socialising

So much for
my little social life.....(in these 4 weeks)
Anticlockwise from top:

• Carolling around the neighbouring blocks with a cell group from my church
• Shenny (or Peter Shecaniah Sim) and Rachel's birthday
• Ken's birthday (the collared shirt shaven head guy)
  

taste poo to know chicken rice is good?

Woww....an amazing but short weekend....

I was laughing so much at a sermon on saturday.....then again, i always laugh.
hahaha. oh well...."you don't need to taste poo to know chicken rice is good." indeed. so blest to have pals who come back from overseas in the holidays.....so blest to have cousins getting married (but in 1-2 years time)....blest to have a holiday overseas after christmas.....blest to well......have critics too......(u know how girls can get)....blest to have brothers and sisters in Christ who are part of the cord of three strands. totally unshakeable.

never take revenge

An English pastor once reminded my church (rather, the church i attend) in a sermon,

"Never take revenge. If you leave it to God, he can do a far better job." was his exact words.

But weighing what he said, i was thinking..........so if i don't do anything about the offence BECAUSE i have the motive of laying the offence in God's hands, SO he can do a "far better job" wouldn't that be an entirely wrong attitude/motive already? Why would God be pleased with that? Let alone help?

However if i simply forgive, and let the trespass and the person go....knowing I'm not a perfect person and i sin too, SINCERELY......now THAT.....not only would God have the clearest picture on what is happening on BOTH sides...(offended and offendee) He would reward as well....the party that hath forgiveneth.

"But who can endure the day of his coming? Who can stand when he appears? For he will be like a refiner's fire or a launderer's soap. He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver; he will purify the Levites and refine them like gold and silver. Then the LORD will have men who will bring offerings in righteousness, and the offerings of Judah and Jerusalem will be acceptable to the LORD, as in days gone by, as in former years." (Malachi 3:2-4 )

marriage days

TWO weddings in a day

just today...
the morning had Michelle and Victor

then came the evening one
Jean (my ex roommie) and Kelvin Zhu.
Then suddenly seeing GB., GC, EM, RX and the other uni mates....
every chapter of my hostel stay came back to me so vividly.
My dear first and last roommate (i only lived in hostel for one semester),
who was also my laundry buddy,
my silent but industrious,
keep-things-to-herself-except-to-her-bf,
my tutorial solutions provider...
MArrieD!

serious world poverty

REACH out

I just saw a picture of a horribly MALNOURISHED african kids today.
their body was smaller than their heads. An article's headline was "27 000 die
of poverty every day".

UNICEF’s 2000 Progress of Nations report tried to put these numbers into some perspective:

The continuation of this suffering and loss of life contravenes the natural human instinct to help in times of disaster. Imagine the horror of the world if a major earthquake were to occur and people stood by and watched without assisting the survivors! Yet every day, the equivalent of a major earthquake killing over 30,000 young children occurs to a disturbingly muted response. They die quietly in some of the poorest villages on earth, far removed from the scrutiny and the conscience of the world. Being meek and weak in life makes these dying multitudes even more invisible in death.

— A spotty scorecard, UNICEF, Progress of Nations 2000

The journalist impressed on the need to break through the mundaneness of such a news to actually HAVE an effect on people to start giving. Or even being aware of it. This news has become way too common. People actually get used to seeing it.

.ouch.

I saw girls around me wince in heartbreak at the sight.
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.finally. a quiet day without so much talking (other than professionally but i'm not that professional)

..first of all i've been so blest by this book on Jim Stier's life, a missionary he was, may still be one.... Its just amazing how one book is able to inspire me. The book chronicled every step of he and hiw wife's journey to reach out to the lost souls in Brazil. They were basically almost penniless all the way. But God provided each and every time. well reading that every morning on the mrt actually starts my day good. And of course it makes me think more about like God's calling....