"SOMEONE"

I'm so happy and excited... but I will have to wait. I'll tell you later what it is.....

Hint: there's someone new in my life! :)

"FRIENDS" BY MICHAEL W. SMITH

Packing up the dreams God planted
In the fertile soil of you
I can't believe the hopes He's granted
Means a chapter in your life is through
But we'll keep you close as always
It won't even seem you've gone
Cause our hearts in big and small ways
Will keep the love that keeps us strong

(CHORUS)
And friends are friends forever
If the Lord's the Lord of them
And a friend will not say "never"
Cause the welcome will not end
Though it's hard to let you go
In the Father's hands we know
That a lifetime's not too long to live as friends

With the faith and love God's given
Springing from the hope we know
We will pray the joy you'll live in
Is the strength that now you show
But we'll keep you close as always
It won't even seem you've gone
Cause our hearts in big and small ways
Will keep the love that keeps us strong

YUPEE BUT...

I went to Uni to collect my timetable yesterday, to my surprise, I am not doing that many subjects this semester (which happens to be my last one, I hope! I'm very nervous!). I won't have any paper exams, only for the practical ones (piano exams), though I've a research subject which will require alot of work throughout the semester, there will be presentation and reporting to do, it gives me headache already. I guess in the end, the load will work out to be the same as having 5 exams altogether. As I said I'm very nervous still!!

In the meantime I have to finish the drama songs plus I need to practice for the weekend concert AND the pieces for my new semester! I think I'm going to faint... Lord, help me to be strong and healthy, to be wise and smart in everything I do, and I know I won't be perfect.

Let me go back to my stuff then. A lot to be done...................

ENCOURAGEMENT 2 & QUOTES

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If God brings you to it, He will bring you through it

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Happy moments, praise God

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Difficult moments, seek God

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Quiet moments, worship God

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Painful moments, trust God

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Every moment, thank God

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"Laughter is an instant vacation." – Milton Berle

"Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand." – Neil Armstrong

TOMORROW

These are what I have to do tomorrow:

1. Deposit a cheque.
2. Go to Uni to collect my timetable.
3. Practice piano (I'm having a sort of concert/demonstration to do this weekend).
4. Chat with an old friend.
5. Bible study at Jo's.
6. Expecting something in the mailbox!

I'm somehow not looking forward to anything these days. I haven't been very patient either. No one has made me really happy, instead they have made me really cranky. :(

There has been a few changes made around my work place, not just the way the place looks like now, but also the school policy (it seems to be getting better and better each time, very good). But everyone is still sort of getting around it at the moment. By the way, I've just got my ABN last week. I'm not starting my own business yet, wished I could, hmm one day! :)

Uni is next week, 28th Feb to be exact. I am nervous and scared. Please hope and pray that I will be doing well and will graduate. Also very nervous of what's next?! Oh well.. it's never ending, is it? Someone told me yesterday, "Don't be afraid to make decisions, whether it's a good decision or a bad one (as in a hard decision), God is in control of that" - as God promised in Romans 8:28. Each choice may lead to different path of the future, but it will be within God's will as long as we make that choice in our dependency on God and His promise.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, C! :)

We celebrated valentine's day at Pemuda yesterday. That was long, we started 5pm and didn't finish until quarter to 9. We had normal praise and worship time, then sharing by Rev. Joe on the topic "Looking for a relationship 2" with bible passage taken from 1 John 4:7-12. Basically there are 3 elements in a relationship: love, commitment and sacrifice. I liked the big letter 'L' he concluded with, isn't he creative? I really found the word of God spoke to me so personally. We then had few games, dinner, a farewell moment with Jule then finally a bday song for Monnie!!!! Because guys had to bring flowers, Monnie then had the priviledge to receive most of the flowers from the guys as bday gifts I supposed, isn't she lucky... :) *Happy Bday yaaa, Mon*.

Btw our group won! We were divided into groups according to the tables we were sitting. That was so fun, we had to make a poem dedicated to someone (anyone at all except anyone from our table). We did ours for Jule, hoped she liked it. :) Anyway we called our group "24 Karat" and those words had to be in the poem. We did our poem, then another task was.. we had to draw something about human relationship on a big piece of paper, I reckoned Ken did a great job on that! Final game was answering the trivia questions. It wasn't too bad, we got 7 out of 10 questions right. Yeah.. and we won! Well well.. only games. For the dinner we had spring rolls for the entree, pasta and salad for the main, ondel2 and rockmelon for dessert. All big thanks to the consumption peeps. You guys are wonderful ;).

All then went home, and I got home around 9:30ish, took a shower and composed few lines of songs. Went to bed 11:30pm and had to wake up 5:30am this morning to catch train and bus to church. I got to church pretty early 7:30am (considering I wasn't doing any pelayanan). It was a good time to sit down and pray just to prepare my heart to worship Him. Morning sermon was brought by Rev. Joni, it's themed "Bertumbuh dalam kasih" taken from John 13:34-35; Proverbs 17:1, 22.

Points which strucked me the most were:

• Love - because then the world knows that we are His children.
• When you love, you don't depend on your mood (happy/sad) - means you need to be loving at all times.
• Even people with both extremes: extreme 1 (ppl with self-confidence, arrogant, successful) & the other extreme (self-pity, shy, lack of self-confidence) - both need love. There's always some place in their hearts that yearn for love. We need to be loving them, understanding them.
• Love is real action - imagine if you don't have a mouth to tell others that you love them, you don't have hands to write them that you love them - it's what you do, how to treat others is real action of love, and it can be understood.
• Finally, it's Holy Spirit that works in us to enable us to love others - don't depend on your own strength, it's just impossible!

When I was listening to the sermon, I couldn't help but cry because it's something that I knew I needed to hear. I've been struggling with this, to love those that very close to my heart, it's often hard. I cannot be loving when I am angry and upset and dissapointed. God was loving even when we were in sin, He must be very dissapointed and sad, but that didn't stop Him from loving us. I realised (again) then how sinful I was.

So the rest of the Sunday went normal, I had to teach theory and then had choir (we are busy practicing for Good Friday and Easter services), lunch provided by one of the tante (yummy, thank you tanteee!), and met up with someone over coffee, encouraging chat, thank you.

Fred called me earlier today to buy some thai food from Tum Thai on my way back home for dinner, I had totally forgotten all about it!! When I got to the city, I was like "ooohh noooo...!! Fred is gonna kill me!" hehe. I am getting very forgetful now... o well. Signs of aging huahahaha.

So I went home and it was pouring rain! Met Irma and Victor at the Rockdale train station... 3 of us walked home with our umbrellas, but we still got wet. Got home around 6pm, I went for a nap for 2 hours, made up for the early morning.

I'd better stop now! That was how my weekend went.

Btw, cc Fang, happy birthday!!! Luv you much! :D

THIS DAY

This day is fragile
Soon it will end
And once it has vanished
It will not come again
So let us love
With a love pure and strong
Before this day is gone

This day is fleeting
When it slips away
Not all our money
Can buy back this day
So let us pray
That we might be a friend
Before this day is spent

[CHORUS]
This day we're given is golden
Let us show love
This day is ours for one moment
Let us sow love

This day is frail
It will pass by
So before it's too late
To recapture the time
Let us share love
Let us share God
Before this day is gone (2x)

By. "Point of Grace"

This is one my favourite songs by Point of Grace which happens to be one of my favourite christian groups also. It's meaningful and got simple tune and kinda sweet. Will definitely share this song one day at church or anywhere...

Anyway.. all I wanted to say is that...
I've learnt that I need to be loving when it's still bitter.
I've learnt that love is a matter of action not words.
I've learnt that love is not self-centred.
I've learnt that love can change a person entirely (to the better).
I've learnt that to love is to sacrifice.
I've learnt that to love is to persevere.

You can agree/disagree it's okay. But I thank God for what I've learnt to be a better person, to be more loving and to be those I mentioned above. Most of all.. to be more Christ-like, He is the perfect example of love, not example really, He IS 'love'!

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY

"For God so loVed the world

That He gAve

His onLy

BegottEn

SoN

That whoever

Believeth In Him

Should Not perish,

But have Everlasting life."

(JOHN 3:16)

ENCOURAGEMENT

The hands that fashioned the universe

Are strong enough to heal you

And gentle enough to hold you

May you find rest & healing

In the arms of our loving Father


(Isaiah 40:11 KJV)
"He will feed His flock like a shepherd;
He will gather the lambs with His arm,
And carry them in His bosom..."


Would like to dedicate this to my most beloved cousin, Jesus loves you!

GAWAT

Gawat .... lagi banyak mood and inspiration to compose songs. It's cominnggg....... just afraid of losing it... God help me. Duh, trus dah malem lagi.. malu kalo nyanyi2 trus didengerin koko hehehe. La...la...la......

Wish me luck! :p

CURED

My blog was sick for half a day today and was cured by doctor Didi.. that's all my fault, I tried to give strange food for it to eat, everything went wrong. Poor blog! Thanks doctor Didi for your kind help. So how much does it all cost? :p

Anyway I just wanted to say "GongXi" to everyone (it's a little bit too late now isn't it?). I meant to post a cute CNY picture to my blog and it seemed to be quite successful, but then not really. I ended up stuffing up the whole blog hahaha.. it was quite fun actually playing around with the programming codes. *Silly me!*

Alright.. it's been a long day and have had alot of thoughts in my mind. But alot of them I ought to be thankful for. Good night all...

ANOTHER GREAT ARTICLE

Deep Waters

God has placed great things in you. As Jeremiah 29:11 states, "‘For I know the plans I have for you,’ declares the Lord, ‘plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you a hope and a future.’" Within each person is the potential for greatness.

Greatness does not come easy though. This proverb teaches us that in order for us to get to the purposes and plans that God has given us, we have to take the time to draw them out of ourselves. As a person goes to a well and drops a bucket down and brings it back up in order to get water, so we must examine our heart and draw out what God has placed in us.

Spend some time with God, drawing out the purposes of your heart. It is a rewarding adventure when you begin to see what God is doing in your life and choose to follow Him unconditionally. Don’t be frustrated if you aren’t where you think you should be. Remain faithful where you are at and allow God to mold you into what He wants to. Your current place does not have to be your final destination. Continue pressing on in Him!

"SOFT TIME"

I read today's passage from the ODB...

Read: Galatians 3:26-4:7

When the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the law. —Galatians 4:4

After studying the behavior of thousands of cell-phone users, James Katz, a professor of communication at Rutgers University, has concluded that the cell phone has changed the nature of the way we think of time. Researchers now speak of the US as living in "soft time." This term has been coined to describe the thinking of a cell-phone user who calls at 8:20 to say he will be late for the 8:30 meeting, arrives at 8:45, and considers himself on time because he called ahead.

Unlike us, God is always on time. While we may struggle to understand why He doesn't act in world events or in our personal lives as speedily as we think He should, the Bible proclaims the punctuality of the Almighty according to His plan. Galatians 4:4-5 says, "When the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption as sons." And Romans 5:6, "When we were still without strength, in due time [at just the right time] Christ died for the ungodly."

We can trust this same wise and loving God, who has never been late in His eternal plan, to be right on time in every detail of our lives. —David McCasland

God's thoughts are above human knowledge—He moves in mysterious ways to work out eternity's purpose through time's short procession of days. —Stiefel

God's timing is always right.

I NEED "MOOD"

It's been a week since I was back to work. Meeting all my students again is such a great experience. Some kids have really grown taller, some have had their new stylish haircuts done :).

I can't believe it's really already February. Uni is about to start in a couple of weeks. Life is really going faster and faster each day. I also can't believe I've been in Australia for more than 7 years now. Who knows it's going to be my last year here in Sydney. How sad....

Btw my weekend was full of fun. It was Ken's birthday on Saturday, we all celebrated it after Pemuda fellowship. "Happy Birthday again Ken, may God bless you as always!". On Sunday we went to Manly for a lunch at Ribs and Rumps (aah for more about that, visit 3's workshop - he simply explained it much better than I would do). That sort of summarises all we did on Sunday. Except I slept after I got home from around 7:30pm till 10pm. I was so tired and sleepy. But really had a great time.

Today wasn't much.. I went teaching then came back home, had 2 sushi rolls for dinner, watched the X-factor, got online and that's it. Boring and lazy Monday.. hehe.

I have to start composing some songs! Mood... please come to me...!! I need youuu.... :D

FRIENDSHIP

......F.R.I.E.N.D.S.H.I.P......

Friendship is

a precious gift

that can't be

bought or sold.

It's value

is far greater

than mountains

made of gold.

If you would ask

God for a gift,

be thankful

if He sends

not diamonds,

pearls, or riches.

But the love and

trust of friends.

A BIRD'S EYE VIEW

Nothing to post really....

Just wanna say I'm here and alive. :)

Everyone out there ... please enjoy your day.

I've been reading a few good articles on my spare time.. here's one of them.

Mom got up early Sunday morning and got the kids ready for church. Dad sat in the living room, reading his newspaper and looking out at the snow. They'd had the conversation before, but nothing had changed.

"Why don't you go with us this week?" she asked. He didn't look up from his paper.

"You know why," he said out loud and then in his own mind finished the answer with "A truly great God wouldn't care about puny humans anyway." The man replayed the argument in his mind: "If God is so perfect and great, why would he care about helping us? If God is so powerful, why would he make his son become a human being? Why would he stoop so low to help us.... if God is really so great."

The house was silent except for the sound of the logs crackling in the fireplace. From the other end of the house came a strange thump. The man put down his paper and walked down the hall. Outside the window huddled a group of birds. In confusion and fear, they had flown into the window pane and fallen to the ground. They huddled together in the snow trying to figure out what to do next.

The man felt sorry for the birds. He thought to himself, "The birds could go in our barn and they'd be warm there." So he went outside and opened the door to the barn. Then he waited in the cold. The birds didn't move. "I know, I'll shoe them over to the barn door," the man thought. But as he tried to herd the birds to the barn they simply scattered. Only after he left them alone did they come back to their spot in the snow.

The man had one last plan. He went back in the house and got a loaf of bread. Carefully, he tore off pieces of bread and made a path to the barn door. But the birds just huddled closer together, ignoring the gift of life which the man was offering. Stumped, the man stood looking at the birds, wondering just what it would take to get them to safety.

He thought to himself, "If only I could become a bird and lead them to safety, then they wouldn't have to die." He stopped and thought about it again. And he finally understood.

-- Author Unknown