We want to spend our life together…..we need a house…..but we want a nice house…..how do we balance that? Between a house that is functional and a house that is desirable

Anyways, if we buy a house in singapore, it will cost at least 200k SGD and that is a maximum of 700 square feet built up area. In comparrison, here is what I get if I stay in Johor for less.

View of the outside in the evening

It is 2340 square feet of built up area. Double Storey terrace house with clubhouse facilities. It is all fully furnished and air-conditioned and fully ready to move in condition.

No initital payment needed and no fees involved.

Living room with different furnishings

This is a picture of the living room not taken by a professional photographer

Dining Area

Master Bedroom

Look at the toilet....bathtub.....ooooooo...

Singapore the Cash above valuation is frightening now at 30k++SGD and that doesn’t include renovation and furnishing costs!!

So the Johor place is everything I want and need. The Singapore place is everything I need but don’t want. How do you decide?

These are not the only options we’ve been looking into and here I am LOST! How to decide? I can’t believe I have to make decisions such as these. It is time to grow up I guess. I have done all the maths. Done all the comparisons but how to decide?

Any advice?

My personal preference for bikes are those Super Sport racing types. I personally never fancied any other class of bikes.

Recently my mom came over to stay here for a break and I asked her if I could get this.

This is my dream bike! The Yamaha R6

She said…..but how am I going to sit on this? So uncomfortable…..sighsssss so considering I’m wanting to find a wife so much and how she must feel comfortable sitting behind me; I decided yeah…..I should get my other dream bike….this:

Harley Davidson VROD! Hot Hot

Recently, I fell in love with something more beautiful. It really just makes me want to scream. Perhaps in three years time…this will be mine perhaps both,¬† perhaps all of them!!! hahahaha too greedy.

Honda Fury 2010! I’m melting….

Limited edition Honda Fury 2010! Gosh!

At the moment, I’m very satisfied with what God has provided. Dear baby Cagiva, I miss you. Violet you mean a lot to me.

My Cagiva Mito 125

Violet oh Violet, I can’t live without you now

Haha I just recently read this. I find it super amusing. In a funny way it is quite real. So here are the reasons and answers to that question. What do you think? Where do I fit? Hahaha

1. The nice men are ugly.
2. The handsome men are not nice.
3. The handsome and nice men are gay.
4. The handsome, nice and heterosexual men are married.
5. The men who are not so handsome, but are nice men, have No money.
6. The men who are not so handsome, but are nice men with money think we are only after their money.
7. The handsome men without money are after our money.
8. The handsome men, who are not so nice and somewhat heterosexual, don’t think we are beautiful enough.
9. The men who think we are beautiful, that are heterosexual, somewhat nice and have money, are cowards.
10.The men who are somewhat handsome, somewhat nice and have some money and thank God are heterosexual, are shy and NEVER MAKE THE FIRST MOVE!!!!
11.The men, who never make the first move, automatically lose interest in us when we take the initiative.

Hi Everyone,

I know that I had disappeared for quite a while from the blogosphere because I have been really caught up with too much. Even now I blog because I have to for my assignment, how terrible……

But I guarantee you that things will resume to normal after Easter. It has been a mad house here in my life too much happening and all.

Here is an article I am to review‚Ķ.but I do find that my thoughts have been rather provoked by it. I will attempt to summarize it fairly then give my thoughts on the issue he brought up in Christian Worship. But even more, I hope to really get your thoughts about this issue as much as possible. You see, I really like discussions. I like my thoughts to be challenged. I must say I don’t have all the answers but certainly I do hope I can find out the answers together as well. So kindly pen your comments down and let us really see where this lead‚Ķ..oooooo so exciting

This article is written by J. Frederick Holper who is currently a professor of preaching and worship at McCormick Theological Seminary in Chicago, Illinois. Before coming to McCormick in 1998, Holper taught for six years as professor of liturgics and homiletics at Union Seminary in Virginia where he wrote this article. Before Union Seminary, he served on the faculty of Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary as assistant and associate professor of homiletics and liturgics. While completing his doctoral graduate work at the University of Notre Dame he served two interim pastorates in South Bend, Indiana, and for three years as pastor at The Presbyterian Church in Orland Park, Illinois. Early in his career, he held positions as a newspaper reporter for The Milwaukee Journal and the Chicago Tribune.

In addition to his professional positions, Fred has done extensive work with the Presbyterian Church (USA) in the areas of liturgy, ministry, and ordination

Holper has produced numerous published articles, lecture series and workshops in such subjects as ministry and ordination, the sacraments, worship and Christian education, new directions in Presbyterian worship, and daily prayer.

Holper’s continuous effort in the area of education of church worship is the driving point for this article. In this article, he attempts to deal with the issue of the Eucharist (Communion) in the churches today. Holper believes that in our recovery of worship and the importance of the place of Communion together with the preaching of the Word within worship itself, we have yet to come to a point where what we understand in theory has come to practice in a fashion that is right.

Holper’s view is that the current focus on preaching and other areas that actually deter the possibility of a more frequent celebration of the Communion in churches. He suggests that in fact a weekly celebration of Communion would be good.

He suggests that the problem lies within the congregation’s resistance to change from the way things are. Therefore there needs to be a systems approach in resolving this issue. To summarize it, we often focus on a specific problem but we do not realize that the issue is part of a larger system of which this problem is part of. Therefore to make a change in this area for example, the church needs to see the larger congregational system which includes education, evangelism and etc. He clearly identifies these subsystems and reveals the issues involved and how these have an effect on worship as a whole.

After the diagnosis of the problem, he then offers how we can intervene in solving these resistances. He gives fives interventions which he believes will enhance the possibility for a change like the frequent celebration on the Communion.

He believes that this issue is one that may not even change in his lifetime because the changes to implement this within the churches systems will not come by easy. Holper believes that for many centuries now either the Word or Communion has been neglected.

Reading this article I must say, he did not make it easy for people to understand. Firstly I would agree that in terms of communion, over the years I have heard less preaching and teaching on it compared to other areas of worship such as singing, offering, the preaching of the Word and prayer. Now given that thought I believe his assumption that people would believe that the practice of Communion should be done frequently is something noble. I agree also to make such changes within the worship system is tough.

My issue would be this. Is the practice of the symbolic action of communion necessary to be that frequent? Does the breaking of bread in the early church symbolize a formal Communion ceremony every time they met? Was the purpose of the Communion to be something we do or to focus on a deeper meaning like the end of the title which is missing suggest; Remember Me?

As much as he suggest that frequent celebrations of the Communion will revive church health. I believe in the essence of it all is not the frequent celebration that is necessary but better teaching, understanding, and meaningful practice of the communion is however more important. His systems approach will also help us achieve a change in this area.

On the other hand Holper does not seem to give reason enough on why a weekly celebration is needed or why it has to go hand in hand with the Word. It would seem to me that he would suggest that it is vital for the church to celebrate it frequently but does not help us understand why. From what I see, Communion was purposeful and to have it frequently has to be purposeful. Therefore I do not see the symbol of Communion being frequent being something needed for the church rather the act of worship through our lives that lives out the Communion frequently that is vital.

So in your opinion, should it be a weekly celebration in church? What do you think is the benefit of having is more often than not? Do you agree with him? How do you suggest we solve this? Or just share any thoughts at all

This is a picture of our beautiful studio in church

I have been given responsibility of a huge project and I’m really really nervous. It is the church’s CD project. This year we will be coming up with a live worship album! I’m so excited at the same time very nervous and worried. The timeline seems to past too fast.

There will be a Live Worship at my church at the end of the year and it will be recorded into an album of all entirely Grace written songs. If I am fortunate enough and if the songs are good enough, you will hear some of them in the album. The recording process and song writing process that we’ve been doing so far is pretty exciting. I can’t wait.

Closer look at the board!

The pressure to perform and to make it nice is also killing me. I don’t know if I can do it! For any Grace member who reads this blog. Join me in the excitement. You’ll be hearing these songs introduced to you in the worship services very soon. We want to hear your feedback on which song really blesses you and we’ll choose the best to be placed in the album.

Also if you have written songs. Submit them! Quickly. We covet your songs! Spread the word around. Just send me the song with a vocal and an instrument playing and we’ll do the rest. If your song has the potential to make it, it will sound great, trust me

For the rest, I will work on streaming the song demos for you all to hear. Give us your feedback ok? Tell us if you love it or loathe it. We want honest feedbacks. Thank you.

Another angle of our studio workspace

In the beginning there was nothing. Yet one day something very amazing happened. Step by Step, day by day, something was forming……..within the deepest recesses of my belly, I felt is bursting forth. Slowly, w….w……w…..leon….lim…..kok…..weng……com….through all the birth pain was born! I knew nothing about having a blog. Yet that moment was special…..

Can you believe it! Today is my blog’s birthday! All together now. A….one…..a….two….a….one…two….three…four….Happy Birthhhhday to youuuuuu, happy birthday to you……Happy birthday to blog—-gieeeee, Happy BIRTHDAY to YOU!

So how many of you are glad bloggie was born on this special day one year ago? Or how many of you wish bloggie was never born? Hahahaha

Reflecting back….I really don’t know what got into me to start this blog. Somehow I hope that you all really enjoy reading this blog.

To the people back home, I miss you so much. To my new friends, thanks for bringing me into your lives!

Lastly I would like to make a shout out to Nancy Toh! Happy Birthday!! Your priceless posts left here will always be a part of this blog. And then there is a shout out to Timmy. Happy Birthday, I miss your hugs so much. Another is to Jojo…Happy Birthday! Take care of your wonderful owner ok? Stephen, I dunno if you read this blog but this is a little Happy Birthday wish to you too! Love you all with all my heart!

This is a video that was submitted in a contest by a 20 year old. The contest was
Titled “u @ 50″.This video won second place. When they showed it, everyone
in the room was awe-struck and broke into spontaneous applause. So simple
and yet so brilliant. Take a minute and watch it.

My Family : My Dad, My Mom, Letitia (God – Sis), Charity, Lionel

Sorry everyone but there has been a crazy lack of posts because I’ve been holidaying like mad. Hahaha. Yes I have since taken a break back home in Malaysia twice. So much has been happening and I guess I just want to really say sorry for not posting up much.

During this holidays, most of the time I had, I spent with my family. I miss them so much so those times were necessary. I also caught up with some friends whose schedule didn’t clash with mine. Sadly, I really missed so many of you back home too and didn’t get to see you all.

Me and My family : Dad is taking the pic . Don’t we all look cool with our shades?

Still I realise, I haven’t really had a holiday where I really recuperate from the stress and lack of sleep. Hmmm….. often times it feels more tiring to go on a holiday. So what does a holiday really mean to you?

1. Time off, away from everything familiar?

2. Visiting a different place/country?

3. A break from work?

or what? Please share?

For me, I think a holiday is never nice without my loved ones. Just being with them makes me happy. I’m going to be welcoming a new member to the family soon. I’m actually liking her a lot. I hope to spend more time with her in time to come. As a family…..what are you all thinking….? No it is not my girlfriend, it is my brother’s fiance.

Oh well congrats bro! Happy for you! Charity, welcome to the weirdest family on earth hahaahahah!

Sorry I’m just really curious to know

Would you be kind enough to do it? Please do not take this as a friend test like it is saying….I just want to see how much people know about me. It is easier than you think. Please just try, pretty please

Prose: is writing that resembles everyday speech.

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I think I’m in love,

I really really think I’m in love,

I thought I could love,

But history says otherwise,

So I think I’m in love,

But I will never be able to love or be loved.

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It feels like life is worth living when I see your face,

My heart beats a different tune, a sound that is just so unfazed,

You represent all the beauty of life and brought meaning to a world that is messed up

Yet I feel so happy, yet I feel so sad.

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I wish you all the happiness that life could offer

I wish you all the the joy

I can offer no such moments

I can only offer you my heart

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I think I’m in love

Oh I think I’m in love

With You

Then I sent it to someone just to find out an opinion and it became a song….should I attempt to put a melody to this?? :

V1
I think I’m in love,
I really really think I’m in love,
I thought that I could love…
Though history say otherwise

* Chorus
So I think I’m in love,
Never been able to love or be loved.
Yet it feels like life
Is worth living when I see… Your Face

V2:
I feel so happy
I feel so sad
(All) the moments of joy
(All) the happiness that life could bring

V3
I offer no such moments
Only offer You my heart
It beats to a different tune …
You’re the beauty of my life
You’re the meaning to my world
A sound that is so unchanging…

(Back to Chorus)

Bridge 2:
I cannot offer such moments
I can only offer my heart…
In a world that is messed up

Oh I feel so happy
I feel so sad

* Chorus 2
So I know I’m in love,
Never been able to love or be loved.
Yet it feels like life
Is worth living when I see… Your Face

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So I know I’m in love
Oh I know I’m in love ..with You