Abundance
Monday, July 30, 2007
God blesses us when you're faithful to Him and His ways are bigger than our ways and His thoughts are bigger than our thoughts.
Haha, I got offered an interview by Temasek Poly and this would be my second interview. God is indeed faithful. Not only just one, but two. I don't know what the outcome will be, but this is an experience which I encounter God so strongly and this proves that there is a God who exist, without Him I'm just an ordinary person. With Him, I'm valued.
Deuteronomy 28
Blessings on Obedience
1 “Now it shall come to pass, if you diligently obey the voice of the LORD your God, to observe carefully all His commandments which I command you today, that the LORD your God will set you high above all nations of the earth.
2 And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you, because you obey the voice of the LORD your God:
3 “Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed shall you be in the country.
4 “Blessed shall be the fruit of your body, the produce of your ground and the increase of your herds, the increase of your cattle and the offspring of your flocks.
5 “Blessed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl.
6 “Blessed shall you be when you come in, and blessed shall you be when you go out.
7 “The LORD will cause your enemies who rise against you to be defeated before your face; they shall come out against you one way and flee before you seven ways.
8 “The LORD will command the blessing on you in your storehouses and in all to which you set your hand, and He will bless you in the land which the LORD your God is giving you.
9 “The LORD will establish you as a holy people to Himself, just as He has sworn to you, if you keep the commandments of the LORD your God and walk in His ways.
10 Then all peoples of the earth shall see that you are called by the name of the LORD, and they shall be afraid of you.
11 And the LORD will grant you plenty of goods, in the fruit of your body, in the increase of your livestock, and in the produce of your ground, in the land of which the LORD swore to your fathers to give you.
12 The LORD will open to you His good treasure, the heavens, to give the rain to your land in its season, and to bless all the work of your hand. You shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow.
13 And the LORD will make you the head and not the tail; you shall be above only, and not be beneath, if you heed the commandments of the LORD your God, which I command you today, and are careful to observe them.
14 So you shall not turn aside from any of the words which I command you this day, to the right or the left, to go after other gods to serve them.
Some people might think why I'm going through this DPA exercise, when I can actually get into Poly through merit. Well, I'm just trying to assure my place in a Poly before you people who have L1R5 of less than 10 comes into Poly and fight for places.
See how tough the competition I will be facing? Haha. From my perspective, I'm just taking a step ahead of assuring my own future.
Right now I'll pray in faith of them accepting my application.
Glory to God!
Amen.
Labels: Daily rant
posted by Rod @ 6:40 PM,
What say you?
Sunday, July 29, 2007
Haha, today's the last service at FTMS House and although I didn't manage to get myself many photos, I still have a reasonable amount of them. Haha
Being the photographer means that you won't get to be part of the picture, I'll remember this place anyway.
*
This is the second year I've been a Christian and I got saved in FTMS. This is where God revealed my destiny to me and this is where I really grew to be a better person, getting my life changed under the power of God. My life wouldn't be able to change just by any ordinary worldly influence, besides, what else can the world teach you besides corrupted stuff?
Every single week as I flip through the papers, there would be a small section in the Sunday Times, the main section, and they would publish a short letter written by an anonymous seeking help from a counselor. Almost every single week, I would notice letters written in by teenagers, around our age or older, expressing their fear and concern after having pre-marital unsafe sex and don't know what to do.
There is always a common thing about all these letters: Teenagers fall into temptation of having unsafe sex through meeting with people at clubs. "I meet this girl/guy at a pub/club".. and the rest is you-know-what.
I'm just glad that Sy Rogers came and the seminar's all good, filling me with the information and the teachings that I need to keep myself clean from this dirty world. People sometimes ask me if I have something against this world, well, not really. I just hate it when people fall into bad situations even though they were taught how not to. They can't think before they do anything and then regret when they are suffering the consequences.
Modern pop culture says pre-marital sex is okay and experimentation is all okay, what do you say? If your answer is even a Maybe, I can tell you that you're at risk. Keeping yourself clean in a dirty world, seems easy-said but difficult to be done. I know I can, with God with me I can conquer all temptations that come my way, emerging stronger each time worldly temptations come my way.
My question to you is this: Can you do that?
I know I can; With God I can.
Labels: Daily rant
posted by Rod @ 9:43 PM,
A chapter ending
Haha, at the posting time of this post, it's considered the last day which we will be in FTMS House. Went on a photo spree after Sy Roger's session but I only uploaded 8 photos so far from the many I took onto my Photoblog.
Click on the tabs at the top of the page to get there. Haha.
Just a little preview
I just hate it I'm in uniform when taking pictures. Blame the school for Saturday lessons, blame the school for not following the five-day work week which was implemented by the government. TK is the chiongest school I've ever known in my life, even CCHMS ain't as hiong as us.
More pictures tomorrow and the sad thing is that I won't be part of the packing up, otherwise I will be able to take more and more pictures and just flood my Multiply account. Haha. I'll just take as many as I can.
Sidetrack for a while, Mrs Tan didn't unleash her true colours on me, a little maybe. Haha, she wanted to take back all the CCA points that she has given me just because she's pissed at me for not telling her that I would be going for the interview instead. Okay, she can be nice and not so nice at times. Aiyah, she's both lah.
Telling me stuff like she's got a relative who's a lecturer in SP so she can at least help me out a little if I were to enroll myself into SP. So yeah, she's nice to a certain extent: That I cannot deny.
Labels: Daily rant
posted by Rod @ 1:09 AM,
Being Smart
Thursday, July 26, 2007
Okay, now I guess most people know that I got shortlisted for DPA and today's my interview. Isn't really a big thing actually, I mean it's like Poly and getting shortlisted by a JC is so much more a remarkable thing, from the way the Singaporeans see it.
Interview was okay today, just that the interviewer asked another guy in the same room as me for the interview more questions than they asked me. I mean, he's a basketballer and he's taller than me. Haha, what can I do? All his 3 choices are all SP and various Engineering courses while in my application, the first 2 choices are TP and the last one is SP.
What can I say? They would probably think that I'm not that interested in SP and I would have a lower chance of getting into that course. Anyway, it's already over and I have already did what I could.
Now to face the consequences.
I was told that now She's so pissed at the few of us who "did not skip the E Maths Mock Exam, but rather had something more important to attend to ". Saying that we didn't get permission from any teacher and went ahead by making our own decision.
It's like, what makes you think I would gladly trade a shot at my future education and career just for a mock exam? A mock exam can always be taken another day and I'm like free tomorrow? What's with the big fuss all about? Can't she just sit down and think for a minute or so?
If I were to trade that in exchange for just a mock exam, now that will not be smart of me. That's what I call not being street-smart and not being realistic enough. Going ahead with that "trade" will show that I totally have no capacity to think ahead.
It's not like I'm so smart like her that I need not rely on anything to get into a Poly. I know my own strength and weaknesses and this DPA exercise I took part it gives me a chance to assure my future. I would only apologise to her if only my future career is to be a Mathematician, which will never happen in any way. Maybe at the most I will just apologise for not informing any other teacher that I'm not turning up for the test. That's the furthest I'm gonna go.
Anyway, SP's really a cool place and if I'm not wrong it's the largest Polytechnic in Singapore.
A fast food restaurant which I think had a deal with the Management to give discounts to the students cause an upsized McSpicy meal only costs $5, while on the other hand, it costs like $6.60 or so at other Mc branches.
Haha, it's always the food that I blog about. I mean, you need to know what you're going to eat for the enxt 3 years right? Haha. Guess as much that many of them were all sick of Mcs. There were only one or two groups of students were there. Haha.
4GB thumbdrive selling at only $60. There's also tako balls, the japanese pancake, pizza. What else can you ask for man?
Being able to get this far in the exercise, I cannot that God enough and I can only give all glory to God. I mean, being shortlisted among more than 5000 students nation-wide it's quite a miracle for me already. What else can I say? God's the love. Haha.
Sy Roger's seminar tomorrow and two weeks after this I will be in my new church building, so I guess I will do some " I was here " photos over at Douhby for the next 3 days. Haha, being taken down from Ministry it's like having mosquito bites; I have this itchy feeling to get near the sound console, at least be in the castle. Haha.
Stay on for updates tmr! (: You must know what Mrs Tan will do to me. Haha
Labels: Daily rant
posted by Rod @ 6:46 PM,
Being in True Love.
Sunday, July 22, 2007
Being in love with the Person, more than the Cause.
I attend service every week, attaining what I need to bring me to another level in faith.
More than just conquerors, I want to be an overcomer.
Overcomer of all my problems in the present and the future.
Having visions in one's life is so important. A person without a vision is a person without a future. A person without a future is a person who will always go back to his/her past.
Now that's the last thing I will ever want to do, or rather not doing it at all. There's a reason why my blog is titled: The Future's Amazing.
I look forward to the future for it's gonna be more amazing than the past. Seeing the church grow from the 500s where I first joined and now we're entering and progressing to the thousands. The future is so bright and amazing, when you have God.
Ministry is all good, serving God is all good, but I have fallen in love with the Person.
Pastors are right, you will be blessed when you listen to a sermon, but you will be blessed twice, thrice as you keep on listening.
My dear friends, the Bible is not a fiction book which you read to entertain yourselves -
The Bible is the Word of the Living God.
Labels: Daily rant, Revelation
posted by Rod @ 8:23 PM,
New Chapter
Monday, July 16, 2007
These few weeks have been really a bad week, other than a few things which I have to say, that really changed my mood and thinking a lot for the better.
My com screwed up because of the adventurous spirit I had, trying to install another OS in my current XP installed laptop by creating a partition for it and blah blah blah, and in the end I lost all my documents, including my precious pictures. songs and movies which I painstakingly dl them from the Internet.
Sigh. However, a good thing that I actually looked forward to was that since I had to reformat my XP OS, I have lost all my games, which saves me the energy and the mind-draining effort to keep myself away gaming, even though I had done that for more than 3 months now. Sometimes you do fall into temptation once in a while, we're all human afterall. A reformation of my drive has assured me: No games till after Os.
Also, I have installed applications which I have meant to do so for a while but lacked the time to carry it out and the reformation has allowed me to do so.
Let me introduce you to Microsoft Office 2007: Enterprise Version
Look so much better than the current Office applications that they have which everyone is using now, mainly Office 06 and so on. It has the Vista look in it and it pretty much satisfies me, cause Windows OS Vista really sucks.
Why do you think I decided to take the risk despite knowing that there are, just to install a Mac OSX Tiger? I'm really fed-up and sick of Windows already. Somebody save me!
I have to say that Office 07 is pretty much cool. I have programs like OneNote bundled together with the installation of Office 07, a program which is like a virtual notebook. Haha.
A reformation has also led me to installing Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended Version, with the ability to create and edit 3D images and graphics, Sony Sound Forge 9; Professional Audio-Creation & Editing program. Haha.
A blessing in disguise would be a perfect way to describe what I went through?
I just submitted my DPA form minutes ago, with the deadline at 3 in the afternoon, which I would probably still in school taking my Listening O Level Exam.
Hope that I can get to the course that I want; I defied my parents decisions and went ahead with my own desired courses, filling the form up. Haha, that's what happens when you have a friend telling you that no parental consent is needed to attend the interview if you're shortlisted. So I just went " Aiyah, just whack my own one lah. Heck care about what they have to say", and there I went, submitting my form.
Your Presence makes me strong.
Labels: Daily rant
posted by Rod @ 12:58 AM,
Reflection
Friday, July 06, 2007
Sometimes things happen when you have a mirror with you and you're having a boring lesson or something you don't enjoy and don't have a passion for.
Accessories these days made for the modern people of the modern world, adds in things which people lack; feeling up those gaps which were thought to impossible or just likely to take place by the people in the past.
Now you have wallets/purse which comes with a mirror at the back. It's catered mainly to girls, and it's not that they're generally vain that's why they need the mirror. Girls are generally more image-conscious so they always need a mirror to check on themselves. A slight bit of untidy hair will lead them to tying up everything again, instead of just working on that particular area.
Guys like me heck-care about our appearances.
Why care so much about your hair and your pimples when you know that you'll be going to the Army a few years time and you will have to shave bald and then you're gonna perspire like you never did before, your pores gets clogged up by the face paint and your face will turn out like crap?
Haha. That's why I always cut flat-top. At least I can imagine myself being bald so that I need not get a big shock from myself and the people around me. Short hair is cool, flat-top is cooler.
See that wallet/purse over there? Get what I mean? Glory to creativeness and convenience. Now you can spy on your friends 180◦ around you, mainly the people seated behind you. Haha.
Labels: Daily rant
posted by Rod @ 11:43 PM,
