Let's have a lesson on Venn Diagram. :)

Was in an MRT on Friday and saw something which set me thinking about Venn Diagrams... 

So let's have a lesson on Venn Diagram. :)

Black = bad attitudes, wrongdoings, weaknesses, lying, sins etc.

White = good attitudes, good deeds, strengths, righteousness, etc.

Each pictures depicts the heart of a person.

Pic 1 - What do you conclude on the heart of this person?

Pic 2 - What do you conclude on the heart of this person?

Is he better than the heart of in Pic 1?

Pic 3 - What do you conclude on this?

Better than the 1st and 2nd?

Pic 4 - What do you conclude on this?

In Pic 1, I put you into a perspective and you were made to conclude in a certain manner on this person. And then in Pic 2, Pic 3. Finally, Pic 4. But in actual fact, Pic 1 - 3 are just part of Pic 4. (I hope you are still following. Ha.) It's all about the same person but yet in different perspectives.

When we were in school, we were taught that when looking at the Venn Diagram or drawings, it has got to do with perspectives. Very sadly, many times, we don't apply that into our ministry to people. We judge people based on the little that we know from our perspective.

We draw a conclusion on that person before we actually gave him enough time and chances to be changed by God. We look at their lying habits and conclude in our hearts that we should keep a distance. We look at one that is in frustrations and angry all the time, and conclude that there is something wrong with his attitudes and probably gossip about it to everyone else. We look at one that is struggling in lust and gambling ways, and we conclude that he is just a sinful man and a disappointment. Our judgmental list just goes on. Striking each one off our list of "worthy" Christians.

Has anyone wondered why they are like that? What had happened on the inside of them?

Jesus says He did not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

Are we playing too much religious games that we have forgotten that Jesus came exactly to seek and save the lost? Have you forgotten that you were also once in that same list before someone imagined and thought about you and believe that all things are possible in Christ for you.

My standard has never been lowered about commitment toward God. 

But let's not forget that in the midst of us achieving our ambitious revival, we know we are making a difference in real souls that Jesus has come exactly to seek and save. 

Render mercy to those in need of mercy.

Rom 15:1 (MSG)

Those of us who are strong and able in the faith need to step in and lend a hand to those who falter, and not just do what is convenient for us.

Strength is for service, not status.

SAFRA Yacht Club @ Sembawang

After a tiring day in the warm weather trying to print photos for the water baptism candidates, Vic and I went for dinner with his cousins at SAFRA Yacht Club @ Sembawang. Very nice food! Quite nice scenery too. We ordered Prawns, BBQ sotong, Curry Fish Head, Sambal Kangkong, Chicken and drinks for 5 of us. It only cost $133. How I wish I had enough stomach space to finish all the curry...

I heard that after 8pm, there would be a man who will be singing as he plays his guitar. 

Owww... So romantic... Hope I can go back again.

How you like the pic above? 

I just read Edmund's blog on how he does the nice layouts of pics. So tried it out. Nice? 

If you are interested, you can read 

http://edunloaded.blogspot.com/2008/03/blog-collages-with-photoscape-scrapbook.html for more info.

Hope the pictures I post, in future, will be more interesting in terms of its layout.

2 dreams

Yesterday night, I had nightmares. Woke up twice. In the dream, I was on the way home in a cab alone and I couldn't get hold of Vic. Well, quite old-tale... I was driven to a deserted place by the ill-intentioned driver. Of cos, I was awakened by the malicious (do you use this word like this?) advances of the driver in the dream. I wasn't crying or really scared by it. Just that when I woke up I was very sian that I had disturbed sleep. Went back to sleep and I think I dreamt on the same thing again or similar and woke up again. 

But the good thing is after I prayed and went back to sleep, I dreamt of something very good! I dreamt that we were having church service in a VERY VERY HUGE HALL. It's similar to Hall 8 as in there are terraces by the sides encircling the entire hall. We left our bags at our seats and we went to hang around in the front portion of the hall talking to Pastor YK and some leaders. Then we realized that the ushers were clearing the floor area seats and putting our bags at the terraces. Just by walking from the front to where our seats were, it was a long long distance. A bit kua zhang. Anyway, the hall was filled with people and I especially remembered the many ushers stacking up the chairs on the floor area. So many of them. Fast and 'furious'? Haha.

Sometimes, in real life, we have 2 dreams as well. 1 dream that is fulfilled by our fears and apprehensions. And another dream that is achieved by our faith. Alot of times, we are held back by the fear of the future and the fear of failures. Yet, in our wildest imagination, we audaciously dream to achieve those great things in life. 

Which do you focus on? The fear that you may lose what you already have? Or the faith to achieve what you have always desired within?

Some dreamt to do business and become rich. While others put you down for being so money-minded. But didn't the bible says that it is His desire to PROSPER us. 

Some desired to be in the top professions such as doctor, lawyer & politician, and become well known and influential. While others sneered at you for being so concerned about fame and recognition. But didn't the bible says that we are to go into ALL THE WORLD to preach the gospel and being an INFLUENCE to the influentials.

Some long to have great beauty and a wonderful body. And others joked about your longing to becoming the next Ms. Universe or Mr. Hunk. But the bible says that even the priests were dressed in robes with gold, silver and bronze, adorned in the beauty of the "worldly" possessions. 

It all depends on how you view your dream. Bigger dreams demand greater commitments and draw greater challenges. Be encouraged when you find great challenges in your life. You were truly made for a great future.

Don't back down.

Went to jog this morning!!

The sky is so beautiful today. Feels good just by walking to Bishan Park and seeing this.

There begins my jog... But today, I only ran 400m in 2-3min and then for the rest of the 2.9km i was doing brisk walking. Cos i was having chest pain even before the run. So I guess I shouldn't take that risk. In fact, after the 400m run, i was feeling rather unwell. Still, i managed to finish walking. HA. And it feels good! Was SOooo hungry after that.

And Vic was perspiring like nobody's business. He was totally DRENCHED in his sweat.

That was the sweat left after walking from Bishan Park to our house. If he would let me take a photo of him, you would see how DRENCHED he was. He was totally WET including his top and shorts dripping with sweat. And it continued till i finished bathing and he was still dripping with sweat. HAHA.

This pic view looks like a good scene for "gu zhuang xi". 

Haha. ok. enough of my running.

Timothy, Adam, NIcholas, Cin and I went to Swenson after our dinner at PastaMania. O where is Tim in the pic?! Dair... the plate of Swenson Earthquake. Haha. He just decided to shrink his head backward and ta-da... he disappeared from the pic. Haiz.

对不起，请原谅我

我已经没有理由让你留下
没有理由让你爱我

我选择往错的方向继续走
对自己的惩罚对你的交代

对不起，真的对不起
我失去了自己
失去了对你的爱
请你只记得我爱你的时候
有一天当我找到自己
找到回头的勇气
而一切还不算太迟
我好想说对不起，请原谅我

Romantic Princess

Rating:	★★★★
Category:	Other

Main Casts: Zhang Shao Han, Wu Zhun, and the other guy from fei lun hai. (I dunno how to read his chinese name. Ha.)

Very nice! Leaves you wishing you were a princess too! Caused my heart to fonder for my hubby's love. (mushy) HA. But it's a probably rather miserable for him cos i asked him every night why he is not romantic anymore. HAHA.

And of course, Wu Zhun is so CHARMING. Aiyo. I thk the role makes him so charming. Someone with a dream and works hard for it.

Of cos, Zhang Shao Han's acting is great. The songs in the show are mostly from her latest album. Very nice songs. Fell in love with the songs after I started watching the show.

However, I thk towards the last few episodes, it doesn't have much depth to it. And ended a bit... Anyway, I thk there might be 2nd series to the show.

I strongly recommend it for ladies. No so much for guys I guess.

Corner With Love

Rating:	★★★
Category:	Other

Main Casts: Xiao Zhu & Da S

Alot of misunderstandings in between. Misunderstandings caused by each person's pride. Just can't admit love and communicate it. Aiyo. A bit silly. But still, it's generally enjoyable.

Just Finished

Well well... I just finished my de-cluttering work to the kitchen cabinet. Haiz. Not very successful. 

Like what I said previously, it's not my kitchen you know. So rather limited in what I can throw. But still, I managed to throw a bag full of containers, rusty utensils, etc. But I was still left with one whole level FULL of containers packed from bottom to top, with no space left for another container... HAIZ. All the "it will be useful one day" and "lang fei" will come out to justify why we need to keep them. It's true that people do keep stuff that are not even used once in the last 1 yr, and probably not even once in the last 5 yrs!!

Anyway, I better not meddle with my MIL's "territory" anymore. Not sure if I offended her by throwing so much stuff and re-arranging the things in proper order. Utensils & cutlery together. Pots and pans together. Containers and CONTAINERS only. Perishables and edibles. 

At least, now it's more oragnised and easier to find something when we need to use it. I hope it will prove to be useful soon. Else I'm "risking" too much for the order. :)

Ok. That's all for now. It's time to bathe after all the de-cluttering. Nowhere to go today. My stingy sister doesn't want to treat me. HAHA. (Are you reading this, Peng???)

1 month away

I'm 4 wks away from my the 2nd radio-iodine treatment. Which also means, I am only 1 month away from heading to Shanghai for holidays!! Yey!

Yestrdy, I went jogging and walking with Vic at Bishan. There were really alot of pp jogging and walking. Alot of fit guys. HA. But it's rather demoralising seeing all those bulky pieces of muscles "fly" pass so fast when I were simply tired by the 500m jog. Haiz. My legs are slightly aching now. Ouch. Still, it feels so good. Haha. Jogged for 1st 500m and then can't tahan liao. Walked for 2.4km and then ran for the last 400m. All this in 31min. Not bad since I haven't reali exercised since my operations. It feels real good. :)

Going to try to de-clutter the kitchen cupboards soon. HAHA.

Remembering Him

Today is Easter. Sat in the service and felt the love of Jesus, so great.

It's not just a season to win the lost. It's the day to remember how we were saved by Him.

Thank you.

Today is Good Friday

Spent the whole day in the Carnival at Expo Hall 2 doing duty. Sat there from 2pm to almost 10pm. Boy, it was tiring.

Spectacle Hut has a booth there. I bought 1 box of daily contact lens and got 1 box free. $38 per box. And the color contact lens are only going at $28 per box and you get 1 box free for every box bought. I reali loogie.. I just bought 2 boxes of color lens at Spectacle Hut yestrdy. Tsk tsk tsk. O I muz say, i wore the brown lens today. Vic says I looked WEIRD. Haiz. But I love it. HEE.

And I muz mention that my VAIN HUBBY has finally bought the long-and-always-talked-about dark-colored specs. He was so excited that he immediately called his bro to "xuan yao" his latest possession. Lixia was quite amused by Vic's vanity... Haha.

Wo ye bu gan shi rou. I am VAIN too! (Photo taken in the toilet. HEE.)

Well, besides the few moments spent in vain-ness, the exciting thing is that Adam brought 2 friends, Brian and Nicholas, and Nicholas accepted Christ into his heart! PTL! And I pray that more will give their hearts to Jesus in the remainder SVCs.

  

Roy, Xiang, Wenling and I dine at this place, Ma Maison, at Bugis Junction. It has a nice ambience. A Japanese-French Restaurant (i thk so). Food is nice except for the item i ordered. Roy:"Just order whatever that is recommended. Very nice." Von:"But I want to eat chicken leh." Result:"Yours is nice. Yours is nice. Yours is nice. Except mine." Stubbornness. Haiz.

Ya. That's Escargot. I like chicken too much. I chickened out when this was finally brought before us. Sorry. I can't imagine swallowing SNAIL. Erks. I can still remember stepping onto one and the sound of it. YAKS!

 

But thanks for the fellowship and the treat!! :) You both are God's gifts to me. It's great honor to have you as my friends. God bless you both RICHLY!!

Burdened

Just had dinner with Roy, Xiang & Wenling. Throughout I was distracted and burdened. I guess that's why I behaved uninterested. But reali I was very burdened.

If only... I could "fast-forward" you to what it would be 10 yrs down the road to see what your choices would land you in... 

If only... I could be more sensitive to the Holy Spirit to talk to you so that you won't have to go that route.

I am not looking down on all that you are going through. I just wish that you have greater tenacity to hang on to God to see His goodness through and through.

My heart goes out to you. I know what it means to struggle and fall. I know it's never easy. Whatever we suffer, it is for a reason that we suffered. And I hope you can comprehend it. 

What would it be 10 yrs down the road? Just a haunting memory or a sense of victory.

As I pray, I see you as a picture of overcoming victory. Pls, I pray, bring it to pass.

dun wait

"Dun wait for them to grow up."

Many times, we're always at the end of waiting and hoping and most probably praying too. But we shld not be held hostage by these so called limitations. We wanna win the lost but it's with a clause tat says "supernatural and easy." In reality, the supernatural only happens to those tat works hard for the harvest.

This Easter, whether there are many or few tat will end up at the altar area, the harvest belongs to those who works hard before and after. Let's do all tat we can to integrate these potential or not-so-potential frenz.

Hearing the testimony, i'm so moved. If we dun do wat we have been doing, where wld these pp be... and where would I be?

yey!

I am so satisfied and happy with myself! HAHA.

After reading Xiang's blog on how she is de-cluttering her house for its intended purpose and vision, I was slightly motivated to de-clutter HALF of my wardrobe. HA. But just now, I read her progress and I decided to do something productive today. So I de-cluttered the other half of my wardrobe, packed and clear the stuff on my shelf and Vic's shelf in our room. Then I cleared a cupboard in my living room. Wa. Soooo good...

The originally messy and packed cupboard is now neat and cleared. Some of the things that were thrown away: plastic flowers which my FIL had no idea who it belongs.2 rolls of dusty gift wrappers. bits of papers with numbers and no names. cards. etc etc etc. Can't even remember liao. We even discovered some stuff that were kept away and we had never known its existence: Weighing scale, lock, 14100 Indonesian rupiah in an Ang Bao!

Vic commented:"You mean the messy and packed cupboard is all useless stuff ah?!" In the end, half of it is dominated by my books now. And there is still lots of space left! YEY!

SATISFACTION! HAHA.

If you are interested in de-cluttering your rooms, read http://siangzi.multiply.com/journal/item/15. Enjoy!

Ok. Going to my parents' hse now.

Shanghai Trip

Start:	Apr 30, '08
End:	May 7, '08
Location:	Shanghai

Going overseas after my treatment.

2nd Radio-Iodine Treatment

Start:	Apr 21, '08 2:00p
Location:	SGH

Veron's Birthday Celebration @ Waraku MS

Arghhh...

Why such title? Cos I am so... frustrated with my comp…

Have been trying to upload some photos taken one wk ago since last wk but my comp just kept hanging… Then when I finally give up trying, I wanted to just post a blog entry… GUESS WHAT… I can only type the title but NOT the content. The page just couldn’t
load properly.

And how did I post this entry? I post it by using email. Great resourcefulness in the midst of frustrations. HAHA. ;P

10 dollar KTV

 Ah Peng, Huifang, Jimmy & I went to a "10-dollar KTV" at Chinatown on Monday. It was the first visit to sing karaoke in the passed 2 months I thk. Anyway, I didn't sing well so i didn't sing much. Ha.

Some photos...

Look at that Jimmy... So depressed cos he just failed his driving test...

But Ah Peng is soooo into singing her heart out...

 

 

And me... I was just taking lots of photos...

Huifang is a good singer and even stood up to SING...

 

 

Well, all of them are very good singers except me. :|

 

 

 

 

Ok. Enough of nice photos... Let's have some cute and silly ones...

 

 

 

 

 

 

Can you see that I am not the singer in the ktv that day?!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2 sweet gals. Any guys interested to ask them out?

QUICK LEAVE ME A NOTE!!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ok Ok... I dint forget abt you, Jimmy...

 

For all those gals out there, this is Jimmy the handsome, smiley Jackie Cheong cum Andy Lau!!!

C'mon leave a note!!!

(Jimmy, wo jing li le hor.)

The week that just passed

 

 

 

 

That's Adam & Eugene. They lost in our CG games and ended up having to perform Indian Dance. But it ended up with Adam trying to do pole dancing until Eugene screamed:"I can't take it!!!" They were of such a good spot and we all had fun.

 

 

 

 

 

This weekend, F.I.R. came to perform. WOW! It was the first time I heard them sing live. They were good... I was especially so mesmerised by Ah Qing's voice. So nice... More than the nice performance, i thk the best thing is to know that they accepted Christ and their lives were being changed by God day by day. They knew very well they were not totally changed yet but they are trying their best to live their lives for God and to be changed by Him. So proud of them. Such sweetness in their spirit.

I had a bad backache. Dint sleep well the night before. Had a hard time trying to walk without feeling the pain. In the end, I still ended up fellowshipping with the CG at the Old Airport Rd hawker centre.

 

 

 

 

Took a secret shot of Adam & Tim eating by themselves at another table. Somehow the view was quite interesting to me. Hmm... Dunno how to describe it. :)

Pastor Kong preached on Servanthood. It was a very very good sermon. At the end of it, he gave an altar call for those that would say to God that if He were to call them one day into mission or full time, they will willingly say "YES Jesus". Jackie and Cinthia stood up for the prayer. Wow. I was very touched. It was about willingness not about if you were reali called. It was just about, Jesus IF you call me, I will FOLLOW.

It's not about prominence, not about recognition. I'm just contented that I can do my little to encourage people to serve God and especially in full time ministry.