Happy New Year! 新年快乐!

Today is the third day of Chinese New year( CNY),which is oso the 3rd day of the first Lunar month. I'm back to blogging again as today quite tired of going to bai nian(means paying a visit to elders' home).... let me share with u about my visit to my mum's friend on the 1st day of Chinese New year....

As like usual my siblings and I followed my mum to her long-time friend's home to bai nian... She's staying in Kallang area,so we take bus no. 197 to there. When we reached there, my brother gave a pair of madarin oranges to my mum's friend and wish her xin nian kuai(Chinese words for 'happy new year'). in Hokkien we called the mandarin oranges 'gam',this means da ji da li, in english it means mandarin oranges represents auspicious, so exchanging a pair of 'gam' with the other party will bring each other good luck.

Enough about the CNY customs....so as usual we would wish all the elders there happy new year. Then we would be invited to sit down at the dinner table and have steamboat dinner...












this is some of the seafood we eat for steamboat. they have squids,fish meat,bird eggs....














The soupbase looks spicy,isn't it?












Wow! Did u see a bowl of curry chicken and a plate of roasted duck

in front of my brother(wearing dark blue shirt with a skull)'s seat? Must be delicious,man!


Oh ya, i am still on medication and my face haven healed yet!











U see my face...So red rite? at least it is much better than my face in 3 weeks ago, the acne on my face like very,very swollen and dark until no choice but to see doctor liao... luckily that very nice doctor gave that same antibiotic and the acne-clear cream that i have taken b4 , i take it diligently and washed my face daily,praying that my face will look normal on CNY... but i very glutton one lor...i actually indulge in having a seafood dinner @Fish and Co. restaurant with my ex-colleagues 10 days ago as i think that now CNY period ma, eat a little bit its ok one, but in the end i ate this much...

If i had reject my ex-colleagues' invitation, my face would have been healed completely liao...

Well, i have learnt a precious lesson: One should heed the elder's advice or else u will be in trouble..haha(for those who are chinese, isn't this sound cliched to u?)

Anyway, although this yr i can't celebrate my CNY in my former wkplace anymore as i still enjoy the happy times we had last yr, i still feel happy to be able to celebrate CNY with my family....Shall blog until here, so i wish u all 新年快乐!

yoz...i'm back to blogging...i had a great weekend indeed... My friend,mohaimin,invited me along with his ex-secondary sch(Henderson Sec sch,which is yvonne's sec sch) friends, to go to Pulau Ubin for cycling....At first i was quite excited as i din cycle for very long time liao(ard 8 months liao)...now my fren ask me to come along,of course i feel excited lor..So what happened was after i attended the CHC(city Harvest Church) 10am service @singapore expo hall 8 on sunday morning, i set off to meet my friend who is in pulau ubin already.

i thought the whole journey from expo to pulau ubin was quite short(cuz i tot P.ubin was not very far from expo)...it takes ard 40 minutes altogether(from taking train @expo MRT station to tanah merah station(5min),then take bus no. 2 to changi village bus terminal(25min), then finally take bumboat from changi point jetty to p.ubin jetty)..do u know tat taking the bumboat to p.ubin cost $2 for just one trip!!! i tot it would be very cheap leh(last time i think it costs only $1)....

anyway,forget it...so when i reach there i feel quite great. Pulau ubin was indeed a very peaceful place. However, as i used to living in a comfortable city,so if u ask me to stay overnite there i wld definitely say NO!!! Compared to singapore island, i can say that the ppl there is very friendly...i remember when i want to rent a bicycle in one rental shop,there is one auntie who come to my svc, and offers to recommend a good bicycle for me. She even let me try the bike. In east coast park(Singapore island), no such thing happened and u have to choose your own bike...so this auntie was very nice lor,she says i can rent the bike for whole day until 6pm for just $6, and if i can't return the bike in time she won't charge me additional fee,as she can understand p.ubin the island quite big...So different from Singapore rite?

Actually this is my first time cycling in an unfamiliar place,so when i try the bike i felt quite uncomfortable as the road there was very crowdy.. somemore u have to cycle carefully as u may not know when a vehicle is coming towards u..Well, i am surprised when i see quite a no. of wild dogs roaming in the street as i cycle. Actually i am quite afraid of dogs,so when i cycle i must not disturb them in anyway or else they may chase me(who will outrun who, u think?). Anyway, the year 2006 is the year of Dog, so i should consider myself "lucky" to have encountered so many wild dogs in p.ubin..haha...

Finally i met up with mohaimin and his sec sch frenz. So we cycle ard this small island for ard one and the half hours. I got to know his frens better as we cycle together. all his friends are good cyclers, i felt very inferior,but the time when we had to cycle up the slope, i got big problem, so one of his friends was very kind to wait for me when i was trying to push my bike,before we continue... then when i cycle to the place where the slope there was very steep, i have the tendency to slow down and makes my cycling difficult as the gear seems to be faulty...

i try to push my bike but suddenly i felt dizzy so i push my bike slowly to the nearest hut to rest for a while...after a while i felt better so i continue to cycle,then i met mohaimin and his fren..they all ask me wat happened to me?but i din actaully tell them the truth as i wld feel very embarrassed if i tell them(as u noe, all of them are guys, i dun want them to think that i very weak,i bought 2 bottle sof mineral water leh)...

Around 3.30pm, we cycle to a place where there is a Thai buddhist temple. One of the guys jokingly says dun ever make wishes at tt thai temple cos if ur wishes came true, u have to come back again and gave thanks,or else u will have bad luck forever...then as we want to continue, one particular guy's bike 'pun check'(bike got flat tyre). So one of the guys,a Chinese guy, i think, suggests asking the ppl from that temple for help, so we wait for him lor... As we wait, oh my God! I was actually got stung by the irritating mosquito there and got a lot of blood oozing out of my fleshy arm,eeee! sucks,man! that's one thing i dun like abt p.ubin...but other things ok lor...

Finally, we got no choice but to make a U-turn and cycle back to the jetty as this is the only short-cut or else we have to cycle a big round at Outward Bound school before we reach the jetty...Too bad that day was rainy, when we cycle back, the rain starts to rain heavily, so we had to cycle even faster. One thing is that we can enjoy the ride when the bicycle is going down the slope, previously we had to push our bikes up the slope....Shiok!

At 4pm we reached the jetty. We returned our bikes to the rental shop and and we go to the jetty and wait for the bumboat to come and fetch us back to Changi point ferry terminal... i regretted that i din cycle the whole island (i was only there for abt 2 and the half hours) and i din take some pictures of the things i saw such as the wild dogs and some places we went( the thai temple, the huts,etc). Anyway P.Ubin is a very beautiful place,so u may want to visit this small island when u are free...

I shall blog until here...Have a pleasing and fulfillling Chinese New Year! God Bless...

I was deceived.....

Recently, I was surfing the internet. As i was very bored so i decide to check up on the information on Jehoveh Witnesses,JW. So i was led to this website: http://www.cftf.com/miller/index.html. This website is about how a ex-JW victims was
deceived by JW society for so many years.

Do u know why i check up on JW? I have done some reflection on myself recently,thinking why am i accepting teachings from JW? isit just because Dinesh(Bible study conductor) was very nice to me,so i have to repay him by continue to study with him? Why my previous careleader say i have backslided for so long? When did i change dramatically? So i pray to heavenly Father for guidance and strength to keep me going...

Fortunately heavenly Father must have heard my prayer and answered my prayer... Recently i gain the strength from holy spirit and decides to do a research on JW syndicate. As stated in the Bible,Matt 7:7-8 "Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened" So after some intensive research, God have let me find the truth abt JW. Previously, my careleader have warned me tat JW is a cult but i jarred my ear on them and yet i din bother to do research on JW. I simply accept teachings from JW w/o any doubts...thinking back, am i really a fool to do tat? I began to feel bad and repentant abt my past association with JW ppl, but now i really understand the meanings behind the verse(Matt 7:7-8). Serving god is indeed not easy as u think, bt if u r diligent and determined to find out the truth, u wouldn mind spending ur precious time doing this. So i was led to the above website and
diligently read the entire online book in this website. I tell u, this is a true story, so there must be some honesty in this narration...

This ex-JW was used to be in military line, however, after he and his wife got to know the ppl from WatchTower Society(JW syndicate) and began so-called bible study with them he had to quit his job. the man decides to leave watchtower society and do an intensive investigation on this syndicate. JW was indeed a cult..! Since the day i got to know raymond i know something was wrong bt i din bother...What he teach abt the worldly celebrations are not allowed, Jesus did not die on a cross bt on a torture stake, and their disbelief in trinity was all rubbish!!!

Back to what i want to say, after i read that man's true story, i really,really felt cheated, at the same time,ashamed.... i begin to have a second opinion abt JW...Although Dinesh have assured me tat he won't pressurise me to join his church, but if i continue to study with him,i think it would be very meaningless for they have lost my trust in them... i decide to resume back to my life before i got know ppl from jw..I even got reunited with a cell group whom i din keep in touch with for a long time, i believe my life will be much better than now...This is God's love for me,He dum want me to be kept away from the truth...to think JW says they are the most righteous ppl on the earth when they themselves are wolves in sheep's clothings!!! haha...is it funny???

I would know that God hasn't forsaken me although i am a backslider...i can really feel God's love for me. Thank u,my dear heavenly Father! As of today onwards, I will discontinue my bible study with Dinesh and Roy.... i think i would felt much relieved bt at the same time feel bad as dinesh have treated me as a good friend, the problem is how am i am going to break this critical decision to Dinesh?

Dear viewers, u may want to access the above website i have highlighted in purple. if any one of u are ex-JW victims, feel free to share ur experiences with JW society. Thanks =)

Shine like Stars!!!

Shine Like Stars
Sidney Mohede

Look at the world we live today
Look at the hurting everywhere
Let us see mercy and Your grace
Overflowed in every place

Let us be one with You today
And let Your glory fall

Teach us to live in righteousness
Teach us to love in one accord
Guide us to live life everyday
As we worship in Your court

Let us declare Your majesty
And let Your glory fall

Chorus:
We will shine
Shine like stars above
Shining in Your light
Guided by Your love

Let Your fire burn in us
Burning like the sun
As we glorify
And show Your kingdom come
In all the earth

Bridge:
We will shine like stars above
As we're burning like the sun