sy

...My soul will stand for you...

What I think about you?

2007-11-01T00:26:00.000+08:00

Till I see you face to face...

Ok I've been rather busy for the past few days. Just gonna give a brief update... One sentence for each day. Sorreh! ><"

FRIDAY;

I don't remember much. >.>

SATURDAY;

I went for service today and also celebrated Weijun's birthday! :D

SUNDAY;

I went to Weijun and Xiangwei's chalet, stayed overnight!

MONDAY;

We left the chalet in the evening, really slept alot this day hahas. Went to Plaza Singapura at evening to night to slack with the rest yupps.

TUESDAY;

Happy birthday Weijun and Xiangwei! :D Went to Kbox, blasted the bill after buying cake for them lols. I went broke after that, including buying the presents for both of them. -.- Went to Sembawang at night to play around then went home, caught last train.

WEDNESDAY;

Went with my shepherd and Brandon to buy Hellgate: London. Brandon and I tag-team took part in the Hellgate: London tournament, Two of a Kind. We played until so fun lah hahas. Even though we didn't win, really enjoyed ourselves alot. :D

That's my update for the previous few days. Really lazy to full detail post lols. :l Sorreh yup.

Continue full updating tomorrow hahas. Tomorrow got CAREGROUP! Really want to see DAVE! :D MARIST KUA DIAN CAREGROUP!!!

-Sy

...I'll trust in you...

Results... Results..

2007-10-25T22:32:00.000+08:00

You will make a way when there seems to be no way...

Ok gotta rush cause it's rather late right now. :D

First, I got back my Overall results for this year! Very sad... I'm uploading the scanned pictures into blogger soon, probably post it up tomorrow. But I'll just type here first...

DAVID'S OVERALL YEAR RESULTS:

English - B3
Chinese - B3
Mathematics - A1
Science - B3
Geography - A2
History - B4
D&T - A2
Literature - C5
Home Econs - C5
Art - B4
Civics and Moral Education - A
Music - A
Appreciation of Chinese Culture - A

Total: 660/1000
Percentage: 66.0
Class Position : 5/42

And I obviously got promoted...

Yep. Gonna comment more about it tomorrow!

THURSDAY;

Finally don't see Braynard today! He made it just on time, missing the bell by a few minutes only haha! I hope tomorrow, last day of school, he will make it on time no matter whattt. :D

Today's been really... nothingness cause we collected our report books and watched Happy Feet in the classroom until recess. Recess something really painful happened. Someone pushed me off the grandstand while I was going past it. I ended up rolling off 3 steps(very big difference in height I must emphasise), landing on the platform. It really hurt alot, hip and kneecap injury, don't know if I'm going to school tomorrow or not oh wells. Then after recess we went for the End-Term Thanksgiving Mass. At first I thought it would be a very boring thing but after really listening, it really benefits my spiritual life, remembering all my blessings, etc. Thanks Lord for the time.

After school, went home, then zao to find Weijun at Bishan before caregroup. We both went to Macdonalds and saw the sisters, Zyann, Suwanie, Yicong. Ate there, then all the CA1 brothers slowly appear one by one. After everyone who was supposed to arrive arrived, we went over to the ministry house, bidding farewell to the sisters!

Caregroup attendence: David, Isaac, Bernard, Braynard, Peida, Chisun, Yingzhen, Sean, Kevin
Total: 9
Expected: 11

Even though we didn't reach our expectation for that day, I'm really glad we had a joyful time together in a group that cares haha.

We played the Bomberman game during caregroup at the playground nearby. It's a really easy game except explaining it now will be hard cause I'm really tired so gimme tomorrow. ><" After that we saw this cute girl walking around then Bernard and Braynard tried luring her over HAHA. Oh yes, she was only around 4? Yep, then I just played the song Kid's Prayer and she took my phone and ran away. The brothers held me back while I was trying to get back my phone. -.- I got it back in the end of course hahas. Weijun took a photo with herrrr ahhh.

After the games, we went back to the house for Holy Communion! I was leading todayy. Today was special cause I used hand-torn bread and plain water for holy comm. Why? The purpose of holy comm is to allow us to remember how Jesus had once died on the cross for our sins and during the Last Supper how he said it represented his flesh and blood. The 'quality' of the bread and drink do not matter but it's our heart's attitude that really matters during this important time yup. And no I'm not trying to be budget. -.-

After that we had blessing sharing! Another special onee. Weijun led this and he gave each of us one paper to write a word that represents this week and share about it. I wrote two words challenging and rewarding but he said must be one word so I changed it to challwarding. Hahas! I shared a very very long sharing. ><"

Then we had teaching by Bernard! It was about the Characteristics of God's Calling. Really wonderful teaching, short and sweet hahas. Bernard talked to us after the teaching and it really hit me alot. Thanks shep! :D

We finished caregroup and went back to Bishan area. All of us left, really tired. Ahh. I'm going to sleep le. :l

Good nights.

-Sy

...he works in ways we cannot see but I know he will always make a way for me...

The world will NEVER take you away...

2007-10-24T22:57:00.000+08:00

You are all I ever needed...

Ah tired. Blahh. These few days has been really a challenge for me(even Post-Exam Activies...). I've been trying really hard to fit many things into my timetable. Even though at times I really look like I'm having lots of fun, I've been doing many behind-the-scenes stuffs even while having fun hahas. Go multi-taskers. :P Yep, my holidays are already so-called planned well. I'll update tomorrow with my free days during this holiday hahas.

WEDNESDAY;

Ok I've been really tired this morning, still have to watch movies in TKL Hall. I tried to sleep but Dylan made me sit at the front with him until I can't just doze off cause Mr. Wong keeps waking me up, four times.... Ahh. :(

Before all these, in the morning, again, during latecoming duty, I saw Braynard!!! Ahh. This time round I told him,"Tomorrow I REALLY don't want to see you here anymore liaoooo.". He dao me this time hahas. I really don't wish to record him againn. :l

Back to film show, we watched the Iron Giant, an animation by Warner Bro's(whichever spelling). I really slept 4 times then luckily woke up reached the funny part hahas. It was really funny cause... I'll just put in one part.

This boy, Hughly, was hiding a giant robot from his mom and this guy who works at the government, known as Kent. So there's this part where the robot's hand is hiding in the bathroom from Kent. Hughly rushes up when he hears a loud noise coming from the bathroom and just tells both of them that he was gonna go to the bathroom. Ended up this scene whereby while trying to push the robot's hand out of the window, he kept making the "nggg" sound VERY LOUDLY, like someone in the toilet lah. His mom and Kent ran up to check him and they suddenly heard a loud "BOONG" sound coming from inside, which is actually the hand dropping out of the window and sounding like someone who just done his business lols.

That part dam funny, can watch and watch over and over also won't stop laughing HAHAS. If I can find the video, I'll put it here hehs. Yep, but unfortunately halfway through the movie me and some other classmates had to go up to the studio to film a play! This play will be viewed on some channel I forgot lols. I'll update on this soon. :P We spent the whole after recess on the filming and finished at 12, the time to go home! :D

Around evening period I went to find Zyann, Suwanie and Yicong at Bishan(LOL.). We met with Joel, Liting, Xiangwei and Nicole. Soon later after standing around, we met Jess too hahas. We all went to Coffee Bean to slack, Jess and Joel went for shepherding. Laughed and shared alot, then Zyann's brother, Bruce, also came wearing his army uniform haha! After a while, he had to zao, Zyann and Liting also had to zao. So now left... Suwanie, Yicong, Joel, Xiangwei, Nicole and me. Talk talk talk... Talk until 7.30pm lols. Pras came. Then we went to Macdonalds for dinner while Suwanie had to leave to meet her mom. Huiyang met us at Macdonalds.

Ok from there, I left to go home at 8.10pm cause I was gonna go home at 8.30pm but if I had went to the basketball court, 10mins gone, walk back, 10mins, no point going so I went home!

Really enjoyed myself today! Had lots of fun with everyone, also learning along the way. God really blessed this day for me. :D

Tomorrow will be boring, I don't want to go school! But I've to go get my report book so no choice. I think they purposely put the collection day today so that we have to go for the Catholic End-Term Mass. Ahh. 1 hour and 20mins! Can die of boredommm. Gonna be really sians. We attended once, it wasn't good. >.> K, gonna stop here.

Good night.

-Sy

...And the world will never ever take you away from me.

You are my best friend forever...

2007-10-23T22:29:00.000+08:00

I believe in you,
I belong to you,
I trust in you.

Alright so, I'm not gonna touch on any matters today, kinda lazy at the moment blah.

TUESDAY;

I went for a trip to Sungei Buloh! But before that, I had latecoming duty in the morning first... On one hand there were 16 latecomers but on the other hand, I saw someone very unexpected. Braynard arrived at 7.52am! Ahhh. Somemore I was the one who had to pass him the slip and write on the book and stuffs. I was like "Braynard ah Bray..." over and over again then he keep "Stop it lah..." hahas. He told me that yesterday Brandon told him that if he late today will get caught by me then really happened lols. Braynard, do not repeat again! :D

Most of the Sec 1's went to Sungei Buloh for an excursion! We were given these laptops with cool webcams to use during our self-tour hahas. So high-tech. They even said next time go there can collect for usage whenever we wish to. :P We saw mudskippers(giant and small ones), pipefish(in big families), crabs(on the tree due to high tide), monitor lizards(slacking around after their exams HAHA), and many other interesting creatures! Really, I've seen alot during this trip. I really want to go back during the holidays to walk the longest route which will take 3 hours lol. The good thing was, when we reached school around 11.45am, we were immediately dismissed! For once we were early in dismissal heh.

After school, I went home to change and stuffs. Left my house at 2.30pm and went to Bishan(I've been going there alot recently lol) to meet Bernard, Suwanie and Yicong! We slacked around at Mac, while me being tempted to eat cause I was fasting... Andrew came in a while after I arrived. We all left and went to walk around, talking along the way. Met Huiyang, John, Victor and Elwin outside Popular. Walked around somemore, then my shepherd left to meet Brandon while the rest all also left except Suwanie, Yicong and me.

We took a bus to Yicong's house downstairs, waited for them to change, then we walked back to J8. Bought bubble tea, walked past S11 then so coincidential met Brandon and Bernard there. We talked alot, went to the arcade to play Photo Hunt, then when the game ended, I had to go meet Weijun, Xiangwei and Mingquan at Novena. We met yes, but Novena is like a shopping area, not much places to eat at unless you're super rich and stuffs yup. Decided to take train BACK TO BISHAN, and ate at S11. Suwanie stopped by while she was going home then said goodbye to her. We moved to Macdonalds cause Weijun couldn't stand the cockroaches running around hahas.

At Macdonalds, we finished up most of the planning for Weijun and Xiangwei's birthday chalet celebration. Then went to Fairprice to check out the prices for several items, I had to leave after we played around abit there with the Halloween stuffs hahas.

Back home, I'm slacking away my hours, don't feel like going for Archery. Feel very lazy ahh. :(

Good night.

-Sy

My best friend, you will never fail to surprise me.

I really love you lots.

2007-10-22T23:58:00.000+08:00

Forever God is faithful & strong...

Alright, another question for today! What is leadership?

I answered this question during my councillor interview so I thought of bringing it up due to its uniqueness. Ok so, I'm may not be a someone with a really powerful gift of leadership but I believe that leadership is not a definite term.

Thesaurus says, leadership means guidance.

I'm not saying that leadership is not guidance but there are many points to leadership so it'll never stay as one definite term. So back to my point, I'll just talk about Thesaurus' answer.

GUIDANCE: When someone leads, that person is said to be guiding others. So I believe that when you say that it's guidance, you're actually trying to say that leadership is about guiding people towards the right path they should take etc. I'll just argue this point, guidance is "something that provides direction or advice as to a decision or course of action". Yes, leadership provides direction/advice to a particular decision/course of action but is it really all about that? When you lead, do you only do that? Ask yourself, if you are already a leader, have you only "provided a direction/advice as to a decision/course of action"? Yes/No?

There are really many other things other than just guiding others. You just have to take your time to really think of all the situations that you've not only just guided others but also accomplished many other stuffs along the way.

The point I'm trying to prove here is, when you answer a question of what is leadership, it's a matter of perspective. It's a matter how you put it. When we talk about leadership, it's a whole big issue to handle and not just a word by itself so when this question was asked to me, I thought for a moment. I don't really remember what I said during that time but I remembered something important.

Helping, growing, teaching others while helping, growing, learning ourselves.

This a part of my answer, my perspective, my own opinion. Do not think that you have a wrong idea of the word leadership, do not think that your answer is wrong even when others say it's wrong(unless it's really something ridiculous like ordering others around then get lost). In other words, stand by your opinion. :)

MONDAY;

I had no school today due to Promotion Day! Yep, Weijun and Xiangwei came to my house to play. Xiangwei and I played Dead or Alive while Weijun played around with my lappie heh. We left the house at around 4.30pm and headed for Bishan! Weijun went for his T.H.E. meeting and we went to find Yicong and Suwanie. We went to the arcade, played many games, then Xiangwei went to his school for a meeting first. We played the Global Touch 2007 games such as the spot the difference photo game, the mahjong pair game etc. hahas. Afterwards we met Zyann and Jess walking around, said hi and bye lols. Met Xiangwei and Weijun again later to surprise celebrate Chisun's birthday! Weijun went to distract Chisun first while we went to buy the cake and go to his house downstairs to surprise him heh.

Well, we really surprised him hahas. When he arrived we sang Happy birthday and affirmed him! He really looked like he was crying after his shepherd, Weijun, affirmed him lols. I would like to post up the photos now but my phone has a slight issue with transferring stuffs over right now so I'll leave it to tomorrow. ><"

I'll post up my affirmation for him tomorrow also cause I've to sleep right now.. Waa.. K. Tomorrow going to Sungei Buloh as part of the Post-Exam Activities. Hahas. Gonna be tiring but I know you'll always be there for me!

Good night.

-Sy

He never sleeps, never slumbers, always awake for us.

Happy birthday!

2007-10-22T23:56:00.000+08:00

Gonna chiong this post. >.>

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHISUN!

Read the above post for updated stuffs. I'm posting cause it's 11.57pm and if I don't post hurry it'll end up on the 23rd of October. :D

-Sy

Happy birthday to Xiangwei

2007-10-22T11:46:00.000+08:00

Forgot something hahas.

While we were at Bugis, we gave Xiangwei an early surprise celebration hahas. Even though it's small, the thought is still there heh. Well, once again,

HAPPY BIRTHDAY XIANGWEI!

I'll give a proper post when his birthday comes in about eight days? :D

-Sy

Thinking, understanding, processing, nah.

2007-10-21T23:55:00.000+08:00

How does it feel to be loved a God so high?
A day in His courts.

Sometimes we think that we are worth nothing in this world. Well, lemme tell you straight in the face. If you're gone, the people around you will be affected. Then the people around them will be affected. Soon, everyone in the world who are linked this way will be affected by your action. You're being plain selfish if you just end it off like that. Neither do I think God wants to see you (yet). So, understand, you contribute to this world going round and round and round.

Blehs. Don't feel like posting up photos today so never mind I'll just go with the words.

SUNDAY;

My printer ink ran out today thanks to someone who needed my printer. :( Nah just joking, don't feel offended lol, I'm a very giving person hahas. The problem now is, I need to find Dell catridges and everywhere I go people tell me that they can only be bought online. Waa. I gave up finding them. :P Anyway, I went to Funan IT Mall for my usual guitar classes. It was fun overall. Then after that went to Bugis with Xiangwei, Suwanie and Yicong. We went there to slack aroundd, having fun along the way. Had lots of fun, playing around at the arcade, etc.

After that, Yicong had to leave when we were going to Dhoby Ghaut so said goodbye to her. Then we played Guitar Hero II at Best Denki. The best place to have free-fun. Hahas. Thenn. After the shop closed, we went to Zone X to play abit of dancing, immediately failed after the first song hahas. We slacked outside PCbunk, which many stuffs happened along the way until we went home! Yup.

This day has really made me learnt alot, many principles. Thank God for this day.

Good night.

-Sy

I'll stand with arms high and heart abandoned,
cause I'm in awe of the One who gave me everything I've ever needed.

This is the truth and I am so believing in it...

2007-10-20T23:44:00.000+08:00

A question to ask yourself, "Whom am I needed by?".
There might be a few possible answers you may have.

NO ONE: Seriously, to be frank, I don't know if you have any potential or trying to be humble but your mindset sucks. Yes, I'm using that word, sucks. If you think you don't have the potential, MAKE IT HAPPEN. THEN LET IT SHINE. Change your mindset. Understand that you are not some useless guy who is not needed by anyone! I'm not trying to insult anyone but really, at least one person in this world is needed by you. There's at least 1 in 6,602,224,175 people in this world who needs you greatly! Use your strong areas to help others in need! Have confidence and high self-esteem. :)

A FEW: This may relate to the first one except that at least you believe that there are people that really need you alot! If you think that you can only help A FEW people, then so be it! I'm not saying that it's a bad thing to think this way but slowly build up your potential and you WILL grow to be able to help even more people soon. :)

SOME: When I refer to some, I refer to MORE THAN A FEW. So, if you belong to this group, I can only say that you may or may not have the potential but if you really don't have the potential, take some time to let it slowly build up. Don't rush, take it slowly. If you have the potential in you already, start helping more and more and more people. Take the extra mile in helping others for it will benefit you too. :)

EVERYONE: Ok, this will relate to the first group of people. Your mindset sucks too. CHANGE IT. You are too prideful and have too much self-esteem! By doing this, you're bringing danger to your own future and if this carries on, you're a goner lemme tell you this. You will NEVER succeed with this mindset of I'm a guy who can help you no matter what problems you have. What makes you think you can say this when even some of the most greatest people in this world do not? Take some time, do some thinking. Can you REALLY help EVERYONE you know? If you still have the thinking that you can, get lost really, no one likes an overly prideful person. If you are able to change to fit into the middle two groups, thank God for you making that decision. :)

In MY OWN PERSONAL OPINION, the only one who can fit into the last group is God. :)

If you've noticed, I've ended every group with a smiley emoticon. :) I don't want to insult everyone through this question but I really want to encourage everyone through this. I do not think that I have that capability to do this neither do I dare say I belong to the middle two groups because I am just a regular human being like everyone else. Humans make mistakes, the difference is that some repent and change but others don't. So please change if you really fall in the first and last group! :D

Back to my own business.

THURSDAY;

Nothing much, talks.

Then after school I met Weijun at AMK! We ate, slacked, then went for caregroup hahas. We had lots of fun stuffs! We played games which had horrible forfeits(obviously cause I was the one doing them -.-). And we sang Heaven is a Wonderful Place!

The lyrics go like this:
Heaven is a wonderful place
Filled with joy and praise
I want to see my Saviour's face
Heaven is a wonderful place

Very simple and very fun hahas. Can change the word wonderful around!

Heaven is a shoik shoik place
Filled with joy and praise
I want to see my Saviour's face
Heaven is a shoik shoik place

Or... :P

Heaven is a cute cute place
Filled with joy and praise
I want to see my Saviour's face
Heaven is a cute cute place

You can actually play around with the lyrics if you've the creativeness in you hahas. Anyway, we had lots of fun, talking and catching up with each other's lives yup.

Then after caregroup had dinner and went home. :X

FRIDAY;

I really don't want to say everything cause it's really a long day. I went to school, had two really really boring talks. AFTER SCHOOL... :P

I went for my 34TH STUDENT COUNCIL YES! CAMP. I'll just break it down, we had an opening prayer, Mrs. Kong gave a presentation on Mental Health(Lols), played a waterbomb war game, had a really tiring EXCO presentation lols till 12++. We had to wake up at 7am. -.-

SATURDAY;

Wake up early in the morning, surprised there wasn't any PT! Hahas. We had the Annual General Meeting though. SAD to say, I dozed off twice. Sorry EXCO's but I was really tired throughout the morning. :( Then we ate lunch, proceeded with the IQ station games. I learnt many new skills from this heh. After that we had a camp debrief then everyone went homee.

I went to Somerset to find the rest of the churchies for the Central Meeting! At least I got to worship God and listened to a teaching despite the fact that I missed service. *phew* Daniel gave us a really powerful teaching on the Pursuit of a Youth. Useful points. Really learnt alot!

After the meeting, we went to eat at Plaza Sing followed by slacking at PCbunk outside until around 10.50 then went home. :D

I really thank God for allowing me to be able to see everyone once again after the really jialat camp! Everyone was enthu, everyone was 'high', everyone made me feel the same way I felt before camp started. :X Which is a really good thing. :X Braynard made me laugh like siao, Bernard nearly killed me, Brandon gave me this nice nice protection charm, Yicong and Suwanie with their antics, Zyann with her continuous laughter-influence, Jessie dade for being the first one to say Hi xiaode! that removed that sense of nervousness when I just stepped into the America room, and the list goes on and on and on... I'll never forget Daniel who exposed me LOL! Sorry if I didn't mention you, it's just that I'm really tired at this point of time. :S

Alright, time to sleep! See ya peeps! :D CENTRAL WE MUST HIT 300! MARISTS WE HAVE TO HAVE A CAREGROUP! CENTRAL A WE NEED TO REACH THAT UNSIGNIFICANT GOAL OF 25!

Good night.

-David

How deep
How wide
How great
Is your love for me.

Camp camp camp camp... :(

2007-10-19T00:27:00.000+08:00

Life's getting harder but my faith grows stronger.

Today no photo but a very simple, old poem yet still working its magic throughout these years.

Alphabets start with ABC,
Numbers start with 123,
Music starts with Do Re Mi,
Our friendship starts with You and Me!

Everything has a start, no doubt about that. Even friendships, they all start between two people. Without one, how can there even be any friendship? You see, many things are fixed and are predictable like ABC but when it comes to friendships, is it predictably You and Me? It takes a small matchstick to start a whole forest fire. We really have to take the initiative when it comes to making new friends, be the one who says the first 'Hello!' and not just stand there, trying to distract yourself by doing other stuffs.

Be the one who takes the responsibility, for you will be the one who benefits most.

I'm gonna give a brief recap on these few days hahas. And tell everyone my grades for SA2. :( Not overall *phew*

GRADES FOR SA2:
English - B3(Didn't expect this marks. Which is a bad thing :()
Chinese - B3(Didn't expect this marks. Which is a good thing :X)
Literature - D7(Hais.)
Art - C6(Lol :P)
DnT - C5(Really disappointed with myself for this ahh)
Science - C5(Waaa really very sad this one)
History - B4(Ok I'm happy with this. Somehow.)
Maths - B4(I got 64.4 so didn't get a B3. And I'm very sad cause there were many A2's from my class. :()

You can roughly tell that I wasn't happy with my results. Hahas. Thank God for putting me through this test to stand even more firmer in my faith though. I'll jiayou next year. I promise. :)

WEDNESDAY;

Nothing much happened. In the morning we had to do some Family Project whereby we had to write a story based on the photograph of our family hahas. After recess had a talk on a subject called the Singapore Chinese Massacre blahs. I slept. :X School's been boring. :l We had to stay back(like every other day?).

Anyways, after school, I went straight home. Wasn't feeling well. ><" Sians. Took a rest, then felt better. God dropped me a person to eat with! Xiangwei met me at Chinatown MRT station and we went to eat at Maxwell Food Court, aka the Supper Area. Cause a few other people and I eat there when we are going for supper hahas.

After that we went to Bishan to find everyone else! Went to the court to play basketball! Suwanie went to exchange one shoe with me then suddenly everyone exchanged shoes to try each other's hahas. Really fun hehe. Standing in each other shoes :P Then went to J8 to slack awhile(while still having the shoe on...), I saw someone I've not seen for the past month lols - Brandon! So happy to see him! :D Talked alot, caught up with each other! Hahas, glad to be able to see this great brotha of mine againn.

We went back home after eating and slacking at Mac! :D

THURSDAY;

I would like to update buttt, it's really late and I've got many things tomorrow so I'll update when I get back from camp! I've got a Councillor "YES!" Camp(Silly name) from Friday to Sat yup so see ya guys soon! :D

-Sy

David really needs to learn how to finish off fast, thanks Papa.

What's the fun if f-u-n is gone?

2007-10-16T22:48:00.000+08:00

At times life is like a spiral, it goes up and down, neverending cycle.
There are many paths we can take but all of them are still spirals, none of them are direct.
We may reach the end, but it won't be easy.
Would you finish this spiral?

I'm dead beat hahas. Today had been a real tiring day! Sorta I guess.

I got my councillor duties today, morning latecoming, recess doing courtyard. ><" After recess we watched Kungfu Hustle heh. Really funny show. :D

After schoooool, I went home then proceeded to Bishan to slack before basketball! I met Suwanie and her friends at Macdonalds, somehow I got really unstable when I didn't have any seat so I just walked to Food Junction to eat alone. I think God really wanted to talk to me so He threw Zyann and Yicong to eat with me! We met by coincedence so ate, then met Suwanie and friends outside Food Junction again! I waved, they left after sometime except Suwanie. We went to NTUC to check out the prices for the sisters' caregroup steamboat tomorrow heh.

Then... Zyann went home, we went to a void deck to slack around before basketballl. We chatted, talked alot about Mingdao, Aiqingmofashi, etc. Enjoyed ourselves hahas. Matthew came and brought his viser and a blazer bought for Mingquan! Suwanie went to snatch both of them and wore them.

Anyways, after that, we went to S11, meeting Mingquan, Pras and Abigail, to eat!

Haha, two exactly identical meals! :P

Unfortunately we weren't able to go play basketball cause of the late timing. :( So everyone left in the end. Oh wells. Been a rather wonderful day for meh, tomorrow SHOULD be slightly less wonderful(Archery...). LOL! Haha.

Good nights.

-Sy

I won't have it any other way cause I got a Saviour and He's living in me...