The Reason I Live is Christ

Pay close attention to yourself and to your teaching; persevere in these things, for as you do this you will ensure salvation both for yourself and for those who hear you. (1 Tim 4:16)

Monday, October 31
FFH - Never Gonna Be Alone

You may think that this song is a little trite

You may be right

You may think that I'm foolish and I

Have a simple mind

But I say we're all the same

We all want the same things out of life

We all wanna be loved, we all wanna belong

We all wanna know it's gonna be alright

That's why Jesus came

And gave his life away

And rose again on the that day

So we could say

I'm ne ne never gonna be alone

'Cause He's around

I'm ne ne never gonna be alone

Alone 'cause He's around

I'm ne ne never gonna be alone

'Cause He's around

I'm ne ne never gonna be alone

Alone 'cause He's around

I know that this life is short

You're up and born and then you're off

You're sitting in class staring at the walls

Walking down the halls and goofing off

Then before you think there's time to blink

You're got a job and you're on your own

Then you get a wife, you get a life

And you wish that you could just move back home

That's why Jesus said

Live every day to its best

And along the way don't forget

He'll take care of the rest, so

All around, all around, all around me

In everything I see

Right beside, far ahead, just

behind me

He'll always be

Cool right? This is the song we're gonna dance to for this year's Christmas service. Today was e 1st practice session and the moves are cool! Heh, the end-of-year feeling is really beginning to pick up! Especially now LOST camp is coming up, then many ppl including my bro are having holidays, I'm also clearing leave... who would have thought that I could enjoy as much as what i did last year after A levels. Being busy for the Lord is wonderful and meaningful and LOTs of fun with S&P around =) Wish it could stay that way, forget about NS, forget that I still got the platoon sgt course that i need to attend, forget that I got a new batch of trainees coming in on 5th dec... Maybe next year.. when I ORD.. haha anyway NS is where God placed me and where He wants me to share His love so I'm thankful that I can still take part actively in our church prog even though I'm in NS.. Cheers! Thank God!

-=P3ng=- | 6:14 pm

Buggy Buggy Blog

I apologise that for e past week my blog had been down, dunno cannot seem to load... Anyway, i thought it'll be a great time to change my blog skin.. then again... finding a nice and proper blogskin is very hard! wonder why ppl can't come up with nicer ones.. oh well! Now the blog is back... i'll begin to update all that i wanted to post.. check it out within the next week. Cos i took leave for today and fri, so only going back to camp on tue night and coming back home wed nite =) cheers for e rest! Thank God!

-=P3ng=- | 4:06 pm

Saturday, October 22
Buggy Blog

At first i was wondering why all of a sudden my blog suddenly had an increase in visitors! now in NS my blog vistors is about 10-20 per week. recently, i see 30+ even 40 visitors.. haha, after accessing my blog from my fren's comp, i realised the cause... Somehow after opening my blog for a while, there'll be this internet error thing... I'm sorry for e inconvience caused!! But now i had no idea how to fix it... My biggest suspect is the music so not music for now i guess.. =) if anyone out there who is a html expert help me see what's the prob, i'll be very grateful =D

-=P3ng=- | 11:47 am

Sunday, October 16
NS life... a different side

How do you spell slack? Erm, waking up 630 in e morn, take ur time change then go for breakfast, then chat over breakfast, stroll back to office, practice guitar a bit, newspaper arrives, read, erm pack stuff, move boxes (we are shifting office), then wait for lunch, slack some more, read basic driving theory book, wait for 530, book out watch movie (Goal!)...

that was e slackest day for e past week... Finally my NS life has finally balanced out after what seems like endless torture (ok maybe it wasn't so bad)... If i were to draw a graph on e intensity and toughness for my 10 months in NS, it'll be a sharp rise to a freaking high peak and slowly slides down from BMT Charlie 2 to SISPEC Echo to Amour MCC and now to an instructor...

grateful? why shouldn't I? I thought. But seems like it's human nature that when things go easy, we forget about God. His presence in our lives doesn't matter as much as when the days are tough. Today during service, I spent quite a few moments looking at myself, am I going thru e motion, or am I truly want to praise God, want to listen to His word, really pray from my heart or am I just praying as if it were smth I've memorised and just saying it without meaning it...

Life requires much more discipline now.. The need to remind myself not idle but find constructive work, keep myself from all those Men's mag(it's a greater struggle than you may think), continue to show God's character among others..

Since I've been reading e papers.. Found it very provoking that there had been so much suffering recently.. Bali Bombing, India/ Pakistan earthquake/ Flood in America/ Hurricanes etc.. When things happen, ppl start to question. Why has the earth became so violent lately? Then all e scientist will find and point to things like global warming and things.. I guess for us who know e truth, how the perfect world had been cursed and fallen in its early years. The disasters perhaps remind us the sovereignty of God and how helpless we are...

Anyway, i gotta book in le.. cya...

-=P3ng=- | 8:05 pm

Sunday, October 9
Chinablack

An experience I'll remember for life... My 1st time clubbing... Didn't really know what to expect initially. Dancing, music, drinking? I didn't even know what the place looks like or where it is.. I didn't even planned to go... Until perhaps it's curiosity, wanting to see it for myself what so many of my friends had been going all this while... and boy did i got what i wanted...

It was during my armour wospec dinner and dance (which we were forced to go) that I thought why not?...

*argh there's no time to finish e post.. anyway, it's was an experience i didn't regret.. but i didn't like it at all... =s just not my type of activity

-=P3ng=- | 8:11 pm

Tuesday, October 4

Without Excuse

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Sunday, October 2
Doing more than just Lifestyle Evangelism

Ok, these few days i really have a lot of topics I wanna post abt.. But i guess I don't have e discipline to stay here and type all out.. So i'll choose e most impt one and jot it down...

On sat nite was our cell group (now known as care group, also known as SPI) had our outing.. Like what Ben said, it's been a long time since we had an outing and had fun together. Ben came up with e whole steamboat idea... Splitting into 2 groups, giving us $70 each to buy food and seaonings.. Going to church, and prepare e food, cook and EAT!... Lol, we did had an enjoyable time, esp with my group taking out e soup bowl and used e whole hotplate to stirfry everything... And everything tasted superb! My group bought way too much food and we had to find ppl to bring back e leftovers..

Then Ben talked to us abt evangelism as he our newly appointed Evangelism I/C. It's hard definitely.. Esp in our age group. And it's gonna get harder as we grow up. Many of our friends have shaped a mindset on many things in this world and they worry more, question more, harder to convince and do not easily believe.. So much so that many people especially adults have turned to this thing so called Lifestyle evangelism. It's simply living your life as a Christian, using it to protray and mirror God and His character in our lives, hoping that others will see, and question and from there then you share the gospel and preach... The situation is so real that I was shocked to realise that I had been sinking into this, giving up talking to ppl abt God, and i didn't know...

Preach the Word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and
encourage — with great patience and careful instruction. (2 Tim 4:2)

The start of the verse already said preach e word.. In season and out of season simply means anytime..With great patience because usually a person doesn't accept Christ upon hearing it e 1st time.. and careful instruction-- preaching e word accurately and applicable to that person...

If you had been like me who is on e verge on giving up on evangelism, wake up and remember that God wants us to continue to preach e word.. Most of e time, it's not that we don't have opportunities, it's because we are selective, doubtful about the power of the gospel, not prepared to share.. So let's continue to tell others of this wonderful God in our lives...

-=P3ng=- | 8:56 pm