Are you AWARE?

I am really appalled at what we can do sometimes. There's a lot of talk about this AWARE takeover in Singapore. just in case some of you might wonder, AWARE is a pro-woman NGO in singapore, which was somehow being taken as a refuge for lesbians to organise their activities and stuff...

sooo to cut the long story, a group of Christians who thinks that they are rightfully doing the right thing planted members into the NGO and within 3 months, voted out the AWARE old guards in the AGM without any indication that they had an agenda in mind. Hi-jack is the word here. imagine u're in an organisation for 25 years, and suddenly this bunch of people who are highly qualified (first class honors, most of them) decided to join you for your cause. they were so enthu, they even attended the AGM! and out there right in front of your eyes, they stab you and voted you out of your organisation.

huh?!

seriously, there's a lot of places to voice your concern over an organisation's agenda, be it your care about them being pro-homosexuals or whatever. How are these people going to justify the 'righteousness' that we Christians are suppose to embody? standing up for the Truth is an important thing, but standing up for the Truth in an unrighteous way = WRONG THING definitely.

so now they are going to hold another EOGM to decide whether the new exco can hold on to their position. sigh. Singapore sure is a melting pot for all these exciting stuff to happen.

Blog Blog Blog

I havent been blogging these days coz after i returned the cam, i've just slumped into the lethargic mood to blog. 

a lot of things has happened in between, and i can only give thanks because i find that God has been very merciful to me. sometimes when we're living in this world so full of distractions, we really lost sight of what we're suppose to do and what He wants us to do. through His wonderful grace He led me back so that i can have faith to be salt and light to the world =)

actually i really think working world is not soooooo bad (after you've studied in MLE for 3 years, you know that anything that comes along is better than what you were in). i've managed to do a lot of things during this intern: painted my gundams, took up photography, played in band competition, revived my blog, and even writing chinese calligraphy. yes 写毛笔字... i find myself behaving like an old ah pek from time to time. but most importantly, during this time i've managed to find myself all over again.. so i must say this sem has been the most meaningful sem that i've had since uni... 

give thanks to our Lord =) 

No Pictures

Because i have returned the camera.

...

well, just have to save enough for the time being.

The 7 Last Words

Definitely better than the 7 Swords. Drove in to Permasjaya to sing the 7 Last Words yesterday. Not exactly a very smooth trip i'd say... went through by 2nd link and as some of you might know, the Malaysian custom is about 5-10 min drive after the bridge.

Thing is, the jam started at the bridge -.- so end up stuck at the causeway for 3 hours plus. eventually, we managed to reach there and sang the song by God's grace and had a wonderful dinner nearby. 

Choir singing at the new mission chapel.

it was really a tiring day because the journey was sooo long for such a short distance. But it's not for fun that we go, it's for the mission and i believe it is a good friday well spent =)

Orewa Optimist Prime

The optimist and the pessimist sit in a row; one sees the doughnut, the other sees the hole. OOOOKAY that was lame... but after some thoughts and struggles and prayers over some issues, i've decided to be the one who sees the doughnut rather than the one who sees the hole. Enough emo-ing.

Question: Have you ever felt reluctant in serving Him? 'ehh, let someone else do it larh' 'but i tired leih..' 'wahlau, give opportunity to the younger ones lah...' Sometimes God really does work in mysterious ways - ways higher than ours and thoughts deeper than ours. There were countless times when you felt the move in your heart to serve and you just suppress them because, as you would give yourself a pathetic reason, 'i'm not there yet...' So when will you be there? When it's too late? When Jesus comes again? 

Jesus came 2 milleniums ago and died on the cross today for you and me. Were you there when they crucified my Lord? He walked up the path of the cross in history to fulfill the predestination set in the eternal will of God. Will you walk the same path? 

Ask yourself: If it's not now, then when? If it's not here, then where? If it's not this, then what? If it's not ME, then who?

"Do not put out the Spirit's fire." (2 Thes 5:19) The time is NOW. dont wait until He comes again. 

Tired

Precious Lord, take my hand,

Lead me on, let me stand,

I am tired, I am weak, I am worn;

Through the storm, through the night,

Lead me on to the light,

Take my hand, precious Lord,

Lead me home.

Stardust 09!!!

Hi guys, please vote for our band competition titled stardust here!!!

Our band is B01 Con Men!! =D

清明节时雨纷纷

路上行人欲断魂. it's funny why during this period it always rains. just that perhaps it wasnt 雨纷纷 but pouring heavily during the sunday afternoon. in fact it was pouring so heavily Sam has to leave his lunch in the back alley and scurried up the pathway because the alley was flooding.

managed to take a few pics when the rain subsided a bit but i havent been able to bring the camera to East Coast Park for the 1241235th week. it's been raining on Sundays. so here's the few...

actually, i really cant tell this block from that one over there. yeap, that one right there...

Cloth pegs must be thinking 'How useless i am!'

We still managed a gai gai somehow =D

Alas! stay at home play piano better....

Well. Papa mama back to sarawak to 清明... wish i could have been there. i guess sometimes the rain really stirs up the emotion...

Flying Here and There

When Airasia came out quite a few years back i really thought that flying will be cheap. YEAH RIGHT.

1) They dont fly KL - Singapore - KL at that time.

2) Budget airlines always have this irritating concept of oooh "$0.00 DOLLAR FARE!" and end up you have to pay a few hundreds just to get from one place to another. Airport tax larh, fuel surcharge larh, insurance larh.. it's endless. Why dont we have restaurants that dont charge you for your bak chor mee, but charge you for using their spoon, their fork, their plate etc... what an idiotic idea.

3) Budget airlines have some very "interesting" airplanes. the kind that gives you free roller coaster rides. if you know what i mean.

BUT! lately i've decided to give it another try since fuel prices has dropped and flying seems to get hit quite hard in the recession. Furthermore Airasia seems to have established the route to Singapore quite firmly. SURPRISE SURPRISE! i actually managed to book a ticket which has a total cost (yes after adding all those irritating stuff) of < SGD35.00 when flying back from KL!

AND i've just bought another tix back to KL after my intern. it costs less than 50 bucks. cheaper than some bus tix. this time round it's Jetstar though. you just have to shift around Jetstar, Airasia or Tiger to get some good deals.. 

i guess sometimes recession might do some people really bad, but they also do some people good!

Today is April Fool's Day

Seriously, people have always joked about my birthday. it's kinda fun coz they dont believe you when you tell them 'eh today my birthday you know...' hahaha! 

jokes aside, another year has just whizzed past me like there's no yesterday... 2 years ago i remembered posting somewhere in the blog about getting kicked out from St James coz i'm still underage -.- OK dont get me wrong we were there for the purpose of watching good bands but who'd have thought that the only eligible place we can go is a huge dark room with nothing but bass beats.. =.= "we" here being me and yeekiat... 

now i'm 23 liao *so fast*. but yeekiat is not 23 yet... so its not so fast after all. what nonsense am i talking. Anyway, today is rather meaningful as well, because my beloved sister chose to have her wedding 3 years ago on this very date. very interesting indeed. i'd like to wish her a happy anniversary and hope that i'll become an uncle soon. 

so the whole point of this post is to thank all those who wished me a happy birthday on this very funny day and may God bless you all to have many birthdays to come!