Love
Saturday, September 29, 2007
John 11:34-36
34 And He said, “Where have you laid him?”
They said to Him, “Lord, come and see.”
35 Jesus wept.
36 Then the Jews said, “See how He loved him!”
Psalm 56
1 Be merciful to me, O God, for man would swallow me up;
Fighting all day he oppresses me.
2 My enemies would hound me all day,
For there are many who fight against me, O Most High.
3 Whenever I am afraid,
I will trust in You.
4 In God (I will praise His word),
In God I have put my trust;
I will not fear.
What can flesh do to me?
5 All day they twist my words;
All their thoughts are against me for evil.
6 They gather together,
They hide, they mark my steps,
When they lie in wait for my life.
7 Shall they escape by iniquity?
In anger cast down the peoples, O God!
8 You number my wanderings;
Put my tears into Your bottle;
Are they not in Your book?
9 When I cry out to You,
Then my enemies will turn back;
This I know, because God is for me.
10 In God (I will praise His word),
In the LORD (I will praise His word),
11 In God I have put my trust;
I will not be afraid.
What can man do to me?
12 Vows made to You are binding upon me, O God;
I will render praises to You,
13 For You have delivered my soul from death.
Have You not kept my feet from falling,
That I may walk before God
In the light of the living?
Real man cry for Jesus wept.
In God I will put my trust.
He numbered my wanderings, put my tears in His bottle and recorded them in His book. That's how great God is. People in love can cry, but hardly any party would number each of their wanderings, treasure every tear which was shed and even recorded down on paper.
He loves me to the extend of doing so, that which no man/woman on earth could ever do.
Labels: Revelation
posted by Rod @ 11:54 PM,
Prepare
Friday, September 28, 2007
So many things happened during these past few days and I'm totally caught off-guard.
I'm only left these so many days to prepare for the Big one and I know where I stand and I can expect what would happen.
Talking to a teacher who didn't have that much confidence and faith in me seems really discouraging, but I took it lightly for I know what happened I brought it upon myself.
No one can study for me except for myself, and regretting now isn't the case but rather what I can do.
20 days to just O levels, I can't rely on myself.
All these have pushed me even further into the spiritual realm and instead of confiding every single thing to friends, I confide in the Highest.
He has been with me all the while, the moment I called upon His name, just even when I'm walking to a coffeeshop to get dinner, He was even there with me.
For I pray that God will bless everyone with great results, I can only rely on Him now.
He is the only One who can turn things around.
I don't care how many don't have much faith in me or they think that I will not do well or whatever it is..
I only live for the Audience of One.
Labels: Revelation
posted by Rod @ 7:55 PM,
Promises
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Everything will come to pass.
He will pave a path for me.
Labels: Revelation
posted by Rod @ 7:37 PM,
Bookface
Monday, September 24, 2007
Man, Facebook is really the in thing now amongst the HOGC people.
Haha, if you haven't got an account, sign up for one!
Labels: Daily rant
posted by Rod @ 8:10 PM,
Covenant (Part 2)
Sunday, September 23, 2007
Haha, these two badges are gifts from my Ministry Head, Brother Sky, to me, something which he picked up over at Sweden when he went over with Pastors for the Nordic Conference 07. I'm now an ambassador of Ny Generation over here in Singapore! Sweden, here I come!
Haha, I've just realised that I've received blessings from God from the day, the very moment when I decided to really lay down everything in my life and to allow God to change me and use me entirely, till He sees fit.
Actions of love from people in church, things which I never expected to do I did with people close to me, a breakthrough in my tithing and also the sermon today by Pastor Joakim which followed-up the covenant I made with God. Although these blessings may not be material wise, but I don't yearn for material blessings anyway. All I want is God by my side.
It's really a comfort in my life that every single time I worship God, His presence would just fall down and I could feel His tangible Presence so strongly, may it be during service in church or just reading my Daily Devotional.
I'm not going to take all these for granted, all the blessings that He has given, firstly giving me abundant life on earth and eternal life in Heaven, then blessing me with a great church which is impacting not only on a national level but on an international level. I'm going to cherish every single thing that He has given me.
Not forgetting the people which He has placed in my life, all those fond memories which have and still accumulating, all those sweet gestures and words of encouragement, advice, comfort as well as inspiration.
Ah, at this present time of typing this post, I have just received a text message from a very good friend of mine whom I have went through a lot and we both have the same common goal: To fulfill our destinies that God has for us. Dear Jing Han. Haha.
Haha, see what I mean?
My life would always be in gratitude to the Lord and what He has done for me.
Always and Forever.
Labels: Revelation
posted by Rod @ 8:21 PM,
Really..
Saturday, September 22, 2007
Labels: Daily rant
posted by Rod @ 10:53 PM,
Hey Ya
Still remeber the song Hey Ya by Outkast?
Haha, here is the acoustic and soulful version of the original rock song.
Damn, I can't stop listening to it now.
Labels: Video
posted by Rod @ 10:35 PM,
Covenant
Friday, September 21, 2007
There's always a price to pay by walking in righteousness, the path of the Lord.
I have found myself making a covenant, something which I would have expected myself to do so earlier rather than now. Afterall, it's great to actually make a covenant with God for He moulds me along the way and wow me in ways I would never have expected.
I have found myself drifting away, putting things down of what used to be so important to me, and that these things have lesser importance in my life now, and it's not easy for sometimes I do not wish to do so, after all what I had gained. Lifting up my whole life to the Lord, I allowed Him to use me in whatever way He wants.
Everyone can be a Servant, but being which kind solely depends on individuals. Commitment and the Heart behind it. When your heart is hard and the doors are closed on the Lord, He cannot work in your life for you don't allow Him to. I'm glad I made the right choice.
For today something hit my mind after seeing something which I don't know how I should react. But after thinking about it, it's actually quite a good thing. At least they now have reliance on other people rather than me. I cannot be with everyone at one time and it's just great to know that those whom they're turning to are great people and some of them are leading a Godly life.
I need not focus so much on them now, for I know I'm able to entrust their lives to those whom they would run to other than me and it's not likely they have negative influences on them. I'm just glad to know that a burden has just been put down, and that now I can really focus on what the Lord has installed for me and just be one who would gladly die for His cause.
As much as it's painful to let go, I'm assured that this move of mine I will never regret and years down the road when I look back, I can see the faithfulness that the Lord has promised me rather than being bugged down and never move on.
Labels: Revelation
posted by Rod @ 11:19 PM,
Throng the streets
Haha, today wasn't such a boring day after all.
Today's a day for me to think deeply but my brain isn't giving me the chance to thanks to the lack of sleep I had the previous night. Haha, found out that Amirul and me slept around the same time and most of the time where we were out on transport today were spent on sleeping.
Haha, so here it is, Aloha Changi.
-Roughly 20 minutes from Tampines Interchange
-Walking distance to Changi Village which has convenience stores and ATM [770m]
Haha, the whole place is quite cool and big, big enough to fit in lots of people and there's the view of the sea, just that the lighting might be a little poor at night so night shots with flash are expected. Just bring all your gadgets, your cameras and also if you have power strips, do bring them along. Haha.
Thronged the streets of Orchard with my dear friend Amirul, yeah, thanks dude for today. Haha.
Labels: Daily rant
posted by Rod @ 6:50 PM,
So near, yet far
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Haha, that's the last subject down for Prelims. Two days of break welcome the weekends, and then another stretch of a month before the start of the major papers.
As much as I want to focus on the present, I wish that everything will just fly by, only the Os while the rest stay as it is.
Labels: Daily rant
posted by Rod @ 7:28 PM,
This is for you
I was looking for this great song sung by Elton John on Youtube and I stumbled upon the cover for it by Ewan in Moulin Rouge. Haha, enjoy!
Labels: Video
posted by Rod @ 12:08 AM,
Necessity
Monday, September 17, 2007
I seriously cannot live without Photoshop. Haha, with all the pixel editing, brightness and contrast all the tools really make a simple insignificant picture come to life and makes it look nicer than before.
No matter how lousy your camera is, there is still a way to get a good picture across. That's the power promised by Photoshop. Haha.
Prelims are gonna end in 2 days time for me, with people like Amirul laughing at me for being suay cause my last paper is on Wednesday afternoon, a day after you guys will go home and throw a silent party, watching TV from the time you reach home till the time that you sleep, or in some cases most of you won't sleep cause you will have like 3 days off the week, including the marking days.
D&T is a great subject with shitloads of content to memorise and study. Although it's much more straightforward and easier to understand than Geog, you can try remembering the properties of materials which you have never seen before in your life and being treated like a memory bank, just like a computer which does tasks for the user but never understands what the user is doing.
Only the D&T people within ourselves are able to sympathise with each other cause we are the ones who truly understand what all of us are all going through together.
Prior to Amirul's party, the road along OCH is well known for being haunted and many accidents happened along that stretch of road. Haha, just kidding. There's nothing to be afraid of lah. On one hand, it's fun, but on the other hand, risk shall not be taken.
MW said that it's a bonus to be able to see something, what do you think? Haha.
Labels: Daily rant
posted by Rod @ 10:35 PM,
Canonball
Friday, September 14, 2007
This is another damn nice song by Damien Rice. Enjoy!
Off, to watch Ghost Whisperer. Jennifer Love Hewitt is hot. Haha.
Labels: Video
posted by Rod @ 9:58 PM,
Things
Sunday, September 09, 2007
There are many things which I wanted to say, but I didn't.
There are many things which I wanted to do, but didn't get to.
There's this one thing which I want to confess, but I can't.
Books and notes make me go emo! Haha, these are bad, bad things. But books and notes train my mind. See the adverse effect? Life can be confusing at times.
Everyday I remind myself the purpose of my existence on this planet earth. I'm not living to plague the earth, but cleaning up the mess of what has already happened; Making this world a better place to live in, in a simpler way of expressing it. Through Christ.
I was just wondering, being the music junkie I am, well just only to a small extent, compared to people like Amirul and Zhi Yi, I'm just like a small-timer in this. I was just wondering, what kind of songs can pull down the presence? Presence of?
I don't know how to explain it. It's just a tangible feeling, makes you want to be part of the song and when you listen to it, you will go, " Man, this is the bomb. "
How about the song, Drugs or me?
I don't know the real meaning behind it, but from the song title you can make a wild guess at least accurate about it. Drugs or me, which of these two would you want if you have to choose only one? Teenagers like us in Singapore would mostly have not personally been in this situation before, but I'm sure many can relate to it. Drugs in this song could be symbolic, something precious.
Being the fun loving guy I am, staying at home the whole week just studying isn't an easy feat or task that I could complete, well, today is the last day and I'm glad that I'll be going to school tomorrow. Not that I'm some sadist who can't wait to take Prelims, but I just miss my friends. Haha, please understand. I even have the save the photos in my phone and look at them every few minutes. Haha, so what will happen after the Os? I'll be like no difference from dying.
Just a little update; Many people have stated on their blogs that they have either thrown away their router or kept themselves from using it. I'm guilty of not doing so yet.
Working towards perfection. Studies can't stop me.
Labels: Daily rant
posted by Rod @ 12:40 AM,
Comfort
Thursday, September 06, 2007
These few days studying at home makes me feel uncomfortable rather than it being productive.
Studying alone with all the silence and facing four 3 walls, window and a ceiling is definitely not a comfort to me. I would rather study with friends, but all of them find studying alone at home more productive. I can be weird at times, that's what people say about me too.
I've got a confession to make: I panic and worry a lot every night I study. Haha, guess I'm all used to studying with people around me especially the night classes and all the fun I had during D&T; I just can't adapt to the sudden change that quickly.
Finding comfort in the Presence of Him kept me calm, for each time I think of how much I need to practise and study gives me the fear that I will not do well. Trusting in Him, seeking and knocking on the door. Persistence; Shamelessness.
[ Listening to sermons while studying is very productive. Trust me. ]
Today shall be the day where I take back what I have said in the past, all those comments which I realised were very nasty and unfair, about the teachers. Mrs Tan is really a nice teacher and I would say that I actually owe my results to her. There's nothing so great about Mr Tan or Mrs Chee really. All of them are teachers living with the passion to teach and willing to sacrifice so that the students can benefit. How Mrs Tan went through things which I don't know today makes me feel comforted and guilty too, on my part.
Humbling myself and taking back all those comments I've said about her in the past. She's really a great teacher. Hope the present batch of Sec 3s do not take her for granted.
Every time when you look back into the past and feel ashamed about yourself and what you did was dumb, yeah, this would be one of those times.
Don't ask me why I'm blogging. Like hey, I need a break right? Typing a post doesn't take me like an hour or so. Give me a break. Haha.
Side track now, I realised 4C has a lot of guys who laugh in a funny way. People like Zhi Yi, Biondi, Yong Quan and so on. It's like when you hear their laughter, you burst with laughter too, that kind of situation. Haha. Source: A video clip, titled " I hurt my thumb "
And also, people come to my blog to rip pictures and just to tell you, you can always approach me for the original ones cause those that I always post here and resized to fit the column. Which means pictures that I have are at least 640x480, instead of the smaller ones that I always post.
Seeing your smile again and hearing your voice..
Ah, so refreshing.
Labels: Daily rant
posted by Rod @ 11:23 PM,
Sunrise
Wednesday, September 05, 2007
I couldn't sleep well again last night, with all the studying and all and I'm still having irregular sleeping patterns. My my, I will sleep all I can after the Os, turning to a couch potato.
Studying Geog Elect early in the morning really puts me to sleep for a while. Haha, wish all these would be just over in just a blink of an eye, which is impossible.
I never noticed that the sunrise could be so beautiful from my window. It's like professional photographers or just any ordinary person would go somewhere near the beach or something to catch the sunrise. I don't have the luxury of time now to do that, but it's beautiful anywhere you see it from.
Haha, managed to snap these photos while watching the sunrise from my house. I did it alone again. It looks pretty weird cause it's suppose to be blue while I have a few dark clouds at the top. Haha, not really an accurate picture of what you normally see the sunrise in photos. I will only have the time to go down to East Coast for a better shot at the sunrise.
But still, picture's really cool huh? I won't be using my camera for a long time considering the fact that I do not have time to go out that often and time to spare for my own photo-shoot. Got to send it for servicing anyway, so that it would be at it's optimum condition when Grad Night comes.
Sometimes I just wish that I could be on a cloud and looking down at everyone, just enjoying the moment of people sleeping and just rejoicing for the fact that we're alive on planet earth, not hating our existence but making full use of it.
Some people just hate life as it is as they always think that they're living on earth just to suffer the consequences of the mistakes that their parents made or things like that. If you ever have any of those thoughts, change your perspective.
It's the perspective that changes everything.
You can see life as a torment, or you can see life as an opportunity to enjoy what this world has to offer, things like friends, family. Can you imagine a life without friends? Well, your existence gives you all these. Well, putting aside other issues like bad company and all, I won't go into that.
The reason why parents push us to study so much is that they know that without education, you can't get far in life. You can have all the joy in your heart, all the peace that you need, but when you do not have any finance of any sort, you will never be able to get far. That's how realistic this world is.
Conclusion: Don't hate studying. Love it instead.
It is not as easy as it is said, but you gotta learn to do it when the time comes. If you can't love it now, you will never learn to love it later.
Labels: Daily rant
posted by Rod @ 1:13 PM,
9 Crimes
Tuesday, September 04, 2007
This is the closest cover that I could get considering that her voice sounds almost alike when compared to the one with Lisa.
Enjoy the song!
Labels: Video
posted by Rod @ 8:58 PM,
Thinking dearly
Sunday, September 02, 2007
I couldn't sleep for the night.
I stayed up all the way till morning, looking at the computer screen and out of my window.
No typing, just staring at the screen.
Alone at the computer, alone by the window watching the sunrise.
It happened once again, but this time I'm all alone. I talked to myself the whole night, I watched the sunrise with myself.
Leave me out with the waste
This is not what I do
It's the wrong kind of place
To be thinking of you
It's the wrong time..
Labels: Daily rant
posted by Rod @ 9:17 PM,
