First Post of the Year !!!

Time flies....
many things have changed since... most for the better! Praise God!

This entry is primarily here cos' someone started to read my blog last night (or early this morning) and the ensuing conversation intrigued me enough to read some of my past entries, hence here i am typing away.

Tired already ... but before i forget ...
one more thing to add to my goal card for this year, a little step to start off first,
"In 2009, have u fly and stay a few nights as queen and i shall eat like a king"
hahahs !! =^)

An Afternoon with the Stars

What's work without some fun ... =)

Fancy having an afternoon tea with some mediacorp A-listers?? I sure did ... =^)

What's work without some fun ... Spent much of the afternoon hanging around Jesseca Liu and Tay Ping Hui. Well, moving on into 'classified' territory now, shall keep my fingers off the keyboard at this point.

Yet another attempt ....

... TO Revive this blog =)

Alright, feeling enervated, but just thought i would spend 5 minutes and add another post here. Just returned from City Hall after fellowship with AA Zone teachers.

It's been four years in children's church ministry, my first time visitation is on my birthday in 2004 and my last visitation is on the week of my birthday this year; a pretty apt time to conclude my service in children's church. Moving on to cell group ministry now; just wanting to give my little to God and advance His kingdom and strengthen e13.

>"Joel ... don't ever despise the days of small beginnings...."

Mission Trip

I will be going to NorthEast Thailand for a short mission trip. Had initially thought that i will be free to keep updates on this blog after my exams, but i was wrong... mission trip preparation is a lot of hard and 'heart' work.

I had already learned so much just from the preparations alone, and i am really excited to see what God can do (in terms of life transformations of the people we are ministering to and ourselves too) and how He can use each of the team members to do His kingdom 's work.


Here's my mission trip team mates! We are all going there to serve and not to help... the first thing i had realized during the preparations. To serve means you place yourself lower, not higher than the people there.

Not going to talk about what we will be doing there for now, but it will be a truly humbling experience; that's good.. cos' a humble heart and a contrite spirit God does not reject... =^)

Exams

This is a really bad time to try to revive this blog. It's just two days beofre my final examinations.. oh wells, time to hit the books again...

Pa-toh-logy 2

To quote from my little, adorable sis, Melanie

" whats love if its all about wkling along town areas, holding hands, cuddling or kissing to tell the entire world that you've got a partner? furthermore, that person got to look good to make you look good. then in true love, the relation is strained to the world's ideal love thingy.

1 Corinthians 13:4-8 "4 Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; 5 does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; 6 does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; 7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 8 Love never fails."

where did the physical aspects come in? its just like flavours. "

or just like toppings or a mask to conceal any cracks forming underneath, it never lasts ....

Love never fails .... if there's any failures in 'love' , it's not true love.....

True love is more than just feelings, it's a decision, a total commitment to adore even when she is not adorable, to love when she is unlovable, to love even when she doesn't love you back, to love even when she doesn't deserve to be loved, to love without expecting anything in return, to love unconditionally & sacrifically, to love with the agape love of God....

Thank You Abba Father for Your healing touch !!
Time to reconcilate with those people ........

Pa-toh-logy

Yes... Pa-toh-ology ... It's singlish referring the subject for dating ....

And yes, i am back to this abandoned blog of mine...

for the umpteeth time this past month, someone's asking about me getting attached or when am i going to get attached for that matter. *sigh*, and yes i do want to get attached, but it's more than finding a right partner, it's about being a right partner yourself. I am still working on that... Lots of things having be going through in my life for the past week, God's really showing me a lot of stuff about handling my emotions and matters of the heart.

I have seen quite a few people in my class who went through break-ups, what the point of getting together then in the first place....? You mean they just enter a relationship to 'try' each other out ?? That's so ABSURB!! What NAIVETY !! What good is instant gratification if all you have later is just weeks/months of hurt...

Back to the topic, thank God for His love and how He's healing of past hurts right now, thanks D -Team for praying for me ...!!
I am really looking for a friend, a best friend to just open up myself totally towards him/her... ; a soulmate to love unconditionally, unsacrifically.....

School's in, Mind's still on holiday

That's right, one week of school just flew past the corners of my eyes, and reality's setting in... 6 Modules again this semester, and i can't afford to start the second week as sluggishly as i started the first; BUT the flesh is unwilling.... ='(

One geography based module, a finanical accounting module and 4 core modules.... A laboratory session on Wednesday .... =(

Trying to get to sleep earlier tonight... Hoping that i can start piecing the jigsaw with Yin tomorrow afternoon....