P6, COS 08!

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Yeah, you could say 'At Last!'. Your Baptism photos. Of course there are still more once i can get my irressistable fingers on the official baptism photos while you guys were in the pool. Now just one thing, if your fingers are too itchy and have already scrolled down, u might actually realised that the orders of photos are exactly opposite. It has something to do with the 'First come, Last served' theory that my bro's laptop(or blogger) has came up with.

Sec 1s gals in 2009 on 4th Jan, plus 2 gals who think they are sec 1...

them again...

again... and Isabelle look so blurr, like.. blurry :)

Hey Kelly! Camera man in front eh~?

and now, kelly just found the camera. Isabelle looking blurr still

So, everyone became blurr

and the 'Blurry' disease infected the rest of the p6 of the year 2008, as well as Aunty Cindy

Ok, i think its my hands that shook. haha

Now, baptism.

Kasia: I better keep my invisible earphones b4 they get wet...

Janice: Dear God...

Faith: Oh goodness, its my turn soon....

Shiri & Janice: OK, lets push Faith in, Hie hie hie...

Garik: Don't worry, my watch is water proof :)

Nat Boon: Hmm, the water looks deeeep...

Josiah, with short hair. I'm still trying to get used to it. haha

Shi Ting, Garik, Gared, Nat Boon.

Wow, attentive. Ruey Ling, Annabel, Joel.

Faith Tiew, Isabelle, Clara, Ruey Ling

Oh no! This person is so NOT Siyi...

and Nat Boon, so well concealed... where are you? ha

Some~~one~~two not paying attention to speaker... wonder who..?

Dexter(Lowell no.2) at the extreme left. and Dorcas, on the extreme right.

Joel: (Stunned)...

No Garik, you are handsome, but not taking you la! haha

Ok, this is the first batch of photos that i've uploaded. In all, for those who had taken the step of faith and had shown the whold that they are followers of Christ, I'm very proud of you. However, baptism is not the end, but a beginning. There are many trials and temptation that will come, because being a christian is not at all easy, but if you all continue to love God, continue to encourage each other, than surely you will all grow up together and become useful vessels for the Lord.

Missing you guys,

Caleb :)

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Monday, January 19, 2009

hihi kasia here. yeah lowell asked me to post so here i m! so yeasterday there was ymps and we played more games. this time was a game where each group selects a person whom they tink falls under that category. then i kana bcome talent. the frist one was the strenght. they were garik n gared n pastor matthew n one more forgot who(psps). so in the end of course pastor matthew won.
adult confirm very strong mah. then there was the iq test. then they had to do a trick question. there was the fear test where shi ri, kelly, anna n one more(oops psps again) had to scream their lungs out. the loudest wins, who were kelly n shi ri, the pro-s.the talent one where ee fu(sry if wrong spl), me, jessica n glen had to say this tongue twister which was super hard to do lor. then the eq test where josiah, dorcas, pastor matthew n clara had to smile there widest smile!! YPMS rocks!!

smiling at 7.8 cm!!

n the winner grinning at 8.2cm!! someone's happy

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Saturday, January 17, 2009

Hi guys, I'm currently in malaysia, so i won't be joining you guys for YPM today(anyway, today is only sermon, should be no cell group). Don't think will make it back to Singapore on Sunday morning too, so if u want to tell me that I'm super handsome, pls wait till next week till u see me. haha. Till then, Cya! :)

-Caleb

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Monday, January 12, 2009

Hey all, this post is super outdated, but,

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JOSIAH POON, on the 6th of this month. haha

Caleb

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Wednesday, January 7, 2009

The photos are here! uploaded it as promised to Kasia:)

take care guys:) miss you all!

Angela Kirk:)

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Friday, January 2, 2009

a big HELLO and a HAPPY NEW YEAR from Frankfurt Germany!

yup im in the last location of my trip now and I'll be on my way back and hopefully reach back home by Saturday night so I can attend service on Sunday!

Yes, I'll get to see you guys this Sunday! (:

Can't wait to get home really, miss the Singapore food, the Singapore weather (it's way tooo cold here) and Singapore people.

ok last post i promised a picture of the reputedly holy lance that was used to pierce Jesus' body so here it is!

haha its just a speartip wrapped in a gold leaf with some inscriptions on the gold leaf.

oh well.

but as korkor taiyong says, it may not be the actual thing, just some relic thats been passed down thru the ages by kings and queens cos well, they want to be famous.

anyhow during my visit to Munich, i actually visited a church that also supposedly had the Devil's footprint in it.

Now the story goes like this, the people in Munich were building a church at that time, and it was supposed to be the biggest church in the whole of Munich at that time, actually, it kinda still is the biggest church, the Frauenkirche, today.

So as they were building this gigantic church, along came Satan who spotted it and he swooped down to get a closer look. When he stepped inside, he saw that the entire church was very dark and extremely gloomy and he kinda liked it. The more he stood there looking, the more he decided that he liked how the church was turning out, dark and gloomy. So he pulled aside the architect and had a chat with him. Now at that point of time, construction of the church had stopped because the church had ran out of money. So the devil talked to the architect in charge of building the church and told him that if he could maintain the direction of the design of the church and build a church without any windows, that the devil himself would fund the building of the church! the architect agreed on the spot, signed a contract and went abt building the church with funds supplied from the devil.

so fast forward a few years later and the church is built and the devil returns to check on how the church without windows turned out and when he enters the door, he is shocked to find that there was light streaming into the church, it was well lit by the sunlight and people inside were worshipping and praising God! So obviously he got really mad and went to the architect in charge whom he had an agreement with years ago demanding why the terms of his contract had not been met. Calmly, the architect dragged the devil back to the same spot where they signed the contract and had the agreement and confidently pointing at the church saying, "look there, you cant see any windows!" What he had done was designed the church in such a way that from THAT spot, all the columns were exactly placed to block the windows so you literally cannot see any windows even though there are windows there!

So having been tricked the devil got really angry and grew really huge and stomped his foot on the ground and disappeared in a POOF!

and so we have the devil's footprint in the church!

haha obviously it wasnt the devil's footprint cos it was so small. its actually the footprint of the architect who designed it who decided to leave his own signature. but the part abt the columns blocking the windows in the myth is actually true and if you stand at that spot, you really cannot see any windows along the entire church walls. cool huh!

ok that's all i have for now, can share more stories when i get back to sunny singapore.
by the way, how come only teachers are posting! where are the posting by you all! new year, new school, new level! no thoughts, no comments, no feelings?
no prayer requests?
no reflections abt children's camp thanksgiving?
no thoughts abt your upcoming baptism?
wah sounds like some english compo.

oh yea and who am i teaching nxt year?
and any of the SEC1s teaching also?

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Thursday, January 1, 2009

OF MOVIES and HAPPY ENDINGS

It's the time of the year where many of us go out with friends to catch a movie or two. In that 2 hours or so of screen time we perhaps witness the man go through a trial or two, before finally ending up with that girl of his dreams he never knew he always wanted.

The girl too, for she falls in love with the guy she just met.

And so, in rather olden terms, the knight in shining armour gets his lady.

And don't we wish in our lives that it turns out like that? That we soon meet the guy or girl of our dreams? That we begin our own happy ending.

More mature people often say that that is not how life is like. That happy endings often do not occur. Whether it be BGR, or studies, or your future success in career... etc.

But (and get ready for this), I'm here to say that if you're a Christian, there will be a happy ending for your life. There are 2 reasons for this.

1) The reason why life is imperfect and we often worry about exams, or have arguments with friends, or feel lonely, or anxious, or sin is simple. We lost 3 things in the fall of Adam.

We lost significance. Man had significance in God's first master plan. We were the lord of all living creatures. We tended God's garden. We were the second in command to the King of Kings and Lord of Lords. We had a purpose.

We lost a sense of belonging. Mankind fellowshipped with God. We had a close relationship. But apparently God did not see that as enough. He gave Adam Eve. And Eve Adam. They had belonging in each other, and in God. The first community there ever was.

We lost safety and security. God cared for Adam and Eve. Water came up from the ground to water the plants. Mankind's every need was abundantly met by a loving God.

Significance was replaced by us doing things that make us feel like we are something. We want to do well in exams. We want to win awards in school and in competitions. We want to win glory for ourselves. (Such things are not necessarily bad. But I'm talking about doing such things with the motive of making yourself feel significant.)

Belonging was replaced by desperately wanting to fall in love with a guy or a girl, just for the experience, the feeling. By wanting to feel loved. By wanting to feel like a part of a group of people. E.g. I want to fit in to my group of friends. So I buy new clothes, dress up the way they do. Style my hair the way they do, learn the musical instruments and talk about the latest computer games they talk about. I do things they would approve of.

Safety and security is replaced by feelings of fear and anxiety. Of being scared. Of losing our perspective many times. Failing to understand that God is above all.

With Christ's death on the cross. And on the condition that we live according to His word, we have all those things back. The ending is happy. We find significance in His plan for our lives if we submit to His will. We find belonging in the community of Christians around us (and I do hope, at least for myself, a girlfriend and subsequently wife in God's perfect timing and plans). We find safety and security in His words. (Psalms 56:3- Whenever I am afraid I will trust in Him... etc.)

But then again, admittedly, we go through lots of hard experiences. Which brings me to my second point. In layman's terms, really, the guy gets the girl. The Prince comes in white on a white horse for His bride.

2) He had eyes like flames of fire, and he was wearing a lot of crowns. His name was written on him, but he was the only one who knew what the name meant. The rider wore a robe that was covered with blood, and he was known as "The Word of God." He was followed by armies from heaven that rode on horses and were dressed in pure white linen. ... On the part of the robe that covered his thigh was written, "KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS."

-Revelations 19:12-16

So we will be glad and happy and give him praise. The wedding day of the Lamb is here, and his bride is ready.

-Revelations 19:7

The rider on the white horse is Christ. His bride is the church. We, His church, will one day be reunited with Him. Yes, He is in us now. But the day will come when His promises will be fully fulfilled. And our ending, quite unlike our earthly trials today will be a wonderful, movie perfect, happy ending.

TY

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