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? Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Hm.... its getting a little unbelievable. Somehow somehow.... God always pull me through and somehow somehow things just happen. Its seem normal to me experiencing cycles of pulling hair moments and then a delivery moment and it goes on and on and on and on.... While usually a description of having a divine touch from God usually conjure up an image of something that is super-big and occurring only when you fasted 30 days, the little little things that I have pulled through on a regular basis seem to testify otherwise.

Ok,cut the crap,all I wanna do is to journal down this season and all its stuns(the exam Juggernaut and his side-kicks) and how they are simply no match for God who probably yawned at them. Simple chess moves he made and of which I would want to give thanks for:

The Friday Service Before My First Paper
While there were people complaining about having a friday night service, I was actually very glad that I had something to calm my nerves down before my first paper. I had been studying much harder than previous sem thanks to the absence of certain distractions haa but its been giving me butterflies in my brain and those butterflies were threatening to spread to the rest of my body. So, the wonderful experience of God's assurance really brought me at peace. While its never comforting that there are people reading lines of their textbook while I read the lines of the worship lyrics displayed, I reckon a touch from God beats any mugging attempts and definitely salvage my mental condition which is key for remaining sane and sound before my paper.

The Sat CG After My First Paper
Ok, so the paper was taken but i had certain physical discomforts as I did the paper and it really drained and brought my spirit down alot. The worst thing to do after that probably is to turn up for unit CG and disregard the comforts of my healing bed. I was thinking in my mind that I didn't want to drag the atmosphere down and really wondered if I was able to convey the WOG in the right attitude and conviction. Wellsssss, if its a unit CG,means the unit leader have to be there right? and if there is a big hole in teaching slot,won't it be like super-weird?? Haa but thank God for the decision to pull it through and go cos' it wasn't an attendance thing as God instantly converted my heart to one that trusts in him as I worshipped and won't you have it? A teaching that was based on the right attitude and heart condition. I even told my unit that really thank God for the worship,if not i might not be able to teach at all and God knows how long I would take to settle my heart at home.

The Sunday DMM Before My Second Paper
Its beginning to sound like I want to thank God for every single thing that happens in my life in this limited cyberSPACE but bear with me cos' God really moved so much during this period. What happened for that sunday DMM was also another touch of God through worship. This silly me got caught up in the web of worrying again,seeing how behind time I was on certain modules and how time was taunting a limited human with its constant reminders of what is to come. It was really refreshing to worship God and this really prep. me for a marathon at SMU later.

The JieXun Camera incident
Ok enough about exam Juggernaut! I will have plenty to deal with when his spawn, results release have a showdown with me on 22th Dec. I am going to talk about this particular camera incident that occurred midway through the exam season and cannot be described in any other way but divine.

Ok, during another unit CG, I borrowed jiexun's camera to record my teaching and after that in a sleep-deprived mode, cared only about my duck rice infront of me and left his camera to be taken care by the cleaners in admiralty food court. The amazing part was that I didn't even notice that for 3 whole days and was hypnotized into thinking that it was still in some corner of my room. Well done,smart guy.

Anyways, poor JX was driving down to claim the camera from me as he was hard pressed by his brother to claim it back and it was only at that moment that I realised that it wasn't with me anymore. In a desperate frantic mode, I started calling up eyewitnesses and concurred that it must had been at the food court. Wells,it doesn't take rocket science to figure out that my chances of claiming back a 1k camera being left to the wilderness is very slim. I even pictured in my mind some person eating at the foodcourt table after me,thanking God that idiots like me exist and gleeing at the prospect of having a normally out of reach new 1k camera. Multiply that one person by 3 days' worth of them and man, it got me on my knees praying to God for salvation.

So, the next day I asked my mother to go check ou with the foodcourt cleaners first as I had school and the response was negative. Not that there was much to expect anyway. (Meanwhile I had only told my mum I lost a speaker in the shoebag and haven disclose the 1k camera yet.You see, I will probably take my exams in hospital after that.) Nevertheless, being the ever reluctant person to pay for 1k worth of my life (that is 3mths pay), I still enquired of the cleaner who gave me the same negative response. Somehow, there was a voice that urged me to carry on with the coffee aunty and she pointed me to the manager who brought out the 8th wonder of the world and my salvation as well. Now, I make it a point to trust coffee aunties more than cleaners but anyways, it is pure divine. Nothing other than His interference could have saved me. The manager even state that I was quite lucky as they usually turned over their lost items to the police after 3 days.

The CIP
Ok one last one! As some of you are aware,we are doing a matthew event cum CIP event and I was tasked to link up with this organisation. We prepared hard and discussed about the ideas for coming up for an event but alas, due to certain clash of interests, were not able to pull it off. However, by the time that happened, it is 1 week to our proposed event and also a detriment to our build-up towards Christmas!

Just for your information, lots of homes are actually booked during the Christmas season like 3 months before Christmas in case any of you planning a similar event. So, I spent sometime camping beside the phone, entertaining many rejections and weird responses,reaching the brink of giving up. However,someone interfered again. Not Kanye West but our ever faithful God! We managed to link up with a home and reach an agreement for an event this weekend. Praise God! Please pray for us that as we now face the arduous task of preparing well for the event with only a few days to spare, God will keep interfering and interfering.

I think its really a crime to not blog all these down and leave them to the dust of my memory. Wells, what else can I say? and i shall leave it as that.



( 9:08 AM )

? Tuesday, October 27, 2009

What is the point of studying in NUS,learning psychology concepts,learning driving, striving so hard to prepare teachings and shepherding people if I don't bring you Glory?


( 11:24 PM )

? Monday, October 26, 2009

If ever I need to smack myself out of complacency for sitting at home looking @ my bible and wondering if I should slowly take my time going about this "Christian thing" ( Typing this christian thing today still makes me feel like huh?I am associated with this christian identity?U'll know why soon...). OK,pardon me for concocting a sentence too long and broken as well but if ever i need to do that, I would just have to look thru' the encouragement cards that people have written to me over the years. Its really massively plenty as its like 7 years worth of them?(OMG I am gg to be a dinosaur soon!!!)

Some interesting observations I made and reminders:

(1) All my shepherds/leaders have written to me,even people who are remotely far and no link to me have also written as well SAVE FOR one particular leader and shepherd! Guess who hahaha,its really quite obvious.

(2) I used to subscribe to the thinking that encouargement and affirmation is redundant. I even wrote on Daniel's birthday banner: Serve God don't need affirmation de. I will win the NS camps for you. Just say it and do it. How wrong I was hahaha not as in I didnt do it but encouragements and affirmations are important as well!

(3) It really has not been easy weathering through all the storms in those life. From PO to pioneering schools to defying my parents to enter SR to attempting to leave behind a CG in SR to surviving NS to struggling to get pple respond to my challenges haha to struggling to lead a Cg to struggling to leading a unit to struggling to overcome certain major blocks in my character to now struggling with nus and many other stuffs haha, its really has not been easy. While I am sitting on my chair now, being in a state where perhaps alot of these events don't bear as much emotional responses to me anymore, i cannot be allowed to be deluded by the status of "having overcome" to be cold towards the grace and love that has sustained me through all these.

(4) In reflections, I can safely and surely thank God for how my life has been changed. There were certain motives that weren't right in current realisation of they mean. There were certain motivations that if my current me meets the past me, I would want to give him a 24 hr shepherding about.

(5) There are certain traits of me that are defining of me. A common phrase in all these encouragement cards is "passionate,always giving his all to God and his people". While I have grow much in wisdom and understanding to not be a persistent mad bull rushing in ministry, I would really want to keep this spirit of giving my all. I would still want to chiong like mad when its God's timing to.


( 11:25 PM )

? Monday, October 19, 2009

Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.
~Phil 4:8~


( 8:54 AM )

? Thursday, October 15, 2009

Been through a crazy period
Was really bitter about things
It seems like its either one or the other for me
but God, I choose to hold on
Lord,save me
My hope is in you


( 11:17 AM )

? Tuesday, October 6, 2009

To what extent should we accept others' predispositions for who they are as compared to seeing them as character flaws that God would want us to correct?


( 10:05 AM )

? Tuesday, September 22, 2009

For those who haven't been among the privileged (or unlucky) few of those whom i complained my life to ha, here's an exciting peek into the life of junliang post-vision night! Basically it can be summarised into 2 words:


NO LIFE


oh my goodness,just when I started recuperating from my lack of sleep on Sunday, I suddenly recalled that I had a project proposal to type that I must die die send by Sunday night.ZZZ. And so there I was,camping infront of my desktop (my #$%#$% Fujitsu is spoilt again!) for HOURS not knowing what to type. Can you imagine a Biz-noob FASS student trying to type the operations segment of a business proposal that is actually going to be seen by YMCA and the likes of Starbucks, Cafe Cartel AND the social enterprise is actually going to be carried out ?!!? Goodness, I spent hours researching on how to present and what contents to include and I still couldn't stick to the deadline! And so... I had to miss men's conference (initially was thinking of going there w/o sleep, nuts!) and spent the bulk of the next 24 hrs being a techno-savvy zombie trying my best to get more juice out of my brain's winepress as well as halting every single attempt for the upper end eye lid to join the lower end...for more than 5 sec. Frankly, I was very much in a defeated mode, doing stuff like after getting stuck for awhile, I went to find solace in the world of the 3 kingdoms offered by my brother's PSP. God knows how in the world I managed to come up with something and got it sent..but it just happens.

Ok,and so,after that,it really left me in a temporal comatose mode on my bed cos' my brain was freaking fizzled by looking at the com screen for too long and here comes a sms to meet up Jon Lwee's CG for dinner. Thank God I pulled myself out of wanting to slug and decided to face the whole wide world for the 1st time in 2.5 days, interacting in fellowship, something that the cold hard screen of the computer doesn't offer. Oh wells, now comes the time to get back in routine and making sure i balance all my roles well again.


( 11:43 AM )

? Tuesday, September 1, 2009

I am so happy!!!!!!!!! Cos as i was reading the bible, I found my wife!

Here she is!

Proverbs 31:10-31

10 A wife of noble character who can find?
She is worth far more than rubies.

11 Her husband has full confidence in her
and lacks nothing of value.

12 She brings him good, not harm,
all the days of her life.

13 She selects wool and flax
and works with eager hands.

14 She is like the merchant ships,
bringing her food from afar.

15 She gets up while it is still dark;
she provides food for her family
and portions for her servant girls.

16 She considers a field and buys it;
out of her earnings she plants a vineyard.

17 She sets about her work vigorously;
her arms are strong for her tasks.

18 She sees that her trading is profitable,
and her lamp does not go out at night.

19 In her hand she holds the distaff
and grasps the spindle with her fingers.

20 She opens her arms to the poor
and extends her hands to the needy.

21 When it snows, she has no fear for her household;
for all of them are clothed in scarlet.

22 She makes coverings for her bed;
she is clothed in fine linen and purple.

23 Her husband is respected at the city gate,
where he takes his seat among the elders of the land.

24 She makes linen garments and sells them,
and supplies the merchants with sashes.

25 She is clothed with strength and dignity;
she can laugh at the days to come.

26 She speaks with wisdom,
and faithful instruction is on her tongue.

27 She watches over the affairs of her household
and does not eat the bread of idleness.

28 Her children arise and call her blessed;
her husband also, and he praises her:

29 "Many women do noble things,
but you surpass them all."

30 Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting;
but a woman who fears the LORD is to be praised.

31 Give her the reward she has earned,
and let her works bring her praise at the city gate.

Lol,thank God!



( 11:51 PM )

? Friday, August 28, 2009

I have been noticing recently that actually I live on a different time frame from most people.Wells,you see, my Wednesdays have become my Sundays and my Sundays like any other weekdays! Let me explain further in the following mini chart:

Mon- School
Tue- School
Wed- Free day
Thurs- School
Friday- School
Sat- Ministry
Sun- Ministry
(Its almost impossible to study on weekends heh)

Ok, this is no complain because I am so used to this life now ha.(lest Bruce sees this) but it just much of a disparity to my JC studying life ha. Its weird to sabbath on a weekday but it makes me treasure my free day so much more!

Life is going to peak up a little seeing that I already have a test next week for a module that I haven't even touch the textbook. Yikes! Coupled with that, I have yet to do some research for certain contents for the future shepherds' meet programme heh.Wells,Here We Go! So exciting! Time to witness more miracles! =)


( 8:55 AM )

? Monday, August 24, 2009

In a public debate,one pastor argued, 'Unless you first come to church, you will never find the gate to the Kingdom of Heaven."

"No," answered the other. "Until you first look for the gate to the Kingdom of Heaven, you don't belong in church."


( 9:12 AM )

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