We made it through to the semi-finals of the inter-trainline soccer tournament last Friday. The match ended in a stalemate: 0-0 and went to penalties. I thought we were done for when Marcus, Harish and i missed our penalties but Chanana (our outstanding keeper) kept us in the game with a streak of 7 awesome saves in a row! Not only did we keep the shots out, Eugene, Tat, Phan clinically converted their spot kicks and sent us through to the semi-finals! Well done guys! :)
We're playing in the semi-finals tomorrow against the Frankston line. haha! It's going to be a funny game; wish us all the best! I think we stand a good chance of getting into the final. It'll be a dream-come-true if we actually win the tournament. haha! It'll be good to finish the year as Inter-Trainline Soccer Champions!!! Booyah!
Anyway, i was rather bored on the train to school the other day and i jotted this down in my diary:
"Isn't it "elateful" when God puts amazing mysteries in our lives? In my darkest of moments God gave me an unexpected surprise. As one would naturally be, i'm still in a state of semi-shock and i don't really know what to do. I think i know what i should do, and yet i lack the courage to do it. Firstly because i'm a timid coward. And secondly, i don't know if i'm thinking straight. It scares me how an unexpected blessing from God can turn out to be a heartbreak depending on how i react to it; what i do in the upcoming weeks. I'm at a loss. Maybe i shouldn't take things into my own hands like i used to. Commit it to God? Yea, but i lack the trust. It's peculiar how i've trusted him several times and he's never failed me. Yet i still don't trust him enough. Surely what he's done for me should be more than sufficient to win more than my trust. God, help me. Grant me wisdom for i am utterly foolish."
Rolling emotions.
Monday, June 25, 2007
Thursday, June 21, 2007
The Yellow Leaf
I've made up my mind. Remember how i mentioned that i was going to take down all the letters on the walls of my room? I've decided to actually do it, i'm gonna take down 95% of them and replace them with some powerful prayers and sentimental poems that i wrote, which i will print off and laminate on a suitable backgrounds. haha! I'm gonna get some photo frames during my trip back to Singapore next week and develop some photos of my dear friends and myself. A room revamp over the hols. Oh yea!
I've got an inter-trainline soccer match tmr which happens to coincide with an English excursion to the National Art Gallery of Victoria. Soo.. i guess i'll have to "wag" the first 15 minutes or so of the excursion to finish the match first. haha!
We're playing Jin's Belgrave team tmr...it's going to be a tough game, but i hope we'll go through :)
I'm still aching terribly from the 1 hour gym session on Monday. I think i pushed myself way too hard. I've gotta get myself into peak fitness by next Thursday. ahh! I'll be going to the gym at 8am tmr with James and Andrew.
Oh, i owe Danica this poem that i wrote for her when she left Fungus.
The Yellow Leaf
Summer's fading,
A chilling wind starts to blow.
As leaves start to fall,
So do friends come and go.
Trees grow proud,
As they boast crowns of gold.
But when that last leaf falls,
The trees shiver in cold.
You're like that last leaf,
So bright and full of cheer,
As time goes on,
We'll all miss you dear.
A youthful cheer's lost,
We all heave a sigh.
But we'll always remember,
The time you said "Goodbye".
isaac
I've got an inter-trainline soccer match tmr which happens to coincide with an English excursion to the National Art Gallery of Victoria. Soo.. i guess i'll have to "wag" the first 15 minutes or so of the excursion to finish the match first. haha!
We're playing Jin's Belgrave team tmr...it's going to be a tough game, but i hope we'll go through :)
I'm still aching terribly from the 1 hour gym session on Monday. I think i pushed myself way too hard. I've gotta get myself into peak fitness by next Thursday. ahh! I'll be going to the gym at 8am tmr with James and Andrew.
Oh, i owe Danica this poem that i wrote for her when she left Fungus.
The Yellow Leaf
Summer's fading,
A chilling wind starts to blow.
As leaves start to fall,
So do friends come and go.
Trees grow proud,
As they boast crowns of gold.
But when that last leaf falls,
The trees shiver in cold.
You're like that last leaf,
So bright and full of cheer,
As time goes on,
We'll all miss you dear.
A youthful cheer's lost,
We all heave a sigh.
But we'll always remember,
The time you said "Goodbye".
isaac
Wednesday, June 13, 2007
Midyears Are Over!!
I've been dying to make this post!
The Accounting exam was relatively easy. I was rather confident when i walked out.
The Chemistry paper, on the other hand, was considerably harder than the past papers.
Well, i just wanna thank God for being there for me through it all... for giving me the perseverance over the tough weeks heading up to the exam. Also to all the friends who shared in my struggles and made it through unscathed :)
Most of you know that i stuck letters that i received from various friends all over the walls of my room. Well, i'm thinking of taking some of them off and replacing them with photos of my friends and i, along with some of the poems that i composed. Ofcourse, they will be fully laminated with some scenic and deeply sentimental image in the background. haha! Well, that's on the top of my mind at the moment. But we'll see how things come along.
I'm going back to Singapore in 3 weeks for my NS testing! haha! I'm aiming to do 20 chin-ups. So that's 9 more than i have to make before the term ends! ahhh! Tommy! Marcus! Banh! Harish! Gym after GAT tomorrow! haha!
The Accounting exam was relatively easy. I was rather confident when i walked out.
The Chemistry paper, on the other hand, was considerably harder than the past papers.
Well, i just wanna thank God for being there for me through it all... for giving me the perseverance over the tough weeks heading up to the exam. Also to all the friends who shared in my struggles and made it through unscathed :)
Most of you know that i stuck letters that i received from various friends all over the walls of my room. Well, i'm thinking of taking some of them off and replacing them with photos of my friends and i, along with some of the poems that i composed. Ofcourse, they will be fully laminated with some scenic and deeply sentimental image in the background. haha! Well, that's on the top of my mind at the moment. But we'll see how things come along.
I'm going back to Singapore in 3 weeks for my NS testing! haha! I'm aiming to do 20 chin-ups. So that's 9 more than i have to make before the term ends! ahhh! Tommy! Marcus! Banh! Harish! Gym after GAT tomorrow! haha!
Tuesday, June 12, 2007
VCE Mid-year Exams
I've got 5 hours to go before my VCE Accounting Midyear exam. It's a shocking realisation that all those 12 hard years of studying all boils down to this; how well you do in your final VCE exam. I should be a lot more nervous than i am now, but i thank God i'm not.
I spent the entire morning praising God and reading the bible. haha! I think i'm one of the most relaxed students in Victoria now.. feels good. Yeah, i just wanna thank all my good friends for all the encouragements i received last night. They all added up to put a smile on my face, i'm terribly grateful :)
I've got an Accounting exam today, and a Chemistry one tmr. So don't forget to pray for me! I need it x.x" I don't know what my mood will be like when i get back from school, but i'm relishing the fact that... the future's a mystery and all i can do to put myself at ease is to commit it to God.
Faith. It's a good feeling to trust God because you know that He never fails! :)
I spent the entire morning praising God and reading the bible. haha! I think i'm one of the most relaxed students in Victoria now.. feels good. Yeah, i just wanna thank all my good friends for all the encouragements i received last night. They all added up to put a smile on my face, i'm terribly grateful :)
I've got an Accounting exam today, and a Chemistry one tmr. So don't forget to pray for me! I need it x.x" I don't know what my mood will be like when i get back from school, but i'm relishing the fact that... the future's a mystery and all i can do to put myself at ease is to commit it to God.
Faith. It's a good feeling to trust God because you know that He never fails! :)
Friday, June 08, 2007
My Grace is Sufficient for you...
Isn't it funny how we often ask God to speak to us, and nothing seems to happen?
Yet He speaks to us at the times when we least expect Him.
I was feeling rather down yesterday morning, but the Lord was gracious enough to speak to me. I didn't expect Him to speak to me sooo clearly! It was amazing!
I flipped open my bible to (what is now my favourite passage) 2 Corinthians 12. Paul talks about "boasting in our weaknesses". And that's something that i haven't been able to do. I'm always hiding my weaknesses behind my strengths!
"To keep me from becoming conceited because of these surpassingly great revelations, there was given me a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of satan, to torment me. Three times i pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses so that Christ's power may rest on me." - 2 Cor 12: 7-9
How powerful is that? God said directly to me "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in your weakness". That really comforted me. The three thorns that Paul speaks about reminded me of real events in my life. I've listed them before in my previous post: Getting dropped from the soccer team, getting rejected by a girl, and my pathetic academic performances for this first semester. I was getting conceited, but God humbled me. Praise him for that. And now, i've got no shame of my weakness, and i will gladly boast about them, so that everyone may know that i am strong not because of my own merit, but because of the God i serve, whose Grace is sufficient for me. Praise God!
The song that i uploaded yesterday didn't turn out too well. I got bagged quite a bit.. lots of pple rocked up to this ordinary-looking blog, but didn't leave a tag. I'd very much appreciate it if you would just leave a comment about the song at least so that i can improve on it! Thanks!
Well, i'm sticking to my commitment to keep uploading songs.. hopefully the quality will get better when i get a proper mic! I'll probably buy one when i go back to Singapore in a few weeks... so stay tuned!
As for now, there's a song that i composed last year, on the 17th of April '06. I was going through a lot then, i can't remember exactly what.. but i probably blogged about it, and you can refer to the archives ---> if you want. haha! But if i remember correctly, i was feeling down because of homework and friends. I was inspired to compose a song as i pondered, "How hard can life be when God is watching over me?"
My Walk
Verse 1
Walking down the streets at night
A gentle breeze blows through my mind
I'm reminded, yeah, i'm reminded
Of your love two thousand years ago
Pre-Chorus
Now there's a longing
Built up inside me,
I can't deny it,
Cuz i'm living for you!
Chorus
Life, how hard can it be?
When Your Grace abounds
Like a blanket of love.
Lord, when i couldn't see
You carried me through.
Verse 2
The sky is dark, the air is cold.
I don't know how or where to go
I hear a voice, up from above
It says come follow me!
Bridge
Through the darkest night
My soul cries
"I need you!"
Through the longest road
I know you'll lead me through!
* For my God, who taught me to be humble.
God
& isaac
17/4/06
Yet He speaks to us at the times when we least expect Him.
I was feeling rather down yesterday morning, but the Lord was gracious enough to speak to me. I didn't expect Him to speak to me sooo clearly! It was amazing!
I flipped open my bible to (what is now my favourite passage) 2 Corinthians 12. Paul talks about "boasting in our weaknesses". And that's something that i haven't been able to do. I'm always hiding my weaknesses behind my strengths!
"To keep me from becoming conceited because of these surpassingly great revelations, there was given me a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of satan, to torment me. Three times i pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses so that Christ's power may rest on me." - 2 Cor 12: 7-9
How powerful is that? God said directly to me "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in your weakness". That really comforted me. The three thorns that Paul speaks about reminded me of real events in my life. I've listed them before in my previous post: Getting dropped from the soccer team, getting rejected by a girl, and my pathetic academic performances for this first semester. I was getting conceited, but God humbled me. Praise him for that. And now, i've got no shame of my weakness, and i will gladly boast about them, so that everyone may know that i am strong not because of my own merit, but because of the God i serve, whose Grace is sufficient for me. Praise God!
The song that i uploaded yesterday didn't turn out too well. I got bagged quite a bit.. lots of pple rocked up to this ordinary-looking blog, but didn't leave a tag. I'd very much appreciate it if you would just leave a comment about the song at least so that i can improve on it! Thanks!
Well, i'm sticking to my commitment to keep uploading songs.. hopefully the quality will get better when i get a proper mic! I'll probably buy one when i go back to Singapore in a few weeks... so stay tuned!
As for now, there's a song that i composed last year, on the 17th of April '06. I was going through a lot then, i can't remember exactly what.. but i probably blogged about it, and you can refer to the archives ---> if you want. haha! But if i remember correctly, i was feeling down because of homework and friends. I was inspired to compose a song as i pondered, "How hard can life be when God is watching over me?"
My Walk
Verse 1
Walking down the streets at night
A gentle breeze blows through my mind
I'm reminded, yeah, i'm reminded
Of your love two thousand years ago
Pre-Chorus
Now there's a longing
Built up inside me,
I can't deny it,
Cuz i'm living for you!
Chorus
Life, how hard can it be?
When Your Grace abounds
Like a blanket of love.
Lord, when i couldn't see
You carried me through.
Verse 2
The sky is dark, the air is cold.
I don't know how or where to go
I hear a voice, up from above
It says come follow me!
Bridge
Through the darkest night
My soul cries
"I need you!"
Through the longest road
I know you'll lead me through!
* For my God, who taught me to be humble.
God
& isaac
17/4/06
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