 THE PROTOTYPE 220389 I'm just like you THE LIVE ACTION LEESWEEKEAT THE BITTERSWEET MOMENTS March 2008 April 2008 May 2008 June 2008 July 2008 August 2008 September 2008 October 2008 November 2008 December 2008 January 2009 February 2009 March 2009 April 2009 May 2009 June 2009 July 2009 August 2009 THE REAL WORLD Aaron Cheong Adriena Amandal Annlynn Anthony Benedict Bryan Caiman Carol Chek Yeow Chi Chi Beng Dexter Dinnie Dominic Douglas Evangeline Evi Fion Furong Garrett Grismond Hong Rui Huili Iris Ivan Ivy Jamie Jaslyn Jasmine Jasmin Jeannette Jeremy Quek Jia Yang Jian Hong Jian Ming Joanna Joanne Johnny Jolie Josh Joy Keegan Kenneth Leon Lester Li Yue Liane Lucinda Mark Maryse May Melisa Melvin Miaow Guan Michelle Cheng Michelle Yao Ming Han Minting Mong Nadine Natalia Noni Peck Hoon Qi Wei Ranford Ryan Kumar Sharyl Stella Tommy Valerie Cheong Vanessa Chan Vanessa Han Weijie Wendy Lee Wendy Neo Xinjie Xueli Yan Rui Yan Yun Yassy Yechin Zhuo Xinyi Zoe
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Saturday, March 29, 2008 @ 1:11 PM
Happy 21st Quek!  This is Quek, 21 years and 2 minutes old. Whoo! Reading all his birthday SMSes. Hahahaha! Yup, there we were at Spinelli Coffee, spending the last moments of his 20th year and the first of his 21st... with Maryse and Derrick. Haha, really casual and impromptu, and we just talked about our thoughts on poly life, church, our visions, who we all like (hahahaha!) and many other crappy stuff. Talk so long until the person had to chase us away (politely lah) because he was closing shop. So we walked to Esplanade and hung out there. LOL. This is what I call fellowship in HOGC. We don't need much hype, all we need is each other... not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, but exhorting one another and so much the more as you see the Day approaching. I love my zone. I love E Zone. I know that even if my vision dies, I still have God and a great family to fall back on. I know that if I'm facing difficulties, I don't need a counseller, I have true friends to turn to. That's really what our walk with God is all about - relationships. Relationship with my Father and relationships with our family in the House of God. Vision can die and ressurect. Relationships is built on so many intangible things like trust and loyalty, once gone, hard to bring it back. No wonder God makes Christianity not a religion, but a relationship. Anyway, happy birthday Quek! :) Friday, March 28, 2008 @ 3:46 PM
Taylor 714CE      Hi people. Monday, March 24, 2008 @ 3:06 AM
Best Ever HEY HEY HEY! Planned to blog on Sunday night but Fu Rong was too eager to watch the Liang Po Po series on Youtube, so in the end I just dozed off and let him use my laptop. LOL. This weekend was the best birthday I've ever celebrated. Unlike every year, I didn't have any big party or celebrations this year where my mum would tell me to invite all my church friends. This time, they too had church on the weekends, so they couldn't host the party either. HAHA. Thus I told them that I didn't need a party this year. That means if you view all my birthday photos, you would find my 19th either missing or different. Or perhaps you'd find my baptism photos, because it's just one day after my birthday. That later, I first want to thank E2 once again for the celebration they threw for me! The whole thing was funny lah... How they all disappeared suddenly after service except for Liwen who needed to keep me away from where they were preparing for the celebration, and how Anthony came down in a suit with the birthday cake. LOL. Loved the whole thing, the craziness after that... Oh oh and the card!  Hahaha this is like the best card I've ever received! Credits to Derry for the design. Seriously, it's my favourite because my pastors are on it! Hahaha. Derry your drawing rocks lahhh! You're really what Pastor How talked about, the three-personality hybrid: macho, intellectual and creative. I shall add one more: SINGLE. MUAHAHAHA! Whoo! I love E2, they rock my socks man! Well if that wasn't enough... Just one day after my birthday was my baptism! First I shall show you the photos!  Taking a picture with my spiritual parents just before my old self was drowned, haha.   Super duper happy that my family came as well! Although my mum had some problems in our church when she was here, and now that they're from another church, they came specially for my baptism. I used to have a bad relationship with my parents ever since they left, but God was always with us and now my parents and I are closer than we have been for the past 18 years. My mum is soon becoming a CGL in her church! Hahaha. It was a real significant moment. Garrett prayed for me right after my baptism and also showed us photos of his baptism years ago at East Coast Beach. So cool lah! That night, after Furong, Nigel and I witnessed Man Utd thrashing Liverpool 3 - 0 and went ecstatic after that, Wendy called me about some things and then told me about the leaders' meeting they just had, where Pastor How talked about me! Hahaha, I feel quite shy saying this really, but Pastor talked about how he was confident that I will never backslide... went through problems after problems, re-org after re-org, taken in taken out, transfer here transfer there, parents unhappy with church... yet I'm still and always here standing strong, 100% sold out for God. It's such an honour to be upholded in this way. I didn't need that sort of recognition, I am secure of who I am and what I do even without others praising me, but such encouraging and assuring words from Pastor How just inspires me to stay loyal and faithful to the cause of Christ. Hahaha... wanted to SMS Pastor How to thank him but didn't know how to, felt it was quite weird since I wasn't in the meeting. But I'm really grateful and honoured. It's really my conviction, that no matter what happens to me or around me, I will never leave God nor leave the family I belong in. I will never leave my pastors and my leaders, and the true friends that I have. I always think of it this way: Even if church doesn't need me, I need church. To put it bluntly, God can do all things even without us, but He chooses to work through us because He loves us. We're really the ones who need Him. My life revolves around God, the lives of my pastors and leaders and the church calendar. I was just reading the slip of paper Wendy gave out during E3's CG about Love and Loyalty. I think the rest of you will receive it during your CGs. But for your benefit of a sneak preview, here's the line I love most: One can love and not be loyal, but one cannot be loyal and not love. I think this is really the reason why I'm willing to die for my pastors whom I am not really very close to at the moment... It's more than just love for them, but loyalty. I remember the three mighty men in the Bible who were loyal to the heart of David (in 2 Samuel 23:8-23), they were not the top ranks, they weren't even named... But they were the three mighty men of David. Although I have a dream to be a CGL by end of this year, but I know I don't have to be one to be loyal to my pastors. I will be a CGL again because I am loyal to my pastors and leaders, not the other or any other way around. Send me anywhere, to the schools, the campuses, the army barracks, the marketplace, anywhere in the world... My heart will always be here in Heart of God church. You can take me out of HOGC, but you will never take HOGC out of me. Discouragements after discouragements. Losses afters losses. Failures after failures. Disappointed, upset, troubled... I am Heart of God church for life. Thursday, March 6, 2008 @ 8:55 AM
Mornings Haha, I love my mornings. Honestly, I'm a night person, but there are many things I can still do after rise. Like exercise, reading and most of all, my QT! Especially mornings between 6.30 to 8am, where no one is at home because my parents are off to drop my niece in school and doing their regular grocery shopping, while my aunt leaves for work too. Although I have my room, sometimes we'll feel a bit distracted if someone else is present outside... But for my mornings, like today morning, no one else but me and God. Heal my heart and make it clean Open up my eyes to the things unseen Show me how to love like You have loved me Break my heart for what breaks Yours Everything I am for Your Kingdom's cause As I walk from earth into eternity This is the song for my season. Especially this bridge, I can play it over and over again on my guitar in worship to Him. It's the cry of my heart. Every single word has a deep meaning, every single line speaks of the prayers we bring up to Him. What other greater way to love than to love like Him? Like how He loved us? I want to love with God's love. Had a great Follow-Up with Tee Ang yesterday. Ha, we did sidetrack a lot and talk about other things, but I thank God for such a session. Tee Ang may seem all grown up and mature (UNCLE! HAHA!), but he's really simple hearted and childlike. That's what we really love about him. Some people are just so complicated and "act" sophisticated, and it's so hard to understand such people. Not Tee Ang, he's in-your-face what-you-see-is-what-you-get. Ha! Uncle rocks man! Looking forward to our next session, this Saturday morning! Okay, gotta run. Loads of stuff I need to do! Blog again some other day! Bye! |