It has been a rather hit and miss week, quite literally as well as metaphorically. The week started with me being so sick that I was out of action in Sunday after church and on Monday, where I did not make it to work but instead slept most of the day away. I made it to work on Tuesday but got sent home after half a day due to my constant coughing and sneezing. Made it to work yesterday and gained back a bit of my appetite. I can say with glee that my clothes are now a bit looser and that the pair of shorts that I wore yesterday can be pulled down without being unbuttoned or unzipped. Though I would ask that nobody try to do that please, I prefer to be walking around with clothes ON thank you.
I was still feeling rather sick yesterday, my sore throat and sore nose from tissue burn didn’t help either. There was Found on last night and I was on the border of not going cause I thought I should be resting a bit more so I can recover quicker but I still pushed on and went, it was the first worship experience night we had and I felt like going. So I got there, I parked at my usual spot outside Amanda’s house on the sandy verge and went in. It was a great night last night, I admit I wasn’t really into it at first but it was after that I started doing a lot of thinking, about what each person had said last night. I could relate to what Sam was saying, there are many times where I try and grasp the concept that God is by faith and although I cannot physically see Him, He definitely exists and plays a huge part of my life. Sometimes I feel like God can’t hear me but when that happens, I see this chain of events that prove me wrong. Yesterday was just one concrete example of that.
As I said just now, I just wasn’t feeling up to going, but I thought I should go for support of the women’s ministry. So I went and I parked at my usual place, even though previously I’ve scraped the bottom my front bumper slightly while reversing I though it would be the same thing again. Not. As I left to go home after Found, I scraped my bumper, quite badly this time. As I reversed, I heard a snap and my heart dropped when I did. So I pulled over and saw that the left side of my front bumper had come out and was jutting out about 1 cm. Which is still 1 cm too much for comfort. So I drove home, contemplating my options, wondering why had I even parked at that spot, wondering where I could get it fixed for cheap.
I had a fitful sleep last night, I wasn’t too happy with myself, with what I had done to my beloved car, so disappointed that I ignored my own advice of not parking there anymore. So I got up extra early this morning and because I couldn’t find masking tape anywhere, I resorted to cutting up pieces of contact into strips and stuck it on my bumper to keep it in place for the trip to work. Unfortunately, I didn’t take a picture of it just cause I was so distraught that I had damaged my Blue Lightning once again. I rushed out of the house, trying to beat the traffic and create less stress on my car and me and managed to forget my cough syrup and honey and lemon drink in the morning. I made it to work in one piece and managed to drive to my final evaluation appointment which was over at the other AAWA site. Had my final evaluation with Sue and I passed with flying colours! The team were very impressed with my work on the life history book sample I created as well as the sensory boxes and cataloguing of the resources and creating how to sheets for them. They even got Joel to take a picture of me with the stuff I had put together there on my placement and that will go in the November staff newsletter 
Jess said she will send me a copy when they get it, so it will be rather odd seeing my face with all the things I did over the past 7 weeks there.
Louise and Deb took me out to Floreat Forum and we went crazy at the Bali Beach shop over there, with me looking for items for the sensory rummage boxes that were seriously cheap, and Deb and Louise shopping for house decorations. Louise treated me to lunch at Gloria Jean’s, which was really kind of her. I’ve got some goodies for them at the office that I’ll be giving them tomorrow. As we sat eating lunch, Louise and Deb offered me a paid job over the summer as a research assistant for a research project they are interested in. I was stoked! I think I froze and they gave me the details of it and it was great! It fit in perfectly with my summer plans and I get paid and I have the flexibility to do things. It was a dream come true! Little need to say, I accepted it right away, I wasn’t going to let this get out of my reach. As I’m goins to be applying for PR and need something to keep me occupied before I get a real job and it looks great on my CV. I couldn’t have asked for a better job! All this while, I still had the thought of fixing my car, nagging at the back of my mind. I couldn’t exactly drive around on my next prac with a lose bumper.
I rang the Proton smash repairers early in the morning and they said that they could try fixing it, or if it is bad they have to replace the bumper, which will cost 500-600 bucks, but will be covered by insurance. So I wrapped up things at prac earlier and got off at 3pm and raced to Proton to get the bumper fixed. Got there at about 3.20pm and had a discussion with the mechanic (he’s brilliant! I would highly recommend him) about my options and even though he had a full workshop, he fit me in and got my car fixed in 15 minutes. While he took my car off me to bring round to the workshop and I was waiting in the waiting room, contemplating how much I would have to pay for all that, he walks in 5 minutes later telling me that I was lucky that I brought it in today. They found a nail in my rear right tyre and by the looks of it, it had been there for a while. He said it was lucky they caught it now, cause it would have meant that any day now my tyre would have gone kaput if it wasn’t fixed. He even recommended me a place down the road that could do it for cheap. So off to Richard’s Tyrepower on Scarborough Beach Road I went, in search of a puncture fixer. No wonder for the past week or so I have heard a tick tick sound everytime I drive, turned out to be the blooming nail in the tyre.
I got there and managed to get them to squeeze me in, even though that meant I had to wait an hour, I would wait. I think today was just great, I managed to get my car fixed at 2 places where both workshops were full and I got it down for cheap and quite fast as well. I got the bumper fixed for $25 and the tyre fixed for $30. I drove home in good spirits and was just thinking about the day. Then I looked at the bigger picture of things, that if I had never rocked up to Found yesterday, I wouldn’t have snapped my bumper, then the mechanic wouldn’t have found the nail in my tyre and I would have had a punctured tyre at a later date and a lot more expensive repair as well as a lot more hassles. God definitely had my back and always had my back all this time however stupid I might have felt or however useless I feel. This might probably sound stupid but I’m not ashamed of it, I prayed while driving back today, thanked Him for all His blessings and everything He has given me so unconditionally. That I now can see it is His hands in every facet of my life, even without me knowing, carrying me all the way, consoling me and egging me on the times I feel like giving up. So I was crying while I was driving and I must have looked like a downright idiot, but you know I don’t care anymore. What I do care about is what God means to me and I’m glad I have a God that is so loving and full of grace
So all in all it has been an awesome day! I got a job offer, I got my car fixed and my supervisors at prac were highly impressed with me. God is great Even when I thought this was such a horrible week, I’m glad that with Christ in the vessel, I can smile in the storm.
I’ve been doing prac/work at AAWA for the past 6 weeks and I’m beginning to slip into a routine now: Get up, change, drive to work, sit in front of computer, go out for facility visits if lucky, more computer work, drive home, do work, sleep, repeat routine. At the end of next week I once again change ‘jobs’, I switch prac places. Trying to switch jobs once a year is bad enough but switching 3 times is just very tiring. I’m beginning to fatigue from it, beginning to hate the 7 weeks cause once I begin getting used to the routine, I get uprooted again to be placed somewhere else.
I’ve been reflecting on life a bit of late, thinking about cell and my future. For those who don’t know, I’m in the midst of completing a 7 week placement, doing a group assignment, managing my migration application and applying for registration as an OT. Amongst other things I am doing 3 projects for work, which involves me bringing home the company computer to work on it and try and finish 2 projects in 1 day. The other project is an ongoing one which I will have to finish by the end of next week. I have a whole heap of paper work to fill out to apply for permanent residency here in Australia and I’ve got to get that done as I go alone so I have enough time to submit the papers before my visa runs out.
Recently I’ve been thinking about what jobs I will apply for as an OT and found out yesterday that if you are a health professional working outside the health department, the pay is less than if you worked for the health department. I was thoroughly surprised at that, seeing as how government servants aren’t really highly paid. So that pretty much set me on a path to apply for work at one of the public hospitals, preferably Charlies cause I’m already quite familiar with the system there and I know the OTs there. I looked up jobs on Seek there are quite a few, though one of the conditions was that you need to have a right to work in Australia, so I would have to lodge my migration application first before everything. I’m anticipating a very busy Christmas period, filling out forms and making dozens on phone calls and submitting documents. I’ll be going down South for a while when my family comes so I’ve got quite a bit of paper work to bring down South Working holiday. Actually, I can’t even remember the last holiday I had. This is bad. It’s high time for a holiday huh?
I think I’m probably addicted to being busy. I feel rather useless when I’ve got a block of time that I can’t schedule for say doing some Bible study to shopping for groceries. I think my diary speaks for itself. It’s full of all sorts of reminders as well as appointments and peoples’ birthdays. I think a hospital job would be good for me, I actually like carrying around pagers Feels important. Hahaha….So I had never used a pager before, so forgive me if I like prodding the buttons and being paged 
I’m currently on my laptop typing this entry up, with the work computer next to me and I’m doing things on both computers at once. Talk about really multi tasking. I’m also sitting on a fit ball just so I get the exercise while doing work. Haha. I got off work early today, there was nothing going on in the office and my supervisor let me off at 1.30pm and I skipped out of the office, well walked out since I was carrying 2 laptops and 2 other bags and waltzed to Ange’s house. It was 27 degrees today and it was a beautiful spring day! Though it was a lot hotter than I expected 
Anyways, here’s a picture of my current work station at home with the 2 computers.
I guess the only reason I have the two on is cause the left one is the mine and the work one has the programs I need and space to save the stuff to bring back to the office. Speaking of which, I need to lug the computer to work tomorrow while on public transport. I hate to admit this, but I’m a bit spoiled already cause I have a car but oh well, just one day won’t kill me I’m off to go get some work done before the night ends. Toodles!
Sunday was quite a good day. Woke up early and went to church, where PJ spoke about becoming a somebody from a nobody. He was quite amusing, he peppered his sermon with loads of lame jokes and stories, even more so than usual. Then again, maybe that was cause most of the couples in church went down for the couple’s retreat over the long weekend and he was speaking to mostly the J-Life crowd. I had to give a little blurb (that’s a short speech, for all you who don’t know) about Found, the Women’s Ministry running in church.
Gen had asked me to speak when I swung over to her place on Friday night after cell. So then I gave it a bit of thought and then I SMSed her the next day saying that I won’t do it, just cause I didn’t know what to say. So Amanda SMSed me back encouraging me to do it. So by then I remembered that Amanda was with Gen cause they had worship practice that morning. Then Amanda rang me up and encouraged me to do it, saying that I could send her a draft and she’d review it that night. In the end, I wrote up what I was going to say and sent it off.
I can say honestly that I was not nervous about speaking in front of church. I was excited maybe, but wasn’t scared. Because it was a J-Life led service Joe was the MC and when he introduced me to come about and speak he was so amusing! Part of his intro was,
I really like this particular group but unfortunately I can’t be part of it. As much as I want to, I just can’t but I do support this group the fullest
By this time, the congregation must have been wondering what group he is talking about that he cannot be a a part of. So he introduced me and I spoke about Found. What I said:
When Found was started about 5-6 months ago, it was envisioned to be a place where the young women of J-Life could come and gather to discuss issues that are pertinent to our walk with God as women. I look back during the past 6 months and I asked myself, what have I learnt by attending Found?
I sat and I gave it quite a bit of thought. See, I’m not a person who does things for no reason so if I go every fortnight to Found, there must be reasons why I go. I look back and see Found as a place where I have found rest, acceptance and love the person I am. Once I realised God loves me unconditionally as His daughter, only then did things begin to click.
Found is a place where it empowered me to grow as a woman of God, to find my purpose as His daughter. The culture we are trying to cultivate is one which celebrates each other as God’s daughters. There was a time where Gen shared about the women that God used and honoured. There were many women of all sorts of characters, but God used them all the same. That brought home a powerful lesson for me: Never underestimate what God can do in your life.
It is these life’s truths that keep me coming back to Found. Each time I attend, there are new lessons to be learned. So I encourage all the young women of J-Life to come along to this week’s meeting. We will be talking about Queen Esther and who knows, you might learn something about yourself that you have never known! Found is on this Wednesday at 7.30pm at Pastor Jason’s house in Monash Avenue. Hope to see you there!
Towards the last part my cheeks were heating up but I was happy with what I had said. What I had written came from the heart and I think that nothing can beat what comes from the heart.
It was PJ’s birthday last Tuesday and Evan’s birthday yesterday. Some smart person decided bring cream and smear it all over them. That was probably the worst creaming I’ve ever seen, was such a crack on Sunday.
PJ looking to get Evan right after someone creamed him
Evan sneaks a chance to cream PJ
Proper picture of the birthday boys
We went out for lunch at Penang after that and Amanda drove us up to Orchard Glory to say hello to the kids who were at the couples’ retreat with their parents. It was quite a bit of fun. We got there in time to help transform the hall into a restaurant, set with a centrepiece on each table as well as arranging the cutlery to restaurant standards, with 2 sets of cutlery. They even had the kids waitressing for them, cause they were having a dance session during dinner. Unfortunately we didn’t get a peek into the session cause we went over to see how the kids were doing. Glorz and Cel had to leave cause they had uni the next day so Amanda and I went to lend a helping hand to Kristin to take care of the kids.
Now I would say that I am patient and am not too bad with kids, but I think after my encounter with a whole bunch of girls under the age of 7, I’m scared. We managed to leave at 8pm after getting the kids to play games civilly, between the boys and girls. I never went through the stage where I thought boys had cooties so I definitely did not experience wanting to lock the boys out from the room. I was thoroughly amused by all the girls’ antics in regards to the boys invading the chalet. Let’s put it this way: I won’t have more than 2 kids. And Nic, if you are reading this, your sister thinks I’m a jelly bean. And she is parsley. Very long story :P). Had some really good chats with Amanda during the trip, managed to dig up our childhood meanderings. I remembered that I used to write so much when I was younger, though most of the time the stories I wrote about were fan fiction about *N Sync, there is my embarrassing fact for the day. Though I did and still do plan on writing lots of stuff when I get time, I think that will be my next project: To write short stories or at least chronicle my life in a bit more detail. It was great having time to spend with her, its not often we get to spend something like 3 hours in the car together, just talking about things and thinking about lots of stuff.
Got home at 10pm and promptly showered and climbed into bed and crashed. It was a really great day but I had lots of things planned for Monday. I had finished summarising my bank statements for my tax, just waiting for my PAYG so I can finally submit my tax and get it over and done with. Its really frustrating to not be able to claim my money back and the deadline is creeping up day by day. It is October tomorrow, which means I have 30 days to do my tax. Instead of having 4 months, my tax window has been narrowed down to roughly 3 weeks. It’s terribly annoying and I think that is partly why I’m so short tempered these days. I don’t like feeling out of control like this.
Yesterday was a public holiday in Perth, Queen’s Birthday so I had the day off prac/work. So I put it to good use by cleaning up my room. It was in a very errr…interesting state prior to this, but suffice to say that it is looking the best it has ever been Having the spare mattress out of my room made the whole space look bigger. It feels rather weird having so much space now Anyway, room cleaning aside, it was Evan’s birthday yesterday so there was a party over at Gen’s place. Oh boy was it an interesting party. We had a smorgasbord of food that was lovingly cooked by the various talented chefs. I am not included in the list of course
Unfortunately I didn’t get as many pictures as I would have liked but I was too busy being involved in “Operation Evan”. The mission was to throw Evan into the pool. Joe came up with the idea and ran it past Gen, who gave the green light and then proceeded to get his mobile off him. So Cheryl, Cel, Michelle and I manhandled Evan to the outside area where the pool was and it took the rest of the party to lock the door and took what seemed like eternity to drag him outside. He managed to give us the slip a few times but we promptly jumped and got him to hand over his wallet, watch and mobile. I was prepared to go into the water just in case so I got my mobile out as well. I was quite close to actually falling into the water by mistake but managed to dodge it. Since Joe was the instigator of this, he had to lend a helping hand to throw Evan into the pool. Then everything went a bit off plan.
Evan grabbed Joe around the waist and tried to pull him into the pool while 4 of us girls tried to push him in. Somehow or rather, Evan grabbed Joe’s jacket and Joe tried to wriggle out of it and next thing we know Joe was shirtless and Evan had Joe’s shirt AND jacket. Poor Joe had to get his shirt back while us girls tried to chuck Evan in the pool. After that, I think he gave up and just dived into the pool himself. I doubt Joe would have thought that he’d be stripped of his clothes while trying to get Evan into the pool. Pictures:
Michelle and John. Michelle, you’re hiding the brownie there!
Michelle and I. Oh goodness me, I can see the brownie remnants in the corners of your mouth…haha
Renee and I. I look way too happy there
I’m looking at that and just wondering if that was from the epic battle. It was quite a fight to get Evan into the pool. But it was worth it
The bow from my shoe, victim of the epic battle.
It was a great long weekend. I really needed that day off to straighten things out before diving into my busy days again. I must say, the party was a great way to start the week.
Went to prac/work today and while driving on Mounts Bay I had a feeling that there would be a camera and lo and behold there was one. I was really grateful that I slowed down just prior to that cause I was doing 70 km/h just before that bend and that would have been a fine and demerit points. So far my driving track record has been great, so I didn’t want to mar it. It alternated between warm and sunny, and cold and windy today. It was such strange weather, was really nice and warm when I got out of the house this morning and then next thing I know I was driving through the rain.
It was a day full of dramas, being already short staffed at work, there were only 4 of us in today, including the manager. Then the manager had a presentation, which left 3. Then my supervisor had a dizzy spell and fell so we had to send her home, which left 2 of us still standing. While we dropped her off home, there was literally nobody in our department. We had to forward the phone to the mobile and take that along with us. Definitely not a day to be going out.
I think I’ve written a whole heap of stuff today, finding it a bit hard to get back into the swing of things after a holiday I’ve gotta read the book of Esther and get ready for the meetings and trips tomorrow and I’ve got to get a bit more sleep so I can function well tomorrow. That’s all from me tonight! Feel free to comment!
Well, 2 pieces of really exciting news today! My family are visiting me in December and coming for my graduation in February! I so can’t wait to see them! They manage to get the free Air Asia tickets that were on sale at midnight and voila! I miss them so so so much! Almost 2 years of not seeing them, it will be so sweet to see them again
Another piece of news is that is recent is that our cell, Keypers, has multiplied and split into 2 groups for word and discussion time. Worship will still be together and then discussion will be separate in the smaller groups since its much more effective that way and that way we can help each other grow spiritually. Justin will be leading 1 group and Joe and I will be taking on the other since I have only just begun to take on more responsibilities in cell and can’t manage the cell by myself yet. We will officially be separating into 2 different venues on the 18th of July, in other words next semester. Since I do not usually run on a semester timetable, and I’m in my 2nd or 3rd week of prac then, I’m foreseeing it to be quite a challenging time. But I’ll keep pressing on and I believe we can make it happen without much trouble.
I see myself trying to bring up topics that are worthwhile discussing in cell and I’m definitely open to suggestions from anyone. What we are doing in cell is basically to sow into each others’ lives and to reap what we have sowed, to encourage one another and support each other in times of need and to grow spiritually together. Doing that in a smaller group is much more optimal than trying to shout across to the room to 20 people. I guess the task at hand for me now is to learn as much as possible as I can and prepare myself to take on the role and to also imbibe my passion for God into other people. I feel that it is important to reach out to others who do not know the Gospel but it is also important to make sure that your fellow brothers and sisters in Christ are also growing spiritually and not lagging behind. Start with the people at home, then go outwards.
I believe my part to play in all this is to minister to my fellow brothers and sister in Christ. Not to say that missions and outreach and evangelism isn’t important, I feel that my role in the Body is to grow my brothers and sisters. Who knows, maybe in the near future I might have different roles in take on in the Body. The main thing I believe to to follow what the Lord leads me to do. Doing it might sometimes be hard and challenging at times, but to put it in a bigger picture, it is not about me but what God intends to do with me in His plan. I look at it this way, God, the great and almighty who created the heavens, the earth, the stars, the universe and everything it, is using little old me to go forth and makes disciples of people. Yes, it is unnerving but at the same time, I feel honoured to be playing my little role in the Body.
There are many more things I need to learn and study about but life is all about learning and it is a journey. I believe that learning doesn’t end at tertiary education, but that is just part of a lifelong learning journey. I learn new things everyday and I don’t think I want to stop learning. There are so many things in the bible that I learn each time I open it; a new lesson, a new verse, a new revelation and glimpses of God’s plan. It is so amazing that I can’t contain it, I want to tell the world! Yes, it is the line of the song.
Well, from here we shall keep growing, in numbers and spiritually with our walk with God. When Pastor Jason told us that we’d be multiplying again after 6 months (this was 6 months ago), I didn’t really believe it was possible. After we split from Finders, we were 8 people only. Now, we’ve grown to 23 people in cell. That is nearly 3 times the size of what we were in August last year. It is just amazing. Well, we can sit on our butts and still have cell with 23 people in 1 location or we can go forth and multiply and bring more people into cell.
Well, we shall go forth and GROW!
Just got home from bible study and dim sum lunch. Been studying about the sequence of the prophetic events of Revelation and some of the Old Testament. It is scary to watch all these events in play at the moment. It is prophesied in Revelation that there will be earthquakes and worldwide famine happening prior to the Great Tribulation and with the earthquake in China, price of food (especially rice) and petrol climbing each day, it all ties in now.
Reading something in the Bible and then seeing it happen according to what this book says that was written such a long time ago, it is hard not to believe that God is in the world and that Jesus is the Messiah. I read and study about how tough time is going to be in the Great Tribulation and I’m thanking God for revealing this to me in time for me to believe.
Doing all this and the Masterlife series with church, just reaffirms what God has said, “Go and make disciples”. I have felt God speaking to me to tell people all about Him and how great He is. Funny how I would wind up in this position as an associate cell leader and preparing word some weeks. Just makes me explore further my understanding of the Bible and what God’s plans are.
Things happen for a reason and I do not think me being in this church, in this Friday morning bible study group or being associate cell leader happened by chance. It is all God’s work behind everything I do. It is definitely amazing to see where I have come since last year. I came to NLCC, not sure where I was and not feeling too comfortable but slowly but surely I fit in. It feels like I belong. A year ago, if someone had asked me to go tell people about the Gospel (which is the Just Walk Across the Room program), I just shrivel up and shrink into my shell. I enjoyed my comfort zone and didn’t think it was important to tell people about God, I was comfortable with life. I just wasn’t brave enough to say hi to new people or just to strike up conversations with visitors at church.
I think I’ve come a long way since then, sure I still have my comfort zone but I think I’ve become braver and more willing to step out of it to do things that are unexpected. I could not have done this without God’s guidance and definitely not without fellowship with believers. I think now, I’ve become more open to the idea of witnessing to people and talking to people about God and their beliefs. Sure, it isn’t always easy to tell people that my God is the omnipotent God and the omnipresent God, there is rejection to be expected. It is written in the bible that Jesus told his disciples, expect rejection because they come in His name. But fret not, for He has given the resources to go spread the gospel and He will always be there.
At the end of it, I take it this way: Tell as many people about Jesus as possible, I don’t care if I look like a fool. People ridiculed Jesus when He walked on the face of the earth, what makes me think that I won’t get ridiculed, even if the Messiah was called a liar by the nation of Israel? I’m out there to tell people and nothing can stop me from that.
On a lighter note, it is Michelle Tang’s birthday today. Happy birthday dear!
On Friday we had cell at Amanda’s place and it was a memorable cell. For starters, I’ve been doing word for the Masterlife series for 2 weeks now. The 2 session were incredible actually, its really exciting and challenging to facilitate discussions for 20 or so people who come to cell and be grounded enough to answer some questions.
Secondly, it has been announced that I’m now an associate leader for our cell. With that comes a bit more responsibilities and challenges, but I think I’m up for it. I feel in the past few months I’ve been growing so much in Christ and it just is a wonderful feeling altogether. Getting to know my cell members better over these few months has been really gratifying. Most of all, growing together in Christ is the best part of all.
Well, I’m filling up my diary with lots of deadlines and things so I’m not that bored at home anymore. Speaking of which, I should be off to get some things done
Amanda’s post on the funnier aspects of cell tonight were classic. Oh, those boys humour me with all their antics.
Cell has multiplied, with Justin and Amanda being the other cell leaders, with Joe still being the main one. This way, we separate into 2 groups to have discussions and then the guys and girls separate to pray. So far I haven’t been to cell in 2 weeks so this is the first time I’m seen this happening. It’s a bit better this way, easy to share and have discussions.
I’ve decided, instead of just leaving my notes in my notebook, I thought I’d write it down here just so people can learn from it to. Or just be motivated in some way to seek God even more and not lose the fire for God.
On a heavier note, we were discussing about how to grow and mature as a Christian. Someone brought up a good point, growing up doesn’t necessarily mean you mature. I believe this applies in everyone’s life, whichever aspect of life. Justin was sharing about ways to grow and mature as a Christian, 10 to be specific:
1. Fasting
2. Sacrifice
3. Service
4. Silence
5. Solitude
6. Celebration and worship
7. Prayer
8. Reading God’s Word
9. Secrecy
10. Fellowship
Justin assigned us ‘homework’ to help us learn how to grow as a Christian. He told us to pick 1 or 2 from the list and practice it this week and share during cell. I’ve picked prayer and reading God’s word. So to be accountable to everybody, I’m posting it here as well
And there was the mnemonics to remember how to grow:
G - Go to God and pray daily (John 15:7)
R - Read God’s Word daily (Acts 17:11)
O - Obey God’s every command (John 14:21)
W - Witness for Christ by your life and words (Matthew 4:19 & John 15:8)
T - Trust God in everything (1 Peter 5:7 & Proverbs 3:4)
H - Allow Holy Spirit to control and empower you (Galatians 5:16-17 & Acts 1:8)
Quite a good cell tonight.
I’ve gotten my brother to blog here as well, so expect entries by him So far dad and David are reading this (Hi to everyone back in Malaysia!) and David is learning how to write and blog, so keep an eye out for him
It certainly has been a long night. I should rest my shoulder and get to bed
Once again, my fingers have clicked too fast and managed to shut the window down while trying to type up a post. Grrrrrr………This is starting to seriously annoy me. Anyway, I’ve almost finished my annotated bibliography assignment! I’ve got a few more assignments to go, but I’m praying that it’ll go quick and that it’ll be finished with minimal pain and fuss.
Yesterday’s weekend worship service was awesome! It was great to hear them play songs that I grew up to and learnt to love over the years. Worshiping is part of praising God and it defintely is a wonderful thing. Out of everything yesterday, I’ve learnt to put my trust in God for He has a plan in my life, eventhough I might not know or understand what He wants in my life just yet.
There are times where I’ve grown disheartend and lost sight of God, but I am only human. I am not perfect, only God is. I’ve learnt to pray first and not as a last resort. I know I’m guilty of that at times, but I’m learning and growing in Him each and everyday. It certainly is quite interesting to see what kind of a person I was a few years ago to what I am now. I can say I see subtle changes in myself that I find it hard to believe. But anyway, church is having the annual baptism day on 20th May and I’m seriously considering being baptised then. It is quite a big step and I feel that I’m ready to take the next step in my walk with Him. I’ll be praying for guidance and whoever is reading this, please pray for me as I consider this.
I’ve watched 3/4 of episode 1 of Heroes and I’m hooked. I can understand why people want to watch it so much! I like the quote by Peter’s mum: “If you put everyone first, you’ll end up last”. Somehow I can relate to that cause I always seem to be putting other people’s interests first before mine. I guess I’ve gotta learn how to discern when to be miss nice and when to leave people be.
Anyway, I should get back to doing my assignment, which is due at 2pm today
You definitely can tell that life is just a tad bit stressful now by the looks of my room. Its basically an open secret, my room generally becomes a humongous mess once I’ve got an assignment due or its nearing exams. Here’s a peek into the kingdom of mess It’s not everytime you get to see a girl’s room, so there you go.
The neater part of the room
The not so neat part of the room
The worst part of the room
I must say I do feel paiseh that my room is in that condition, but with me and studying and rushing assignments, things will always be that way. No matter how neat I try to keep it at the beginning of semester.
Currently my room is not so crammed because I’m using the laptop in the living room which I cannot afford to mess up due to the fact that everybody walks past that area and there is no door to hide the mess
I had a tummy ache from eating too much junk yesterday and M&Ms today. I’m such an emotional eater and when I’m stressed I eat a lot too. Looks like the weight I’ve lost during the Easter Break is slowly but surely coming back on again
While showering, I was having a thought: I’ve conceded that there is no such thing as a perfect guy in the world. Each person comes with their flaws and that is the essence of a person. No human being is perfect by any standards. Thinking about the movie Becoming Jane and how her love life was dogged with lots of drama and how the situation twists and turns in so many ways which frustrates us. I’ve conceded that I will never find a guy who is so-called perfect, but whoever I date will definitely have to meet some important criteria. Criteria that is very dear to my heart, but preferably not mentioned here just in case anybody is reading this
I’ve been doing a lot of thinking lately, about guys, God and a whole heap of other things. I look around me and see how the world has turned into one which is complacent and accepts all things immoral without a question in their mind. I see people around me who don’t know about God and I see how they lead their lives and thank God that I’ve found Him and accepted Jesus as my Lord and saviour. I don’t put myself on a pedestal as being better as non-believers, but more like I see myself in a better place personally. I can honestly say that I’ve changed for the better since getting to know God a little bit better, and as I take the journey of learning about Him each and every day.
I ask myself sometimes how come I never did listen to God’s promptings before. I don’t know why and doubt I’ll ever understand why I was so hard hearted in the past. I feel that I’ve changed now, especially this year. After going to New Life City Church (NLCC) this year, somehow the hunger and thirst to know God emerged and I have been wanting to know God more each day now. I have always accepted that Jesus died on the cross for my sins, but somewhere in my heart I have not experienced such thirst before. And I blogged about a month ago how I experienced this overwhelming sense of joy during worship one Sunday morning, it really struck me there was nobody who could stir my heart like that but God and He has answered my prayers about wanting to know Him more. I won’t go into detail but the least I can say is that God is great and will always be great.
It certainly has been a long day today. Ange, Lam, Lin and I went off to the UWA Med library to get some books out for our rehab assignment after having an 8am lecture all the way at Curtin today. And I got quite a bit of work done today, which makes me feel a little better. I suppose it has been a productive day with research done for my OT 402, OT 403 and OT 305 assignments. All I have to do now is to get thru oh, I don’t know, 200 pages of research for my assignments and another 500 pages of readings for classes. Not to mention I’ve gotta work 10 hours this weekend. And people wonder how come I’ve got no time to hang out and I am acting like an anti-social person. Well, paying $21k per year for uni fees is no joke.
I better be off for now. Too much thinking for the night and I’ve got a tummy ache from eating too many M&Ms. Another sign that I’m stressed.
It has been a while since I’ve last sat outside or by the river and watched the night sky. I certainly plan on doing that again sometime soon. Sitting at Matilda’s Bay or the jetty where JoJo’s is at or even the big field and having a midnight picnic there. You know what? I think that’s what I’ll do for my birthday next year. Just have a nice picnic at night and relax under the stars. Nice and intimate, though minus the mosquitoes and flies of course. Insect repellent would be a very good idea
Actually, stick that on my birthday wish list for next year. Surprise me with a picnic at night. I would love that. OKlah, sounds romantic, but hey I like the stars. Watching the stars reminds me of God’s glory and how he made the world we live in and without Him, we are nothing. It also reassures me that there is God out there who created us and the we will meet Him one day.
I guess its time to get my butt off the chair and into bed cause I’ve got work tomorrow morning and a whole bunch of other things to do.