 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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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. |