Nothing without You

Nothing.

I am nothing without You.

The air that you breathe, I crave
the earth that I stand upon, I feel...

You.

nothing.

I am nothing without You.

"How lovely is Your tabernacle, O Lord of hosts!
My soul longs, even faints
For the courts of the Lord;
My heart and myflesh cry out for the living God."

Psalm 84:1-2

the Heavenly Kings of TYS

Well, an intro to the guys that I hang out with at TYS...

Tada!!!

M1: Elkan Lam... wit a picture of him here trying to kek seh with a super soaker... some more it's an imitation and not the real super soaker...



M2: Julian Lim!!
Favourite Phrase: "See? See?" usually said to prove people wrong, in a "I told you so fashion"
also dono he point at what... kek seh...





M3: Stanley Ang
Favourite Exclaimation: "ROAR...!!!" said exactly as it is spelt. Usually expressed in a time of shock, frustration, surprise, happy... in fact every other mood.
Favourite Food: Octopus from Ajisen
And it's a fake toy gun he's holding lor... wa... sad...





M4: Aaron
Favourite Phrase: "Wa Lau Eh!!" usually when things go wrong or some stupid person spoils the day.
that's me in the picture pretending that my red Nalgene water bottle is a C4 explosive. It turned out really bad, so bad, it makes me look like a spastic having cramps holding on to my water bottle. (Note to myself: work on water bottle a C4 explosive pose)



M5: Leo Hee Kian
Favourite Joke: Changing the contents of a written material addressed to someone so that it come out as a joke. Don get it? Me neither...
Here'a a pose of him trying to act like Ekin Cheng in Young and Dangerous or Gu Huo Zai. Man, it's so 90s...

And his gentle eyes just don carry it off... future ambition is to become a pastor. :)



and the money shot

Me doing a rapper pose with the TYS yellow plastic chain... *bling bling
Special effects added by my not so good photographer, MrShaky Hands, JulianLim



Mouth wide open...




Yup, that's what happens at TYS. Yes, we're wasting church and donors' money entertaining ourselves in the office. No gold taps though, just yellow chains.

BSG Season 2

One small consolation though...

Battlestar Galactica Season 2 has started and I'm downloading the first and second episodes now... :P

The season 1 cliffhanger left everyone screaming...

yes, literally... you can still hear their echoes in the forums... :)

Definitely need more hard disk space...

JAMPACKED

Wa... it's been crazy... I seem to be on drugs... or maybe worse...

whatever it is, I' ve not felt a full day of rest for a long time... here's a typical look at my schedule...

Monday: Project SMILE for 4 consecutive weeks
Tuesday: G12 meeting (perpetually)
Wednesday: Band Practise at Excelsior Hotel...
Thursday: Editing Big Move video
Friday: Meeting up with my guys
Saturday: Spook Show rehearsal in the morning and the usual Youth Service and hanging out with my sec school guys
Sunday: SOL then band practise again for the upcoming Xtreme Teens Church worship...

This week? It's been Spook SHow all the way... (sung to the tune of Mercy all the Way...)

My role in the SPook Show? I don even know how I ended up being involved in the Spook Show... I just received an SMS from my boss that went something like, "SP wants you to act in Spook Show. Call me."

That sealed my fate.

A little clue for all who are eager to catch my debut performance in a Lawrence and Priscilla production. I play with snakes... cool...

I've been wanting to put up a photo blog to update you guys about my life but it's either I can't seem to find the time to do it... or I'm unknowingly sucked to my bed and I can't seem to remove myself from it... it's like it's got this huge tractor beam that will kinda suck me in and once I'm there, it devours me like quick sand and I don get resurrected until the next morning...

Watch out for my photo blog soon. :)

Beware of the Elder Brother syndrome

Wow, I just realised that it's been a month since I last blogged.

The truth is, I was up to my neck with the amount of things I had to do. I will put up a photo blog of went on in the last month soon.

However, I felt compelled to write about something that's been on my heart recently.

I want to share from 2 scriptures.

The Elder Brother: we all know about the elder brother who was angry with the father for celebrating his younger brother's return as he felt unjust for all those years of serving which was unappreciated by his father. However, the father had this to say to him.

"Son, you are always with me, and all that I have is yours."

We know that though the elder son was always with the father, he was emotionally distant from him. But it was more than that. The elder son felt unappreciated by his father for all his efforts in keeping the house in order for his father. Yet all the father cared about was his other ungrateful son??

It was this passage that caught my eye. I realised that the elder brother had done everything well for his father, but in the end, he had missed the point, a relationship and intimacy with the father. The elder brother kept to his service religiously, thinking that by his works, he would greatly please his father. But it turned out that, what really pleased the father is that he would spend time with him, to tell him his needs and ask for them.

Another example that precedes this scripture also tells of a similar story.

It's in Luke 10:38-42

It's the story of Martha and Mary.

It's the same thing! Martha had thought that her service would put her in higher standing compared to her sister Mary, so she asked Jesus to get her sister Mary on her feet to help her. Martha also missed the point. She thought that her significance is based on her service but in the end, Jesus chided her and led her to the real point.

"But one thing is needed, and Mary had chosen that good part, which will not be taken away from her"

A relationship.

I chose to speak on this because I fall into the same category as Martha many times. Often times, I would subconsciously put my responsibility in spending time with God more important than my relationship with Him. It makes doing QT like a chore. It becomes dry and regimental. I would impose certain rules into my life, thinking that it would please God most, but most of the time, it leaves me feeling dry and unhappy. And worse still, sometimes, we impose such legalism onto others. "the letter kills but the spirit gives life"

But a relationship is never like that. It is a dialogue with God, which is both honest and transparent. This is how we grow to know Him better, and to be more intimate with Him.

I'm now learning to be more honest with Him, about how I feel and to give grace for my shortcomings and weaknesses.

I'm also learning to put my significance not in my work and accomplishments but rather in my relationship with Him.

:)