today's my daddy's birthday. :) made him a card after he went to sleep last night.

tomorrow, we're gonna try to celebrate JX's bday. if it's just jieyi and tim and me then SO BE IT LAH, we will celebrate our hearts out in pathetic number. :D hope he enjoys it. haven't been talking to him much, so just want him to know that the abm people care TOO.

today, i feel worse than yesterday. got up with a swelling headache and a baaaaad mood. maybe it's a brain tumor or something scary like that. WHAT TO DO, it's so ridiculous to take another MC so i just carried on and tried to do schoolwork lor. SOSIANLAH. my face is in a mess too.

welcome to earth reuben goh...

i am still handphoneless and helplesssssss. ah, the agony!

been quite sick since monday, but today i'm much much bettah! (yay) totally conked out for almost the whole day yesterday and i couldn't even do schoolwork! imagine that, a homeschooler taking MC. anyway i was really sick and my throat was grosse looking and infected with PUS. but now i'm fine. just coughing and spitting alot. i still look horrid, but at least i feel better.




timmy sent me this spazzy stupid looking fotoooooooooh and it sums up pretty much what me and jieyi did during VBS. GAHAHA no lah, kidding. somebody took this pic while we were being targets for the kindies during waterbombs. NO, i wasn't trying to sit on jieyi while she was unaware, although that sounds fun too.. look at joy in the background, staring hopelessly on at the rice harvester and the idiot she has as teachers. :) I LOV VBS.

Psalms 117:1-2 O praise the LORD, all ye nations: praise him, all ye people. For his merciful kindness is great toward us: and the truth of the LORD endureth for ever. Praise ye the LORD.

thank God that He's merciful and doesn't just strike us dead when we sin.

click! ---> A WATERBOMB VID WITH MY SCREAMING AS THE SOUNDTRACK (sorry lah i tried to control.) scroll down and look for "teens playing waterbombs". it's just one of the many vids tim took.[yayyy.] bJ was the guy who won it for the other team LOR. and when it was time to just bomb anybody jake bombed me, daph helped me bomb him and scold him, and i got really mad with him and scolded him too, all in the good spirit of games. :) why he must go and trifle with us? we his own team one LEH.

some games pics i got from timmy. he didn't really take many and there are more with sYunli but anyways, enjoy the lame captions.


chilling

the breakfast table

timmy the games guy

our tired bJ

figuring out a bible verse even though we've already lost the game. -_-"

the weapons!

my games team of three.

trying to throw a ball. YL swimming. (HAHA!)

it looks like i'm poking bJ...

soothing my freshly hit head.

telling sth unbelievable to daph

jake advertising for creative sound blaster.

playing para para game. (sing it ppl! blue purple purple blue...) =D

jin zhua jin zhua...

you wan to fight issit? hah?

blaming me for losing?? no lah. dunno why he's pointing at me.

do i really look that spastic ? -_-'

blogged on the teens blog yesterday. so nervous lah, like what if i say something wrong or misspell stuff? go read the blog and those who are members, BLOG! click here---> :)

I WILL BLOG PICS when i get them from tim after he finishes doing something on his comp. pics of teeeeeeeeens camp ! :) the theme was dare to be different and it was a really nice camp, not in the way people may think nice camps should be, e.g. many people, fun games, lots of workers, but it was nice because everyone there was so nice, and eager, and wanted to learn something. during the peak there were 8 teens, and everytime else there were 4 to 5. not a big group at all huh? :) when jacob wasn't around, tim was the only guy. poor tim. go tim!
so, on the first day [friday] we met for lunch and went to telipok where we waited for everyone else to come. bJ was late [i think] so we started with icebreakers and songs first. played cherades, winloseordraw, and sound effects. we had the opening message [short short one] when bJ arrived, and then went for games. the games were funny LAH. weird paperplate handphone running memorizing squatting games. they made my thighs ache -- until now! our dear PE t'cher miss. tay lah, so genius. went back to church for dinner and SG with everyone else that usually comes. filmed our salvation testimonies [HAHAHAHA] and went for night games! before we left we freeeaked out over beetles and a huggge flying cockroach. night games were at bottle tree! WE WALKED IN LEH. played with lightsticks and acted spastic while walking. :Dwent back home, bathed, i ate cup noodles and slept at about 4. :(
next day we got up, had devotions, breakfast, and morning worship. for teens team time [bJ came up with that] we painted the teens room abit and washed two vans. [teen labour..] after lunch we had the FUNNY FUNNY QUIZ unofficially called WAN, OR DOWAN, by me. it's something like deal or no deal. heee. for games, we had capt's ball, blindfold game, and water bombbbbbs. i really felt like a kid and i screamed alot, too much. got really angry with jacob for making me so ruthlessly wet and there's a little video clip of me screaming at him which i just watched! funnyness. daphne told him he was cruel to me too. oh yes, my team [moses] consisted of jacob, daphne, me, and sometimes bJ. went back, had dinner, had night worship, and reflection and ice cream time :) slept really well after that but woke up tired and struggled to stay awake during the message. stayed for lunch and debrief, then came home. took a nap and am now having a headache. :(

I GO EAT PANADOL, BYE!

MY HANDPHONE'S S-P-O-I-L-E-D ! antenna spoiled, button spoiled, now charger thing spoiled. *weeps* if you gotta tell me something call my house or tim or something.

leaving for camp soon. heard there'll be night games till early in the morning. i'm very sleepy now leh, how how how. anyway, hope this'll be a good camp. bonding lah, bonding. *winks.*

ANYANG! che ga mon jo kah keh. X)

i had a weird dream last night. can't really remember the details but i was a fugitive again somehow, with belinda lee and my cousin. we were in some hotel in china and we knew some information that made people wanna hunt us down, and within the building we were being chased, so we kept running up and down stairs and squeezing into small attics and weird secret passages. super exciting lah, wish i could tape my dreams or something. also right, after my cousin and i got out of the hotel, we went to a place like little india, only thing everything was korean! so i shall call it little korea. we were looking at all the cool stuff there and we stopped at a stationary shop with all these unbelievably cute mousepads and stickers [my dream very detailed right??] and we were choosing them to buy as SOUVENIRS. on the run still can think of souvenirs.. haha. as we were choosing stuff these two korean guys came up beside us and called us china girls in korean, and i got mad so i started speaking in korean very loud! [no, only in the dream can i speak korean, not in real life, sadly.] from there i can't remember anything anymore. so, the end.

maybe can continue part 2 tonight! HEEHEE..

today someone came by to my HOUSE and gave me a huge flower! none other than dear sistah yunli. *big smile. :)* flowers are almost instant happiness to me. i cannot help smiling when i recieve flowers one. heeheee, THANKS MISS TAYYYY.

i love sunflowers ...

teens camp this friday to sunday! remember sleeping bags and toothbrushes ah! sounds kinda' exciting. maybe its because it's the first ABM teens camp i'm going to. :D

i don't really like the weather today. but in everything have to give thanks LEH! so, thank God that ........ there are no hailstones? i think that counts.

i'm happy i managed to pay good attention 90% of the time during the preachings yesterday. :) after church i went to meet RAYCHER!! wah, very happy we finally fixed a date. it's almost unbelievable. hahar, exaggerating lah. i wanted sushi and she wanted long johns, SO we ate some of both and talked and talked until it was like, 3+. so guess what we did after lunch? GO TO MAKE-UP SHOPS AND BROWSE BROWSE BROWSE. heehee.. i missed doing that with her. oh, we were looking at the shelves when i spotted this weird product labled: eye and lip remover. and i was like, woah, raye, look! we laughed like crazy for a while and the sales ladies just stared at us. LOL. also, i forbade her touch the perfume bottles due to past experiences. hazardous girl.. =D i had fun. came home and ZZZZZZZed.

i'm putting on weight every two weeks or so YOU KNOW! :) i just hope it all goes to the right areas and not just the face or something inproportionate like that!

wonder how's sher and geil. if you're reading, HULLO! *big smile* souvenirs! HAH, kidding luh.

AZAAAAA.

woke up at 5 today to send geil and family off at the airport. =) they'll be there for three weeks. didn't really know how to get to the pickup point so tim said, "just wake me up tomorrow i walk you there lah." and so he escorted me to shop and save and then to the pick up point. got BBQ chips and mentos from shop and save, essentials for a sleepy day. went into the budget terminal for the first time and had a great time of fellowship with everyone, eating lovely HANS chicken pie. i couldn't help it. chicken pie is ultimate tastebud-joy for me. keehee.. then i ate another sandwich nobody wanted to eat. sent them off, and w\headed to changi village to get some breakfast for those who hadn't eaten. came home and ZZZZZZZZed. :)

now my daddy's attending a wedding and tim's out practicing piano with b. Mike. that leaves my sleeping-beauty mommy, bran, and me at home. i hope my daddy's okay. he's not been feeling good lately.

i want the sms mens quartet and christy galkin CD ! :) hope our church will reach that level of choir standard one day. HEEE..

bJohnny has this great question sheet thing where you can write any (sincere) question on it anonymously and he'll answer it until we understand it. SO, any questions you're too paiseh to ask him yourself, email me and i'll write it down for you. :) guess he wants to make sure we all know why we're doing what we're doing, or for that matter, not doing what others are doing.

common questions teens ask:

what's wrong with anything else other than hymns and classics?
what's the diff between charasmatic churches and our church?
why shouldn't girls wear pants? (haha.)
what's wrong with BGR?
what's wrong with going to the movies?
blah blah the list is endless. ASK if you sincerely wanna know because there is an answer for every one of these questions. sometimes we avoid these questions or argue with carnal reasoning because we DON'T WANNA FOLLOW.

Luke 9:23 And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.

and sometimes we just follow what the pastor says for the sake of 'face' or not getting into trouble.

1 Thessalonians 5:21 Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
2 Timothy 3:14 But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them;

AZA~

today's a really hot day! i don like...

well anyway, happy anniversary to my parents ! =)

after SG yesterday some of us went for supper near my place. more bonding time. :) had a good time of praying with the girls during SG. each of us are facing different things daily, and it's great that we can come together, encourage, and be encouraged. the only time i don't really like sharing problems is when it becomes a oh-pity-poor-me session, so, must be careful too and check our motives! :) i shared some lame thing about my granny spilling oils on the floor and making my room really slippery. haha, it was the first thing that came to my mind.

anyways, today's children's outing was fun and fun-ny! timmy and my games were weird and the kids weren't that crazy about them. nevermind, just gaining experience. :| jieyi, jacob, YL, geil and roy were there too. once we reached there we went berserk with the waterbombs trying to fill all of them up in a frenzy. we did la, in the end. jacob led the songs! too bad we weren't there to 'support' him as we were berserk-ing away with the bombs. i got eaten up by mosquitoes. :( so we played the games and at the end of everything was the FREESTYLING TIME, when all the kids just went mad and bombed anybody. WHAT'S UP WITH THE BOYS?? they were charging at poor me and hurling many many bombs at me all at once LAH, PAIN LEH! i didn't know it, but i was screaming very very crazily saying weird chinese, malay, and english phrases unconsciously. very sad you know! i was aiming to go home dry as possible. somemore i was having a stomach ache while they were bombarding me LORRR. EEYER! then when we were all walking towards the toilet i could hear them boys whispering, "later she change finish oredy then we BOMB her again!"

and thanks, geil, for the towel. oh and sorry i gave it back to you all smelly and sweaty. heh.

had lunch with a few people and tadah, i'm home.

just got a card from joel wong. :)) so sweeeeet.

Ephesians 6:13-18 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness; And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace; Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God: Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;

listened to a sermon on this passage today and one thing that struck me was the helmet of salvation. helmets are to protect heads. and so our salvation protects our heads. most of the time when christians are attacked it's through the mind. we start questioning and doubting, and with no salvation there's nothing more to think about. but when we know there was a time when we chose God over sin and asked Him to cleanse us and be our King (a.k.a. we got saved), we just have to refocus and obey whatever He says. anyway, it was a great message in which I DIDN'T FALL ASLEEP! =D global phenomenon huh? really, you should hear it too, although the preacher's irish and his accent takes getting used to. ask timmy for the address. HEH.

my freakish headache is subsiding, but i really don't understand why it won't go away. panadol after panadol, i think i'm gonna be transformed into one giant walking panadol LOR. trying not to make a big fuss out of it but it feels like there's a BIG ball barring rolling around in my head, bouncing off my small brain, and hitting my skull. but no worries, it's subsiding so i expect it to vanish soon. =) and hor, pimples are sprouting out all over my collarbones! disaster right? must be the weather.

helped peel and chop veggies just now so my hands reek or garlic and it's spreading to my keyboard. hats off to chefs.

the choice is really simple, GOD or SIN. it's the decision that's difficult, and so we complicate things with rationales and excuses and blameshift here and there. in the end, there's no running away from God. if you're saved, you go to heaven. if you're not, you go to hell. if you're saved and lived on your toes loving God and obeying Him, you get rewards. if you're saved but lived in sin, every word and deed will be under the microscope and questioned. there are no excuses or blameshifting there, and every secret thing will be brought out.

God promised christians strength and power. it's all about whether we're willing to accept it and reject sin or not. daily struggle, but overcomable.

i'm realllly tired over some issue. but hey, everything happens for a reason and God is in control. :) no self-victimizing and wallowing ! AZA!

STILL having the killer headache! IT'S BEEN CHREE DAYS. aaaaaaaaaah pain. :(

the faithful wounds of a friend will never be well taken or readily received, but a friend is born for adversity, and we are to bear each others' burdens. i guess being a christian really isn't all about yourself. there're so many other burdens we help carry for each other. when victories are won, it's a joy. when struggles seem endless, we weep and pray for each other. the christian life's really ironic. we're happy in sadness, we work when we're tired, we can smile as we cry, and we turn the other cheek when someone slaps us. totally not what an abundant life seems like, but it is.

anyway, i'm eating dinner now. it's 11! late dinner. =) i realize how little i've been praying lately. maybe that's why so many things are falling apart! i'll pick it up again! i'm making it sound like a hobby. rephrase, i will pray more!

thank God for all the bros and sis's in church who are so KAYPO and caring. :) my church family.

get well soon raye! eat more sher! [you're not fat lah.]

OH oh, i put on weight again! YIPEEE~