Its been a really busy week, I think, first of all met up with IRYS and the girls to celebrate IRYS birthday!!! wOO-hoO!! there after was Tuesday long day of meetings and H1N1 jAB!! Then Wednesday met up with Marg Sng for shopping and catching up!!!Thurs was BS with Yanzhi, went with Donn and Kin Wei to Ziyun's grandma's wake (was supposed to go with the rest but in the end the timing dint work out) and thereafer met Limei, Bryan, and Vincent to go celebrate Limei's passing of her DRIVING test!!! goody!! you rock girl!!! (: and while Mr. Bryan is too tired to join us, we went to catch HAPPY FLIGHT which is a ...not too much comments show but I guess that you learn about the importance of teamwork and how every department is important and has a part to play.
Friday is one whole day with the CG!! (: Loves that!! Had CGM and BBQ (photos to be uploaded and posted later! but its on FACEBOOK already!) good time of catching up, relaxing and lepaking with the members! (: I think eating is what draws this cg together! hahahah..Saturday started with Mind Your Money Seminar at the Pan Pacific!! Its quite enlightening! Managed to meet up with Glenda and her current BF!! hahaha..and we sat through the whole day of seminar and witness the "kiasu-ness" of Singapore at play! ahhahahha
Thereafter to Service (which was great and will elaborate when I have time!), Fellowship with members, give BS and then down to town to meet Aaron, Agnes, Perez, Ivyna and Shujun to like "farewell" for Perez before his Tianjin trip..ahhahaha..as well as to celebrate Agnes bday!! (: which happen to be the actual day on Sat. n
Aaron bought the Outliers book for perez who already had that book so in the end I was the one who was blessed with the book!! Thanks Aaron and he throw in He's Just Not That Into You (perhaps I need to read that! AHHAHAH) and thereafter went to catch Ninja Assasin with Laurel, Perez, Aaron and Agnes..this shows proves to be BLOODY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Not my kind of show really!!! >.<
Sunday was spent in JB with a great dinner, shopping at Etude House with great bargains and hanging out at JB!!!And its 4am now but I still cant get to sleep!! Bad!!!! =.=
I feel alive beside you
And all at once
I am whole again.
We fall into each other
Your atmosphere
Is all I´m breathing in
And in this rush
We are crushed
Carry me down
Roll it in your arms
Cause' I can't remember
Ever falling this hard
Tell me tonight,
All that we have been
Was it nothin' more
Than a noise inside my head
Crashing down, crashing down,
In your avalanche.
In your avalanche.
These scars we wear remind us
The more we change
The more we're all the same
Swept up in this emotion
We fumble through
and make the same
mistakes
Cause' we are led
To the edge
Carry me down
Roll it in your arms
I can't remember
Ever falling this hard
Tell me tonight
All that we have been
Was it nothin' more
Than a noise inside my head
Crashing down, crashing down,
In your avalanche
Crashing down, crashing down,
Carry me down
Roll it in your arms
Cause I can't remember
Ever falling this hard
Tell me tonight
All that we have been
Was it nothin' more
Than a noise inside my head
Carry me down
Roll it in your arms
Cause I can't remember
Ever falling this hard
Tell me tonight
All that we have been
Was it nothin more
Than a noise inside our heads
Crashing down, crashing down...
Was it nothing more
Than a noise inside our heads
Crashing down
Crashing down
I feel alive beside you
Than all at once I am
whole again...
:: Avalanche :: David Cook ::
Thought of this song, not cos of the context of the song but rather more of the theme of the song, it talks about falling and about avalanche.
I think there are many times when things really get very tough and you feel that you are in such a situtation when you feel that you are falling and like how everything is collecting into a big lump and gearing towards destruction. Yes, I am not exactly feeling positive right now!! >.< so pardon me for the negativity!!! ):
There are times when you are on a high but there are that you feel that you are at a real low and I think that this is a time like that unfortunately. Everytime you perk yourself up and then to hear something negative and you feel like faith is leaking from you at such a rate that no matter how hard you try to refill your faith, it is not adding up at all.
I now have the chance to fight this out for one last time, I have this one last opportunity, its either make or break. And I know that I cant be doing this on my own, I know that I need people to be with me, but the issue is that I am not sure if there is anyone who want to take this ride together, its going to be a hard and it is going to be tough, maybe it will work out, maybe it wouldnt but I just want to be able to able to at the end of the day say that I have done my best.
Are you ready for this fight?
With your girlfriend
She's upset
She's going off about
Something that you said
'Cause she doesn't get your humor
Like I do
I'm in the room
It's a typical Tuesday night
I'm listening to the kind of music
She doesn't like
She'll never know your story
Like I do
But she wears short skirts
I wear t-shirts
She's cheer captain
And I'm on the bleachers
Dreaming about the day
When you wake up and find
That what you're looking for
Has been here the whole time
If you could see
That I'm the one
Who understands you
Been here all along
So why can't you
See you belong with me
You belong with me.
Walking the streets
With you and your worn out jeans
I can't help thinking
This is how it ought to be
Laughing on a park bench
Thinking to myself
Hey, isn't this easy?
And you've got a smile
That could light up this whole town
I haven't seen it in awhile
Since she brought you down
You say you're fine
I know you better than that
Hey what you doing
With a girl like that
She wears high heels
I wear sneakers
She's cheer captain
I'm on the bleachers
Dreaming about the day
When you wake up and find
That what you're looking for
Has been here the whole time
If you could see
That I'm the one
Who understands you
Been here all along
So why can't you
See you belong with me
Standing by and
Waiting at your backdoor
All this time
How could you not know
Baby
You belong with me
You belong with me.
Oh, I remember
You driving to my house
In the middle of the night
I'm the one who makes you laugh
When you know you're about to cry
And I know your favorite songs
And you tell me about your dreams
Think I know where you belong
Think I know it's with me
Can't you see
That I'm the one
Who understands
Been here all along
So why can't you see?
You belong with me.
Have you ever thought
Just maybe
You belong with me?
:: You Belong With Me :: Taylor Swift ::
This song has a really cute MV!! Go catch it!! Another song on my playlist recently! (: Sometimes its really quite funny how you go one round and realise that the person that you are looking for was there all along! (remind me of sth that we were telling someone last week- thing is I cant remember who and what but it was about going round that sort of thing..hahaha..STM is really striking me big time!)
HAPPY BIRTHDAY DARLING!!!!!
Celebrated Darling's birthday and finally a meet-up with the girls, life after you start work makes it really hard to arrange for a meet-up and hence you need to put in more effort and more time! Joanne was caught up with things to do and couldnt join us. Hongting and Gerald was in Home Team, and Tong Jee studying for exams..get my point? (:
Nevertheless, was really glad that got to meet-up and catch up with the girls!! (: hope that we dont have to wait too long for the next get together!
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Passion
(from the Latin verb patior, meaning to suffer or to endure, also related to compatible)
is an emotion applied to a very strong feeling about a person or thing.
Passion is an intense emotion compelling feeling, enthusiasm, or desire for something.
The term is also often applied to a lively or eager interest in or admiration for a proposal, cause, or activity or love.
What are the things that you are passionate for? What is the cause that you are campaigning? What is the vision that you are working towards?
When we were all in school, these questions seems pretty easy to answer, it is about being a student with good grades and good character and winning a few prizes along the way would definitely be a plus point. But after you enter the workforce, does that passion still apply? What are the things that you are working for? Money? Fame? Position? But the thing is all these things, they will fade away and sooner or later you come to a point when you begin to realise that the amount of fame, the amount of money and the level of your position is no longer able to please you or make you happy, there is thing longing for something more.
The past few days, I had the opportunity to meet some passionate people who are driven by a vision and something that they believe in.
1. Glenn Lim http://www.glennlim.net/
You can read more about him from his website. He is so passionate about what he is doing that he centered his life around it. He is living for a cause.
2. CDL HOD of Fuchun Secondary School
Went with Cindy for an appointment at Fuchun Secondary School and this is yet another inspiring person whom we have met over the past few days. He enjoys teaching and not only that, you can tell that he is interested and passionate about what he is doing. He believes in the holistic development of his students and he fights for every chance that they have to do better than they already are.
And meeting a whole lot of others during the GSIF, the mentoring seminar by NYC and the different life stories that I have heard recently. It really makes me wonder what are the things that I would consider my Passion, my Vision and my Cause?
The thing is, you can have a lot of things, but not feel happy because there is sth more to true happiness. And I believe that it comes when it can be shared with other people.
You know when you are a youth, you think about those lofty dreams that you have and you dismiss them, thinking that they are not possible but here are people making their dreams come to pass. What is your dream? What do you really want to do? Make things happen, change is possible, only if you dare to believe.
Having said that, the journey of a dream is never easy, it is always one that is filled with much obstacles that you have to overcome and many will discourage you and try to talk you out of doing what you are doing. The thing then is that, this has got to be something that you DECIDE that you will be doing for the rest of your life.
Daddy made a comment that day that made me ponder- he said that I am not going to stay in this job forever right? In my mind, I was thinking why not? But more than that, I did ask myself is this something that I want to do for the rest of my life? My answer to that is YES BUT even more so than this is that I want to do MUCH MORE. I dont know how and I dont know when but I know that there is this part of me that tells me and yearns for much more, it reminded of the dream and the things that I want to achieve.
The Bible says that God gives seed to the sower, we think about this in the area of our finances but what about our dreams? If you dont dare to dream, you have no passion for your dream, you do not want to dream, why does God give you more dreams? Are you willing to be a dreamer today? Daring to dream is only the first step to doing something great but at least it is the first step, if you dont even have a dream, then there is no direction to go.
Couple it with Casey Treat's message, you need to build up your spiritual Core, if not you will give up somewhere along the road when it gets tough. And these are things that you will realise that you cannot do on your own strength and own efforts, rather, you need to depend on the Lord to see them come to pass. Noah had a dream, Joseph had a dream, Daniel had a dream, you realise that all these great people in the Bible, they went through the stage of dreaming. Then come the delay, the mocking, the waiting but the thing is delay is not denial but it is the time when God is giving you to build yourself up, to be passionate in the mandane and the little things in life before He entrust you with more!
But first it start with that DREAM.
Have you dreamed today?
他的輕狂留在 某一節車廂
地下鐵裡的風 比回憶還重
整座城市一直等著我
有一段感情還在漂泊
對他唯一遺憾 是分手那天
我奔騰的眼淚 都停不下來
若那一刻重來 我不哭
讓他知道我可以很好
我愛他 轟轟烈烈最瘋狂
我的夢 狠狠碎過卻不會忘
曾為他 相信明天就是未來
情節有多壞 都不肯醒來
我愛他 跌跌撞撞到絕望
我的心 深深傷過卻不會忘
我和他 不再屬于這個地方
最初的天堂 最終的荒唐*
如果還有遺憾 又怎麼樣呢
傷了痛了懂了 就能好了嗎
曾經依靠彼此的肩膀
如今各自在人海流浪
我愛他 轟轟烈烈最瘋狂
我的夢 狠狠碎過卻不會忘
逃不開 愛越深越互相傷害
越深的依賴 越多的空白
該怎麼去愛
如果還有遺憾 是分手那天
我奔騰的眼淚 都停不下來
若那一刻重來 我不哭
讓他知道我可以很好
:: 我愛他 :: 叮噹 ::
I know that I posted this song before but since i watching the show now..cant resist it!!! cos the song is so nice! hahahah (: But I have decided that I shall TRY to wait till there are more episodes before continuing with my watching if not will very 辛苦 cos I dont know what is going to happen and have to wait one whole week before I do!!! Anyway there are quite a few shows to catch now..so I am well entertained!! and perhaps I shld be watching KOREAN drama to improve my KOREAN instead!!!
***
According to my very smart and wise members, the pain that is under my right feet is called 鸡眼 and here is what the Wikipedia say about it:
雞眼主要原因是手足皮膚摩擦後生成的厚繭，醫學名稱為足蹠疣，為局部長期受到擠壓、摩擦，導致表皮增厚而形成的厚繭。通常見於足部，是足部局限性圓錐狀角質增生性損害。以患處表皮增生變厚角化，形狀像雞的眼睛，行走時受擠壓而疼痛(真的很痛好不好！）為主要表現。防治方法是經常清潔手足外皮，減除生成的繭。
病因
由於穿過緊或窄的鞋子，或足骨畸形，使高出的腳趾長期摩擦或受壓，造成氣血運行不暢，肌膚失養而發病。
另外有硬雞眼與軟雞眼的分別。足底骨頭凸出的部位若經常受到壓迫與摩擦，皮膚容易變厚角化而形成雞眼。尤其在第五趾外緣處易形成硬雞眼。在足趾縫間的骨頭凸出處太常相互摩擦，也會形成軟雞眼，好發在第四五趾縫間。會有疼痛感，嚴重一點則會有灼熱感。
So, I think that I better go and get some medicine from the Chinese medicinal hall tml when it is open, dont want it to worsen!! ):
***
Its been a crazy week!! It started with Monday's CF retreat at Changi Village at night, Tuesday Leaders Dinner, Wednesday dinner and watching 2012 with Ping (which gave me recurring nightmares about the end of times!! freaky!!), Thursday CG meeting, Friday (not alot of people) CG dinner cum Yanzhi bday celebration, Sat morning NYC Mentoring seminar, Service and dinner, Sunday S4 service and then going out and watching the Christmas Carol..all in all and fighting the insomnia monster!! Those people who wanna sleep should be able to sleep instead having to try so hard to get to sleep for the past week and then after getting yourself to sleep, you get lots of dreams that prevented you from sleeping well, where is the justice?!!
Oh wells, that aside, I think that I am not just feeling very physically tired but tired generally. Seriously, at times like that you really wished that there is someone that you can just pour everything out to and I guess that you will feel better after doing so.
There are a lot of things that people dont understand, we claim to understand each other, we claim to think that we know what someone else is thinking but the truth is, do we really know? In the attempt to protect and prevent ourselves from getting hurt or in an attempt to protect the people we love, we appear to be stronger and better than who we really are most of the time. No issue with that, as long as there is an outlet at the end of the day, pouring it all out. If all these are not poured out and dealt with, it became pent up and one day this person will just breakdown and throw in the towel and we see that once too often in the lives of the people around us.
Thing is God created us to be relational, no man is an island, yet there are many who build walls and make it seem like they are an island, truth is they have been hurt and they want to prevent themselves from getting hurt further. Who are the people whom you can bare your heart to? Treasure these people, there wouldnt be many who fall into this category.
I have this tendancy to grumble and voice out my emotions out loud, so I will make comments like "wah..so you think that you are the only one who is tired larh huh? dont want to do just say larh.." after hanging up a phone call to myself and perhaps the people who are around. Most of the times people dont know how to react and actually I dont need people to react. BUT I have learnt through the action of someone that I shld really refrain from doing that. There was this day when I was just venting out my thoughts and this person heard me (i am very sure of that, cos i mentioned the person's name and said..you know hor....) and he took up his earphone and plug it into his (or her, this is generic) ears and ignored me. I was RATHER offended and i thought to myself that I will never respect this person again, that was downright rude. Yes, there are many of us who will shut off, but an action like that, it kills friendships!
Usually after grumbling and mumbling to myself, I will just move on and still carry on with what I need to do. But that does not mean that thoughts are not going through my mind. and I think that I was born a pessimist, I will run through the worse posisble scenario and outcome in my mind- Maybe that is why I get all my dreams and nightmares!! Anyway, thinking makes me tired and perhaps, I dont really want to think about it. But anyhow, thanks to Rec Casey for sharing a word in season for my life at least.
This passage came to my mind when I was showering just now:
"Most assuredly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it produces much grain. He who loves his life will lose it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life. If anyone serves Me, let him follow Me; and where I am, there My servant will be also. If anyone serves Me, him My Father will honor."
ok..go ponder...blogging make me slpy..nights.
SCREAMS: YANZHI HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!
Comes out just when you need it to
As I paced back and forth all this time
Cause I honestly believed in you
Holding on, the days drag on
Stupid girl, I should have known
I should have known
I'm not a princess, this ain't a fairy tale
I'm not the one you'll sweep off her feet
Lead her up the stairwell
This ain't Hollywood, this is a small town
I was a dreamer before you went and let me down
Now it's too late for you and your white horse, to come around
Baby I was naive, got lost in your eyes
And never really had a chance
I had so many dreams about you and me
Happy endings, now I know
I'm not a princess, this ain't a fairy tale
I'm not the one you'll sweep off her feet
Lead her up the stairwell
This ain't Hollywood, this is a small town
I was a dreamer before you went and let me down
Now it's too late for you and your white horse, to come around
And there you are on your knees
Begging for forgiveness, begging for me
Just like I always wanted but I'm so sorry
Cause I'm not your princess, this ain't a fairytale
I'm gonna find someone someday who might actually treat me well
This is a big world, that was a small town
There in my rearview mirror disappearing now
And its too late for you and your white horse
Now its too late for you and your white horse, to catch me now
Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa
Try and catch me now
Oh, it's too late to catch me now
: : White Horse : : TaylorSwift : :
吵闹任性的时侯
我的外婆总会唱歌哄我
夏天的午后
老老的歌安慰我
那首歌好像这样唱的
天黑黑欲落雨
天黑黑黑黑
离开小时候
有了自己的生活
新鲜的歌新鲜的念头
任性和冲动无法控制的时候
我忘记还有
这样的歌
天黑黑欲落雨
天黑黑黑黑
我爱上让我奋不顾身的一个人
我以为这就是我所追求的世界
然而横冲直撞被误解被骗
是否成人的世界背后总有残缺
我走在每天必须面对的分岔路
我怀念过去单纯美好的小幸福
爱总是让人哭让人觉得不满足
天空很大却看不清楚好孤独
天黑的时候我又想起那首歌
突然期待下起安静的雨
原来外婆的道理早就唱给我听
下起雨也要勇敢前进……
我相信一切都会平息
我现在好想回家去
天黑黑欲落雨
天黑黑黑黑
:: 天黑黑 :: 孙燕姿 ::
Was listening to this song in the cab..just a thought about it! (:
091109- The day I become a licensed DRIVER!!!
Thanks for all the prayers & encouragement! God is really gracious! while it is raining dinos & hippos everywhere else, Ubi only light rain!!! Praise God!! (:
**
Was having my practise drive this morning, afternoon and butterflies are flying around in my tummy! The last prac yesterday was the best one I ever had so far, so I was beginning to build up a little of my confidence and then this morning I went to Ubi to pick up some T-shirt samples and saw the long queue of cars outside and my heart sank..anyway back to the warm-up and like suddenly couldnt do parking *faint* anyhow and I saw the dark clouds at the corner of my eye and the Ti Orh Orh Bei Lor Hor came through my mind and I was sian-ed..nevertheless, i went ahead and told myself that nothing can be worse than the last time le..so..uttered a prayer, off my phone and went over to the waiting room.
At 3.40pm, the TP testers began to come and call out the people 1 by 1 for the test. I took a glance outside, the dark clouds were really gathering! I thought to myself, perhaps I can be one of the first few so that I wouldnt get caught in the rain while I am doing circuit, esp the SLOPE!! The other time round, I was one of the first few to be called, this time round, I was 1 of the last to be called. I look at look at the tester, he dint really look friendly and I was totally sian-ed...
Circuit went SURPRISINGLY well, it was almost like what we did during prac..the sequence and all..I thought that my instructor must be a genius!!! lols..anyway, and we actually did the emergency break thingy wor!! woohooo!!!
First mistake came at the DOOR of the driving center when we are going out of the circuit, i exit on gear 2..sian the tester immediately say me..then we went on a route that I had never been on before..there are like 10 routes and most of them I got drive before one larh..so I was a little sianed..and the second turn, my car stalled!!! Faint!!!! So, i tried to remain calm and try to make my blind spots checks very obvious..then a few more other mistakes- i crossed the safety mark when I brake..cos I brake too late..and that happened TWICE!!! Never happen before and today it happened TWICE!!! gosh..and I was so nervous that I keep ramping the accelarator..rather ramp then to stall and the tester very sternly WARNED me again! sigh..I thought gone case le!! sigh..then keep changing lane here and there and then at the last part after entering the centre again, I was on gear 2 dint slow down and there were pedestrains and the tester say: you know there are pedestrains?? Why you never slow down? Dangerous driving!!! I thought that is the end of it!! gosh!!!
The walk up to the level 2 felt so sian..and the wait while he prepared my results slip..millions of thoughts ran through my mind..about retest and all..then we went through the test again..and he keep saying like you wouldnt get your license today already, I felt like "haish..ok lorh" then he finally turned it over and i saw the PASSED!!! you cant imagine JOY!!! and the whole time is the first time I saw the tester SMILE!! lols..he was so stern throughout larh!!! Thanks to Mr. Tester: Mr. Zachery Tan!! (:
***
Smsed a few people, esp those who texted me to wish me all the best this morning. Taigong is like live broadcast, and the whole NTU side and some of the NUS pple sms-ed me!! I thought so li-hai I never sms them, they also know!! hahahha..but thanks to all your encouragements and congratulations!!! Would never be able to do it without all your support and belief in me!!!
in no particular order:
My lucky charm- your "luck" really extend beyond me winning mahjong arh!! hahahaha...
Bryan- I think your pass-me-down P-plate is really useful wor!! it has its magic!!! haahahha..
Ian & Tammy- thanks for your prayers and encouragement!!! I remember Ian really tried to make me feel better and told me that he only passed after a few tries too! that really gave me hope!!
IC zone leaders and helpers- poor things always listening to me grumble and complain and all the time you guys will encourage me!!
N397- I know you guys love me more than you say out!! hahahah..thanks for your prayers and always believing that I can do it (though I sometimes dont think so!!) I think you guys have more faith in me than I do in myself!! Thanks and love you all lots~!!
Tai Gong, Howard, Rui and many of the rest from NUS/NTU: for all your jiayous and you can do its!!!! and ultimately Congras!!!! (: Love you guys deep deep!!
Ping: Thanks for remembering that I am taking my test!! (:
The GANG & Kenneth Jayden- the encouragement and tips to tide me through today!!
Laopo & Laoba!!! I did it!!!! (: Can drive you guys around the next time!!
Daddy- Thanks for not giving up on me and even ask me to continue to take though i say that if i fail this time I am not going to take le...!!!
Heavenly Daddy- thanks for giving me a nice tester! A good weather to have my test in, I heard that the other parts of Singapore is raining elephants and hippos and dinos but Ubi there only light rain and all!!! Thanks!!! Also, thanks for giving me all the people around me to support me!!!! You are gracious!!! (:
Praise the Lord!! (:
HAPPY 24th Birthday in advance my dear friend. This year marks the 10th year that I have been in church, which also means that its the 10th year that Peiyun and I have known you!!! hahahha..we are really growing old! hahahha..but a guy's value appreciate as he ages!! So, age gracefully and may the blessings of God be with you richly!! May you find your blond GF as per the cake! hahahhaha..Have a good one pal!! (:
Love,
The Gang!!
地下鐵裡的風 比回憶還重
整座城市一直等著我
有一段感情還在漂泊
對他唯一遺憾 是分手那天
我奔騰的眼淚 都停不下來
若那一刻重來 我不哭
讓他知道我可以很好
我愛他 轟轟烈烈最瘋狂
我的夢 狠狠碎過卻不會忘
曾為他 相信明天就是未來
情節有多壞 都不肯醒來
我愛他 跌跌撞撞到絕望
我的心 深深傷過卻不會忘
我和他 不再屬于這個地方
最初的天堂 最終的荒唐*
如果還有遺憾 又怎麼樣呢
傷了痛了懂了 就能好了嗎
曾經依靠彼此的肩膀
如今各自在人海流浪
我愛他 轟轟烈烈最瘋狂
我的夢 狠狠碎過卻不會忘
逃不開 愛越深越互相傷害
越深的依賴 越多的空白
該怎麼去愛
如果還有遺憾 是分手那天
我奔騰的眼淚 都停不下來
若那一刻重來 我不哭
讓他知道我可以很好
:: 我愛他 :: 叮噹 ::
听起来很不错的一首歌！它是《下一站，幸福》的主题曲！
我一向来觉得一部好的戏剧的主题曲是很重要的！
Can tell that Vaness seems to have put in alot of efforts into this show, perhaps this would be a good show to catch next. Esp if you feel like venting your emotions through crying, this seems like a "crying" sort of show! hahahha..
A hundred chains of thoughts racing through my mind.
I'm supposed to be up doing work and I thought to myself, for someone who was preaching about having a Sabbath yesterday, I am not giving myself a break. I will probably start working again tonight after Lester's Birthday celebration afterall my work needs to be submitted tomorrow night. Continuation on the topic of the desert, this is something that is facinating me at the moment. Preparing to meet the CGCs later to plan for the rest of the year and for a short discipleship- realising that I have not met them for a long time (this is not good!). Thinking about what I want to share, was brain dead, hence I went to take a shower and am reminded about this thing about the desert. So, i went to do a little research about it and compiled this factsheet:
Definition
Desert is a landscape or region that receives almost no precipitation. Desert can be defined as areas with an average annual precipitation of less than 250 millimetres per year, or as areas where more water is lost by evapo-transpiration than falls as precipitation.
Vegetation in the desert
Deserts have a reputation for supporting very little life, but in reality deserts often have high biodiversity.
Many desert animals (and plants) show especially clear evolutionary adaptations for water conservation or heat tolerance.
Most desert plants are drought- or salt-tolerant. Some store water in their leaves, roots, and stems. Other desert plants have long taproots that penetrate to the water table if present, or have adapted to the weather by having wide-spreading roots to absorb water from a greater area of the ground.
Another adaptation is the development of small, spiny leaves which shed less moisture than deciduous leaves with greater surface areas. The stems and leaves of some plants lower the surface velocity of sand-carrying winds and protect the ground from erosion.
Rain in the Desert
Rain does fall occasionally in deserts, and desert storms are often violent. A record 44 millimeters (1.7 in) of rain once fell within 3 hours in the Sahara. Large Saharan storms may deliver up to 1 millimeter per minute.
Normally dry stream channels, called arroyos or wadis, can quickly fill after heavy rains, and flash floods make these channels dangerous. Though little rain falls in deserts, deserts receive runoff from ephemeral, or short-lived, streams fed considerable quantities of sediment for a day or two.
Although most deserts are in basins with closed or interior drainage, a few deserts are crossed by 'exotic' rivers that derive their water from outside the desert.
The Nile River, the Colorado River, and the Yellow River are exotic rivers that flow through deserts to deliver their sediments to the sea.
Deserts may also have underground springs, rivers, or reservoirs that lie close to the surface, or deep underground.
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What are some of the spiritual implications and parallels that you can draw from all these facts?
When God bring the children of Israel out of Egpyt, they went into this place call the wilderness, in other words, they went out of Egypt which is a desert place to a place which is also a desert and they journey there for 40 years before they eventually enter into the Promised Land which is a place flowing with Milk and Honey. Why is the desert experience important to them?
Keep these questions as food for thoughts and I will update again about my thoughts and analysis on this after I go through with my CGCs.
The desert is such an interesting place, looking forward to visiting Israel in 2011 and also Central Australia in the time to come!
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Counting down to Christmas and Korea Trip in Jan!!! We are really coming to the end of the year. But before that Yanzhi's birthday, WanHong, Jia Wei, Liwei (small) & Wuian's Birthday!! Woo..i have so many December babies in the CG!!
Counting my blessings! Thanking God for great members that He has placed in my lives who are there to encourage and bless me! (: *loves*
Heading out for EXPO to meet the cg! (: its going to be a great service today!
I was rummaging through some really old photos to look for photos of me having REALLY SHORT hair back during my JC days and I thought to myself: no wonder Mrs Goh think that I am sleeping during ALL her GP classes cos I really look half asleep in most of the photos. Eyes that are barely opened and all...I am sorry if your photos are part of the collage, but it shows that you and I go way back and you had the chance to be part of my past! hahahahhaa...Thank God like what Pastor Aries say, we all look better now! hahhahaha..though I really dont mind being as slim and thin as I was back in the JC days! hahahaha...
If you cant locate me in the group pics, it just shows either how different I look or I was too thin you cant find me! hahahahhaah..anyway hair is short larh..so look for someone with short hair and half asleep..
Anyway, when I had short hair, aunties even call me 小弟! I was like hurhur!! gosh!!! And the most interesting encounter remain as a classmate of good friend turning to her (not knowing that she know me) and tell her that I look 帅!! hahahah..and good friend replied matter-of-factly that she know me! hahahahha..too bad I cant witness the look on the person face but yeah..short hair and bball and you know what people associated that with *go figure*
okok..its late and I shld really get some sleep..what a night, I was supposed to do work but ended up doing this instead..Night world!
"Loves the presence of God at the meeting, loves the fellowship with the leaders, loves the walk home from EDB and loves the music playing in the background as the day comes to an end.."
We had a short but in my opinion good leaders meeting just now. When we were worshipping, there was this vision (as in picture) that came to my mind as we sang the song. In my mind, there was this desert scene, where the floors are all dried up and it looked something like that:
There are cracks in the ground and everything is so dry, that there is NO LIFE on the ground. Then it felt like the Holy Spirit began to ask me, what will happen when it rains in the desert? (with the years of Geography background at the back of my mind) I thought to myself that it never rain in the desert, it POURS!! More than that, you get gashes of water rushing down the valleys (forming what we call flash floods) as there is literally no penetration of the rain into the ground but all will flow on the surface of the ground.
Desert rain is always heavy and torrential!Maybe some of our lives are like the dried up grounds in a desert, maybe some of our situations are like that, may be some of us think that our CG is like that. We try so hard, we prayed and we do what we can but there dont seem to be any breakthrough. What we need right now is desert rain, where the rain of the Holy Spirit will come and wash over all the dry grounds. When the rain comes, it is not measured but there is a sudden gash, there is more than enough, there is an abundance!! It will flood out all the dry area, it will bring life to the land, it will be a move that you never see before and there, you will have your breakthrough.
After the desert rain, you will see the rainbow, the springing forth of some of the most beautiful plants, right in the middle of the desert.
And even after the rain stops to fall, the water from the rain is able to sustain and nourish until the next desert rain.Desert plants are adaptable, they are made and developed in such a way that they can survive in the worse weather condition, yet through their reserves of water and nutrients to last time through long period of drought and lack. Are we able to do that just like the desert plants?
Isaiah 51:3 (NKJV)
For the LORD will comfort Zion,
He will comfort all her waste places;
He will make her wilderness like Eden,
And her desert like the garden of the LORD;
Joy and gladness will be found in it,
Thanksgiving and the voice of melody.
Walk through the desert and let the rain of the Holy Spirit wash through this land!
