High School Musical 3 – Can I Have This Dance

Keane – Somewhere Only We Know

IL Divo & Toni Braxton – The Time Of Our Lives

David slew Goliath.

Samson destroyed a temple.

Shamgar slew 600 with a ox goad.

But, the strongest was Jacob….. Because he wrestled with God

One of my favourite videos of all time. Can’t help but bring a smile to your face eh? :D

Oh wells, time to prepare soon and leave the house. Gonna go for a swim later, haha

I remembered the first day i was posted to Seletar as a private fresh out of Tekong. I thought to myself then, “Hey, this area is not too bad, looks quite tranquil with the colonial houses and everything”. Of course, life was totally different from that over a 6 months period. Remembered doing 20 push ups in the rain at the car-park the moment I got past the camp gate, haha!

I remembered walking past the colonial houses and wishing I could stay in one like the house below.

I remembered walking along the road and seeing young kids at the driving range, practising their swings, and i toyed with the idea of asking the coaches there to teach me the fundamentals of golfing.

I remembered feeling a sense of excitement, joy and eagerness whenever i saw that road when i booked out, as i would be meeting my friends.

I remembered taking away prata, wanton mee, soy milk and bean-curd from Jalan Kayu for my camp-mates.

I remembered complaining whenever I had to walk the long road out to the bus-stop at the old gate as I wanted to save the bus fare from taking 103 and the sun seemed much brighter than usual.

I remembered running down that stretch of road as I was going to be late for book in, lugging my bag full of tidbits and food, haha!

I remembered brisk-walking up that stretch of road so that I could make it in time for service at Expo after finishing my weekend guard duty because bus 103 just left.

I remembered the time a kind soul stopped his car to give me a lift out to the bus-stop outside, so i did not have to walk the long road out.

And haha, i remembered the time i took the workers’ lorry to the bus-stop outside.

I remembered walking up that stretch of road to meet a very good friend who came to find me, watched her get chased by a Jack Russell Terrier (who’s nicknamed Milo by the way)  and just enjoying her company after  that.

I remembered that one time I went out of Seletar Camp to a ‘place for naughty soldiers’ and seeing that stretch of road after I came out of that place, man, did it feel good. Felt as if I was going home.

And on the day I ORDed, I faced the road again. Knowing that my NS chapter was closed, and boy, did it felt good!   Of course, I didn’t trudged up the road then, my bags were too heavy, took a cab, haha!

I’m looking forward to that road again, it’ll mark a new chapter in my life, my first Reservist training in June. Another set of new memories.

Its amazing what memories 1 year and 9 months can bring, or maybe, I’m just being sentimental. Either way, I’ll see you soon Piccadilly Road

Celebrated Jonathan Yuen Zhe Ming’s 21st birthday at East Coast Park on Sat. Happy Birthday to you Jonnie Boy (Cheeky Monkey)!!!
Welcome to the Oh-So-Prestigous 21 Club Stay funky man, you’re indeed a great friend to have!
The Bday Boy had the fabulous comapny of Char the Goodness, Angel Jodie, The Bubbly Liangkai and me! It was a fun night, filled with joy and laughter (and a little act of arson), basically, just a group of good friends coming together to celebrate and dance a little to club music. Jon, you’ll eat half of my birthday buttercake k? HAHA!
Once again, heres a VERY happy birthday to you again, may all your wishes and dreams come through

I found out a new favourite place to eat! Went to give Potae tuition just now. Headed to a coffee shop near Bukit Gombak MRT to eat, had this SUPER nice Fried 1/2 Spring Chicken with Rice. 3 reasons why its so nice.

1) Its quite big! (Sorry, didn’t take a photo, only occurred to me when the chicken was half-eaten)

2) The chicken though fried still retained its moisture, and the fried rice they served it with was quite nice too.

3) Its only $3.80!!! Good price, and it fills my stomach to a good extent too! Totally affordable, really value for money man. In times like now, its definitely a blessing to have it around

Anyway, just realised that i’m not the same as compared to a few month backs. I’ve definitely grown, but i guess in a certain area, i lack the faith and daringness i had before. Haha, guess thats where faith comes in huh? Really quite surprised when i think about it. Never in my entire 22 years, 4 months and 29 days of life was i like that. I can say i’m Go-Getter cause i don’t believe in regretting later when you look back and wonder what would have been had you made a different choice. But now, for this certain area, i’m no longer who i am. Just need more time i think, or should i say, more faith, haha.

Lastly, i hope Man Utd sinks Arsenal in about 26 hours.

Good Night World

Romans 4:4-5 (NIV version) – ⁴Just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function, ⁵so in Christ we who are many form one body, and each member belongs to all the others.

I thought further, and came up with theses thoughts. The body consists primarily of the head, the main body (your torso), your hands and your legs.

The head, speaks of the leadership of Christ, it consists of the brain, nose, ears, mouth and eyes. God feeds the word to them through the mouth, the eyes see the vision of  God for the church, the breath of God, the life, is breathed through the nose, and the ears hear from God. Imagine this in the natural too as you read.

Now the food and air reaches the inside of the body, it nourishes. More importantly, the air gives the body oxygen, or life if you put it. Similiarly in the context of the church, the outpouring that the leadership receives brings life to the church, it feeds the members of the church, without this food, the body will wilt away, and it’ll cease to function. The eyes and ears receive direction from God, they are the ‘visionary’ senses of the body, without it, the church would be aimlessly wandering around, and perish because of the lack of vision. And of course, theres the brain, but i’ll come to this later.

The main body, hands and legs speaks of us under the leadership. The hands and legs are the part of the body that work. The main body contains of a very improtant part of our human anatomy, the spinal cord. Now as you all know, the brain is connected to the sipnal cord, the nerves transmit and receive ‘messages’ to the whole body. As mentioned earlier, the head receives from God, and all the information is sent to the brain. The brain speaks of the organisation and running of the church, cell groups and outreaches. This information after being processed is then sent to the rest of the body. And of course, the hands and legs will do the work required.

Now lets look at this at other way, as we know, the nerves send signals back to the brain too, don’t believe me? Just go touch a hot iron. Similiar in the context of a church, the hands and the legs and every other part of the body will feedback to the brain about various issues about the church. When that happens, the brain will then process the information again, with added information from what it sees and hear (which speaks of God giving insight and vision to the church). When this information is processed and a new course of action is planned, it gets sends out again, and the various process interacts again to do the work required.

Can you imagine one day if your hand and leg (or any other body part for that matter) does not listen to you anymore? Look at the verses below.

1 Cor 12:15-19 (NIV Version) – “¹⁵If the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” it would not for that reason cease to be part of the body. ¹⁶And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” it would not for that reason cease to be part of the body. ¹⁷If the whole body were an eye, where would the sense of hearing be? If the whole body were an ear, where would the sense of smell be? ¹⁸But in fact God has arranged the parts in the body, every one of them, just as he wanted them to be. ¹⁹If they were all one part, where would the body be? ²⁰As it is, there are many parts, but one body”.

I think the bible gives a very clear picture. The members of the body are NOT to act on their own will. If that happens, the body would be in serious trouble, in fact, i doubt it can survive for long. This is reinforced by this verse, 1 Cor 12:26 (NIV Version) – “²⁶If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it”.

So as christians, what should we do? Work as one i say. As members, we are called to run with the vision of the leadership above us, not go against it. We are called to FLOW. Can you imagine if your brain tells you to head towards that direction as it is the correct one BUT your leg took a mind of its own and start walking in the opposite direction? And some people wonder why they never get to where they intend to.

As members, we are to be teachable, and accept advice. Sometimes, some people ignore the advice that leaders give them. Do you know what its like? Its like a hand delibrately touching an iron even though the brain is shouting at it to stop. And those same people wonder why they keep ending up in situations they don’t like.

Similiarly, the leadership needs to heed feedback from the rest of the body. Imagine a brain that keeps pushing the legs on even though the legs keep telling the brain, “STOP! I can’t take it anymore, i’m too tired!”. The legs will just give way and collapse, and the body will not go anywhere. As a connect group leader, thats one area i need to improve in, to be more sensitive to the needs of my members.

One last point, what can the transmission of nerve signals be viewed as? It can be viewed as fellowship in my opinion. Haha, and by fellowship, it means good, open, honest communication, where lives are being shared. It is the sharing of physical and spiritual burdens. Its a chance for you and me to have our lives impacted and vice versa.

So after all that is said, lets all work together as a body, and we’ll definitley see breakthroughs after breakthroughs in our cell groups, church and other organisations we’re placed in. Let us all LOVE in one accord.

 1 Cor 13:13 – And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is LOVE