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Tuesday, May 17, 2005
Okay, I get it. But that's not really much of a problem. Blogspot rocks! SO, this is my new addie..Drop me a line ya? Will see you there more often now. Can check out some of my cool pictures too! God bless!
Posted at 5/17/2005 12:41:15 am by ahwern
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Saturday, May 14, 2005
The stronger we are, the longer we wait???
I just started reading a book written by Marvin K.Y Wong entitled 'Between Friends'. Preliminary reviews from me? Go get it! It's great (at least after the 48 pages I read) for students who are in the midst of transitioning from studying to working life i.e adulthood. Get it before you are even in that stage. It challenged my thoughts and I'm sure it'll challenge yours too.
Why the title? It's something that the author wrote which I find intriguing. The sentence refers to faith. I haven't figured out all that I read, but it's been a good start. Everything has little connection in my thoughts now, which is why I find it hard to explain further here.
Yesterday night the YWAM-ers came to share with us the CYZ-ers and ISM-ers. It's a bell ringing theme. We hold the keys to our land, this Promised Land called Malaysia. If not us bringing salvation to OUR people, then WHO? Evangelism brought local. It's like think local, buy local. Many of us have this illusion that missions start overseas. It in fact starts in our hearts and in our own land.
Many confirmation of thoughts yesterday night. A night to remember. This few weeks have been melancholic for me which means I've been thinking lots. Follow the world or take the path seldom taken? Choices and decisions. Crossroads. Life. ONE Life. Sigh.
On a high note, I'm finally getting my membership transferred. I will be officially a member of the Damansara Utama Methodist Church from tomorrow, 15 May 2005. Excitement! Finally! What a relief. Does not mean Sitiawan will be forgotten. NEVER. It's my roots. Bye!
Posted at 5/14/2005 6:18:28 pm by ahwern
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Friday, May 06, 2005
As I write this at this moment of time, I've heard of 3 deaths in the last 3 days, one each day. One at the end of a long life, another who probably completed his call on earth and another a short lived, abrupt period to leave the earth. All are connected to me one way or another.
And there I went thinking about life's meaning and purpose. Yet again, the conclusion is the same: Life without Jesus is utterly meaningless and purposeless - without eternal value. Jesus' resurrection is a hope for all people, once and for all - redemption for the here after and for our short period on earth; our lives.
May each of us find rest in Jesus, the author and perfector of our faith, who will complete the work that He has started in us and may we constantly remember that He cares and loves us so much as to carry our loads on His shoulders. May I not live with much regret, but with much hope and perseverance for the prize which God Himself promised and may I live life with zest for the purpose that He has created me for. God bless you as you reflect on your life.
Posted at 5/6/2005 12:18:38 am by ahwern
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Tuesday, April 19, 2005
Heyo people,
Here I am blogging again..Assignment's piling up! And I'm halfway to Tanjung Rambutan as of this moment. And what am I doing now? BLOGGING! Smart eh???!!!! Just finished typing some long due mails. I'm just bad at keeping in touch with old friends. It's a once in a while affair for me. Not that I do not treasure 'old' friendships, it's just that when you're here and they're somewhere else, things change, situations change and keeping in touch seems an impossible task when you're so busy with life somewhere else. Well you haven't thought about the sheer number of friends I have. Abundant. Just so many that I sometimes forget their names. Mind you, they're close friends. I have a bad memory. Hehe..lame excuse.
Have you ever thought of giving? Giving money, time, ideas, gifts or our one life? I personally think it's usually a foreign concept to most of us since we were born selfish. Yet that is what God calls us to do as Christians, particularly to give Him our lives for the furtherance of His Kingdom. Now, this is not an easy thing to do. To give Him our lives, that will include our thoughts, actions, speech, time, attention, and basically everything which has to do with you and me. I hope you get what I mean. Well, hope is not lost because we don't expect things to turn around quickly, especially when it has to do with habits and lifestyle. Things might move slow, but surely. Hebrews 12 : 1-3 says, " Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders, and the sin that so easily entangles, let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us. Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfector of our faith, who for the joy set before Him, endured the cross, scorning its shame and sat down at the right of the throne of God. Consider Him who endured such opposition from sinful men, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart." (The verses are typed from memory and italics have been added). The essence of my thoughts have been summarised in these 3 verses, that is, don't give up on changing for the better because that's what God wants in us and also because Jesus gives us hope that He'll finish His work in our lives.Your lives. :)
God bless you all in the week ahead.
Posted at 4/19/2005 3:04:15 pm by ahwern
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Wednesday, April 13, 2005
I am sitting in the Resource Centre, reading my mails. It's been about a week since I last checked them. And it's been longer since I last blogged. No wonder she doesn't read mine anymore...hehe..It's been a full couple of months. I pretty much haven't had time to myself, much less time to think and reflect. Well, I'll have no more excuses this time, as my mid-terms has just concluded yesterday. But oh, my assignments are due soon which means there's more work and late nights, then final exams again. Time flies. That's what I like saying. Haha...I wonder who reads my blogs nowadays? People must be tired of checking nad wondering whether I blogged or not. My suggestion is, get yourself into the mailing list if you do not want the hassle of checking. Smart move? Yeah. :)
If you do not already know, I'm currently staying with sis and family. They've moved back to KL since last month. Baby Matt is growing by the day, I love him to bits. All I want to do when I get home is play with him and also kiss him. Haha..Saliva all over him! Hehe..More so the latter. Bah! Oh no! I have really caught on the 'bah' disease that my celly passed on to me. He is known as the Sampat. haha..I like him a lot, coz he's so whacky and entertaining. He loves Paul Frank too. Ly, if you're reading this, send the page to him. haha..He'll be so proud to know that he has been 'mentioned' here.hahha..;p
So my life is pretty colourful now, mostly because I'm staying with some people known to me as family. It's absolutely different from my 'old' lifestyle. I have proper meals now. At least more proper than before coz I don't need to eat out that often anymore thanks to Glory! I don't go out for mamak-ing with my friends anymore as I know my family expects me to be home more often. Only on Fridays and Saturdays am I allowed to be out till quite late. It feels awkward but I know they are concerned about me. I feel like a small girl even though I'm officially an adult already! I guess age doesn't matter when it comes to your family. Hah! So this means that catching up with friends are much harder but if any of you(my friend) want, please do call me out. I'll arrange my outing with you sporadically so that I don't look like I'm going out that frequently. This means that meetings have to be arranged earlier! I'm BLESSED!! Truly!!
Well, it's time to go home to help clean up the house! Okay, not the whole house! Hehehe..A friend to come over later at night...hehe...See..told you I'm blessed! Blog again SOON!
Baby Matt's 4 months old today! Happy 4 months Matthias!Teehee!!
Posted at 4/13/2005 3:56:53 pm by ahwern
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Monday, January 17, 2005
It's 8 more days and I'm outta this small land. Now that it's 11.18 pm, I only have 7 days left. Time flies. My little nephew is 1 month and 4 days old. As of Friday, he is 4.8 kgs now.
Do you know that the feeling of being in charged of someone's life is so overwhelming? I feel like a parent to Matthias. In fact, I am. I AM his Ah Yee. It's a scarry thought. It's even more scarry to be responsible to nurture and bring him up. It's way cool too.
I am only his Ah Yee, and want to give him so much already, imagine my sis and bro-in-law who are his parents! They would love to give him the world! And I think of God, who surely feels the same way too, and much more. It's true when people say that you suddenly realise how much God loves you when you become a parent yourself. But the truth here is that God can give much more than mere mortals like us.
Funny how God gives us the world, but we limit the world to a small circle. Funny how God gives us freedom to choose, yet we choose to confine ourselves. And funny how much God loves us through Jesus, and we doubt that ONE free love which He gives us. It's just funny.
You also begin to understand the forgiveness of God and the abundance of it. There's no end to the forgiveness which God gives to you and me. The end only appears when you cannot forgive yourself. On God's side, there's no end. And I also realise this forgiveness has an end when you harden your heart and become oblivious to things around you. That is, unless repentance happens, and then forgiveness is offered again. Grace and mercy which we do not deserve. Which I do not deserve. This is Matthias' gift to his Ah Yee. Realisation and a heart which understand God's love for you and I. God bless your day.
Posted at 1/17/2005 11:51:04 pm by ahwern
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Sunday, January 02, 2005
It's time for a nice holiday! Finally! Wee! I'm absolutely excited about this trip from Wednesday onwards. Haven't been there before. Thanks Minjoot! It's the first time I'm flying too..hehe..Ecstatic! Which means I'll be leaving Singapore for a week or so. Then I'll be back here again. Sis will be better then, so she can do more stuff already. I'm gonna miss the little baby!
I actually want to post some pictures of that little creature on this blog, but don't know how to. Not that savvy. Hehe..I'll see how. It's 10.21 pm and my little nephew is already asleep. Time flies..
Chiao..will blog again when I'm back here..probably can share some stories of my trip..:) Take care people..
Posted at 1/2/2005 10:27:44 pm by ahwern
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Saturday, January 01, 2005
It's 2005 today! Told myself that I must blog today because it's the 1st day of the all new year! It's a new beginning for me too, that's what I promised myself at least. You tend to want to start anew many things which you have not done well the past year and that is what I really intend to do, God willing.
I'm going to be 21 soon and I don't want the rest of my life to be a screwed up one. It' would be an insult to what Jesus has given me. This year would be a year of new beginnings, a new chapter in my life and one thing I intend to do is to dedicate this year to God in literally everything I say and do. Much soul searching is to be done.Haha..only God knows what I'm thinking right now.
My wish for those of you who read my blogs is that you'll have a great year too. Have fun knowing God and who you are in Him. If you still are in doubt of what significance Jesus has made in your life, I challenge that you check Him out. He's way cool.
A word of thanks to the many people who have made 2004 a great year for me especially my CG members(you know who you are), my family, my college mates as well as to those of you who have crossed my path of my life..Blessed New Year Y'all!
Posted at 1/1/2005 7:48:46 pm by ahwern
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Sunday, December 19, 2004
Gah...Some free time for Meself..NOT!!!
Finally, some free time for myself! Hahaha..I miss that a lot..Thought I should finish my work since I'm quite unoccupied now..Otherwise the privacy would be gone..Oh yeah, now I have to go help prepare baby's things for bathing! I'm back! And I feel like a housewife! Minus the cooking and the TV watching that is! Now, who says that housewives have nothing to do at home??? I beg to differ!
They have a baby to take care of..every whimp or cry has to be attended to. Plus the cleaning and the washing and the cooking and the grocery shopping and the list goes on..It's like you have to drop everything to attend to the baby in the middle of your task. No easy leh..imagine how frustrating that will be. Now I do sound like a housewife. Hahaha..And nope, I'm not married, too young to be, at least in this generation, not my parents'. ;)
Who said I'm Miss Congeniality again? Takda social life lar..Okays, I've gotta run for now! I look like I haven't got a shower for 10 days! Chiao!
Posted at 12/19/2004 9:37:58 am by ahwern
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Friday, December 17, 2004
Some things to think about..
Went out to JB this afternoon to get my passport stamped. If I don't do it today, I might be given a hard time the next time I want to get into Singapore.
My dad told me the other day that the reason why babies come crying into the world is because they know that they are here to suffer. Some of you might argue that the scientific reason for this is so on and so forth. But if you stop and think about it, is that remark true?
What I know is that life is without pain or suffering. It's because the world is imperfect and all goes back to the beginning of creation, that is, before Adam & Eve sinned.
Seeing my newborn nephew reminds me of what real living is about. Life is not meant for us to float by, and I do not intend to settle at that. In one sense, I'm not easily contented even though I know I am easily contented(if you know what I mean). I want to do things I have not done in life, like travel somewhere to work and live a different life. Different in culture, lifestyle and any other things different than I am already doing. Not anywhere near family, because that's my comfort zone. It sounds pretty scarry to me, but is something I've always dreamed of.
Some might say I'm nuts, some might even say I should stay on where I am coz it's stable and dadadada..the normal stuff people say. It's not that I'm gonna be un-Christian just because I do that, the point is that I'm only 20 and I'm tired of life, you know, doing the normal stuff. Expectations are way different from what I really want to be. I guess that's just me.
I think what's most important is to become who God has intended me to be, and as long as I'm secure in that then I really needn't worry or fret about what people think of me, even though at some point they would be family.I will blossom.
Peace.Out.
Note: Diong Teik Wei, if you are reading this, Happy Birthday!
Posted at 12/17/2004 3:36:43 pm by ahwern
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