Wednesday, September 26, 2007

DEEP

i've always been challenged to dive into the deep, cos apparently, the deep has greater things to offer. The deep sea fishes with neon and gorgeous colours swims there, the corals, everything. Same thing appeals with God.

God i want more of you. more of your power. you're soooo real !!!! more of your strength.

D-Diligent
E- Exploit
E- Expand
P- Passionate.

need to get back to my ass due friday!
COME ON!

Tuesday, September 25, 2007

SHORT ONE

God is soooo good to me. I felt that He has just unlocked me into another whole sense of greatness and seriously... just one touch from the King is all I need.

:)

note: this is gonna be a short post due to my bed calling forth for me. hehehehe and guess wat? power naps wont work the whole night. i had experimented it. SLEEP is still the main cure for fatigue. hehehe :P

tat's the lesson i learnt on the way to lake entrance. one word sums my trip up - AWESOME!!
*shall post pic when they're uploaded*

i miss letting my artsy farsty side flow out of me. according to some people, i'm so not a science student due to my liking to procrastination and the way i handle things.. :P i do admit that there's this art/humanity side of me cos somehow .. i tend to do better in humanities subjects (excluding language) since young. and yea.. dont you think it makes so much sense when words just flow soo smoothly out of ya? ok . i'm not making sense. whatever.

anyhoo.. i just wanna say that i am a very loved girl :D thank you. sometimes, i just need to step back, reflect and say thanks. one of my many weaknesses are taking things for granted. please nudge me when you see me doing that. i hate it.

for the assignment that is due on friday.. ARRGGHHHHh. need lots of work on it.

i do think that every circumstance we face is like a training ground. so that we can learn and grow more and also, it gives him room to come through :D

Monday, September 24, 2007

Your Irrevocable Calling
TGIF Today God Is First, by Os Hillman


For God's gifts and His call are irrevocable. - Romans 11:29

It is dangerous to align your calling and your vocation as dependent on each other. God calls us into relationship with Him. That is our foremost calling. It is from this relationship that our "physical" calling results. Whether that is to be a teacher, a stockbroker, a nurse, a pastor, or any number of vocations, we must realize that when He calls us, the change in vocation never changes His call on our lives. It is a mere change in the landscape of our calling. This is why it is dangerous to associate our purpose and calling too closely with our work. When we define our work life exclusively as our calling, we fall into the trap of locking up our identity into our vocation. This promotes aspiration because of a need to gain greater self-worth through what we do.

Os Guinness, author of The Call, describes the great artist Picasso, who fell into this trap.

"When a man knows how to do something," Pablo Picasso told a friend, "he ceases being a man when he stops doing it." The result was a driven man. Picasso's gift, once idolized, held him in thrall. Every empty canvass was an affront to his creativity. Like an addict, he made work his source of satisfaction only to find himself dissatisfied. "I have only one thought: work," Picasso said toward the end of his life, when neither his family nor his friends could help him relax. [Os Guiness, The Call (Nashville, Tennessee: Word Publishing, 1998), 242.]

What happens when you lose your job? Do you lose your calling? Do you lose your identity? Do you lose your sense of well-being? No. Calling involves different stages and experiences in life. Disruptions in your work are an important training ground for God to fulfill all aspects of His calling on your life. Trust in your God who says your calling is irrevocable and that all things come from Him.

Wednesday, September 19, 2007

MY FIRST DAY OF WORK :D

Jesus had been very good to me :) i'm sooo grateful for what that has been happening :)

firstly .. i've been approached with 2 jobs!! YAYYYY!!!!
secondly.. i'm just so thankful that He hears my tiny-puni-est thoughts!! seriously.. he answers them and everytime He does that.. it flipping flips me and shocks me mann!

why?

All the most random thing that flies by my head somehow turned up to have a wonderful and WOW .. :O purpose.. it's not just a normal .. erm.hmm.-.- thing .. it's a WOW!!! :O purpose. and it's just so beautiful and when it's His jigsaw puzzle that is being put togehter.. my goodness!! so pretty!! :)
what am i talking about u ask?

well.. i've been blessed by having both jobs that interests me!!! :) seriously. 1 in bakery and 1 in a cafe.. well .. the one tat i'm currently working in is a soulavki cafe at oakleigh and bakery is at clayton. it's AWESOME!!!! :) well .. today was my first day.. though i'm the only one bout my age everyone seemed to be nice. and coz there's couple of mothers there .. perhaps. apart from my leg being super tired, i was given a rissole .. yummm .. also, i've been taught to do the basic waitressing stuff.. :D it's all good :) but u know wat??

i cant wait to learn how to make coffee <3

as for the bakery, tomorrow will be my first day :) YAY!!! dun ask me to bake for u k? i highly doubt i'll be able to get some tips but i shall observe closely!! hehehe :P

a few short updates.
tuckwee, my urban life leader was hospitalised >.< pray that God's healing power is with Him
WHAT IS is just a few sleeps away!! OH MY GOODNESS~!!!!
PLANETKIDS GO SPACE is coming sOOO sOON!
i've been to the church office 2 times this week. the atmosphere there is just so .. different. and of course i had tonnes of fun painting the set :)
i miss jo and my sis >.<

Saturday, September 15, 2007

JUST A LIL SHARING :D

i got this email from boss. it's amazingly true and yea.. i guess it's wat rash impatient youngster (erhem.do i sound like a mum? :P) nowadays like our generation should try to embrace :)



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Everyone longs to give themselves completely to someone,

To have a deep soul relationship with another,

To be loved thoroughly, and exclusively.

But God, to a Christian says,

“No, not until you are satisfied, fulfilled and content

With being loved by Me alone,

With giving yourself totally and unreservedly to Me,

With having an intensely personal relationship with Me alone,

Discovering that only in Me

Is your satisfaction to be found,

Will you be capable of the perfect human relationship

That I have planned for you.

You will never be able to unite with another

Until you are united with Me,

Exclusive of anyone else, exclusive of any desires or longings.

I want you to stop planning, stop wishing, and allow Me to give you the most thrilling plan existing,

One that you cannot imagine.

I want you to have the very best.

Please allow Me to bring it to you.

You just keep watching Me, expecting the greatest things,

Keep experiencing the satisfaction that I AM,

Keep listening and learning the things I tell you,

You just wait, that’s all

Don’t worry.

Don’t be anxious.

Don’t look around at the things others have gotten

Or that I’ve gotten them.

Don’t look at the things you think you want

You just keep looking to Me,

Or you’ll miss what I want to show you.

And then, when you’re ready,

I’ll surprise you with a love

Far more wonderful than any you would dream of.

You see, until you are ready,

And until the one I have for you is ready,

(I am working even at this moment to have you both ready at the same time)

Until you are both satisfied exclusively with Me,

And the life I prepared for you,

You won’t be able to experience the love that

Exemplifies your relationship with Me,

And thus is the perfect love.

And dear one, I want you to have this most wonderful love,

I want you to see in the flesh a picture of your relationship with Me;

And to enjoy materially and concretely,

The everlasting union of beauty, perfection and love.

Know that I love you utterly,

I am God.

Believe it and be satisfied. "

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Friday, September 14, 2007

The Butterfly Principle

Overprotective parents do their children a great injustice. The caterpillar that lies inside the cocoon will never become the beautiful butterfly if someone cuts open the cocoon prematurely. It is the struggle itself that allows the butterfly to emerge as a strong, new creature of nature.

God understands how necessary this process is. That is why we are allowed to experience difficult, often life-changing events. He even orchestrates them-all for our benefit. What the Israelites thought was a cruel joke when Pharaoh sent troops to pursue them after they had been freed and penned against the shore of the Red Sea became the stage for the most publicized miracle of all time-the parting of the Red Sea. Generation after generation has heard this incredible story of deliverance. God puts us against the "Red Seas" in order to show His power in and through us. If we do not know God can deliver, then we can never learn to trust Him. Circumstances that go beyond our capabilities of solving them place us at God's complete mercy. This is how He likes it.

Do not fear the calamity that comes your way. If you are faithful to Him in the test, you will see God's power manifested like never before. Just as the Israelites were able to sing a song of deliverance, you too will have your own testimony of the Lord's faithfulness; and you will be able to recall it for others to build your faith and theirs.

Thursday, September 13, 2007

leaving - gone

to those leaving the country soon.










u'll always be in my <3 coz i heart you so so much tat words cant find its place.


and those who are overseas and out there





be strong and couragous. know tat i always miss you

Monday, September 10, 2007

RECENT

i know i have not been updating for AGES. pardon me, k? i've always wanted to but somehow .. dun haf the kick to it :P and .. well .. come to think about it . i was pretty busy. but now .. NOT REALLY ANYMORE?!!!! :P why u may ask? or do i hear someone shouting "PLEASE UPDATE" with mandarin oranges flying everywhere :P hahhaaha... yes yes yes. here goes :)

for this past few weeks or so.. what have i been doing?

hmmm .. well.. there's OCF "i hope u dance" musical.
was a total blast off. no photos from peeps yet. will put up once i get them :)
The music, dance and drama team DID such a great job. not to forget those who came and all the behind-the-scene people!! :D BIG CHEERS TO THEM!!!! :D everyone worked so hard during the past few months.. all the sweat, effort and time put it in .. it's all worth it :) dont you think it's just so awesome when everyone is working towards a common goal?
the joy multiplied.
worries and burden divided.
and hand in hand, we step up to a higher level, knowing people deeper.
IT'S FANTASTIC!

and i just feel so loved by all the care and support throughout the whole practices and rehearsals!! since the very beginning. not just the OCF-ers but also from my urbies and the planetuni peeps (well, not to say tat i'm the main reason they came but still .. their support was wat that matters!!!! )they came :D and A SHOUTOUT to my sis :) all the way from burwood and hitching the public transport mann :D YOU GUYS ARE AWESOMEEEEEE!

that night God's presence was truly there. everything that happened, was truly for His cause :) and no one could have done it better. i believe that it was indeed a moment in God's eyes with what happened backstage when the altercal was given. well.. actually there were lots of konica moments too.. just tat i dun have my camera here with me >.< but seriously .. I couldnt thank God enough for how He places me and takes me away. it is sad to leave the friends and sorta my comfort zone.. but the season has come for me to move on :) i couldnt have planned it better myself. it just falls into place so nicely and of course, i'm no quitter!! i'm heading up to the greater things that God has installed for me :) though currently i'm unsure of what and where, but i am CERTAIN that my future is in His hands :)

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seriously. talking about uncertainties! my goodness >.<
tell me about it :P

i had currently been in a great place of unclear paths and been through tonnes of valleys. for that moment, i thought i was in a place that i dun even know how to take the next step.

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my PR status was cancelled.
it's a complicated isssue. but can you understand my fears and worries?
i was left with options and restrictions that i dun even know where it would have taken me to. leaving or staying. continue studying or withdraw all my units? will i be an illegal immigrant? who do i turn to for help and advise? should i inform uni? when all the things that was part of everyday thing has slowly faded off. when the unfamiliar circumstance arise. phone calls coming from everywhere as the deadline to our visa expiry date approaches. assignments due.
I had to be honest, my relationship with my parents wasnt great and perfect either during then. we're all tensed and stressed up. there was lots of tears.
i was in a position where things arent at the pink of it. and it was NEVER how i planned or intended it to be. well, tat's life i guess. all i needed then was just hugs and words of comfort.
i turned left and right.

but i figured turning upwards and praying to God was the best resolution before i turn to people.
PRAISE HIM when i'm in the valley
PRAISE HIM when i'm in the storm
though i am still very uncertained His plans, i believe that there's always a reason behind everything that has happened and it ALWAYS WORK FOR THE GOOD :)

so.. i've currently discontinued my units from uni. i'm now a part time student. doing ONE off-campus subject.
yes. i have lots of free time. but i'm looking into getting a job!! (please God!! i need it)
It's so silly of me. i always tot tat i have lots of lack, lots of unfulfilment and not really living out the best of what i could be. but u know what? i just realised that God's hands have always been upon me. He has REALLY never forsaken me. He constantly speaks! WOW. wat else do i REALLY need?

God, do it again.

uni just called me. i'm in debt. yes. i owe them money cos of the withdrawal and all previous issues. but u know wat? I AM BELIEVING GOD TO BE MY PROVIDER :D God, i am seriously and desperately need a job!!!

Jesus,

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*takes a deep breathe*


watever it is, life's just so beautiful when we step out of our self-contained box.

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Sunday, September 02, 2007

WAT NOW?

well .. seeemed like i havent really been updating. lots and lots been happening. not just revolving uni, but also heaps of other stuff as well. well.. first UP, we have this upcoming event!

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PLANET UNI event- WHAT IS
21.9.07 at MECC!
so DOOO COME ALONG!! it's gonna be awesome! :D

pssstt.. isnt the poster wonderful?? i wanna keep 1 to myself too!!! look out for them in campus yo!! it's gonna be such an awesome event

secondly, there's also - OCF E-NIGHT with the musical performance "i hope u dance". it's a story of faith love and hope. i'm acting and dancing. both very minor roles but during the performance.. i have to chance my costumes up to 5 times! 5TIMES! YES! I AM FOR REAL!!! crazyyy .. but yea. hope ppl will enjoy it though! :)

I am soooo excited !!