Bye Everyone

Hey everyone that comes here.....

Just saying goodbye till christmas, going to the army tomorrow morning.

everyone take care.

sorry didn't blog in a while i will when i return.

BYE

How sad....just like in the movies....

Was on the train the other day coming back from work.... as usual the train is fairly crowded. there was one girl that caught my eye not because she was like cute or anything but cos she was like standing in the middle of the door way with no one by her side, she was just standing there with her ear phone, looking at the ground. what caught my eye bout her was that when the train stopped she just refused to move! and bascially blocked the entrance, and people leaving and trying to get into it were having to squeeze past her, and even if people bumbed into her she just wouldn't move, she just stood her ground. The first thing that came to my head was that, i made a judgement about her, i thought about the way her personality would be like, how she was brought up all sorts of things, then i thought about what PS Kong was saying in the sermon last sunday. How we should avoid making judgements and especially don't speak of it to others. I could help but feel a bit guilty. Anyway as people began to leave i got to see the bigger picture, funny how we all make so many judgements without seeing the Big Picture.... applies here and applies to everyday life. When people cleared out i finally saw the boy leaning against the glass side panel also looking down at the ground. the next stop just happened to be his stop. when the doors opened, it was as if time slowed down to me. i saw him slowly stand straight from leaning against the panel, and just before he walked out, he looked up into the girls eyes, she was already staring at him, through those glasses mounted on her nose. For that split moment a whole story could be told, the look in her eyes were so sad, you could see the plead in her eyes as she look at this boy, but only to be returned by a cold stare, then the back of his head.

When the boy had left, she took his place leaning against the side panel. i watched on as she leaned against it, arms folded, giving this cold scornful look. The saddest part was watching her, seeing her with all her pride, all her coldness, all her strength slowly decay away.... i watched as slowly tears deep within slowly pushed its way through her icy heart and out her eyes. you could see in her face how she was trying to hard to hold back the tears that were pouring down her face, see all her pride pushed to its limit, but over come by the emotions that were overbearing.

It was sad just wathcing her, watching him. I don't know them and i don't know their story, but it happens every where, every day, people getting hurt here and there.

Other than that little story, just last sunday(20th Nov) we had a great service and then we had the Zone games! EXPODITION! was really good fun, but really tiring lol, but really cool fellowshipping with our group.

thats all for now..........

The way we were......

Past week has been, tough to say the least..... feeling down about alot of things... even though many people won't see it.... quite funny how so much of a person is always hidden, even from their friends. for someone that seems happy and on top of the world could really be burning on the inside, feeling daggers piercing through their heart.... even for the saddest of people, where really in their hearts they have immense joy, yet don't show it because of a fear of something....

It seems that when life gets tough, it doesn't seem to let up, it only get tougher and tougher... people curse God blame him for all that is happening. but we bring this upon our selves. and when GOd seeks us to help us, we turn our backs, thinking we know better.

it times like these, when u feel like everything is falling apart, when life is on the edge, that you should seek god, because for one god can help you in the impossible, and second what else have you got! To say all this is easy, but seeking refuge in God, having faith in him that everything will end up ok is incredibly hard, knowing that believing in him will result in a blessed future. it ain't easy to just give everything to the lord. Pastors, cell group leaders will say that we all should give all to the lord, release all pain and suffering to the lord, which is so true, but! they say that because it is wat is needed to be said, but saying is one part, doing is another.... walking through the firey pits, to stand before god will surely burn u....

In these trying times who is there to seek guidance, to understand the pain and suffering. Who would god send? would go send anyone... faith is all that i have.... and in God i'll have faith.

Photos of old and new.....

Meaning of Our names:

These are my family members:Eric(Dad) and Elaine(Mum), Anthony, Ben, Calvin, David

interesting to see what all the names mean:

Eric:
Origin: Scandinavian, Old Norse
Meaning: "Complete ruler."
Scandinavian legend relates that the Viking sea rover Ericson (son of Eric the Red) landed on the shores of America 500 years before Christopher Columbus. The name was not widely used among English-speaking people until 19th-century British fiction writers Frederic Farrar (in "Eric", or "Little by Little") and H. Rider Haggard (in "Eric Brighteyes") used it in popular literature. Eriq is the French spelling; Erich is a popular German form.

Elaine:
Origin: French
Meaning: "Shining light."
Elaine is a variant of Helen. Mythology: the abduction of Zeus's mortal daughter, Helen of Troy, resulted in the Trojan War. Hers was "the face that launched a thousand ships." There was a Saint Helena, mother to Constantine the Great, whose purity allowed her to discover the True Cross. Helene (hel-LANE) is a French form; Halina is Polish.
Anthony:
Origin: Latin
English form of the old Roman family name Antonius, probably of Etruscan origin. Mark Anthony (82-30 B.C.), Roman triumvir and general, shared a throne and a tempestuous political career with Queen Cleopatra of Egypt. Saint Anthony (third century) was an Egyptian hermit monk who founded the first Christian monastic order and is traditionally renowned for his resistance to the devil. According to legend, he lived alone in the wilderness for over 80 of his hundred-some years.

Benjamin:
Origin: Hebrew
Meaning: "Son of the right hand; son of the south; son of my old age."
Biblical: the 12th, youngest and most beloved son of the patriarch Jacob and Rachel. In the Middle Ages, it was often given to sons whose mothers had died in childbirth, though it has no such connotations today. Brought into use by the Puritans until the end of the 19th century. After several decades of disuse, came back to great popularity by the 1970s.

Calvin:
Origin: French
Meaning: "Little bald one."
Diminutive of "calve", from French "chauve." A Roman family clan name turned surname. Transferred to a first name as homage to 16th-century French religious reformer Jean Calvin, whose thinking deeply influenced the Presbyterian, Methodist, and Huguenot branches of Protestantism.

and Lastly....

David:
Origin: Hebrew
Meaning: "Beloved."
Biblical: one of the most remarkable personalities in the Scriptures. David was a shepherd, musician, poet, soldier, statesman, prophet, and king. He wrote about half of the Psalms and very likely composed music for them as well. He is the only David mentioned in the Bible; his name occurs there more than a thousand times. Today there are variants of the name in almost every language group. Saint David (sixth century) is the patron saint of Wales. In Scotland, David was a royal name.

What does your name mean?

What truth hurts the world.....

past few days been caught up in a lot of stuff, work, and other stuff, so kinda tired. Whole weekend was doing things so just killed me, plus the week before filled with work, but heh atleast i'm doing something, better than just sitting around wasting away day by day :D

anyway something thats been bugging me not just for the past few days but along time i guess. can't really say wat it is here, cos this is kinda public, but its bascially to do with telling the truth.
Whats been going through my mind is that, if you understood something, or knew something about someone would you tell that person or tell everyone about it? What if it the knowledge that we possessed was potentially damaging but also potentially enlightening? who can you tell? When should you tell if ever?

For one its always really stupid to lie to someone cos its just not right, but how justify a lie if it was to help someone or result in a greater good. in our small world lie like this person hates this person as an example is very small compared to larger scale things like global lie that results in wars. but the fact still remains that lying is lying, no matter how big the lie is the concept is still the same, as a result the end may be good or bad. just like wars end badly or good. but wars are started to end wars or find a peace at the end of the road. Ironic huh! One of the few ways to end violence is with violence its self. similarly the concept is that world leaders cause wars to find a peace at the end, they do bad for a greater good, so is lying to one another ok if there is a greater good intended? some people would say yes that its for a better cause, but who are you to decide who gets hurt by the lie and who doesn't? we aren't God!

anyway thats just a little for now..... got more work to do
night everyone...... gotta start training army coming up! bye bye freedom

BBQ Galore!

this is a quick blog..... past like week have had 2 bbq's :D very good fun hehe, first bbq was a big cell group thing lots of games, so was a realyl good night. then the 2nd bbq was just eating left over chicken wings and astuff from the first bbq lol cos we didn't have time to cook everything! but we nearly finished all the chicken left in the 2nd bbq, was a really good night! great being with fellow E316ers!

yesterday was Hari Raya so good to relax. played tennis in the morning with Shu Hui, Selena, Jason and Jeremy but had breakfast before hand yumm yumm. after that went to Bro Tan's house to get Charcoal for bbq, got an sms from my brothers getting me to do some work, argh.... abit annoying but had to be done, Shu Hui, Jason, Selena and Jeremy all thought i was really upset, but i wasn't sorry bout that guys just had to think about how to get the work done :D but PRAISE GOD all ended up ok so happy, (Thanks Shu Hui for the sms, made me feel better)

Thats all for now Cya