I wanna be like you

When people say these words to me, of course I would be flattered.. but I will be a bit frightened as well. Many questions I would ask:

Am I good enough?

Why?

What did I do/say?

What if this is not the real me? *gasps*

People do observe other people and choose to model after those they look up to. Those they respect and are inspired by their lives.

I told Jesus, "I wanna be like You."

When I can be like Jesus, I can inspire others to not be like me, but be like Jesus.

Go around, inspire others.. make disciples.

Keep a quiet heart

Been reading this book during office hours (yes, I'm quite free during working hours heheh). It's compilation of Elisabeth Elliot's newsletters.

I'm very inspired by what she wrote. I pray that I'd have the ability to withstand all kinds of problems and still give thanks to God.

I wish I can share with you so many articles from this book, but I rather you read it :)

"Father, let our faithful mind
Rest, on Thee alone inclined;
Every anxious thought repress,
Keep our souls in perfect peace."-Charles Wesley

Deepavali 2

Just need to record this. You know the rice deco thingy during Deepavali, they draw some flowers and put colourful rice on the floor? Haha. I helped to dye the rice today at work. So colourful and pretty numi and blene would love to take pic of em.

Fun stuff. I got my hands coloured.

This is the end product =D Satisfied! We sort of rushed to finish this so can go home early... kekeke

Happy holiday everyone who will be having holiday tomorrow... ..

Retreat

During Deepavali break I joined the West Zone Leaders for the West Zone Leaders Retreat. Being part of the committee for my first retreat was quite fun. I got to know more leaders, really had a great rest and peace at Sanctuary Resort, Cherating.

Love beach, the sound of the wave, the breeze. Unfortunately I couldn't spend much time alone at the beach.

I didn't even know the picture above was taken until the photographer sent it to me on fb. I went to the beach first thing in the morning (after breakfast) but later on had to rush to first session. But it's alright =)

Looking forward to the next retreat!

Eucharisto Night

Eucharisto means "thank you". It's a night where we appreciate the guys. They have been the one who without asking, carry the girls' bags, books, make sure we walk in front, make sure we are safe, etc. W23 guys are really gentlemen. And so we, girls, prepare a night just for them, and also we invite other guy friends to join us! This is one of LoveAlert's big project for this month =)

These are the girls who worked so hard to make the night memorable and successful. They cooked 4 pots of noodles, bread butter puddings to feed 15 hungry boys (after the noodles they begged us to not feed them already haha), pizza, skewed meat with special sauce >.<, muffins and cream puffs! The girls have been cooking since 12pm. *applause*

We had dinner, ice-breakers, performances, best dressed guys to catwalk and prize giving, and ending song. =)

So these are the guys who were present. I hope they all had a memorable and great night.

Well, after the night W23 guys immediately helped clean up the hall and kitchen. I think it's in them already. Can't have them rest just for one night.

Thanks everyone..

Love Alert

This project was something that I have asked my CG members to participate in. I believe if we continually practice loving people, it becomes part of our nature. So, we started it on Nov 1st.

I'm not saying that we were not loving people before we did this and purposely do good to others just for this LoveAlert. Whenever any of the members did something good- fetched their friends, say "thank you" to the guards, stayed back at uni to help lecturer clean whiteboard, pay for the next car's toll, etc etc.. they would tweet @LoveAL3RT/facebook on LoveAlert about it (not to boast) but to encourage others to do the same.

I believe that the small act of love we give can make little changes. I don't mind little changes =)

You can play your part, not necessarily by joining LoveAlert. Just love.

run?

When you are facing problems where do you run to? Away from the problems? Blame others and not yourself and then blog a prayer to God asking for help?

We like giving excuses whenever things go wrong to justify ourselves.

When you are facing problems, you face them. Not turn your back on them. That makes you a quitter; that makes your problems bigger than God.

And sometimes, blogging about your problems will not solve anything unless you do something after publishing your blog post =)

Don't blame your church/leaders if anything goes wrong

And then run to another church

If you don't fix you

Then you'll carry those problems into another church

Thinking of only benefiting yourself

*I was reading blog posts and status updates.. realized a lot of easily emo-ed young teens. Just thought I should share something and hope people get this. Also, I kept reading people posting their problems, but no solution or what happened after that. Don't be a complainer.

Cheers

When Love Came Down

This is what I do when I miss these girls too much. I watch this video..

I didn't show this video last year because I don't really like the Youtube promoting. But I kept laughing as I watched back this video, so it's for YOU =) Maybe it can put a smile on your face eh?

So, this video was taken as we were rehearsing for our Christmas performance. We wanted to see how we look like when we perform (totally awkward, I know) and how we sound (whether we blend or got out of tune or not).

Miss you girls and we should sing together again!

naomi, naomi

One of my closest friend
Is naomi.
I call her numi
And she blogs/emails like this-
Like a poem.
Her filing system is excellent
Labels, arrangements, neat+tidyness
I salute that.
I currently have 4-5 emails
Of different subjects
That we talk about/update each other about
It teaches me to group certain topics
And reply to the correct email :p
We are so different yet so similar
I'm proud to have her as friend :)

All the best in your finals, numinumi!
You are able to memorize the weird names
Able to answer every question right
+ having more than enough time

Will pray for you!

short break!

Happy deepavali to my Indian friends and to the rest, happy short holidays! I'll be heading off to Cherating tonight after work with the rest of the leaders from the West Zone.

If you are of the same faith, please pray with me for:

1. Safe journey
- There are 2 buses- 3pm and 8pm and a van leaving at 10am and a car leaving at 2pm)

2. Good weather
- Monsoon season is coming. Weather in Kuantan is going through some mood swings. We are having teambuilding session at the beach in the evening. So pray for a nice weather!

3. The whole retreat
- from the sound system, to the apartments we are living in, pray we have comfortable place, sleep well
- fellowship
- good time of discussion and learning from the Word of God
- anything you can pray for :)

Thank you!

stadium of heaven

I'm not a football fan, but I was thinking of this illustration yesterday night...

I was thinking about those who are made a decision to accept Christ into their lives. When one soul is saved the whole heaven rejoices! I started imagining how loud would it be?

I imagined a football match and the angels scored against the devil in the Stadium of heaven. One soul saved and the crowd cheered!! Danced around, singing in unison, the devils got angry. But noone cared.

If in a real football scene it is that crazy, imagine heaven. Thundering roar and loud rejoicing for that ONE soul. Probably a hundred times louder. You and I matter to God.

Like what Evangelist Reinhard Bonnke said, "Plunder hell, populate heaven"

"Follow Me"

Notice that there are 2 steps before following Christ:

Deny self --> take up your cross --> follow Christ

You see, you gotta deny yourself and take up your cross before you follow Him.

You can't also just deny self but not take up your cross. Life with Jesus does not guarantee smooth sailing life. Life with Him guarantees a place in Heaven. An everlasting life. But you got to bear the cross. (Not His cross haha. Your own cross-a smaller one cz your not carrying the weight of the world)

And you can't take up your cross without denying yourself then follow Him. Following Christ requires you to put Him as priority, not you. There's no more selfish desires, but desire for the will of God in your life.

But here's the awesome part. Following Christ is not all gloomy and sad, challenges after challenges. It is the best decision because God promises rainbow after rain, light after tunnel, joy after sorrow, solutions after problems.

See, once you are able to follow Christ, He lives in you, you are assured of all the promises in the Bible.