Youth Sunday 2005

It's Youth Sunday again! Yay!!! Youth Sunday is a great day at church, and this year was no exception. It's something that my church has every year : the youths will take over the entire running of the church services for this one sunday a year, and we do this because we want to bless the congregation through our service to God. The youths serve in areas such as refreshments, bulletin, welcome & hospitality, and the worship service itself. My DG served in the choir this year, and the choir was simply beautiful with their singing. Praise God! Yiling was leading with me, and it was such a great joy to work with her, and she was such an encouragement to me. Praise God! I still remember the time when Celine and Yeng Wai asked me at one of the worship rehearsals whether I was comfortable with leading worship with Yiling on Youth Sunday. I was like a quite apprehensive then, because, I'm not usually comfortable with large groups of people. I remember praying and telling God that if this was what he wanted me to do, I was more than willing to do it, as he has promised to be with me. There were 5 rehearsals altogether, but I missed one because I was in hong kong. The musicians, the choir, Yiling and Celine really demonstrated a lot of commitment in the way they come down faithfully for the rehearsals, and that encouraged me greatly.
Today, when we were praying, I remember telling God that this was his day and not ours, and that we could not do this without him. He certainly answered our prayers, the congregation responded well to the new songs, we just had a great time in worship of our God. I know that God was with us when we were worshipping him, and he certainly blessed the services greatly. Praise God!!
Oh well, I better start doing my hw:) School's reopening tomorrow....

1st day of holidays

Well, I'm like really having a good time. The flight was nice, nothing eventful, so thank God. This place is like really generous with free internet access, so I'm using this com at this star centre place by the harbour at TST, while my parents have gone shopping. I havn't been doing as much work as I should, and so I really need to wake up immediately after the holidays and start working. I love to holiday a lot, I admit that, but now's like really not the time for it. It's like blowing a storm outside now at the moment. I wonder how the people on the star ferry outside are doing now, anyone's seasick?:) The harbour is supposedly rougher now because of the reclamation that has been going on, and the star ferry ppl complained that it is harder to dock the ship as a result. Hopefully the ferry is stable, yupz, (if metacentre and centre of buoyancy are in the right places of course.)
I keep thinking about friends back in Singapore and all that stuff.

Some thoughts

I'm like at the airport now waiting for the flight, and the airport provides free internet access. So nice! Well, naturally, I'm bored, so I'm looking for something to do, and this is the most attractive option. Going to HK today, yay!, I havn't sat on a plane for like 1 year, or maybe 1 1/2. Anyway, I have to bring along my HW cos I'm like nowhere near finishing it. We had worship rehearsal yesterday, and all the musicians could come. Yay! They can play all the songs, so we just need to work on the transitions and stuff like that. I'm like really disappointed that I can't make it for the next rehearsal cos I'll only be back on thursday afternoon. But we're having combined rehearsals on Friday afternoon, and I can go for that one. Yay! It's such a joy to serve the Lord with them. O.K, maybe their opening the boarding gate, so I'll end here.

Russell's Joke

Hey everyone, I really like the Health Q&A that rus sent. lol- it's really funny. Read it for yourself and have a good laugh:

Q: I've heard that cardiovascular exercise can prolong life. Is this true?
A: Your heart is only good for so many beats, and that's it... don't waste them on exercise. Everything wears out eventually. Speeding up your heart will not make you live longer; that's like saying you can extend the life of your car by driving it faster. Want to live longer? Take a nap.
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Q: Should I cut down on meat and eat more fruits and vegetables?
A: You must grasp logistical efficiencies. What does a cow eat? Hay and corn. And what are these? Vegetables. So, a steak is nothing more than an efficient mechanism of delivering vegetables to your system. Need grain? Eat chicken. Beef is also a good source of field grass(green leafy vegetable). And a pork chop can give you 100% of your recommended daily allowance of vegetable products!
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Q: Should I reduce my alcohol intake?
A: No, not at all. Wine is made from fruit. Brandy is distilled wine, that means they take the water out of the fruity bit so you get even more of the goodness that way. Beer is also made out of grain. Bottoms up!
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Q: How can I calculate my body/fat ratio?
A: Well, if you have a body and you have body fat, your ratio is one to one. If you have two bodies, your ratio is two to one, etc.
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Q: What are some of the advantages of participating in a regular exercise program?
A: Can't think of a single one, sorry. My philosophy is: No Pain...Good!____________________________________
Q: Aren't fried foods bad for you?
A: YOU'RE NOT LISTENING!!!. Foods are fried these days in vegetable oil. In fact, they're permeated in it. How could getting more vegetables be bad for you?
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Q: Will sit-ups help prevent me from getting a little soft around the middle?
A: Definitely not! When you exercise a muscle, it gets bigger. You should only be doing sit-ups if you want a bigger stomach.
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Q: Is chocolate bad for me?
A: Are you crazy? HELLO ...... Cocoa beans .. another vegetable!!! It's the best feel-good food around!
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Q: Is swimming good for your figure?
A: If swimming is good for your figure, explain whales to me.
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Q: Is getting in-shape important for my lifestyle?
A: Hey! 'Round' is a shape!
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Well, I hope this has cleared up any misconceptions you may have had about food and diets.

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Kampong Games

Well, I've never played much of kampong games, nor thought much of it. That is, until church camp this year when the camp comm decided to play kampong games in the inter group tournament so as to reflect the desire to go back to basics. Why, I wonder? I mean, why do we want to go back to basics. Isn't the idea of life to move forward? Well, I mean basics are important to some extent, and even coach agrees on this, saying that they are the most important part. That's right in a sense, as we have to learn how to pass and stop before we can drag-flick into the corner top-net not just on the pitch but also in the other parts of our life, even our walk with God. My FG went to west coast park to practice the kampong games today, and it was great fun. I was playing the 1-legged catcher, and I had great trouble catching the kids. Ok, that says alot about my fitness level, especially since the season ended. No more trainings, no more 400m circuits, and no more PE (since its the hols now). Later we went to this coffeeshop place for dinner, and had chinese food. The food was nice to some extent, but then flies kept dropping into our food, especially Mark's. The man selling drinks was taking orders from us and he was doing a terrible job of it as he got all confused because we were all firing our orders at him, and he did not even have the common sense to write down our orders which would have simplified things greatly. Now I'm at home, with more hw to clear. -sigh- Guess I will have to bring it along to church camp. There's church tomorrow, and I'm on PA duty. I'm also leading worship on youth sunday with Yiling, and I'm like really excited about it. I mean, it's such an honour and privilege to worship the Holy God who created everything, and yet sacrificed His Son so that we can have eternal life with Him.
Which means I have to start my prep now, so I'll just stop here.

Holidaez!!!

Well, I'm like really glad the holidays are here already. The first week passed by really fast, well, cause I was at global youth summit, and time really flies when you're having a good time. Needless to say, I have a large pile of hw waiting for me in my room, and I'm just too tired to clear any of it now. The city tour on the last day of global youth summit was fun. I was sitting with Alvin Toh on the bus, and the bus driver drove us from YMCA to chinatown, to the malay heritage centre, to little india, and finally to 1 fullerton. All the while, the tour guide was boring us by talking crap at the front about all the places that we were visiting and blah blah.....Until we reached this palm beach place for dinner, when this supposedly expensive high class place could not even set up enough tables for us. That's the Singapore tourist industry for you. So me and a few others had to sit at the side, against the restaurant window. However, the food was nice. We had this seafood fried rice and fried maggi mee (or something that looked like that) with some other seafood dishes. Then the rain came, and the restaurant ppl had to rush to set up some tentage over the tables and chairs. Dinner was wrapped up after quite a while, then we went to night safari from there. But Alvin had to go off from there. Hey, Alvin you don't know what you missed. After the creatures of the night show, and this really cool tram ride, Mr Tye treated all the seniors to ice cream, yupz, so thank you, Sir. It was all really nice. The rest of my holidays havn't been as eventful. Oh yes, now I have 7 ec prelim papers to clear, even before I've finished with my tutorials. Oh well......