For The Past Week,

I've been going to church very early, leaving pretty late and staying at different houses every night. You might have guessed it by now but if you haven't, I went for

LIVE. REVOLUTION AMPLIFIED!/ LIVE. REVAMP

I stole the pictures from Facebook. Not many though. Look, laugh and enjoy!.. Oh yeah, be jealous cause you weren't there too! :D

I thought the stage looked awesome :)

Ming sang Isaac's song!

Li Shyen takes useless photo's. Haha :)

Kem, Adriel and Aaron having the time of their lives.. In church. Tsk, tsk, tsk, the friends I have

Jasmine, Eugenia, Melissa, retard :D, Janice, Jaclyn

Adriel and his (according to him/ or so he wishes) girlfriends (Li Shyen, me, Erica and Kem).

Deemed best picture.. By me! :D

So that's the photo's done! Well, some la. Lazy to upload any more. Therefore, check Facebook! :)

 Live. RevAmp '09 wasn't anything close to what I expected in a conference. It totally shattered my expectations. I guess it was a real breakthrough this year, even if there weren't as many people compared to the years before for all the camps (from what I heard), I would say it was something far, far greater. And I think everyone really, truly saw God's awesomeness through this conference. I mean, come on, wasn't there something that changed your life? Or even just came to you like a big slap on the face, a wake up call? Honestly, I can say that I've seen people change. Maybe it's not drastic, but little changes, you know?

 Every day of the conference, we'd talk about our world views, how we see things in this corrupted period of time, how our minds react through our actions, impacting our communities, making that stand for God, being the change, the different one who doesn't blend in with the rest of the crowd. We talk about doing greater things in our everyday life. My question to you, my friends, is what greater things have you done? Doing greater things doesn't mean you have to build a skyscraper or win a Nobel prize. No, start small, go deep. It's that simple. One important thing I want to point out is that our lives should be impacted in the process too. There isn't any point in getting fired up for God for about a month in a year then just going back to our old and wrong ways.

I believe we should be fired up for a whole year. The first time I heard this quote was from a person from YWAM, I heard it some time last week again, from Rose. Kind of like a reassurance.

"It's possible to go through a whole day without sinning. The secret is not to focus on not sinning, but on God. In whatever you do for that day, do it for God. The words that come out of your mouth, your actions, your thoughts, everything, just focus on God. It's possible. And in time, it gets easier."

Think about it, but I challenge you, don't do it for just one year. Try ten. I know, you probably think that it's a long time and that I've gone mad. But it really isn't that long, I mean, how long can we live for? Do it, and I promise you, you won't regret it. Walk with God daily, talk to Him, live for Him. You know, I really hope my attitude doesn't go back to how it was. As Rose said, I was one of those people who went through me year with bruises and cuts, however I liked and when camp came, I'd get healed, felt better all over again, said that I would live for God and not let the fire in me die down. Guess what? It did, every single year. It's not something to be proud of, I just pray that this will be my testimony, how much God can impact your life when you bless others.

I don't know about you, but God is so real in my life right now. I can't explain it to you, you've got to experience it for yourself. Christianity isn't about going to church and learning about God, it's a personal relationship with Him.

Will you do greater things for God? Think about it.

Your innocence forsaken
Upon that cross
You gave Yourself for us
Carried into Your freedom


Our broken past replaced in
A second chance
The chains have come undone
Death defied in the Father’s love


We are living to make Your name high
Jesus, living to make Your name high
Jesus, You gave what the world
Couldn't offer us


Say what they want
Say what they want
We are free-ee-ee
Woah-o-oo-oo


The atmosphere is changing
Oh, can You hear
The people rising up?
In the hope of Your freedom


Our former ways are breaking
We seek Your face
God, let Your kingdom come
In our praises be lifted up


With eyes on high we praise You
And with one voice we come together
Our one desire to praise You
And lift You up in our surrender


- Your Name High, Hillsong

We Look To Yahweh,

Live. RevAmp was mind-blowingly-and-totally-awesomely-cool-enough-to-make-you-high-seven-days-a-week-and-crazily-mad-in-a-"it-could-only-be-God's-doing"ly amazing. And even that's an understatement. Need I say more? ;)

Sorry, I'm dead tired. Ciao!




"What's up?"


"A movie!"

- JoFan Janice is awesome this way :D It (apparently) was her first try at a lame joke!

Faded,

Oh yeah, for the poll, the answer's all of the above :) Just so you know! Why don't people think I didn't regret giving up on short-distance running? Hmm, odd.




Suddenly, I don't want to learn how to play an Acoustic Guitar..


I WANNA JUMP STRAIGHT TO ECLECTIC/ BASS! :D (I'm that ambitious)

And I did have a plan, Acoustic then Electric/ Bass because I wasn't sure which to learn first.
It sucks being indecisive and fickle.

Have a good week humans!




"I don't know where to go, I don't what to be, I don't know how to change from being me"
- Lostprophets

I'm Baaaaaack,

Hi :) Sorry for letting this blog die. As some of you know, I was in Singapore since Sunday (I thought it was Monday but my Dad thought we'd go a day early!) and I came back today (yesterday, actually. It's 1.40am now), this evening.

I spent a bomb on a pair of Converse O.O But they're pretty! Still doesn't make up for the amount of money I spent on them. Sigh, GOD HAS A REASON FOR EVERYTHING RIGHT?? :D

Umm, Singapore food sucks. Yeah, that's it for Singapore, I guess.

I will update properly soon? OH! About the debriefing session! :D Pray for me that I do, peace!




"And even with the lights out we'll glow"
- Alien Ant Farm

In Your Freedom I Will Live,

I feel so happy today :) Went for both services and surprisingly, I wasn't all tired and grumpy. Which was awesome la. Haha.

Shared about the Mission Trip in YC today for second service and guess what? No stage fright! :D Praise God! in fact, I think I was pretty comfortable up there. I just forgot what I wanted to say la. Haha :)

I've been 'bonding' with Janice so much recently and Alex too. They're so fun to talk to! Haha!


I don't feel as if it's enough. I don't want that fire in me to die down. Not now, not ever. I need more, because honestly, I don't want my life to be back to normal. I don't want to be the same, I feel different now. God didn't sit back and do nothing in my life throughout the Mission Trip and yesterday and today. No, he definitely touched me. uring worship. For both services. I pray that when I go back to school next year that I'll be different. Different in a sense that I won't be as same-same with all my schoolmates. That they'd see Jesus through me. That I'll always remind myself that everything I do is a reflection of Jesus so I should do what He would do. That I'd see everyday as an opportunity to bless others, not because they did something. But because it's more blessed to give than to receive. I have known that for a long long time now. But I felt as if I just understood it. And that I want to practice it. Daily :)




"Woah. Alex is so strong!"
- Janice Khaw, and she didn't say that in a sarcastic tone which made it HILARIOUS!

Slim River Mission Trip,

It was indescribable. But I'll try to describe it anyway :p

When we arrived at Slim River, we went to the church we were sleeping in. It's pretty much a shop lot, you know, the ones with the bedrooms and kitchens upstairs. So there was two bedrooms and a lounge kind of thing. Girls slept in the bedrooms while the guys slept in the lounge thingy. But it wasn't what I expected. They had air conditioning there, proper toilets and hot water to bathe and mattresses in the two bedrooms. It. Was. Like. A. Holiday. Not that I'm complaining or anything ;)

Hmm, so first day first. We arrived at 11 something and went to eat after checking out the church we were going to stay in. Then to the village that required our painting services. The church, at least. Painting's fun :) If you don't mind it getting on you, that is. The children there were SO adorable! And we met about three girls that were sitting for their SPM. They were singing (for fun la) and ohmygosh, NATURAL HARMONIZATION O.O No, I don't think they have anyone that teaches them to sing. But seriously, they can sing. We had mamak for dinner that night :)

Second dayyy! Was supposed to wake up at 7am to go for a morning walk because Rose wanted to walk in the morning la. Haha, I chose sleep over exercise (pretty obvious, as you can see xD). Had devotion, well, I'll consider it a discussion, at 8am. It was so fun and interesting (yes, I really thought it was)! Uhh, went to the two villages we were supposed to go to. And I would say our skit and art thing was a success? Well, the children looked like they enjoyed themselves anyway :) That night we drove to Tanjong Malim to go to... FU MAN RESTAURANT! HAHAHA! I don't have a picture but I think Bernard will upload it to Facebook. Oh yeah, Mandy, Janice, Jaclyn and I were sitting in the car with Bernard. We had an intellectual conversation! Sort of la huh. Haha, it was interesting. Never saw it that way before. And like Alex says, Bernard is always right.

Last day, devotions again at 8am! :D Left for another two villages and it was awesome. I worship lead for the first village and I screwed up but OH WELL. And shared my testimony there. Blah blah blah, next village! I think by the last village I got used to talking in front. Well, sort of. And that, my friends, is how I managed to feel nothing as I was sharing this morning at YC! :D Praise God! Then Rose told all of us to tell our parents we'd be back at church at 10pm because we were going to Ipoh. She didn't tell us why though. Personally I thought we were going to eat Hor Fun. But nooooo. We went to some stupid horse breeding farm. JUST KIDDING LA! It was pretty cool. They told us about how they have about 100 mothers (horses la) and only 5 fathers. Imagine that. And umm, apparently it only takes a minute to get the horse pregnant. And if a foal is with it's mother while she has to get pregnant, they put it in a cage so it can watch it's mother get pregnant O.O TRAUMATIZING MUCH?? Okay la, maybe not for horses. And we were supposed to have Claypot Chicken Rice for dinner, but it was closed :( We had to settle for Chap Fan. Let me get one thing straight,

YOU DO NOT DRIVE ALL THE WAY TO IPOH TO EAT CHAP FAN. Sigh, it was so sad.

Hmm, so that's the not-so-deep post done.




"Who here is kia su? *raises hand while everyone else just stares* What la you all?!?!"
- Mandy Teow, this was FUNNY!

Dum Dum Dum,

I watched New Moon today. Laughed quite a bit because Robert Pattinson looked like a retarded and constipated drug addict. Same in Twilight. And Taylor Lautner has such awesome abs ;)

Yeah, and I was pretty much broke today. Sigh, oh well.

John Mayer :) Need I say more?

"Okay, I think the Lostprophe -- Lostprophets pula. I mean the Prodigal Son."

- John Lim Soon Lek, awesomest quote throughout the entire Mission Trip. Come on, he called us Lostprophets! HAHA!