DINNER @ CHIKUYA; DESSERT @ MAX

These are bunch of best mates I've ever had in this whole wide world.
I thank God for their friendship!!! They give and expect nothing in return (am I right? hahaha).

How do I describe them? They are people who are:

• Generous
• Sincere
• VERY funny / humorous
• Thoughtful

RE: 2ND INTERVIEW

I've got the job offer!!! Very2 happy :D

Thanks to all for your prayers.

Most of all: "Thank You Lord"

LOVE IN ANY LANGUAGE

"Je t'aime te amo"
"Ya tyibya I yublu"
"Ani ohevet othka"
"I love you"
The sounds are all as different
As the lands from which they came
And though our words are all unique
Our hearts are still the same

CHORUS
Love in any language
Straight from the heart
Pulls us all together
Never apart
And once we learn to speak it
All the world will hear
Love in any language
Fluently spoken here

We teach the young our differences
Yet look how we're the same
We learn to laugh, to dream our dreams
We know the sting of pain
From Leningrad to Lexington
The farmer loves his land
And daddies all get misty eyed
When they give their daughters' hands
And maybe now we realize
How much there is to share
We find too much in common
To pretend it isn't there

BRIDGE
Though the rhetoric of governments
May keep our worlds apart
There's no misinterpreting
The language of the heart

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Just a thought on "love" - aren't we so lack of love towards each other these days, whether or not we notice it, we are so caught up in our own lives that we forget people around us who might cry out for attention and love (not romantic kind of love).

Anyway that is a great song, I just listened to it on a CD sung by Sandy Patti (my most fav singer).

WHERE THE NAILS WERE

Words & Music by Gary Driskell & Marty Hennis

"Father forgive them," I heard You faintly say
Still, in my heart I feel so guilty
I know the truth is the debt was mine to pay
How could it be right that it happened this way
A fallen and sinful life I was leading
Now, why is Your body torn and bleeding?

CHORUS
It should've been my hands where the nails were
It should've been
It should've been my my feet where the nails were
It should've been
It should've been my side that was opened
My heart that was broken
It should've been my hands
It should've been my feet
Where the nails were

At times I am tempted to overlook Your grace
Thinking I'm worth the love You've given
I walk like I'm earning the right to run the race
Somehow forgetting You died in my place
Still isn't long before I've stumbled
One look at the cross and I am humbled

It was Your blessed hands
It was Your precious feet
It shoud've been my hands
It should've been my feet
Where the nails were

2ND INTERVIEW

I went for the 2nd interview today at the actual company, it was a great experience. Though when I was called for a 2nd interview, I had no self-confidence in myself, doubting if I could really do this well.

My mom never stopped reminding me that I must pray and ask for God's wisdom. I did... and my mom also prayed for me.

I remembered when I got a job at TNT 3 years back, I did not have any experience in any corporate work before, not sure how I got that job anyway. They claimed that they liked me alot, apart from that, I did not have anything to offer them - no experience nor skills. If God really wanted me there, so I was there, which that now I can use those experiences to apply for other job.

Now I trust if this is really what God intends to give me, I will get it, not because what I have done to achieve it, although I never doubt that God sees our effort in all of that, but the end decision is not ours to make, it's God's.

I want to encourage us to not boast about anything that we've achieved so far, acknowledge Who is it really behind all our success and achievements if it wasn't God Who made it all possible. Though keep trying but never boast about anything!

GRACIOUSLY WONDERFUL

On this rainy Monday morning, listening to good CDs, I come to think about God's blessings throughout my life - how can I thank Him enough it's just impossible. "God, You've been so graciously wonderful to me, I want to ultimately give this life to You as a living sacrifice though it won't be a perfect one."

Gotta count my blessings:
1. Our mom is here - it's sooooo great!!!!
2. I graduated on the 21st of September 2005 with B.Mus.
3. Had 3 job interviews in a row last week.
4. Going for a singing competition in 2 weeks.
5. Alive and healthy.

Does not mean I don't have hard times at the moment, I am having alot of them... but knowing that God is forever faithful and He never fails in whatever He's intending to do in our lifes - I dwell on His promises.

I hadn't been able to post in these last couple of weeks - apologise for that. =P

Hope you are all well - Emmanuel (God is with us).

MY TRIBUTE

[Verse 1]
How can I say thanks
For the things You have done for me
Things so undeserved
Yet You gave to prove Your love for me
The voices of a million angels
Could not express my gratitude
All that I am and ever hope to be
I owe it all to Thee

[Chorus]
To God be the glory
To God be the glory
To God be the glory
For the things He has done
With His blood He has saved me
With His power He has raised me
To God be the glory
For the things He has done

[Verse 2]
Just let me live my life
Let it be pleasing, Lord, to Thee
And if I gain any praise
Let it go to Calvary
With His blood He has saved me
With His power He has raised me
To God be the glory
For the things He has done

© 1971 Bud John Songs, Inc.
Words and Music by Andrae Crouch

JESUS DOESN'T CARE

By. Point of Grace

You told me no one would love you
If they could see deep inside
You say your friends might desert you
If they knew the truth you hide
But there's One that knows you
Better than you know yourself
And He still loves you more than anybody else

For so long you've run from the Father
Into a life of sin
And each time He lovingly called you
You turned your back on Him
But no matter if your failures are great or small
There's no way to hide them
He already knows them all

CHORUS
Jesus doesn't care what you've done before
How you've rebelled or slammed the door
No matter how far you've run
Or how long you've been untrue
Jesus doesn't care He still offers forgiveness to you

BRIDGE
How many tears will you cry
'Til you cry out to the Father
So many tears
An honest plea for mercy He will not deny
Trust him and you're gonna find

THE NOSE!

Last night Fred and I met up with our cousin from Singapore and his newly wed wife. We had never met this cousin in our entire life until last night. However, it didn't take us long to find each other in front of the IMAX building at Darling Harbour when I found out he and Fred have something in common, the nose!

MY SILLY LITTLE STORY

I got on a 400 bus to go teaching in Kingsford today. Then I noticed a guy in that bus, sitting 2 rows in front of me but across on the other side (he was sitting near the back door, I was sitting just right after the back door, anyway...). I thought he was cute and a gentleman kind of guy (silly me, but I guess it's normal right?), well thought he was cute and that's all to it. Not sure what happened, my bottle of water dropped and rolled to the front, well before it got rolled any further, he stopped it by his foot (wow, a quick response I thought! that was like 2 seconds!) but then as he was trying to grab it, it rolled back on the stairs (back door). So I got up and tried to get it instead, he said "let me get it for you", so I was like "o..ooh thank you".

Afterwards I thought to myself...how silly! This happened like one of those drama series you watch on TV.

GOD'S BOXES

I have in my hands two boxes which God gave me to hold. He said, "Put all your sorrows in the black box, and all your joys in the gold."

I heeded His words, and in the two boxes both my joys and sorrows I stored. But though the gold became heavier each day, the black was as light as before.

With curiosity, I opened the black, I wanted to find out why. And I saw, in the base of the box, a hole which my sorrows had fallen out by.

I showed the hole to God, and mused, "I wonder where my sorrows could be." He smiled a gentle smile and said, "My child, they're all here with me."

I asked God, why He gave me the boxes, why the gold, and the black with the hole? "My child, the gold is for you to count your blessings, The black is for you to let go."

YOUR PLAN

Have you ever had situations in life which they happen one after another that ensure whatever you are doing will be unsuccessful and then you ask "Lord, what is your plan in all of this?" You can begin to guess this and that, but somehow they contradict each other in the end and you wonder how is it gonna work out if God really has a plan for you, good plan, not a plan that can harm you?

I remembered posting an article on Plan and Direction from God. Direction from God are the ones that are almost impossible to be fulfilled alone without God's strength and His guiding hands.