Still checking out here?? This blog is abandoned leh…
Anyway, just felt the urge to write out something that has been bugging in my mind while I was doing my readings on Sociology (Family & Relationships). I really thank god for allowing me to take sociology as one of my units. For those who don’t know, sociology is actually a study on the world society. This semester, I have gone through topics on “Media & Society” and “Family & Relationship”.
Mmm… whenever I do readings on sociology, I always have great feelings and thoughts, because it tells us so much about the society and what is really happening in the world. I feel for the problems that are drugging the world. Examples of societal problems are increase of individualisation (online community, netsex, pornography etc), suicide rates (stress, pressure, and mostly every person has a time in their life where they encounter a mild psychological problem like depression or anxiety), poverty (80% of this world are living under poverty, which is without food, shelter), hedonism (a culture of seeking pleasure only, like clubbing, drinking, drugs, one night stand etc), increase of divorce rates or lone parent (children grew without security or love, fail to see a pure and fullness of commitment in marriage), and homosexual. The biggest problem is all of these just seem so normal to all of us. It no longer shocks us at all to know that all these exist. Knowing all these, I feel for these people who are facing all these problems in the world. One way, I will feel super bless for what god had given me throughout my life. People in the world are searching for something; some of them do not even know what they are searching for therefore they tried out all the worldly stuff like all the above. Nonetheless, indulging in all these definitely gave them a temporary but great pleasure, but….. at the end they will still end up feeling empty or hollow.
What the world needs? If you are smart enough all those problems can be explained by only one answer, which is people in this world, need love, hope and most of all God, the one thing that people can never understand. There is a god in this world, He exists. People, do search for Him. I want to help…. I really want to help the world and tell them about the only love, only hope and the only God who so love us and gave us His son, Jesus.
Anyway!! Didn’t know how I ended up writing all these, it is just some of my thoughts, want to write it down as a reminder. Need to continue with my readings. Doing all these readings always triggers my urges to write a sermon about it. Haha… But too bad I do not have a gift of preaching, or maybe I should start asking for it.
하나님, 감사함니다...
p.s I'm coming back on 16th of Nov!! *cheers*
Monday, September 24, 2007
Monday, June 18, 2007
TO LUCAS HO CHEOK CHEOK!!!!
THIS IS THE LAST TIME!!
Lim, Pui Ning
Roberts Hall,
Monash Residential Services,
Building 47,
Monash University,
Victoria 3800,
Australia.
WRITE THIS DOWN NOW!!! QUICK! Pick up your pen, paper, WRITE! Then swallow the paper then you'll remember.
Lim, Pui Ning
Roberts Hall,
Monash Residential Services,
Building 47,
Monash University,
Victoria 3800,
Australia.
WRITE THIS DOWN NOW!!! QUICK! Pick up your pen, paper, WRITE! Then swallow the paper then you'll remember.
Friday, June 15, 2007
It's Winter!!
Wahahaha… I really need to study now. But but… very sien la…. So thought of doing a short update. I’m done with my sociology & psychology exams, got two more to go, which are Korean & asian civilisation. Yay! Yay! Mmm… how’s the exam?? I can say not bad lor… I did what I can, put in a lot of effort to study and prepare, so even if the result turn out not as expected, I guess I will not be too disappointed gua. Hehe… “Work Hard because I’m not a Smart Person” is still my principle.
Sigh… I’m not coming back for the winter holidays, so sad.... grr… you guys have no idea how sad and disappointed I am, because of Malaysia Airline!! Sob sob… but I’m over with it, and will have plans for holidays here. Going for Two camps. Plus!! Mel dear is coming!! *skipping around*
Haha… don’t know why, lately, I find out I’m more and more in love with psychology! Since I’ve been studying on it a lot. The feeling of being able to work hard for something that you like and love it’s really very satisfying, more like a fulfilment. Kaka.. Received some feedback from a lot of you guys, who don’t really know what to do in the future. I hope that you’ll guys who are on a crossroad will continue to pray for it and god will definitely guide you. I reckon that at times we don’t even know what we want or what we need. God is all knowing, so He knows, and will guide you, if you ask. I remember how much I struggle I’ve been through to come to this point, it will not be easy, but “jia you”! Don’t lose faith! ^_^
*It’s winter here! Cold, freezing, foggy, windy, brr...*
Sigh… I’m not coming back for the winter holidays, so sad.... grr… you guys have no idea how sad and disappointed I am, because of Malaysia Airline!! Sob sob… but I’m over with it, and will have plans for holidays here. Going for Two camps. Plus!! Mel dear is coming!! *skipping around*
Haha… don’t know why, lately, I find out I’m more and more in love with psychology! Since I’ve been studying on it a lot. The feeling of being able to work hard for something that you like and love it’s really very satisfying, more like a fulfilment. Kaka.. Received some feedback from a lot of you guys, who don’t really know what to do in the future. I hope that you’ll guys who are on a crossroad will continue to pray for it and god will definitely guide you. I reckon that at times we don’t even know what we want or what we need. God is all knowing, so He knows, and will guide you, if you ask. I remember how much I struggle I’ve been through to come to this point, it will not be easy, but “jia you”! Don’t lose faith! ^_^
*It’s winter here! Cold, freezing, foggy, windy, brr...*
Saturday, May 12, 2007
...
I really am suppose to do my assignments now......
but.... i don't feel like it!
not looking forward for tomorrow.
but.... i don't feel like it!
not looking forward for tomorrow.
Sunday, April 29, 2007
Breakthroughs!
It’s been a crazy and busy week for Brigette!! I’ve done loads of stuff this week. One thing in particular, but will go to that later.
On Friday…
My very dear Yeat Teng came to Australia for vacation! Actually, she came here with her family to visit her second sister and brother. Her family lives in the city, so she’s there, that means…. I need to get myself there….. ALONE! Which totally crazy and outrageous! Those who know me well will know how “good” my sense of direction is.
Brief records of “good” sense of direction:-
1. Will always get myself lost in 1 Utama
2. Heading home after cell group in Ah Ci’s house in Kelana Jaya, and ended up in NKJV express way
3. etc.
So… I took the BIG challenge, went to city just to meet up with me dear Teng. Remind you, I only went city once with my big sis, which is on February. So, that time is the 2nd time the little timid mouse enter the city. Haha…
So yeah, after my 11 o’clock class, I went to bus stop to catch the bus. I actually pray hard to God the day before, that I won’t end up in some country place. And guess what? God’s been great. I met an old school friend from Malaysia when I catch the bus, and she’s heading to Melbourne Central as well. [Haha… God knows my “good skill”]
Succeeded in getting myself to see Teng!
She permed her hair, and she looks so pretty and mature!! She actually looks like a doll. ^_^ Get to catch up with Teng, and find out that our dear Bey Ern also start to “ban leng leng” already. Hehe… really can’t wait to see the new Bey. Kei Wan….. the Shopping Queen. hehe… Memang know that you like to “ban leng leng” already, and yeah, get to know more stuff about Aaron from Sunway too… *cheeky smile*
Well, Teng’s family is actually planning to go to Melbourne Zoo, so I was invited. [Sigh… been intruding in a lot of family day lately] Yeah, it was fun! ^_^ Get to see a lot of animals, cute cute penguins, ugly baboons, lazy lions, swift seals, kangaroos [can’t find a description for it, but it was my 1st tie seeing a kangaroo], miserable koala [because there’s only one koala]. Basically, I enjoyed the day a lot, really happy to see familiar faces again. Thank you for meeting up with me dear, appreciate it a lot… ^_^
At about 6, bid good byes and hugs, and head off alone back to Clayton. Sat at the wrong bus station but luckily I didn’t get on the wrong bus and manage to run to the correct bus that is about to take off. I was the last to get out of the bus, which last stop is in Monash Uni. Awesome experience! I actually kept all my transport tickets where I took my first rides to some places. Hehe… Eden & Andrew keeping movie tickets, I’m going to keep my bus tickets as well. ^_^
On Saturday…
Need to head to city AGAIN! Because my aunt from Malaysia came to visit my cousin and she want to treat me “dim sum”. So…. I head to city AGAIN. And guess what, I didn’t go there alone again, just so happens, I met “si si” and her sister at the bus stop, they were heading to city as well, am I blessed or what? He’s really watching over me all the time, love the feeling. So yeah, the sisters went to city with me. [Haha… God don’t trust that I can get myself to city alone.]
On Sunday….
My halls “Talent Night”. To cut it short, on Friday, I was asked to go to Selene’s room. [She’s my Residential Advisor (RA), a senior student, an Australian, she’s really nice.] Out of no where, she asked me whether I got any talents, and randomly, she asked me to sing. I was really blur, wanted to be bit open and sporting, so I just simply sing a song, and BANG! She signed me up for Talent Night and even got me a guitarist [Nihal, an Indian, senior student and a Christian], pianist [Peter, German mix Chinese] and another girl [Sarah, and Australian, Nihal’s GF] to sing with me. I don’t know them at all, but it was really a great to know them.
I was really blur, and didn’t think of to really sing on stage. I’m really not a stage person, I was, but that was when I’m really young. I even refused to sing with my sisters on my dad’s company annual dinner. How can I perform in front of all the people, especially when they are all westerners? At the same time, I’m can’t seem to study or progress in my assignments, because I’m caught in watching “Small Ville” and God is not near. I was really stressed up on Saturday, and didn’t feel like doing it. But Both Selene and Kevin [A friend that lives in the same stairway as me, a senior from Malaysia. Being a very blur person I am, he helped me a lot with loads of stuff, owe him a lot!] have been a really good encourager. ^_^
Then, God appears in the picture. He sort of convinced me to do it as well. He taught me something new. I’ve always been a really timid and introvert person. Whatever stuff I want or like, because of me timidity, it often holds me back and I always do not have the courage to grasp it or pursue it, and that’s when I miss out and miss something that are important to me. Like singing is one of the examples, I like singing, but am too timid to do it on stage. Well, this was really my test and my breakthrough! And joining the “Talent Night” is my first step where god had prepared! I was thinking that even if I really fail this, I’ll just leave the halls for next semester, haha…
Believe it or not, I sang TWO songs. One with Sarah; another one Solo. Haha… for those who sang with me in band in church before will probably know that I always had problems entering song, always depend on musicians to nod their head to ask me to enter. Well, I’m still the old Brigette and I entered wrongly again when performed on stage, but it was all right, because Nihal back me up. Haha.. Well, it turns out really well. I actually got positive feedback from people. *cheers! God’s grace*
The “Talent Night” is not a competition, no winners or prizes it is just for fun and for people to gather and get to know one another. And it was really fun with all the crazy performances! Glad that I didn’t miss it or even miss the opportunity to be on stage. Here are some pictures, taken by Kevin. These are not all the performance, I just picked some.
On Friday…
My very dear Yeat Teng came to Australia for vacation! Actually, she came here with her family to visit her second sister and brother. Her family lives in the city, so she’s there, that means…. I need to get myself there….. ALONE! Which totally crazy and outrageous! Those who know me well will know how “good” my sense of direction is.
Brief records of “good” sense of direction:-
1. Will always get myself lost in 1 Utama
2. Heading home after cell group in Ah Ci’s house in Kelana Jaya, and ended up in NKJV express way
3. etc.
So… I took the BIG challenge, went to city just to meet up with me dear Teng. Remind you, I only went city once with my big sis, which is on February. So, that time is the 2nd time the little timid mouse enter the city. Haha…
So yeah, after my 11 o’clock class, I went to bus stop to catch the bus. I actually pray hard to God the day before, that I won’t end up in some country place. And guess what? God’s been great. I met an old school friend from Malaysia when I catch the bus, and she’s heading to Melbourne Central as well. [Haha… God knows my “good skill”]
Succeeded in getting myself to see Teng!
She permed her hair, and she looks so pretty and mature!! She actually looks like a doll. ^_^ Get to catch up with Teng, and find out that our dear Bey Ern also start to “ban leng leng” already. Hehe… really can’t wait to see the new Bey. Kei Wan….. the Shopping Queen. hehe… Memang know that you like to “ban leng leng” already, and yeah, get to know more stuff about Aaron from Sunway too… *cheeky smile*
Well, Teng’s family is actually planning to go to Melbourne Zoo, so I was invited. [Sigh… been intruding in a lot of family day lately] Yeah, it was fun! ^_^ Get to see a lot of animals, cute cute penguins, ugly baboons, lazy lions, swift seals, kangaroos [can’t find a description for it, but it was my 1st tie seeing a kangaroo], miserable koala [because there’s only one koala]. Basically, I enjoyed the day a lot, really happy to see familiar faces again. Thank you for meeting up with me dear, appreciate it a lot… ^_^
At about 6, bid good byes and hugs, and head off alone back to Clayton. Sat at the wrong bus station but luckily I didn’t get on the wrong bus and manage to run to the correct bus that is about to take off. I was the last to get out of the bus, which last stop is in Monash Uni. Awesome experience! I actually kept all my transport tickets where I took my first rides to some places. Hehe… Eden & Andrew keeping movie tickets, I’m going to keep my bus tickets as well. ^_^
On Saturday…
Need to head to city AGAIN! Because my aunt from Malaysia came to visit my cousin and she want to treat me “dim sum”. So…. I head to city AGAIN. And guess what, I didn’t go there alone again, just so happens, I met “si si” and her sister at the bus stop, they were heading to city as well, am I blessed or what? He’s really watching over me all the time, love the feeling. So yeah, the sisters went to city with me. [Haha… God don’t trust that I can get myself to city alone.]
On Sunday….
My halls “Talent Night”. To cut it short, on Friday, I was asked to go to Selene’s room. [She’s my Residential Advisor (RA), a senior student, an Australian, she’s really nice.] Out of no where, she asked me whether I got any talents, and randomly, she asked me to sing. I was really blur, wanted to be bit open and sporting, so I just simply sing a song, and BANG! She signed me up for Talent Night and even got me a guitarist [Nihal, an Indian, senior student and a Christian], pianist [Peter, German mix Chinese] and another girl [Sarah, and Australian, Nihal’s GF] to sing with me. I don’t know them at all, but it was really a great to know them.
I was really blur, and didn’t think of to really sing on stage. I’m really not a stage person, I was, but that was when I’m really young. I even refused to sing with my sisters on my dad’s company annual dinner. How can I perform in front of all the people, especially when they are all westerners? At the same time, I’m can’t seem to study or progress in my assignments, because I’m caught in watching “Small Ville” and God is not near. I was really stressed up on Saturday, and didn’t feel like doing it. But Both Selene and Kevin [A friend that lives in the same stairway as me, a senior from Malaysia. Being a very blur person I am, he helped me a lot with loads of stuff, owe him a lot!] have been a really good encourager. ^_^
Then, God appears in the picture. He sort of convinced me to do it as well. He taught me something new. I’ve always been a really timid and introvert person. Whatever stuff I want or like, because of me timidity, it often holds me back and I always do not have the courage to grasp it or pursue it, and that’s when I miss out and miss something that are important to me. Like singing is one of the examples, I like singing, but am too timid to do it on stage. Well, this was really my test and my breakthrough! And joining the “Talent Night” is my first step where god had prepared! I was thinking that even if I really fail this, I’ll just leave the halls for next semester, haha…
Believe it or not, I sang TWO songs. One with Sarah; another one Solo. Haha… for those who sang with me in band in church before will probably know that I always had problems entering song, always depend on musicians to nod their head to ask me to enter. Well, I’m still the old Brigette and I entered wrongly again when performed on stage, but it was all right, because Nihal back me up. Haha.. Well, it turns out really well. I actually got positive feedback from people. *cheers! God’s grace*
The “Talent Night” is not a competition, no winners or prizes it is just for fun and for people to gather and get to know one another. And it was really fun with all the crazy performances! Glad that I didn’t miss it or even miss the opportunity to be on stage. Here are some pictures, taken by Kevin. These are not all the performance, I just picked some.
One of the Residential Advisor, his name is Bawa, from Sri Lanka. He's telling jokes in the middle of the break. [I rarely laugh at jokes, but I reckon it's quite funny, because everyone was laughing] At the end he did an Indian dance as well, which was really funny and nice.
Woa... this group is doing a salsa and swing dance, really awesome! They really can swing!
Well, nothing beats a group of cute guys lip singing "I want it that way" by Backstreet Boys, and a bit of dancing. haha.. Yee!! I got a video of them!!
My singing partner doing her solo part, singing Falling from Alicia Keys.
The guy in the orange shirt, Sam, he lives two doors next to me. He's reciting all the 100 numbers on the paper hold by the friend beside him.
This group is doing a song presentation with whistling, really cute! The guy in the middle really can sing quite well, a typical good looking ''kuai lou"! ^_^
Woa... this group is doing a salsa and swing dance, really awesome! They really can swing!
Well, nothing beats a group of cute guys lip singing "I want it that way" by Backstreet Boys, and a bit of dancing. haha.. Yee!! I got a video of them!!
My singing partner doing her solo part, singing Falling from Alicia Keys.
The guy in the orange shirt, Sam, he lives two doors next to me. He's reciting all the 100 numbers on the paper hold by the friend beside him.
A guy acting hilarious. I think he's trying to imitate someone, but I don't know who. He purposely dress up like that and he even coloured one of his teeth black. His actions and all are totally hilarious. Basically, he's not there to sing but to entertain. Haha..
Performance by a girl together with a guy pianist. She's talented, can sing while playing the guitar.
This group is doing a song presentation with whistling, really cute! The guy in the middle really can sing quite well, a typical good looking ''kuai lou"! ^_^
The last group was performed by all the Residential Areas, performing a musical play "Summer Day".
That’s basically what I did for the week, awesome experiences!! Now it’s time to turn on PRODUCTIVE mode and start working hard on studies and assignments. So, am going to concentrate. Hope you all are doing well too. Mel “jia you”!
p.s. Heard from Jane that you guys have always been keeping me in prayer during cg, really appreciate it. Prayers really work! Thank you guys! Will do the same for you all too. *hugs to all*
Lots of Love,
Brigette
Brigette
Sunday, April 22, 2007
Dumb-blog FINALLY work!!
These are some pictures I took in the beginning of Autumn when I was jogging around my place. yes... I DO jog!! I need to k... I need to stay healthy, if I fell sick, no one is going to cook for me or finish up my assignment for me. So yeah... No matter how much I hate exercising, I still need to. Am I healthy or what??!! haha... Well, that's not all. It will shock you guys even more if you know that......
Two little "quack quack"
I start playing Badminton as well. Hey! I CAN PLAY K!! Use to play it when I was form 1... BUT! I can play. If it is not for my friends here, I don't think I would want to play, so yeah... another healthy lifestyle practise by Brigette! *cheers
ok! enough of talking and pictures time....
There's a lot of pond in my school compound, so you can imagine how big it is. Well, these pictures of pond are around my area. As you can see, there are a lot of "quak quack". [Haha...Emily likes "quack quack" a lot! She got this particular nursery rhyme she like a lot. Thought of bringing her one day to my school to see all these]
Two little "quack quack"
More "quacks quacks"!! Imagine all these attacking you.. Must be careful, because they can be very violent!
This is pretty...
Pictures of my room
Me bed... [see that pink scarf there!! My big sis knit it for me! I sleep with it. ^_^]
This is a notice board in my room. [the shirt is a eye-catcher, no one miss it when they come in to my room! A lot of them said it was really sweet. Thank you guys.. ^_^]
A place to hang my clothes?
This is my supplies!! PART of my supply. I'll put dry food here.
I call this place "everything here"! I do my work here, read here, study here, eat here, online here, watch TV here, watch Hana Kimi here, etc...
A picture of the food I Cook! hehe... [Green: brocolli; Red: Minced beef with pasta sauce; Yellow:Penne]
Pictures of me with Friends from "Student Life" in Aust
This is "si si", a good friend of mine from China [Hang Zhou]! She's my bible study mate, can say that she's my spiritual partner as well. And yeah, she's a girl with great testimony. She's the fourth generation in her family that is christian in CHINA! Told me a lot of stuff about christianity in China, will share with you guys when I get back.
Say hello to Shiho! A gir from Japan! She's a new christian. She can speak realy good english, because she spend half of a life in Japan and half of her life in Australia. Get to really know her when I joined the camp.
Jane from "Shang Hai" in china, accepted christ only a month ago! Currently going to the same church as me. ^_^ She's a MASTER student in accounting! She's really nice...
The youngest girl from the Singapore mission team. [Yeeng!! same age as you!!] She inspired me a lot. Being young, joining mission trip, can say that she's also the boldest in the team.
Monday, April 16, 2007
Not Holding Back
I don't know what happen, but my blog can't seem to post pictures. It's been like this since the last time I posted and I don't know how to fix it. It stated error on page, sigh.... was waiting for it to function properly but nah... it didn't happen. After chatting with Eden yesterday, realise that I really need to update. So, here goes...
p.s There are actually two posts in this one post, I thought I posted that post earlier but I don’t know I didn’t. So yeah… there are 2 dates.
8 April 2007
Hmm… I think a lot of you all have the thought that my life here is happy happy all the way right? Well, you are SO WRONG! So, I thought of writing some difficulties I faced here too. At this time, I’m really busy to cope with current life, friends, church, assignments & assessments. Have you ever try facing the computer for whole day? Yes! Whole day!!?? Searching info for your assignments, reading tons & tons & tons of journal articles. Maybe because of the busyness I’m facing, it sort of distracted me from thinking back too.
People in church are really nice and friendly, the senior Pastor (Pastor Ken) here even sounded like pastor Ho (but only much taller than pastor Ho & he’s white). Haha.. talk about last Sunday was quite embarrassing, can’t stop crying while pastor helped me pray, for I was SO super-de-duper home sick and pressured over studies. Church here… really really (can’t stress enough) reminds me a lot of home. People here are just as nice as people back there, it’s just because everyone know each other so well, it’s kind of hard to fit in. They know each other since they were young & they had their own group of friends, haha… you know what I’m going through. People here always get to give huggies to each other, makes me think of all the huggies back home… sob sob… [kk… I know I sound silly, but I really miss all your huggies!!] Sigh… But God had asked me to stay in FOCUS instead of the group of international students, so I’ll just follow, and see where He’ll lead. But I know it takes time to adapt to this, just need to be patient and be a friend to everyone, then everyone will be your friend.
17 April 2007
In case you all didn't know, besides joining Focus in church, I'm joining "Student Life" in school too. It's a Christian organisation and it’s really awesome!! They always held evangelistic activities and even held bible study for Christian students and really build up believers spiritually and taught us a lot on how to evangelise. For non-believers they will have a 6 class sessions called “Christianity Explain”, which is where they explain what Christ is all about. Last 2 weeks, we even 6 missionaries from Singapore that came here to evangelise, age range from about 17 to 21, accompanied by 2 leaders. It was really a blessing to be able to meet them and see how they work for God. They came here 3 weeks before Easter, and we had about SIXTEEN people accepted Christ from the past 3 weeks, which is TOTALLY awesome! Imagine that, 16 more people joining in the family of God! I even manage to reap a harvest! ^_^ It really was an impact to me, especially to see the one girl that was one year younger than me and able to speak boldly about God’s word to non-believers.
Just pass Easter holiday. It's been great! Didn't waste my time at all. ^_^
I went for "Student Life" camp on Monday till Wednesday, 3 days & 2 nights. There are about 175 people, from 6 universities & about 23 Nationalities.
I met James from Melbourne Uni!!
But.... he's a medicine student. hahaha....
Never been to a camp with "ang mo" culture. It's really very different from the camp we had back home. There are no group games at all, because thier culture is more like relax & easy camps, no crazy & wild games. We had bonfire!! Had marshmallow too. That night was really pretty too, with uncountable preeeeety stars shinning brightly all over the sky.
This camp was more like a camp for new believers, I've been helping around, and had my 1st experience assisting a new Christian girl with her quiet time. God had taught me new stuff through this camp too. ^_^
hmm... after the camp, the rest of the holiday I was working on my 2nd assignment on Sociology. [I got a credit+ for my 1st assignment, which is really near to D!!! sob… but still thank God for it.] Woa... stress like crazy. But but... Melissa was an encourager! Yes Melissa Liau. hehe... mel don't be shock. I read her blog and know that she’s working hard on her assignment too, and when I was doing my assignment, I’ll be thinking that about Mel doing the same thing too, then I’ll be fired up to stay up late to get it done. Hehe… It’s like we are working together. Anyway, pass it up yesterday and had a really bad sore throat after that. Thank god it was after the due date.
Brigette Learn….
Coming out to Australia really broaden up my mind a lot. God’s promises [Genesis 12:1-3] to me are like so real. I found out I have loads of stuff to learn and sometimes I even find myself acting like a baby-Christian, even with all the leading back home. If you all notice, when I speak with you guys, I never ever quoted any scriptures from the bible before. It is because I never bother to memorise any verses and I don’t see the point of doing it because we had the bible with us all the time. Then….. My bible study group leader suddenly shot me with a question. What if….What if? We don’t have the bible with us? Persecution might come one day, what if it’s tomorrow? And we don’t have the bible with us. How are we going to tell non-believers about God without the bible? We can’t just tell them John 3:16 only. We cannot quote any other scriptures because we don’t remember any verses at all. What if we are really really down and we don’t remember any word of God that can comfort us?? Do you know that every single word in the bible poses power? Because it’s from God. [Well, that’s basically what she told me, and I was super embarrassed after I heard what she said, really respect her!]
So…. Brigette Lim’s Purpose of the year had changed!! Firstly, spread the gospel to non-believers! That is still my number 1 priority if you all still remember. Secondly, memorise verses!! Hope that when I get back, I can quote scriptures from the bible into normal conversation already. *cheers*
Sorry about the length again and sorry for not being able to post pictures too. Like what James said before, we are serving the same god, the ONE god. What God did to me, He can do it to you too. Hope it is an encouragement to you guys and hope I didn’t bore you guys.
Additional Part…..
I realise that every time I write my blog, it’s like writing a letter to people back home. I really need to change my style of writing! It has to be like a diary instead of letter.
So here goes…
Today, Brigette Lim found a “good soil” and really hope to be able to plant a seed for god, and if God’s timing is right, maybe I’ll get to reap the harvest as well.
Not looking back, not holding back, because time is running out. Just holding on to God’s promises, believing that He had plant something better waiting in the future.. ^_^
JOY....
p.s There are actually two posts in this one post, I thought I posted that post earlier but I don’t know I didn’t. So yeah… there are 2 dates.
8 April 2007
Hmm… I think a lot of you all have the thought that my life here is happy happy all the way right? Well, you are SO WRONG! So, I thought of writing some difficulties I faced here too. At this time, I’m really busy to cope with current life, friends, church, assignments & assessments. Have you ever try facing the computer for whole day? Yes! Whole day!!?? Searching info for your assignments, reading tons & tons & tons of journal articles. Maybe because of the busyness I’m facing, it sort of distracted me from thinking back too.
People in church are really nice and friendly, the senior Pastor (Pastor Ken) here even sounded like pastor Ho (but only much taller than pastor Ho & he’s white). Haha.. talk about last Sunday was quite embarrassing, can’t stop crying while pastor helped me pray, for I was SO super-de-duper home sick and pressured over studies. Church here… really really (can’t stress enough) reminds me a lot of home. People here are just as nice as people back there, it’s just because everyone know each other so well, it’s kind of hard to fit in. They know each other since they were young & they had their own group of friends, haha… you know what I’m going through. People here always get to give huggies to each other, makes me think of all the huggies back home… sob sob… [kk… I know I sound silly, but I really miss all your huggies!!] Sigh… But God had asked me to stay in FOCUS instead of the group of international students, so I’ll just follow, and see where He’ll lead. But I know it takes time to adapt to this, just need to be patient and be a friend to everyone, then everyone will be your friend.
17 April 2007
In case you all didn't know, besides joining Focus in church, I'm joining "Student Life" in school too. It's a Christian organisation and it’s really awesome!! They always held evangelistic activities and even held bible study for Christian students and really build up believers spiritually and taught us a lot on how to evangelise. For non-believers they will have a 6 class sessions called “Christianity Explain”, which is where they explain what Christ is all about. Last 2 weeks, we even 6 missionaries from Singapore that came here to evangelise, age range from about 17 to 21, accompanied by 2 leaders. It was really a blessing to be able to meet them and see how they work for God. They came here 3 weeks before Easter, and we had about SIXTEEN people accepted Christ from the past 3 weeks, which is TOTALLY awesome! Imagine that, 16 more people joining in the family of God! I even manage to reap a harvest! ^_^ It really was an impact to me, especially to see the one girl that was one year younger than me and able to speak boldly about God’s word to non-believers.
Just pass Easter holiday. It's been great! Didn't waste my time at all. ^_^
I went for "Student Life" camp on Monday till Wednesday, 3 days & 2 nights. There are about 175 people, from 6 universities & about 23 Nationalities.
I met James from Melbourne Uni!!
But.... he's a medicine student. hahaha....
Never been to a camp with "ang mo" culture. It's really very different from the camp we had back home. There are no group games at all, because thier culture is more like relax & easy camps, no crazy & wild games. We had bonfire!! Had marshmallow too. That night was really pretty too, with uncountable preeeeety stars shinning brightly all over the sky.
This camp was more like a camp for new believers, I've been helping around, and had my 1st experience assisting a new Christian girl with her quiet time. God had taught me new stuff through this camp too. ^_^
hmm... after the camp, the rest of the holiday I was working on my 2nd assignment on Sociology. [I got a credit+ for my 1st assignment, which is really near to D!!! sob… but still thank God for it.] Woa... stress like crazy. But but... Melissa was an encourager! Yes Melissa Liau. hehe... mel don't be shock. I read her blog and know that she’s working hard on her assignment too, and when I was doing my assignment, I’ll be thinking that about Mel doing the same thing too, then I’ll be fired up to stay up late to get it done. Hehe… It’s like we are working together. Anyway, pass it up yesterday and had a really bad sore throat after that. Thank god it was after the due date.
Brigette Learn….
Coming out to Australia really broaden up my mind a lot. God’s promises [Genesis 12:1-3] to me are like so real. I found out I have loads of stuff to learn and sometimes I even find myself acting like a baby-Christian, even with all the leading back home. If you all notice, when I speak with you guys, I never ever quoted any scriptures from the bible before. It is because I never bother to memorise any verses and I don’t see the point of doing it because we had the bible with us all the time. Then….. My bible study group leader suddenly shot me with a question. What if….What if? We don’t have the bible with us? Persecution might come one day, what if it’s tomorrow? And we don’t have the bible with us. How are we going to tell non-believers about God without the bible? We can’t just tell them John 3:16 only. We cannot quote any other scriptures because we don’t remember any verses at all. What if we are really really down and we don’t remember any word of God that can comfort us?? Do you know that every single word in the bible poses power? Because it’s from God. [Well, that’s basically what she told me, and I was super embarrassed after I heard what she said, really respect her!]
So…. Brigette Lim’s Purpose of the year had changed!! Firstly, spread the gospel to non-believers! That is still my number 1 priority if you all still remember. Secondly, memorise verses!! Hope that when I get back, I can quote scriptures from the bible into normal conversation already. *cheers*
Sorry about the length again and sorry for not being able to post pictures too. Like what James said before, we are serving the same god, the ONE god. What God did to me, He can do it to you too. Hope it is an encouragement to you guys and hope I didn’t bore you guys.
Additional Part…..
I realise that every time I write my blog, it’s like writing a letter to people back home. I really need to change my style of writing! It has to be like a diary instead of letter.
So here goes…
Today, Brigette Lim found a “good soil” and really hope to be able to plant a seed for god, and if God’s timing is right, maybe I’ll get to reap the harvest as well.
Not looking back, not holding back, because time is running out. Just holding on to God’s promises, believing that He had plant something better waiting in the future.. ^_^
JOY....
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