wee.. haha... okkies... after much persuadion from people. i have decided to update! actually it take much more persudation for me to type www.blogger.com and log in to update. hurhur. okkies...
many happenings happened this week... wonderful memories are created... and remembered... haha...
it was the start of school hols. and i decided to ask our guys out on a night cycling trip. haha. not many people turned up as the sec2s had their experiencal camp, but was really glad that most of the coreteam turned up. Bingliang, Alvin, Ryunkiat, Dingkiat and Wilfred! haha. it was defintly a night for me to remember. considering this is the first time i've actually attended a night cycling event and furthur more its with my caregroup... =)). many things actually happened during the trip. it started off quite fine, cuz we were quite glad to be able to get bikes at $5 for the whole night instead of $10 from the usual shop that we goes to.... met up with wilfred, alvin and dingkiat after going home from water bap. we decided to go over to ecp first to check out the prices of the bikes, what time the shop closes and of curz! to see if our wonderful sandcastle manage to last through 3 nights. haha. got 6 bikes in total, and alvin and wilfred had to cycle one bike while holding on to the other on to parkway. haha. on the way, we went over to the light house... and sadly to say, the sandcastle has been reduced to just one pile of sand. haha. met up with ryunkait and bingliang over at pp macs. and we cycled over to rk hse... on the way on rk hse, i began to realised that my bike's handle actually had some problem. it was sort of broken. at first i was just trying to tighten the nuts on the handle... but yup. as we cycle from rk's hse back to ecp... the bike finally broke down. the whole handle came off after we decided to try to tighten it more. so it was like totally impossible to steer the bike with the handle. we were stuck in that part of ecp for more then an hr trying to fix that bike. and actually at that moment, i felt very lousy. i was complaining in my heart that why God is doing this again. considering that the previous cycling trip was also a flop, i was very dishearted just to think that this cycling trip might jolly end up the same as the previous time. i started to give quite a black face and yup... flunted my "cor" skills by giving that black face and ya... i was quite determined that this journey is going to be a flop. after numberous attempt to "stick" the handle back to the bike, we gave up and decided to abandon the bike back at the rental shop. we went back to the shop, some how after several attempts such as supporting bingliang (who was riding the spoilt bike) while biking and stuffing sticks in a way where we can still turn the wheel... as i saw how the rest of the team supports the team... i kinda felt useless then... thinking of why is it everytime in such a case, i always seem to be the bystander... just giving eye power. was actually messaging jias on the way back to the bike shop, telling her how lousy i felt... but i really want to thank God for making me decide to msg her. she really encouraged me and helped me to sort out my thoughts before the night went on. really want to thank her for her advices and conforts given to me. =)). yups. we decided to "long bang" each other by asking one to sit on the bar between the one that is cycling and the handle of the bike. haha. it was actually more thiring for the one who is sitting on the bar then the one who is cycling. haha. as we went on, i felt much better after asking God for instructions and for Him to calm my heart down. like what jias said, the night is magical, and God will definatly not make this time that we planned to come together as a family come to waste. true enough, God managed to work through all the troubles. cuz before the bike broke down, some of us were actually cycling very fast ahead of the rest of the pack. with one of the bikes down. we are kind of forced to slow down. it was kind of like a blessing in a diguese. cuz we finally manage to really make full use of the time to really fellowship with one another. it also gave chance to the "pair" who are together to really spend some time talking and knowing about each other's life more. personally i felt that i gave me more chance to speak into several people in this family of ours... although we didn't really manage to cycle to where we wanted to go (OCH, we gave up halfway in changi airport =x). but i'm sure i manage to hit what i wanted to hit in this event. to really spend time with one another... and really make it a learning journey for all of us...
haha. also kind of because of this, i sort of rendered my whole monday as sleeping day. well. not really. really surprised how much God can plan into our lifes. reached home at around 11 plus and i somehow i manage to get the strength to go to chinatown with my mum and my younger sister. something that i really want to thank God for is that He gave me a chance to really talk to my younger sister and to really know her more. i felt that i was able to know her in a deeper level and i pray that one day i'm able to bring her down to church and see another family member cross the line of faith! it will be hard, but with God, who can be against us? =))
haha. so i slept all the way after i got home and didn't really mange to accomplish anything after that. the week was quite quiet with me spending almost my whole day at work on tues and going down for meta concert rehearsal after that. decided to try out something new, but found out that is didn't really work as well as i thought it would be. haha. kinda hard to prac without the band. haha.
had meta on wed... it was a long and thiring day with all the last min requests to have media support in several events, i saw myself actually not really being able to lead the team well. felt that i had made several mistakes in dawing out the roster and the information that was pass down.... haha. something that i would need to learn as i lead the team. something that i felt from the whole day was the difference in the atmosphere between the new generation and the old generation people. somehow, the atmosphere was some what two extremes. talked to jias about it and she was telling me that is could be that the chemistry between the new generation is still not there yet. considering that the old generation people gave in a lot during the breakthrough camp and we are all united in one common vision. something that really made us to do what we are doing. really saw the unity and the team work in the old generation people. remembered that during concert... how each of them supported one another and i can also see the excitment in wanting to serve. the desire to want to serve in this ministry... something that really touched my heart that day. it was something that i saw in bernice (steven's wife), how much she would really give to make sure that the mm team is in place (how she climbed up to try to operate the cam during CPM). it was really a sight that touched my heart deeply... really hope that the new generation would see how much chemistry there is in the old generation and i do pray that the spirit will be past down to the new generation and team! jia you!! =))
haha... okkay... went for work on tursday for like 3 hrs? haha.. worked from 9 to 12. haha. yupss... den headed down for caregroup at alvin's place. haha. thought i would be late but i sort of ended up me being one of the earliest. only had me, bingliang, alvin, bryan and eugene in the caregroup. most of the rest of the pack were unable to make it down. spend the whole day at alvin's playing ps2, dota, cs, playing the guitar... crapping... stonning... ahha... u name it, we do it.. kind of a relaxing cg... everyone was just going at a slow pace... went for dinner with eugene after cg. really had a great time fellowshipping with him. manage to really sit down and talk to him and really understand him more. haha. my one year old contact. LOL... haha. but ya. realised that i didn't actually know him much until on thursday. talked about each other's life... talked about the group. haha....pei him to the arcade to play... and sort of know more of his child hood. haha. my "charlie"... LOL...
friday... went work fro 10 to 6... of which after that i headed down to nex for music prac. met up with the guys at fat mamas and we ate our dinner there. haha. headed up to europe for a session of evaulation as we watch the 2 weeks ago service recording. felt that the session was quite fruitful as the new guys were able to understand more why we keep on asking them to do certain stuffs and why we always "nag" at them to abide to certain rules. haha. wad kind fo a good way to illustrate the do's and the dont's...
saturday... came... haha... wad kind of a day that i looked forward and dreaded to... my last day with eastDee.. wasnt really easy to part... my 610 days in the group. ahah. and my sheep... something that i had really invested my heart into for the past coming to two years... haha. but God had a plan for me. plan for me to prosper and not to harm... had my farewell at s11 before service (cuz i was supposed to go off early for a dinner at night... but ended up canceling it and i sort of forgot... ya).. haha. got the rest of the pack such as dennis, ruilin, junwei to comeback... and nicholas joined us too. alvin did a video for me... and my dearest sheep practised the whole night so that he could play "we love this family of God" for me... (note, he can't play the guitar)... was really touched by the effort that was placed into it. it wasn't the quailty. but it was the effort that really made me saw how much they love me... there was a song presentation of "i will remember you" played by bingliang, eugene and dennis... really want to say thank you to you guys! you guys really rox my socks =DD... talked to my sheep at night... haha... kinda just stoned and teh at each other... sheep! i love you <3.
sunday... met up with jerald to go to nerc together. my first caregroup in ywam. haha. i had to run to the busstop cuz i was late and jer's bus was like already reaching the stop. but really want to thank God that i manged to make it on time! haha... yea! haha. reach s'goon and we went to buy food and met up with jias and shuzhen who happen to come by... haha. saw amelia at the void deck and we went up to nerc. my second time to nerc. haha. waited for the rest of the cg to arrive and we stated off with games! had a game of twister (bew wai style). haha. very fun! haha. really saw all the weird positions of the caregroup. ahha. kinda brought me back to my very first caregroup in eastDee... haha. oo! guess what! haha. we sang "Lord i give You my heart"... the same song that i had during my first cg in eastDee in 30 goodman. haha. so cool lah.... had lunch... managed to talk to my new pherd, jiancong.. yup... finally interacted with him... haha. went back to nerc to have qtlm. worshipped... prayed and discuessed about the team in q1... the hits... and the misses... ahha.... and we celeberated joanne's and huiying's b'lated birthday! (actually, belated is kinda unfair word.. cuz it is really really really blated). bahhh... anyway. had a great time that day.... wee...
haha... now back to monday! this post never seems to end... but ya... went down to ica to get my ic replaced... bahh... woke up late and was actually expecting a long quee... but thank God! i manage to get out of the place in around an hrs time. haha. kind of a record for me cuz i usually will stay there for quite some time. ya. had lunch with mum, went down to the post office to collect my sister's package and went home. yups. played a game of MCF with my sister and i went down to cch... went back for the lunch "event".. yup. haha. i was actually smsing alvin at the busstop and i kind of just boarded the bus without seeing which service it is... haha... but guess wad! i alighted the next stop just to realise that the bus i was on was actually the correct bus. kinda dumb, but ya. prayed for God to hold the rain until i came out of school again. haha. cuz the sky was quite dark and it looked it would downpour anytime. haha. and yup. God was faithful.. it never rain for my whole journey at all even until when i reached centre point. lunch was quite enjoyable... most of the cch pack came down to join us. haha. manged to have sometime to fellowship together. (i would also like to take this space here to apologise to my sb, alvin... REALLY SORRY.. sorry for the words that i've said... know that it was very bad.. ya... really sorry!)... left school and met up with jer at centrepoint macs to do editing for the mission's video. haha. they just came back from hope pj. yups. haha. saw many funny incident while capturing the tape. joseph (both), chenxiang, huili, jias, keith, dan joined us a while later... haha. went for wam night after that. it is really a night that God really spoke to me about several areas in my life. areas that i have been trying to avoid... areas that i wasn't able to focus on... it was really a ministering time with the whole congeration that night, bowed down before the wonderful name of the Lord... putting all my sorrows and burden unto Him. it was really a worship that left me in awe of God's grace. never felt so calm and peaceful before in my life. This i truely could then understand the meaning of casting our burdens aside... and just comming before God... before the all mighty one... pride... the area that God spoke to me.... it is not going to be easy.. but ALL I NEED IS YOU... all i need is You Lord... =))
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Aloysius Koh
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