Anything can happen and it probably will.

I thought I am going to die of boredom today.

I used to like being alone, do things alone, shop alone, be by myself. I wonder since when have I started to yearn for company, that I can't spend half the day not talking to anyone anymore. I wonder since when have I turned so Sanguine.

Making friends have become pretty easy for me. Fellowship and communication has become a habit. Making jokes have become all natural, as Briony had said, I am the kind that is good at making people laugh at unexpected anti-climax joke. I normally don't even think about it when I joke. At the same time, I also like to be serious yet remain light-hearted to allow the sharing of personal stuff relaxing.

Anyway, I just wanted to chat with someone so I sms Briony in the afternoon. She didn't replied for quite some time and I wondered what happened. When she finally replied, she told me she just returned from the hospital with a neck brace! She injured her neck when she fell yesterday, gotten worse this morning and she decided to see the doctor and was refered to Changi General Hospital.

It appeared that she had injured a ligament on her neck, thank goodness it isn't a broken neck. The doctor said it will take a few days to heal but she wouldn't be able to shout, jump or turn her neck for the time being.

I went down to Tanah Merah to visit her to see how she is. She seems fine except for the discomfort and pain. I pray she will get well quickly because she will be going to South Korea for holiday this coming Saturday. Hope it wouldn't affect her vacation there.

A Vision During Service

I have another vision during service 4 today. I wanna say to people who miss service 4, it is probably the BEST service this weekend!!! Hahaha.

Pastor was led by the Holy Spirit to preach about something different from what he plan to teach and he spend a long time ministering to the congregation. He prayed for the people who want to hear from God 24/7, even when we are not praying! Yes! A constant fellowship with the Lord where He will speak to us even when we are busy doing our daily stuff.

I was closing my eyes, then I saw on my right, a flat dirt path along a mountain with green grass. When I look up at the mountain, I could see another flat dirt path above. Then I heard a voice, "Climb up." so I climbed up the grassy slope to the dirt path I saw above.

When I reach that dirt path, I thought I am suppose to walk along this dirt path. However, before I start walking, I looked up and saw another flat dirt path above. Then the voice again said, "Climb up." so I climbed up to the next dirt path.

This keep repeating, then I realise, walking a flat dirt path is easy, but climbing up is difficult. But that is what God really wants me to do, to keep moving upwards instead of staying where I am in my comfort zone. Then I remembered a verse,

"I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus." ~ Phil 3:14

Yup. Reminds me that the prize is always on the way up. Going up is always more difficult but that is where God wants us to go, always progressing, always becoming better.

Pastor Ulf's preaching also reminds me that I always hear from God whenever I am doing my own stuff, be it chatting on MSN, on the bus, reading books, God can just start speaking or show me visions. I thank God for that. Hahaha. His words and vision never cease to encourage me and lift me up. I will definitely be very sad if I ever lose this connection with God.

Svc 5 Pastor talks about our calling again. But this time he said that God may just required us to make decisions in a flash. Therefore, we better be preparing ourselves, keep praying constantly and read the bible, so that when God called us, we will not miss it.

In the Gospels, when Jesus walk past the fishermen and said, "Follow me." He didn't stop and wait to let them consider, He just kept on walking away. If the fishermen were to hesitate for a moment (or if they ever have the popular everything also "Let me pray about it 1st" attitude) they will miss their calling to become the men of God, planting churches and spreading the gospel.

So better be spending more time in prayer and reading the Word. So when God calls, you can recognize His voice. You may never have the chance to "pray about it" when the time comes. It would be just too bad if you failed to recognize His voice. God is going to move on to find a person who is truly after His heart.


Anyway, a summary of what happen since Friday.

Friday
Appears the my mum's fibroid had shrank, but it seems to be having discharges. The doctor needs to do some lab examination on the dishcarges before coming to a conclusion.
My mum was scheduled for a followup appointment 2 weeks later.
Please pray for her. Thanks.

Saturday
Went for COPE in the morning.
In the afternoon, went to Orchard Road with my mum and brother.
Ate at Sanua Indonesian restarant, ordered Tahu Telor, Saya Lodah, BBQ Sotong (VERY NICE!!! Grilled Succulent Squid in sweet Indonesian sauce. Every bite was filling! Satisfying! Gratifying!!! Yummy! Hahaha) and Black Pepper Chicken. Also Ordered Indonesian Chendol and it was the BEST Chendol I ever eaten!!!
Later we watched the movie Dreamship Surprise at Cineleisure. Movie was dumb but funny. Hahaha. A spoof of a few movies, make a joke out of Star Wars. Hahaha.

Sunday
After church, Sjeting and I went to Sim Lim Square to shop for digital camera. Along the way, we saw a multipled CG member, Sok Hong, who joined us for shopping.
At Sim Lim Square, we went to find Ruijie wh's having Poly attachment at one of the shops. So great to see him after such a long time. Hahaha.
Later brought the 2 ladies to The Myammar Restarant at City Hall and treat them. The food there is Fabulous!!! The restarant is located at the basement of Pennisula Plaza. During meal times everyday, it is always crowded with people, which testifies for the food there. Hahaha.
We went to shop at Marina Square after that. It was wonderful talking with the 2 ladies. was laughing and talking about spiritual things and everything under the sun. No moment was dull, no moment of silence at all!!! Hahaha.

Blogging by Phone!

This's the 1st time blogging with my handphone. Hahaha.

Currently at KKH accompany my mum for her fibriod examination. This is the 2nd checkup to make sure the fibriod is not growing, if not, she may need to go for surgery...

Hope everything will be fine. :)

I try to do a short post...

1st of all, I wanna say that I am not going to shut down my blog. Hahaha. I just happen to like the style of writing in The Book of Ecclesiastes, where the anthor seems to be complaining but later on, he will teach wisdoms and give solutions. Hahaha.

So to say, nothing happening much today. Going to the gym later with Briony [Cinthia!!! How I wish you could come! :( ] and afterwards, maybe have dinner with Briony then I will be going for my guitar lesson with John.

This is my blog! So maybe I can talk a little about myself today... How about my favourite food?
I always love ASIAN food! Hahahaha. I find asians more creative and put in more effort in their food culture. They created hundreds of cooking method, invented almost all kinds of staple food around the world today.
(Do you know pasta and pizza have their origin from China? It was reinvented in Europe thanks to the journal of Marco Polo, who introduce Chinese food in his writings.)


In order of preference, these are the different kinds of crusine I like.

1. Northern Chinese Crusine - la mien, xiao long bao, dumplings and food from the northern part of China such as Beijing, Shanghai, Si Chuan etc.

2. Southern Chinese Crusine - fried rice, roast pork, lor bak, dim sum and food from the southern part of China such as Fujian, Canto and also Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan etc. (My Grandmother is a Taiwanese!)
Note: Macau food culture is partly influenced by their Portuguese colonises, a good infusion of East and West!

3. Indonesian Crusine - Tahu Telor, Semur Ayam etc. (My Grandfather is an Indonesian Chinese!)

4. Japanese Crusine - Sashimi, Japanese curry, chawamushi etc. (My Mother is a Japanese! Like real. :P)

5. Thai Crusine - tom yam, olive rice, green curry etc.

6. Vietnamses and Burmese crusine - Vietnameses seems to like beef. Burmese almost have tomatoes in every dishes! Nice! Burmese is also famous for their milk tea.

7. The rest of the asian crusine such as Indian, Korean, Malay, Turkish etc.

If you wanna treat me, any of 1st SIX crusine would be fine, esp the 1st THREE. Hahaha. For Western crusine, I only like pasta, baked rice (Typical Chinese I am! Hahaha!). Although I don't mind roast steaks, burgers and pizza etc... I normally wouldn't crave for them, and will usually order rice or pasta. Hahaha.

BTW... cheese and bacon is a good combi. Hehehe.

Feeling a bit dumb.

Actually, I wonder why I bother to visit other people's blog, read it thru and left comments there. Sometimes it's cuz I wanna find out how others are doing, and also cuz I am more vocal. So sad I dun normally have people visiting my blog thou.

Perhaps I should just stop visiting or leave comments on other's blog? Or perhaps it's even better to shut down my own blog?

Or is it the fact that no one seems to understand me?

There are basically 5 types of love language that people respond to. Each person have a primary love language which they respond mostly to and the lack of it will make the person turn away.

1. The love language of Affirmation.
A person with this love language as a primary needs to be praised and encouraged with words many a times. A word that hurts them will seriously make them turn away from you. They will not tolerate insults but contructive criticism are always welcome.

2. The love language of Serving.
Such person feel loved when people bother to serve them. It is not that they wanna be a lord or master but they simply just feel touch if someone serve them. Such people may in turn love to serve others too.

3. The love language of Touch.
Close proximity is the key to make this person feel love. They love to touch and be touched. Be careful where you touch thou. Hahaha. Sometimes a good shoulder rub or a pat on the back could help to lift up this person.

4. The love language of Gift.
By far the easiest person to please. Buying a gift for such person will make her feel loved and happy. Of course, the best gift is one that is truly sincere and what the person really wants. Don't expect the person to feel love if you give rubbish.

5. The love language of Quality Time.
May just be the most expensive person to love. He does not demand anything but your time. Don't think for a moment just being with this person is all that's needed. You will still have to learn to converse and be interested in the things he is doing. In turn, such person may also have pretty good PR skills to make good conversations.

No doubt, I'm the 5th kind of person. Hahaha. When I am down, I wanted to be with someone. When I am happy, I wanna share with someone too. I don't really like to be alone if I can help it. I appreciate every effort by people such as asking how I am when I am sick, celebrating with me when something great happen, listen to me when I am stress, go out with me when I am bored, leaving comments on my blog replying my sms and keeping their promises. Hahaha.

Don't get me wrong thou, I am not a taker more than a giver. Hahaha. I have learnt to "love you neighbour as you love yourself." I always try to be the 1st to comfort or to laugh with friends when something happen, doing something to surprise people once in a while, reply to sms promptly, go out with whoever wants company or visit them no matter the distance or the time. Hahaha.

So what is your love language?

A Few Things That Came to Mind.

1. 1st thing I wanna talk about is timing.

Timing is very important. When the opportunity comes, you will only have a few moment to seize it or to lose it forever. This is especially true when you wanna build deeper relationship or for some cases, to keep the friendship going.

Have we often seen in dramas when a person came back only after some crisis had happened and he was rejected by his friends or family members? Typical reasons people will tell him is, "Where were you when all these happens?", "Where are you when I need you?".

Sometimes, you felt bad for this person because he is genuinely busy and he really can't make it... but the fact of the matter, he did missed the "Kairos" moment to be there to share the joy or the woe of his friends or family members.

What is the "Kairos" moment? Simply said, it is the transitional moment when a person is feeling very happy, sad or angry due to a certain things such as illness, marriage, divorce, finding a good job, etc. There is a saying among close friends that goes, "We have being through thick and thin."

No one can be happy or sad about sometime forever. Once you miss that Kairos moment, that person may never share with you again. I made this mistake a few times myself... Got pretty bad outcomes. One word to help with this area... Be SENSITIVE.


2. 2nd thing I wanna talk about is shinning for God.

No one cares whether you go to church or attend CG. No one who is a non-Chirstian can see how "holy" you are just by simply telling them you pray and read the Bible. The truth is, no one cares how much you love God, they only care how much you love people.

Non-believers do not have spiritual eyes like Christians. However, some Christians are blind to the fact that non-Christian are not able to understand Godly things. No wonder Christians are branded as judgemental or biggots.

If we wanna win friends, the 1st thing to do is always remember that, "No one cares how much you know until they know how much you care." If you do not bother to meet people's needs or behave yourselves, don't expect people to respect you or listen to you in the 1st place.

So to say, making friends is tedious. It is hardwork, creativity and sacrifices. Hahaha. I am talking about making close friends by the way. Learn to meet people's needs, try to do something that will surprise each other. Most important of all, BE GENEROUS! No one likes to hang out with a stingy fellow. Stingy Christian are most undesirable by the way.

One thing I always agree, money don't speak, they SHOUT!!! The easiest way to shine for God is really to be generous. The more generous you are with your giving, the more people will listen to you. I am not trying to say that you should bribe people or what, I am trying to say, everyone loves a generous soul.

Baby Kean!!!

I brought Briony to Irene's stage props and costume shop at Outram Park today. Briony was going for an interview for a part-time job at the shop.

At the shop, I was playing with baby Kean!!! Kean Kean!!! OK! I am a man and I love babies! Kean is so adorable. He was laughing at everything I could think of playing with him. I tickled him, carry him high up in the air, let him play with some of the stage prop.

All of a sudden, Kean Kean start to have hiccups. It wouldn't stop, I dunno what to do... Irene's interviewing Briony, so I went to ask the other ladies in the shop. They were laughing at Kean (or me?) and said I should give him some water to drink.

I fed Kean with some water. Nope, the hiccups didn't go away. I patted the little chest gently, fed a little bit more water... Then the hiccup got LOUDER! Argh!!! (I'm so tired carrying Kean already.) I tried to give Kean a bit more water and by God's grace, his hiccups stop.

When the hiccup stops, he started making some forceful noise and kicked a little bit. I asked Irene what's wrong and she said it's feeding time. Irene asked me to put Kean in the pram and I fed him. ( I always joke that we should start a mid-husband organisation so that man can be more involve in pregnancy, labour and child-rearing. Hahaha.) The moment I put Kean in the pram, he started crying!!! I quickly put the milk bottle to his mouth and he start to suckle. Hahaha.

He took quite a long time to finish his milk. Once he finish and I put the milk bottle away, he started crying again. I decided to let Irene take over (a real man knows when is the best time to let go. Hahaha.) Appears that Kean is tired and he wanted to sleep. Regarding this, looks like mummy knows best. :)

Later went to Plaza Singapura with Briony for lunch. She's a little dizzy today, maybe due to blood loss during the blood donation. After lunch, we went to Swensen to try out the Banana Crumbles. NICE! Thou I prefer the Apple Crumbles. Hahaha.

By the way, I bought some vaporubs and cough drops in the morning which I intended to give to my poor, sickly friend, Cinthia. So after leaving Plaze Singapura, I went to Toa Payoh. I bought a small hard colored paper at Popular to make a card then go straight to her place. I placed everything in a small bag and hang it at the door handle. It was meant to be a surprise. Hahaha.

BTW, I bought another 2 more tops from Samuel & Kevin at the Toa Payoh's outlet. Hahaha. Headache's getting more bearable. Heard from my member that O level social studies is very difficult this year. It reminds me that I just made a friend, Benecia, at the blood donation drive and she is also taking O levels. So I sms her and chat with her a little on my way home. I guess I do have pretty good PR skills. :)