Went to the beach today with life group members. Today was simply just a relaxing day enjoying one of God's beautiful creation ---> Long Bay Beach.
Played Mafia at night with the gang at felix's place. Surprised that there were OCF members already there crashing his place. But I have to say that I suck at that game. No one would believe that I was the real spy even when I told them I was LOL.
Thing's on my mind but I think I'll just sleep it over. Nights =D
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Sunday, December 27, 2009
Decisions
I believe that no matter how big or small, no matter if we like it or not, we always have to make decisions. And these decisions will affect us if not chosen properly.This season is definitely one of those seasons where decision is so critical for me!
Firstly, career directions.
Where am I suppose to go? Rethinking back the time during my first year in university, I was influenced by my dad and other people to work with petroleum companies such as Slumberger. It has been my interest since to work on oil rigs especially since I'm still young to learn many things, earn some big bucks and have a head start financially! lol...Middle of this year, I just felt that I should take a gap year to do some exploring of places in the world before starting to work permanently. Then a couple months back,I decided apart from traveling, I should really be part of mission works instead of touring countries itself. I was also encouraged by my mentor pastor Alfred to work with Tearfunds, a Christian organisation fighting poverty in many countries.
I thank God for the great job advertisements that have been provided to me by friends and family. A particular job which interest me was the one referred by dad. Its the ideal job working offshore that I wanted during my first year.Gonna give it a shot! But what happens if I do get it? Should I give up working with Tearfunds since that's something that I wanted since my first year of uni? What exactly does God want me to do? Missions ,offshore work or something else? Argg...its so hard to decide.
So I'm really praying hard for wisdom to make good decisions. I really want God to speak to me and open doors if it is the direction that He wants me to go, and shut the doors tight if its the direction that He doesn't want me to head. I really want clear directions!! Wouldn't it be so easy if God just gave me visions and dreams every night that showed confirmation of what He wants me to do ? hehehe....I'll write my other dilemmas I'm facing next time. Gotta wake up early for worship practise tomorrow. zzz
Firstly, career directions.
Where am I suppose to go? Rethinking back the time during my first year in university, I was influenced by my dad and other people to work with petroleum companies such as Slumberger. It has been my interest since to work on oil rigs especially since I'm still young to learn many things, earn some big bucks and have a head start financially! lol...Middle of this year, I just felt that I should take a gap year to do some exploring of places in the world before starting to work permanently. Then a couple months back,I decided apart from traveling, I should really be part of mission works instead of touring countries itself. I was also encouraged by my mentor pastor Alfred to work with Tearfunds, a Christian organisation fighting poverty in many countries.
I thank God for the great job advertisements that have been provided to me by friends and family. A particular job which interest me was the one referred by dad. Its the ideal job working offshore that I wanted during my first year.Gonna give it a shot! But what happens if I do get it? Should I give up working with Tearfunds since that's something that I wanted since my first year of uni? What exactly does God want me to do? Missions ,offshore work or something else? Argg...its so hard to decide.
So I'm really praying hard for wisdom to make good decisions. I really want God to speak to me and open doors if it is the direction that He wants me to go, and shut the doors tight if its the direction that He doesn't want me to head. I really want clear directions!! Wouldn't it be so easy if God just gave me visions and dreams every night that showed confirmation of what He wants me to do ? hehehe....I'll write my other dilemmas I'm facing next time. Gotta wake up early for worship practise tomorrow. zzz
Friday, December 25, 2009
Arguments
Had an annoying fight with my sister today. Arguments over things like chores. I think the pass few days of me working full time probably made my sister a little bit pissed at the amount of workload that she was doing.
Like any typical girl-boy friend arguments, both of us had to sit down and discuss some issues that were bothering both of us. The long "discussion" took us almost an hour but it reduced our irritation by letting things off our chests.
For me, it was rather that my sister had too high standards and had some issues with her temper.
For her, it was rather that I was too busy working and never helped out with the chores the pass few days, not doing things to her standard and also sometimes forgetting to do minor stuff like closing the curtains and shutting the windows.
Such small issues! But both of us felt better after and promised to change for each other. Gave each other a hug and agreed that it was lame to argue especially on Christmas day!
I thank God for my younger sister.
Like any typical girl-boy friend arguments, both of us had to sit down and discuss some issues that were bothering both of us. The long "discussion" took us almost an hour but it reduced our irritation by letting things off our chests.
For me, it was rather that my sister had too high standards and had some issues with her temper.
For her, it was rather that I was too busy working and never helped out with the chores the pass few days, not doing things to her standard and also sometimes forgetting to do minor stuff like closing the curtains and shutting the windows.
Such small issues! But both of us felt better after and promised to change for each other. Gave each other a hug and agreed that it was lame to argue especially on Christmas day!
I thank God for my younger sister.
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Blameless...
"May God himself, the God of peace, sanctify you through and through. May your whole spirit, soul, and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. The one who calls you is faithful and He will do it" (1 Thessalonians 5:23-24).
Saturday, December 19, 2009
The homeless
Last night was a long night cause I was soldering my PIC chip to my "circuit" . Didn't have a breadboard so it was awful trying to solder it onto wires. Wires sucks....
After 6 hours of sleep I woke up realising that I forgot to prepare my salad for the homeless people event this afternoon. So I drove to foodtown and bought a few package of salads(Funny thing was that it wasn't touched at the end of the event maybe because homeless people don't like salads >< )
Anyway the homeless event for just basically inviting the homeless people over for meals and sharing the gospel to them. 2 guys gave their life to Christ. One was dumb so he had a translater using sign language to say the sinner's prayer. Totally my first time seeing that! The whole event was simply a great event filling up the tummy's of the homeless and making them feel loved. One thing I realised about them was that they were so gentle!
In the evening I was invited to Jeremy's church's christmas dinner (Emanuel church). It was mainly a chinese people church. Met a couple of new uni friends and sensed that they have so much passion for Christ!
Got more to write, but my brain's fried....better go hit the bed now.hehe....Was great chatting with Shannon just now Lol.
After 6 hours of sleep I woke up realising that I forgot to prepare my salad for the homeless people event this afternoon. So I drove to foodtown and bought a few package of salads(Funny thing was that it wasn't touched at the end of the event maybe because homeless people don't like salads >< )
Anyway the homeless event for just basically inviting the homeless people over for meals and sharing the gospel to them. 2 guys gave their life to Christ. One was dumb so he had a translater using sign language to say the sinner's prayer. Totally my first time seeing that! The whole event was simply a great event filling up the tummy's of the homeless and making them feel loved. One thing I realised about them was that they were so gentle!
In the evening I was invited to Jeremy's church's christmas dinner (Emanuel church). It was mainly a chinese people church. Met a couple of new uni friends and sensed that they have so much passion for Christ!
Got more to write, but my brain's fried....better go hit the bed now.hehe....Was great chatting with Shannon just now Lol.
Thursday, December 17, 2009
Never stop growing
Was reading this and felt encouraged.
"We have all done things for which we are ashamed, and we live in the tension of what we have been and what we want to be. Because our hope is in Christ, however we can let go of past guilt and look forward to what God will help us become. Don't dwell on your past. Instead, grow in the knowledge of God by concentrating on your relationship with him NOW. Realize that you are forgiven, and then move on to a life of faith and obedience. Look forward to a fuller and more meaningful life because of your hope in Christ."
Be blessed.
"We have all done things for which we are ashamed, and we live in the tension of what we have been and what we want to be. Because our hope is in Christ, however we can let go of past guilt and look forward to what God will help us become. Don't dwell on your past. Instead, grow in the knowledge of God by concentrating on your relationship with him NOW. Realize that you are forgiven, and then move on to a life of faith and obedience. Look forward to a fuller and more meaningful life because of your hope in Christ."
Be blessed.
keeping me bz
Had a random dream about you last night .. and it was really random..It was in a Chinese restaurant..Don't tell me I was in Taipei ?! LOL
I thank God for his timing in providing me this work. It is helping me keep my mind off things and just focusing on work, which is great.
I don't know what God has in stored for us. But I'm happy with where we are at the moment. Just being good friends and sharing life and stuff with each other and nothing more. I can see distant is in fact quite a big wall even with today's technology.Even my sister who hasn't seen Ren for 2 weeks is already start counting down the day he comes back from Malaysia..(17 days) LOL.. Mine would be probably another 200+ days but I don't want to think about it now. So yea I guess the wise ppl are indeed right for asking us to take things very slow. Anyways time to design my trap casing now..was planning to wake up early to do my work but seemed that I forgot to set the alarm properly!
I thank God for his timing in providing me this work. It is helping me keep my mind off things and just focusing on work, which is great.
I don't know what God has in stored for us. But I'm happy with where we are at the moment. Just being good friends and sharing life and stuff with each other and nothing more. I can see distant is in fact quite a big wall even with today's technology.Even my sister who hasn't seen Ren for 2 weeks is already start counting down the day he comes back from Malaysia..(17 days) LOL.. Mine would be probably another 200+ days but I don't want to think about it now. So yea I guess the wise ppl are indeed right for asking us to take things very slow. Anyways time to design my trap casing now..was planning to wake up early to do my work but seemed that I forgot to set the alarm properly!
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
The higher position
John 1:30
Although John the Baptist was a well known preacher who attracted large crowds, he was content for Jesus to take the higher place. This is true humility, the basis for greatness in doing works for Christ. When we are content to do what God wants us to do and let Jesus Christ be honored for it, God will do GREAT THINGS through us.
Be blessed.
Although John the Baptist was a well known preacher who attracted large crowds, he was content for Jesus to take the higher place. This is true humility, the basis for greatness in doing works for Christ. When we are content to do what God wants us to do and let Jesus Christ be honored for it, God will do GREAT THINGS through us.
Be blessed.
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Friends
Thought that all my friends have left... but somehow surprisingly I had so many friends whom I seldom chat to messaging me on MSN today! It was weird... There were approximately 15 of them =S
It was just that when I thought most of my Auckland friends have left back to Malaysia or other places, and when I'm starting to get a little 'lonely', I get so many other "new" friends ...Thank God for such comfort.
Took Bernie and siblings out today. I realized how mature she is now taking care of her bro n her twins! Still remembered checking her nails during spot checks as a prefect in secondary school. LOL! Just show how time flies...Don't know how much I've changed the pass 7 years...
It was just that when I thought most of my Auckland friends have left back to Malaysia or other places, and when I'm starting to get a little 'lonely', I get so many other "new" friends ...Thank God for such comfort.
Took Bernie and siblings out today. I realized how mature she is now taking care of her bro n her twins! Still remembered checking her nails during spot checks as a prefect in secondary school. LOL! Just show how time flies...Don't know how much I've changed the pass 7 years...
Tired
Went all the way to east tamaki but the boss wasn't around...O well, at least I found out a bit about the company by chatting with some workers around there. Apparently I should be considered the highest qualified engineer in the building since even the CEO himself and operation manager are just chemists....
Bought a soldering iron and some solder just to help Albert fix his induction cooker. But the whole thing blew up again when I tried to power it. Seems there's problem with the circuitry...which I'll figure out next time I have time.
But basically today's another average working day...
Time to sleep I guess.Just got back from McD with Ben n sister. Dead tired. Good night..
Bought a soldering iron and some solder just to help Albert fix his induction cooker. But the whole thing blew up again when I tried to power it. Seems there's problem with the circuitry...which I'll figure out next time I have time.
But basically today's another average working day...
Time to sleep I guess.Just got back from McD with Ben n sister. Dead tired. Good night..
Sunday, December 13, 2009
Stress
Spend the whole day in church, morning and night.
Got promoted to first keys today in main church..which was pretty sweet. Apparently Alan was very expressive on the video LOL....Anyway, worship was fantastic..God was in our midst..Sometimes I just wish there was no time limit for worship... How is God gonna do his stuff when we're always refrained to such short time in worship. How are we gonna be encountered by Him when all its only just half an hour of worship in church ?! Sometimes i feel the best time of worship is when I'm alone in my room on my Kurzweil or just with some christian background music.. You tend to not let time be factor and just enjoy the presence of God...
Anyway, its time to do some work. I feel stress. Tomorrow I'm suppose to hand in my idea on the traps that I'm suppose to be designing.. The problem is.....I don't have a good idea ! Really need to lean on God for a great idea. I need prayer!! Help~!
Also, Felix's sick .. He was singing in church and just decided to leave half way cause he felt like vomiting. Poor guy. As a bit annoying he can be sometimes, I definitely love that guy. Hope God heals him.
Finally, Shannon's off to Taiwan.. It's probably gonna be like 7 days before I get the chance to just chat with her. Maybe God's challenging me...lol. Not sure... but yea..already missing her. Hope she's having great fun :)
Time to do my work now....I really hope I get a good idea before 12 am tonight..Sigh :(
Got promoted to first keys today in main church..which was pretty sweet. Apparently Alan was very expressive on the video LOL....Anyway, worship was fantastic..God was in our midst..Sometimes I just wish there was no time limit for worship... How is God gonna do his stuff when we're always refrained to such short time in worship. How are we gonna be encountered by Him when all its only just half an hour of worship in church ?! Sometimes i feel the best time of worship is when I'm alone in my room on my Kurzweil or just with some christian background music.. You tend to not let time be factor and just enjoy the presence of God...
Anyway, its time to do some work. I feel stress. Tomorrow I'm suppose to hand in my idea on the traps that I'm suppose to be designing.. The problem is.....I don't have a good idea ! Really need to lean on God for a great idea. I need prayer!! Help~!
Also, Felix's sick .. He was singing in church and just decided to leave half way cause he felt like vomiting. Poor guy. As a bit annoying he can be sometimes, I definitely love that guy. Hope God heals him.
Finally, Shannon's off to Taiwan.. It's probably gonna be like 7 days before I get the chance to just chat with her. Maybe God's challenging me...lol. Not sure... but yea..already missing her. Hope she's having great fun :)
Time to do my work now....I really hope I get a good idea before 12 am tonight..Sigh :(
Saturday, December 12, 2009
Dear Lord,
Help me to grow spiritually.
Help me to not depend on my might but with yours in whatever I do.
Help me to do the things which are pleasing to you.
Help me to flourish in the gifts that you have given.
Help me to be a respectable leader.
Teach me how to forgive like how you forgiven us despite the awful sinful things we have done.
Teach me to show encouragements so that I can help her grow spiritually.
Teach me to love like how You love us.
Teach me to be kind, patient,understanding and not self seeking.
Teach me to always trust, always hope and always preserve.
Teach me to be more like You.........
Help me to not depend on my might but with yours in whatever I do.
Help me to do the things which are pleasing to you.
Help me to flourish in the gifts that you have given.
Help me to be a respectable leader.
Teach me how to forgive like how you forgiven us despite the awful sinful things we have done.
Teach me to show encouragements so that I can help her grow spiritually.
Teach me to love like how You love us.
Teach me to be kind, patient,understanding and not self seeking.
Teach me to always trust, always hope and always preserve.
Teach me to be more like You.........
Friday, December 11, 2009
Fireworks
Just got back from Forward's last meeting in Steven Thomas' house. Was great fun. $400 of fireworks were lit up just in one night and it was amazing!
Only wish you were here to see it too......
Only wish you were here to see it too......
Thursday, December 10, 2009
He knows best...
Wow....I got the job ! Without even an interview... This morning i started leaving the house early and on the motorway I was shocked cause the traffic was horrible....I prayed asking for a good interview and to reach the place in time.
Somehow amazingly I managed to reached the place 5 minutes before the appointment time despite the traffic. Now comes the best parts. I didn't even get an interview! The CEO and the operation manager just started talking about the project ( they were extremely friendly). They even said I could work from home. It's fantastic since otherwise I would have had to start driving 7am in the morning and getting stuck in the traffic jam to reach the workplace. I love this job because it's very related to my degree, unlike the other jobs that I applied for.
Looking back at all my the job applications that was unsuccessful, I believe it was because God wanted the best for me, his son! If we love God and seek Him in all we do, God will always provide us the best.
Matthew 7:9 "Your parents-if your children ask for a loaf of bread, do you give them a stone instead? Or if they ask for a fish, do you give them a snake? Of course not! So if you sinful people know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give good gifts to those who ask him."
Thank you God for answering my prayers. I also thank you for the caring love ones and friends who prayed for me. I'll do my best in my job so that your name can continually be glorified.
Somehow amazingly I managed to reached the place 5 minutes before the appointment time despite the traffic. Now comes the best parts. I didn't even get an interview! The CEO and the operation manager just started talking about the project ( they were extremely friendly). They even said I could work from home. It's fantastic since otherwise I would have had to start driving 7am in the morning and getting stuck in the traffic jam to reach the workplace. I love this job because it's very related to my degree, unlike the other jobs that I applied for.
Looking back at all my the job applications that was unsuccessful, I believe it was because God wanted the best for me, his son! If we love God and seek Him in all we do, God will always provide us the best.
Matthew 7:9 "Your parents-if your children ask for a loaf of bread, do you give them a stone instead? Or if they ask for a fish, do you give them a snake? Of course not! So if you sinful people know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give good gifts to those who ask him."
Thank you God for answering my prayers. I also thank you for the caring love ones and friends who prayed for me. I'll do my best in my job so that your name can continually be glorified.
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Great friends....
Thanks Boss Daniel and Koko Ben for being such a great guys! Don't know what I would be doing without you guys..
Its great having close friends who are married and friends who are just about to get married to share life experiences with you. You learn so much from them.. Its like you level up so quickly just by listening to such wise and God -loving people...
It hurt ... but I'm willing to give it a chance. I love what Daniel said :
Its great having close friends who are married and friends who are just about to get married to share life experiences with you. You learn so much from them.. Its like you level up so quickly just by listening to such wise and God -loving people...
It hurt ... but I'm willing to give it a chance. I love what Daniel said :
"Come on Richie.... is this person a "what"or a "who"?"
I love You and place my trust completely to You, my king...
Need a Job
I Needs a job badly. How am I going to pay for my Shanghai and Hong Kong trip if I don't get a job ?! But I'm really trusting God for one. Today I just got a reply from one of the companies that I was praying about. The company is called Connovation Limited which is a company that provides solutions to prevent invasive animals. So I'm probably going to be involved in building high tech pest control traps over there using pneumatics and electronics. That's definitely a fun summer work to do! Anyway, Apparently they lost my email for some randomly reason and now they're requesting me to resend my application. An hour ago I got another reply saying that the CEO would like to meet me on Thursday. Hope I don't screw up this interview ><
Spent $60 this morning to apply for my China Visa. Its so strange that they actually charge Malaysian passport holders $60 and $140 for NZ passport holder (single entree)
For the rest of the day, I've been spending time clearing up the house and my engineering notes. Its surprising how much notes I actually have the pass 2 years. Now my room is as clean as a whistle! lol...
Spent $60 this morning to apply for my China Visa. Its so strange that they actually charge Malaysian passport holders $60 and $140 for NZ passport holder (single entree)
For the rest of the day, I've been spending time clearing up the house and my engineering notes. Its surprising how much notes I actually have the pass 2 years. Now my room is as clean as a whistle! lol...
My First Blog
Ok ! This is it ... The begining of a place that I can open myself up for people to stalk...yes esp you Mei Yen Tan =p
Anyway even though if i wanted to write anything my brains are fried at the moment cause its 12.30 am.. so that's it for my first blog ...hehe... laterz
Anyway even though if i wanted to write anything my brains are fried at the moment cause its 12.30 am.. so that's it for my first blog ...hehe... laterz
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