Hi Philippinas!

theres like so much work, much MUCH work to do, so much that i actually forced myself to list them down on a post-it coz i was afraid i would forget them. can u imagine it! i hardly do those kind of things, like you know, ticking assignments off the list once you've completed them.

besides the piles of homework, comes a whole load of ministry responsibilities. ok i thank God for those coz i realised that i need to work on being more responsible, God is moulding me! i really need to learn and grow in this area, seeing how one fellow sister is able to juggle so well between studies, church and ministry, i'm impressed really. The way she puts best or much effort into whatever she does, and you know, with so many responsibilities (i personally thinks shes overload) , shes still able to manage and cope. Putting myself in her shoes, i would have broken down long ago. i'm encouraged, theres still a long long way for me to go and learn. Lord, please help me grow.

alvin chia

i had a great day today.

went for Psalm TRAIL in the morning, studied Psalm 23. i was very comforted and touched after the session. God is our protector, 'i will fear no evil, for He is with me. your rod and your staff, they comfort me' v.4 and all these when we are facing times of difficulties and fear, 'walking through the valley of the shadow os death'. God is also our provider, considering this realtionship between us and God is like that of a shepherd (God) and sheep(man), what the shepherd does for the sheeps are really admirable and i just felt that God really cares and watches over each and every single one of us, taking care of us and protecting us, when we run into trouble, God is the one in whom we can trust to help us. v.2&3
And we can definitely and surely enjoy this everlasting relationship we have with God, forever and in all the days of my life v.6
i felt so touched in the way that God is really my everything, without Him, we are really nothing and will perish, but now we look towards this hope we have in God, in which we can take comfort in and trust in, this relationshop with God that lasts forever.
Praise and thank You O God, i love You.

alvin chia

took so long to upload 1 photo to this blog.




hi, just going through some of my photos in my previous trip last year in December.
love this one.
do you think one is able to get into heaven after scaling the Pyramid? after all the pyramid points to heaven and looks almost unsurmountable. well, well... the only way to heaven is through Jesus Christ ok.

alvin chia

Hi Philippians!!
its Friday!!! i'm elated. really.

got back Chem results, i've failed chem by 5 marks i think.
but i passed maths! i was so thankful as it was my assurance that i'm still strongest in maths.
knew 1/3 of econs marks for DRQ-11/20. i declined to know another 1/3 of the results (MCQ), haha, just didnt want to know coz i guessed my way through 95% of the questions. haha, my teacher was like 'you really dont want to know your MCQ?'. haha.. i still want an enjoyable weekend i said.

nonetheless, i'm thankful, now setting my sights on promos
-i think i'm dangerously threading on a thin line for promotion to JC2.
(ie. i'm at risk of retaining)
-promos is 6 weeks away only
(i've became aware of this after the dear councillors put up this count-down board at assembly ground.)

anyway, its the weekend! weekend! whoo! yeah!

i received a msg from HardRock which states that they got a new set lunch menu, i'm kind of excited about the fish and chips coz it costs almost the same for Swensens, just that at HardRock, you pay a buck more but including soup, dessert, drink. quite value i think. and they're also giving away a free classic shirt with 3 set lunches ordered, 1st 150 people gets it. thinking of dragging my family there, hopefully the shirt giveaway will still be available.

ok that was like advertisement.

have a great weekend ahead,
alvin chia

So You Would Come - Hillsongs

Dear bros and sis!
i have a very nice song to share!
(actually i have many nice songs to share, but here's one first!)

[Before the world began
You were on His mind
And every tear you cry
Is precious in His eyes
Because of His great love
He gave His only Son
Everything was done
So you would come

Nothing you can do
Could make Him love you more
And nothing that you've done
Could make Him close the door
Because of His great love
He gave His only Son
Everything was done
So you would come

Come to the Father
Though your gift is small
Broken hearts, broken lives
He will take them all
The power of the Word
The power of His blood
Everything was done
So you would come]

Bug me for de song! its very nice... =)

oh, and a reminder! pls read your notes!!!!
at least  once k. :)
God Bless all!

<3 shaoning

Hi to all fellow philippians!!! =))
Thanks for praying for my Piano exam.....
All of u are GReatly appreciated....
YEAh... see you all on saturday k..
HAve a good week ahead.... =pPpPp

*Immanual* ~edna~

greet Philippians!

thank God for guiding me through the common tests this past week


Alvin Chia

AH!
tomorrows the start of common tests!!
AH! i'm so so nervous.
this test is crucial to me, otherwise i will retain.
haha... i've not actually studied much, hopefully what i've studied will be enough.
i've slept a LOT the past few days. sleeping at 12 and waking up at 12 the next day then sleeping again at 4 waking up at 7. averaging 15-16 hours a day ever since Sunday.
AHHH!
pray for ren jie and me ok.
oh ya, waiyin are u feeling ok now?

alvin chia

40

Happy Birthday Singapore!

i brought myself to say that!

we've come so far, not that i'm old enough to say that.

now, the future is ours to make.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SINGAPORE!!!!!!!

~edna~

saturday 2

continuing from yesterday.

i vow to serve my customers more personally if i get the chance to work in the service sector in the future.

i kind of agree with the 'TODAY' headline article yesterday regarding the ever declining service standards of Singapore.

after meeting student yesterday, dragged Ben along with me to HRC, haha, we got like 2++ hours to spend before going to church and we didnt want to go home. When we entered HRC, was surprised that there was no one at the entrance to serve us, or rather she was busy talking on the phone when we entered. we loitered around for a while, waiting to be served, but she was just too busy talking on the phone that i dont think she noticed we've arrived, will she even notice if the president had arrived? well, she could have signalled to us, to show that she acknowledged our arrival. if only she did so, i'll be glad to wait for her, you know, its a kind of polite gesture, you feel welcomed. is it so hard to feel our presence when we are standing just a foot away from her? unknowingly we proceeded to seat ourselves down, only to be stopped by her. rudely she rattled off a series of words like 'you wait to be served, dont just walk in like that ok'. What attitude! Ben mumbled some form of retaliation she must have heard but pretended not to. So she permised herself to walk us to the table which we were at already and said, 'there!', before finishing off with a mechanical 'enjoy your lunch'. nasty service i say. searched for a feedback form on the table but there was none.

But the rest of the crew are generally good, i commend them, good'o people who are plain happy to serve us, i call that good'o service. We chilled there..

then we went back to BPP to buy bread to church. church service was good, our youth service is growing i feel, thank God yes.

pray: for Ben, Jia Yan, each other, O-leavers : disciplined to study and understand what we are revising or studying.

saturday

Greet good saturday night to all.

i need to study. common tests all on Thursday and Friday. pray for me k. i'll most probably use up the national day holidays to study, including sunday and monday too.

today: an eventful day.

morning woke up early to complete my BCL lesson plan, i took the risk of not completing it the night before because i could not resist the temptation of sleeping. partly because i was struggling to plan as i didn have BCL with me and didn attend any BCL on evangelism b4. u know, got so many things i want to put down but dont know which are the important ones to put down. so the traditional way to escape these frustrations is to: sleep on it. dont try it ok, its strongly discouraged, bad example.
after that i took a 10 minute walk out to the bus stop, the morning sun was warm, made me comfortable. i love walking nowadays, walk home at night today too...

went to do Street-E at Causeway point today, i have to say my mind was quite distorted today, very distracted, could not really engage the people into the gospel in the most relevant and personal way. Thank God for the 5 contacts, one was a Soka-ian, rare huh?

after lunch, travelled down to Plaza Singapura to meet student (Kelvin), dragged Ben along as i thought he will be of help, ha... at least we didnt monkey our way down... well, the Bible study went better as i had expected, had managed to mention all the things i wanted to put across.. thank God, hope he'd be encouraged and motivated to share the gospel :D

there were CHIJ and Raffles' girls doing Flag Day around and inside Plaza Singapura, i couldn't contribute/donate. i just couldnt, didnt have the opportunity to do so, i must have walked past them a zillion times, trying to gain their attention , i thought i was invisible you know, there were numerous times which i PURPOSELY walked right in front of them, hoping in vain they will approach me with the balloons or coin box, but they stood right there, or they just had their own gatherings, or contemplating on switching balloons, or....

i'm tired, will continue again tomorrow.