What a Great Weekend. :)

Friday, Saturday and Sunday is busy busy busy!

I had a test on Friday, school ends at 4pm then I went down to Expo to meet Chloe and Desmond for dinner before the conference with Rev. Ulf Ekman.

Desmond was speaking to me regarding certain issues that I really need to take note of. Thanks Desmond for the honesty. You're the best! Hahaha.

Later after the svc, Desmond, Alex and I went to Clarke Quay for supper. I was really tired as I have being rushing for my project and had not slept more than 4 hours for the past 2 days. However, I will never pass a time such as this. Hahaha.

I reached home at around 2am that night. I woke up at 6am on Saturday morning as I need to reach Toa Payoh for my ministry at 8.30am. My ministry, COPE bought the elderly to Sentosa that day. I was appointed to be the bus captain for bus 2.

We are supposed to play a game where the elderly in each bus have to guess where is the next location by answering a riddle and they have to complete a certain task at that location before going to the next location. The bus that finished that most task before the time given would be the winning group.

However, my bus driver is unfamiliar with Sentosa and keep getting lost. Even with a map, the place seems confusing and the bus driver also don't know how to read the map! Sign...

I have no choice but to bring th elderly to whatever location I can come by. So instead of going to Palawan Beach, we went to Siloso Beach instead because the driver chanced upon it. I let the elderly be free and easy as we reached different location and went around chatting with them and entertain them while on the bus. Thank goodness the elderly in my bus really enjoyed themselves a lot!

At the end of the day, I was complimented by the elderly in my bus that I have 好口才。(which means to say that I speaks speaks well). Hahaha. I never imagined getting complimented for my Mandarin but I guess I have a way with my words. Hahaha.

Later I rushed down to church for Pastor Ulf's Conference again. After that, I went to Lau Pa Sa for dinner with a few of my CG members and zone members. Had a real good meal and fellowship.

Sunday, I woke up early again to attend the morning conference. Later went to fellowship with a few of my CG members at Orchard. We ate at The Food Republic, the ambience is nice and so is the food! Hahaha. Great place to fellowship.

Later, Desmond and I accompanied Xueying and Xueting to bring their cousin, (what is his name again?) around. Their cousin is from Australia and came to visit for a few days. Xueting and Xueying are not really familiar with him as they only seen him once when they were really young so they were quite glad to have Desmond and I around.

I was saying that I want to be home by 6, 7pm but I end up hanging out with them till 10pm. Hahaha.

Monday I woke up early again for a project meeting in school. Later, it was skill practise session for my Clinical Skills. At around 2.30pm, I met Xueting to help her friend to register of admission into NYP. I was really tired already so ah... I think I almost got pissed off by her friend. Reason being... she made me really confused with what she want to do. She isn't sure what she already done and was very unprepared when she came. But I can see that she was very worried. Sign...

So I decided to stay home today to rest. Rest I did! I slept the whole day. Hahaha.

Rev. Ulf had really inspired me a lot. Gonna write more about it in the CG blog soon.

Too much to write about, seems so brief... anyway, what matter is my own memory. Will elaborate more on future events. Hahaha.

GOD IS GOOD. :)

Blogging one more time...

Hmmm... spent some moment to make a phone call Cinthia whom I have not contacted for awhile. She's busy with something and so am I. Rushing for projects. Hahaha. So I didn't make it too long. In fact just a few minutes.

Communication is the key. When there is no communication, relationship breaks down. That is what I have learnt from the service last week. So even just a few minutes, I'm glad I had called up. Hahaha.

Missed the days I would spend the time with Briony and Cinthia when we will walk from places to places and talk and comment about the things we see. Also missed the times when we shared our revelations together and the hardships we face as a CG helper. Hahaha. Man! Gotta meet up one of these days again. Hahaha.

I will always rememeber Cinthia because I always use that multi-color Pilot pen that she bought for me. It is still in good condition and I bring it everywhere with me! For lectures, for exams, for CG, for service and for my attachment. Hahaha. I always tend to lose my pen but I took great care not to lose this one. Not only because it is a very good pen to use (it is makes writing very smooth!) but also because it is a gift. I always treasure the gifts people gave.

And I will always miss Briony. I still have that withered bar of Dead Sea Soap in my bathroom. Hahaha. It is too small to be used now. So nice to use! It is there because I am too lazy to throw it away. Hahaha. Anyway, that long sleeve shirt from Samuel & Kevin that she picked for me during Christmas is my favourite piece of top among the rest of my clothings. My mum always complain that I wore it too often. Hahaha. Must control, must control.

"Work work." ~ Peons, War Craft.

Ever have the day when you feel so tired yet the more tired you are, the more it drives you to work even harder?

I thought I am going to go straight home today after school. I don't know what got over me that I end up in the library and start to search for books and journals for my individual presentation on Dengue Fever, which is on the 6th of March.

Thank goodness it didn't take too long. I found the right book, the right articles and photocopied them all in the time-span of just 30mins. Fast isn't it? Hahaha. Yup, the more tired I am, the more efficient I work. So now I am done with the minimum requirements of a textbook and a journal for my referencing. In fact, I have TWO journals! Hahaha.

Next, I will have to quickly finish up the Health Psychology Presentation on Coronary Heart Diseases by tonight so that we can touch up tomorrow and save the trouble of meeting up in the holidays.

This presentation is also going to be on the 6th of March, the monday after our one week break. On that day itself, we are also going to have our Bioscience Practical Exam. So that means I will be having 2 presentation and an exam on that day. Talk about stress! Hahaha.

Then on the coming Wednesday which is the 8th March, I will also be having the Clinical Skills Theory Exam. Then the following monday, I will very lightly be the 1st person to take my Clinical Skills Practical Test since I am the 1st person on the class list. Then on the 10th of March, Friday, I will be having my Health Psychology Theory Exam. After I survive through that week, I should be able to take a breather BEFORE I go for my semestral exams. Wah hahahaha!

Oh! Not forgetting that I will be having my Clinical Trial Theory Exam tomorrow. Looks like I'm not going to be sleeping tonight. Hahaha.

OK. Gotta end my blog here. Back to work. :p

Headache, Go Away, Come Again... NOT!

After so many hectic schedules and lack of sleep for the past few nights, I had another bad headache yesterday. Lasted all the way from the afternoon till I slept. The moment I done my prayer focus, I just slump on my bed and sleep right through till 7.30am this morning. Praise the Lord, no more headache when I woke up. Hahaha.

Some things about dealing with headache.

1. Banging your head doesn't work.
Be it using your fist or banging against the wal, banging your headache is just a dumb action that make people think you are crazy.
However, it does work only if you really bang hard enough. So the saying goes, "Nothing a funeral can't cure."

2. Taking Panadol is only short-term.
After making the presentation on drug overdose and liver failure, I have decided not to take panadol unless it is really necessary.
Anyway, panadol doesn't seems to work all the time. If it does work, the effect will fade off as time goes by and you will feel the pain and giddiness once again.
Also, taking too much panadol also seems to make your body resist it. Making it less effective the next time you use it.
I know a army mate who is "addicted" to panadol. Every morning, he will come to me and say, "Hey medic! Got headache lah, give me panadol." Thank goodness my supply of panadol is free.

3. A good night sleep really works.
Nothing proves to cure headache better than a good 8hrs of sleep (other than the funeral). If you headache is caused by lack of sleep, all the more you should sleep!
To fellow Chrsitians: Gotta take care of yourslef ya? Remember your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit.


And I wanna talk about McDonald's Milkshake.

Last night as I was on the way back from school, one of my classmate was suggesting to get milkshake from the McDonald's at Jurong Entertainment Centre. Why not? I really wanna try the milkshake ever since it was reintroduced again. It reminds me of my childhood. Hahaha.

HOWEVER! The milkshake is a thorough DISAPPOINTMENT. The chocolate milkshake on the advertisement is really brown/chocolate but the one that we had looks WHITE! I thought at first we were given the wrong flavour because it looked like vanilla until I drank it then I could taste that tinge of chocolate in it.

The milk is too thick, the chocolate is too stingy. The drink itself is too hard, not easy to suck through the straw. And the taste of the milkshake reminds me of some protein or diet supplement. Yuck!

If you haven't try it, I suggest you don't. If you ever loved milkshake as a child when you were young, don't touch the current milkshake and keep your childhood memories sweet.


The Tea Leaves Eggs at Yu Eng Sheng.

While on our way, we also bought tea leaves eggs from the nearby Yu Eng Sheng medical hall. It cost 80cents per egg, a liitle expensive huh? But it is worth it! The egg is smooth and nice. Unlike the junks you get at some Pasar Malam (makeshift night market), the taste of the egg is really rich with all the herbal preparation! The smell is aromatic and tempting. I could hardly control myself to eat the egg before I reach home (But I did anyway because it is really hot). Hahaha.


Stress with work and many thing. Once in a while do something to pamper myself. Hahaha. It says in the bible, "All things works out for the good of those who love Him." No worries! Hahaha.

GOD IS GOOD. :)

Wanderlust Returns

Hmmm... Seems to be running around a lot lately.

What did I do on Saturday? Went for service. Before that, I meet up Huiyi and went to her mum's florist shop to collect the roses. 50 of THEM! Had pretty good conversation with her along the way. Later also met Zhiyan in the MRT.

Pastor preached a very good sermon that day about how to get along with people. I have posted the sermon on W372's Blog and I will encourage you to read it because it will really bless you. :)

Later after the service, Desmond, Alex, Mei Hui, Yiquan, Eunice, Joey, Huiyi , Xueting and I went to visit Chloe (Xueying; Xueting's sister) who was very sick and down with high fever.

Chloe seems to be a lot better when we went to see her. Can see that she's pretty happy to see us. She is still sick today thou. She went to see the doctor again on Monday and is currently resting at home. Please pray for her as you read this. :)

Later on, we went over to The Roti Prata House which is along Thomsom Road for our lunch-cum-dinner-cum-supper at around 1030pm. Really busy huh? Hahaha.

Later at night, some issues regarding a member pop out but it was quickly resolved by Desmond, Brother Ming Jin and I. Not going to elaborate as it is pretty personal matter for that member. I slept around 2.30am that night.

On Sunday, I woke up at 7am as I promised Chloe that I will accompany her for service if she got better. Apparently, her fever did went down so I forced myself up, took a shower and prepared to leave the house at around 8am. I am really tired as I haven't being sleeping much for the past few days. Anyway, for the sake of a member, I am willing to sacrifice that amount of sleep. Hahaha.

Later, Chloe told me that her mum will not allow her to go out as her sickness is just getting better and wanted her to stay at home. I understand so I just went back to sleep and prepared for the prayer meeting in the afternoon instead. Hahaha. Left the house at around11.30am. Metup with Desmond on the MRT.

Prayer meeting was FANTASIC! AWESOME! INCREDIBLE! And yes, BEAUTIFUL! (Gotta practise the use of these four words more often. Hahaha.) The presence of God is so thick during the worship that I can sense not just me but almost everyone was very energized as we prayed in tonuges. We prayed very strongly and non-stop throughout the whole prayer meeting. I believe that we are going to have our next breakthrough once again. Hahaha.

Later after the prayer meeting, Desmond told me that someone from the zone fainted and may need my help. Desmond and I ran all the way from the MRT platform back to the Singapore Expo. Apparently, it was actually a chronic condition and the person already woke up so there is nothing much I could really help with except giving some standard advice to the CG members what to do next.

Desmond and I decided not to join our CG members as both of us were really tired. We went to Jurong East and had our dinner together.

I always says this and I will says this once again. I truly appreciate the time I spend with Desmond as he is one of the few guys whom I can really converse on the same intelluctual and spiritual level. The things we talked about are always spiritual, important, close to our hearts and sometimes serious. Not a lot of crapping around and no beating around the bush. Conversation was always intense yet enjoyable.

On Monday, I met up with Eunice and her friend, Sarah. Supposingly Yixuan should also be joining us but couldn't do so in the last minute because of family issues. We cancelled our initial plan to catch a movie and decided to walk down the streets of Orchard Road instead.

Apparently, everyone's tired. The two girls had stayed up all night to complete a project which they have to hang in that day. I was just physically tired after so much activities in school and church for the past week. Managed to introduced myself to Sarah though I felt it wasn't very fruitful... Nonetheless, there is always another time to catch up.

Later that night, I rushed some admin stuff for my COPE ministry and also updated the W372 Blog. I was a bit too tired so I went to sleep early and continued this morning and managed to complete everything.

Now... still tired as I am fasting today with my CG. Fasting can really make you feel sleepy isn't it? Yawn... Anyway, gotta pray and fast because we cn sense that the time for our breakthrough is near! Amen!

All in all, God had really being good to me. I am now getting on with the pace at which the CG is moving and God is really strengthening and providing for me throughout all these.

GOD IS GOOD. :)

Naked I Came, Naked Shall I Return.

I was reflecting upon the service message that Pastor was preaching this weekend and I came to be reminded of something pastor said earlier.

"If the friends you always mixed around with are spiritually weaker than you, you are not going to go anywhere above where you are." (Something like that.)

As I get to know a man of God like Desmond, I really started to learn a lot from him. Conversation with him is really minimal crap, very intellect, spiritual and sometime serious. I may seems to really crap around with a lot of people, but the real me really yearns to converse at such a level and Desmond is really a gem of a friend at this point of time. Hahaha.

It is true sometimes, that I really have to be aware of who I call my best friend. Sometimes knowing a person for long doesn't necessary mean that person is my best friend. If that person if not a believer, or if that person is a new Christian, or if that person doesn't have have a good spiritual level that is of my level, then there is no way he can equip me for my future.

Not just that, even if you dun called the people you always mixed around with your best friend, the company that you mixed around with most of the time is going to shape you the most.

I know many people who dun spend a lot of time with their CG members or even their own fellow church mates. Even if they do, they spend time with those that are not so matured. Most of their time they spend with unchurched people. And the excuses I hear is always the same. "I wanna reach out to them."

Now in the first place, if you dun spend "true quality time" with your members, what makes you think if you ever bring your friends to church, they will really be integrated into your CG?

Pastor said that Friends equip you for the future.

So reflecting upon this truth, I realised that I have really found a good friend to begin off with in this CG.

You can have many friends out there. Some people can even claim they have "brothers" and many "best friends". But I know what the bible says is true. That a true friend, or a real "brother" is rare. Some people may never even find their "Jonathon" at all.

GOD IS GOOD. Hahaha.

No One Is Perfect

About the recent post, I said that sometimes church members can be a "stumbling block", but perhaps, it is better to say that sometimes they don't meet your citeria in every situation. Reason is because no one is perfect and therefore when we get together, there is no way to totally avoid conflict, misunderstandings or even frustrastion and offenses.

So another better way that my friend, Cinthia put it is "iron sharpens iron".

Even the best of friends can argue about things and parents can misunderstood their children. So truly, we have to learn from one another and realise that indeed, we should put our expectation on God and not on people.

Yes, once in a while I will think about some of my old friends, very good ones like Abel, Briony, Cinthia and I wonder if I will have the time to meet them. Abel called me yesterday because he will be somewhere near my school during the afternoon and he was asking if I will be free to meet him for a meal but... I am still having lessons at that point of time. Oh well...

Ya... I am a little busy too and so are the rest of the people. Sometimes as I read the blog of some of my friends and I was quite glad that they are happy being out with their friends too. Yup, everyone have their own life.

Once in a while, a friend may think I sever ties with them. However, come to think about it, it is always me speaking up first and planning everything. So if stayed quiet a little, they thought I have lost interest.

My Friends, why not ask yourself,
"Why must it always be Benjamin to call up, to sms, to MSN or to even tag on my tagboard first?"
"Why not I take the initiative to call up Benjamin instead of blaming him of severing ties with me?"

Yup. Sometimes I am the one who feels it was the other party who lost interest because I always don't hear anything from them if I don't contact them. And after a period of silence, one of my good friend can actually say that I severed ties with her, when I didn't even intended to do that in the first place. It can be a little hurtful, you know what I mean?

Yes. I always care for others. I am always the one who is more generous. I am always the one to ask, "How are you doing?" first. So if I don't do all these anymore, you deem I have lost interest? Well, like Paul says, "CERTAINLY NOT!" Hahaha.

Sometimes really, it is not whether you have anything to say when you tag or sms or call a person. It is the effort that you put in to press in into someone's life. Please, I beseerch you my friends, don't ever accuse me again of severing ties with anyone.

I long to meet up all of my old friends but first of all, I must find the time and my friends have to take the effort to "reach out" to me too. Remember, it takes two hands to clap.

Now after reading this blog, will anyone just give me a call to chat and catch up with me? Or do I have to be the one to call up first again? Hmmm...

Well, no matter how things will turn out, GOD IS GOOD. :)

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!

Alright. Hahaha. Was reading a friend's blog, let call her Z and it reminded me of a lot of things in the past.

One of the things I remember is the ties and friendship I severed in order to move forward.

I don't usually sever ties unless it is really needed to. In fact, I only remember one or two friendship that I severed and the rest, I simply forgotten. Yes, sometimes when I break a bond, I will totally forget it.

However, recently the friends I made I need not do so. Hahaha. Some I agree they had being a stumbling block but I realise more than the work of man, the recent obstacles had being the work of God to mold me and make me stronger.

The people whom God had used to shape me recently are all godly people, people who understand me, prayed for me thou they also became my obstacles. However, by the grace of God, I have overcomed these obstacles. Hahaha.

I have greater control over my emotions and desires now, which is why I don't do certain things I used to do so if anyone who knows me is reading this, esp Z, don't feel weird, it's just that you have seen a new me. :)

"Behold, all things have become new." That is what Jesus said and this verse came to me as I was typing this blog. It is a time to renew friendship, to reassess motives and to readjust the mindset.

Here I am, an old shell with a new mindset and new motives. Crappy as ever but know what is the right thing to do. Looks chaotic but clear-minded. Hahaha.

My style is really not of my own but the influence of many friends and leaders whom God had sent to shape me.

One example is this "Hahaha" thing. I never typed like this until I met and get to know this wonderful friend of mine, Z. Hahaha.

You probably wouldn't get to see the old Benjamin anymore. No, what you see in me now is not what I used to be a few years back. I am now a collection of all the people whom have come to touch my life in one way or another.

It is true with this saying, that a person's life is a sum of all the friends he had made.

You know what? GOD IS INDEED GOOD. Hahaha.

Happy Valentines' Day! To all my friends. :)

Giving Have Never Being Happier.

Got chocolates from Royce for a few of the sisters I knew personally in the zone yesterday. Dun think anywhere further, I did so because it is Valentine's Day and because I knew these few of them are going through some stress in life currently. I also bought another "more affordable" but still very good-quality chocolates from The Cocoa Tree for the rest of the sisters in my CG. Later after svc, we went to Bedok to have dinner. I treat Yixuan and Eunice. Hahaha. Then I treat everyone to “zhui kuei".

What makes giving them such a wonderful experience? They have a grace of recieving!

Many people really failed in this area because they feel very bad when they recieve things from people. Some people either feel they are not worthy or they feel it is not right to recieve. While there are some other people who will take but will not show any gratitude and all they want is just to keep taking because it is free.

However, my cg and zone members are different! They don't complain when they recieve. They reward you with a bright smile and a big "THANK YOU!". It will definitely make the giver feel blessed. This is something I hardly see in most of the people, even my friends.

Some of the best recievers are Eunice and Yixuan, they really smile and appreciate blessings. It is wonderful to be around people who are thankful. Chloe and Xueting too, not just will they appreciate, they will go around telling the whole world, this I just discover. And so are the rest of the CG members, they are just as thankful.

And not forgetting Briony whom I happened to met yesterday. I also gave her a box of chocolates since I bought one extra and since she like chocolates! Oh! Briony is someone who will not just take but will also love to give! Man! Just like the bible says, "Let your giving be as good as your recieving." Hahaha.

I believe indeed that one can only truly give in faith when they know how to recieve in grace. If you do not believe in recieving or if you don't like to recieve, what makes you think that if you give, the other person will recieve? This is like decieving yourself. This is not faith, this is being religious, this is being FLAKY!

Well. So good to give. And I also love to recieve. (hint hint) hahaha. :p

GOD IS GOOD. (God is still the greatest blesser of my life.) :)

Energy Spent. Literally.

2 nights ago, I stayed up late to chat on MSN. Last night, I stayed up late because of CG and because I need to finish some school's admin staff. Lessons starts at 8am both morning and I am out for almost the whole day.

I held a meeting for one of my ICA presentation today. End it fast as usual. Never like to have very long meetings. Rather it short and fruitful then long and waste of time. I got to the main points, delegate the work and off we go. Nothing much.

As the team leader, I will also be doing research and also read through the articles my teammates will be sending me by this Sunday. So once again, I will be reading, editing, drafting, meet up with team members to do more research, follow by more reading, more editing, more drafting, and more research. Not an easy job, tiring and sometimes frustrating but still, it is something that I like to do so I am not complaining much. :)

If there is one thing I really wanna do, that is to finish up chapter 17 of Langundo. I am halfway through chapter 17 but was just too busy and too tired to finish it up. After all, I know what are my priorities and story-writing just have to wait awhile... perhaps in a day or two, it may be up. Who knows? Hahaha.

One of the worst thing I can experince is really the headache that comes along with the lack of rest. When the headache comes, I will keep to myself and perhaps, not speak so much than a word as if talking will make it worse. Then if I get a little giddy, I may just massage my temper and shake my head a little, as if doing so will make it better. Which in fact, it doesn't of course. Hahaha. The pain will just come and go on it's own. Only a good rest will truly keep it away.

Had being hearing a lot of "misdeeds" by student nurses out there in clinical attachments. Year ones giving medication when they are yet taught how to administer. They even make mistakes and blame it on the patients. What kind of attitude is that!

I am very angry when I see fellow student nurses who try to slack or malpractise during clinical attachment. I never fail to let the staff nurse in charge know if something goes wrong to any of my patient under the care of irresposible student nurses. And if it is the staff nurses that malpractised, I will be sure the Nursing Manager hears about it and I have done that many, many times.

Some people do agree that many nurses will "suffer" if I become a Nurse Manager or Clinician because I really cannot stand sloppiness when it somes to handling of life and death issues. Hahaha.

Yup. I was sharing that I had kept my GPA above 3.6 for every semester and I am nominated for overseas attachments during CG. Hooray! Praise the LORD! Hahaha. Thank you JESUS!

Some of the places that I seems to be able to choose to go would include USA, England, Australia and Germany. I wouldn't wanna choose England as the exchange rate and expenses would be the highest there. However, I would really wanna go to Germany for some reason... Perhaps it is because I have being to the continent of Asia, America, Australia but not Europe yet. Perhaps, I am a little influenced by friends like Briony and Eunice. Hahaha.

GOD IS GOOD. :)

Nice Place to Sleep in Campus

Shouldn't have stayed up and chat so late on MSN when I have lessons at 8am today. Very sleepy. Hahaha. I will be going for CG later so I need to rest/sleep as much as possible after my lesson ends at 2pm today.

Going home is not an option. I have to reach Paya Lebar by 6pm. I will lose a lot of sleep in between. What better place to sleep other than school then? So here's a few suggested places to sleep in NYP.

1. The Library Wings
Be it the north or the south wings, is it by far the best place to sleep. Nice cooling environment and no one will come to disturb. You can even try the 5th floor but the librarians like to patrol the 5th floor very often so it is not really socially "considerate".

2. The Computer Labs
A bit cold sometimes but still a nice place to take a nap. You can surf the web a little and even tune in to online radio and listen to music while you nap. Do bring a jacket along just in case. Caution thou, the smaller labs may be booked for lessons so you may have to leave if so.

3. The Corridors along the Classrooms
You can act as thou you are waiting for tutorial to start and sleep outside the classrooms. What is great about this place is you can really slump on the ground and the corridors are air-conditioned. Only problem, it may get little noisy if people are moving around. Some blind cocks may step onto you once in awhile.

4. The Lecture Theatres
For those who are more adventurous or need a stimulant, nothing prove to drive a person to sleep better than old boring lectures. Go into a lecture theatres where there is some ongoing lectures, sit at the back of the theatre, focus a little on the presentation and you may soon find yourself in la la land. Don't try this during your own lecture or you may find yourself sitting for the same lectures next semester.

5. The Spectator's Gallery at the Running Track
Very quiet and low on human traffic. A really nice place to sleep. However, be warned that this could be one of the HOTTEST spot and unless you are intending to get a sun-tan, find somewhere else to sleep. Don't even try to sleep here on rainy days.

6. The Toilet
This is one place no one will ever complain if you do fall asleep. Just sit on the toilet bowl and start dozing off. The once-in-awhile smell when someone else uses the next cubicle may be a bit offensive and it can also get a little stuffy in the toilet but it can be helped using a portable mini fan and some medicated oil (the oil will let others think you have some serious diarrhea and encourage them to leave the toilet as soon as they finish their business). However, the downside of this, it was said that you could develope piles if you sit in the toilet for too long.

7. The Canteens and Food Outlets
For those people who need "noise" to sleep, you can always find a place here. It is really noisy thou but I do know of people who like such atmosphere. Please wear a face mask thou, your drooling may put diners off. We want to be "considerate" neighbours.

Time to prepare for leson then SLEEP! Yawn...

Gotta confess this before I leave. GOD IS GOOD. :)

Fellowship Day!

There is only 2 hours of lesson today so went to "Bai Nien" at my classmate's place after school. Her mum cooked for us and even prepared "Yu Sheng" for us. Hahaha All of us even get "Ang Baos". :p

Went over to Center Point Coffee Bean later to join Desmond, Yixuan, Chloe and Joey. Had a really nice conversation. Joey is a really captivating person as she can really listen and pay attention to what you wanna say. It is RARE to find people like this nowadays. Hahaha.

On the way home, I was talking a lot to Desmond. Let me say this, he is also one of the RARE guys/male/man who can talk on the same intellect level with me and talk about serious and spiritual topics naturally. We were talking non-stop on the whole bus journey.

Why is it rare? I find many guys tend to keep to themselves if not, they are only interested in talking about computer games and sports, things that are very superficial and doesn't challenge the mind. Which is why most of my friends are ladies because very sad to say, I personally find most ladies are wiser in conversation. However, Desmond is one of the rare man who can really speak with wisdom. He is what I call, a REAL man. Hahaha.

So to say. GOD IS GOOD. And I gotta sleep! Hahaha.

Energy Saving Mode

Here I am blogging the second time today.

Nothing much to do in school today. After that big presentation yesterday, I decided to take a break and go on "energy-saving" mode. That means, I go where ever I like when there is no lessons and keep to myself, get away from idle conversation and allow my mind to look inward rather than bothered with the hassles of the things happening around me. Even my classmate was commenting that I was very quiet today. Hahaha.

Actually, when I am quiet, I hate to be disturbed. Perhaps it is because I am having "conversation with myself" and anyone else is a "thrid" party. Sometimes, it is just so hard to find time for myself that when I finally have such luxury, I don't wanna be disturbed.

But it doesn't mean I don't care. If anything happened, I will still attend to it. If anyone is in trouble, I will help as much as I can. It is just that, I also want some time to be alone. And I mean, to be truly alone. Then I can "talk" to myself in my mind, make a few "silent" prayers to God and even hum a few worship songs to praise Him. I have being humming "What a Friend I've Found" recently without knowing it myself. Such "luxury" can only be afforded when I am alone.

Hmmm... Looks like I am on "Wanderlust" mode again, aka "Energy-Saving" mode. Hahaha.

So to say, I really wanna watch the movie "Fearless". Seems like many of the people had already watched the show. I wonder who else who be interested. Maybe I would just go watch it alone. I really wanna watch. Hahaha. Oh wells...

And what is the saddest thing? I will be missing the first ever prayer meeting of the year, which is tonight. All because I have lessons till 8pm!!! Too much sia. So many people will be going. My schoolmates-cum-zone members Eunice and Xueting will also be going and yesterday. Xueting even asked me if we could meet in school and go down for prayer meeting together. Argh!!! Haiz... Oh wells. Have to do my part to pray at home lor.

Gonna read my bible and pray. Gotta pick up my guitar and worship. YEAH!

For those who knows Xueting and Eunice, please pray for the two of them as they will be having a lot of projects and presentation to be completed by this week. Then next week, they will be having their semestral exams. For me, I will always keep them in prayers. Hahaha.

So let me confess this again, GOD IS GOOD! :)

A Time to Weep and a Time to Laugh

Finally, one of the most difficult presentation is over yesterday. Missed out one point forgot to talk about thou but nonetheless, it is still pretty good. Hahaha. Not easy to distribute the work and presentation among 14. So now 2 down and 2 more to go. But the last 2 is not going to be too difficult. Perhaps, I should just take a rest this week and continue the other two projects next week... depends. Hahaha.

Heard from Xueting that she also completed her hardest project yesterday. This particular project have being causing her to lose many nights of sleep and a little of her sanity. Hahaha. Well, I can identify with that. Talking to her over the phone reminds me of myself too.

Sometimes when I am stressed or frustrated, I may just bang the table or stamp my feet without much thought. Or when closing the door, I may just let it swing free and slam shut. I wouldn't try to do it on purpose, just perhaps it happened without much thought; sometimes I am shocked myself when the door slammed. If my mum is around, she will start to scold me, "buei son huh?" (as in "unhappy?") then I will quickly tell her "it's an accident" or "the wind blew". Hahaha. Coincidentally. Xueting sometime does that also. :p

Well... today I am suppose to have a good rest in the morning but I seems too have another bout of mild headache again. Haiz... I am getting used to it already. Everytime when I am stress, headache is really common. Nonetheless, I still enjoy the company of my church mates. They will always tend to understand and may even chat with me in a Christian viewpoint, which I find very comforting.

Speaking of which, sometimes I find my unchurched friends not so easy to get along. The last time I tried to let them know that I am not really feeling well and I am stress over the school projects, I kinda get very cold reactions if not, they will try to joke with me as if I am kidding. Naturally, that only make my blood boils. So whenever I am not really happy, I will still put on a smile but I will talk less and perhaps, even avoid them.

Perhaps it is true, that they are some friends whom you can only share "happiness"; like my school friends. Then they are some friends who can really laugh with you when you are happy and cry with you when you are sad. Such friends the bible says are friends who are closer than a brother. Thank God most of the people in my CG/zone can really listen when you need a listening ear or be with you when you need company.

Hey, I give a listening ear and comfort people too. I am much mature already. Hahaha. But I came to know one very inportant truth,

Alone I am nothing.
At all times I need God.
There is a time I can help others and there is a time I need help from others.
So the bible says, "it is not good for man to be alone" and "iron sharpens iron".

Well. GOD IS GOOD. :)

The Weekend.

The Christian band "Delirious?" came to lead songs in church this weekend. Their style is very different in the sense they may have praise follow by worship and then praise again, a very free flowing style.

However, it wasn't chaotic or out-of-sync. The transition to every songs are very smooth and it really bring in a very strong and tangible presence of the Lord. Their style of music is very much like a rock band but every word is so anointed! I felt so soaked in the presence that I start to feel very 'drunk' in the spirit.

So yesterday, Pastor taught about the need to honor the house of God and our priority should be firstly God's House, Family second and Carreer third. Why God first, because God always help to take care of everything. According to Psalms 92, God promised 7 blessings if we put Him 1st.

1. Fresh anointing
2. New vision
3. Hearing God's voice
4. No dryness
5. Health, riches, honor
6. Life-long productivity
7. Shine for Jesus

Then CG today was a combination of 2 CGs, plus MANY people coming for makeup from MJ zone. Hahaha. CG taught about Relational Evangelism. Yes! Got to be relational to reach out to people. No matter what role I play, always know that no effort is put to waste.

Was suppose to visit Geogina with Desmond at Clementi today. But we realised that her Dad's soya bean shop is not in Clementi Central but West Coast instead. Somemore, she's not working by the time we called her. End up fellowshipping with Desmond and had dinner with him instead. Later I treat him to satay. Hahaha. We were thinking about setting our own CG blog. :)

I am planning to go out with Eunice and Xueting this Wednesday and try out the Valentine's Day Chocolate Fon Due at Hagan Daz. Hahaha. In case you think otherwise, Valentine's Day is also called FRIENDSHIP DAY so dun think otherwise. Hahaha. All 3 of us are from the same zone, MJ zone and we studied in NYP. Eunice and I are the same CG. I really hope to start a zone fellowship in NYP to reach out to more people. Hahaha. Can give each other support when reaching out.

So truly. God IS GOOD. :)

Hectic Week

Back blogging again.

So so so busy for the past few days. The presentation is literally giving me a headache everyday, even today, I seems to be feeling giddy the whole day. Gotten worse at night but seems to become better after a shower.

If not, I wouldn't be blogging.

Went out to shop and dine on Wednesday and Friday. Wednesday was with Xueying and Xueting while Friday went with Eunice. Finally got to go out with the NYP people of my zone! Yeah!!!

On Wed, I met Xueying at 5pm and waited for Xueting to finish her tuition. She was suppose to be done at 5.30pm but not sure why she ended at 6pm instead. Hahaha. We went to Bugis Village to shop, only to find most of the shops are closed. Haiz... Chinese New Year mood. But we went to the Burmese Restarant at City Hall to eat. Hahaha. Had a good time chatting and fellowship with the sisters. By the way, Only Xueting is in NYP, her sister isn't.

On Friday, went out with Eunice, had dinner 1st before we proceed to Raffles City. We then gp on to Suntec City. At first, we wanted to go to Bugis but end up shopping the whole of Suntec instead. Hahaha. It was also fun to hang out with Eunice too. very nice to 'suan'. I bought my new wallet at Top Man finally. Hahaha. But that would means I probably will get my new belt after the next pay day. Gotta control my spending. Hahaha.

Wanna blog about Delirious? too... but if you can read from my blog, you prob can sense my brain is shutting down... so I will blog about it tmr instead. Hahaha.

By the way, retail theraphy really does help to destress. Hahaha.

GOD IS GOOD.

Baring My Fangs. Rr...

I actually wanted to blog about my Chinese New Year. So much fun and FOOD! Hahaha. But it's so long, it yet to be completed.I have dratfted it and was thinking of completing it today.

However, I just wanna blog about something else. It is about the ICA this coming Monday.

This is one ICA that really make me wanna VOMIT BLOOD. (Gotta sharpen my fangs and suck someone's blood later. Tradition method of blood transfusion.) Not because it is diffictult but the kind of RUBBISH some people can give me.

1st of all, I made it clear to everyone, GO AND READ THE LECTURE NOTES 1ST! One particular team in charge of doing the medical and nursing management can give me something almost totally different from what the lecture notes have. What does this show?

IT SHOWS THAT NO ONE FROM THAT TEAM READ UP THE LECTURE NOTES!

So counting today, we still have 3 more days, not counting the weekends, AND THE WHOLE PRESENTATION IS SUPPOSE TO LAST FIFTY MINUTES! With so much things yet to be done, we can't even try to have a full rehearsal.

It is not easy trying to coordinate 14 people to give a 50min presentation. I really reck my brains to think of a wonderful idea. Praise the Lord. But without the information, the whole presentation would be POINTLESS!

And when I call up the team leader this morning and ask her to make changes, she said IT IS NOT FAIR TO ASK HER DO EVERYTHING CUZ HER TEAM MEMBERS ARE NOT DOING ANYTHING.

Hello! If that is the case, WHY DON'T I DO EVERYTHING MYSELF? Get the people in your team to help you lah! If you always try to do everything yourself, OF CUZ ON ONE WILL BE HELPING YOU! Who are you kidding when you say YOU ARE STRESS?

Anyway, thanks to such people (and who needs the devil), I decided to meet up earlier with that team today and tell them STEP BY STEP what to do. We have no more time to waste. So now the STRESS IS ON ME. Fine. Haiz...

Thank God I didn't shout over the phone. There is nothing wrong to be angry, but just as some people are told by God not to touch alcohol or not to do certain things, I am told not to blow my temper. That is because I go out of control whenever I lose my temper and will hurt the people around me. I can feel angry or frustrated but, I cannot lose my temper.

I also didn't shout over the phone because I understand how stress it can really be. The other person is really stress despite of not being efficient. It isn't easy to handle people, I went through it myself. Each of us got to learn, it is important to know how to get along with team members. As far as I know, I being through that and I know how it feels. I am annoyed with the situation, not the people. I think it better to help the person than the situation 1st. As the leader I will sacrifice my time to see that everything is in order.

I pray that God will truly give me strength and the support I need. I need wisdom more than ever. I really need Your grace. Nonetheless, I know that God is always there for me. Thank You.

GOD IS GOOD. :)