hillsongs live recording!~

I'm thinking, if music is the rhythm of life, Christ is the conductor.

Went to hillsongs live recording @ sydney entertainment centre last sunday! All i could say is that i've never seen so many people in fervor of Christ before. The songs were passionately sung, the atmosphere just breath-taking.

This live recording will be in their next album, "Tear down the walls". I can't wait to get hold of it! :)

It's amazing how God works His hands in our lives, how He plants turns and trials in our paths, only to guide us to our best.

I take comfort and strength that God is with me each day. :)

Heal my heart and make it clean
Open up my eyes to the things unseen
Show me how to love like you have loved me

Break my heart from what breaks yours
Everything I am for your kingdoms cause
As I go from nothing to
Eternity
Hosanna in the highest

well well i've turned 23!

First time watching play @ Opera House (i couldn't appreciate the shakespearean english in the play but it was quite hilarious throughout. Overall, quite a nice experience. :) )


A nice angle picture taken by Jas


Group picture of the gals :)


MP4 - my birthday gift

A surprise gift by my housemates! love <3<3<3 IT! :D

It's a day passed my 23rd birthday and i woke up early this morning without sleeping in!

I think this deserves a celebration. haha. :p

Ask me how I feel towards getting one year older and I'll say "same lors". but deep down, I find myself thinking, "so what if i'm born today 23 years ago? no biggie."

But, after yesterday, I've realised that bday celebrations r not just about people wishing/texting people happy birthdays and people buying people presents (which is really stimulating to the economy right now.)

Birthday is the day you remind yourself of the loved ones around you, and how much YOU mean to them, and THEY to you.

I'm not saying the next bday comes around, someone buys a super big gift for another person or give super animated well-wishes by jumping and hugging the bday guy/gal would mean that this person care alot for him/her.

What I'm saying is people mAke an effort (no matter how sMall), to reach that bday friend/daughter/classmate personally before the end of her bday, to send their well-wishes.

That itself is an act of love.

Now, ask me the same about my birthday again, I'll probably say, "Thank you! with <3."

:)

the people that made you, you.

It's the people in our lives, that makes up who we are.

People you are stuck with, people you choose to be with, no matter why or how you end up with them, these are the people who adds up to who you are.

You are, who you are how the world sees you to be. Every action, every word, every smile and every frown.

Take some courage. to cry. to smile. to get hurt. to be loved.

and to lIve.

mardi gras parade - it's raining men!

Last saturday, i attended my first street parade in sydney! haha. it's themed Mardi Gras, "Fat Tuesday" in french. well, it's a very very interesting event. see if u can read the words off the flag. you will know wat i mean! :P

Overall, it was a fun but tiring experience. the streets were soOoo crowded. and the people were just wiLD. that's a scene you won't get to see in s'pore.. total uninhibition. lol.

Started my first fellowship group at my church today! =) really really happy that our plans materialised. God provided us with venue, people and resources for our group. It really showed me (again) how the Almighty plans ahead for us. Jer 29:11 "For He has the plans for us, plans to prosper us and not harm, plans to give us a hope and a future."

Anyway, i've made a resolution to make the best out of my last term here. there's soo much i want to do - attending hillsongs conference, going to the outbacks, skiing and farmstay. but semester's more intense this time round, it's quite difficult to find extra time out for travelling. except for the upcoming easter weekend.. I'm going for a fARmstay trip! woots.

I have decided that, life's too short to be upset about things.. why focus on "unhappy-fying" matters when you can be happier without them. haha. sO, i've made a pact with myself to not be bothered with what happened last week and silently let tHe matter slip away into the crowded corner of my frontal cortex. and let it be forgotten with time.

yepyep, looking forward to more plans ahead! =)

(Ps: Jing and yy, thanks for your much-needed encouragement. i <3 u. )

what i truly meant..

"Save some face, you've only got one."

I've been thinking, should i or should i not pen this down. and obviously, i've decided to.. this blog has always been an outlet to my emotions and i've decided to be honest with my feelings.

recently, a friend, X, misinterpreted some things that i've said as a joke and apparently got quite annoyed. it was a light-hearted comment made in a light hearted atmosphere. but that person was pretty pissed and wrote pretty offensive words towards me on msn nick, which consist of the f... word.

I was quite upset by it.. but instead of feeling angry about it, i tried to explain things and even offered an apology. but apparently, the person is still quite emo about it and refuses to soften his/her stand.

I've talked to a few friends, who knew both of us. They think the person is too sensitive about it and told me not to trouble over it. But me being me, I have been bothered by it for the past few days.

I've always taken that person as a friend, albeit not a very close one, but someone whom i definitely could place trust in.

After this incident, I'm just not sure anymore.

All i can say is that, don't put your expectations too high about others and be really careful with your words with certain people. Cos sadly, people judge one another using their own yardstick and standards.

I just wished things were different..

WHen things could be simple, where people treat people with a pure and open heart, with respect, with trust and with love.

new beginnings

Okay, the new term just started. and i'm still sniffing away.. esp in the mornings. everytime when i have to blow my nose (which is almost once every 10 secs), i really hope my nose won't fall off on my next sneeze. Aiz.. when will my runny nose go away?

Anyway, it feels alright to be back. wasn't as bad as i thought it would be.

Had a bad scare with my timetable yesterday. apparently, all of friends had a similar timetable with at least one other person they know (this means they have a tutorial buddy), all except for me. haha. for everyone who knows me well, i'm a xenophobic and this is really bad news.

Just as i was about to resign to my fate/awful timetable, i decided to give it another shot by attempting to change my timetable on our school's online web. (How it works is tt you can submit a special request to block out a period of time in your week, if you have other commitments during that time e.g work or any other special reasons. The system will generate a new timetable giving you free time during those times that you've blocked out.)

This means that i can get an entirely new timetable, which may be for the better or worst, with more/less hours of break in between lessons. And there's a chance that i'll still have no tut buddy.

Nonetheless, i went ahead with trying, thinking there's nothing to lose.

And i got an exact same timetable as TWO of my friends! :)

He is truly our Jehovah Jireh. my God provides.

My stomach's rumbling.. it's almost 12pm and i haven't had my breakfast. don't really feel like having cereals for breakfast but there's not much options cos we've not gone for groceries shopping yet.

i. am. missing. my. favourite. fishball. noodles. =/