Christ in Me the Hope of Glory: January 2007

Went to catch delirious? @ the Expo last saturday with SEM and BECKY. Sean couldnt make it because of work. Before i entered the hall, little did i know that city harvest was hosting the concert as well as a service. Negative thoughts and opinions heard from others began to enter my mind. Arggh i decided, hack it and just experience it myself.

Delirious? was not too bad, typical british rock band. I am not very musically inclined, therefore i dont really know how to describe their style. However, they were along the same line as Oasis. Very layed back, not like the typical praise and worship songs heard from Hillsongs, the annointing was just different. In fact i couldnt really feel the presence. I'm not implying they are not fantastic, probably gifted with a different annointing, but not they type of songs i would use for praise. Anyway, moving on to the service. It isn't really as bad as what people say, though it felt as though i was attending a lecture or some seminar. Personally, i felt that the message was quite contradicting in contrast to them claiming that they preach "grace" when there is "law" behind "grace". It isnt exactly like the 10 commandments which God gave during the days of Moses, with all the terms and conditions of "thou shall not". arrgh, lets get to the point. In my opinion, grace does not work hand in hand with law. Lets put it in the context of christianity, because grace is undeserved favour given by God and paid for by Jesus. Why? Lets face it, we are not perfect and its NO ONE, besides Jesus, can and will have the capabilities of not breaking the 10 commandments. Which means that we do not have to earn our blessings from God because Christ has paid it all. Where as the "law" shows that there are conditions in order to recieve God's blessings. So you may ask, what about in real life? Yes its true that work from us is in a way still required, but knowing that you still have access to God's blessings and rest despite the fact that you still sin in everyday of your life makes a whole lot of difference. NO, GRACE IS NOT THE LICENSE FOR US TO SIN. It is being conscious that there's no condemnation from God despite my imperfection that sets my heart free. Damn, i've just realised that i've REALLY side tracked. LAWL. OK the bottomline is, CHC is not a bad church, just that i dont reall agree with the way they portray grace.

Anyway, sem,becky and i went to the airport to have our dinner @ the hawker centre. We had hokkien mee...good stuff. I really miss the good old days when my family and i would eat there before my dad leaves for his business trips. After dinner, we had coffee and chilled at Pacific Coffee to chit chat. Ahhh...the S'ses are gonna miss sem. She's gonna Melbourne to study. =( why is everyone going there?! I really hope i can afford to further my studies there after my n.s, thats if i cant make it to fighter pilot school when i'm in n.s.

Oh and i almost forgot, i wanna wish Leon a Happy 20th Birthday! =)

Damn..i'm gonna hit 20 in 7 months time. I really wish i'm 17 or 18. SIGH.

Many of us definitely have this concept that our life is like a bible with many books or chapters in it, not to mention the righteous verses which we practice in our daily lives. However, has the thought of whether our lifes are depicted by an author who writes a book about how we live our life ever crossed your mind? An author who is totally oblivious that you exist in this world and writes a book on how you live through your day, the words you say, the decisions you make which will or may lead to different consequences depending how severe it is and then eventually, maybe how you die your death.

Well as a matter of fact, there is indeed an author in my life. Personally, i feel that there are 2 authors in my life. Firstly, my very ownself and second, God. Its not surprising that where i am now was because of the decisions i made in the past. To be exact, one of the main crossroads of my life occured when i was 17. One thing for sure is that i would be in n.s by now if i had not screwed up my o's. Ok i've already put that aside and i'm kinda happy where i am right now, but for those who know me personaly, i'm just trying to emphasis the point that for every action we make, there is always a consequence. I really want to thank God for being with me throughout all these years, despite the fact that i may not have gone the path i planned for myself because of my incompetancy in my academic results. He has been indeed faithful all these years and they aren't exactly smooth sailing.

Anyway, its the new year!! WOOOHOOO!!! I'm definitely looking forward to a blissful year ahead! Sadly, my holidays are coming to an end in a few days. BACK TO SCHOOL FOR ME NEXT MONDAY! Damn..it means waking up early for me again.

Time for updates!!

Been spending quite a decent amount of time with rozanne since she got back. (: here are pictures we've taken together.

taken @ attica

our first time taking neo prints after god knows how long!
hahaha!

One of her many talents

@ El Sheik Sisha-ing

I didnt do much this time round, spent my time going out with my girl, friends, a couple of times with my cousins and lazing at home. Well I didnt really laze at home for the first week, I accompanied my dad's salesman to approach Authorised Apple Retailers to promote this product which we are currently bringing in called the iPod Car Hi-Fi Connector. It basically allows you to play your pod through your car hi-fi via a cable while you're driving. It charges your ipod at the same time too! Cool eh? Beats using the itrip which is like listening to a radio. For those of you who are interested, i am selling the cables which are compatible for the following car hi-fi brands: Alpine, Kenwood, JVC, Panasonic, Pioneer, Sony and Original Head-Unit for Honda and Toyota. Feel free to ask me if you do have any enquiries. =)

Ok i'm just gonna jump to how i spent christmas, which was a really simple one. Dad brought the family to have seafood @ Defu Lane, went home after dinner to watch Love Actually. After that my dad asked me to tag along with him to drink with his friends, free alcohol for me...WHY NOT?! About a few hours later, my dad and i went down to attica to club with my cousin. HOW COOL IS THAT?! My dad clubbing with his son. Hahaha. Then again...everything was paid for so why not? =DDD Dad went home first after awhile and left me, my cousin and her friends at the club. We clubbed till 530, had mc's for breakfast while waiting for the NEL to start operating because we didnt want to waste money on cab. Yeap, reached home at about 6 plus and slept at about 7. Did that (sleeping at 6 plus to 7) a few nights in a row last week and i must strongly advise you people reading this not to do that because you will end up wasting your afternoon sleeping when you can do something more productive. Eg. Spending time at borders reading books and magazines.

NEW YR's EVE! Ushered in 2007 with my woman, the brotherhood and a group of girls at darren's place. It was a really interesting one because the dress code for the party was "Mafia style" a.k.a GANGSTA. Some where along the line of "The Godfather". Just to a brief description of what some of them wore, Leon wore a pretty strikingly striped red suit, Zhen dressed in a black shirt with a gold tie and trench coat while Darren went black with suspenders and a red tie. As for me, i wore a black shirt and a pair of white pants which my dad wore when he was around 20. :) Anyway, I'm really glad that roz could join me and my brothers to usher in the new year. Thanks baby..i'm sure you enjoyed yourself as much as i did. (: The food was great, but some of the mafias had to do the cooking. Just wanna say a big thank you to Leon, Mukund, Darren and Zhen for organising and doing the cooking. Thanks guys. It was great! The Black Label, Vodka and Rum did help set the new year mood and made alot of us merry, but my girl couldnt really hold her alcohol really well and had to adjourn to attic where she took a rest there. Low and behold, as my girl was soundly asleep, the guys raided the room due to a few sneeky bastards who suspected that we were doing something hanky panky. HAH! Sorry i had to disappoint you guys. hurr hurr. I cant believe my brothers thought i would do such a thing. *sigh* hahahaha! =))