Tuesday, October 31, 2006

Wednesday, October 25, 2006

Knees to the Earth

Wonderful Savior
My heart belongs to Thee
I will remember always the blood You shed for me
Wonderful Savior
My heart will know Your worth
So I will embrace You always as I walk this earth

Be blessed, be loved, be lifted high
Be treasured here
Be glorified
I owe my life to You my Lord
Here I am....

Beautiful Jesus
How may I bless Your heart?
Knees to the earth I bow down to everything You are
Beautiful Jesus
You are my only worth
So let me embrace You always as I walk this earth
The curtain closes, the lights dim and the music fades away.
She walks out of the stage. As she leaves the stage, she puts away her impersonated self. Gradually, she returns to her small confort corner in her familiar self. This is her daily routine.

She masks her true self from the outside world. She hides herself away from the people around her. When the mask which she faithfully wears everyday is removed, a feeling of loneliness creeps into her unknowingly. She has gotten so comfortable with it that it has become her good friend. She likes being accompanied by loneliness.

Fiercely independent she may seem, but she deeply yearns for some form of reliance and emotional support. Although she enjoys being with herself, she also desires to be part of a clique. Ha. That's a dream. She finds herself not belonging to anywhere. She finds herself lost in the myraid of faces.

She longs to go home.

Monday, October 23, 2006

My Night in Singapore Art Museum



Soaked in the flamboyance of painted canvases.
Immersed in the rich and overflowing concepts and minds of the grreat artists behind their creation.
My Favourite is "when faith moves the mountain".
A Brilliant Experience.
Beautiful.

Monday, October 16, 2006

"Lord, make me a crisis man. Let me not be a milepost on a single road, but make me a fork that men must turn one way or another in facing Christ in me. "
Jim Elliot wrote this prayer at the age of twenty-one

"Lord, make me a crisis man. When I heard those words, I knew I too wanted to grow up to be such a man. I wanted to be a crisis man for Jesus Christ.

And so I have spent my whole life on the lookout to develop and implement the best ways to convey the compelling message of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Along the way, however, I’ve come to discover one of the greatest challenges within the evangelism process: to find and strike that important balance between presenting the truths of the Bible with boldness and clarity while, at the same time, keeping my treasured friendships with seekers safely intake. My hope and dream has always been to spiritually impact genuine care and concern for those friends no matter how they respond. And still to this day, my aim is to initiate conversations about spiritual matters in such a way that my relationships flourish and thrive, not falter. "
Adapted from "Seekers Small Group" by Gary Poole
Lord, make me a crisis girl. I desire to be a crisis girl for Jesus! How I wish that each non-believing friend who has interacted with me would eventually be shaken out of their status quo and be provoked positively to reflect on his/her purpose of existence in this temporal world. I pray that those who have met me would be brought into deep thoughts regarding matters of spiritual faith. I do not want to be a milepost on a road. I desire to be a fork that men must face one way or another in facing Christ in me.
My heart resounds with what Gary Poole has written. I desire to touch lives and share the gospel of Christ with my non-believing friends. I desire to spend time and establish genuine relationships with the people around me, so that they could witness the influence of Jesus in my life. I pray that through my friendships with my non-believing friends, Jesus could touch their lives through the words that I speak and through the deeds that I do.

I believe that it is necessary to invest time in the lives of the non-believers. When I spend time and establish relationships with them, I could preach the gospel to them more comfortably as they are more willing and receptive to listen. I could share my testimony with them as a friend who is inviting them to a door of everlasting love, grace and blessings. If they trust and have faith, they might just be opening the door which you lead them to, stepping across the line of faith and entering into a life of eternal happiness.

Isn’t it beautiful to meet your friend in heaven one day and stroll along the beautiful garden above with him? Then, I know that my time and effort spent with that friend when I was on earth are worthwhile.

My Personal Challenge
For me, I am mindful of stepping out of my comfort zone. I have inertia to establish friendships with people, especially to the strangers around me. I admit that I do not break ice easily and greet everyone and anyone whom I meet on the street or the corridor of my dormitory. I know I tend to gather among my Christian friends and some of my closer Non-Christian friends. Holy huddle syndrome... Probably? I ought to learn how to say hi and smile to people whom I am unfamiliar with. I could greet a flower by the road and flash my brightest smile to my dearest hippo softtoy, why couldn't I do it to people?

Lord, Teach me how to love people whom I do not love and know.

Meditative Rose
Salvador Dali
“Use a ‘thing’ to describe yourself.”
What a commonly asked question as people begin to break the ice within a group of strangers!

My favourite description of myself would be a coffee bean. It is bitter when bitten but it produces a fragrant aroma when it is brewed with a slow fire.


One small coffee bean contains much resemblance to my character and personality. I am like a coffee bean because I take time to warm up and brew. I require a rather long time to be assimilated to a strange environment and be comfortable with the strangers whom I would eventually call them as friends.

I am also as bitter as coffee bean for most of the people who have their first encounters with me because my unfriendly and fierce facial expression makes me unapproachable. However, I could possibly be very much lovable when people spend time to know me, similar to a coffee bean that needs adequate time to brew into a cup of aromatic coffee which is fragrantly pleasant to many coffee lovers.

Speaking of coffee, I like my freshly brewed hazelnut latte and almond coffee to be lightly bitter… what about you?

Thursday, October 05, 2006

A Glimpse of Heaven
EH - TH Fellowship



I don't usually write on His ministry in Eusoff Hall. This could probably be my first post.. and I hope there will be more in the future.

Eusoff Hall Christian Fellowship met up with Temasek Hall Christian Fellowship last week during the mid-sem break for a gathering. It was a simple gathering when we met at Michelle's place for card games and yummy dinner prepared by Michelle's mama. I arrived late because I had to work. I was tired when I arrived. But, I was truly blessed after I left.

I was blessed because I get to meet and befriend brothers and sisters in Christ from the neighbouring hall. I was blessed because it is the beginning of a closer relationship between EH and TH. I was blessed because God has assured me that EH CF is not alone in her service to the Lord, TH CF is serving the Lord with us. We are serving together united in Christ. Thank you Lord for the TH CFers. =)

The gathering gave me a glimpse of what it would be like in the future and onwards when I meet my Lord and other brothers and sisters in Heaven. It was a great time of rest and fun interacting with one another during the gathering. I could imagine that the same would occur when I am in Heaven. In fact, I believe the joy of gathering around our God and worshiping Him would be more intensified than I could imagine. =)

After this I looked and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and in front of the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and were holding palm branches in their hands. And they cried out in a loud voice:

"Salvation belongs to our God, who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb."

All the angels were standing around the throne and around the elders and the four living creatures. They fell down on their faces before the throne and worshiped God, saying

"Amen! Praise and glory and wisdom and thanks and honour and power and strength be to our God forever and ever. Amen!"

Revelation 7:9-12

God's Work for Me

I have been quiet on my blog these few days. Life has taken on another turn in my journey here on planet earth. I started my first ever architecture internship programme in Singapore. I am currently interning in DP architects at marina square. For those who are nearby, do drop me a message and I could lunch or hang out with you after work.

My work place is really pleasant. Praise God and Thank Him for His provision. I did not actively seek for this job and I certainly wasn’t very keen to work in DP architects (because I heard that OT is very very very common…). Now that I have already set foot into this firm, I could adequately debunk most of the things that I hear about this firm and gladly say that I have a brilliant working environment. I give thanks because it’s all by His divine appointment and arrangement that He has granted me a good team in DP with friendly team mates and superb team leaders and boss. I couldn’t have asked for more because I was certainly not expecting such kind of desirable treatment and working experience in an architecture firm.

My friend used to work in this team. She enjoyed her stay here as well. The working experience is largely dependent on the team members. Thank God because there are a few Christians in this team which largely explains the wonderful working atmosphere within this team. My big big boss, Mr Chan, director of the firm and my immediate team leader are Christians. Among the others, I find out that 2 of them are Christians too! Rejoice!

I have begun work for 4 weeks and I have yet to stay overtime for work. I am helping a team in preparing for their presentation which is due in another 2 weeks time. I enjoy being an intern, serious. There is great exposure and the current intern experience thus far has widened my perspective of architecture and given me a first hand experience of the real architecture world and the operations of an architecture firm. In addition, I could also learn from architects when I could listen to design discussion and understand how experienced architects design.

Do keep me in prayer. Pray that I could be a blessing to others in my short stay of 3 months. Pray also that I could be a witness for Christ. Pray for divine opportunities when I could speak of His goodness to others and share the gospel with them. Finally, please also pray for wisdom so that I would know how to manage a working lifestyle with other miscellaneous activities. I desire to walk a slower pace and not rush mindlessly to attend to various activities.