Change is good?

At discipleship today, they made the announcement to the church leaders about the transition that Planetkids would be going through. I do admit that i suck at dealing with transitions. BIG TIME. or maybe not transitions, but just perhaps farewells and changes? I dont know. but it is indeed exciting times.

I had this clear picture of Geoff, the oldest leader in the team, standing behind Paul and Esther, saying that age doesnt dictate your spiritual maturity. They have what it takes. And i believe so too! I know they will be great!
I love the fact that we are family and family stick by each other through whatever!

WE ARE ORANGE!

"Friendships and relationships are such blessings from God"

Who? Joanne (Li Yin) and I.
Where? Dvd's car
What? Driving down Williams Rd to return keys to Steven

Street light. Worship music. Eyes fixed on the road as I was driving. Yet, such profound statement could not leave my head.

Indeed, they are blessings from God.

Trying and learning

It is through falling that we learn to pick ourselves up again.

Dear Jesus,
Thank you for today. Even if I fall, I know you are still so good and so worthy of my praise. In darkness, in trials, my soul shall sing. Indeed, Father, facing failures isn't always the easiest. Perhaps God, you are teaching me to really depend on you and totally rely on your strength alone, not be proud and overconfident; for it is only through you that all things have their beings. Lord, i am trying and i am learning to come back to my feet again?! Hold me in your arms tonight as i sleep.
Wake me up and face the world with me.
Lord, thank youfor giving me more than i can imagine! God, you are amazing!

Your princess,
Munyee

legit reason to procratinate

yes. I should be studying. My next paper is on Monday but I am soooo tired from today's prac exam! PRAISE GOD that I passed and I even gathered the courage to pray with my partner! :) YAY! :) (thank you God for making it happen!)

Anyway, I have been playing these few songs during my study sesh.

Fireworks - Katy Perry

Count on Me - Bruno Mars

Arithmetics - Brooke Fraser

Seasons of Love - Rent

First Love - Paradise

GLEE!

(sorry for the lousy tech skills, otherwise if i know how to, i would let you click to it, so for now, if you're interested, just go youtube it yourself ;p )

I've also discovered some pretty amazing artists in my mega unfamiliar itunes playlist like, Corrine May, Jacks Mannequin and to my surprise, i have a bollywood song in it!

ok Munyee, get back to studying missy!

YOU make me smile!

Life. is. so. beautiful.

I was doing dishes the other day. Jon, Ash and Sooks were sitting at the dining table, watching some youtube of possibly some Chinese artist and digging into the tub of strawberry icecream that never seems to reach the end.

I stepped back, took myself out of the picture.

And I realised.. if only the moment could freeze for a tad bit longer, before we bury our heads behind books again... ahhh.

It was like the tub of icecream. We can literally freeze the moments, because before we know it, it will start to melt. So, eat it while it's still cold!! Hence, in that few seconds, I thanked God for amazing people He surrounds me with.

On the combine service weekend, we went out to this super yummy, death by grease, awesome, uber bright pink American diners . Well, we took a massive detour whilst deciding but hey, I'm not complaining. Joyriding, indeed! Fully loving the new car - Dave and Li. YAY! now you can come pick me up and send me home! woot!! But, anyway, I am sooo excited that it is actually only less than one month away before Dave bids the tv in his room goodbye and welcomes his beautiful wife. I am so excited!!!! I am sooo excited (and it's not even my wedding! hahha)

That day, as I sat opposite them, and as I gaze across, this warm sense of fuzziness that is sweeter than the milkshakes that we ordered came upon me. I dont know why or how to describe it either. Perhaps its just the simple things in life, in sharing meals, going on car rides and gazing across the table. Or maybe it's just the discovery that they sell Gobbler

s (is that how you spell it? the peanutbutter and jelly in a tub jam spread thingy) or just the fact that you know- friendship doesnt change despite the chugging along of life.

I love this couple to bits! 29 days to go!! WOOT~

I've got sooo much more to write and so many more little things that make me smile to share. God has been so good to me!

Sunshine.

Car rides.

Sweet surprises in the mail.

Skype and immediate email responses to make sure that I'm coping ok.

Lunch breaks and outside day (and me ended up being a grass head!).

Early mornings and good nights.

YOU MAKE ME SMILE :)

Eph 2

For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith

For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.

But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near through the blood of Christ.

And in him you too are being built together to become a dwelling in which God lives by his Spirit

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Was reading eph 2 this morning and was just so amazed by the fact that

WE HAVE ...
and WE ARE ...

It is so easy in this materialistically driven world to say what we do not have or what we are lack of but in reality, we do have more than what is sufficient.
It is so easy to see who we are not, and wanting to be who we are not called to be. You strive and all the things just wont come your way but instead, negativity, anger, frustration, worry comes tumbling over. If we do realise that WE ARE a child of the most high God, His amazing workmanship, and the fact that we are not worthless.. Imagine the change of atmosphere!

My favourite verse for today is this. May we learn to walk in it.

"For through him we both have access to the Father by one Spirit" - Eph 2:18 -

MUN YEE SHALL BE DISCIPLINED!

YES! with approx 2 weeks, i am doing my papers, i should perhaps be more discipline and really hit the home run with this yes?

I am already counting down to nov 5th!
and that's when my family arrives too!!!! :) :) I told mum yesterday that I'd like her to meet my friends.

Mum : yeaaa, of course of course

Me: then you can meet all these people that I've been trying to tell you about.

Mum: and your B-O-Y (she so cute, she literally spelt it out)

Me: WHAT? B-O-Y? :S

Mum: We will have a proper talk when I get over.

Me thinking to myself: Should I be worried?

Mothers are soooo good at knowing how their daughters are going. Even when you dont talk to them for ages, they just have this amazing mother intuition hey?

So, if you'd like to meet my family, come line up now and book in your timeslot for interview!! (i'm only kidding!)

but yes! less 20 days till i finish my accademic year!




(ok. i lied. i've got placements at summer!! POOHBUM!!)

I cried because ..

Last night, I cried and it kinda felt good after that. It has been a while where I cried myself to sleep but it's a good point of release of what is inside. Dont worry, I am totally fine now. It just needs to come out.

Well, last night, I cried because..

David, our Brit urbie, will be returning to London in 10 days. It hurts saying goodbye and I totally suck at farewell. I think i could possibly be the only person that balled my eyes out yday during urbs. Such a softy. But that's also because our lives had crossed and seeing him around has been a routine. I guess, I'm not ready for the missing british accent, or the little chuckle around the corner when I thought no one saw the silly thing i embarrassed myself with.
but above all, what he said during his speech was what moved me the most and being the second reason I cried last night.

He said I told him that he was in Melbourne for a reason. (honestly, when he pointed at me, I totally could not remember what had i said to him at camp!) I was like shucks, it better be something of God and something good. And, phew! true enough, it was ok. But it hit me,

God can and wants to use me.

For the reasons that I have entertained and thought that I was not moving in the Spirit, they are all LIES! This week in itself, I have been sooo stirred by Beat, Ngan and a few others to just really know that I can run the race well. God is still Sovereign and ultimately, it is really not about me. A lot of times, when I pray for people, things just come to me and I speak it out, not sure if it actually made sense, but last night, God reminded me that they do! and it was Him speaking, of course it made sense. OHHH! I just want so much more of that.

I wanna walk in the supernatural. I wanna see the outpouring of heaven. I wanna see Jesus.

Lisa Bevere, tweeted this yeseterday. So profound. Ponder upon that!
" Disturb us Lord when we are too well pleased w/ourselves, when our dreams have come true because we dreamed too little. Francis Drake"

And, well, the one more reason that I cried last night, was just the fact that I am so blessed with amazing people around me. I am surrounded by people who love me and people who look out for me. They stand in the gap for me and they believe in me. They call me PRINCESS, like how God would call me, remind me the position I have in Christ, follow me on twitter and read my blogs just to find out how am I doing. Longs for Sunday just so that they could see me. They tell me the things that are harsh and straight to my face just so that I dont get hurt in the future. Share my and their joys and misadventures... And so much more! This in itself overwhelmed me and throw me off my game I dont even know how to respond to it but to say thank you and thank You! Little things do go a LOONNNNGGG way in Munyee's cupcake world.

Ngan shared a message of a cracker yesterday.
Expect.
Be hungry.
Passion.

it feels like God is just stirring so much more in me.
it feels like
I am filled to be emptied again
The seed I recieved I will sow.

Hide - Joy Williams

You dont have to hide.
You dont have to hide anymore.
You dont have to face this alone.

Come out and join the rest of us,
you've been alone for too long.

Amazing Grace

saw this on Dant's blog. AMAZING!

i love how technology works. makes home so much closer to the heart :)

totally looking forward to the day when we start singing worship at home together as a family. i know it is near!

Friends like you, are for FOREVER!

i just had the best time talking to my best friends on skype. it felt soooo good to be talking like there's no tomorrow with the three of them!

we cant help but talk about the future and the exciting things that God has planned for us. And the beauty of it is, we never fail to include each other, like it is without a doubt that our friendship will never change. i love it!

Even when the world crumbles down on me or when i'm faced with bees, i know God has sent me you, to always have shoulders to cry on, to hug me and to tell me that things will be ok again. Thank goodness for whats app, skype and all the goodness that technologies has offered, you are not so far away.

Counting down to the day we finally see each other! xx

the heart has a memory!

Did you know that the heart has a memory? It amazes me!! Especially after having a whole unit dedicated to cardio clinical practice!

Hence the bible says this

Above all else, guard your heart,
for it is the wellspring of life.
Proverbs 4:23

I just said goodbye, again, to my best friend @jimmylaw (dont you just get used to putting an @ in front of the names now that we're so consumed in the twitter and fb world?! hahaha). This time it is slightly different, cos i know that I wont have him around to listen and put up with my rubbish, or for me to listen to him update and be concerned bout his girl or just the random do nothing moments. hahaha.
Somehow, this time, it felt like, we are REALLY saying goodbye. and see you again feels so far away. I'm not emo or anything. but it just hit me, i think.

hmmm.....

anyway, as I was saying, the heart has a memory! amazing! It remembers to beat (in nerdy term, it's called automaticity). It has a memory bank on its own and if well preserved, under the right environment, without the brain, it will still beat. God created it so special, because, it is precious to Him (and now I've got so much to study about it cos of it's complexity :S hahaha)

So, it is kinda true when people said that there's a place for you in my heart. Cos there really is. Come into the world of Mun Yee's imagination.
In your heart, there's like a billion cells, and they each have memory right? So, for a place for you in my heart would mean, that one cell would have your name on it!! aiks! i dont think I'm doing it justice. so wish i have my lappie with me now, would just draw and put a photo up for u. haha. oh well. just imagine it.

Yes, your heart is very precious to God. I was just thinking about it this week. People open up their hearts to the ones they love and it is kinda like taking a chance. Was talking to my bestie over msn this week and I realised that you could open yourself up to a lot of hurt and uncertainty if things take another turn.
BUT I have on the other hand, witness the beauty of love in many ways that I cant pen it all down. I know, without a doubt, if you are in the perfect will of the Father, He watches over you. He loves the heart of a child, and simply having child-like faith.

I digged out all my journals the other day whilst i was looking for a book. I started reading them again and mann. i love the old me who was so simple and fresh. I love how believing doesnt take much. It's not that I have gone downhill or whatsoever, it's just how we tend to complicate things as we grow older. God was just reminding me of how I was like before and blowing me away with the things of the past where it was just visions are now coming to past. We are growing up. But it is utterly important that we dont loose our innocence.

People told me that I cant be so naive and live life like a cupcake. Call me silly, call me dumb.
Once my heart has your name on it, it's very hard for me to not open myself up to you and even if you trample on it and I get hurt, at least I gave my all and I gave my best. Kids get over hurt easily. They brush off their bruises and stand up again, right?

Yes, of course I will guard my heart, cos it's the well spring of life. I wont let you trample on it just because I am opening up, I'm not that all dumb ok! haha.
But because it's the well spring of life, I dont want it to stop flowing either.

Judges 5:31b

But may they who love you be like the sun
when it rises in its strength

Home

i've never told you this, but please pack me in your suitcase and take me home!

I dont really know why, but since last week, as I was talking on the phone to my mum, i've got this great sense of homesickness! It is weird hey? considering how settled I am in Melbourne. After all, this is my 6/7th year here!

I dont know.
I just miss home.
Or perhaps, I miss the fact and the assurance that I am sheltered from the rain. Or the comfort of knowing that I dont have to do dishes/ laundry. Or the cuddles of best friends are not just from the virtual world. Or the luxury of having cars and things literally arent so far away. Or the smell of some authentic stir fry coming from the back of the kitchen. Or the sound of my dad's car driving into the porch as he returns from work.

Or maybe it's just the workload from uni is killing me and i want some home-cooked soup.
Or maybe I just miss you.

within the past 24 hours..

• i had the sudden struck that my studies arent at the top of the ladder (which means that i have to catch up)
• realigned myself to the beauty of life when i visited Lik Hui's 4 days old niece (she's gorgeous. photos yet to come)
• was reminded that God can never fail to turn my :( to an :)
• discovered Oliver Jeffers and REALLY wanna check him out! come to the bookstore with me?
  
• know that I'm a daughter of God and am learning to walk in the dominion and authority that He has destined for me.
• played basketball with Jon and Kiwi for the first time (even tho we've been friends for forever!)
• had the most embarassing bus story ever! - where my shoe went sliding forward as the bus break! mind you! i was wearing it!!
• ultimately tremendously superrrrr long for the weekend and the desperately needed
• was sooo excited about my best friends going on a date :) :)
  
• downloaded and got hooked into 2 new iphone games! - Fruit ninja and Veggie samurai!! (they are sooo fun!)
  
• got tickled on my feet by my sis who was asleep! wonder how did that happen
• woke up wanting to SHOUT at the top of my lungs that GOD IS GOOD!
  

If only we count our blessings and walk in the light of His ways, life can be a cupcake :)

(oh oh oh! I'm gonna be baking tonight! Comment away if u want me to bring it to you!)

A whole new world!

I can see CLEARLY now LORRAINE has gone.

Sooks told us a really funny joke on Tuesday and it's still stuck in my head. You have to hear it from her. It's awesome! The fact that it's still stuck with me 2 days later proves something. but the again, it could just be me.




CITY CAMP is coming up. If you're around, do come!!

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God has just constantly been speaking to me bout reaching out to other people, since Ps Zoran spoken in church, close to a month ago? To love people, to tell them about how good our God is, and just be my passionate self. I absolutely love the analogy of NaCl, how we are called to be salt and light of the world.

NaCl crystalises because there's one + that came in touch with a -'ve.

If I am the positive, nothing is gonna happen if i keep holding onto myself. Let's go collide into someone's negative situation and see the beauty of God's power crystalising.

Easily said than done hey?! NO! i need to stop making it sound as tho it's utterly impossible. It's easy! I do it, but I dont do it with confidence. I feel like there are smtg that are holding me back, fear and insecurities. Too long I've listened to the lies of the enemy that I'm not good enough. For most of the time, it's just about stepping out and just have a cracker of a time being in the company of other people. I dont know.

i'm still scared but yet deep down inside of me, i long for an adventure.



I just watched Aladdin with my bestie, charis, when she came for a sleepover, where i still have to wake up at 6.30 am :S

Watch the first 27 of the clip.
It's as though God is reaching out his hand saying, "Do you trust me?"

Yesterday, at church, Ps. Rusell made everyone wrote about the FAVOUR of God that we have encountered this year. We didnt know what it was for but we were just pen-ing away. Towards the end of the service, he got a few other pastors to go on stage, collected the papers, and started reading out all the amazing things that people had written.

Financial provision
Car
Family restoration
Healed of terminal conditions, skin cancer, hole in heart and so much other conditions
Broken free of depression
No more suicidal thoughts
Guidance and direction of the future
Stregthening in marriages
Employment
Salvations of family
Scoring well in studies, as the person puts it "Thank God for giving me straight HDs even when i didnt study as much"

Sitting in the auditorium, apart from feeling the intense presence of God, my heart is moved, hearing those amazing testimonies and knowing that they are REAL lives encounter that people had. I am reminded of God's power. Funny isnt it that we can forget that He is God and He is able.

HAPPY MONDAY, kiddies! May we look things through the eyes of faith this week :)
happy holidays to the RMIT people! (Miss Charis Tan is still sleeping on my bed whilst i'm already here in uni!)

In the midst of everything, thank You for beautiful rainbows and Your constant reminder that I am yours and I am never alone.

"The Lord knows those who are his"
-2Tim2:19-

Stressed and fun?

This weekend has taught me so much. I have an assignment due today but i just cant hold the thought of it. I need to write it down.

Constantly with the thought of my assignment due at the back of my head, I still had fun this weekend. Not the kinda fun where u can go all out, I was semi-restricted with letting myself go loose. Just the fear and the desire to be in control. Yet, with the assignment due today, God reminded me of the simple things in life..

(i tried lookin for a more recent photo/ artistic photo that could express how i feel, but i realised i dont have any copy of the photos we took. so u would have to just make do with this for now)

and He reminded me to love, again.

Look

When you love that person, you look past how much they earn, how they dress, what they say, what they like, their football teams, their skin colour

to look into their eyes.