dance in the freedom we know

So last night/this morning KL actually managed to persuade us to walk from darling harbour back home = broadway/glebe.

It was unexpectedly eventful. And i'd love to tell you what happened in my own words, but figured max did it just as well, or rather, much better than I'd do (:

" anyway, today i experienced the most romantic situation i have EVER been in. it was about 12.30am and the whole group of us were walking alongside the sea/habour on some quiet lonely street and it had just rained so the air was really cool and everywhere was wet. i so happened to be walking with Gi (the rest were walking really fast or really slow, haha) and i sooo happened to let her listen to Sea of Love using my ipod 'speakers'. then for some reason, i sooo happened to look up and i saw this beautiful bridge and an enormous aussie flag was at the top wavering in the wind with spotlights shone onto it. and directly in front of me was this totally prefect lomo shot of a alley and a high rickety fence at the entrance of it and it was just...stunning. i was like...woahhhh. and she was like...woahhhh. and we both stood there and was like...woahhhh. hahahahaha!

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btw, it was just a very phenominal scene/atmosphere and there is NOTHING between Gi and i, HAHA. (ouch max! LIES lolz)

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today, i also had my first encounter with a totally wasted man. two actually, the first one doesn't really count though. the first one was at Darling Habour where it was relatively crowded and there was this man just lying on his stomach on the ground (next to some puke which i used my expert inference skills to infer that it was produced by him). but when we saw him, two security gaurds just arrived and they were tending to him and all.

the second one seriously made my heart jump. cus we were walking along a quiet (and rather scary) street and i suddenly realised that there was a man curled up, face down on the pavement, and walking past him, we were pretty damn close to him and it occurred to me that he looked dead and i got damn traumatised. i wanted to just keep walking but the rest kinda crowded around him and talked about calling the ambulance and all. but in the end, their expert observation skills told them that the man was breathing. geez, i was too afraid to even look at him! "

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The most romantic situation max mentioned is so true! Can I add that because of minimal light pollution, the stars were Also shining gloriously. And Cat Power's powers i.e Sea of Love (which is now playing on itunes, please!) was playing and although there's like maybe 4 lines in the whole song it's still a really great song & the scenes in juno just keeps replaying in my mind <3>

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Anyways, I was just wondering (while doing my world pol readings JEEZ) of blogging's critics.

Many people that i've met over the last couple years have mentioned that bloggers are getting boring. After all, everyone basically talks about their lives, and there's a lack of depth in post contents.

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For a while, I was pretty bought over by that thought.

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After all, why blog if you're just gonna rant about your daily, mundane life, right?

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But then again, why not?

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Life's amazing, and I think trying to fit all our experiences together in words strung into sentences can be highly exhilerating.

We talk about it all the time - so why not write about it?

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I'd want to record my life daily. Blogging just makes it easier and more convenient.

I'd want to look back in my archives in say, a decade, and look at today's post and remember of max's and my moment at that spot.

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Plus, it's so easy. I don't have to manually flip the pages. I can just press control + f and presto type the word in and you get all you're looking for. Oh how i wish we could just do our readings online(:

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So even though I've been blogging increasingly about life as a topic, I want to keep blogging about life as it is - a series of experiences that I'm not going to try and formulate into something bigger, but just leave it as pure memories.

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Back to studying. Have a great day guys. Start/keep blogging! xx

Let's walk to the ends of the earth

Time. Is everything.


There are 24 hours in a day - which Is enough, no matter how oft we claim that there's too little time, and so much to do.


Sometimes God makes it hard on purpose. Because even though from our perspective it's a clear straight road to our goal, God sometimes lead us in the other direction.

And very often, we get confused.


But if we keep trusting and clinging on to God, following blindly but following faithfully, God will reveal his plans, in His time.

And the time in between now and forever is important.
It stretches us. And allows us to explore. It ensures and confirms all that was previously blurry. The road is tough, and sometimes we're just feeling our way through the gravel.

But hold tight to the hand of God, for He's leading you.

And how can we be sure?

I guess we're never really sure. That's the beauty of it, I reckon. So much of it in this world that you might have to close your eyes.

A joke that will live past the punch-line.

Cling on fastidiously. God provides. Align yourself to His will, not expect His will to align with your life and expectations.






Thank God for friends that are part of all this beauty.


Goodnight xx

The flower said i wish i was a tree

"JOEL HAS FACEBOOK TOO PLS!omg..hahah he so in la!"


Damien you never fail to make me laugh Most certainly I had to go public with this You niang (:


It'll be a bu-bu-busy day Hopefully I don't cross the road and get knocked down by a car I know how morbid but i'm. just. saying.


This is procrastination at its best. Dance or die.


Heaps awesome day xx

Why do we always miss each other out on the streets

There's just this lapse.


I've been real studious for the past 2 days or so and will continue to be trust me on that I've not studied so hard ever since coming to uni!

Apart from productive (so i say) studying, a lot of has been happening. Some shook me quite badly but thank God the problem's settled now(:

Friends have been amazing, especially new-found ones. I've been challenged to step out of the comfort zone that i've built in sydney, and wander into the unknown. I don't really know where I'm going, or rather, where God's leading me. All I know is that this path isn't easy but Give it all to the one who saved my life!

I'll have a proper post up in a jiffy. Like, say, next tuesday after my last major test before the finals! There's quite a bit shoved at the back of my mind ever since like 3 weeks ago. Wait for it!

Have an awesome, awesome day, guys. God Bless.
Geraldine loves you! xx

the wind in your sail

what keeps us moving on?

what keeps us going when there is seemingly no hope? what makes us move?

i love god. and he loves me. these two truths may be separated by a full stop - but they are in fact inextricably intertwined.

i cannot love if he did not first love. i would not know love. and i could not love.

but through him, i can love. i can feel loved. i can be loved.

"ill stand with arms high and heart abandoned in awe of the one who gave it all"
our situations...our lives...our loves...our loss...our petty fights...our confusion...our tragedies...our arguments...they all may seem significant...but in comparison to the sacrifice of one, they fade away.

they cannot be compared to that one momentous act.

that is the realisation i live in today. that is my revelation. the one worth having.

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

Sometimes at 5am in the morning and I can't get to sleep for some reason (to which I myself have no clue as to why), this thought always runs through my mind at least once:


Why did I come to australia?


It's just this reccuring thought, really. Because staying in Singapore would've been heaps easier. I would probably be in poly now or, who knows, maybe a JC (also) studying my butt out for the A'lvls. Why on earth did I want to come to Australia? If you knew me, you'd have known that I was quite adamant of coming over - that staying in Singapore was really at the bottom of my list.


And it's weird - cos I know I could've excelled in Singapore. I did fine for O'lvls (to all who think I came over because i failed O'lvls/couldn't get into a respectable institution TAKE THAT! HYAAAAA!)(Ask my mommy if you don't believe)( :D ) and all my friends weren't leaving the motherland anytime soon. It was homeground for us all, and really, none of my friends have actually considered leaving.

So why did I?


If you ask me now, I would answer, as I have in the last year or so, with an honest "I Have No Idea, ". Zero. None. Zilch.

Because truth is, I'm still finding out why.

God's been revealing his plans little by little and everyday I'm learning. Everyday - everytime I wonder why I'm here & not back in my cockroach-free, non-ah-ma-smelling room - I realise that it's really just All Part Of God's Plan.

And that's the beauty of it all, I guess. I don't know where I'm going. I don't know what's going to happen in a decade, in a year, tomorrow. Everything's so unpredictable. And I love it. What fun would it be if I could fastforward my life (despite whatever I say)


Coming to Australia was a big decision. It was pretty rash, but it's definitely one I'll never regret. I've come to love Sydney and all the weird things that come along with it - the accents, the people, the culture, the lifestyle, the fast-yet-slow pace. It's fantastic.

I think the biggest plus point of leaving my family at 16 was really having no one around to really physically depend on. Because then that meant that I had to depend on God. And in some ways it was like I was forced to - but now, I'm just so thankful. Because I have learnt so much and been so independent on one hand, and so dependent on God on the other. My relationship with God is the biggest change thus far. The biggest and the best (:

But who's to say that's all I have? God has blessed me with so much more - so much so I take it for granted sometimes until it's 5am in the morning and I'm your friendly neighbourhood insomniac.
Family - you never know how good your life is until you're away from them. Sure, they might get on your nerves sometimes and publicly humiliate you with their 1960s antics, but they love you. And deep down, you know you love them. I know I do - more than I thought I did. And this surprises me sometimes
Friends - I have an awesome bunch of friends back home. We've known each other all through high school & for the churchies, well almost all my life. But my friends here are fantabulous too. And you cannot ask me to compare them, which is what some people do. Because 1)I'm placed in different contexts when i've met them all & 2)I'm at different stages of your life, thus, different needs, different wants etc


I really am not particularly sure where this blog post is going, but hey! It's a blog post! Surely you can't be expecting more(:

God Bless xx

What's the point of sinking, when you're not going to drown?

In one line, my life the past few months is challenged.


Thank God for a perfect family who's constantly upholding me in prayers, friends far away from me whom i can talk to without inhibitions, friends around me who have been encouraging and generous with their words.

And for life in general. Because even though this life is just so hard sometimes - so choking and tight - it's still awesome. The journey is still the best. And regardless of the past, the present is still what matters, and the future's just going to be more amazing.


Hope you all enjoy your day. God Bless xx

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Do you love me? (Now that I can dance)

I spend my weekends?
Dreaming...

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Était-ce un rêve, un mensonge, ou est-ce que je suis juste mort et suis allé au ciel ?



I woke up and He was there. Sitting silently, watching me sleep.

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Massive amounts of clockwatching. Hello mraz you seem to sum up my life in just three words maybe more like three albumzzzzzz. this is me as bored as i can get looking at the coming tests + assignments makes me feel like running away you have no idea the amount of times the thought of dropping out of school has been considered and contemplated BUT thank God He's handling my battles for me if not i'll probably drop dead.like.right. Now.
it's been (Bin) a rain-filled week so far so gloomy i cant wait for singapore mega excited EGGCITED Hello sunny humid singapore i've never missed you more kkkthxbai!

Blindfolded

C'etait bien

There's really only so much one can do.

That's what I've been telling meself the last few days - There's only so much.


And it's true. We have limits. And though those limits may be stretched - there's still a point where we have to stop stretching - or break.

Humans grow and expand. Some even backtrack and shrink.


It's a swim or sink life, isn't it? Reality is - Life's really not easy after all.



But pas de panique! For with our limitations is an Almighty God. The one that knows the stars by name; the Creator. A God that Loves us and is on stand-by 24/7.


And guess what?



He's Also Limitless.


The fundamentals of science is the theory of how the universe is constantly expanding. It's infinite. Wider than you could ever imagine.

Well, God's like that! My Father's like the universe; (He Did create it!)


Nothing can stop Him (:

Put me in Red - put me out on the streets

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Ridonks Sick pictures but Photobucket screws up picture quality but me can't be bothered. Church tonight Must do some Hard Core Studying All the jingle ladies put yer hair up!

And I'm out of your range
Now it's kind of strange
How we change orbit in our lives
You were kind of a moon outside of my room
I could just feel you nearby
Now I feel you're gone
'Cause I know which side you're on
And it's not mine


They is awesome.

MUGGER

WAH I GOT FAN MAIL!!!!!!!!




AREN'T YOU JEALOUS HAHAHAHA HELLO XIAXUE WE ON PAR NOW LEH








Soz must be proud of it since someone actually sat down and wrote three sentences after a blog post. I really don't get that often. More like, NEVER.

Thank you shawn. Although you were possibly just bored of maths and happened to be checking your mail while reading my blog. It's okay. I still appreciate it.


And Yes, the geeks get the HAWT girls.

Sufficient

Now, my blog doesn't do wonders. I don't write as well as I wish I could. People don't email me and ask me to be their friend. I don't have massive amounts of facebook stalkers. No one writes me fan mail. I'm nobody, really. Bottom of whatever food chain whatever. Not even that funny.

But I keep writing anyway.

For what, I don't know. It's so different from writing and I can tell you (not show) that penning down in BB is worlds apart. Not just the form but also the content.


But yeah, the other day I was just reading Isaiah 41 and it's basically about God choosing us as His servants.


It's really not enough to stay stagnant and just keep recieving God's love. I believe there's a greater purpose in life than merely Finding God - it's also growing closer to Him, and being a Light in the darkness! Servanthood.

Anyway, I don't particularly know where this blog post is going. (argh so commercialised I hate it hate it) and I've digressed too much.

So, real deal goes.

Isaiah 41:14 says,

"Do not be afraid, O worm Jacob, O little Israel, for I myself will help you," declares the Lord, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel."


This verse reached out and waved it's hand at me. It's so hard to miss.



Many of us know the power of God; of His great love - so great that He sent His Son - a part of Him, really, to die.

And even though I understand this fact, and believe in it, I sometimes just cannot get to terms with it.

But this verse is really yet another piece of evidence of God's love. It's incredible how God wants to have a personal relationship with us. He WANTS to! He desires, yearns. It isn't in His job description. He doesn't even consider it a Job.

And precisely because of His love that He HIMSELF wants to bless us.


How good is that!

My God is NOT a God of sub-standards.
There's no hierarchy to this. He doesn't give us hand-me-downs. Old goods. Second hand stuff.
Rather, He offers HIMSELF to us!
Yes, that means that He isn't too far, too great, too grand, too mighty, too powerful for us! Or rather, we aren't too small - TOO UNIMPORTANT FOR HIM


God is Good. Yes, we've established that fact. He's the Best there ever was - better than we can ever comprehend.

But yet He isn't 'Up there'.

He's beside us. All the way. When we trip and fall, He's with us. When we walk through the Valley of the Shadow of Death, He's walking with us.

And He doesn't just tag along, He WANTS to do things for us. Change our lives and turn our seasons around and direct our paths for us! Personally. Like, intimate, one-to-one, in your face yeah you get it.


Like the CEO of say, Coca-Cola or whatever filling in for the toilet-cleaning aunty's duties.


It doesn't really make sense, does it.
I don't get it. I don't suppose I ever will - not in this life anyway.


Remember, God Himself wants to help us.


Knowing that God is not only on my side, but fighting my battles FOR me has just made my day so much better. So whatever life throws at me, I know I can handle it - because it's really God handling it FOR me.

Only if I let Him.


And why wouldn't I?



Really, Why wouldn't you?

The Geeks Get The Girls

Would very much like to hang around in bed more but Can't cos of massive amounts of work awaiting.

On a brighter note, God is so good!

So I have a media assignment due on Monday and i'm nowhere near done (typical). I basically have to write a colour news story. I only just passed the last assignment so I'm actually gonna sit down and think through this so I can at least get a credit!


Anyway I'm writing an article about this 16-year-old girl from Sunshine Coast. And the reason I'm writing about her is because she's gonna sail across the world, ALONE and UNASSISTED for the next, say, 230 days. (I've done my research). And crap how scary is that! But she's apparently very keen on it.
And to up my assignment, I would have to do some straight up interviews. But because she's such a busy bee, I really didn't think I would be able to do so. But God does that whole 'sacred divine intervention' thing he does and hoky pokey I will be able to call her anytime today to interview her (after a series of emailing her secretary/PR officer/mum/who knows)!!!!

I know it isn't much of a testimony, but to me, it's absolutely life-changing! HAHA

Anyway, I better prepare cos i'm pretty freaked out/stoked about doing my first ever proper interview. I think i'm nuts. If only she'd reply my emails instead of me having to call her (AND THE TRANSCRIBING I HAVE TO DO LATERRRR)


But nevertheless THANK GOD! Nothing is impossible without Him. N-O-T-H-I-N-G!


BTW, playing basketball yesterday has left me with aches up down left right centre. Gosh I'm so unfit.

In Sync.

I really should be asleep by now but my hair's wet because I took a shower because it smelt like Istanbul.


Like, Istanbul, the fantastic shop with amazing chips and kebabs. Yes, the one at the corner of King's. Yes, the one where the workers where bright orange tshirts with the words "Special (?) 7th Edition" on the right hand side.


So kewlzxz.

Absolutely looking forward to Shopping tomorrow. Must keep in mind the thousand + 1 assignments I have sitting on my green desk.

Anyhows,


It's = I sat down and thought to myself: "What is?" Simple. Our Lives.
Your = GOD
Love = The Reason
that has
Saved = we NEED(ed) to be saved. If not, we'll be lost. If we weren't saved, we would belong to no one - no father. Like a child who ran away from home - we wouldn't return. It's such a powerful word. Constantly reminds me how small and helpless I am - how little I can do by myself & how much I must depend on my Father. Such a Good word :D
Me = YOU/HIM/HER/THEM = PEOPLE!


Because of God's Love, that Jesus Christ came down to save me, and give me life.

Best thing: Not just life.

Not just a good life.

Not even just a full life.



But life in abundance. Overflowing. Plentitude.

Heaps (as the aussies go)

God is Simply Amazing. Love how the 'simple' and 'amazing' go together. Like, it's supposed to be simple, but it's not actually cos it's so amazing. Like, far out. But then again it's so amazing, that it's just so easy to spot it - like, how can you EVER miss it?

Obama

What a guy.



What. A. Guy.

But you never realised.

I handed in my WorldPol assignment today! Thank God it's OVER and DONE WITH!



I love how everything starts changing when there's a turn in seasons.
I especially love autumn and everything that comes along with it! The cold air that's somewhat refreshing, but at times makes me want to hide under the blanket and not leave my room; the hot chocolates and mashmellows; the scarves and boots; the leaves which turn from green to yellow/orange and then fall in all its crispy delight! Oui, j'aime l'automne! It's so sick to walk in uni and be surrounded by all the beauty autumn has to offer - with the ipod plugged in, of course :D


Anyways, I'm in such a happy mood because I talked to PTS last night/this morning! It's her birthday today and PTS, if you are here: HAPPY 18th BIRTHDAY!
Hahaha we haven't spoken at all since I came here! That's more than two whole months! Am totally looking forward to Singaporeeeee! WOOHOO CAN'T WAIT!! AUDI!!!! :D

I'm two quarters and a half.

Hello, it seems like I never knew you. The days, months, and years don't count for a thing.



Maybe I never knew me too.



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Oh I wanted to say this for a long time now. A conversation with pts about emm - Audis (sorry, still don't approve :D :D :D) totally reminded me:

There's a guy in my writing class that absolutely looks like elijah woods!

Okay there said it chimos!

No amount of coffee, no amount of cryin'

Same tune running through my head all day.

Just a quick shout out before I drown myself in the insane pile of assignments.

Before I fell asleep last night, I was just thinking to myself:

"What's the best thing about encouraging someone else?"


And before the endless stream of answers popped up, I realised what a good question it was to ask myself.


Well, Sure, it feels good when people thank you or say small little things like "you've made my day". But it It isn't really about being loved or being complimented. It's not even that I'm being appreciated.

Instead, the best thing is that God is working in other people's lives!

It's not just your own.

And it's amazing how God can use you and your words to encourage someone. You're a third person - a spectator. It's marvellous how God is evidently working and blessing other people.


So the next time you encourage someone, and he/she compliments you or praises you or tells you how much he/she appreciates you - remind yourself the power of God is ten times more evident for you as it is for them.

For we a merely a reflection of God's image. It's God working THROUGH us - our words, actions, thoughts.


Hokay.
World Pol essay due weds, Media assignment and writing test next tues, French test the following week, along with writing assignment. And 3 weeks later I have World Pol test as well as a french oral test. And my last exam (hopefully) is on the 2oth of june - media!

How busy does uni life get? Must mentally prepare myself before I get swallowed up by the tide.

Remember, Geraldine. Focus = God. And all else will fall into place :D

Cheers xx

Before the day is over...

I would like to say something to : CHERYL NEO WEN HUI


I'm sorry I only called you at like, 10am (SG Time) this morning! I hope it's not to late (it's NEVER too late, so I say!) but I still wanna say

HAPPY 18TH BIRTHDAY!!!!


from then


to now (or rather, recently!)


You've been so darn awesome, bestfriend. I only wished I did something (like sent another louya postcard back) but I just didn't have the time!

Thank you for 6 years of awesome, crazy ups & downs. The friendship's amazing and I can't wait to go back and we'll bust Fareast plaza!! (SHOPPING AWAITS!)
Anyways, I hope you had a good time alright!
I LOVE YOU LONG TIME <3
Gi

I am broken. So are you.

When you pray for something, pray in Jesus' name - in Him and through Him, you have the power and the authority.

When you pray for something, believe that you will recieve it.

When you pray for something, expect to see results.


When you pray for something, understand that God says "YES", "NO", and "WAIT".

When you pray for something, be prepared to be challenged. God likes shoving challenges left and right, up and down. And centre.

When you pray for something, HAVE FAITH.

IF not you'll just be talking to yourself.

Mas Selamat captured!

Oh no, not gonna post a story here. You can read about it in the papers.

BUT, I was gonna handpick a few comments that's up on http://straitstimes.com/


On a serious note:

Refugees
Singapore role in arrest
Friday, May 08, 2009
Provided by: Straits Times

I can't believe my eyes when I read this. Not only Spore being complacent in letting MAS escaped, now they want to claim credit for arrest of MAS that happened in Malaysia???

Good on you, Singaporeans! Singapore probably shouldn't claim the credits, and such unethical news writing!

But then:

SeenItAll
All the wayang show at the Causeway about security, temperature taking etc. causing the worst of jams... and this guy just waltz pass. Lao kui right?

Temperature taking? What for?


kongsonglanpahsong
so the MHA didnt know he was in malaysia insisting that he was still hiding in singapore even when the malaysian authority had been hinting that he was in malaysia by using huge sign boards welcoming him "selamat datang"


Frankiestine
Hmmm caughton 1st April...you sure this is not a Belated April Fool Joke from Malaysia?

For this, I liked his name lah, okay? FranKIEstine.

Oh it gets better.

Eagle2004
Mas Mas you thought you won this one,
You left the government red-faced & undone,
Strolling through bars & concrete,
Past those guards, who were asleep
Not knowing you had given them the slip

Embarrassing the government,
Who have released their COI documents,
Saying it's not their doing,
But that of the complacent guards,
who played a part in your going,
Since we also didn't alert the cops,
So we are responsible for making them look like dorks,
Even though the news of your escape was not made known,
Till you boarded your sampan to leave for home

Back in Java we thought you must be,
Enjoying your petai, happy as can be,
Oh why did you embarrass the top brass?
Now they blame the guards for making them appear daft
As you hid in the Malaysian grass

In spite of your escape embarrassing our authorities
And leaving them in a huff
It is we who will have the last laugh

Wah, poet.

NELNELNEL
$1 m bounty.

That will make it easier for some for a long time. No need to ask for the $50 notes at each bend and corner.

HAHAHA!

ajrilek80
Yes recaptured but there are still questions:

HOW he escape detention centre and not detected
HOW he go Msia. By car, by sea or did he take 170

haha! 170!

zengqiaotong
Aiyah, never mind who gets the credit in hunting him down. Everyone have done their part. Indonesian police first caught Mas Selamat in Bintang, then now Malaysian police catch him in Skudai. When Malaysian polis return him to where he belongs, only need to welcome him home with a big greeting poster worded 'Selamat Mas' to Changi! Story habiskan.

Selamat Mas!

Stitchman

I am so happy that he is recaptured. Actually he did not swim. He probably hid in a 15 ton white boxed lorry with Malaysia registration plates and passed through the checkpoint. The reason I say this is because I saw him on the day he was reported missing in this lorry heading towards Pasir Gudang, Johor. I had heard the report over the radio and lo and behold he was driving past me in this lorry, smiling. I excitedly told my friends about it and they did not believe me. Anyway, I am glad he did not have time to bomb Singapore or do any harm to anyone.

HAHAHAHA I DON'T KNOW WHY BUT THIS COMMENT IS JUST HILARIOUS KTHXBYE

*disclaimer: No offence to malaysians, half malaysians, or malaysian-lovers. Or PAP supporters.

Who dreamed that beauty passes like a dream?

What does the world offer you?



As a believer in Christ, one might immediately say NOTHING.

After all we are in the world, but not OF it. Such a powerful, powerful verse! Our goal is heaven-ward. Eternity.

So the world offers you nothing?


Right?





Wrong.
Or at least, I feel that we shouldn't just close the book there. Stop reading at the fullstop.


We were all brought into this world for a reason. And the reason is simple: we were called to be firm believers in Christ, to love God. And to spread the good news.

So, again I ask: What does this world offer us?



OPPORTUNITIES.

That's the big word there. And the world - with all its cynical, skeptical, broken people - it's a place with heaps and heaps of opportunities. And opportunities makes up a huge part of, well, everything.

Opportunities to share the Gospel, opportunities to encourage, opportunities to be generous, opportunities to be a friend, opportunities to start a family, opportunities to Love, opportunities to forgive, opportunities to be gracious...

(Now the word "Opportunities" just look plain weird)


We are made of the Body, the Soul, and the Spirit.

The Body is temporal.
The Spirit is the eternal.

The Spirit is US - who we really are. WE - OUR SPIRIT - the everlasting, lives in our body - which will one day die, rot and decay and eventually go back to being dust.

But don't think that the temporal is not as important as the eternal.

Because apart from opportunities, this life in this world presents us with CHOICES.

Oh so many of them. Hor fun or hokkien mee? Clems or College food? (that's an easy one)

The choices we make in this life - the one we spend on earth - will affect the rest of our lives - Literally - in another place where the streets are made of gold.

So quit thinking this world doesn't offer us anything.
In fact, this world offers us EVERYTHING - but ONLY through the power of God. It is through Him that such blessings, opportunities and choices are presented to us.

So though this life is short - which it really is as compared to like, FOREVER - make full use of it! Make a choice and grab the opportunities. But never forget that it's With God, that all things are possible.


(Yes, you really don't have the power to save someone from their sins. But you can push them in that general direction)

God Bless xx

Hello, Insomnia.

We're good friends, aren't we?


I'm feeling the fatigue and wish I would just comatose now. Fall into a deep slumber for, like, ever.

See, today a voice in my head urged me out of bed some 35 minutes before class. That's my standard time and it works pretty well. Today as I was walking to a lecture at the Quad, the weather was so hot and I was probably still half asleep.

Today I fell.


Big deal. So clumsy.

The thing is, I think I blacked out. This might not be accurate because it happened so quick. I could have tripped - Yes, it's not that unbelievable (:

My body was moving on auto-pilot and I was almost late for the lecture. So as I was walking up the steps to the quad, I suddenly felt myself of the floor with some sort of impact. A girl in front of me asked if I was okay and I was like "yeah i'm fine", picked up my file (purple)(why am I mentioning the colour don't ask me)(so fun to digress)(with brackets) and just hurried off. Only after I got into the lecture theatre did I realise what was happening. Was reeling from it for the entire hour =/



I don't even know why I'm blogging about this. But yeah, I think I'm gonna fail my 2nd French test because I forgot (how, I don't know!!!) to put etre and avoir in front of my passe compose! What a stupid, Stupid mistake. I could kill myself for this! (Yes I don't take math for a reason)

But I'm sure God will provide. He's mighty and all-powerful and I just gotta keep trusting :D

Caught The Notebook which was really good, I reckon! It made the two guys I was watching with (who had watched it before) sit and stare in awe for like, 2 minutes after the credits started rolling Haha

Ryan Gosling was sohotyoucouldbakecookiesonhim. Rachel McAdams was crazily pretty too! Definitely a stellar cast - but must give credits to the director! :D
Especially loved the simplicity of the words and actions.

But I'm sure the book will win me over completely.

LOVE

So I've been musing about this for awhile. Love, I mean. I was just going to postpone this post to tomorrow because I felt that maybe a) SLEEP or b) World pol assignment was more important.

But then I just got goosebumps from watching this 8-minute long video.







It blew me away. I was neutral towards Love Story before and thought Viva La Vida was pretty good. But this is like - Up There, man!


You probably don't see a connection between the two (love and the video) but maybe that's not the point. (heh.) I just felt so happy listening to the voiceover explaining the reason for the mash up, and how his daughter was telling him about her favourite part: when there is a change in key and the whole thing about losing hope, and the white dress, and finding Prince Charming. I do no justice in trying to explain it.

But yeah, I was unable to fall asleep one night (for many nights now - therefore, eyebags) and suddenly thought about all the different quotes about love. The famous ones.

"Love is a many splendid thing! Love lifts us up where we belong! All you need is love!"

-Christian, from the movie Moulin Rouge!

Love is indeed such a wonderful thing.

"The greatest thing you'll ever learn Is to love and be loved in return."

-Unforgettable with Love by Natalie Cole

and the movie Moulin Rouge!

It is often the perpetuating force behind so many things - acts of kindness, heartbreaks, relationships, particularly. Love is the reason for so many actions. It is causality and consequence combined as one. It is the pushing factor yet the outcome.

"To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering, one must not love; but then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer, not to love is to suffer, to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love; to be happy then is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy; therefore to be unhappy one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness. I hope you're getting this down."

-the movie Love and Death

Love does not stand alone. It is a verb - an action word. It is a state of matter, not just matter - though it is that too.

Jamie: How can you see places like this... and have moments like this and not believe?
Landon: You're lucky to be so sure.
Jamie: It's like the wind. I can't... see it, but I feel it.

Landon: Our love is like the wind... I can’t see it, but I sure can feel it

-the movie A Walk To Remember

Love is tangible yet invisible. You see it, you feel it, you embrace it, you shower it.

A Walk To Remember (the movie AND book) always makes me burst with the longing for loving someone and being loved in return. Nope. Wrong. Which makes me GLAD that I AM being loved and that i have the opportunity to love! It's an all-time favourite movie and despite it being nearly-cliche (read: nearly), it always moves me. Yes, to the point where I sink in my seat and wish with all my heart Jamie doesn't die (in the movie). But it was an awesome ending anyways.

"You don't marry someone you can live with - you marry the person who you cannot live without."

-unknown

What will we do without love?

I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for their religion

- I have shudder'd at it.

I shudder no more.

I could be martyr'd for my religion

Love is my religion

And I could die for that.

I could die for you.

-John Keats

Love is so, so powerful. It's possible to say we cannot survive without it.

But where does it come from?

"To love another person is to see the face of God."

from the musical Les Miserables

Just as He created the Heavens and Earth; Just as he seperated darkness from light; just as He gave us life - God is really the source of our Love.

Plus, the capacity of His love is just inmeasurable and indescribable. Such massive amounts of love is given to us - just as a Father falls in love with his child when he first sets sight on him/her. Just as when we say 'Will you marry me?' and 'I do'.

Our ability to love and accept love comes from Jesus, who first loved us. We're merely passing on this love. It's part of us now - for we were created in God's image. We have love. We were born because of it and with it and live for it. No nature-nurture debate needed here.

Love is timeless. It is everything and anything. It never disappears, though we lose sight of it.

A heart can be broken; but it keeps beating just the same.

-the movie Fried Green Tomatoes

Love destroys sometimes. It stabs at us because our love seems so great it cannot be bounded and kept within us.

"You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone forever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own, than when you almost broke it eight years and a half ago. Dare no say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you."

-Persuasion by Jane Austen

But.

"There is no remedy for love but to love more."

-Thoreau

God Bless xx

Step away and step over I've got no place in this game

I JUST REALISED I HAVE AN ASSIGNMENT DUE EVERY WEEK FROM NEXT WEEK ONWARDS AND THAT CRUDE COLD HARD FACT HAS SET ME ON BLOGGING MODE ONCE AGAIN FACEBOOK IS RUINING MY LIFE AND WASTING MY INTERNET CREDITS WHY AM I SO STUBBORN GOT A 74 FOR MY WRIT ASSIGNMENT JUST ONE MARK AWAY FROM A 75 OH GERALDING YOU GENIUS HOW WELL I CAN COUNT ME MYSELF I YOU I'M FINE NOW IF YOU WANT TO KNOW WHY I FELT SO DOWN LETS TAKE A LOOK AT ME MAYBE YOU CAN SEE ITS A TWO WAY STREET NO BRAKES ATTACHED QUIT CHECKING FOR BLIND SPOTS YOU'LL NEVER GET US THERE EMOTIONS PLAY WITH WORDS AND CAST THEM ASIDE SHOVE IT UNDER A RUG KKKK THIS IS NOT MY HEART THIS IS NOT YOUR SONG CLEARLY DEFINITELY MANTRA-TURNING LIFE-CHANGING

NO THIS ISN'T A SOLILOQUY KTHXBYE

Let's get set then to go then, Let us jet set Be like the jetsons

From the blue book:

"..........If you want my trust, you've got to be worth for it........."









Today in Church:

"God is trustworthy!"



How else can I sit for five minutes grinning like an idiot? Total Kapow in my face, man.


I'm still running out of words. Still running out of breath. But I Realised it's not a personal battle - not when the mighty JC is fighting my battles for me - only if I allow him to.

LEAVE IT.

That's it, isn't it? Leave it.


"....Quit checking for blind spots..."
- but in a different context.


Soon. Very soon (:

high strung

Indefinite hiatus. I can't trust myself to blog in a healthy way. At least not for the time being. Stumbling block, not.

I'll be back when i've something encouraging to share.
Will be back soon enough.

The Power of Radio

I'm studying about Broadcast journalism and we're diving into the power of the radio!

As part of a Halloween prank in 1938, Orson Welles succeeds in creating mass panic, as apparently, thousands of New Yorkers tried to flee after listening to this radio broadcast!

Adapted from H.G. Well's The War of The Worlds, it's hard to believe that such a fictional piece of work managed to convince so many people that martians are invading earth.

"A population already primed by fear from the rise of Hitler could very easily be prompted to believe in an alien attack. Any medium that can do this must have tremendous power."
Marshall McLuhan


Wonder if it will work now? Imagine The Muttons doing this. Or ABC.


Naw. We're far too critical and cynical for that now, I reckon.

Change

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Originally uploaded by The Official White House Photostream

http://www.flickr.com/photos/whitehouse/3484011749/

The White House has it's own photostream on flickr! Fantastic!