"...foretaste of future glory..."

though you may expect it, sometimes i cannot give the answers to everything.

"And we believers also groan, even though we have the Holy Spirit within us as a foretaste of future glory, for we long for our bodies to be released from sin and suffering." Romans 8:23

In his blog today, Bryan called for a time of prayer for Uncle Charlie. Uncle Charlie recently went through an amputation for a gangrenous leg, due to his diabetic condition. I opened the Bible after praying for him, and the verse above came up.

"Can anything ever separate us from Christ’s love? Does it mean he no longer loves us if we have trouble or calamity, or are persecuted, or hungry, or destitute, or in danger, or threatened with death? (As the Scriptures say, “For your sake we are killed every day; we are being slaughtered like sheep.”) No, despite all these things, overwhelming victory is ours through Christ, who loved us." Romans 8:35-37

xyz

in Christ alone
i place my trust
and find my glory in the power of the cross

in every victory
let it be said of me
my source of strength
my source of hope
is Christ alone

singapore in a flash

I thank God for the short but sweet holiday to Singapore! It was enjoyable, expensive and exiting. Some things I found out:


1. THERE ARE NO WATER PIPES IN SG PUBLIC TOILETS. Water is scarce there. Bring your own bottle.
2. The food court food is just alright. In fact, the food is just alright! Expensive, but mediocre. Average at its best.
3. People go to Singapore for the century eggs.
4. You won't see any ladies in Geylang. Only the men roam the streets.
5. Singaporeans love their jasmine and green tea!
6. I've seen more Bentleys and Lancers in two days there than my whole life in M'sia.
7. Singapore is not as clean as it's made up to be.
8. I saw an empty packet of Wrigley's on Sentosa Island! GASP!


On the first day, we went to Universal. Not really. We went for the Luge ride and a Skyride at Sentosa. I won't bore you with the details, but the Skyride was scary.

So popular hor? It's prettier at night!

Candylicious, the candy store at Universal, is the candy shop everyone with a sweet tooth would love!






Mum and I sneaked away from the group to take the Sentosa Express off the island to Vivo City. We had lunch at Subway. Mmmm. The Nat Geo shop in Vivo is worth a visit! Five yellow boxes of differing sizes for $5.

Went back, and Bugis was up next! It was raining heavily, so we waited the rain out at Iluma. An art exhibition was going on. There was no one manning the station. It had marker pens, papers and paper plates. And juice boxes and sweets too! My kind of art exhibition, this is!



We went to Ion @ Orchard that night via the MRT. RUBI!!!! It was crazy there. Okay, it wasn't as cheap as I expected, but way cheaper than Malaysia :) We bought the colors of the rainbows flats here.





The next day, we went to Sands. That place is very very pretty.



Ang moh portion lunch at Kraze Burger. YUMS.




A short weekend trip, but I think we saw what we wanted to see and shopped what we wanted to as well :) Except the Esplanade! Yeah....

*Certain pictures edited with Poladroid

Subject Summary 01/11

April 2010 subject summary. This is January 2011's.


OL 421 Strategic Management and Policy
OL 342 Organizational Behavior
LIT 201 World Literature
PSY 216 Theories of Personality
COM 341 Technical Writing

I'm looking forward to OL 421 because it's a fourth year subject and it sounds scandalous tough! Unfortunately, the lecturer today harped on how a student had gone to the head of department complaining of his (the lecturer's) underqualification to teach the subject :/

All my friends have taken OB, but I'm looking forward to these Saturday classes with Manda and Bunny :)

The insight to World Literature today was interesting! We'll be checking out portions of the scripture, Dante's Inferno, Chinese and Mali literature and even Homer's Illiad and Odessey! I smell an Indian Epic too!

PSY is PSY. Lots of theories and its founders to read up on.

Technical (Report) Writing is so different from Feature Writing! This is actually my elective. I could've opted for Desktop Publishing and Design, but that one requires lots of software stuff. And Intro to Journalism's class is on Mondays! If I take that, I'll be having a SIX-day classes week. NO WAY man. Tech writing it is.

My lecturer said something funny today.
"We are HELP CAT; we do not MIAO, we ROAR,"
LOL

"Commit to the LORD whatever you do, and your plans will succeed."
-Prov 16:3

qwop pig

"Then Jamie was screaming because everyone was crowding over her, giving her the class money. Then Jamie, Taneesha, Jia Min and Megan were discussing about where I should sit. I dont think they saw how short I was, because they put me behind Jamie. The last row. With no one beside me. Creepy."

From my sister's blog.
Oh Piggy! You are so funny!

And winning the QWOP, too! Hahahahahahahaha (yes I copied your nice, long laugh :))

instagrams

Big Apple Donuts


Kraze Burger's Club Sandwhich


Belly Good Alio Bacon Pasta


Miss Petite @ Starbucks Centro


Hoho. There's a lot of food pictures here.


Instagram is a free app designed for iPhones. You can apply a variety of effects to your selected images, which give your pictures an oldies touch. I like its very easy interface and unclutteredness. It has garnered more than a million users since its inception in October 2010! It took Twitter one or two years to get that many.

In a sense, Instagram is a weird success in the industry. You can't see any images through its website and you can only access its full features through iPhones. There are plenty of articles on its strange success.

Heck, even I wanted to use Instagram when I found out about it from another user!

D's Homecoming 2010

You've been looking for an update, eh? :D Here you go:

Daryl's Homecoming
Belly Good, Sunway
Somewhere in the last days of December
Daryl, Na, Ms Petite, me











Palm-sized portobello mushroom with bacon and cheese stuffing


Juicy sausages


Bacon Pasta Olio style



Rack of ribs or something like that




Went to Starbucks at Centro after that to redeem the free tall drink :d

light has come II

sher wyn's photo album


Can't wait to hear it all again!

light has come

sher wyn's photo album

christmas is an everyday celebration

pei and the christmas tree at sis kim's cell party. best tree ever!


The year end holidays this year has not felt like a holiday at all - work, GY camp and Christmas practice took up most of my time! But I am absolutely thankful and grateful to God for all the stuff I went through this past two whirlwind months.
Pure awesomeness. God is.

2011!



For now, I'm gonna sit back and listen to Britt Nicole's Holiday.

'Cause when it's work all day
I cannot escape
I just stop to think, and I'm going crazy
Take a break, hey

beauty revisited

I never thought I would say this, but girls, please, you are beautiful no matter what they say. I am sick of ya'll being all self-conscious before a looking glass (that's English talk for mirror) and saying you need to be on a diet - EXCUSE me, you live in Malaysia, a diet is an oxymoron. LOL. Just exercise lah, if you feel out of shape.

Beauty as the world sees it is never forever. If you ask me what is beauty, well, I'm trying to define it as a state of mind, a condition of one's heart and most importantly, the destiny of one's soul. (Woah, deep words) But the truest of all beauty is something else, something more - something supernatural.

dc talk - jesus freak

"Kamikaze, my death is gain
I've been marked by my Maker
A peculiar display"