A Life without friends?

sometimes i wonder what life would be like if there were no friends.
friends who would jus meet up for dinner. talk and share over a plate of Al Funghi. Sit at the bus stop with coke in our hands and just chat the time away. To remind you that no matter how crappy a day can get or how boring life in general is, there's still them.

sometimes i wonder what life would be like if there were no friends.
If you ask me, it's not really a life i'd wanna live in.

Trip TO Doulos

Went to Doulos today with a few youth after camp comm meeting. it was really nice being able to get there and get a free tour by Simon. Managed to arrange after quite a bit of arrangement with Ee Ling... finally settled the details as to how we're going to meet Simon and stuff like that. so upon finally reaching the place, we toured the bookroom. I took advantage of the good offers [though i thot i'd spend more]... and got meself a CD!

haha wow. rui buys CDs? original CDs? :) yes! this is proof! haha yeh... haven't heard it yet.. rippin it into my com now so i can hear it properly. :) glad i got it though. i love 4Him songs so it can't be all that bad now can it. :) hopefully can spur me on to constant daily QT on the way to work/camp. :)

Yup, so here are some shots of Doulos from today. :P

The proud land-lubbers that are going to go aboard the Doulos. That's Simon.. far right.. duh. :) He's from Germany and he's 20 years old.

midway thru our tour inside the place... showing us photos of the stuff and staff of doulos... seeing how they work and live in these enviroments really impressed me to think how much better we have it.. even in the army.

Shawn posing to show how tight the wall spaces are... claustrophobic people would have a big problem working on the ship. haha...

The wonder herself. The Doulos... been sailing since 1914... two years after the Titanic was built.. yet God still holding up her hull and ministry afloat all these years...

The tour team after seeing the interior.

I'm sure we were all blessed by today's visit and i'm really glad i went... managed to say hi to Emma and Merkka too. :) yeh. so thanks to Ee Ling, Simon, Merkka and Emma for being such wonderful hosts [they will never read this anyways]... and for all who came for the trip today. it was wonderful. :)

Naruto Problems

on a lighter note, take a look at this. super cute.

Missions

Been playing in my mind since the afternoon of Saturday.

If we're all called to Missions when we accept Christ,
Why do we then call it a loss to leave home?
If we've seen and felt the love of God,
why do we still think giving up a bit of our lives is a sacrifice?
If we've enjoyed His salvation and peace
why do we deny it from others?

now i wonder to myself, what then is He calling me and you to?
Comfort? nahz, leave that behind.
Love? What? His love can't reach you out of S'pore?
Protection? He can't be at two places at one time now can He?

Is then missions just a normal and 'required' part of our Christian life?
Where have we gone to spread the gospel? when have we even tried? when has it even popped into our selfish minds?

Think of those who die every day without Christ. Will they die because we're sheltered here and refuse to leave? or will they die becoz they once were brought to Christ by someone and realized that life lost for Christ is not a loss at all?

Here I am Lord, send me. how many of us can say that?

If you can give 2 years to your nation, what's 2 years for God?
Is missions what is in store for me? for you?

inspirations. The Team from Doulos joined with Ee Ling.

Blah.

The Lord gives, and He takes away.

just a random thot b4 i go to guard duty. will be having guard duty on thurs evening till fri morning.

feel free to disturb me via sms. i'll be very bored. i know i will. :)

ps. Rockapella is GREAT.

Halloween BreakOut

So today was really fun... halloween went off a blast.. it was really great seeing the Exco all pumped up and crazy for the event. Special mention MUST go out to Tricia, Nick and Qiang for coming down 2 nights in a row so that we could all plan and prepare for the event. i think it was the determination and commitment that really touched me. For me, cancelling plans and making myself free was already a choice i made before the week began but for the rest of them, they had to miss dinners or lunches with frens and all.. thanks so much.
And for those who couldn't come down for the planning, i know you guys would have loved to but due to unchangable stuff you couldn't... we understand and we want to say thanks nonetheless coz it all turned out fine so dun worry. :)

The day started out crazy. woke up and did my mad crazy last minute rushing out of stuff coz i didn't get much sleep the night before... we stayed up as best we could to do the final prep like the slideshows and clues and all... it was crazy... fighting the sleeping bug like anything. haha.. but yeh, woke up and after rushing lots of stuff, went out to meet Amin and Michelle at Tampines Mall to discuss t-shirt stuff... then ran some errands [buying of certain items for halloween]... must say that Michelle was a HUGE help running around with me and carrying some of the stuff i was buying coz she didn't want me looking auntie auntie with like 3-4 bags in my hand. haha... then we went to the bubble tea stall and michelle ordered a drink while i secretly 'borrowed' their straws for my game later on in church. haha it was funny la. when they turn around or look down, then my hand will come up and grab two straws.. then michelle take 2 and then i take 2 more and stuff... hahaha baaad! stealing from the shop. oops. haha.. but their oreo crush with pearls is NICE! wanna buy it the next time. haha

So upon lugging a pack-o-ice and many many other things to church, i reached there to see the exco, minus a few people, hard at work tapping up the remaining windows and stuff... it was fun fun fun can! when we played the spooky music over the PA, it jus set the mood right there and then... no one wanted to stay in a room alone after that lor! ahha... but yeh, as time ticked closer and closer, the stress level got higher and higher... but mostly all prepared liao la. :)

Then the rain came and we were like... awww man!!! so we started late but it was all good la... the spook factor wasn't too high [which was kinda good and kinda bad] but the lessons learnt were surely brought across i guess. :)
Some people that MUST be mentioned for 'actively' participating in the event coz they screamed and really were spooked out...
Celia, Michelle, Cherie, Lynn, Sean and jus for mention... Zhi Han and his fake screams. -_-;

haha.. the rest of the stuff has to be captured on film but i dunno whether adrian was able to get good shots.. we'll see, he's still editing. :)

Thanks to everyone who came down or prepared for the event. it was smashing. looking forward to the next big event!!! :)

Tired

Guard duty takes life away from you. You just become a shell... waiting to sleep.

good night world. i'm going to sleep.

Halloween BreakOut Publicity

Today the Exco dressed up as a King, a Tigger, An Angel, A Flower girl, A Santa-ress, a Joker and a Cowboy to publicize the upcoming YF activity this Saturday... Halloween Breakout!

It was real fun... we walked around the fellowship hall after service... much to the amazement of the children and adults, the youth were attracted to the sudden change in sanity of the committee... we walked around in pairs giving out worms... ok fine, GUMMY worms which had the invites PIERCED thru their lengthy bodies. :) managed to get the P6ers and some other we dun normally see at yf.. :) it was real fun la... being crazy for a short while. haha.. can't wait for this saturday. when we go full force. :) mwhaha. watch out.

Other than that, today was very tiring. from the start of the day till the end, it was rushing here and responsibilities there. sigh. busy busy but still lovin' it. :) Everything went to plan and nothing messed up la.. so thank God.

mum performed tonite and it was nice... been a while since i heard Choral music so it was like stepping back in time to those concerts we were forced to attend in choir. haha...

Random thot: The Lohs are such hospitable people and I was indeed, touched by each member's little contribution to making my day fun, special and loved. :) thanks.

Cool online shop

Funky B Christian Apparel

So tempted to buy many many many stuff. hahaha.. :P eee. bad bad. :P

展开清晨的翅膀

wanna share a real nice song with everyone. it's a really nice Christian Chinese song. :) if you want the mp3, here it is.... ps. hope you can see chinese in your browser. :)

展开清晨的翅膀.mp3

展开清晨的翅膀

主耶和华祢已经鉴察了我，
我坐下　我起来，
祢都已晓得，
我行路　我躺卧，
祢都细察，
祢也深知我一切所行

我舌头上的话，
祢没有一句不知道，
祢在我前后环绕着我，
按手在我身上，
这样的奇妙，
是我不能测透，
祢的至高，
祢的尊贵，
是我永远不能所及。

我可以往哪里去躲避祢的灵，
我可以往哪里去逃，
可躲避祢的面，
我若展开清晨的翅膀飞到地极，
就在那里，
祢的双手也必引导我。

Changes to skin

Thanks for noticing that small error in the archives nick.

i like this skin. so you gotta bear with it. why? COZ IT'S MY BLOG. *evil laughter* Mwhaha.

anyways, jus came back from watching the show "The Covenant"... it's MAJORLY bad. really really bad. hahah i wasted my money TOTALLY lor.
sigh... please please dun pay for it. dun even download it off the net. it's not worth the time. :) I hope no one else has wasted their money on it. haha

yuppers. things are going good. today, i started out the first Christian Small Group meeting in Camp... pulled together 7 Christians and during the break time today, we shared around a circle... intro-ed who we are and where we're from... background and other related stuff. :) it was nice to get them all seated together, learning about each other better. :)
Reid, Terry, Staff Philip, Joshua, Clarence and Alvin were the attendees for the first meeting. :) we'll see where this goes and see how God will work in our lives la... hopefully can meet once a week or sumthing to pray or what la. :)

Tricia just called. All the best for your chinese me dear girl. i'm sure you'll be fine but nonetheless, here's a prayer for you! :) Will be lookin forward to hearing bout the results when they're out.

Tomolo's WOW Worship... managed to get Alvin to come. thank God that i've been able to invest my time and effort into him. wanna bring him back to God and wanna help him get back on the path... dun want him moonwalking [backsliding] anymore... you never know who you can impact in the short time on this earth, i hope i can impact him. :) Thank God he's open to being impacted. haha

Thanks be to God for most of the things going on in my life. Getting thru day by day is already a blessing i cannot thank God more for. He sends peace and strength my way with every waking moment.

New Skin

I Love my new Blog Skin. oh my.

love it to bits. :)

L. :)