The Geographers of 08S51!
aka, the 10 other people who take the same weird combination as me!
Hmm, I wonder if we're the only ones (with the exception of senior class) taking PGME in VJ.
Btw, the card was painted by Ceri. Coolness bananas right?

Girl power in Geog! Unglam unglam!
I don't know why, but for some strange reason, my class ended up becoming divided according to gender. There'll be one row of girls, one row of guys and one mixed row when we have tutorials. Or PE. Or when we line up in the hall. Or sometimes in the canteen. o.o

There was a period of time at the beginning of the year when I kind of regretted taking geography. I think the most common subject science students take would be chemistry. I was quite surprised to find out I was the only science student in band who doesn't take chem.

If you ask me now whether I regret it? Nah, No way man! The geog department really rocks :) They really take pride in being called geographers and sometimes it feels like we are in a world of our own. Geog is to me what lit is to some others. It's pretty much a "carefree" subject. Until you start mugging and realize you have tons of readings to clear and a thousand things to write in your paper :/

And and and! Officially or not officially, we won the interclass geography quiz this time round! Yes! Bragging rights! Whooooo!

See, this is why i say i have a love-hate relationship with geography :)

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Sometimes it feels like everyone wants a piece of you (that sounds funny), yet somtimes it feels like nobody bothers about you. How extreme and how ironic.

I am quite bad at multi-tasking. Wait, the word should be very bad.
Life would be much easier if people were more decisive and less selfish. Funny i should say that when I'm an indecisive person who is quite selfish. Hypocrite alert!

Bleah. After hearing the phrase "you are so mean!" for more than 3 times this week, i'm starting to wonder if I had crossed the line somewhere while joking. Prehaps, I've been going to all the wrong places. Sometimes it feels like where I am wanted, I do not want to be. Yet where I want to be, I am not wanted. The things I put effort into go unappreciated, and yet there are other things crying 'hello put some effort into me!'

Okay, i need to get a hold of myself and not go down the emo lane. It's been more than 4 years now but sometimes I think the very first word I got from God still applies to me.

So I look to you, so I look to you, no one else will do, no one else will do!

Elizabeth chirped at 11:19 PM | No comments

I've been seeing things popping up in my life recently like some random peek-a-boo.
Different people, different reasons, different needs. Flames dying out and flames reignited.
I can't help but to recall a word given last year.

"Others will curse the darkness, but you, you be a candle. Pass it on, one candle at a time."
I don't know the end result, but I choose to take the first step. A little faith goes a long way. Aha! I can't believe I just said that. That's from my PW! @.@

Well, Life's quite exciting living under the will of God!
Random calls, random people; all when you least expect it :)
Wheee~

Elizabeth chirped at 6:15 PM | No comments

So who looks like who now?

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PW is such a thorn in the flesh.

After being shot down for the upteenth time, the general mood of the class is a demoralized one. Looking at the sign of defeat on some of their faces, I am a fraction of a millimeter close to throwing in the towel as well. Close enough that I left the band room in a huff. Which I later realized wasn't a very good example.

It's really irritating when you don't see effort equating to results and all you get is brick wall after brick wall. But at the end of the day, even though we should work at this with all our heart, there's no need to get all worked up and stressed about it. PW it itself has no eternal value. It is the lessons that you take away from it that matter. Since I can't get out of it, God you might as well refine me in the process.

I will be an overcomer. "To him who overcomes, I will give the right to sit with me on my throne, just as I overcame and sat down with my Father on his throne."

The same power that conquered the grave lives in me, lives in me. Your love that rescued the earth lives in me, lives in me.

Elizabeth chirped at 6:15 PM | No comments

PW, oh PW, wouldn't you just be nice to me for once?

Hurting people hurt people. Somtimes, despite all the company you've surrounded yourself with, you find yourself feeling all alone. People come people go. Nothing is ever the same. After meeting a thousand people, you'll find that as much as we hate to admit it, Man is essentially selfish at heart. That's why people quarrel and fight and nations rise against nations. A thousand washes by the blood of Jesus doesn't change that, prehaps that's why we need a thousand washes, although i must admit there's improvements after each wash. And I think this is why we need a saviour. We need someone not trapped by his own selfishness to save us from our own self-destruction. Yes, our selfishness will lead to our own deaths.

To this current pessimistic point of view, I prescribe time spent with God.
When you see just how dark and plain ugly the world is, you need to run and cling on to the one source of light and hope you have. For if there was no saviour to hope in, then really there is not point in living only to watch yourself and the world decline in moral decay.

In case anyone is wondering, I am alright. Just sick of wasting life away and watching a large majority of the population doing the same and worse still not realizing it. Can't you see the glaring truth of our hearts that no amount of makeup can attempt to hide? And I'm not going to pretend that I am any better. How dark my heart is I know only too well. So don't expect to see a saint coz I'm not one. I try, but I often miss the mark.

Sigh. Time to follow my own prescription.
At least it's sunday tomorrow. I love sundays. Sundays are spent in the house of God where even though it is still not perfect, it offers a glimpse of prehaps what heaven would be like.

Till I see you face to face and grace amazing takes me home

Elizabeth chirped at 11:50 PM | No comments

There was something different about last night.
For one, the sky was exceptionally clear so it was a starry starry night :)
I like clear starry nights because it equals to 'sit in His presence' nights. Even though my body was exhausted and my mind drained, there by the window I sat with my soul at peace.

"How long would this last?" I wondered.
Everything changes. Nothing stays the same. Nothing that is, except the one who brings change.
People come, people go. Our lives woven, coming together going apart, forming a complex breathtaking tapestry.

2 years later like 1 year ago, would I still be talking to the people I'm talking to now?
All I can do is to live in the present and hope for the future. To be grateful for each moment in time when someone comes in, takes and leaves something behind. For those spaces when lives intersect/converge before they diverge again.

Living in the present, this is my hope. That in that space when a life intersects with mine, it would be touched and changed by the beauty and love of the saviour in me.
:)

Elizabeth chirped at 9:52 PM | No comments

Late lunch at Cartel yesterday to celebrate the end of CCAs. For now.
Where's Julynn!?

One out of a hundred retarded shots.

In exactly 4 weeks, we'll be having our GP paper.
Time to start mugging soon.

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'Why am I in NTU?'
That's the badge joy has.
Why am I in VJC?
That's the question I've been thinking about.

From the start I knew that there was some higher purpose for me here other than to get an education. The way events happened leading to this year disallows me to deny it otherwise. As to what that higher purpose is? I didn't really know at the start. But prehaps I'm starting to get a glimpse of what it is.
Prehaps. A glimpse.

My theological knowledge is not all that good. In fact, I think there's huge gaps in it. When posed questions about the christian faith, I answer what I can. But after all the chit and the chat, I realize that in the end what made me follow Christ and why I am still following Him is not because of all those knowledge/information. I mean, as a teenager, how many of us really care about exactly how the christian faith came about and what not? We should, and prehaps we do to a certain extent, but really, Teens live in the present. What we want to know is how God is relevant to us NOW.

And relevant He is :)
In fact, He's more than relevant. We NEED Him. In this crazy world that's just spiralling downwards, where people are in bondage, trapped and blinded by their own sin, we need a saviour. Someone who would take it all on His back and restore order once again. Now, doesn't that sound like something out of dark knight?

Good is beautiful. Evil is ugly. That's a fact.
Good is really beautiful. Evil is downright ugly. That's a fact.
But the world has made good boring and celebrated evil. Think, joker.
The fact that we need police to enforce law and order, to protect us from our own kind, goes to show that man is not as superior as he thinks he is. In fact, there's many things we think we know but really, we know nothing at all.
We need a saviour.

Yes, I just heard Ravi Zacharias' message on the Lostness of Man.
Somehow I think I went a bit off topic :/
But the fact remains that as much as we hate to admit it, as much as we like to think we're self-sufficient, the world needs a hero much more than Gotham needs one.

A friend asked what happens if I die only to find out that God isn't real?
I don't think I stand to lose either way. Coz God is so OH-MY-GOSH freaking awesome and makes my life Oh-So-MUCH more colourful, it wouldn't have been in vain. How bimbotic, but i duno how else to emphasise my point.

I'm feeling happy, and feeling a little silly.
Sometimes you wonder what people would think of you after you blog. But if opening up and exposing my world like this gives people a glimpse of God, I'll gladly do it =]

And so the conclusion of the post which somhow ended up different from the intent is:
We.
Need.
A.
Hero.
:)

And today's 20082008. Cool.

Elizabeth chirped at 9:29 PM | No comments

My time in school today was spent in quiet anxiousness.
Why? My phone wasn't in my bag during my break when i clearly remember putting it in this morning. I even called Tim to check if it was at home but it wasn't. So I proceeded to eat my food as if nothing had happened and through sheer will power kept my emotions and thoughts barely under control. I firmly believe that there's no point in crying over split milk and panicking only makes things worse so i just ate.

As I ate, I was thinking about how Cyrus reacted last week when he realized he lost his wallet.
I asked, "Did you pray and ask God to help you find it?"
He replied with a sheepish smile, "Well, I did say a prayer, but it was a different one. I said God it's yours, take it."
And that reminded me of the old lady who converted her robber.

I was more worried about the act of losing the phone then losing the phone itself. It meant poor stewardship and I was answerable to my dad. Especially since I already lost my phone once and the current one is its replacement. Imagine losing 2 phones within a single contract period. Tsk.

Well, the first thing I did when I reached home was to check the car.
And there sitting snugly at the side of the car door was my golden phone with 13 missed calls.
-.-" Seems like I've been quite absent minded recently. But really, it's comforting to know that everything you have is under God's control :) He gives and takes away, and I'm just grateful that this time it is a "give". That's a relief, phew.

August is a busy month. I lost my phone on the 5th of August last year too. lalala~
But well, I find that it is when the going gets tough that I draw closer to God.

It didn't occur to me what a physically and mentally demanding week I just had until I woke up with my brain all fogged yesterday despite having slept for 8 hours. I was chionging 3 projects and sleeping for only 3, 5 & 4hours, and it was only by the strength and grace of God that I was quite awake and productive until sunday.

And so it was, that I found myself crying in His presence the moment P&W started. It felt good to be free and able to focus on nothing else but God. It felt wonderful to hear Him say "I am here, I am here, I. Am. Here. and it's gonna be alright, 'cos I am here." It's liberating, it's refreshing! Whoot. I miss singing 'salvation is here'. Lalala~

So on His strength I run my race =]

God above all the world in motion
God above all my hopes and fears
I don't care what the world throws at me now
It's gonna be alright!

Hear the sound of the generations
Making loud our freedom song
All in all that the world would know Your name
It's gonna be alright!

'Cause I know my God saved the day
And I know His word never fails
And I know my God made a way for me
Salvation is here

Salvation is here
Salvation is here and He lives in me
Salvation is here
Salvation that died just to set me free
Salvation is here
Salvation is here and He lives in me
Cause You are alive and You live in me

Elizabeth chirped at 5:41 PM | No comments

Happy Birthday Rachel!
Unglam unglam!

Elizabeth chirped at 1:00 AM | No comments

I miss Joey!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"God is a humourous God."
How can He make 2 people who are soooo different, wait, not just different but opposites actually, from each other to be yoke buddies?!
But that's precisely what I love about Him. He takes the weak and make them strong. He takes the insignificant and make them BIG. He takes the impossible and make them possible. His ways are unpredictable yet they are perfect.

Now isn't He cool?

Elizabeth chirped at 6:52 PM | No comments

I hate projects. Hate them hate them hate them.
Sigh.

Okay, here's a question I was asked in school today.
If you could eat only 1 type of food for the rest of your life, what would it be?
- Bread
- Rice
- Instant Noodles
- Cake
- Biscuit
- Seafood

It's suppose to be some psychology test.
I don't even know why I'm typing it here. Oh my gosh. I hate projects. It's driving me nuts. Well, nudge if you want to know what your choice means.

I want to watch money no enough 2!

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I can't believe I was rotting at home yesterday, yet tomorrow i have 2 or possibly 3 project meetings. Stress level is threatening to shoot up now and is barely under control. Okay, breathe girl, BREATHE!

Right. Even though the past few days at home almost drove me mad with boredom, I'm thankful for the few beautiful moments I had with God. It's only when you get cut off from the world that you really take a good look at the saviour standing in front of you. And boy is he beautiful.

I had this thought during worship today.
You know how our body is the temple of the Holy Spirit? So yea, He's already in us. And I think, sometimes we feel so ineffective because we let the spirit lie dormant within us. We shut Him in when we shut out his voice. But if we open up the gates, if we let Him come alive within us, He'll consume us and transform us until the 'I' in us dies off. Kinda like in Spiderman 3, there was the small black thingy which transformed and took over the host. But this time in a good way. And when we are transformed, His presence will just radiate from us. Since we house the Holy Spirit, wherever we go, we are bringing His presence into that place. And this is when people will see Jesus in us :]

Okay, it wasn't really a thought. More like an impression. And that's my best attempt at describing it in words.

How I wish I could drop everything and just hide under His wings. But well, it's back to the world tmr. :(

Elizabeth chirped at 11:03 PM | No comments

To all who have forgotten what Christ meant when he said I Love You,

Elizabeth chirped at 10:16 PM | No comments

It's National Day!
It doesn't seem that long ago when we were watching fireworks at the rooftop and I was running around cake-hunting with Karen and everyone was emo-ing after that.

GAHHH!
If I am still stuck in front of this computer tonight, I'm going to go ballistic!I am so freaking bored out of my mind now. Restless restless! Why is Joey not in singapore nowwwww!? Oh will I please shut up.

You see. This is what happens when you skip school for 2 days and you have a really long weekend.

Sigh. I'm missing the days of last year again. Not that I want to turn back time. I'm just looking around me and wondering.. wondering..

Elizabeth chirped at 1:58 PM | No comments

Yes! I made it on time to blog on 08/08/08!
Ok, that sounds like a silly thing to do. But tonight was quite a silly night anyway. One more wouldn't kill =]

SO.
Connect Singapore was .. not so successful. On our part, things were gelling despite how last minute everything was, but well, we missed the defining moment due to some screw ups somewhere. Yea that's sad. It would have been kinda cool if all 30,000 participants actually recited the pledge at the same time.

Well, it was quite an experience interacting with the sec 1s even though some were extremely rowdy. They called me 'cher even though i was only 4 years older than them -.-" Yea. And seeing how whiney some of them were reminded me of the girls and myself when we were their age. I didn't realize how much we've changed until today. For myself, I'm surprised that I've become more mellow. Gone are the days of going super duper ultra high with Shalom and doing the craziest thing. I wonder 4 years down the road when we're 21 what will we be like? hmmm.... But for now, I have learnt or rather am still learning to be content with each stage of my life because everyday's a gift from God. Don't wish to go back, and don't pine too much for the future.

And then, there was DARK KNIGHT!
I finally understand why people were raving about it. It's such a fantastic show!
But at some point in the show I felt a little creeped out by the joker and I wasn't sure why. Now that I think of it, it's probably because his face was painted like a clown's, and when I was young I was really scared of clowns after watching an episode about them on 'Are you afraid of the Dark?' For a moment that old fear just came back. Eck! I still hate clowns but at least I don't get spooked by them anymore. Or so I thought.

Alright. Tmr's National Day but it doesn't feel like it. I just hope that I won't be stuck at home at night sitting infront of the TV. Anybody free to go out?

Elizabeth chirped at 11:47 PM | No comments

After spending half a year working on it, after trying means and ways, after squeezing our brains dry for ideas, I finally realize and admit with a very loud sigh, that there's no way we can separate God's hand from His work. It's just not possible to take God out of the equation.

What am I talking about? PW. On who? The Harris twin brothers. The brothers of Joshua Harris. The ones who coined the word "rebelution". The ones who want us to rebel against the rebellion of the world. God's hand was so evident in the whole process, I couldn't cut Him out of it. I'm sorry I even tried.
*waves white flag

And so we're back to square one.
Dang, I feel so demoralized.

God? Help please??????

Elizabeth chirped at 10:54 PM | No comments

I got my wish and fell sick enough to miss school for a day.
Too many late nights and early mornings have left me wishing for just one day to sleep in. Not that i managed to get proper sleep in the end when your body jerks you awake ever so often to prevent you from suffocating because you're airway is blocked. Right. Details details.

When you know you're made for so much more, you can't wait for the moment when you become "so much more" to come. But well, for every moment in time God has his reasons.

I miss walking in His presence.
I miss opening and sharing my heart with Him.
When you choose your things to do list over seeking Him, this is what you get.

Elizabeth chirped at 8:18 PM | No comments