Joys and Harrows

Hey wassup people!

After months of not seeing each other, we (Bryan, Nigel, Glenn and I) finally met with the Amos and Yee Howe, who are still stuck in Sungei Gedong. We had dinner at NYNY! And I'm really overspending! :X

Yours Truly, Bryan, Yee Howe, Glenn, Nigel, Amos

I love Amos! He's a really passionate brother from another church, I enjoy talking to him about spiritual things :) He intends to share his testimony on his 21st birthday next month!

A small gift from NYNY

Viola! A really huge cup.. er... bowl... thing!

And I'm so grateful to Weiren for helping me write a Letter of Recommendation for the 2 Year course I talked about in the previous post. The letter is very encouraging!!! XD

Click here if you wish to see the letter.

However, yesterday was a harrowing night. I had a lot of stuff on my hands, and had a hard time multi-tasking. There was a presentation today for some big shot, and my boss needed some stuff to be done. I thought I could do it quick as my part was pretty much done, and I just gotta add a couple of stuff. Nevertheless, there were technical issues (compile and linker errors), and I spent hours trying to debug. Was up until about 3-4am, and I fell asleep while waiting for the project to rebuild.

Since it wasn't done, I was up at about 7-8am and continued working on it with my boss on MSN until around 9.30am. After which I took a cab to work and carried on the debugging. My office computer gave different kinds of errors, and I couldn't debug the problems. Finally, I gave up debugging and just sent my uncompiled/untested code to Robin, hoping that it would work.

Thank God that it worked! Man I never want to go through that again - working late into the night and early in the morning, forgoing Quiet Time, Sleep, and Hygiene (yea I didn't bathe the whole night, and slept in my jeans)

Thank God for sustaining me! Just want to be back home praying and hitting the hay!

"You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on You, because he trusts in You." (Isa 26:3)

To God Be The Glory

Thank God for an awesome Easter Celebration, all the friends that came, the precious salvations, and the excellent drama!

Went to Changi Airport to fellowship after Sunday Easter Service!

Photograph Fail.

Cardiac Arrest.

Isaiah preparing to unleash the final blow

Power Suction!

Epic crash. Left a dent in the wall :X

Jed slipped as both trolleys went apart. Lol.

I can do teh splitz.

Yea! Had lotsa fun with everyone! :D

Totally love the "Hi Larry" game we played! Was so funny! General Bak Kwa! And Oswin's fake cough was very well placed :X

Feeling a little tired right now after Easter. Maybe its because I slept at 4.30am last night. Or morning. :X

So please forgive me I'm suddenly spouting a lot nonsense haha.

Out of randomness, I made a mandarin version of Down

Baby 你放心

你是我唯一

决不离开你

就算天倒下的那日期

就是我唯一

不用再担心

Baby are you down down down down down

Yea, I know, the 4th line kinda weird.

Anyway, I wanna thank God for a couple of things:

1) Anointing to be a guitarist

During yesterday's Zone Meeting, I felt that I didn't play very well; I played wrong chords quite a number of times. Also, I wasn't very sharp to notice Weiren's signals at times, and I feel that I didn't flow very well.

So when Daniel came up to me and said:

"You played very well! Got presence of God when you play!"

"What? Really?"

"Yes, can teach how you play guitar?"

In my mind I was thinking, "But you know more about guitar than me."

Thank God for using me to be His channel. If not for His anointing, I won't be who I am. To Him be all the glory!

Of course, the presence of God came also because of the hunger level of the people, not only because of the music. Let's always be hungry for God's presence in every meeting! :)

2) Answering my desire and opening a door

I thank God that I got a place at my dream course:

B. Sc. in Game Design (BSGD),

DigiPen Institute of Technology.

However, it is 4 years long and will amount to about $80k in tuition fees.

I was more concerned about the length of the study as I believe that God will somehow supply the money, as He has done so many times in the past.

I had wished that there would be some way to cut the length of the study, but I didn't really ask God about it. I prayed more for the $80k :X

Praise the Lord; God opened a door for me! A few days back, Bryan informed me of this 2-Year Degree Programme for polytechnic students - the result of a joint effort between Singapore Institute of Technology(SIT) and DigiPen. This means that I can finish my dream course in 2 Years! And it's subsidized by the government - about $27k for the 2 years! Thank you Jesus! God indeed knows our secret desires!

Now I'm praying that I'll be selected for this programme, and for provision to cover the tuition fees :)

To God be the glory!

Love and Unity

I wanted to do a April Fool but nvm...

Anyway, we went out with Weiren, Yufen and the CGCs on monday!

We had dinner at Plaza Singapura, and went to play the new Bishi Bashi!

That game is button-mashingly fun!

However, the power tripped and the game machine restarted, so we left the arcade.

We had dessert at Secret Recipe!!

Artistic shot XD

Cute little burgers.

After much feasting, we headed to Istana Park for more fellowship and planning for Easter^^

Last night, we had conference call with Weiren, and he spoke about Love and Unity. After some thought, I realized that I recently have been selfish in certain areas of my life.

Back in my sec sch days, there was one Boy's Brigade session when the officers organized a game for all the boys. We had to converse 5 sentences with each other without saying the words "I, me, myself, 我, etc". Those who spoke those taboo words had to "pasang"(do a forfeit).

It made me realize one thing: if I used these words more than words like "How are you?" and "What about you?", I'm being self-centered during conversations. And the opposite of self-centeredness is love.

The bible says in Heb 10:24,

"And let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works"

I've got to be considerate, thoughtful about my fellow brothers and sisters so that love will be stirred up. My great wish is that everyone in W406 will love one another, and stay connected in the spirit by prayer.

This can't happen unless the Holy Spirit cause us to be Loving and United.

It can only happen if we pray and spend time in God's presence.

Prayer moves the Holy Spirit.

God's love is poured out when we are in His presence.

"Now hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us." (Rom 5:5)

I want to be more loving as a son of God!

I love these group photos that we took in March! XD

N346+W406!

W406 pioneers!

Vincent's 21st birthday: NYP friends!

May W406 be more united than ever before!

Stretched

Went to Macs at Bugis with Glenn and Bryan!

Photomaniac strikes!

Mac was packed. Had to wait for seats.

Was Raining. Stuck in Bugis for awhile.

Bought 6 sets of guitar strings!
Comes with a free cup!

Took a random shot after CGM

Thank God for an awesome CG meeting yesterday!

I was feeling rather stretch cos of the many things I'm handling for the meeting, as well as work, but thank God for His presence during ministry...

Gotta make time for God during this busy period, to know Him and to see Him!

I will have my Penuel experience!!!

By the way, Jed is back! Here's a photo of him:

Freaky....

Freakier. LAWLS

100th Post: God is good

This is my 100th post, and I wanna thank God for his goodness in my life!

Thanks Weiren for giving me your guitar!!! Can't believe you're really giving it to me! XD

I went to Weiren's place to retrieve the guitar last night. It was a very interesting experience.

I hopped on bus 196 at Buona Vista to get there. I was worried that I might miss the stop, so I called Weiren when I passed by New Town Sec and SP. He said I'm supposed to get off after the turn after passing by New Town. Thus, I alighted.

Apparently it was the wrong stop, and we spent many minutes on the phone trying to figure where I was and where I should go lawls. In the end, Weiren realized that I alighted one stop early, so he told me to take the next 196 bus.

He said, "You can't miss me, I'm wearing a pink shirt. Can't let the other members see me like this, or they'll stumble." XD

After a rather long wait, I got on the bus and called Weiren. He decided that he'll handover the guitar through the bus door and I don't have to alight. As the bus drew closer to the stop, I saw Weiren in his glory - pink T-shirt, shorts and slippers. The maneuver was successful and the bus went on to Clementi MRT.

Here are pictures of the guitar, taken with my crappy HP camera of course:

Pretty good casing - it cushions the guitar and protects it, and its lighter than hard cases.

I played it this morning and I love the sound! I was rather surprised that the guitar is still in tune!

It is louder than Isaiah's guitar and sounds nicer :) Hope it sounds as good or better when it is plugged in. The strings are getting a lil' rusty though. Gotta change 'em soon.

God is good, and Weiren is so generous!

If you have seen my "Desires" list, you'll probably would have seen this:

➝ Acoustic Guitar with plug in, guitar strap, guitar stand, hard case, pretty good sound, about $500-$800

Now God through Weiren has blessed me with an Acoustic guitar with plug in, guitar strap, soft-cushion case, pretty good sound, which is worth $500+.

Imma get the guitar stand soon :) My elder bro was telling me that hard case are heavy and bulky, so I was re-considering my desire for one. So I was thinking, I want a soft case which would protect the guitar. Lo and behold, Weiren's guitar came with some special, professional cushion bag!

God answers specific prayers!!!

Just want to thank God for hearing my every prayer. In this season, I feel as though God always hears me, even the smallest prayers I make, and He answers them. I'm also starting to hear more from Him! Gotta watch what I say, cos God remembers the little promises and "Yes, Lord"s that I say :X

Sometimes, I feel like "why do You give me so much of Your attention? I don't deserve it." My Father is so awesome!