My Monday

Slept late, woke up late.

Read abit of my bible. i want to finish 10 months of bible reading from March till December this year.

Read "Tuesdays with Morrie" and finished it.
Life is not just about "things". There's a lot of other meaningful that we usually do not focus on.

I wrote down some of the meaningful quotes in my notebook.

Here's 1:
“The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.”

Here's another 1:
“The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.

Life is only worth living if there's is meaning in it!

Went for movie "Music and Lyrics" starring Hugh Grant and Drew Barrymore at The Cathay with my mum and my friend.
Was late. :P

It was a nice and romantic show.
Actually it was rather a typical romantic comedy. :)
Found the lyrics on the web cos I wanted to see if the Pop! group actually existed. Don't seem to be so, but perhaps I did not do a good research. Found videos on Youtube on the movie and listened to the songs. Seldom access Youtube. But I think it is really good, I bet I can find anything on it.

The "Way back into Love" song makes me want to find love again. :) That was only after i read the lyrics (cos I'm a more visual than audio person - Things register better with me if I see them).

Met V and F with my mum and we ate at Ding Tai Feng at Raffles City. Nice F treated us. :)

Home sweet home after that.

Supposed to sleep already. But just felt like searching for info of a person on the web or friendster. So went to search but didn't manage to find anything except some Uni project and some class list. Sigh, though the web's my good friend, i am still limited. Usually I can find information on people via the web one... Unfortunately, my links weren't enough. Haha! Let's see if I can find other info via other methods. :)

Am on morning leave today, but 3am is really too late. I gotta go sleep. God, please give me strength and sharpness to work this afternoon. :)

Enjoy reading my writings...
Haha, quite a number of posts within 2 days. :)

Lyrics of "Don't write me off" - Music and Lyrics movie

Another touching song. I think you need to watch the movie to understand or feel about it.

It's never been easy for me
To find words that go along with a melody
But this time there's actually something on my mind
So please forgive these few brief awkward lines
Since I met you my whole life has changed
It's not just the furniture you re-arranged
I was living in the past
But somehow you brought me back
and I haven't felt like this since before Frankie said relax
and now I know based on my track record
I may not seem like the safest bet
All I'm asking you is
Don't write me off just yet

For years I've been telling myself the same old story
That I'm happy to live off my so called former glorys
but you've given me a reason
to take another chance
now I need you inspite the fact
that you've killed all my plants
and now I know
that i've already blown more chances
then anyone should ever get
all I'm asking you is
don't write me off just yet
don't write me off just yet

1st M3 Outing in 2007

1 of the rare ministry outing that we have. We used to have outings more often. :P

This was to celebrate birthdays of Jan to Mar volunteers.

18 people turned up. We went to Marina South. I tot that area was dead but somehow it survived. To my surprise, there were quite a number of people flying kites there... I think the last time I went to the grass patch to play was in 1996 or 1997 with my sec 4 classmates. Time flies.

We had the bbq steamboat buffet. :)
Nothing super fantastic about the food but it was nice to gather.

Ate, talked, took some photos. Hope they turned out nice!
Too bad I do not have a camera of my own. I wish I have a digicam. Can someone buy me one? Hehe!
Photos of good ways of reminding me of happy events. :)

There will be an outing once a month starting from April. Hope it will get more and more fun plus we can bond with each other better! :)

Can I just mention about my hand that I scalded with hot water while preparing my cup noodles? Haha, I was really careless. Now I have a mark on my hand. :P I hope it will heal nicely, dead skin will peel nicely and I will have a nice hand back!

A blessed weekend

Sy Rogers was here over the weekend.
He is an excellent communication and a greater minister of God's grace/mercy and love.

His main message on Saturday was: God is bigger than all the challenges in life!
He illustrated that through his personal life's testimony of what God has done for him and through him.
It is just amazing...!
Who could have thought that someone with his past could get to where he is today?
But God did it!!!

It just confirms the fact that nothing is ever too hard for the Lord!
Praise the Lord that I serve a God who is bigger than any circumstances or situations! :)

He encouraged us to build our own memorial pile of the events that God has proved Himself true to us.
Y? Cos humans tend to be forgetful. They tend to forget about the good things once bad things come by. Haha!
These memorial stones can remind us of God's faithfulness, His character and His love...

"Life can only be understood backwards, but can only be lived forward."
How true this is!

Many times, we just do not understand why certain things happen... They do not really make sense to us. But as we trust in God's character and walk on with him, one day as we look back, we will sometimes discover why those things were allowed to happen to us. Sometimes, we will never understand. But perhaps when we get to heaven, we will find out. :)

Anyway, at the end of the service, Sy Rogers gave an altar call for those who feel that they need help/breakthrough, etc.
He told us to stand up. I did not stand up immediately... Haha, cos was rather paiseh about it. But i eventually did. He also asked us to go down to the front for us to be prayed for. This lady prayed for me. She asked God to heal my broken heart, to fill my heart, etc. She prayed something like "Don't let her heart be broken again." I don't remember the exact words and I wished that she continued to pray cos I really wanted to know what does God want to tell me. But that was it. But that prayer was comforting to me, cos somehow it told me that God knows it all. My pain matter to God. And when it matters to Him, I know I am heard and it is just comforting to know that.

And I pray for myself, "God, please protect my fragile heart with all that You are! Keep my heart pure for You. Let my heart follow You. Help me in all my weaknesses. Allow me to triumph as I keep on walking with You. Bring me to a land of milk and honey. Fill me with Your dreams and visions. Allow me to see my purpose here on earth. Give me a breakthrough that I've been yearning for. Let me be someone who can glorify Your name with who I am and what I do. Be my Lord!"

This afternoon, I went to CPC again. I realised that one of my dear members (SK) is not there. I wondered what happened to him. Sadly, I found out that he was also transferred to another unit like many others. Found it quite a pity as I did not get to say bye to him. Another of my member (K) was saddened by his transfer too. They were close friends and always encouraged each other. K said he did not understand why. Cos he chose to stay in this unit partly because of this friend (SK) but now he has left and he had to stay. As mentioned earlier, sometimes we just don't understand why things happen. But we can trust that God is good and he doesn't play with our lives. May God bring comfort to K's heart during this time of transition. This touches my heart to see a tight friendship between the 2 of them. Indeed they are building real friendships in the midst of the world where trusting relationships can be hard to find.

I also found out that K scored 5 A1s for his "N" Levels. This is such a great piece of news but he didn't share it with me cos he said it is a small thing... Alamak! Small thing meh? But wow, I'm so proud of him for such good results! K: You did very very well! Well done!!! =)

You and I matter to God!
Hang in there, you are of great value to God! =)

Haha, too bad I don't get to blog very often. But twice a month is still not bad right?

Thanks to friends who sent me smses to encourage me! Thanks for loving me! May God bless you guys lots and lots! :)

My 7th Year anniversary

Today (11th March) is my 7th year anniversary since I 1st stepped into City Harvest Church and was born again. It was at the old Hollywood theatre... If I did not remember wrongly, it was a saturday afternoon or evening.

My then boyfriend brought me to church. He had invited me to church before, but I wasn't interested. But he asked once in a while again. So I thought to myself that I will just go and show face, and hopefully he won't ask me again after that... Haha! That was really intention at the time.

A few days after that, a friend that I volunteered with for a Children's Day Camp in the holidays in Nov/Dec 99 was also a City Harvester, she also tried to invite me for that week. She told me that there will be a Evangelistic meeting that saturday and invited me. Haha, I did not even know what was "Evangelistic" that time.

Anyway, I am just trying to say that God has it all planned... :)
I think I shared my salvation story in my blog before...
Was feeling out of place during praise and worship.
I do not remember what was the sermon about but I found it meaningful for me.
Eventually there was the altar call, which I did not know it was at that time.
I just knew that I wanted what Pastor was talking about so i lifted my hands at the end of the service.
And I went up to the front after that... Then I realised that it was the call for salvation.
As I wanted what was Pastor talking about, I prayed the sinnners prayer with my counsellor.
And that was how I became a Christian and a City Harvester.

Yeah!
This is the 7th year for me. The 8th year will be a new beginning for me! Hippy Hooray!
Onwards to a life filled with beautiful things once again! =)