He Opened their Minds

Play this video and let it load before you read this entry... i think it helps u put yourself into a position to read this Spirit inspired entry... i love the bridge from 5:40 onwards... amazing feeling if u just close your eyes and imagine God.

On the third day after Jesus was crucified, Mary Magdalene and her friends saw the empty tomb and immediately ran to tell the disciples; "But they did not believe the women, because their words seemed to them like nonsense" (Luke 24:11). Even after Peter saw the empty tomb for himself, he was perplexed; "He went away, wondering to himself what had happened" (Luke 24:12).

The disciples had walked with Jesus and listened to Him teach about this day but they still did not understand. It wasn't until Jesus personally appeared to the disciples that the events began to make sense; "Then He opened their minds so they could understand the Scriptures" (Luke 24:45).

I was reading my devotional today and this part really hit me... it talks about Jesus' resurrection and how even the disciples who walked with Him didn't believe or understand what the empty grave meant... until Jesus appeared to them and opened their minds so they could understand... isn't it amazing?

Often times we walk on by in our life and spiritual walk and want to be closer to Jesus... we want to spend more time with Him, we want to live with Him... So we go to church more, we serve more and we read the bible more... but those are just actions... we can do all that outwardly and feel no connection to Him internally. We could walk beside Him literally and still not understand...

Only when He allows us to, when He chooses to open our minds, when we put our heart into our service, our walk and our fellowship with Jesus... then will He choose to open our minds and we will see, we will taste and we will understand. Amazing glory that would be... wonderful truths that would spring to mind... magnificent experiences we will feel and touch God... that is when we will understand Scripture, that is when we will see Him for not a God or person... but OUR God and our Lord...

It's like an epiphany... knowing how the Scripture relates to that spiritual body standing in front of them... imagine what the disciples felt at that point in time... i think it's not beyond what we can experience... i don't think God limits that to that time and place... i think we can feel that too. i think we can strive to grasp hold of God and feel Him... and then, we will understand. if only we reach out.

p.s. only did i realize how linked the song is to the text i typed out... and i didn't choose the song.. it was jus playing in the background. :) amazing. heh... and i love how i type entries without editing.. i jus let the words flow and at the end i just click "publish post" :) Amen to the Holy Spirit...

Happy news of exco

I know rite? 3 posts in such succession... what is rui doing to be so free to blog? haha... jus that i found stuff to blog bout. :)

anyways, heard from ht today that shannon, junyew and herself are standing for exco and thus are getting baptised... woahhhh! :) that made my heart skip a beat... so happy. haha.

it's really glad to see the next generation take up the baton in service for the Lord... it's even greater to see someone of the FOLLOWING generation step up and live up to your personal expectations of her. :) it's amazing... to think the age gap between her and me is the same gap between kenneth and i. :S hahah... i now can jus feel a GLIMPSE of what he must have felt when we stepped up. :)

The Lord sends when the need is present... thank the Lord for sending yet more labourers for the harvest is plenteous. :) Amen.

周杰倫 - 超人不会飞

周杰倫 - 超人不会飞

妈妈说很多事别太计较
只是使命感找到了我 我睡不着
如果说 骂人要有点技窍
我会加点旋律 你会觉得超屌

我的枪 不会装弹药(弹药)
所以放心 不会有人倒(人倒)
我拍青锋侠 不需要替身
因为自信是我绘画的颜料

我做很多事背后的意义远比你们想象
拍个电视剧为了友情与十年前的梦想
收视率再高也难抗衡我的伟大理想
因为我的人生无需再多一笔那奖项

我不知道何时变成了社会的那榜样
被狗仔拍不能比中指要大器的模样（怎样）

我唱的歌词要有点文化
因为随时会被当教材
CNN能不能等英文好一点再访
时代杂志封面能不能重拍
随时随地注意形象
要控制饮食
不然就跟杜莎夫人蜡像的我不像(本来就不像)
好莱坞的中国戏院地上有很多手印脚印
何时才能看见我的掌

喔 如果超人会飞 那就让我在空中停一停歇
再次俯瞰这个世界 会让我觉得好一些
拯救地球好累 虽然有些疲惫但我还是会
不要问我哭过了没 因为超人不能流眼泪

唱歌要拿最佳男歌手
拍电影也不能只拿个最佳新人
你不参加颁奖典礼就是没礼貌
你去参加就是代表你很在乎

得奖时你感动落泪（落泪）
人家就会觉得你夸张做作（做作）
你没表情别人就会说太嚣张
如果你天生这表情 那些人甚至会怪你妈妈（妈妈）

结果最后是别人在得奖
你也要给予充分的掌声与微笑
开的车不能太好 住的楼不能太高
我到底是一个创作歌手 还是好人好事代表

专辑一出就必须是冠军
拍了电影就必须要大卖
只能说当超人真的好难

如果超人会飞(超人会飞)
那就让我在空中停一停歇(停一停歇)
再次俯瞰这个世界 会让我觉得好一些
拯救地球好累(地球好累)
虽然有些疲惫但我还是会(我还是会)
不要问我哭过了没 因为超人不能流眼泪

Cold... difficult... mmmm

It was quite hard getting out of bed today. I've experienced worse days where i just refuse to get up but today was cold and tiring and all rolled into one. Willing myself out of bed was HARD as hell! ahhaa knowing that i've only got icy water waiting for me.

see the problem is my toilet sink tap only has cold water and it is COLD... sigh. haha but yeh, told myself u've got class at 9, get your butt out of bed now.

the normal bargaining with self started... okok.. when it's 8.15am...

then 8.15 comes... okok when it's 8.20am...

then 8.20 comes... okokokok!!! when the second hand goes to 12...

then the.. yeh u get the point.

till finally i pull myself out of bed at 8.20 and 30secs.. haha.

but yeh, thus begins week 12. the last week of school. so... bloody... fast. where did it all go?

10 Degrees

Wow. today before deciding what to wear, i checked my weather widget in my ipod touch...

10 Degrees?!?! woah! hello Winter! :) Awesome.. i love the cold.

Walking out, the blast of cold air just wakes u up and slaps u in the face... so refreshing... :)

Cooking Lunch in the morning

Today when i woke, i knew i had my work cut out for me before school started. Here's the low down. I have class at 10am and i needed to wake up early enuf to make lunch. Last night, i already deboned my chicken drumsticks and marinated it. Chucking it into the fridge knowing the flavours would jus lock in after a night in the fridge.

So i woke, and dragged myself into a sitting up position [yeh, that was hard enuf]... and then willed myself to get out of bed and go cook. So time is 8.15... managed to get out of bed by 8.30... I pop my pot onto the stove and start slicing onions.

I know rice will take me 14mins to cook and steaming chicken takes 15 so i wash my rice, set it inside the microwave waiting for my water to bowl.

Water starts to boil, i grab my chicken out of the fridge and dump it nicely into a steaming pan. In goes the pan. And i lean over to press start on the microwave. 'All working like clockwork' i think to myself... I grab my pan out of the cupboard and place it onto the already hot stove top that was waiting... Crack Crack... two eggs in a bowl... Beating them is a whizz.

Wonderful, the pan's heated up. Oiled and ready for onions, i can't disappoint it so on goes the onions. They hit the pan with a sizzle of delight as they slowly brown and take in the flavour of the oil. I cut up a slice of ham to give the soon-to-be omelette jus that small tinge of saltiness.

The ham gets a nice crisp looking browness around the edges. That's my cue... I pour over the egg and the sizzle ceases to a silent hiss of the egg being cooked.

Everything's ticking away. Great, that leaves me enuf time to start washing up. I wash the dishes while the egg slowly cooks and the chicken steams, not forgetting the rice becoming fluffy and delicious in the microwave.

I flip the egg and it's got a beautiful brown hint on the flat side down... awesome. this is going perfectly. I wait a while and flip it one more time to check whether the other side has matched this. It looks delicious with the onions and ham slices just peeking above the sea of yellowish brown egg. I cut it in half, half for lunch and half for dinner.

*ding* goes the microwave. Pop the rice cooker out of the microwave and pop the lid off. Steam rises out of the cooker like it's breathing fresh air for the first time. Fluff the rice and set it aside to await the chicken. 1minute till it's done... i stop the pot of water boiling and take it out of the pan using the crocodile kiap-kiap thing... Pop a small piece into my mouth and knew that was not a great idea coz it just made me want to eat the whole pan up now. :( but alas, i'll have to wait till lunch... so i take it out and pop it into my tupperware box. All segmented so that it won't mix up until i want it mixed with the rice and egg.

As i pour the hot water out of the pot and refill it with cold water, i start washing everything else while the pot cools off.

There, all done. now i'm going to have a delicious meal in school while i work on my projects and type a blog entry [apparently]... :) it's 11.25am now.. but i know that in half an hour, i'll be treating myself to a delicious meal of Ham-Onion Omelette, Steamed Rice and Sesame oil and soya sauce marinated steamed chicken. :)

For everyone who can't enjoy this with me... here's for your visual appetite.