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Thursday, June 29, 2006
oh well, this is like the end of my 6 days (including weekends) of holiday. it feels weird to be out in town on a weekday, anyway, it's great to be free of the army for so long - can't wait to ORD!! was looking through some photos just now since i had nothing to do at home and wanted to spend some time reflecting on the past few months/years.
from the photos, i realised that there's alot of changes in faces of people from tm, most grew up to be leaders and for a minority, they left church for somewhere else. friendships made and friendships lost, all part of life. its not exactly a bad thing but i won't say its good too. somehow or rather, i suppose friends that are worth keeping are those that no matter what happens, we'll always be close. effort i must say, is a very important criteria to maintain a certain level of closeness. time is a factor that can't do without in a healthy friendship.
there's always this trend. sec 3 to sec 4 can still be quite close, after like jc 1 and 2, people start to drift away from tm. somehow not that engaged in their activities, too busy even to attend. projects and studies became their first priority. when people stop coming for a long time, its hard for them to come back because there will be a sense of awkwardness, as though this was thier first time in church. perhaps a few familiar faces but there won't be this family feeling anymore. its gonna cost u alot of time to get back the family kinda feeling.
church i suppose, like what people suggest, is not an organisation, its a home to all of us - not a hotel where people simply come and go. we grow up there, we learn to love, learn to care. we make friends, we know God. however, sometimes people attend church so much that they lost track of their purpose, their focus on God. it became a routine, something that u just have to go through in order to feel that u are on the right path. i call this group of people the lost sheep. they continue to join the crowd because they are still white, dunno wherelse to go. this group of people lost their identity. since a majority of us are still sane, we should open our eyes and look out for people such as thee. God's love is not exclusive to u only, personal but not private. tm412 has alot of small cliques, a culture that only those with it can fit in. i dun really know how to explain it if u realy think about it, most probably u can figure it out.
tm412 is somewhat growing in terms of numbers, it is time for us to really think of our next step which is discipleship. last time its quite easy to know like everyone in church cuz there's only like so much to remember but now, more and more kids are running around. for me, i think i know only from the sec 3 onwards. younger than that, i don't think i can even name 5 people. have u heard of a family who doesn't know the names of his/her members? well, we should do something...
+++3:27 PM+++
Jesus is Love
Monday, June 26, 2006
heh.. while everyone's like going back to school, my battalion's having 4 days off for achieving best combat support unit, best signals unit and best node. so ya, being part of the new team, i was able to enjoy this privilege with them but at a slight disadvantage. gonna have 2 days leave deducted but got the other 2 days off free. trying to make full use of this holiday, make sure it does not go to waste.
sat
tm was great. haven seen my cg members for quite awhile, as in having cg time together so it was like so nice when we were able to just sit down and talk. my cg is starting this angel and mortal thingy to promote better communication and fellowship within the cg so as to deepen our level of sharing as well as to remove the awkwardness of it all. trying to organise an outing this tuesday to just catch up abit with them cuz cg time itself is definitely insufficient. managed to get eugene to come, hopefully he won't play me out. shall meet up somewhere near if not there's a possibility that he might back out.
after tm, gave daniel half of his present - a few pieces of metal stuck together, u are suppose to separate it in a logical manner. he's fascinated with this kinda things that has a minor association with magic i reckoned. anyway, eliel suggested this and i thought it was a really good idea.
suppose to go for cgl meeting but i decided to skip it since i have to spend time with my mum who was going on a cruise the following day. went to clement's house first for dinner, it was then that i called home and realised that my mum went to my grandma house and will be back by 9pm so i went to bryan's house to swim first. no point travelling to my grandma house because by the time i reached there, it will be the time for my parents to go back home. swimmming at bry's place was cool erm i mean hot as usual. i no longer patronise the normal pool, but rather the jacuzzi who seems so much more appealing due to its warm/hot water at a corner of the pool. its a nice place where people and chat and talk cork through the night. we didn't really soaked in the water all the way but rather laid at the side of the jacuzzi to relax. we were there for probably 45mins before going up to bathe.
talked to my mum, helped her pack till bout 11pm before i went to bed.
sun..
youth sunday's worship and sermon was really good. dave actually preached this sermon before in tm so ya, it was sort of like a refresher. alot of times, we treat repetative sermons like people nagging but if u have the proper mindset to want to grow and want to learn, u will. someone once told me, every sermon that we go through, no matter what, god will speak. she posed it as a challenge to me, whether i am able to detect god's voice amidst of all these passages.
bummed around till the worship for second service ended. when the majority of us were at the bus stop, clement the buaya was busy entertaining the girls outside sanctuary. its a good thing actually, with him around, taking cab would be literally impossible. jeremy had the craving for ljs so does everyone else so ya, had like one and a half meals each due to extreme hunger.
arcade was next, played house of the dead iii with jeremy. there was this fat ghoul with a belly as its weak spot. have to shoot it in order to kill. i thought it was rather amusing cuz ain't that suppose to be its strength? imagine this, all the bullets clogging up because the layers of fats reduced its velocity to a ZERO. heh, that's y amiel is so cool. :P BFPG (big fat pink giant) lol
met up with kristie and james at 6pm. james stated in the sms that whoever late has to treat everyone for dinner so ya, that was the first time that he was early, how nice? kristie ended up like more than half an hour late. however, she was smart enough to bring her elder brother along so we had a good dinner at billy bombers without having to take out my wallet.
played lan after that. it was cs first then 2 games of dota. cs was horrible. my screen was dark eventho i set the setting for the brightest. i could not go to the tunnel or whatever dark places unless i aspired to be a free fragger at that point of time.
got on the last train (thank goodness) and managed to convince my dad to pick me up from serangoon mrt station. oh btw, my itnernet connection is working again. heh. good day!!
+++9:55 AM+++
Jesus is Love
Sunday, June 18, 2006
ah.. forgot to update my blog. sorry bout that, recently my book out seemed so short. haven been doing much actually, i don't think i made good use of my time but oh well, i guess there's always a next one.. hopefully. my life had been pretty draggy the past weeks. NS.. church.. back to Ns and church. its not bad or anything but i wanted a more adventurous one, doing something that is out of the ordinary. was hoping for an exciting stayover or chalet but everyone's like busy.
speaking of which, i thought of booking a chalet on my birthday but i'm too lazy to organize. inviting friends and all are not that hard but in terms of catering and stuff like that, its gonna be a very tedious job. unless, i don't do any celebration, just booking a chalet to chill out together with friends. i would prefer that, eventho its like my 21st birthday, i don't think i want to have a very fanciful party with people drinking and stuff like that. being a christian is not easy but once u are one, u will never wanna live a life without Jesus. so hey, a little restrictions here and there is cool. anyway, the main thing is fellowship right? i have like 2 more weeks to decide, hopefully i can make a decision soon. haven work out the cost of the whole thing though. i suppose on average, it should be more than $500, its quite expensive so ya, we'll see.
+++7:42 PM+++
Jesus is Love
Wednesday, June 07, 2006
i am dreading every second of my life ever since i got out from malacca. it sucks when u know that u have to book in str8 away after u got home from a holiday. in addition to that, i actually have guard duty on sat which means that my weekend will be burnt out. this friday-sat is supposingly tm leaders' retreat as well as my grandma's birthday. y do such things have to all clash together. that really sucks.
the camp was great! alot of time spent relaxing and chilling out with close friends. God had been really good to me during this 5 days. learnt alot, shall update in detail when i get back from guard duty on sun.
+++8:00 PM+++
Jesus is Love
oh well, this is like the end of my 6 days (including weekends) of holiday. it feels weird to be out in town on a weekday, anyway, it's great to be free of the army for so long - can't wait to ORD!! was looking through some photos just now since i had nothing to do at home and wanted to spend some time reflecting on the past few months/years.
from the photos, i realised that there's alot of changes in faces of people from tm, most grew up to be leaders and for a minority, they left church for somewhere else. friendships made and friendships lost, all part of life. its not exactly a bad thing but i won't say its good too. somehow or rather, i suppose friends that are worth keeping are those that no matter what happens, we'll always be close. effort i must say, is a very important criteria to maintain a certain level of closeness. time is a factor that can't do without in a healthy friendship.
there's always this trend. sec 3 to sec 4 can still be quite close, after like jc 1 and 2, people start to drift away from tm. somehow not that engaged in their activities, too busy even to attend. projects and studies became their first priority. when people stop coming for a long time, its hard for them to come back because there will be a sense of awkwardness, as though this was thier first time in church. perhaps a few familiar faces but there won't be this family feeling anymore. its gonna cost u alot of time to get back the family kinda feeling.
church i suppose, like what people suggest, is not an organisation, its a home to all of us - not a hotel where people simply come and go. we grow up there, we learn to love, learn to care. we make friends, we know God. however, sometimes people attend church so much that they lost track of their purpose, their focus on God. it became a routine, something that u just have to go through in order to feel that u are on the right path. i call this group of people the lost sheep. they continue to join the crowd because they are still white, dunno wherelse to go. this group of people lost their identity. since a majority of us are still sane, we should open our eyes and look out for people such as thee. God's love is not exclusive to u only, personal but not private. tm412 has alot of small cliques, a culture that only those with it can fit in. i dun really know how to explain it if u realy think about it, most probably u can figure it out.
tm412 is somewhat growing in terms of numbers, it is time for us to really think of our next step which is discipleship. last time its quite easy to know like everyone in church cuz there's only like so much to remember but now, more and more kids are running around. for me, i think i know only from the sec 3 onwards. younger than that, i don't think i can even name 5 people. have u heard of a family who doesn't know the names of his/her members? well, we should do something...
Jesus is Love
Monday, June 26, 2006
heh.. while everyone's like going back to school, my battalion's having 4 days off for achieving best combat support unit, best signals unit and best node. so ya, being part of the new team, i was able to enjoy this privilege with them but at a slight disadvantage. gonna have 2 days leave deducted but got the other 2 days off free. trying to make full use of this holiday, make sure it does not go to waste.
sat
tm was great. haven seen my cg members for quite awhile, as in having cg time together so it was like so nice when we were able to just sit down and talk. my cg is starting this angel and mortal thingy to promote better communication and fellowship within the cg so as to deepen our level of sharing as well as to remove the awkwardness of it all. trying to organise an outing this tuesday to just catch up abit with them cuz cg time itself is definitely insufficient. managed to get eugene to come, hopefully he won't play me out. shall meet up somewhere near if not there's a possibility that he might back out.
after tm, gave daniel half of his present - a few pieces of metal stuck together, u are suppose to separate it in a logical manner. he's fascinated with this kinda things that has a minor association with magic i reckoned. anyway, eliel suggested this and i thought it was a really good idea.
suppose to go for cgl meeting but i decided to skip it since i have to spend time with my mum who was going on a cruise the following day. went to clement's house first for dinner, it was then that i called home and realised that my mum went to my grandma house and will be back by 9pm so i went to bryan's house to swim first. no point travelling to my grandma house because by the time i reached there, it will be the time for my parents to go back home. swimmming at bry's place was cool erm i mean hot as usual. i no longer patronise the normal pool, but rather the jacuzzi who seems so much more appealing due to its warm/hot water at a corner of the pool. its a nice place where people and chat and talk cork through the night. we didn't really soaked in the water all the way but rather laid at the side of the jacuzzi to relax. we were there for probably 45mins before going up to bathe.
talked to my mum, helped her pack till bout 11pm before i went to bed.
sun..
youth sunday's worship and sermon was really good. dave actually preached this sermon before in tm so ya, it was sort of like a refresher. alot of times, we treat repetative sermons like people nagging but if u have the proper mindset to want to grow and want to learn, u will. someone once told me, every sermon that we go through, no matter what, god will speak. she posed it as a challenge to me, whether i am able to detect god's voice amidst of all these passages.
bummed around till the worship for second service ended. when the majority of us were at the bus stop, clement the buaya was busy entertaining the girls outside sanctuary. its a good thing actually, with him around, taking cab would be literally impossible. jeremy had the craving for ljs so does everyone else so ya, had like one and a half meals each due to extreme hunger.
arcade was next, played house of the dead iii with jeremy. there was this fat ghoul with a belly as its weak spot. have to shoot it in order to kill. i thought it was rather amusing cuz ain't that suppose to be its strength? imagine this, all the bullets clogging up because the layers of fats reduced its velocity to a ZERO. heh, that's y amiel is so cool. :P BFPG (big fat pink giant) lol
met up with kristie and james at 6pm. james stated in the sms that whoever late has to treat everyone for dinner so ya, that was the first time that he was early, how nice? kristie ended up like more than half an hour late. however, she was smart enough to bring her elder brother along so we had a good dinner at billy bombers without having to take out my wallet.
played lan after that. it was cs first then 2 games of dota. cs was horrible. my screen was dark eventho i set the setting for the brightest. i could not go to the tunnel or whatever dark places unless i aspired to be a free fragger at that point of time.
got on the last train (thank goodness) and managed to convince my dad to pick me up from serangoon mrt station. oh btw, my itnernet connection is working again. heh. good day!!
Jesus is Love
Sunday, June 18, 2006
ah.. forgot to update my blog. sorry bout that, recently my book out seemed so short. haven been doing much actually, i don't think i made good use of my time but oh well, i guess there's always a next one.. hopefully. my life had been pretty draggy the past weeks. NS.. church.. back to Ns and church. its not bad or anything but i wanted a more adventurous one, doing something that is out of the ordinary. was hoping for an exciting stayover or chalet but everyone's like busy.
speaking of which, i thought of booking a chalet on my birthday but i'm too lazy to organize. inviting friends and all are not that hard but in terms of catering and stuff like that, its gonna be a very tedious job. unless, i don't do any celebration, just booking a chalet to chill out together with friends. i would prefer that, eventho its like my 21st birthday, i don't think i want to have a very fanciful party with people drinking and stuff like that. being a christian is not easy but once u are one, u will never wanna live a life without Jesus. so hey, a little restrictions here and there is cool. anyway, the main thing is fellowship right? i have like 2 more weeks to decide, hopefully i can make a decision soon. haven work out the cost of the whole thing though. i suppose on average, it should be more than $500, its quite expensive so ya, we'll see.
Jesus is Love
Wednesday, June 07, 2006
i am dreading every second of my life ever since i got out from malacca. it sucks when u know that u have to book in str8 away after u got home from a holiday. in addition to that, i actually have guard duty on sat which means that my weekend will be burnt out. this friday-sat is supposingly tm leaders' retreat as well as my grandma's birthday. y do such things have to all clash together. that really sucks.
the camp was great! alot of time spent relaxing and chilling out with close friends. God had been really good to me during this 5 days. learnt alot, shall update in detail when i get back from guard duty on sun.
Jesus is Love