The Greatest Gift of All

Once there was a young little boy by the age of 8.
He was a happy child, leading a life with many friends by his side.
His family members never cease to showcase their love for him, indeed it was a blessed life.
Until one event changed everything.

The tragedy had occurred, his great grandmother had laid recumbent for a very, very prolonged amount of time.
He was confused.
All the adults seemed rather sad.
Some of them were weeping tears, tears of deep sorrow.
Everyone seemed to be caught in some sort of hysteria.

Before he knew it, his great grandmother was being moved to someplace downstairs and laid in a large wooden box.
Her lips were unnaturally pale.
Her eyes shut, and her body was still.
That was the first time he came face to face with Death itself.

One solemn night, the memories came back to him again and again.
He wondered, "What would happen if I died?"
His heart cried for an answer.
While his family members were fast asleep, he got off the bed and went on his knees.
That was the first time he did it, not before anyone.
He clasped his hands, closed his eyes, and made a plea.
"I don't want to die O' God. I want to live."

At that point of time, he had no real idea of who God really was.
All he had was that little faith in his heart, the motivation of having to live a life even after he died was all but too overwhelming.
After all, Death had sapped what little courage he had left.

Unknowingly, these thoughts would continue to linger in his sub conscious mind.

Life itself had become seemingly meaningless, as he discovered at the age of 11.
Study, Work, Earn Money and eventually die.
There was hardly any meaning in it.
He sought hard to find the truth in life.
Unfortunately, there wasn't much use searching for it online.

He continued to live life, but with a much brighter appeal to it.
Always looking on the bright side.
But sometimes it was hard when disaster strikes time and again.
At the age of 12, he lost his grandmother.

Several times, he would continue to ponder of thoughts of the afterlife as well as the purpose of living.
There were numerous texts and examples on how one should live their live to the fullest, but none were able to help him find the way to complete his chapter.
None provided satisfying answers.
He wanted to pen his own life.

November 2006, after an invite from a classmate to come to church, he was somehow finding his long-sought for answers from the sermons of the pastor.
However, he was opinionated about one thing, all these things were connected to some entity called "God" and at the same time, took on differing names including "Jesus" and the "Holy Spirit".
All that was unknown to him.
But somewhere in his heart, he felt and desired to know this "God" that the church members knew so well.

One saturday evening, midweek in November, the pastor opened up the door for him.
He spoke, with much divine authority, that it was possible to know this "God', this "Jesus" of whom he did not know.
His heart was suddenly moved, when the pastor said that it was possible to have life, and life more abundantly, even after he died.
There was once again, the little faith that he kept in his heart.
He reached into and proclaimed in his heart, "Yes, I want to know this Jesus, who could provide an answer to my long fear of death."

On that night, he gave his heart to Jesus.
On that night, he felt transformed.
On that night, he felt renewed, as if there were new life breathed into him.

On that night, he received the Greatest Gift of All - The Love of Christ.


Almost immediately, he had a renewed passion for life.
It was unthinkable that he once had thoughts of suicide, for there was truly no meaning in living life.
But now, with new confidence, he presses on with fiery determination for his goals.
To be a high achiever, for the glory of his God.

To think the little plea he had made 7 years ago, which he had nearly forgotten over the years, had come to pass just as he was at his lowest depths.
The plea for everlasting life.
He confessed with his mouth, and received it by confession of not only the mouth, but the heart also.


If God can remember the smallest plea in your heart, one that you've forgotten with time,how much more so would He know what your really desire in life.
See if you had one chance, to renew your passion, seek the depths of your heart or find a complete understanding to your existence, would seize the moment, or let it all fade away?

Breakaway Camp

Broke away from camp today!
Awesome time there, although it was only 2 days 1 night.
Highlights: War-Games, Campfire and Confidence walk.

Disclaimer: Very little supporting details for events because certain levels of gesticulation needed.

War-Games was fun, but it was a little overplayed, in a sense, it was too competitive.
Lots of green team people sliding around.
High-action gameplay of bombs and the such haha.
Close to the last few minutes everyone was playing snatching cloths and not bombs anymore cos they were all gone.
In the end, our kim chio team lost but we had loads of fun.

After that, washed up a lil and went on to indoor cames 'cos it was raining.

The table soccer was fun, but it ended up in timo and me with back aches and muscle cramps haha.


Campfire was due to start at 8pm due to rain.
Thank God the rain stopped at 7pm.
The whole campfire atmosphere was super good.
Everyone was having fun(i guess), shouting, screaming and cheering haha.
And Davin managed to get to be Ms PSP Finalist 2007 HAHA
Rolland was super sporting, and that's how he got to be Miss PSP 2007! Congrats! haha.
Ian performed twice during the campfire and i thought "Wow."
His first song was like crowd interaction type. I forgot the song title already but it was familiar.
The second one was really anointed, as in totally.
His presence was so strong with the song.

And for the finale of the campfire was really the ne plus ultra.
Everyone forms a huge circle, and twirls around to the song to meet new people haha!
Really fun time yeah.

After that was a little free time and manhood talk by Ian to the remaining guys in the camp.

Then came the night walk.
It was pretty much, urm, well planned and not.
The timing where each person was to enter should be extended sia, but there was really alot of people so i guess they cut short the time for that.
The route was ok, hiding places were plentiful for the "ghosts".
But the scare would only come to those campers who were in dishabille.

I went alone(all guys had to go alone) and managed to catch up a 3-girl team.
Then i had to slow down because they wanted to go together, and another 2 more guys eventually caught up with us.
Kind of spoils the whole night walk atmosphere -.-

Took several pictures at the meeting place and went back to camp.

One thing to note: the shower was freezing cold.
I was shivering like a PS2 controller set on permanent vibration mode.
The chilling night atmosphere didn't help either.

After that, the camp was really idle in the sense that there weren't any more activities.
Well but had a fun time though.
Knew several new people in my zone too.
Especially the Kim Chio people haha!


Word of the Day:

perspicacity \pur-spuh-KAS-uh-tee\, noun:

Clearness of understanding or insight; penetration, discernment.

He whose vocabulary is wide is one whose perception is wide.

Open Up Your Mind

TO peckhui: Thanks haha, haven't seen you in a long time too.
TO wc: You have camp too? Haha ok. I'm going to try to finish my homework before Christmas haha. TRY.

Today was a rather tiring day, as of now of course, since i woke up at 7 today.

Service in the morning.
Rev. Dr. John Avanzini ok don't play play.
Message see bei zai.
Hear o'lredi' chua sai siao ting tong.
Never come really buay ho say!

Well, God was really challenging me during offering time.
I find myself under the fig tree, without guile.

So after the service, went for a seminar that i really, Really, REALLY didn't feel like going.
Because i could've gone Strike Force practice with Kang Wei, which he invited me to go.
(To the uninformed: Strike Force is basically a performance group that primarily focuses on percussion only, that is to say, drums.)
And so, i felt rather a little restive at the point of time after service.

Thank God i've learnt to trust God instead of my feelings.

So in the end, i went anyway, because there wasn't any way i could go for the Strike Force practice.(Actually i was just concerned the seminar might have cost something.)

Making my way down, aside from the jokes with Timo and Ivan, the rest of the journey was rather, smooth.
At least i could find my way to the place.

Settled for a foot-long sub before the seminar started.
Actually wanted a 6-inch but i got confused with the ordering part.
Subway's the bomb i tell you.
It costs a bomb as well though.

So sat through to seminar, which i tried to keep an open mind to.
Just for the curious, it was held at MindChamps.

Presumably i was thinking it was another one of those "Succeed in Life" kind of seminars. (Which i told timo, I'll sleep through if it was.)
I'll just say, Thank God that i kept an open mind.


For some reason, "Breakthrough", "Come to pass" and even "If I can believe it, i can have it." seemed to inclusive in the seminar.
"Breakthrough" came quite a few times.
Well i guess i can't blame the speaker, he's a christian(or catholic for that matter), and such words are commonplace language.

Hmm...


That got me slightly intrigued, because i suddenly felt it made some sense.
Past cannot be changed.
Past does not equate future.
Future can be changed.
And i think they're were pushing that message rather strongly.
Heavy emphasis on teaching the child to appreciate their parents.
For some reason, i believe the founder built the centre's structure based on the values of God.

Well after that, they got this whole list of 30 words things and 2 volunteers to try and memorize, then recite it out.
Of course, they couldn't do it with a 100% accuracy.
So they got some peeps to go have some secret training in their classrooms and prove that their technique actually works.
And one of those test subjects include yours truly.

Well i must the technique is effective to a certain extent.
Its mainly a easier method of loading up heaps of info from your text books compared to si ji si bei.
I don't think it'll work if you tried it on the vocab section during a compre test.
What an experience that was.
Interesting to note.
Oh and 2 or 3 eye-candies in my group haha.
Including the volunteer from the first round. MGS.

What a more fruitful way to spend a Sunday afternoon instead of gaming the whole day away.

Ok so no time to waste right after this weekend, there be souls to save.


Random note:
CD rama at Toa Payoh surprises me much.
There be an ol' Led Zepplin album there.
Also be aye Green Day International SuperHits! album.
I have at least 5 albums i want to buy from there now.

Song of the Day: Rollover DJ - Jet

TICKS SOLD ALREADY!!

Ok It's been a week since i've updated.
I think i'm just pretty lazy.
About 80%. The other 20% screams in anguish as I enter one bnet game after another.

I wanted to blog about the outreach last sat, but its a little late now haha.
Hmm, for alternative references, visit Darryn's, Daphanie's or Desireey's blog.

Oh yes, been not signing in to msn because i'm gaming much haha.
Gotta stop that habit of over-gaming.
Being offline's better than ignoring everyone else who's trying to talk to you.
Besides, there is an invention called the mobile phone.

I forgot the main thought for this post today.

So the rest of the post real be rather random.

I gave tuition yesterday and tuesday, to 2 batches of primary school kids.
Thanks to my mum who managed to find people for me(:
I must say, its quite a simple job.
However, there's alot of ground work to do.
Knowing your students are important eh?
So far, earned $40 alr.
Oh yea, building fund accomplished.
Well for november anyway.
Praise God.


Zone PM on tues was absolutely awesome.
Though the guys at the back were pretty much cramped up but we could feel His presence.
So tangible was it.
Well, hope the camp will be a REAL SUCCESS!
Still trying to get people to come.

Anyone free on the 11-12 Dec?
Next tues to wed.
Lotsa activites!
War-Games, i'm thinking its going to involve water haha.

Camp at Seranbun i think. Chua Chu Kang.
Excited for it, i am.

So if you ain't doing nothing you SHOULD be here.
Please feel free to contact me for further details.

OH yes, a last bit of advertising:
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Here's another word to describe a whole bunch of nonsense: tarradiddle.
Ok i feel this is this such malapropos.
Time to sleep.

Song of the Day: How Long - Red Hot Chilli Peppers