Thought of the week

By being more and more of myself, i am becoming less of myself.


I need to find a balance.

Romans 11:33-36

Who do i be then? Who else but Him

Random pics

The housemates are starting a boy-band. LOL

Memories.

A year ago. . . .


I remembered walking on crutches to the bah kut teh shop and eating like a pig. I also remembered hitting my leg against the car and screaming silently in pain..haha. and your car couldn't start. LOLCheck out the brace on my knee. Its one of my most expensive accessory. I even brought it along with me to Adelaide.

Awesome?

I remember using the word 'awesome' when i was a younger as a substitute for the word 'cool'. I thought I would be cooler. Haha. But mum 'rebuked' me for that and again, at church last Sunday, i was reminded of it.

Bloke 1: Dude, can you pick me up tonight?
Bloke 2: Sure thing.
Bloke 1: Awesome...
Bloke 2: No worries, mate.

Is God equivalent to 'getting a free ride'?

We use words like holy and awesome to describe God and still we sing about how words are not enough to describe God. HE IS THAT HUGE!!!!!
With the little words that we have that describe just a bit of God, we 'pollute' it.

The best line i heard today: 'The same palm who holds the world in His hands allowed mere men to drive down nails through His hands. This is Our God, Our King, Our Friend' -John Ayoub-
Have you ever listened to 'Praise and Worship' Songs while walking around? I tried it recently, listening to songs while walking around experiencing His creations.


It blew me away........


Even ice-cream on a cold night. ;)

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Trying to differentiate Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and Acute or Chronic Bronchitis with Asthma. sdf jhgsdkjfh auhajdghaklj......Why must all these respiratory diseases have similar symptoms????????I think i will just diagnose everyone i see next time as...'i'm sorry i do not have the adequate knowledge to diagnose you as i only studied
for 4 years but i'm sure my friend the doctor who studied for 6 years will be more
than happy to see you and when he gives you a prescription, you can come back here and get the meds.'
hahahahahaha..i'm going to be some super crappy pharmacist next time man.

On a more serious note, interviewed (or more rather Dr. Elliot interviewed) a patient suffering from Parkinson's disease after our lecture on Neurodegenerative disorders. (It's interesting to see how the lecturers get patients to tell us their story, we had also an HIV patient sharing with us his story after our lecture on HIV). Anyway, he mentioned that the single most depressing aspect of his disease is his inability to FEEL happiness and joy. When he said that, i was like...woah. He can smile and move his facial muscle to form a smile but that feeling is just absent from him.
Another one of those moments when something like this puts things into perspective for you. Imagined, after tasting the most lip-smacking, yummy-licious food in the whole entire universe and not being able to express feel joy. Or even, just to suddenly see a small little flower bloom after months of 'dull-ness' and wanting to feel happy about it but you can't.


How often i find myself taking things for granted. If there's one thing i'm guilty of, it's not being fully appreciative of the people around me. I know i sometimes take my friends for granted. I'm going to start learning to be appreciative AGAIn.

We are imperfect and we often fail but there is Someone who is Perfect Who Never fails.

Blessed

Random photos

The spicy noodles that i finished and gave me constipation and diarrhea, consti-rhea on Monday. My whole GI tract felt uncomfortable. I couldn't go to the toilet but when i did, it was an explosion. Crap man, have i lost my touch???? bye bye kari laksa..sniffs....

haha, yea right. If you know me better, i would still eat and suffer the consequences later. WOohooo...

The church i go to on Monday nights for BSF. It's super cool man. I'm going to try to take some artsy-fartsy shots one day. This was just after a lecture.



I don't know. People who feed pigeons always gives me a funny feeling. You know, dressed in black, carrying a bag around. Takes out a bread from the bag, peels it out and tosses it to the ground. Pigeons come flying down and the person feeds them.
Thanks guys for keeping me in your prayers.

I feel so blessed. Am so truly grateful for the 'things He has done' and yes, it's a line from a song. My BSF leader was saying the other day how all our answers seemed to be taken from a song. HAHA.

But anyway, i just want to thank you. It has been an amazing past few weeks. If there's one thing i thank God for, it's for opportunities and experiences that He allows me to go through. Some pleasant, some not so, some very very depressing. But all in all, every single one has been a learning experience for me.....and i just can't wait what's going to happen.


Ah-ka made some mee soup for me. It was good..haha.
It has been very windy here.I will never forget this meal. After eating it, i got thus far, the biggest news ever. A life-changing one if it happens. :) that can only be good right?hehe. I hope. .
Someone told me to learn to 'notice the simple things in life'. It's not the first time someone has told me that but i see it as a reminder. If God continually tells you something, it can only mean that you have not truly understood it. . . I can be a tad bit complicated at times.

I found this in my camera.

One of the thoughts that have been lingering on my mind for the past few weeks.

It's one thing to know about God and another to know God. Which one are you?

All this while, i thought i knew Him but i realized i only knew about Him and did not know Him.

A slave set free is only free to the degree he lives free. Are you living free? coz i've not been.
'For you did not receive a Spirit that makes you a slave again to fear but you received the spirit of Sonship. And by Him, we cry, "Abba Father".

I just realized it says 'a slave again'. Why again?

*smacks head and realizes he is still learning*

An interesting observation

James made a very interesting observation earlier. It seems that all my 'stuffs' are degrading.I just found out that my backpack has a hole at the bottom side, my sling bag also has a hole in one of the compartments. I've got hole-y bags now. I dropped my camera the other day (thankfully, the floor was carpeted), i almost dropped my apartment's tv and i hit my guitar against the chair that day too, giving it a scratch on its bottom. I am clumsy as i can be. Haha

What else is new?

A pure heart

I just went through a tough few days. And this devotional came in.

What I want now more than anything else.

A Pure Heart
by Jon Walker

“Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.” (Psalm 51:10 NIV)

Oh God, create in me a pure heart ...

• A heart that won’t run with lust after physical pleasure,
• A heart that obediently refuses what you’ve rightly and wisely fenced away as sin,
• A heart of love that never insists on its own way (1 John 2:16).

Oh God, create in me a pure heart ...

• A heart that knows no greed when it looks upon worldly treasures,
• A heart that thinks of others, and not itself,
• A heart that argues for love instead of fairness.

Oh God, create in me a pure heart ...

• A heart that never boasts about what it has or what its done,
• A heart that walks humbly, not trying to appear more important than it is,
• A heart that takes no pride in the flesh.

Oh God, create in me a pure heart ...

• A heart that chases after you,
• A heart that looks to you for its provision,
• A heart that trusts that you are at work in others,
• A heart that does not manipulate people or circumstances,
• A heart that looks upon the things above and not the things below.

Heavenly Father, renew a steadfast spirit within me ...

• A spirit committed completely to you,
• A spirit that is not double-minded,
• A spirit that is focused, and single minded on your purposes,
• A spirit resolved to know Christ and Christ alone.

Ashamed

I forgot how powerful He is and how sinful I am; i was reading through Psalm 78 about how disobedient the Israelites were and i find myself identifying more and more with the Israelites than anything else.