Ah dang... I was planning to update my blog today, do a bit of my assignments, chat on the phone, and then go to sleep.
But, because I hadn't slept for 35 hours (it's only the 2nd week, mind you), I promptly fell asleep after coming online for like half an hour. While I was asleep, I had 8 unreplied MSN windows, 7 missed calls (4 from someone I was expecting), a fully loaded Youtube video that took ages when I was still awake, and yeah, my incomplete assignments and blog post. Oh well. Sorry everyone!
Zzz. I'm going back to sleep. *Yawnz!*
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Well.... 2nd day of school is over. What a surprise so far. On the first day, we had visual fundamentals. What did we do? DRAW! On the first day! It was like figure studies 4 or something! Geez! Anyhoo, Henry, Licia, Kok Kin and I had like a 3 hour chat in Ming Tien around dinner time. And today, Miki picked me up in the morning. After class, which was about advertising principles (we need to find real clients and create 6 advertisements for them... what the hell), I just hung out with a few others in AD class. Then I went to the arcade with Ruz, where I died so freaking early (and bad) in Time Crisis 3. We also played Ninja Assault, which I've only ever finished once in my life. We were like a stage away from the final stage. Yeesh! We got killed by these bloody midgets who look like ultraman but are damn CUTE!
They looked cuter while we were shooting them =/.
Oooh, look, snowballs!
Went back to school and hung out in the library with Celine, Wai Kwan and Jun Yuen. Lmao conversations -.-. Miki drove me back after her class was done and we had dinner together at some restaurant back in Cheras. Once I arrived home, I fell asleep on the bed. And I woke up at 1am. Yeah. I checked my blog, read through a few others... and well, I saw so many cases of recent breakups among my friends. I can easily recall ten breakups that occured recently. Hmmm... I know it won't be that big of a deal, or some great assistance, but I thought I'd post some notes I wrote during Pat Mesiti's services here. They're quite interesting, and although I didn't include his humour in my notes, you can assure I included the power and spirit they represented. I hope they'll mean something to you.
About friendship:
There are four main stages in friendship. Introduction-->Acquaintance-->Friendship-->Intimacy (not necessarily physical or relationship-wise). Intimacy, sounds much alike "Into me, see." And it is something like that, isn't it?
You should not be afraid of the verbal attacks of your enemies. You should be afraid of the silence of your friends when they do not defend you.
Best of friends often share a common pain.
If you want to build a good connection, you have to share their pain.
You can have friends fight with you in your battles, but not fight your battles.
A true friend offers to you his robe, armour, girdle, and sword.
The robe represents glory. He will share his glory, and cover you with it, with encouragements, with praises, with honour.
Armour represents protection. He will be there to protect you, to fight with you and to help you from harm.
Girdle, or a belt in modern terms. Belts hold your pants or skirts up. Basically, its saying that friends will support and hold you up, to cover your vulnerabilities and insecurities. Girdles in ancient times also had sheaths, to hold swords.
And finally, their sword. When he gives you his sword, he gives you his weapon, his strengths. And its held in your sheath. Also, it means that should you get attacked, it will never be his sword against you, but his weapon will be there for you to use.
Often, the sword of the enemy are the words of people.
Words can be swords. WORD
SWORDSWORDS (its "words" repeated 3 times. Look at the italics)
For Christians, friends should strengthen your hand in God.
You may be the perfect friend, but still never fulfill your own potential. You shouldn't, and can't fight everyone's problems. Do not fight battles that are not your own.
Deep eh? I was blown away by Pat Mesiti's preaching. Listening to the entire thing would be much better than seeing my notes, which often aren't that detailed.
About business and the workplace:
God may give you promises, but He does not always tell you the pain you have to go through for that promise.
Pain softens you. It also makes you stronger.
The words of Jesus save lives. Following the teachings of Jesus makes us grow.
For Christians, if you want the riches of the world transfered to the house of God, you must be their problem solver.
You will be remembered by people for your solutions, plus the problems you create.
If you
have to tell people you are someone or something, then simply, you aren't.
Get a plan, then serve the world.
Always have a sustained effort, a continuous plan.
Wisdom comes with evalutated experience.
When you give solutions to the world, they will transfer their wealth to you.
You can work in the supernatural, without all the spectacular.
Be on time. Add value to your boss. Be sincere. Don't care about titles.
If you want to prosper, make a deal. Everyone makes deals, even God. They're called covenants.
When you prosper and create solutions, you create abundance for everyone.
Yeah. That's about it. I hope they blessed you =).
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Sunday, May 10, 2009
I'm so, so, so, tired. But spiritually, it's been one hell (in a good way) of a week.
On Tuesday we had a church-wide prayer meeting. Then from Thursday to today, it was service after service with Pastor Pat Mesiti. I think I mentioned quite a bit about him in my last post. Hilarious speaker, yet his words are filled with deep convictions and spirituality. On Saturday he spoke about friendship. And boy, that was some of the deepest things I've heard about being a friend. He used the biblical example of Jonathan as a standard a great friend. Sure, Jonathan died fighting alongside his dad, but while he was alive, his friendship with David was the perhaps the greatest friendship ever recorded in the Bible. Although it was less humourous than the services on relationships, I'd say it was very stimulating, and very convicting, on how we treat out friends, and who are our real friends.
Today he spoke about prospering the Egyptians. In modern terms, that meant prospering the unchurched, so that we are a blessing to them, and therefore will have their riches given to us by God. I'm not gonna explain the details, as I think Christians will easily understand the context. The details may be a little hard to grasp for those who weren't there, but Joseph in Egypt was the main figure in his message. His business message was great, and face it, coming from a multi-millionaire, his words in having prosperity are sure to have a huge amount of weight.
The cellgroup went to fellowship later on at some place in Sri Kembangan. Along the way, I had a chat with Faith about the girl I liked. I asked her out recently. It was stupid, actually. We had agreed to meet up some time, and after prodding her, plus a few hints here and there, she's like you want to go out is it? I was like... I guess so. And she agreed anyway. Laughable eh? But true.
*Sigh* Some of the stuff I learned were things I didn't know too much about, or had no idea at all. Things like spiritual immaturity, emotional instability, childishness and all. I had some ideas of it, but to have it acknowledged by my own and her own cellgroup leader gives it a lot of weight in truth. Okay... I guess you could say I'm glad I'm more spiritually mature. As a guy, I'd like to take the lead. Not in a dictator way of course, but just... well, yeah, take the lead. At the same time, I'm sad that the difference is a much bigger gap than I could have ever imagined. It makes things harder, not to mention for her to rise up and grow, it will take more time.
And that means even more waiting, in addition to the past two years.
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Thursday, May 7, 2009
Okay! Sorry for the lack of updates for so long. I honestly don't remember when's the last time I actually left my blog to be dead for such a long time. But first, I have excuses. Firstly, the trip to Singapore. I've still got a few unblogged things from there and I haven't typed them out yet. That explains a few "delayed" posts. Secondly, my internet was cut for almost 2 weeks! Thanks to unpaid bills. Geez.
Okay, so I guess I'll start with the most recent event then. Today, or yesterday, if you're those specific after-midnight-its-the-next-day kinda people -.-. I woke up in the morning and Miki drove me to school. I knew my results on my birthday (talk about a good present from the school, passing everything) but came to take the timetable. Guess what? Lily is teaching me on a subject again. NOOOO! Not her again! How the hell do you face a teacher you've previously complained against? Geez.
Okay, Essenism met up, excluding Kok Kin (replaced by Kok Jing for the day) and we went to hang out in Sunway Pyramid the whole day. Arcades (I'm no longer undefeated in Para Para Paradise... Ruz beat me!) where I trashed Miki in Para Para again. I didn't want to play Time Crisis since the guns there are screwed up. So yeah, it was practically all the dancing games -.-. We hung out at Mac and some Korean restaurant too, to chat about tons of stuff and we also kept spamming the free refills. Well, mostly I spammed -.-, and boy, the washroom was a frequent place to visit after.
Anyway, after the whole day spent with them, I went to church for the first day of Pastor Pat Mesiti's services. Stretching from Thursday all the way to Sunday, it's sure to be a power-packed weekend. For the first 2 days, the topic would be about relationships. And he didn't disappoint. This was actually my first time listening to Pastor Pat Mesiti, and one thing to note, he's freaking hilarious! He adds humour in almost every line he says, yet there are so many spiritual messages behind them. He also has plenty of sayings that really make people feel uneasy. He's very, very direct, and yet there's so much common sense in his words too. His actions and charisma are very amusing and he uses props in his preaching, which was interesting, 'cause I rarely see that among pastors. He's definitely a pastor I'll be glad to hear from again. His sermon today (yesterday, whatever) was actually quite simple on some issues, but just needed to be said in a different way. Others were like full blown revelations about the opposite gender. Part 2 is tomorrow (today, whatever!) and considering the taste of what he's given in the first service, I know I won't be disappointed.
I didn't mind that I was barely a few metres from my girl. Ahem. I kept glancing at her every few minutes, or when Pastor Pat said something that stirred the church in a bigger way. Every word he spoke was full of such humour and emotion, it was hard to not pay attention and really see how much truth there was to this man's words. Better put it to good use once I meet her up =D.
Alright, I think this should be a good starting post as an update. Expect more posts about the last few days and weeks later on. Blame the internet bills -.-.
Nitez!
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It's not alike at all! The first thing said about my bulletin was "This is so 'Howe'". Lmao..jpg)
And while doing the bulletin in school, here's the school bulletin... notice the bottom right..jpg)
It's pastor Kong! That card's from CHCKL. I guess a churchmate/schoolmate posted it up there. Cool. It's funny how my own pastor in Singapore is an overseas pastor up here. Ironic..jpg)
I still don't know what this sachet is for. It's not present in the blood donations in Singapore. Also, that's not where the donated blood goes. But I don't see a use in this sachet =/..jpg)
In better lighting, after I held it up. Blood! Blood, blood! Not funny (inside joke)!.jpg)
They take capsules of blood for testing. With the capsules, I don't see what that extra sachet is for =/..jpg)
Better view. I stupidly shook the capsule on the right -.-. Whoopsies..jpg)
I went to the arcade on Monday night. And while playing, half the arcade blacked out! What the hell! Here's the result..jpg)
My Bible, right beside The God Delusion. I've also been re-reading The God Delusion for like the 3rd time. Just segments and chapters though, this time, just to get a better idea of Dawkin's suggestions. Also, with the new unveiling of Darwinius masillae, aka, Ida, I'm even more inclined to re-read it. I'm sure this is gonna give more hell towards evolution/creation debates.
They looked cuter while we were shooting them =/.
Oooh, look, snowballs!