Date: Friday, 15 June 2007

Time: 7.30pm (Doors open at 6.30pm; eated by 7pm;

free seating; admission by ticket only)

Venue: The MAX Pavilion, Singapore Expo

Lelong lelong, free tickets for planet shakers concert. anyone wants?

-lynette

hey girlies!!
sorry for the delay in blogging! i am a com retard!
anyways i am working in a tuition centre and restaurant now!
2 jobs but i still have sufficient time for myself and friends!
been meeting my members quite often now to follow up and have
been doing my qt quite well! and whenevr i feel down, qt realy helps!
like god is just a prayer away! so i encourage all u girls to do qt ya!
healthy living man! :)
and and and i am going to melbourne next sun! like my first time out
of msia and thailand! :) :) so excited! will tell you all more abt it
when i am back k :)
AND i finally made myself a blog. haha no actually my bf helped me with it!
its thatpinkdandelion.blogspot. so link me ya :)
love you all,
CHARITY <3

Joanne's here.

Really miss catching up with you people...esp. the fact that i didn't had that chance when we were at aunt judy's house since i left early for church.

Well, lil' update...i'll be working at the student care centre near my house, full-time, for a month, starting next next week. I guess it'll be a place to really practice what i've learnt for the past many many years from the bible...like tolerance, patience, love, compassion... ...

Currently i'm trying to "clear" my life...I realise my life is in a rather bad shape ever since i'm spending days watching shows and playing. Everyday is a day where i learn and"pack" my "cupboard life". I'm determined to go through TL notes again...to refresh my memory of what's taught. I believe its a prob that we all face, not remembering most of what's learnt. Even though we remember, sometimes its hard to put to practice huh... How evil is the devil to keep us from doing right. So much of knowledge in the brain but little gets into the heart. Another reason is also because we'll be going to uni soon...our next phase of life. Like another new challenge coming our way...requires much more than we think...i think. So i'm trying also to prepare my heart for it...we'll all do!

Something interesting happen today: I had my usual bball training today and after that we went for supper. The table had 6 guys 2 girls. The topic was: girls can be 28 days not nice and 2 days nice. Haha. Interesting heh? Out of 6 guys, 2 attached, 1 married, 3 single.
One of the attached one, who is going to get married soon, said,"Woman complains like there's no tomorrow. They complain about work, family, stress, friends...blah blah blah. Though we try to come out with solutions to help them, they'll never accept and find all sorts of reasons to disagree with our help. When we don't talk about it, they'll think that we aren't concern about her. Women..."
The married one add on,"Well, through the experiences i get from my marriage, woman just want to complain. They want us to sympathise with them and agree with them. To hear them and console them. The only thing we can counter this problem is to ask them if all these complains help to resolve everything." (Yea i think that's a smart ans.)
The other attached one said,"Yes...they're bothered by so many stuffs that they keep talking about them. Only 2 out of 30 days will they be "normal"."

Agree? Haha...half half. I believe we girls do have our occasional mood swings and complains day. But not so bad what right...not like we'll complain to them everyday. At least we bother to voice out...not like some guys who choose to keep within themselves thinking that its a wiser move. Bleah. HAha!!! :P

Yurong says..

Hello!
haha technically this is the third week and we should be meeting up! :)

Yeah I realised after you try talking to the person even if you're still angry, the feeling kinda subsides. As compared to brooding over the issue and trying to convince yourself not to be angry. And love covers a multitude of sin. Knowing this helps, especially if there is no reason to forgive the person :)

Anybody wants to go to FASS NUS open house this saturday? Haha i'll die if i have to do chinese studies. Who is going there anyway?

Yup, am doing two jobs now. Still doing the robotics ( finishes next week, finally!) and am working at haagen daz too :p Its still interesting cause I keep learning new stuff. I did the billing for Glen and Jamie ong! although i didnt recognise them initially. Yup, its kinda tiring though cause you have to stand for like 6-11 hours in a row. And I still don't know how to scoop ice cream! but it has been a good experience. So far I have done admin, service, teaching. Have not tried office hours yet and don't plan too. I'll be terribly miserable if i have to wake up at 6.30 am!

Was just watching a dvd by John Piper that my friend lent me.
And it kinda talked about how ' God is most glorified when we are most satisfied in Him' and how we should pursue our Joy in Him, be a christian hedonist.
Be a leader not out of compulsion but of joy.
It also talked about how ' love is the overflow of abundant joy in God that meets the needs of others.' It is true that when we're happy, loving people is easier.
We have to fight for more joy by standing on the promises of God and asking Him to help us believe. We should be motivated by our reward in heaven, its biblical.

And i thought it's really quite true. Being joyful despite residing in this emo world is reality that God exists and He is all that He claims to be.

He gave biblical grounds on why we should pursue our joy, duty vs delight and suffering for the joy before you.
yup, its a good dvd to see :)
What motivates you ? what makes you happy? can my will and God's supremacy not be in conflict?
Anybody wants to know more I could try to see if i could lend it to you or give you a write up.

yup, long day for me tommorow. working till one!

Rachel says..

47 posts and two months later.. still no pretty layout!! haha

was so shocked to see so many posts since the last time i checked in, decided to move my butt and give an update.
work's been mundane. i dont even have internet connection in the office, i wouldnt have time to blog or msn anyway. bugger.

i learned something recently, about anger. was getting really irritated by some people in the office, esp one of my colleagues. and then she said something and i snapped. have you ever felt the kind of anger that bubbles inside your chest, making your arms and legs feel paralysed? yea it was like that. of course, being the good Christian i didnt yell, as much as i wanted to. bleh. and so i was trying to continue doing my tons and tons of data entry but i found i couldnt concentrate because i kept having these murderous thoughts. it was interspersed with "anger is not a sin, but acting on it is." i kept fantasizing ways i would get her back, and before i knew it it was time to go home and i barely got anything done.

today, i went to work, with the resentment still lurking just beneath the surface. so when that person annoyed me again, i could feel that same poisonous feeling rising up and up... but this time, i did something different. i said a prayer in my head, like "God take away my anger, let me do what Jesus wouldve done." the feeling didnt go away immediately. so i smiled at her, offered my assistance to something she was doing, all the while thinking to myself that i was such a hypocrite.

but surprisingly after that, it did go away. i tell you, i did so much work today i cannot begin to tell u how much satisfaction i got watching my stacks of data entry disappear.
we learnt this in tung ling didnt we?
forgiving is easy, forgetting isnt. but i'll choose not to remember.
just like God chose not to remember my sins.

HELLO BABES!

im so sorry ive not been blogging.
been really really really busy hanging out with my girls and guys
and shopping and bangkok-ing.
and so by the time im home at night im really sleepy and cant think
ive been relief teaching too. except for last week cause i tooka break. (:
and lynette, i understand your culture shock!
i got one too when i was in sec 1.
hahaaas. so now in my school, im not surprised
i pity you tho cause you've never been exposed to such bad behaviour and weird language. hahaha.
don't be too soft on them okay?
SHOUT AT THEM
(be nice if they're nice to you so that they'll like you and not wanna irritate you, especially technical kids)
and if they praise you, just praise yourself more. hahaas.
and if they say things like i love you etc etc just ignore.
and make them do embarrassing punishments like standing on a table outside or writing a journal entry on the board.
oh, BE NICE TO THE GIRLS. very very important.
unless they're really irritating. hahaha.
okay, i scared they bully you, you so cute.
MY BABY (:(:(:

so how's everyone?
great to meet some of you at judy's house!
we're meeting in the third week right?
i know salome is in charge. haha.
oaky, keep me informed so that i can tell my friends i can't go out (:
i love you all (:
JOAN, THE DA JIES ARE FINALLY HOME.

haha. im in school now.
i have a really good class later. YAY.
they are super quiet.
you know, now i get how irritating i was to teachers.
with my constant chatting and eye rolling and absence in class and not handing in work
and my annoying attitude and reading my magazines in class and walking in and out
and my rudeness. ugh. i was such a pain.
hahaas.
okay, im gonna rest now. see ya!

oh by the way joan, after seeing judy's house
haha. lets aim for one in future.
we can live side by side.
so that i have a daily shopping bimbo buddy.
who can have high tea with me (:

by the way, i found out that we need 10 million to retire at 30.
my friend calculated that that means 250,000 a month.
so joan, we can marry football players cause people like beckham earn 50million a year.
haha. and cristiano ronaldo earns 400,000 plus a month.
SO (:
okay lets stop daydreaming.
we can start looking at ways to make them come true(:

love, BERN

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eh. who is the last one to blog about spiderman 3 ah. NEVER LEAVE NAME. haha.

Well, I understand what this mysterious person is talking about, haha. So I have started an online christian journal! Uh. I don't think I'll be divulging the address just yet, I'm not sure if it is going to be personal or not, haha.

Oh I just realised that I am blogging more these days but I guess it's only because I face the computer for five days a week. I'm just thinking that I might not be able to blog as frequently as I want to when school starts. that would be such a waste because i think this blog is great for us to connect and be accountable to each other when it comes to our Christian lives.

Talking about school, I didn't get into NTU mass com, as I had hoped to. They gave me sociology instead. I will try for an appeal on 16th may though, the date when they start taking in appeals. If i still don't make the cut, i guess i will have to accept that it is God's plan for me to be at NUS fass. I am a bit reluctant about going to NUS fass because I wouldnt know what to major in while I am there and I don't like the fact that I'll have to compete with thousands of people for the popular courses. i most certainly don't want to end up doing chinese studies (that happened to my sister). its incredibly hard. haha.

i don't feel like going back to school. i thought i was done with exams!! :( :(

-JOLENE.

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hello..

Haha its in the wee hours of the night now. Just finished watching spider man 3, going to watch spider man 3 in less than 24 hours again. Haha no, its not that great to warrant the effort of watching it twice but!

I was just thinking of bubble world and qt and God. And I wonder why is it so hard for us to spend some time with God everyday. Especially if ultimately He is all that matters and everything else is transient.What motivates us in life? What drives us, what keeps us going?

After being a christian for so long, I've probably grown tired of the word or the idea of 'supposed'. I'm supposed to love God, God is supposed to be the center of my life, I'm supposed to change after an encounter with Him, I'm supposed to be good, I'm supposed to pray for the unsaved. Supposed, supposed supposed. Where is the reality in it? What is the motivation behind the 'supposes'

What is truly holding us back? Fear of giving up our comfort zone- just the thought of what it truly means to know God more, to see His face ( remember ps.yang?). Do we really want to feel His heart beat, to obey what He has to tell us? Do we truely want to feel passionate about the lost and to help the poor?
Or do we want just want the love of God, His peace, His security, His joy etc.
And hence only when we are in lack of those, do we then return to find Him.

Have you ever felt the vague feeling of being a hypocrite.

Yet, it is true that the christian walk is a process. One cannot expect to be able to give up everything overnight. But it stills begs the question of how involved do we want to be with God.
And its really easy to just live the normal 'slightly above Sunday goers' type of christian.
Sigh, its a struggle for me.
Maybe it starts with small steps like QT. But i guess that must be done with a goal in mind. What do i want to see happen? Know His character better, know the scriptures more so that I can obey Him, catch the passion for the lost etc.

Yeah. Its hard being a christian sometimes.Yet it may be harder to live life not doing what we were made to. There will always be this restless void. Life led that is not Christ centered will be a dispassionate disappointment.
When we look back 50 years later, I'm quite sure we'll realise its all worth it. Or live in regret.The hard part is the present.

Hey!

It has been such a long time since i last updated and visited the blog. How's things going for you girls? I'll try to update more often haha I'm still trying to get into the habit of blogging and all. I was just thinking about tl stuff the other day and I really miss our outings :( especially the sentosa one. It was so much fun! Anyone interested in going sentosa or cycling? or are there other things you would like to do?


Eunice :)

hi everyone, its me, jolene.

You know, i never really managed to grasp the full meaning of rachel's 'bubble world', probably because i was too distracted with events of my own world to take the time to reflect back on the big difference between the tungling months and the present ones. It was only until the reunion at Aunty Judy's did i finally realise what rachel had meant.

It was such a lovely time being kept away in a quaint little corner in the East, just spending time with the Lord and other Godly brothers and sisters. It was where I could find space and time to be myself, not having to be anxious about what was the next step to take because I knew that I was in God's place and He was there to guide me. Besides, there wasn't much to worry about the next step yet because I knew that God had placed me in Tung Ling to find out the next step so I felt that I would definitely get the direction for the next step while I was in Tung Ling.

But now that I am no longer in Tung Ling, and my life is once again filled with bustling activities, it is difficult to always feel God by your side. It's even harder to set aside time for Him. You just feel tired all the time and that is just horribly lazy of me. So I thought I'd be honest with everyone and hope that talking about this struggle I'm facing would motivate me to get back on track. Let's keep each other going (:

Remember I mentioned that this week would be my last week with this job? Apparently not, anymore. My dad wants me to work one more week, or at least until the day before I leave for my UK trip. So I have to take another 2 weeks of crazy ringing :( I hope God will give me the strength to carry on! (:

Let's all have a get-together soon all right? with some Eastside Muffs! <3 haha. Take care!

heyhey, whoever is free and not working/schooling (not many :P) tommorow is invited to my place for lunch and dvd/vcd watching :)
Farewell my old place party.

Yup, drop me a SMS !

-Yurong..

Hello my dearestests!

I'm back again! Sorry i haven't been updating lately. Been busy with school, and catching up with some other friends! :*)

How're you girls? Are you all going to Auntie Judy's house later? I'll be going. Really hope to see you all! :*)

School's getting boring these days. Sad to say, i've been skipping lectures quite often. Hehehe. And you girls knowing me, wanna guess what i do whenever i skip classes? Well, i eat. HAHAHAHAHAHA. School food's cheap and not bad! You girls shld visit me one day and i'll give you a tour around the school! Provided if i don't get lost :*Pp

About my Gerbils. They've been so cute. I've started to carry them already. I carry them out of their cages for a while and then let them back in. Hehe. Ed (the white one) makes a kinda noise whenever i carry him. I guess he's scared of me. WAKAKAKA.

I miss you all!

I miss Bern and my Da Jies!

I miss the whole of TL 2007 Term 1!

Looking forward to our "reunion" later!

- Jo, Miss Cora :*)

Hugs.

office days are back to normal! and im only left with a week here so HUZZAH. haha.

thanks lynette for the jokes, they really cracked me up hahaa!

oh i hope to see all of you at the gathering tmrw! we could even take a bus down to katong after the gathering to have some MUFFINS. hahaha. if time, or our stomachs, permit. haha. i miss those muffs.

okay. ive got to get back to work now. see you all tmrw! (:

-jolene

jolene: its interesting to read about your office life. working life is cruel(like the adults always say)... at least we still have 4 years of being students so we must really enjoy ourselves.

i've been involved in casual relief for the past 2 weeks. last week at pioneer sec and this week at acs barker. very different environments! pioneer sec students call me "tee- CHER, CHER"(i think its quite funny) whereas the barker students call me "madam"(sounds old...) also, i was a bit shocked to see that more than half of the class in pioneer were non-chinese. made me think about my secondary school days where all my classmates were chinese and the fun i had in jc with minorities in my class. my class would often joke about race riots :D i learnt quite a bit about the muslim faith in the past 2 years too. its very similar to christianity.


yup this is my longest entry so far cos i've finished invigilating and got nothing to do until 1. here are some jokes from my email which i finally read.

Teacher: "How come you do not comb your hair?"
Ah Kow: "No comb, Sir."
Teacher: "Use your dad's then."
Ah Kow: "No hair, Sir."
(reminds me of how people in tungling always joke about the uncles having no hair. heehee)

Mother: David, come here.
David: Yes, mum?
Mother: You really disappoint me. Your results are getting worse.
David: But I will only get my report book tomorrow.
Mother: I know that. But I am going to Hong Kong tomorrow, so I am scolding you now.

oh and have you ever thought about why convenience stores which open 24/7 have padlocks?

see you all on sat!

-lynette