Saturday, March 25, 2006
Continue from the last blog.
So much to say yet dun know how to say... okay, enuff of my crap!!! =-p
one of the thing that i really missed in china was the cool temperature (avg 6-15 degree C), thought by then our china trip, temp should have rose to quite comfortable level...
But when i attend the briefing, the tour leader warned us that the temp there is still very cold and told us to bring some extra thick clothings and thermal wear... as the group that went earlier had told him... true enuff, the moment i stepped out of the plane and walked thru the pld (if i still remembered correctly), can feel almost the cold wind blowing thru my sweater... oh gosh, it's that cold. Had taken the overnight flight, as the flight is almost filled to the capacity, i does not have the luxury of taking 3 seats to myself... so hence, i didnt really sleep well.... but good few hrs of sleep, thanks to my last 1 week plus of working super late OT... slept almost immediately after take-off... the itinenary was quite packed, as usual.... but not as "shiong" as this one... almost leaving the airport, we were quickly whisked off to take the "ci fu lie che"... the ride was a bit disappointing though... though the speed was 300 plus plus fast (cant remember the actual speed), it's still not very fast... maybe next time can try the bullet train in tokyo... =) but anyway, i will say that i have ever take the maglev train before. but it's quite exciting to see our training passes by the cars in the expressway... wow... cant feel the speed though.
Oh, the 1st place that we visited was the "Wu Zhen", pretty old town and beautiful houses, and the settings just made me feel that i just returned to few hundred years ago... except the "kong tiao" and the electronics stuffs makes it so contemporary.taken quite a number of shots there.
after which we took a long ride to hangzhou, visits few tourist locations like Xihu, changqiao gong yuan, changjiang da qiao, zhonghua men, Nanjing's "da chu sha ji nian guan", Wusi "san guo cheng", shanghai's "dong fang min zhu ta", "cheng huang miao old street", "nanjing dong lu pu sing jie" etc... one of the highlights was the Nanjing visit to the museum where i got to see the remains and the history and the the testimony of the surviors... hmmm, there's only 1 way out and we are not allowed to make a turn back... as translated to chinese " bu zou hui tou lu"... what excites me when i talk or breathe, can see the steam coming out from my mouth, but only in the morning. =( every minute, every second, i can feel the cold wind blowing at my face... as if i'm staying in the freezer, not that bad lah... no wonder all my pimples have been blown flat.. haha.... esp the night when we reached Nanjing, it's was raining, and the temp there fell to near to 3 d.c... huh, really missed the cold temp, am steaming as i'm writting my blog.
Visited few places which will really make a big hole out of our pockets, places like to the pearl factory, the "glass" painting (we saw the teacher personally there), the long jing cha's place etc.. cant remember since i didnt spend a single cent there... except when i bought stuffs for my frens. heng, my parents also didnt spent much there... if not, it will become a "white elephant" in my house. i think most of the pp in this group really shopping spree at the "silk factory".. many bought the max no of blankets allowed for 1 person... pillows are unlimited.... =)
We had a option to have on a additional package on top of the package we signed with ctc, so anyway, every one of the passenger signed up though not very cheap leh... which includes to few nights to the "night markets" and dinner and to the health centre at Shanghai. hmmm, we only visited 1 temple which is good... but anyway, only few of them went inside to do the ritual while the rest of us stayed outside the temple and enjoyed the cold breeze... oh ya, got to know this family who also our basic.. actually, at first i didnt know that they are believers until when we went shopping, she mentioned that she's buying for her church frens wow..... hmmm, a total of 20 pp went for this trip... couples, frens and family travelling together... as we were sitted to the same table with the same pp, got to know few of them better...
hmmm, during this trip, i got lotsa of opportunities to show my love to my dad, mum and my sister, not just words but in actions... which i never take iniative to do so in the past. hope that my relationship with my parents will deepen after the trip, esp with my dad. Oh ya, that aunt that the family i mentioned who is also a christian, shared her testimony to my mum during our 2nd last night during dinner... it's heartening to see my mum opened to the gospel and hear that she's opening her heart to Jesus. Still have to continue praying for my parents' salvation. esp my dad, who's still resisting to the power of God... that night he shared that he cannot believed that God can healed from a crippled to the extent of able to walk like a normal person... though sad to hear that from my dad's mouth, but i believed in a almighty God whose power is beyond my imgination and human logic.
Eh, really fortunate to have a tour guide following us all the way from Singapore to Shanghai and back to Sgp... at least dun have to worry which form forgot to write, since everything has been filled up and we just need to sign our "ding ding da ming"... hehe.. =p... ya, a bit missed the times, of rushing to the next destination,... times and jokes with the tour leader... and the "huangpu jiang" chat with the tour guide (quan pei). hmmm, shall not elaborate any further... lest those who read might get jealous... haha... Oops... okay lah, i'm too "qua zhang" lah.
Hmmm, cannot write out my whole experience there... but the best will to go there and see it for yourself and have a taste of it... =) try CTC... hahaha.... mah chiam doing a free advert for them.
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one of the thing that i really missed in china was the cool temperature (avg 6-15 degree C), thought by then our china trip, temp should have rose to quite comfortable level...
But when i attend the briefing, the tour leader warned us that the temp there is still very cold and told us to bring some extra thick clothings and thermal wear... as the group that went earlier had told him... true enuff, the moment i stepped out of the plane and walked thru the pld (if i still remembered correctly), can feel almost the cold wind blowing thru my sweater... oh gosh, it's that cold. Had taken the overnight flight, as the flight is almost filled to the capacity, i does not have the luxury of taking 3 seats to myself... so hence, i didnt really sleep well.... but good few hrs of sleep, thanks to my last 1 week plus of working super late OT... slept almost immediately after take-off... the itinenary was quite packed, as usual.... but not as "shiong" as this one... almost leaving the airport, we were quickly whisked off to take the "ci fu lie che"... the ride was a bit disappointing though... though the speed was 300 plus plus fast (cant remember the actual speed), it's still not very fast... maybe next time can try the bullet train in tokyo... =) but anyway, i will say that i have ever take the maglev train before. but it's quite exciting to see our training passes by the cars in the expressway... wow... cant feel the speed though.
Oh, the 1st place that we visited was the "Wu Zhen", pretty old town and beautiful houses, and the settings just made me feel that i just returned to few hundred years ago... except the "kong tiao" and the electronics stuffs makes it so contemporary.taken quite a number of shots there.
after which we took a long ride to hangzhou, visits few tourist locations like Xihu, changqiao gong yuan, changjiang da qiao, zhonghua men, Nanjing's "da chu sha ji nian guan", Wusi "san guo cheng", shanghai's "dong fang min zhu ta", "cheng huang miao old street", "nanjing dong lu pu sing jie" etc... one of the highlights was the Nanjing visit to the museum where i got to see the remains and the history and the the testimony of the surviors... hmmm, there's only 1 way out and we are not allowed to make a turn back... as translated to chinese " bu zou hui tou lu"... what excites me when i talk or breathe, can see the steam coming out from my mouth, but only in the morning. =( every minute, every second, i can feel the cold wind blowing at my face... as if i'm staying in the freezer, not that bad lah... no wonder all my pimples have been blown flat.. haha.... esp the night when we reached Nanjing, it's was raining, and the temp there fell to near to 3 d.c... huh, really missed the cold temp, am steaming as i'm writting my blog.
Visited few places which will really make a big hole out of our pockets, places like to the pearl factory, the "glass" painting (we saw the teacher personally there), the long jing cha's place etc.. cant remember since i didnt spend a single cent there... except when i bought stuffs for my frens. heng, my parents also didnt spent much there... if not, it will become a "white elephant" in my house. i think most of the pp in this group really shopping spree at the "silk factory".. many bought the max no of blankets allowed for 1 person... pillows are unlimited.... =)
We had a option to have on a additional package on top of the package we signed with ctc, so anyway, every one of the passenger signed up though not very cheap leh... which includes to few nights to the "night markets" and dinner and to the health centre at Shanghai. hmmm, we only visited 1 temple which is good... but anyway, only few of them went inside to do the ritual while the rest of us stayed outside the temple and enjoyed the cold breeze... oh ya, got to know this family who also our basic.. actually, at first i didnt know that they are believers until when we went shopping, she mentioned that she's buying for her church frens wow..... hmmm, a total of 20 pp went for this trip... couples, frens and family travelling together... as we were sitted to the same table with the same pp, got to know few of them better...
hmmm, during this trip, i got lotsa of opportunities to show my love to my dad, mum and my sister, not just words but in actions... which i never take iniative to do so in the past. hope that my relationship with my parents will deepen after the trip, esp with my dad. Oh ya, that aunt that the family i mentioned who is also a christian, shared her testimony to my mum during our 2nd last night during dinner... it's heartening to see my mum opened to the gospel and hear that she's opening her heart to Jesus. Still have to continue praying for my parents' salvation. esp my dad, who's still resisting to the power of God... that night he shared that he cannot believed that God can healed from a crippled to the extent of able to walk like a normal person... though sad to hear that from my dad's mouth, but i believed in a almighty God whose power is beyond my imgination and human logic.
Eh, really fortunate to have a tour guide following us all the way from Singapore to Shanghai and back to Sgp... at least dun have to worry which form forgot to write, since everything has been filled up and we just need to sign our "ding ding da ming"... hehe.. =p... ya, a bit missed the times, of rushing to the next destination,... times and jokes with the tour leader... and the "huangpu jiang" chat with the tour guide (quan pei). hmmm, shall not elaborate any further... lest those who read might get jealous... haha... Oops... okay lah, i'm too "qua zhang" lah.
Hmmm, cannot write out my whole experience there... but the best will to go there and see it for yourself and have a taste of it... =) try CTC... hahaha.... mah chiam doing a free advert for them.
Back from a long and nice break from work.
Yeah, finally back blogging... as usual, blog again from office....am still stucked with work piled up during my 8 days break from work... but it's okay, since i had a rare opportunity to stray away from work for a while... and plus i have few of my fellow coleks' company.
Over all, i enjoyed myself during the trip to Jiangnan... with my parents and sister. plus a humor tour guide and ctc tour leader... journey is often filled with laughter and lotsa of "yellow jokes"... haha...
Since this's my 2nd time to China, had sort of expect their standards... esp their loo and their super salty meal.... but not my sister and my mom... complaint all the way from the 1st day to the last day.... but the standards now is definitely much better than G.Y...
Actually, this trip had helped me have a better grasp of the history, the culture and stuffs like that.... often when i memorised the "cheng yu", it's just purely memory without understanding the meaning behind it... when the tour guide explained it to us, it's makes a lot sense to it... =)
anyway, not that i'm very attentive to what the tour guide said, as sometimes when i'm really tired, i would just dozed off in my seat... so thus missed out here and there. Oh ya, we had a "quan pei" and 4 "di pei".... the tour guide who followed us all the way is from Shanghai, and ya, he taught us few sentences of speaking Shanghainess... which is very "chim"....
will continue again, when i'm more refreshed... am very tired now... going home soon.
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Over all, i enjoyed myself during the trip to Jiangnan... with my parents and sister. plus a humor tour guide and ctc tour leader... journey is often filled with laughter and lotsa of "yellow jokes"... haha...
Since this's my 2nd time to China, had sort of expect their standards... esp their loo and their super salty meal.... but not my sister and my mom... complaint all the way from the 1st day to the last day.... but the standards now is definitely much better than G.Y...
Actually, this trip had helped me have a better grasp of the history, the culture and stuffs like that.... often when i memorised the "cheng yu", it's just purely memory without understanding the meaning behind it... when the tour guide explained it to us, it's makes a lot sense to it... =)
anyway, not that i'm very attentive to what the tour guide said, as sometimes when i'm really tired, i would just dozed off in my seat... so thus missed out here and there. Oh ya, we had a "quan pei" and 4 "di pei".... the tour guide who followed us all the way is from Shanghai, and ya, he taught us few sentences of speaking Shanghainess... which is very "chim"....
will continue again, when i'm more refreshed... am very tired now... going home soon.
Sunday, March 12, 2006
Missed Frisbee game todAy!
Ya, think for the first time, i missed a sunday of been "presence" during the frisbee game today... also missed the game, our hope pp and our friends from the neighbourhood. Guess today must be a good game since not too hot or windy... yeah, think i will missed the game next week again, not that it's a easy game, but rather doing God's work. Seeing that God has brought pp into our weekly game and how they still keep coming back... not that we are a bunch of "excellent" players but rather can see God's is working within this ministry and how the non-hope players are been attracted to come back again and again to join us. Well, again i can take a break "officially". =)
Yeah, met with my parents and sis for high tea at ps... and still haven really started packing... aiyah!!!
Hmmm, decide to blog today's sermon by Pastor B.C., was quite awakening sermon to me this morning... What kind of lover?
As mentioned by pastor, there are 5 kinds of lovers...
1)Lovers of themselves
2)Lovers of money
3)Lovers of what's not good
4)Lovers of pleasure
5)Lovers of God
Lovers of themselves
They are the kind of people as what described as those who have a unhealthy obsession of themselves that they tends of think of themselves above others... i dun deny that at times when i only see to only my own needs and thus everyone alse beside seems so "insignificant"... but contrary, i think i should love myself more... definitely not til the expense of others. Phil 2:3-4 (added verse 3).. decided to quote out the verse, am not very well-versed since i last reviewed this verse from TMS. v3-4 "Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others."
Lovers of money
Matt 6:24... saying of serving which master? God or money? whom will i choose? like what pastor said, was quite true... though his example more directed at brothers rather than sis... anyway, if we are not careful... we too will fall into this trap... attractions of this world is simply too catchy to our eyes... things which may look so harmless, yet so trapping!!! hmmm, think i'm allowing myself to get drawn into this, stuffs that i wanted to get for myself... the thinking behind my motive to get the stuffs i wanted may be wrong... so i will have to be more careful.
Lovers of what's not good
- have a carnal instinct to defy what's good...
Lovers of pleasure
Think pp who pursued life of pleasure and missed out their purpose and God has given to them... Hope that as much as i wanted to live such life, but not til to the extent of living without God in my life...
Lovers of God
-Have a hunger for God, a willingness to live an obedience and ..... (hehe, hands and mind too tired to catch up with the super-fast screen) like what Jesus hungered and longed to commune with the Father , obeyed whole-hearted and ministered with passion.
As much as i am lover, to which one puts more priority in my life right now... hmmm, have this desire to be a lover of God, but God also need my commitment and effort to this relationship too before i can fall in love with God again. Hopefully with God's help, i will once again fall in love with our Lord again.
Anyway, thanks to hz who lent me her 1 and only pen, that i can penned down the sermon notes n tots today... =) Okay, back to my packing...
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Yeah, met with my parents and sis for high tea at ps... and still haven really started packing... aiyah!!!
Hmmm, decide to blog today's sermon by Pastor B.C., was quite awakening sermon to me this morning... What kind of lover?
As mentioned by pastor, there are 5 kinds of lovers...
1)Lovers of themselves
2)Lovers of money
3)Lovers of what's not good
4)Lovers of pleasure
5)Lovers of God
Lovers of themselves
They are the kind of people as what described as those who have a unhealthy obsession of themselves that they tends of think of themselves above others... i dun deny that at times when i only see to only my own needs and thus everyone alse beside seems so "insignificant"... but contrary, i think i should love myself more... definitely not til the expense of others. Phil 2:3-4 (added verse 3).. decided to quote out the verse, am not very well-versed since i last reviewed this verse from TMS. v3-4 "Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others."
Lovers of money
Matt 6:24... saying of serving which master? God or money? whom will i choose? like what pastor said, was quite true... though his example more directed at brothers rather than sis... anyway, if we are not careful... we too will fall into this trap... attractions of this world is simply too catchy to our eyes... things which may look so harmless, yet so trapping!!! hmmm, think i'm allowing myself to get drawn into this, stuffs that i wanted to get for myself... the thinking behind my motive to get the stuffs i wanted may be wrong... so i will have to be more careful.
Lovers of what's not good
- have a carnal instinct to defy what's good...
Lovers of pleasure
Think pp who pursued life of pleasure and missed out their purpose and God has given to them... Hope that as much as i wanted to live such life, but not til to the extent of living without God in my life...
Lovers of God
-Have a hunger for God, a willingness to live an obedience and ..... (hehe, hands and mind too tired to catch up with the super-fast screen) like what Jesus hungered and longed to commune with the Father , obeyed whole-hearted and ministered with passion.
As much as i am lover, to which one puts more priority in my life right now... hmmm, have this desire to be a lover of God, but God also need my commitment and effort to this relationship too before i can fall in love with God again. Hopefully with God's help, i will once again fall in love with our Lord again.
Anyway, thanks to hz who lent me her 1 and only pen, that i can penned down the sermon notes n tots today... =) Okay, back to my packing...
Thursday, March 09, 2006
Leave finally approved!
Am slogging myself to finish all my uncleared stuffs before this coming wednesday...
On the road to the finishing line, excited as well as tired, both physically n mentally draining... for both of my projects that i'm assisting and handling...
Hope that all these will be worthwhile for the cause of taking a break from work and time of relaxation and with family. =)
Yeah, tmr will be out of office to site... at least dun have to face the "4 walls".... hmmm, shopping spree at site?? maybe, things that i wanted to get... since it's cheaper inside, with staffs discounts.... =P well, esp the chocolate that i'm eyeing since the last time i saw it... yummy.... n of course, trying out the diff perfumes and stuffs...
Okay, enuff of tempting myself... haha... but no S11 this mth... =(
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On the road to the finishing line, excited as well as tired, both physically n mentally draining... for both of my projects that i'm assisting and handling...
Hope that all these will be worthwhile for the cause of taking a break from work and time of relaxation and with family. =)
Yeah, tmr will be out of office to site... at least dun have to face the "4 walls".... hmmm, shopping spree at site?? maybe, things that i wanted to get... since it's cheaper inside, with staffs discounts.... =P well, esp the chocolate that i'm eyeing since the last time i saw it... yummy.... n of course, trying out the diff perfumes and stuffs...
Okay, enuff of tempting myself... haha... but no S11 this mth... =(
Tuesday, March 07, 2006
Was thinking...
Yesterday, was on Gen 4, where after Adam n Eve sinned against God and was driven out of the garden of Eden, out of God's presence. Was focusing on Cain and Abel, and their offering and how Abel's offering found flavor and why Cain wasnt and how his sin caused him to kill his brother just because his offering cannot please God? was not very focused on Cain and instead on God y He decided to spare his life instead...
Got a rude shock when a sister from my discussion talked to me after our fellowship, regarding on one of the issue that i'm struggling... hmm, i did not even shared during the fellowship/ discussion time but how does she knows? Knows that God do speak to us in different ways but...
One of the thing that struck me was the point pointed out during the lecture was that sometimes we harbour bitterness in our hearts that we unknownly sinned against God... like Cain may have started have bitter against God since childhood cause of his parent's sin so they have to labour for work and that's no such thing as things come smoothly for them... seperated from God. Have i too haboured bitterness in my heart? then what are they? i'm also confused... lotsa of things happened, when i dun even understand... am i really that reluctant to surrender to God?
(08/03/06)
Phew, thank God that my superior were in favor of me taking such a long leave, but my boss still the same... and he haven approved my leave until i have completed my tasks... anyway, going to slog myself to death just to finish all the stuffs before leaving next week. =(
anyway, on the brighter side, i will have a long break next week til i'm back to slog at work again... hmmm, no BSF this coming Monday due to a week school holiday break, so will have a day break, meaning more time to rest. yeah!!! Think will be only be back blogging after the long vacation.
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Got a rude shock when a sister from my discussion talked to me after our fellowship, regarding on one of the issue that i'm struggling... hmm, i did not even shared during the fellowship/ discussion time but how does she knows? Knows that God do speak to us in different ways but...
One of the thing that struck me was the point pointed out during the lecture was that sometimes we harbour bitterness in our hearts that we unknownly sinned against God... like Cain may have started have bitter against God since childhood cause of his parent's sin so they have to labour for work and that's no such thing as things come smoothly for them... seperated from God. Have i too haboured bitterness in my heart? then what are they? i'm also confused... lotsa of things happened, when i dun even understand... am i really that reluctant to surrender to God?
(08/03/06)
Phew, thank God that my superior were in favor of me taking such a long leave, but my boss still the same... and he haven approved my leave until i have completed my tasks... anyway, going to slog myself to death just to finish all the stuffs before leaving next week. =(
anyway, on the brighter side, i will have a long break next week til i'm back to slog at work again... hmmm, no BSF this coming Monday due to a week school holiday break, so will have a day break, meaning more time to rest. yeah!!! Think will be only be back blogging after the long vacation.
Sunday, March 05, 2006
Thoughts on Sermon today...
hmmm, thought of going back office to work to finish up with work... but last minute was been persuaded by myself to go the 11am svc instead...
Never expected from the sermon today... but was rather moved by the character, Mary... when she uses her perfume to wash Jesus's feet. Oh, the sermon title is "Generous Love" preached by PIC p.k.
1)Generous love is giving which will cost us dearly... not out of our convenience or part of our wealth.. (2 Samuel 14:24-25).. 1stly, Mary brought a perfume to wash Jesus's feet which is worth a year of wages.. but then y did Mary go to such a extent of buying such a expensive gift which i think most of us will extravagent... it's her love for Jesus that she wants to give with all that she could afford... To Mary, Jesus is more worth than what she could offer.
think 1 point which stands out was whenever Mary was with Jesus, she is always at Jesus's feet be it listening to his preaching or washing His feet...
Few questions were thrown out to challenge us... like "have we spend time at Jesus feet, or too proud/self reliance?" ...
Out of her motive is her love for Jesus? this morning, i questioned myself, how deep do i love my Lord and Savior Jesus?" generous love is self-sacrifice, not expecting any returns. Did i give generously to God because of purely out of obligations or surely i can say with my heart that i give out of my pure love for Him? A question that got me stumped... what's my motive?
Do i have the desire to sacrifice n give every cents/effort to give?
Another thing that when pp give generously, pp around will also be blessed too... like the fragance of the perfume from Mary... that fills up the whole house and thus pp even in the house also been sort of blessed by the Mary's gift.
Like p.k shared, when we give generously, the fragance will also attracted beyond the boundary of the church to the non-believers and thus they also attracted too.
Though generous giving will be a stench to some.. like Judas was quite upset as he thought it will be better for the perfume to be sold and give to the needy... and thus he was rebuked by Jesus.. this turns out to be a unfolding of Judas's ultimate motive... his love for money is much more than His Lord, Jesus...
Lastly, think i missed out a point... but it's okay... our generous giving bring pleasure to God...
Today, think i had a bad game during the frisbee... during the game was quite pissed off with myself. hmmm, i kept dropping the disc when it's a simple catch and at a point, i felt like walking out of the game totally... aiyah... i'm getting more emotional during the game..
Had a small misunderstanding with W.T over the game. anyway, i have had to learn on how to be more of a team player instead of individual's on what i think i'm best on which area... i'm too prideful to admit my mistakes and dare to even agrue/reasoned. am truly sorry for the words that came from my mouth just now. Oh by the way, Ed brought stuffs to fill our stomaches before the game that L's had made herself... yummmy, the pastry was really delicious, i should say L's fantastic cook... =)
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Never expected from the sermon today... but was rather moved by the character, Mary... when she uses her perfume to wash Jesus's feet. Oh, the sermon title is "Generous Love" preached by PIC p.k.
1)Generous love is giving which will cost us dearly... not out of our convenience or part of our wealth.. (2 Samuel 14:24-25).. 1stly, Mary brought a perfume to wash Jesus's feet which is worth a year of wages.. but then y did Mary go to such a extent of buying such a expensive gift which i think most of us will extravagent... it's her love for Jesus that she wants to give with all that she could afford... To Mary, Jesus is more worth than what she could offer.
think 1 point which stands out was whenever Mary was with Jesus, she is always at Jesus's feet be it listening to his preaching or washing His feet...
Few questions were thrown out to challenge us... like "have we spend time at Jesus feet, or too proud/self reliance?" ...
Out of her motive is her love for Jesus? this morning, i questioned myself, how deep do i love my Lord and Savior Jesus?" generous love is self-sacrifice, not expecting any returns. Did i give generously to God because of purely out of obligations or surely i can say with my heart that i give out of my pure love for Him? A question that got me stumped... what's my motive?
Do i have the desire to sacrifice n give every cents/effort to give?
Another thing that when pp give generously, pp around will also be blessed too... like the fragance of the perfume from Mary... that fills up the whole house and thus pp even in the house also been sort of blessed by the Mary's gift.
Like p.k shared, when we give generously, the fragance will also attracted beyond the boundary of the church to the non-believers and thus they also attracted too.
Though generous giving will be a stench to some.. like Judas was quite upset as he thought it will be better for the perfume to be sold and give to the needy... and thus he was rebuked by Jesus.. this turns out to be a unfolding of Judas's ultimate motive... his love for money is much more than His Lord, Jesus...
Lastly, think i missed out a point... but it's okay... our generous giving bring pleasure to God...
Today, think i had a bad game during the frisbee... during the game was quite pissed off with myself. hmmm, i kept dropping the disc when it's a simple catch and at a point, i felt like walking out of the game totally... aiyah... i'm getting more emotional during the game..
Had a small misunderstanding with W.T over the game. anyway, i have had to learn on how to be more of a team player instead of individual's on what i think i'm best on which area... i'm too prideful to admit my mistakes and dare to even agrue/reasoned. am truly sorry for the words that came from my mouth just now. Oh by the way, Ed brought stuffs to fill our stomaches before the game that L's had made herself... yummmy, the pastry was really delicious, i should say L's fantastic cook... =)
Saturday, March 04, 2006
Reflect with Thanksgiving...
Just changed the title of my blog to "A Time to Reflect With Thanksgiving"...
Has been quite a while, that i learn to be thankful to God for what He has done in my life, be it bad or good time, stressed up with work... etc... how many times have i thank God in my prayer? learn to be thankful? though not very easy, but will keep learning and trying...
Have learn to appreciate the complusory daily lessons with BSF, times when i'm discouraged... i drew strength from His promises, times when i knew that God understand my situation more than i do, times when His Word speak to me at the right time... DG pp's praying for me, time to share my thoughts... etc...
Today, had a long day out of house, in the morning attended a seminar organised by my company at a hotel in Orchard Rd... then went out with a sis til now i'm back home, trying to catch up with the rest of the questions in BSF notes (normally are those questions which is either very challenging, or my own thoughts) and blogging...
Yo, think by now, most of my CG pp will know this news.Oh, just broke the news to one of my close fren/sis today.. yeah, i will be going to Jiangnan for a 8 days tour package with my parents n sister on 16March... it was quite a last minute decision to go... since my family were more keen on Taiwan rather than China... n the fact that it's me who keep delaying the trip, coz of my hectic workload back last month... and that i just couldnt bear to tear myself away from work. But it's during this tuesday, when my mum and sister went out to catch a movie, and i didnt join them as i still holding on to my unfinished work tightly... it was abt 7.30pm when i decided that it's enough for work and head home instead... On the way back home, i walked pass mosque street where CTC's office is... Oh by the way, i work somewhere near there... quite near to the MOM's bldg... but i always walk all the way (abt 3 bus stops away) so that i got more variety of bus to choose to take home.
Oh ya, back again...thinking that we may not have open up our choices to Taiwan, i decided to walked in and pick up some brochures... hmmm, but their attitude quite turns me off, so i decide to explore to more choices which is China... though have been to Guiyang, but it's a voluntary trip and is quite rushed... so they pointed me to the China section, by then it's deserted with only 3 tour consultants chit-chatting at their desks... anyway, since i'm still not sure of whether of going, i didnt approached them... while i was browsing thru the brochure at the side of the section, this consultant approached me and ask me whether i got places in mind to tour in China, and i just told him "i dun know"... what a crap answer? haha...
But anyway, he pointed out that the 8 days to Jiangnan is one of the more popular tour package in CTC, and he suggested that maybe i should consider of this package...
Then even though i still not very convinced of the attractiveness of the package, we still sat down and discussed the details of the trip... like the itinenary and the total amount of the trip, the dates, the flight etc... (think it's the exact package that hz took up last year, but not sure whether the places got changed or not).... anyway after the whole presentation, he still passed his namecard to me and ask me to call him for more details...
Anyway by then, quite impressed with his professionalism... i should said this's my first time that i met a "professional" tour consultant.... most of them wont care a hoot if they knew/guess that i'm just asking without thinking of booking with them or give u that "sucks" attitude when we further prope for more details... But ultimately, the kick-in factor that makes me really keen to go for this trip is that i would like to spend quality time with my family, esp my dad whom i seldom got the chance to talk to back at home. and esp, most of the evenings at weekdays will be out, work mostly, cell commitments or with my frens... Am already on top of the roof, ready to fly to China... yeah...
But quite sad to say, that i'm the only one in my team who dares to take quite a lot of leave for so many times... and i will be taking advance leave this time round... since i got only 14 days leave spread out evenly in 12mths.. which means i will be taking 1 n 1/2 mths in adv... ,hmmm.. HK trip, Hope retreat, and now CN's trip... my boss though insist that i must finish my work before leaving... he's quite reluctant to let me, i think lah... even his mouth said that he wont mind me taking 6 days leave, but he say he needs to consider... dun know whether my colek's reaction when they got to know the news??? only my superior knows that i will be planning to go for a long trip... aiyah... okay... back to my bed to Zzzzz.... =P
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Has been quite a while, that i learn to be thankful to God for what He has done in my life, be it bad or good time, stressed up with work... etc... how many times have i thank God in my prayer? learn to be thankful? though not very easy, but will keep learning and trying...
Have learn to appreciate the complusory daily lessons with BSF, times when i'm discouraged... i drew strength from His promises, times when i knew that God understand my situation more than i do, times when His Word speak to me at the right time... DG pp's praying for me, time to share my thoughts... etc...
Today, had a long day out of house, in the morning attended a seminar organised by my company at a hotel in Orchard Rd... then went out with a sis til now i'm back home, trying to catch up with the rest of the questions in BSF notes (normally are those questions which is either very challenging, or my own thoughts) and blogging...
Yo, think by now, most of my CG pp will know this news.Oh, just broke the news to one of my close fren/sis today.. yeah, i will be going to Jiangnan for a 8 days tour package with my parents n sister on 16March... it was quite a last minute decision to go... since my family were more keen on Taiwan rather than China... n the fact that it's me who keep delaying the trip, coz of my hectic workload back last month... and that i just couldnt bear to tear myself away from work. But it's during this tuesday, when my mum and sister went out to catch a movie, and i didnt join them as i still holding on to my unfinished work tightly... it was abt 7.30pm when i decided that it's enough for work and head home instead... On the way back home, i walked pass mosque street where CTC's office is... Oh by the way, i work somewhere near there... quite near to the MOM's bldg... but i always walk all the way (abt 3 bus stops away) so that i got more variety of bus to choose to take home.
Oh ya, back again...thinking that we may not have open up our choices to Taiwan, i decided to walked in and pick up some brochures... hmmm, but their attitude quite turns me off, so i decide to explore to more choices which is China... though have been to Guiyang, but it's a voluntary trip and is quite rushed... so they pointed me to the China section, by then it's deserted with only 3 tour consultants chit-chatting at their desks... anyway, since i'm still not sure of whether of going, i didnt approached them... while i was browsing thru the brochure at the side of the section, this consultant approached me and ask me whether i got places in mind to tour in China, and i just told him "i dun know"... what a crap answer? haha...
But anyway, he pointed out that the 8 days to Jiangnan is one of the more popular tour package in CTC, and he suggested that maybe i should consider of this package...
Then even though i still not very convinced of the attractiveness of the package, we still sat down and discussed the details of the trip... like the itinenary and the total amount of the trip, the dates, the flight etc... (think it's the exact package that hz took up last year, but not sure whether the places got changed or not).... anyway after the whole presentation, he still passed his namecard to me and ask me to call him for more details...
Anyway by then, quite impressed with his professionalism... i should said this's my first time that i met a "professional" tour consultant.... most of them wont care a hoot if they knew/guess that i'm just asking without thinking of booking with them or give u that "sucks" attitude when we further prope for more details... But ultimately, the kick-in factor that makes me really keen to go for this trip is that i would like to spend quality time with my family, esp my dad whom i seldom got the chance to talk to back at home. and esp, most of the evenings at weekdays will be out, work mostly, cell commitments or with my frens... Am already on top of the roof, ready to fly to China... yeah...
But quite sad to say, that i'm the only one in my team who dares to take quite a lot of leave for so many times... and i will be taking advance leave this time round... since i got only 14 days leave spread out evenly in 12mths.. which means i will be taking 1 n 1/2 mths in adv... ,hmmm.. HK trip, Hope retreat, and now CN's trip... my boss though insist that i must finish my work before leaving... he's quite reluctant to let me, i think lah... even his mouth said that he wont mind me taking 6 days leave, but he say he needs to consider... dun know whether my colek's reaction when they got to know the news??? only my superior knows that i will be planning to go for a long trip... aiyah... okay... back to my bed to Zzzzz.... =P
Wednesday, March 01, 2006
Rushing last min work...
Am still in office trying to clear my stuffs for tmr's meeting with the sub-contractor, quite a last minute meeting, which i may not finish for tmr's meeting... still trying hard to clear by tonight..
Oh no, my stomach fighting like mad... had missed dinner... blurrggghhh....
Who to blame, except myself for dragging my feet over this assignment for quite sometime... aiyah...
Mind is almost out of this world into my dreamland, but still have to stay focused.... had found some mistakes that i had done from both of my tired eyes... hopefully, that's all... if not, i will die a horrible death tmr...
Was quite excited to the coming of closing of the final a/c of this draggy project which has passed hands to many QSs til now a AQS... Realised that i'm the most junior one in my team, lotsa of work tasks has sort of "taiji" to me... =( no wonder my tasklist is getting longer each day with unlikehood that i can finish in one go... "honeymoon" period is over.....
Enuff of my complaints... back to work.
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Oh no, my stomach fighting like mad... had missed dinner... blurrggghhh....
Who to blame, except myself for dragging my feet over this assignment for quite sometime... aiyah...
Mind is almost out of this world into my dreamland, but still have to stay focused.... had found some mistakes that i had done from both of my tired eyes... hopefully, that's all... if not, i will die a horrible death tmr...
Was quite excited to the coming of closing of the final a/c of this draggy project which has passed hands to many QSs til now a AQS... Realised that i'm the most junior one in my team, lotsa of work tasks has sort of "taiji" to me... =( no wonder my tasklist is getting longer each day with unlikehood that i can finish in one go... "honeymoon" period is over.....
Enuff of my complaints... back to work.
