23th & 24th dec
This is the story of my b'day. The cunning gang of, donovan, hansheng, zhanwei, karen, carey, anita & bee kuan plotted the whole story...this was how it began..
After helping out at my shop, came home at abt 3pm, so I was too late to join the rest in flying kite oO but heard they had lotsa fun having em get caught in the trees, LOL.
Alright, so they went da Long John to have their dinner, and when they had finished, thats when I came into the story, met them there...sigh all finish liao nth for me to kop -_- sry thats the typical -me- :p
All settled liao then zw ask the boys go tiong bahru park, ok so we set off 1st then hansheng bought the nail clipper for eli, lols (expecting a violent reaction, but results showed otherwise oO) he's lucky lols. so ok, when we reached the park, donny entertained us with several tricks. Then the girls came along, zi come first and block my sight to prevent me frm seeing the other girls bringin the cake, but i still can see :P through gaps in her hands, then zw take the nxt shift thinkin that his hands would b less hole-ly but still the same, lol. so we cut cake, eat cake, play wif lighters, don pushed the cake in my mouth when i was eatin it ... dotz. after dat dai jie and bee kuan left, aww. oh yes almost forgot. I wanna say a big "THANKS!" to all who bought the cake :D first time celebrating in this manner oO
So the rest of us proceeded to eli's house, but karen and carey go home bathe and chng clothes 1st. we drank quite a lot of 100plus *burps* and ate quite a lot of crap, a while later carey and karen were back, then zw and hs gotta go. sigh then onli left donny, karen, carey, eli and me. Then, THANKS to eli's gre8 idea they plotted against me again...so bad hor...still ask donny fake me tell me wad stop zw frm goin home wad crap...then when i was watchin 'inuyasha' on central at abt 11:40+ they off the TV then everyone go downstairs. oya paya som see who tio n be the blind mice, 1st turn onli i tio, dat time i still thought that it was really so zhun. now i remember how eli last time always say hei hei bai to trick bart liao :@ use on me also !!! sigh. then ask me count to ten, then try to catch them while blindfolded. then i catch air...ok then stop, then let them move, then count to 10 again, thn it was 12 am i guess, then, "splat" "wham" "whoosh" handfuls of flour landed on me when I was still wondering "eh, according to my memory, that playground have sand meh!?". I finally woke up to my senses when i felt the texture of the substance and concluded that it was flour...-.-"
wads nxt? i took off my blindfold and zhao la! then ltr we started throwing at each other...cos of dat we gotta bathe. dotz, then eli still go 7-eleven. purposely wanna make me a spectacle. nvm not much ppl lookin at me, I guess they bought some drinks...so we went back, donny bathed 1st, followed by me, then the girls were playing around with make up -.-" does make their eyes more beautiful la, but then a bit too exaggerating to mke up in the night leh -_-"
It was 2+ as I remember when zhan came back, asked him to bring me one extra shirt...gd that he brought it or else i'll still b wearing my "flourry" shirt...we watched some ghost show which I watched b4, then wanna sleep wanna sleep liddat...cos I see the show also sian 1/2 then eli sit at the chain beside where i was sleeping then bo bian liao, i wake up immediately after my lesson when I was sleeping she go n clip my nose, wad the...right? so after everyone sian out we decided to watch wrestling instead, they fight we sian out even more, then we watched shaolin soccer, yay! it was nice :) watched till 4+ then eli go n cook eggs and noodles for us, mmm filled my stomach at least..
then we played truth or dare, zw tio until the most cham one la, lols, then hs though not involved also fly down frm his house at 6+ cos we play play, lols. sian out. When it was finally morning, girls decided to sleep a while in air con rm, we also sleep 1hr like dat on floor, then we went out da play bball, noob out then go back. abt 11+ or 12 we went back, yawnz was tired...
Left zw and hs follow me to my dad's shop. wah reached there liao all super tired sleep on the desk -.-then ltr we decided to rest at the playground instead but my sis still ji xiao-ing us ahhh..shortly after dat my dat bought some cakes for me oO was too full, sang the b'day song wif em, then hs, zw and me go to my house liao, hs play soldat, while zw resumed playing yuri's revenge..then I rested a while on a mat wif a bolster, then i decided not to, and took turns to play soldat wif hs..ltr dunno do wad i also forget, then at night I went to church for christmas service to rejoice in the birth of Christ, the Messiah. which is the true meaning of christmas.. rather than santa, lols...came home liao then plop go sleep liao ZzZz..
25th dec
Went to church in the morning at 10am...
Here are some of my sharings about what I've heard during the sermon...
Topic: Face up to Reality
- Problems are there, we can't deny the existence of problems
- The Problem with problems is not with the existence of the problem, but rather
- Your attitude towards the problem & how you solve the problem.
- Some people may choose to deny their probs, escape from their probs, divert
their attention such as in political probs, and make the prob "he(2) li(3) hua
(4)" making it acceptable, such as in the case of the casino, or the prob of
homosexuals..
- Well the BIGGEST problem of all mankind is this: SIN -> which is most common
&already here and affecting everybody.
- We can't deny that, lots of attention and resources are used to solve it.
- It is clearly shown in the newspapers everyday when you flip through its pages,
how many have made the headlines because of their sin? Robberies, kidnaps,
terrorist attacks, you name it.
- Romans 3:23 for all haved sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
- The solution the world offers are, the police force, the military etc, however, the
problem is not solved. It is jus like keeping the SARS patients quarantined
however not finding the cure for the illness.
- The power of sin is that it controls us, making us slaves of sin, (thoughts, actions & speech)
The consequence:
Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
-Death- there are 3 categories of death
1) physical death (body)
2) separation from God (eternal death)
3) relationship with God b r o k e n.
Genesis 1:26 Then God said, " Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.
-God created man in His Image that is why we have these characteristics
a) we have zi(4) wo(3) (self)
- which is to mean, we have to take full responsibility of what we do. (such as sin)
b) we are like Him a creator, we are inventors
c) Thoughts of right & wrong able to identify what is good and evil
d) Have a soul -from God use: to lead, direct us to God and to communicate with
God, that is why we also have somehow a sense of religion, knowing that there is
a creator of our life.
We ourselves cannot face the problem of sin, it is not within our means.
And the only solution is to accept salvation
John 3:16-18
16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.
17 For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.
18 He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
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Last thing I have to say is, my condolences to those and their families who have perished in the great tsunami disaster.