So OK, two things I’ve learnt in the 5pm service tonight. Worship is way too loud and if you want to tell me your name, the least you could do is make sure I can hear you.
No, just joking!
OK, so Robert Barriger preached up a storm tonight as part of the ‘6 Hot Weekends’ leading to Conference. Biju Thampy preached last Sunday, complete with a bad back which he just had surgery on this past Friday. The thing about these two men is that they are the true blue harvesters. They have their hands to the soil and toil and are out in the world saving people. Biju in the slums of Mumbai and Robert in Lima, Peru. They are changing the world by feeding the poor, channeling resources to them and saving under privileged human beings from the evil grasp of other human beings. Saving girls from prostitution seem to be a recurring theme in poor places; its easy to sell a girls’ rights, dignity and body for a couple of cents. What you are selling is her soul, her sanity, her self-respect, her health. I cannot even start to imagine what these girls go through!
Robert and Biju are fine examples of what the church should look like. We are to fight for the voiceless and hold high the honour and right of every single human being on Earth; regardless of race, religion and social background. This is how inclusiveness looks like in John 3:16… For God so loved the WORLD…
But anyway, two things I’ve learnt today.
1. Jesus is not the Jesus in the Bible anymore.
When Jesus was on Earth, He came as a baby in the manger, performed miracles, walked on water, got betrayed and was brutally nailed and punished on the cross. But He resurrected and in Revelation (which is not a book about the end times but rather a revelation of the NOW Jesus Christ) is portrayed as the Lion of Judah, no more the sacrificial Lamb of God. He is portrayed with fire in His eyes, glowing and with a double edged sword in His hand. The nails on the Cross are gone, His scars are healed; glorified even. This is the Jesus of today; this moment; until the day He comes. He seats on the right hand of the Father, interceding for us. This hero, this superhero, this God.
2. There is a ‘behind the scenes’ in our everyday life.
I invite you to take a look at Revelation 12. This is indeed what happened ‘behind the scenes’ of Jesus’ birth. There is a very real spiritual war going on in our everyday lives. The more the Devil can distract our minds from it, the better it is for him. We pray less, we get disillusioned and out of focus and stray away from the paths that will strengthen angels and in the process might weaken them. The less humans are aware of the spiritual realm the better it is. That’s why a lot of people want to say they are atheist. As long as the Devil can make you believe there is no spiritual realm, he has succeeded. He does not necessarily need people to believe he exists.
But this is a futile war, the Devil wages it so that he can bring as many people down as possible. Wreak as much havoc on the creation of God as much as possible; hurt people, destroy lives, incinerate hopes and dreams. But his time is short and he is in fury (Revelation 12:12).
A lot of times we get so caught up in church and life and connect group and Bible study and serving and all good ‘Christian’ things that we forgot that there’s always a ‘behind the scenes’ happening. I don’t think that we are meant to see what goes on in the ’studio’ this side of the television but just to choose what we watch and what we do very very carefully.
I am again reminded tonight that how we live the dot of our lives determine our line of ETERNITY…
Your life –> .
Eternity–> _________________________________________________ Forever & ever & ever
God bless!
I was thinking about my mom tonight; not least due to the fact that she was sitting right in front me during our ramen dinner in Crowes Nest.
She’s not a CEO of a multinational company.
She’s not a business owner.
She doesn’t even own her own car or house (Well, she does but that doesn’t really fit into this entry; so for all intents and purposes, she doesn’t own anything substantial).
She’s not a go-getter; she’s definitely not a career woman.
Her relationships with her friends are not awesome, nor are they great. In fact, they are dismal, distant, indifferent. Sometimes even bordering negative (e.g. I do not want to hang out with my so-called friends).
She does not have a hobby nor is she passionate about anything in particular.
She cooks well, but nothing a person with a few extra cookbooks cannot outdo.
She’s not getting prettier with age. Her hair is a nice brown and cropped neat and short though. Definitely a chic and modern look to it.
She’s got style for one, and a pretty tall figure (for a lady of Asian persuasion).
She knows her brands but swing by a few Ksubi or Sass & Bide or Camilla Marc and she can only manage to exude a blank look.
But one thing she’s got that I think by far sets her apart from other women her age. She’s got my sister and me. I will never ever forget how she sacrificed her youth, her career, her passions and her hobbies for us. To pick us up diligently from school every day. To cook for us, to clean for us. She even learnt driving for our sake! How does one FEEL like picking up her children every day? Definitely her own feelings are buried so deep down that she lets responsibility boil up and her feelings decrease.
Friends? Don’t even think about it. My children come first. I have to make sure they succeed, be the person I could never be. A better life, a life which they can choose and contribute to society…
Everytime I go out with my mom I think of all these things…
Now both my sister and I are ‘grown-up’ we feel things and we can voice our opinions but sometimes, we cannot. I cannot. I think of all the things my mother has sacrificed for me and I can’t help but buy her dinner or buy her that dress she longingly looks at in the shops. Sure she nags and she brings up stuff that annoys me but wasn’t I annoying when I wasn’t at the designate spot at the corner of school where she was supposed to pick me up? Wasn’t I annoying when I was sick; bed-ridden, had to be cared for? Was I annoying then? And what did she do?
She didn’t raise her voice, she didn’t complain, she didn’t said no. All she did was look into my eyes with compassion and say, “It’s OK, Son… Mom’s here for you…”
I hope this has opened your eyes to the way we treat those most important to ourselves.
God bless!
Yeow!
Caught these two movies (”Angels and Demons” and “Night At The Museum 2“) with the girlfriend in Singapore and of course I’ll do two things at once. Enjoy the time AND review the movie 
I wrote the review standing up on the MRT too! But that was when I was alone though; FACE time trumps PHONE time ANYTIME! Some people annoyingly do not follow this rule but ah-ah-ah, I’m on a no complaint campaign for myself. Everytime I sense that I’m on a complaint rampage I remind myself complaining is actually negativity. And negativity is NOT good!!! Like attracts like. Negativity attracts negativity so… Positivity attracts positivity! And guess what successful people are? Yup, anything BUT negative!
Anyway, I’ll blog about stuff soon… My hard disk’s still in the shop and I’m still deciding whether to go ahead with the AUD500 repair or not. It has my pictures from my holiday last month.
Hmmm… between Twitter, Facebook, DebateMovies.com and this blog, (and an up and coming website); I think this blog will slowly grow extinct. Ah ah ah! (Get behind me negative thought) Maybe I’ll lock this blog with a password or something… Cause most of my overseas friends are on Facebook anyway and the purpose of this blog WAS to service them. But with Facebook, this has been INSTANT. And a lot of things I think about these days are DOING things and not neccessarily THINKING things you know what I mean?
If I think about, I’ll just do it and the results will speak for itself.
But I guess there’s always time for thinking and reflecting and RECORDING my life. My sweet twenty-somethings… Haha!
I guess I’m rethinking the purpose of this blog for the time being. Maybe it’s meant for EXACTLY like rants like this… haha!
Till our next meeting!
God bless!
OK, I know its been a while but I’ve been so busy running through airports (through no fault of no one but myself) that I tend to neglect this piece of cyberspace…
But there’s always Twitter now I guess… Just look to your left
Meanwhile, The Chasers are back!!! Click here for their Youtube playlist for Season 3 Episode 1!
God bless!
So while browsing SMH today, caught eye of ‘Sophomore NYC’ on The Vine supplement website and then tried to get a search of a Sophomore store in OZ… Of course there’s none…
But found three new Gems instead!
Incu Store (Paddington) – Just realized that there’s an Incu store in the city (TGV) which I pass through EVERYDAY! lOl!
Pour Tous (For everyone)
They stock brands from the world (US mainly I think) and I don’t think they give big discounts like the big retailers can but if you want to stand out from the crowd and HAVE the money… Go ahead… Start browsing!
Woohuh!
God bless!
Had Connect Group tonight and I always feel good after Connect Group. It feels good encouraging people, listening to people and introducing new belief systems and change into people’s lives. Its cause when you teach and minister that you get taught and ministered to at the same time. If you don’t give, you don’t receive. And when you are using your words to explain and strengthen someone else, guess who hears it the loudest? Yes, its yourself.
I feel like a lot of people are getting on my nerves nowadays. Usually younger people. Younger as in age. But I know of some young people who are mature.
Maybe I’ll rephrase it, immature people are getting on my nerves. Of course there are adults who are immature.
Let’s dissect this (by the way, this wasn’t what we discussed in Connect Group); what immaturity looks like…
1. The world revolves around you, you and you.
2. You have no sense of others. Seriously.
3. You have no sense of right and wrong.
4. You are impatient (Priorities upside down).
5. And you do not share.
6. You do not communicate well.
Sounds like Cubbyhouse on the weekend! Its OK if you are 0-2 and act immature cause you ARE immature. But what really irks me is when young adults act immature.
What is the cure?
But back to CG, we talked about having ‘No Excuses’ today! Woohuh! It was pretty good I reckon and it always amazes me how the Holy Spirit just reminds me of timely and relevant bible verses and truths that I can encourage and minister my group with. Thank you God!
God bless!
Link to ‘official’ review HERE.
Oh gosh I kinda liked this movie… SokLeng told me I wouldn’t fall asleep watching it but she didn’t tell me why…
Turns out the shopaholic is a journalist in New York City… Oh my goodness… What I would do to be there…
Anyway, dreams aside this movie is good… Funny, little witty, typical ‘romantic’ comedy minus the sex and the adultness. Well, it WAS adapted from a novel for teens…
And Isla Fisher (Rebecca Bloomwood the Shopaholic) grew up in Perth! Amazing how people can change accents at the drop of a hat…
Which reminds me of this YouTube video I got from ATan yesterday… If you are SG-ian or well-versed in the SG culture, look out for her amazing adaptation of a SPG’s ACCENT!!! Gosh I hate that accent…
God bless!
Aiyo… what’s with Thai movie clips???
Tell me that didn’t make you at least tear…
God bless!
So my ‘old’ phone died… It’s not really old, its just how shall we call it, my ex-phone, cause it’s died right. I would turn it on and then it will load for a while and then streaks of white lines will appear. And since its a slide out phone, I concurred that the ribbon which connects the LCD screen to the main body is somewhat loopy, cranky, loose, dysfunctional… Anyway, its under warranty and we’ll deal with that later.
So having being addicted to on the go Wi-Fi and checking emails, I just couldn’t imagine myself going back to 2G phones… PLUS I wanted, no, NEEDED a touch screen. Its just too intuitive to give up and going back to a Sony Ericcson k750i style of joystick just wouldn’t do it. So I narrowed down my choices to a few phones…
The Blackberry Bold… The HTC Dream… and the Apple iPhone.
First up, was the HTC, it is a brand new phone on a brand new platform, the Google Android, so like hello? Alarm bells, cow bells ringing too… New phone? New platform? Na-ah, PLUS its HTC. Bad experience with HTC. BAD!!! So the HTC Dream option evaporates…
The Blackberry Bold/Storm. The Blackberry Bold has no touch screen so I’m seriously not prepared to divulge into it… It’s just so 2008… 
And truth be told, its fugly!
And then there came along yet ANOTHER option, the Samsung Omnia… This was a no brainer, I just hate Samsung handphones…
And lastly there was the Holy Grail of phones… Something which had all I wanted (well, sort of)… Beauty, elegance, a mega touch screen, nonsense Apps… The only one thing that’s disappointing was the lack of a physical keyboard… Something which literally had me glued to my HTC TyTn II! It was SO easy to type stuff out!!!
So with all these factors to consider… I had to make a decision… My LG Shine was just testing my patience by the HOUR!
And then I did it…
I took the plunge…
And it was beautiful…
I still can’t type as fast on it as I could on the HTC TyTn II but the graphics, the elegance, the Apps, the connectivity (syncability?) and the speed of the phone almost makes up for it…
It truly is a NEW phone… The platform, the swiping, the zooming in and out… It’s just so intuitive… So… human…
WOW!
God bless!
Filed under: Movies
It is a good movie.
Different from Slumdog but good all the same. It IS after all a Hollywood ‘blockbuster’. It has enough fillers to keep an ADD person like me excited and enough depth in its script to keep my literary side engaged…
Read the full ‘official’ review here!!!
God bless!
