The Practice of the PRESENCE of GOD

The Practice of the PRESENCE of GOD
God gave me the opportunity to share the Gospel today! Its really amazing how such times comes...and it all started after DSST class when a friend of mine just ask me a casual question while queuing up at the design canteen... "are you born in a Christian Family?" And from this.... i took the CHANCE! to start a whole conversation abt religion and christianity... and wow...im amazed how God gives me chance like this to talk to this friend of mine. =) Will continue to pray for more opportunity to share more with this guy since im in the same class as him for this block! =) Its really amazing how God PLACE us in different places to be the SALT and LIGHT for him! And OUR very own SCHOOL! is one good platform for us students! =)

THE BIG CHALLENGE....

(First of i want to say a BIG THANKS to my mentor Gladwin for buying this veryyyy nice monologue note book for me! Its like the MOST EXPENSIVE notebook in my life! anyway... it all has a purpose... he CHALLENGE me to copy WORD for WORD this ENTIRE BOOK of the practice of the PRESENCE OF GOD by Brother Lawrence in that notebook... i was stunned at first if he really meant it!..but well since this book is so close to my heart! Im sooo ready to accept this BIGGGG challenge yet! =) ....

THE CATHAY...



(took hundreds of photos of THE CATHAY for my DSST class for our Photo Journal... And wow im pretty amazed at the interior and architecture of this classic building! Btw i was caught by 3 different security guards inside Cathay for taking photos.... well this is the EXTEND we designers need to go for GOOD INTERIOR PHOTOS! =).. anyway LOVE the rare solitude time i have spend moving around there before i went to church to meet gladwin....)

FUSION 2008 Photos!

FUSION 2008 Photos!
Photos courtesy of Ethel...
Invited this bunch of crusaders for FUSION!

(Wenhao,Jem,me,ethel and Jerome)

(Ohhh my this is one embarassing photo!)

(HAHAH! elliot crash our photo =P)

Photo below courtesy of Sam..

(elliot,me,sam)

I loveee this CrossTrainers! (some past XT HAPPENINGS!)

I loveee really LOVE the CrossTrainers! (some past XT HAPPENINGS!)
This is a slightly late post of the second Pulau Ubin recce we went last sunday!

(thats yewjin! Oh my...he is CRAZY!)

(the GIANT fish of Pulau Ubin lagoon!)

(the march event people planing!)

(Me,Yewjin,clarissa,Alex,Jiaen,Stacy and Bel)

TODAY! ... March Event LOGISTICS DAY!...
We had soooooooo much fun painting all the sign age!Seeee not only can we plan activities..we can DESIGN TOO! HAHHA! =P

(Max and Marcus were like the "BEST" artist there! HAHA!...btw u can see the Inverted Commas" heh)

(clarissa doing a pretty good job on her signage)

(the others showing of their art skills!)


(Alex and Jia En showing of their works...Jia En looks sad as shes not in the main picture.heh)

(Emmeliene,Alex,Clarissa,Jia En and Bel)

(Our finish work!!!!!)

WOW! I just soooo love being with this wonderful bunch of GREEN PPL! hahhah! I guess this are times where The Crosstrainers can really bond and im starting to love being with them even more and more each day!!!! =)

FUSION 2008

FUSION 2008 -INTIMACY
This yearly FUSION conference where all the youths in the TRAC methodist churches and schools coming together in one place! It was reallyy something!! It was as awesome as i expected! Although a smaller scale this yr at ACS I... it didnt seem so! Like over more than 1000 over youths came,flooding the audi! And WORSHIP and the Sharing of the Word was really like WOW!
Anyways...was really glad some of my crusade friends like ethel,wenhao,jem,jerome and samuel could come too!

And bcoz of the video where i appeared in Fusion... (THIS AMAZING THING HAPPEN)
A very loooooooooooong time old friend from primary and sec sch days who i never talk to for yearssssssss..like 8 years? just told me on facebook that he was at FUSION too! And i didn't know that he was a Christian all this time! I still rmb the last time i was in the same class as him was in pri 4 i tink. And hearing him share to me that his life also TRANSFORM bcoz of GOD also around sec 4 time... was very encouraging to hear...seems we were all in the same boat last time..and now we are CHANGE PEOPLE for GOD!

Well everyone this is the testimony i shared from a video shoot which pastor Alvin used in his message on Seeking that intimacy with God.

Testimony on seeking that intimacy with God (FUSION 2008)

I was born in a Christian Family, accepted Christ when I was about 4 years old and have been going to church ever since I was a baby, but I would say I won’t call myself a True Christian at all, as then I hadn’t that real relationship with Jesus Christ. I was a very typical “Sunday Christian”.

What led me seeking that intimacy with God goes back all the way to my first camp Wesley YM Camp in 2005.During that camp many things happened that led to me taking that step of Faith to make that commitment to God. I felt I was ready to surrender my entire life totally to him. During ministry time, for the first time in my entire 16 years of my life, I had a real personal experience with God. It was an experience so real that I really can’t explain. The presence from God just came upon me and gave me that inner warm and peace.

And since than my life took a dramatic change. I used to be very quiet, low-self esteem very introverted person. I gain so much more confidence than before. I became more outspoken and extroverted and I really long to seek that same intimacy I experience at that camp. For the last 2 years each day I just long for more of God. And God began to show himself many more times to me. Since then I had more recounts of that same deeper intimate experiences like never before, I saw phenomenal works by the Holy Spirit working in my life. And that desire in me to want more such experience with God was burning in my heart.

A year later, at the next YM camp, I remembered one of the sessions about discerning God's voice. Though I didn’t really hear God's voice that day, the message did speak to me. I just needed to wait. I know of a couple of friends who ever heard that real audible still small voice from God and it got me really interested too. I just wanted such an experience too.

And then came YM camp 07, God was so real to me right from day 1 of camp! The speaker gave us 5 minutes at the end of the message to soak in the presence of God and to be sensitive to the heart of God. Suddenly in the midst of quietness, I heard a voice! It seem as though somebody called me on my left side of my ear. It said "HEY BEN". Just these 2 words. I was unsure at first if any of my group mates around called me. But I checked with them and they say they didn’t say a thing. Was it really a VOICE OF GOD! It seems so normal when I heard it! Like somebody casually talking to me! But I really believed it was from GOD!

From that day onwards, I have drawn so much closer to the Lord. It’s not only just at camps that I experience God, but it’s through my quiet times with God where he revealed so much to me. Now, it’s been more real and exciting than ever before, and despite all this, I still longed for a deeper and intimate relationship with God.

The LORD said, "Go out and stand on the mountain in the presence of the LORD, for the LORD is about to pass by.”
Then a great and powerful wind tore the mountains apart and shattered the rocks before the LORD, but the LORD was not in the wind. After the wind there was an earthquake, but the LORD was not in the earthquake. 12 After the earthquake came a fire, but the LORD was not in the fire. And after the fire came a gentle whisper. 1 Kings 19:11-12

Im FINALLY done with my 3D Viz and ComDa Module!!!

Im FINALLY done with my 3D Viz and ComDa Module!!!
After sleepless nites working on this 2 projects and juggling with church stuff, im FINALLY DONE for this block! Yipeeeeeeeeeeeeee! And ComDA might be the first module ever in my life in TP design that i tink i can get a Distinction!

(My ComDa Written Proposal! Its like a 15 page report plus 26 page appendix)

(Living Room view of House)

HDB Design...

(Living Room)

(Dining Space)

(Kitchen)

(Kitchen 2)

(Displays)

3D walkthrough...spent the entire nite

I got MY INTERNSHIP!!!! YAY!!!!... and my "anti-block nose" theory work!

I got MY INTERNSHIP!!!! YAY!!!!... and my "cure for block nose" theory work!
Called my company WHITE SPACE LIVING today... and found out that i was actually selected already! But they been busy to lemme know, so after 3 long weeks of waiting! GOD ANSWERED MY PRAYER when i was praying abt this only this morning! THANK GOD! Super happy when i heard that!

Another cool thing happen!...
just came back from the march event meeting! and during the meeting I tested my theory of curing block nose instantly with Jiaen who had block nose then! AND you KNOW WHAT! after promoting this theory to sooooo many people who felt it was such a stupid idea and i even posted this theory in my blog long time ago... I HAVE SOMEONE TO REALLY TEST IT INFRONT OF ME! AND IT WORK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! All you have to do is do "PUSH-UPs"... although she only did like 10 girl push up! It cleared her nose! And she and everyone was SHOCKED that my theory actually worked! and ITS LIKE SOME SUCCESSFUL EXPERIMENT which i never had the chance for others to test for! YAY! My first guinea pig work! Imagine if the world knew abt this! HAHAHHA! won't it be like one of the fastest way to clear your block nose! Anyway its better if u at least 30 push ups for better clearance! =)
EVERYONE out there...pleaseeee lemme know if my theory work for you too! Want to know the response to this. =P

SIGN UP for March Event - DESTINATION AGAIN!!!!

SIGN UP for March Event - DESTINATION AGAIN!!!!
(the exotic compound you all are going to expect!)
All ymers! please BRING forms AND PAY $5 FOR THE upcoming 9 March Event-DESTINATION AGAIN! by THIS SUNDAY 24 Feb which is the deadline to Caroline.
And for your info $5 is very very cheap oready which cover all bookings,transport and food!

This EVENT COMPULSORY! And i dun want to force you all...BUT i can say the crosstrainers and me really really really NEED ALL OF YOUR FULL SUPPORT! as the surviver of this BIG EVENT depends on ALL OF YOU Ymers! Please please STONGELY encourage your friends to come along! =)

Recently the crosstrainers march event planning comm encountered an unforeseen HUGE BUDGET issue.And its really huge... like 5 digits huge!
And we really need people to CONFIRM their attendence ASAP so the booking cost for everything won't go to waste.
Its so huge that now even the Cross trainers might have to raise funds after the event to cover cost for YM.
SO PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE MAKE TIME to come down whatever the circumstances. THANKSSSSS PEOPLE!

Our march event team was quite worried after last sunday 2nd recce we called the boss of the place again and found out the budget was now way wayyyyy above what we original negotiate about. We prayed and the spot together...and then called again. well God actually helped us by brining the original cost down by at least $8000, but now the boss of that place afriad he lose his job bcoz he brought it very low for us. But we realize we were still way above our budget so we are now a little worried.

But just now before writing this, i prayed and God showed me this from the Word...
"Yet he did not waver through unbelief regarding the promise of God, but was strengthened in his faith and gave glory to God, being fully persuaded that God had power to do what he had promised. Romans 4:20,21"

This verse will speak closely to the march event team bcoz we all saw God's Promised of the Rainbow when we entered Pulau Ubin on our first recce a few weeks back. And i believed this verse is an assurance for us of his promise to us for this event! =)

Anyway still really need all your prayers out there for this event in our team planning! Tmr having another meeting!

FUSION videosss!

FUSION 2008 videosss!
hey all WESLEY YMers! Come for FUSION at ACS I this saturday 23 Feb! 3-10pm!
(Done by Ian)

WHAT is LOVE?

WHAT is LOVE?
Yesterday YM GAP! was really something... so happen everyone was sharing abt LOVE as it was like valentine's day just the day before... But not just any kind of love...
BUT a Christian perspective of LOVE... and wow im so encourage by each of their sharing! See God can use a festive season like this for people to find out what real love really is...and that is GOD's love for us.

"This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. 1 John 3:16"

"Dear friends,since God so loved us,we also ought to love one anohter,. no one has ever seen God; but if we love one another,God lives in us and his love is made completer in us. 1 John 4:11-12"

Well..the last few days..God was a little quieter to me compared to last mth...i guess at times when ur so busy with sch work, our QT might be rush thru and God can't speak to u..AND den the Lord spoke to me in this verse in the bus to church...

"The LORD is good to those whose hope is in him,to the one who seeks him;it is good to wait quietly for the salvation of the LORD. Lamentations 3:25,26"

I told God in the bus too.. that i really want to experience him at YM GAP that day..and WOW... I did experience him so close to me during worship that day!

Anyway Matthias felt led to sing this song SURRENDER(see below) at the end of Gap...Felt really ministered by it..

Its a very meaningful song....read the lyrics....

(HIGHLY RECOMMENDED YOU TO WATCH THIS VIDEO)

Surrender- Lincoln Brewster

I'm giving you my heart, and all that is within
I lay it all down for the sake of you my King
I'm giving you my dreams, I'm laying down my rights
I'm giving up my pride for the promise of new life

And I surrender all to you, all to you
And I surrender all to you, all to you

I'm singing You this song, I'm waiting at the cross
And all the world holds dear, I count it all as loss
For the sake of knowing You for the glory of Your name
To know the lasting joy, even sharing in Your pain

Great small grp time!

Great small grp time!

The YWCA level 2 lounge...
thats where our grp meets! Very nice condulsive place for such meetings...

(met up with the saturday grp from God's Clay lead by moonie and me!And today did our FIRST outside of sunday small grp time on the book "I Kissed dating goodbye"... And wow..im really amazed how GOD was really guiding moonie and me thru this as we facilitate the session. The sharing was very fruitful! And i believed that this is the FIRST step..into the grp growing closer and trusting each other even more from the weeks to come! =)


(FUSION 2008!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
Everyoneee come down and invite your friends for this BIGGGG EVENT of 2008!)

"THE PAINTS" secret meeting on V'day!

"THE PAINTS" secret meeting on V'day!
Yes THE PAINTS met up again on this 14 FEB! (we were form since our last selangor mission trip in 2007)...If those who read my mission trip post.. im BLACK!
And this time we had a new recruit! YELLOW PAINT! haha! (we all wanted to dress in our colours when we met up..but ONLY RED and ME did! haizzz)
Anyways.... headed to VIVO CITY...and after a looooooooooooooong queue ...manage to get in to Earl's Swensens....

(shared this huge baked rice with GREEN...that huge burger was PINK's food)

(RED was so disappointed when his $18 sausages was sooo small compared to YELLOW and BLUE $14 HUGE HOT DOG!)

It was one really good time of fellowship! =)

AFTER DINNER EFFECT

AFTER DINNER EFFECT
My theory worked! Looks like we plan better after dinner instead! Had a very successful fruitful march event meeting just now! SO EXCITED abt the exotic PULAU UBIN!!!! =)

THE "AFTER LUNCH EFFECT"

THE "AFTER LUNCH EFFECT"
Its strange why im blogging abt such stuff
Anyway I'm feeling a little of that now! And somehow the past mth i have been wondering almost everyday why i am feeling this effect after lunch, as the past mth i have this break between 11-1pm...and everyday in the design canteen, my classmates and me wld be wondering why we feeel so sian,tired and lethargic after lunch. And we just sit there and stone wondering!!! HOW TO CONQUER IT!

Although i experience this in the past..i didnt really bother much abt it until recently.
I have briefly mention this "after LUNCH EFFECT" to some of the crosstrainers before our sunday meetings bcoz almost all the sunday afternoon meetings gets quite TIRING at the start.And our brains just dun function as normal...HOWWW!

And somehowwww i didn't know my comments to the ppl around me abt this "AFTER LUNCH EFFECT" has been become some favorite phrase now! Strangely ppl.. from church and even sch have been telling me their own "AFTER LUNCH EFFECT"! I find it quite amusing! Btw for ur info this is some invented phrase!

Did a quick research on this below....

Drowsy after lunch? Don't worry - it's natural (EXTRACT from website

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/08/20/business/workcol21.php?page=1

By Phyllys korkki
Published: August 20,2007

Every day after lunch, you find yourself overcome by drowsiness, and you can't get any work done because you just want to crawl under your desk and go to sleep. Why does this happen?

This universal phenomenon, known as the "post-lunch dip," represents a collision of biology and economics.

It is entirely natural for humans to want to go to sleep about seven hours after they have awakened.

More realistically, a 20-minute "power nap" can often have a rejuvenating effect, Zee said.

Another way to push through the dip is to exercise or to simply get up and move around the room. If you need to talk to a colleague at another desk, this could be the ideal time.

Lemme know of your solutions to this effect!

What do the Covenants have to do with my struggle with Sin?

What do the Covenants have to do with my struggle with Sin?
Todays message by Adriel was pretty good as usual... and it did continue to affirm me of what GRACE from GOD really is! Although what you are abt to read maybe still a little "chim" for some youths... but its pretty deep to what it really really means to us actually... and if you understand and apply what im saying from Adriel's sermon.. im quite sureee it MIGHT actually CHANGE YOUR LIFE TOO!

Covenant of Law- To be blessed you need to earn it.
Covenant of Grace- to be blessed, God has Done it,, you need to RECEIVE BY FAITH

Wrong thinking 1
-forgiveness of sin(Justification) is by grace but freedom from sin (Sanctification)is by the law

"Are you so foolish? After beginning with the Spirit, are you now trying to attain your goal by human effort? Galatians 3:3"

Wrong thinking 2
If freedom from Sin is by grace,then the law is useless.

"Before this faith came, we were held prisoners by the law, locked up until faith should be revealed. Galatians 3:23"

-THE LAW IS PROTECTIVE (its there to protect us...but its our free will if we want to obey it or not still..but then again...by our FLESH...we will always fail the law..its like when someone tell us not to do something..our human nature wld want to just go against the law and do it)

"Therefore no one will be declared righteous in his sight by observing the law; rather, through the law we become conscious of sin. Romans 3:20"

-The law brings consciousness of sin

"For what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the sinful nature,God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful man to be a sin offering. And so he condemned sin in sinful man Romans 8:3,4"

-bcoz of our FLESH, its as good as saying the law is powerless..as no matter how much laws are imposed to us, our flesh wld give in to some extent in this WORLD.

-The Law cannot change your heart.

Wrong thinking 3
If freedom from sin comes from grace, then I don;t have to do anything.

well DON'T focus on SIN...BUT focus on GOD

And because of this... the song "TURN YOUR EYES UPON JESUS" which we sand earlier meant so much to me now and even like Adriel also said it comes so nicely with his point here.

Turn your eyes upon Jesus,
Look full in His wonderful face,
And the things of earth will grow strangely dim,
In the light of His glory and grace.

Looking at GRACE
-Bcoz of CHRIST perfect life & death on the cross, all that Christ has (God's Love,blessing and power, has given us.)

-Sanctification is the actualization of WHO God has already made you & what God has already given you.

GRACE + FAITH = BLESSING

So some will ask how do we receive GOD's GRACE then?

Well what you guys are abt to read... APPLYS so closely to my heart too...
It alls goes back to the basics...

FAITH + SURRENDER + INTIMACY

Faith- READ the Word, KNOW the Word,CLAIM the Word
Surrender- Surrender ourselves and our lives to the Lordship of Christ
Intimacy- To walk close to God, practice discipline of prayer,worship,resting & Listening to God
Ministry- This is another additional act where ones serve in a ministry in church.

This 4 Acts of FAITH are the means by which we actualize who we already become in JESUS CHRIST.

Well those who LASTED reading until this line....the next line is just something which my crusade DGL once told me before, and adriel had a similar analogy.

Maybe you can follow and do this now...

"Lets say your holding your hand phone on your palm facing up..would you dare turn your palm around and let go of your fingers?"

Thats something which SURRENDER actually is? Doing something hard by the act of your will... BUT to let go the SELF desires of your heart to let GOD be in ABSOLUTE 100 PERCENT CONTROL of your life. Thats something i would CHALLENGE all of you reading this. NOT that im telling u to drop ur handphone!... but to... SURRENDER YOUR LIFE TOTALLY TO GOD!

THIS ACT of TOTAL Surrender to God CHANGE MY LIFE!... and i STRONGLY BELIEVED it can CHANGE YOURS too...IF your able to do that. =)

Chinese New Year In Muar!...and VISITINGS!

Chinese New Year In Muar,Malaysia!...and VISITINGs!
Well.... to be honest it sure was quite boring as i expected there... but at least i guess it was a good break... maybe abit tooooooo long break.. had nothing much to do but read read and read...and im almost done with the "I KISSED DATING GOODBYE" book!
..watch some movies at relatives hse ....and some visiting.. even one to this hse with a 102 year old lady who was my late grandfather eldest sister...

Anyway going back to malaysia did bring back memories of the last time i was there during my last Selangor Mission Trip with the TRP crusaders...And WELL DE JA VU did happen on the first nite...

THE DEJA VU of the RETURN of the MOZZIES!!!! (if u read my selangor mission trip post)
I WAS ATTACK BY A BUNCH OF MOZZIES! And it was not any normal attack! I had like 23 bites on my right arm..abt 17 on my left.. and quite a bit more on my legs too! It cld be just as bad as the one i got at the mission trip! WHAT A BAD FIRST NITE....

Oh boy... when i was prepared for the second nite! This time with spraying mosquito repellent and THEN LATER IN THE NITE! THERE WAS A MASSIVE BLACKOUT in the whole of muar from 1230-2.30 am! IT WAS ONEEEEEE LONG TERRIBLE NITE! with NO WIND! NO LIGHTS! AND WITH MORE MOZZIES COMING AGAIN! even the electric mosquito repellent device was useless with no electricity!
Heard the FLYING MOZZIES just shooting down on me! feeding me ALIVE and AWAKE! IM SURE THATS something anyone in the world wld not even want to experience! well.. my grandma den got candles and 3 old skool mosquito smoke repellent thingy device which we also use at the mission trip in selangor too to get rid of this PESTS!... and it was USEFUL!!!Looks like the old school stuff works best! PHEW! What a last nite!

Some pics in MUAR...

(the gate of the hse my family stayed in... the room i slept in)

(the roads in muar......quite slow paced compared to Singapore)

TOUCH DOWN TO SINGAPORE! (VISITING)
Right from the causeway... i got my dad to drive me to coronation as i impromptu met up with vyan,charles,elliot,wenhao and soe at coronation as we headed to VISITING TIME...

FIRST DESTINATION... Annabel's hse!

(charles looks weird with his short hair! heh! ok jk jk! Just not use to it!!! XP)

SECOND DESTINATION.. Soe's Hse!

Will be away in MALAYSIA from 6-8 Feb!

Will be away in MALAYSIA from 6-8 Feb!
Going to muar to visit my relatives over Chinese New Year...will miss singapore despite only 3 days! Not like totally looking forward to it actually but..oh well...hoping to make the best of it still!
seeyall soon!

Whats are the Crosstrainers doing??? Find out on Feb 10...

Whats are the Crosstrainers doing??? Find out on Feb 17......
(Disclaimer its not what you think it is)
Sunday.... YWCA room 802
Props set up...


Testing of lights....


Running through of script...............

(everyone memorizing their lines.....)


(thats random!)

THE Warm up and Practice time!....

(looks who leading the troupe!)

(interesting actions...)

(Its soooooo amusing watching the XTs doing all this! HAHA! Its even being film too!)

ACTION...........

scene 1...



The rest of the scenes.... will be up on FEB 10 in YM! SO CATCH IT SOON!
Okkk this crosstrainers sure can act! AHHAHA!