Saturday, August 30, 2008

Awaiting...

生病了。。 (-__=)"
为何我一点都不觉得神奇。。 似乎是在预料当中呢?

心, 依然有个结。
心, 依然有个问号。
心, 依然有个期待。。。

处处提醒自己, 无论心如何地想, 如何地说与如何地看, 那一切一切都不重要。一点都毫无关系。。 因为, 最终重点不在于己,乃在于神。软弱的我真的哪儿都没得依靠了。。

上帝啊, 应许我依靠你吧。。。
上帝啊, 你应须那颗似乎要枯的树复活吧。。

Tuesday, August 26, 2008

A pampered dog...

It's a gloomy day..... Nevertheless, I am loving it! ^.^ Windy and drizzling, ahh... Just love the weather... While I was looking at my assignment......... Something interesting happened.... Lucky was in the house since I woke up as she made tonnes of noise outside my iron gate wanting me to let her in the house...

*Typing and looking at my work*
Lucky: Gaaaaaaauuuuuuu.... Auuu..... Auooooooo...... *BARK, BARK, BARK*
33: *Turned and looked at her* Yo, what's up???
Lucky: Gaaaaaauauuuuuuuuuuuuuuu...... Aooouuuuuuu.... *Pitiful looks and continue on barking*
33: (-..-)" *I opened the door for her to go out to the car porch thinking that she wants to do her business.... (Normally if she's in the house, she will make noise if she wants to do her business)* Go out...
Lucky: *Run to the kitchen side, indicating she wants to stay in the house and not outside*
33: *Speechless* Locked the door and continue doing work...
Lucky: Gaoooouuuuuu... *bark whilst using her pawn to stretch the floor mat.*
33: (-..-)" *First thing that came into my mind? My mum slipper was on the floor mat and she can't sleep on it, that's why she is making noise...* *Took off my mum slipper and pat Lucky's head* Go oink oink... *Sit down*
Lucky: *pitiful look* Gaoooooouuuuuu.....
33: *white flag* AH HA!!! *went outside and took Lucky's jacket and wore it on her*
Lucky: *happy look* *walk happily to my house floor mat and.... Doze off*
33: ...................


DOGS! She was cold and wanted me to get her jacket... Her communication skills are so darn GOOD! PAMPERED!!!! *hit Lucky*! Well, as long as she's sleeping and so does my another dog... *peace*

Sunday, August 24, 2008

No Reserves. No Retreats. No Regrets.

I know it is a bit long, but if you have the time, read it... I find it encouraging especially his faith towards God... Enjoy..

The Story of William Borden
In 1904 William Borden graduated from a Chicago high school. As heir to the Borden Dairy estate, he was already a millionaire. For his high school graduation present, his parents gave 16-year-old Borden a trip around the world. As the young man traveled through Asia, the Middle East, and Europe, he felt a growing burden for the world's hurting people. Finally, Bill Borden wrote home about his "desire to be a missionary."1

One friend expressed surprise that he was "throwing himself away as a missionary."
In response, Bill wrote two words in the back of his Bible: "No reserves."

Even though young Borden was wealthy, he arrived on the campus of Yale University in 1905 trying to look like just one more freshman. Very quickly, however, Borden's classmates noticed something unusual about him and it wasn't his money. One of them wrote: "He came to college far ahead, spiritually, of any of us. He had already given his heart in full surrender to Christ and had really done it. We who were his classmates learned to lean on him and find in him a strength that was solid as a rock, just because of this settled purpose and consecration."2
During his college years, Bill Borden made one entry in his personal journal that defined what his classmates were seeing in him. That entry said simply: "Say 'no' to self and 'yes' to Jesus every time."3

Borden's first disappointment at Yale came when the university president spoke on the students' need of "having a fixed purpose." After hearing that speech, Borden wrote: "He neglected to say what our purpose should be, and where we should get the ability to persevere and the strength to resist temptations."4 Surveying the Yale faculty and much of the student body, Borden lamented what he saw as the end result of this empty philosophy: moral weakness and sin-ruined lives.

During his first semester at Yale, Borden started something that would transform campus life. One of his friends described how it happened: "It was well on in the first term when Bill and I began to pray together in the morning before breakfast. I cannot say positively whose suggestion it was, but I feel sure it must have originated with Bill. We had been meeting only a short time when a third student joined us and soon after a fourth. The time was spent in prayer after a brief reading of Scripture. Bill's handling of Scripture was helpful. . . . He would read to us from the Bible, show us something that God had promised and then proceed to claim the promise with assurance."5

Borden's small morning prayer group gave birth to a movement that spread across the campus. By the end of his first year, 150 freshman were meeting for weekly Bible study and prayer. By the time Bill Borden was a senior, one thousand of Yale's 1,300 students were meeting in such groups.
Borden made it his habit to seek out the most "incorrigible" students and try to bring them to salvation. "In his sophomore year we organized Bible study groups and divided up the class of 300 or more, each man interested taking a certain number, so that all might, if possible, be reached. The names were gone over one by one, and the question asked, 'Who will take this person?' When it came to someone thought to be a hard proposition, there would be an ominous pause. Nobody wanted the responsibility. Then Bill's voice would be heard, 'Put him down to me.'"6

Borden's outreach ministry was not confined to the Yale campus. He cared about widows and orphans and cripples. He rescued drunks from the streets of New Haven. To rehabilitate them, he founded the Yale Hope Mission. One of his friends wrote that he "might often be found in the lower parts of the city at night, on the street, in a cheap lodging house or some restaurant to which he had taken a poor hungry fellow to feed him, seeking to lead men to Christ."7

Borden's missionary call narrowed to the Muslim Kansu people in China. Once that goal was in sight, Borden never wavered. He also inspired his classmates to consider missionary service. One of them said: "He certainly was one of the strongest characters I have ever known, and he put backbone into the rest of us at college. There was real iron in him, and I always felt he was of the stuff martyrs were made of, and heroic missionaries of more modern times."8

Although he was a millionaire, Bill seemed to "realize always that he must be about his Father's business, and not wasting time in the pursuit of amusement."9 Although Borden refused to join a fraternity, "he did more with his classmates in his senior year than ever before." He presided over the huge student missionary conference held at Yale and served as president of the honor society Phi Beta Kappa.

Upon graduation from Yale, Borden turned down some high paying job offers. In his Bible, he wrote two more words: "No retreats."

William Borden went on to graduate work at Princeton Seminary in New Jersey. When he finished his studies at Princeton, he sailed for China. Because he was hoping to work with Muslims, he stopped first in Egypt to study Arabic. While there, he contracted spinal meningitis. Within a month, 25-year-old William Borden was dead.

When news William Whiting Borden's death was cabled back to the U.S., the story was carried by nearly every American newspaper. "A wave of sorrow went round the world . . . Borden not only gave (away) his wealth, but himself, in a way so joyous and natural that it (seemed) a privilege rather than a sacrifice" wrote Mary Taylor in her introduction to his biography.10
Was Borden's untimely death a waste? Not in God's plan. Prior to his death, Borden had written two more words in his Bible. Underneath the words "No reserves" and "No retreats," he had written: "No regrets."

(taken from: http://home.snu.edu/~hculbert/regret.htm)

Thursday, August 21, 2008

Life...

Ahh... Way passed bed time AGAIN... Deprive for sleep.... Yes, it is almost midnight... Old lady like me can't burn the midnight oil anymore...

Few more days and I will be a free bird... Persevere!!! Enjoying my last bit of student life and wulala, working life, here I come!

Having a lot of things in head... Was actually taken aback as God reminded me again regarding the power of sin through someone I loved. How it can be so clingy and powerful towards a non-believer. I wanted so must to hit that person head for what he has done but I just can't find myself in the right position to do so. It hurts even more when that person is so close to you, but what can I do?? Teach me O Lord! Teach me! The only thing I do is uttered is a short prayer to God. I really am helpless in this situation and to submit all things in His hand.

Ahh... Stress level going up one level... GAMBATEH NEH!

To all classmates, (not that they will be reading)
GAMBATEH NEH!

Wednesday, August 20, 2008

20082008

Date: 20082008

Interesting number isn't it? Didn't realize that until a brother send me a sms haha...

Awaiting for something to come... Patience is a virtue.... GAMBATEH NEH!

Monday, August 18, 2008

Matthew 7:6

Do not give what is holy to the dogs; nor cast your pearls before swine,
lest they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you in pieces. (Matthew 7:6)

Short yet profound...

Thursday, August 14, 2008

Friday!

Awaiting Friday to knock on my door.... *tok tok tok*

TGIF??? Nah... I don't like the foods serve there... CHILI'S still rocks!!


Why then Friday???

^.^ I am meeting with my beloved!!!!!! After the long wait...... AT LAST!!!!


YAHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Monday, August 11, 2008

A seed & a tree

Patience, patience and more patience...
Waiting for a tree to grow...
Everything seem so dim...
But nevertheless, I know He is in control.

Tuesday, August 5, 2008

So long...

Lost a friend... Well.. Not exactly a friend... But my pen-pal....

He just vanish in the air and gone are his footprints in my life...

Take care and live well.