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Pardon my lack of updates, but after-exams sometimes are the busiest times. Partly pure fun - like meeting people and watching the IQ-lowering but very funny show, Top Secret , and the need-to-use-your-brains-a-bit-more one, The Big Bang Theory (Sheldon is the best!) - and partly "work" but still fun ones like meetings and pre-camp prep. I actually have stuff to write about, thoughts to complete; but they shall have to wait. OCF Clayton's winter camp starts Friday, and I'll be going to Sydney the Monday after, mainly for the Hillsong conference. Don't know if I'll be posting anything here in the next two weeks or so! -- Look to Me, look to Me Keep your eyes fixed on Me Trust in Me, trust in Me Keep your hope firm in me Then you'll find out who I am Then you'll find out what I can Then you'll know who you are in my hands Then you'll know that my promise stands I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me -- The very simplest things. ...

I would buy them and stick 'em on my walls. And when I wanted to read them, I would just take the books out of their covers. Just like how I've started to stick some CD covers on my wall. via design sponge , which I am reading when I should be studying. Okay okay in a while, in a while.

Haluo meimei jiejie (: Thank you for the dress :P Do you go swimming sometimes at your new home? -- Love Beyond Reason John Ortberg Ralph Ellison wrote of the pain of life as an African American in white society: “I am an invisible man… I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids – and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Love me, love my rag dolls (me: meaning each of us - we are all his "rag dolls" - ragged, but His, and loved), Jesus says. Loving in God’s love requires new eyes. We must learn to continually see God’s grace at work all around us.” ...When I was growing up I often thought the more “spiritual” a person was, the more unapproachable they were, that holiness involved a certain rigidity and sternness and distance. But in Jesus we see that true spirituality always makes a person more approachable, not less. That’s why it is worth reflecting on this: Jesus is the m...

Hey guys, it's exam time. And what does a haluo do during exams? No, not study - draw! *Clap clap* for those who got it right! I bet you got this right, Jack (if you still read this blog)! Haha. And thank you Dennis for the reminder to pick my pen up. So okay, here's something, A.K.A. exam distraction. What is it?! I was just doodling, drawing random shapes, then I decided it sort of looked like curly hair, so it became a person. And ya la okay I study during exams too la. If not, how to pass. -- Was finishing up an essay just now. Image is self-explanatory. -- After a session of song-worship, I remember the pastor asking the congregation, "Did you enjoy the worship?" before he changed it to something along the lines of asking if God enjoyed the worship instead. And I thought, why? While it is true that the main purpose of worship (in song or life) is to give God glory and make Him glad, I too, can enjoy it when I worship Him, right? It does give me delight and joy t...

I called home, talked to my mom and dad. 11 minutes 56 seconds My mom told me to wish my dad happy father's day. She passed the phone to him and we talked about other things. She said - did you wish him happy father's day? - No, when is father's day? (oops) She passes the phone back to him and he says - no need to wish la, everyday happy happy. I laugh. Mom gets back on the phone, laughs. We pray. I love my family. I miss my family (okay not badly - am not homesick) It would be nice to go home (again). But it's okay. I am living now, here, where I am to be, in today as it is and as I make it. I like it when I go back to singapore and I'm relatively free so I can just go meet up with my siblings whenever wherever. What luxury! I think it's a privilege to be able to go home. It's quite funny in a way; my mom is a hairstylist - sometimes, I count prices of these big things (like a plane ticket) by the number of heads of hair she has to "go through". T...

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Lynette shared these, which I thought were pretty good. The first one's funny. The second's more serious. But stick with it - it's definitely important and most probably applicable to everybody. God does not make junk. I am His masterpiece!

Jesus, I could try to picture what you look like, piecing images recalled of past. But today, all I can see is the Cross. The Cross, representing You. But one day, in the place of the cross, will be Your face. I will see Your face. I will know how You look like. And I will be made like You. -- "Now we, who with unveiled faces reflect the Lord's glory, are being transformed into His likeness with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit." - 2 Corinthians 3:18

Soon and very soon, my king is coming Robed in righteousness and crowned in love When I see Him I shall be made like Him Soon and very soon -- So many times we cry out - use me, Lord! But also so many times, God says - LET ME use You. To let Him use me in His choosing, not my own. To go His paths, which though narrow, are straight and lead somewhere better. To allow myself to fall, because I have insufficient strength to stand well on my own. To trust that as He has been here, He will also be there at the next step. After all, God requires just willingness, right? He will take my five loaves and two fishes , to somehow feed the multitudes. Head knowledge of His goodness becomes heart knowing as miracles are seen upon the next step. Before I see and know, I must trust You . -- I will be with the One I love With unveiled face I see Him There my soul shall be satisfied Soon and very soon – Brooke Fraser

It was very foggy one day! This was while walking to school. Looking far (ignore the cars and look up, beyond) it felt like I was in some jungle and there was super morning mist. Plus the sun/moon pale was behind the fog. Btw it's cold. Definitely winter now. Haluo jingyi jiejie I wore your nice red jacket today. Tell Mark thank you hahaha :P -- Last Saturday, finally joined the house (Aunty Lucia, Uncle Ollie and Shierly) for lunch and grocery because I didn't have anything on - there's usually OCF stuff. We went to this organic produce place at Bentleigh. Was standing just somewhere in the shop and this lady, i mean, woman, pushing a cart said excuse me from behind rather rudely so I moved over, and she looked back as she pushed her cart and snobbishly said what are you doing here. Whee. Yes what business had a girl in a hoodie in an organic store? Made me wonder if she was racist or if it was my hoodie, because in youth media class there was some ment...