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25 October 2006 ! at 11:00 PM ! From the highest of heights to the depths of the sea Creation's revealing Your majesty From the colors of fall to the fragrance of spring Every creature unique in the song that it sings All exclaiming Indescribable, uncontainable, You placed the stars in the sky and You Know them by name. You are amazing God All powerful, untamable, Awestruck we fall to our knees as we humbly proclaim You are amazing God Who has told every lightning bolt where it should go Or seen heavenly storehouses laden with snow Who imagined the sun and gives source to its light Yet conceals it to bring us the coolness of night None can fathom Indescribable, uncontainable, You placed the stars in the sky and You Know them by name You are amazing God All powerful, untamable, Awestruck we fall to our knees as we humbly proclaim You are amazing God You are amazing God Indescribable, uncontainable, You placed the stars in the sky and You Know them by name. You are amazing God All powerful, untamable, Awestruck we fall to our knees as we humbly proclaim You are amazing God Indescribable, uncontainable, You placed the stars in the sky and You Know them by name. You are amazing God Incomparable, unchangeable You see the depths of my heart and You love me the same You are amazing GodYou are amazing God Yay, I love this song a lot a lot! (: It's a really sweet and nice song, and the lyrics are really really nice. Germaise sent me the song (: It makes me reflect on how I've viewed God. Have I been viewing Him as the all powerful God whom I should be fearing or am I just plaining viewing Him as something to pray and ask for my wishes to be granted, like a genie or a fairy? And when my wishes aren't granted I get upset with Him and doubted His love for me. I realised this was the past me, before I came to know God all over again, before I came to GLCC. But I'm glad I'm no longer like that anymore. I'm glad that since I've come to GLCC I've changed! :D Thank God for bringing me and my sisters in! The song's really meaningful too! The glories of God, so many yet there's gonna be so much more that's gonna come! Thank God that He's an amazing God! (: Hmm the Uth camp's coming up! :D Really excited about it but the fee is 75 bucks ): a lot of money leh. Oh and there's gonna be this Batam Medical Trip again, praying that I'll be able to go, but I heard it might cost like 50 bucks... Costs quite a bit. Well praying that the dates won't clash, because if it clashes with any of my school stuff I can't go le. And I wanna go! Haha, all the information comes from Wheekok ah, so if its wrong don't blame me, his fault! (x Well I'm hoping to be able to make it for both! But Uth camp is like, on the 4th to 8th, while Guide camp is on the 1st to 4th... Praying that I'll be able to go on 4th night but I don't think so. Because my mum already said that she only let me go on the next day :/ Hopefully it won't be too tiring for me... Two camps one after the other immediately... :/ Haha well but I'm really excited yeah! But I can't go for Shuyi's church camp already, but it's okay I guess. Afterall, she has Adelicia and maybe Lois. Yesterday was the bbq and outing at Jia Hao's house! :D It was really fun, though me and my sisters were like late for 40 minutes! :/ Sorry! Enjoyed myself throughly, can't remember when was the last time I had so much fun! (: We played captain's ball, and walked around in the baby pool! The kids pool lah, I think. It has a playground in the pool somemore! Wanted to go swimming so much ): But got no extra clothes and the security guard didn't allow anyway. Haha but we took quite a few spastic pictures everywhere! Shall go get them from Iris (: The guys went swimming though, in the shorts and all, but I don't thin the security guard realize. Or maybe he did, and chased them out. Elias was being very very cute! Heh, as usual. He was playing water at one side of the pool with a bowl :/ But still very cute! :D Well we had a Moo Moo competition! :D Melvin finished his Moo Moo in like, two seconds?! ): My Moo Moo turned out to be distorted! ): Haha before I could finish my Moo Moo the competition was over already :/ So in the end I just slowly ate my Moo Moo. But it was very delicious! :D Haha bbq-ed a while every now and then, and I played murderer with quite a few people, including Jia Hao's classmates (: Had a great time there and took 67 home, straight bus! :D But I felt very guilty after that ): because I was supposed to pack some food for the Seto Wheekok and Daniel down at church who were painting banners so they were skipping out on the outing. I packed and I left it one side near the bbq pit but then I left the bbq pit and then i guess someone took it away and ate it up and cleared it away ): Because by the time I went back down later, there was no more food left, all gone ): So I felt really guilty. Wanted to go down to church and help them but then I couldn't, because the next day got school. Well so yeah, that was all about it yesterday! Thanks to Jia Hao and his mum, for inviting all of us to have fun there! (: <3, CASS. 18 October 2006 ! at 11:55 PM ! I'm depressed though. Because of results and some problems I have. But I guess, what's done already been done. No point brooding over it and crying non-stop. Alright, I'll end here. I'm really sorry, for just abandoning you like that, I hope you won't be so angry with me anymore. <3, CASS. 09 October 2006 ! at 1:13 AM ! Lord I come to You Let my heart be changed, renewed Flowing from the grace That I found in You. And Lord I've come to know The weaknesses I see in me Will be stripped away By the power of Your love. Hold me close Let Your love surround me Bring me near Draw me to Your side. And as I wait I'll rise up like the eagle And I will soar with You Your Spirit leads me on In the power of Your love. Lord unveil my eyes Let me see You face to face The knowledge of Your love As You live in me. Lord renew my mind As Your will unfolds in my life In living every day In the power of Your love. Love this song, it just goes to show that we can do everything through God, and His beautiful love! I love the fact that His love is just so powerful, and that with His love, any weakness is gone. And I really miss the times when I felt His presence, felt His love so strongly. I realise it's been sometime since I last let His love surround me, especially during this exam period. I realise that during this preiod of exams, I've actually distanced myself from God, worrying and not spending enough time with Him. So often I'm tired out by all the studying I do that I often leave Him out of this very important period of my life. So often that when I pray, I'm actually too tired, so tired I fall asleep before ending my prayer and saying AMEN. And during this exam period, I still do my quiet time and read His word and try to pray as often as i can but it seems as though it has become a routine. It is no longer because I want to do it, because I'm interested in reading His word already. And I feel really guilty because I know that exams shouldn't be an excuse for me to stop walking closer with God, in fact, I should use exams to walk closer with God, because exams spell trouble for me. Somehow when I decided to listen to this song, power of Your love, I didn't realise that I'll be so touched by His love. On thursday night, I was really touched by this song, especially when I saw the part, The weaknesses I see in me Will be stripped away By the power of Your love. I was struggling with studying chemistry at that point of time, and my chemistry is like really bad because of mole concept. And when I saw this part of the lyrics I just felt so touched that despite the many many flaws and weaknesses I have within me, God didn't mind. And that He'll still love me all the same, whether I was smarter or stupider, uglier or prettier, fatter or thinner, better in charcter or worser, He'll still love me. And His love is so deep, it cannot be anymore deeper. And the chrous is really touching too. I suddenly missed being in God's arms, the most comforting and secure place on Earth. I miss having His love surrounding me, miss being so close to Him. And suddenly as I listened to this song, suddenly I felt that I wanted to drop everything I have in this world, drop everything I care about in this world and return to His love, return to Him and His ever-loving arms. Physics tomorrow. Pray that I'll pass. Oh I wanna share these two touching stories I read from marcus' blog (: He doesn't care about cupcakes I remember that day so very well. I was young about four or five. We did something unusual that day, unusual for my house at least. We made cupcakes. With my mom helping out on our family owned and operated dairy, there wasn't much time for cupcake baking. But that day, for whatever reason, we made cupcakes. At that point in time my grandfather, who later lost his sight to diabetes, could still see. Also at that time he had several horses only a quarter mile from our house. That day my grandpa happened to be out with the horses, and I decided to take him a cupcake. Now from the time I was small, missions were very important to me. I held my responsibilities in very high regard. I didn't want to simply do things. I wanted to do them perfectly. So I set out, barefoot, from my house, cupcake in hand, bound for the pen where my grandpa was working. However, when I got there, I found a huge problem for a little girl with a cupcake in her hand. There was an old gray aluminum fence with about four horizontal slots held together with one long diagonal slot. At five or so feet tall, it was a monster. Worse, whatever held it upright didn't hold it steady. So the gate swayed dangerously top down with any pressure applied to it. For little me, that gate presented a big problem. I wasn't big enough to open it. I couldn't yell loud enough for Grandpa to hear me. So as I surveyed the situation in my little mind, I decided my only option was to climb the thing. I only hope that now I would be smart enough to set the cupcake through the gate before I started climbing. Unfortunately, I didn't think that far ahead that day. Instead, cupcake in hand, I started climbing.The journey was going pretty well until I got to the top. As I hiked my first let over the top slot, I ran out of hands to keep me stable just as the gate swayed the other direction. I remember Grandpa yelling for me to stop and wait. I remember saying something like, "Grandpa, look! I brought you a cupcake." The next thing I remember is hitting the hard ground on the other side with a body thwacking thud. The next thing I remember is seeing the cupcake smashed flat next to me. Grandpa made it to me about ten seconds after I hit the ground. I was absolutely hysterical. He picked me up and held me, telling me it would be okay and asking if I were hurt. All I could think was I had smashed the cupcake. His cupcake. I had failed the mission. I had let him down. It took me many long years to learn the lesson of that day. The truth was: He didn't care about the stupid cupcake. He cared about me. I learned this only when I realized that is exactly how God is with us. We're all worried about the cupcakes we've made and are bringing to Him. Like our accomplishments and our good deeds and our ministries. But the reality is He doesn't care about our cupcakes. He cares about us! It really doesn't matter to Him if our cupcakes get smashed along the way or if they were ever perfect in the first place. All He cares about is being able to hold us so he can ask what's wrong, where are we hurt, and holding us until we're all better. It took me a long time to be grateful for falling over that gate, but now that I see the lesson, those cupcakes, those missions, and being perfect don't seem nearly as important. What's important, all that's important, is He loves me. Everything else is cupcakes, and He doesn't care about the cupcakes. ~ The author is Staci Stallings. The red ribbon Everyone wants a blue ribbon. Blue. First place. The best. Even kindergarteners want that blue ribbon. In sports, I was never a blue-ribbon person. In a race I was always last. In baseball I was as likely to get hit on the head as to drop the ball. In basketball I was fine as long as there weren't nine other players on the court with me. Where I got my horrible sports ability, I don't know, but I got it. And I got it early. During the spring of my kindergarten year, our class had a fieldtrip to a park in a town about 20 miles away. Making that drive now is no big deal, but when you're six and you've lived in a town of 300 all your life, going to a town of a couple thousand is a very big deal. Nonetheless, looking back now, I don't remember much of that day. I'm sure we ate our little sack lunches, played on the swings, slid down the slide, typical six- year-old stuff. Then it was time for the races.However, these were no ordinary races. Some parent had come up with the idea to have the picnic kind of races, like pass the potato under your neck and hold an egg on a spoon while you run to the other side. I don't remember too much about these, but there was one race that will forever be lodged in my memory, the three-legged race. The parents decided not to use potato sacks for this particular race. Instead, they tied our feet together. One lucky little boy got me for a partner. Now what you have to know about this little boy is that he was the second most athletic boy in our class. I'm sure he knew he was in trouble the second they laced his foot to mine. As for me, I was mortified. This guy was a winner. He almost always won, and I knew that, with me, he didn't have a chance. Apparently he didn't realize that as deeply as I did at the time. He laced his arm with mine, the gun sounded, and we were off to the other side. Couples were falling and stumbling all around us, but we stayed on our feet and made it to the other side. Unbelievably when we turned around and headed back for home, we were in the lead! Only one other couple even had a chance, and they were a good several yards behind us.Then only feet from the finish line, disaster struck. I tripped and fell. We were close enough that my partner could have easily dragged me across the finish line and won. He could have, but he didn't. Instead, he stopped, reached down, and helped me up, just as the other couple crossed the finish line. I still remember that moment, and I still have that little red ribbon.When we graduated 13 years later, I stood on that stage and gave the Valedictory address to that same group of students, none of whom even remembered that moment anymore. So, I told them about that little boy who had made a split-second decision that helping a friend up was more important than winning a blue ribbon. In my speech I told them that I wouldn't tell which of the guys sitting there on that stage was the little boy although he was up there with me. I wouldn't tell because in truth at one time or another all of them had been that little boy, helping me up when I fell, taking time out from their pursuit of their own goals to help a fellow person in need. I told them why I've kept that ribbon. You see to me, that ribbon is a reminder that you don't have to be a winner in the eyes of the world to be a winner to those closest to you. The world may judge you a failure or a success, but those closest to you will know the truth. That's important to remember as we travel through this life. You may not have a red ribbon to prove it, but I sincerely hope you have at least a few friends who remember you for taking time out from your pursuit of that blue ribbon to help them. I'm thinking those will be the ones that really count. I know it's the one that counted the most to me. ~ The author is Staci Stallings. Yup okay I'm off to bed already (: Haha I just watched naruto episode 1! So funny! <3! <3, CASS. 08 October 2006 ! at 2:00 AM ! PLTC is just one of the best camps I've ever been to! It's combined with the Northview guides and SKY (Seng Kang) guides! :D At first I was really afraid I'll be like totally anti-social and kepp to myself and the Crescent guides and not mix around and be totally shy and everything but well, I wasn't what I expected myself to be(: Well, Crescent certainly bonded extremely well with SKY(: The moon and the sky! Haha(: Anyway it was a really great experience and the Crescent and SKY guides are looking forward to being able to see each other again! We didn't really manage to bond with the Northview guides cuz I guess they kept to themselves quite a bit of the camp): shall talk about the camp now(: CRESCENT GUIDES + NORTHVIEW GUIDES + SKY GUIDES = GIRL POWER! Day One: We all felt quite emo and sad and were all complaining to Miss Azlin even before the camp started and we were all like, I wanna go homeeeeeeeeee! D: There was me, Qiwei, Chuting, Sherylsim, Xiao Rong, Kay, Jeraldine, Shuyi, Edwyna and Amelia! :D Yup just 10 Crescent guides and about 11 Northview guides and almost 10 SKY guide okay! We were shocked by the number of SKY guides when they first came :/ And when they first came I malu-ed myself already by screaming and jumping up and grabbing one of the Crescent guide when Sherylsim and don't know who else screamed my name and pointed to my back! -.- Naturally I panicked and thought there was some humongous insect on my back :/ And it turned out there was only a toad hopping nearby. -.- I was put in Patrol One with Yingshan, Yingduan, Shafiqah, Charmaine, Xiao Rong, Michelle and Lidya! And then we went to pitch tent while Shafiqah and Charmaine were building ktchen shelter(: Well then I malu-ed myself once again at lunch time when i was happily eating my apple with oily fingers and my apple slipped out of my hand and rolled into the middle of the meal ring! D: That was sooooooooo embarrassing! Haha but that was how I made friends with Huda and Shafiqah! Haha Shafiqah was terribly amused by my apple and kept asking me for my name while I made her guess my name :D Haha and then she kept saying she wanted to be my best friend already xD Haha that silly girl! ><> The part in orange was typed on 110906, I was too sleepy to continue typing day two and day three): Day Two: Met other Crescent people sitting on the slope chatting and I left Xiao Rong with them and went back to tent and slept. And guess what, I overslept. D: I slept till 7 I think until Qiwei came to call me and told me that we were having a talk with Miss Azlin and they realised I was missing suddenly! D: That was super malu-ating as well! ><> The purple part was typed on 200906, but due to sleepy reasons and time constraint, the third day shall be typed another day. Day Three: Alrighty, day three was the last day of camp! ): We were all very sad about leaving and now, we all don't wanna go home! Haha. We took quite a long time for breakfast, exchanging contacts and enjoying our last meal together. Too soon to come was taking down of the tents and untying the gadgets. I can't bear to part with them! ): Anyway, we took down all our stuff and cleaned up the entire place and the buses came early! ): Then I decided to eat an apple as annoucements were being made. Anyway we had to finish up the remaining food mah. Packed up bags, Got ready to leave. Then we had prize giving ceremony! (: My patrol won the Best Patrol Overall Award! :D The prize is super cute lah! It's this portable fork and spoon and knife and cutter all in one! Totally suitable for camping! Haha. But what really surprised me the most was the best camper prize. Therer were three, one from each school. And I was the best camper from my school! :D I was really happy but I didn't expected it at all! It was so surprising and I was eating my apple when my name was announced! Haha had to give Kay the apple to hold for me. (: Haha but my prize was just another one of those cute little fork cum cpoon cum knife cum cutter thing! :D But most importantly, thank God for allowing His love and Himself to show through me in this camp. Haha one of the guiders from Seng Kang Secondary said that it was as though I was the ambassdor of LOVE! And suddenly I realise, I want to be like that ALL THROUGH MY LIFE, IN EVERYTHING THAT I DO, THINK AND SAY. It's not as though I'll only be filled with love during camping. That's not how I want it to be. I want to be loving in all that I do, say and think. (: All in all, I really must thank God for placing such wonderful friends around me and for opening doors for me to attend this camp! (: The above part typed in this colour was typed on 08102006. (: Post on PLTC is finally typed out in great details. (: <3, CASS. |