Monday, July 26, 2010

Something tells me I'm into something good Y

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Thursday, July 01, 2010

Time for an update! Y

The holidays are finally here!

Much to do, not much time though.

Made a trip down to melbourne city and shivered in the madness cold weather - "we've warmed up to 7 degrees" was what she said.

Ran into Tim Burton's exhibition, was amazed at the mind of TB.

It was classic burton, funny, a little ghoulish and a tad awkward.

Enjoyed his pun with words and funky drawings. Best poem was "The Blind Date"

My first date I thought

would really be great.
My friend said you’re
set with a beautiful blind date

............

I said to my friend
You lied to me
You said she was blind

But still she could see!

Cooooll huh? Okay, so the middle part was missing. But the jest of it remains.

Favourite character was definitely Vincent. Because it portrayed TB best.

Then we chomm-ed our way through the streets of melbourne, snapping graffiti and shopping in the 2-for-$5 shops. (whoa, so cheeeaaapp!)

Had a short 3 minute encounter with Huang (better than nothing).

And saw like a million and one singaporeans there! O_o

Soon, the 2 days were up and it was time to depart.

Came home, had a nap till eternity.

And tomorrow! I head to the lab to start my experiments. Woo!

With that, we leave you with a group pic of the melbournians wannabe (ok, maybe not, we did conclude that sydney was probably better..)

Looking forward to MYC - Holy Spirit! :))

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6:52 PM

Monday, June 14, 2010

The True Grace of God Y

The True Grace of God

By Mark T Wells

The reason I have entitled this article as the True grace of God, is because I believe the majority of professing Christians in the world today have misunderstood what the grace of God truly means for our lives.

So many people who believe in Christ Jesus are continuing to walk in their old worldly ways and sins, because they believe that the grace of God "covers" their sinful ways enabling them to continue therein. Are they right? Does the grace of God enable us to continue in sin? Absolutely not! The apostle Paul warned the Church at Corinth about this very issue. Look a what he said:

2 Corinthians 6:1.....'We then, as workers together with Him also plead with you not to receive the grace of God in vain.'

So many professing Christians do not understand what this verse means. Look at what Paul is saying. He is PLEADING with the Corinthian church not to take the grace of God in vain. What does that mean? It means they were doing exactly the same thing that the professing church in the world today does, in that they were continuing in sin, thinking that they were ok because the grace of God would just cover over their continued worldly lifestyle. So in reality, they were not under the grace of God at all, which is why Paul was pleading with them not to receive it in VAIN.

The majority of Christians in the world today know and accept the term justification. But when it comes to sanctification, most of them do not understand it or just ignore it. When we come to Christ and accept him as our Lord and Saviour and repent of our sins, then through His blood we are made righteous before God and are justified THROUGH Christ. Unfortunately, most Christians just stop right there. "Oh, I'm under grace, I'm justified by my faith, that's fine, I'm good!"

And they completely ignore the process of sanctification. Sanctification is an ON-GOING process of becoming holy and turning away from your sins and worldly lifestyle. It's a process of separating yourself from the world. We are IN the world, but we should not be OF the world. Now the main issue with sanctification, which most people miss, is that WE have a part to play in the process. Now we don't do the works of sanctification ourselves, and we don't do the works TO BE saved, we do them because WE ARE saved through Christ.

Please don't think that I'm saying that our works are part of the salvation process. There is nothing we can do to add to the saving work of Christ Jesus, because what He did was perfect and complete. BUT, once we come to Christ in faith and accept what He has done for us, then we should have a desire to serve and follow Him and give our ALL for Him.

Another way to describe sanctification is to be holy, or to set oneself apart for holy use. Now take a look at a very important statement from the apostle Paul:

Hebrews 12:14.....'Make every effort to live in peace with all men and to be holy; without holiness no one will see the Lord.'

We are to make EVERY EFFORT to be holy. Why? Because without holiness WE WILL NEVER SEE THE LORD. Now many people will ignore this because they want to continue being a part of this world. They enjoy their lives too much to step out of the world and be holy. But mark this well, if you do not pursue holiness in your life, then you will never see Jesus, and you will not inherit eternal life or enter His Heavenly Kingdom. This is such an important truth to grasp hold of. The grace of God is not some cheap thing for us to use as an excuse to continue living a worldly life.

Romans 6:15.....''What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? GOD FORBID.'

We MUST put away sin from our lives and live holy for the one who saved us from sin.

Now many people will continue to say "Oh I'm under grace, don't give me the Law, the law is gone, I'm under grace". Well, think about this for a moment. For someone to be guilty under the Old Testament law, they had to physically kill someone, or physically sleep with another mans wife, or steal. But now under grace, Jesus taught us that even if we THINK about those things, then we are guilty of sin. So which is the HIGHER standard? GRACE! Being under grace demands more from us! Do you see that? And yet the majority of professing Christians will say that they are free to continue living a worldly life under grace.

Thankfully we have the Word of God through James. James came along and completed the picture for us with regards to the grace of God.

James 2:14,19,20.....'What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him? Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble. But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?

James 2:18.....'Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works.'

What does James say? He says, "Do you have the grace of God? SHOW ME! Show me your works to prove your faith and being under the grace of God. Show me the sanctification process in your life. Are you walking away from your sins and the world? Don't tell me you are under the grace of God and have no works to show for it, because I will show you the grace of God in my life BY MY WORKS!"

2 Corinthians 7:1.....'Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.'

As I said, nothing we can do can save us or add to our salvation, because Christ's saving work was perfect and complete. But as James confirms, if you say you have the grace of God in your life, but you don't do good works or follow in Jesus footsteps, then that shows your faith to be false and useless. Just remember what Christ did for you. Having the knowledge of what Christ did for us, we should all desire to live FULLY for Him. We must separate ourselves from the things of this world and live for Christ.

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10:22 AM

Monday, April 05, 2010

Isn't He Good Y

Your goodness
Found us in the darkness
Rescued us and freed us
Cleansed us from within
You saved us
Freely You forgave us
Counted us as righteous
And heirs with Your own Son

Isn’t He good, isn’t He kind
Hasn’t He blessed us time after time
Isn’t He good, all of our days
With endless mercies
And ceaseless grace
Oh let us sing: He is good

Your mercies meet us
With the daybreak
And every breath that we take
Points us to Your grace
Your power
Keeps us till the hour
Every knee will bow and
Worship Christ alone

	Sovereign Grace Music - Isn't He Good .mp3

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10:05 PM

Thursday, March 18, 2010

being grumpy isn't that bad? O_o Y

Feeling grumpy 'is good for you'

An attack of the grumps can make you communicate better, it is suggested

In a bad mood? Don't worry - according to research, it's good for you.

An Australian psychology expert who has been studying emotions has found being grumpy makes us think more clearly.

In contrast to those annoying happy types, miserable people are better at decision-making and less gullible, his experiments showed.

While cheerfulness fosters creativity, gloominess breeds attentiveness and careful thinking, Professor Joe Forgas told Australian Science Magazine.

'Eeyore days'

The University of New South Wales researcher says a grumpy person can cope with more demanding situations than a happy one because of the way the brain "promotes information processing strategies".

Negative moods trigger more attentive, careful thinking, paying greater attention to the external world

Professor Joe Forgas

He asked volunteers to watch different films and dwell on positive or negative events in their life, designed to put them in either a good or bad mood.

Next he asked them to take part in a series of tasks, including judging the truth of urban myths and providing eyewitness accounts of events.

Those in a bad mood outperformed those who were jolly - they made fewer mistakes and were better communicators.

Professor Forgas said: "Whereas positive mood seems to promote creativity, flexibility, co-operation and reliance on mental shortcuts, negative moods trigger more attentive, careful thinking, paying greater attention to the external world."

The study also found that sad people were better at stating their case through written arguments, which Forgas said showed that a "mildly negative mood may actually promote a more concrete, accommodative and ultimately more successful communication style".

His earlier work shows the weather has a similar impact on us - wet, dreary days sharpened memory, while bright sunny spells make people forgetful.

Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8339647.stm

Haaa! Never knew that eh... O_o

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Sunday, January 31, 2010

Busy busy busy Y

I'm so busy! We recently found out this new technique that we can explore for DNA purification... So that means heaps of readings to do and many many experiments to conduct. And guess what, my experiment failed BIG time!! :( I think the acetone was too strong for my polymer. totally disintegrated it. Upsetting.

And I was supposed to soak it in acetone for a day or something? And not even 24 hours and its melted and gooey and gross! Arugh. Did I mention I actually went back to the lab on a saturday?! O_o HAhahaha! Amazing right? I hope my supervisor has more of those samples that we can work with. It's reallie sad that it didn't work out as planned. Aye. So we've concluded that 1 day is bad, and seems like 30 minutes is bad too! Arugh.

It's reallie tiring... Working life, that is. 8.30 - 6pm. And since it's sooo far away, I gotta get up at 630am and by the time I reach home it's 7.30pm and that's a grand total of 13 hours outside! So if I made plans to hang out for dinner on a weekday, it'd be seriously exhausting. Aye. That's the life of a working adult eh? Day outs are made for the weekend. Well, it could be that I'm getting old... or maybe it's my lack of exercise. lol.

Haha, yesterday was such a havoc day! So we had service and afterwhich we went for dinner at this zi cha place at commonwealth (shuang chu? aiyoh, good food!), had some nice desserts at the hawker upstairs before driving to marina barrage... We stayed there till 1am... and you thought we might go home after that? Nahhh, we went geylang for tau huay and durian (and of the latter von didn't eat it cause she scared fat)! Haha. It was a very very good time just hanging out with the girls and getting to know them better, even though I reached home like 330am or something like that O_o And to make up for my lack of sleep, I slept till 12pm today. Can I hear a "SHIOK" please?! Hahaha!

Okay, so here's where we went:

It's at Commonwealth Blk 116. Worth the price you're paying. :))

Nice gooooooood fun with awesomee company!

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6:34 PM

Saturday, January 23, 2010

Cell group Y

Yesterday was my first time attending cell group in grace since I came back. Haha.
It's funny how no one asked if I wanted to join a cell group. But I guess if I did wanna learn more and join a fellowship, I should make the first move and indicate I wanna do something about it? It all boils down to how much do you want something. So how much do you want it??

Anyway, it was held in bukit gombak and everyone from everywhere came, it was diverssee. And that's what Christianity IS like, isn't it? It's about every individual with different personalities different goals different perspective coming together with one purpose in mind and that is to glorify Him. :)) I reallie like the idea of a weekly devotional sent out every week, glad the cell leader asked if i wanted it, even though I wasn't gonna be there 3/4 of the time. Haha. :D
And as I read one the devotional that I missed... It made me think about the love Christ has for me. Love does miraculous things. It made God sent His only son to die on the cross for us. The love God has for me, none can fathom... we'll never truly understand the whole depth of it all!

"There is a story of this cheeky son of a florist. He would walk into a crowd asking who would want the rose in his hand. When there are many people who responded to him saying that they would want it, he would throw the rose on the floor and start to step on it. After he finished reducing the rose to smithereens, he would hold up the rose saying “Ah ha! So who wants the rose now?” As people started to walk away a voice bellowed from the crowd “Jesus wants the rose!”

This is a startling exclamation that holds the crux of the gospel message -- that Jesus wants us no matter how repulsive we may be. Everyone of us would at times find ourselves being like that rose, trampled by many, being made fun of because we are nothing much of value. But the whole Bible exclaims the fact that Jesus wants us even though we are of nothing much.

Remember that Jesus makes us valuable. God takes us for who we are and makes us to the best that we can be. Not by our own merit, but because of Jesus. He is the vine, we are the branches. Without Jesus, we are nothing.

Jesus wants the rose."

WOW! And it's true! Without Him, we are NOTHING! Sometimes I don't like to think that I'm nothing, cause it's not a nice feeling to have... to feel all useless and incapable. But to understand that there's someone out there who knows so much, whose knowledge is unsurpassed, whose power knows no boundaries... and yet cares for us. I don't mind being nothing, cause I know I'm something to that great person and He makes me the best I will ever be. Amazing love. :))

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2:02 PM

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Children's books! Y

Hahaa. I noe I'm 23... well not officially yet, but soon la... 6 more days! O_o
So anyway, my jie asked me to read this book "The composer is dead" by Lemony Snicket
It's a cute book. :))

"But those who want something a little more interesting.... SHOULD GO TO THE ORCHESTRA!"

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9:38 PM

Saturday, January 09, 2010

Tiring week Y

Oh my. Work is getting busier by the minute! I've got soooo much to do. Oh well, it beats staring at the comp and trying to do some productive reading. Now I get to go down to the lab more. lol. :))

Okay, I owe my supervisor like 2 reports. Haha. So I better get down to doing it!

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12:44 PM

Tuesday, January 05, 2010

Beat the blues by going to bed early: study Y

NEW YORK (AFP) - – It seems parents have long been right. Going to bed early is key to getting enough sleep and helping adolescents feel on top of the world, a new study reported.

A lack of sleep among youngsters may trigger depression and suicidal thoughts, according to the study by the Columbia University Medical Center.

"Our results are consistent with the theory that inadequate sleep is a risk factor for depression, working with other risk and protective factors through multiple possible causal pathways to the development of this mood disorder," said lead author James Gangwisch.

"Adequate quality sleep could therefore be a preventative measure against depression and a treatment for depression," he added in the study published in the Friday issue of Sleep magazine.

The study followed the nightly habits of some 15,659 college and high-school students, and found those who consistently went to bed after midnight had a 24 percent higher risk of depression than those who turned in before 10:00 pm.

Night owls also ran a 20 percent higher risk of battling suicidal thoughts, the study added.

The American Academy of Sleep Medicine recommends that adolescents should sleep at least nine hours or more a night. Those who were tucked in before 10:00 pm reported they slept on average about eight hours and 10 minutes.

But that amount of sleep dropped significantly for those in bed after midnight.

And adolescents who slept five hours or less a night were 71 percent more likely to suffer depression and 48 percent more at risk of becoming suicidal, the study said.

"It is a common perception and societal expectation that adolescents do not need as much sleep as pre-adolescents, yet studies suggest that adolescents may actually require more sleep," said Gangwisch.

"Studies have found that adolescents do not go to bed early enough to compensate for earlier school start times, and transitions to earlier school start times have been shown to be associated with significant sleep deprivation."

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Okaaayy, I'm sleeping heaps early from now on....