no more blogging... ?

now with facebook, friendsters..
even yahoo has those features of updating ur info, thoughts, etc...
blogging seems over... no?

i suppose blog is just not fast enough...
u post a new post up..
no one knows unless u have the feature of 'notification' on others' blogs...
for facebook, whether u like it or not, all the news of those in ur friends list will be 'fed' into ur 'home' automatically.. (of course can hide it if u want)
that only tells me one thing..
people like to be heard...
young or old, everyone wants to be heard...
even a very quiet person, actually want to be heard...
probably the degree is different but fundamental is - "I wanna be heard"

second thing is - a response... not an answer, but a response...
so facebook is up to it, u write something and most likely someone out there will response..
it makes people feel good abt it..
they are not looking for an answer..
they just wanna know that someone care...

to me, this is an insight to my ministry...
people wanna be heard, not juz because they wanna voice out...
they wanna know someone cares for them..

last thursday went and talk to a young man...
doesn't talk much but basically struggling with issues in life...
by me simply sit there listen to him...
then show him that i care but praying for him and assure him that he's ok...
that helped him much..
thank God! a day later he accepted Christ!!

"I wanna care for others, like Jesus care for me..."
how to blog in a way that others felt encouraged?
that...
need lots of wisdom

Two meaningful videos

came across this two videos..
very meaningful...

i believe if our hearts always filled with love...
then we'll be able to embrace more people in our lives...

God always shows up...

The following takes place between 4.30pm and 6.30pm

Came out from bath room as I prepared myself to go town
by the time i left house was already 4.40pm
appointment is 5pm so drove rather fast so that I won't be late

4.55pm reached Plaza Pelangi so I text the person that I'll be late for 5mins
he told me to take my time coz he's meeting his customer at that moment
5.04 parked the car at B2 car park and took a lift up to the office
Since the person not around so I just linger around the common area
well, nothing to do so I started to write my journal

5.30pm, almost everyone in the office has left and I felt so awkward
wanted to just text him and say that maybe we can meet up again in the future
but I held my sms and waited...

after 15mins I received call from him and finally we met up
the reason why I go to that person's office was to pray together
as he wasn't well spiritually
but finally as we met, he wanted to pull out
i persuaded so we prayed (actually in my mind I also didn't feeling praying)...

the moment we started praying, the atmosphere just changed
i felt that God was in the room and His presence was so tangible
HE SHOWED UP!!!
a few minutes after we started to pray, I felt that I should pray for him by using the metaphor of Moses and the Red Sea.
but before I open my mouth, he prayed exactly how I wanted to pray!!
then I sang a song "Still" which later I found that it was his favourite!!
we both were so encouraged even though the prayer was just 10mins...
the important thing is, God showed up!!

6.30 we were having coffee and had a great time chatting..

2 hours...
enough to reach Malacca toll (from JB)...
mayb a good movie worth the time...
probably just too long for a new marathon runner...
but that 2 hours God showed me He's real...
that experience worth eternity

@ Persada Johor

Tonight is the night - Facing the Giants movie night...

1st giant - traffic jam...
it's been a while where JB always so congested...
cars everywhere, ppl moving ard, going for makan, place to chill out...
tried permas, tried pasir gudang highway...
finally used tebrau highway - old faithful way still led us to destination on time...
1st giant down...

2nd giant
ard 7.50pm reached the hall, almost 20 ppl there already...
the moment i reached there, they told me DVD not working...
aidoh, i tried it the other day, ok leh...
so i went it, indeed not working...
tried and tried, still not working...
finally a tech crew came in, saved the day - it worked...
2nd giant down

3rd giant
more and more people showed up and food seemed not enuf..
wah, very ganjiong coz many still not arrived yet...
but food is running out...
confirmed twice, food will be replenished...
but after food was finished, still not replenish...
how? how? how?
finally, after a while, they added more bihun and some cakes..
thx to Ivien... 3rd giant down

4th giant
will people appreciate the show?
will they understand why we pick that show?
will they support or they'll criticize?
thank God, after the show the people clapped their hands..
this showed that they like the show...
4th giant down

my own giant.....
if the show doesn't speak to anyone, it definitely spoke to me...
i'm juz like the coach...
many things seemed so hard, so tough, so unfruitful...
8 years of trying, still no kid..
8 years of waiting, our 'new house' still can't move in...
8 years of saving, we still can't really afford to buy a decent new car (not that i really want, juz that show talk abt old car, so.. ??)
8 years in ministry...
well, not that i'm at the losing end or ministry is going down...
but there's juz lots of challenges and more than often is juz so...

during supper time, angela asked: when we will see the victory coming through?
yup.. when?

If God is for us, who can be against us?
we juz need to keep going... do not quit, do not compromise, do not give up...
giants will fall, victory will come...
it's only a matter of time...

@home...

long time never fall ill...
probably because I choose not to..
(as if I can decide when to fall ill, but seriously...
sometimes when u can't afford to fall ill...
u can 'tell' ur body to hang in there)
actually this time i didn't choose to fall ill...
juz that the recent weekend was really packed...
all kinds of activities one after another...

then Sat nite went to Carol's birthday...
ate those 'kao kao', very 'jzhuah' food...
Sun morning woke up with...
TERRIBLE SORE THROAT...
wah.. could hardly swallow...
went to church nevertheless...
Sun svc, practice, family altar...
by the end of Sun, ehh.. not bad, sore throat almost gone...

Come Mon...
went for morning jog, breakfast with wife, dave and nech...
then we all chiong Singapore, to eat Kuishinbo buffet...
wuahahaha.. 1 hr express.. eat until so full and went to buy guitar string...
by the time we hit home...
alamak.. the whole system went down..
sore throat came back, running nose, giddy...

SO TUES...
a day off @ home...
woke up, ate something, slept...
woke up, ate something, slept again...
by late afternoon, can't sleep no more...
suddenly thought of a story...
so... now in the midst of writing it...
thought of writing a novel...
but my english limited...
nevermind la, watever will be, will be...

Finally, i am writing a 'novel'...
better write more before term starts...

@ Tebrau City

the other day Angela and i was in Tebrau City for movie...
after movie, we walk towards Jusco...
as we walk, we notice a family just ahead of us...
a father, mother and a 20+months (young la, coz can't really talk yet) boy
just like any other family, they gave their boy a 'noisy' shoe..
those shoe will produce squeaky sound as the heel touch the ground...
(never wear it in my life, thank God)

i was juz telling angela, 'Oh no, wat an irritating sound...'
then to my amazement, the sound stop...
but they were still walking...
not because they carry the boy...
but the boy actually tried to tip-toe-ing...
we both felt so surprise..

then as they walk, the boy got tired...
so the squeaky sound again...
but it seems to me that the boy find the sound very annoying also...
coz the next thing he did was trying to flick the shoe...
in hoping to get rid of the sound...
failing to do so, he tip-toe again!!!

it was quite a long journey for a young boy like him..
i felt like telling the mother, 'hey, ur boy is suffering, u know...'

of course i didn't...
then i was juz thinking...
thank God we've got a Father who knows what shoe fits us the best...
gives us the right amount of challenges and trials...
so that we grow stronger and better...
Thank you Father..

funny @ HSAJB

brought my mum for her knee check up yesterday...
@ HSAJB... orthopedics dept...
then the doctor sent my mum for her back x-ray...
juz to make sure no tumour coz she has constant pain...

as usual...
put in my mum's card, and they gave a waiting number...
so while waiting, we chit chat la...

abt 10-15mins later..
a lady open the x-ray room door and started calling...
"Law Ka Ya… Law ka ya..."

then my mum frowned and said...
"haiya! what Law Kaya... it's Law Ka Eng (her name)..."
then she was about to stand up...

but as i listened carefully..
i realize..
it was "Rogayah... Rogayah Zainal Abidin..."
= _ =,
hahahaha

Dating

TnT embarked on a journey to find out the 'Secrets of the Vine'...
(many call it SOTV)...
abt two weeks ago the JJ grp was discussing abt chp 7 of SOTV...
then the discussion led into "how to abide?"...
there WeiKang (choo...) gave a very interesting view...

"maybe can take God out for dinner?"
many laugh and began to gave more wild suggestions...
but i was totally caught by the idea...
yar.. take God out for dinner...

not the psycho kind...
juz imagine God sitting right across and u talk to Him as if He's juz there...
order two sets of meal and pretend He's eating...
(for sure God is there and definitely listening to u talking...)
not like that...

it's the heart attitude...
longing to meet up with Him...
excited about the meeting up...
be ready for the date...
anticipating for the intimacy...
juz like taking ur love one out...
and during the dating, nothing else but commune with Him..
not interrupted by anything, anyone...

so this is wat i plan to do..
i'm gonna take God out for dinner..

and i know he's been waiting..

FGC website - face lift

hey y'all..
how many of u know that our church (FGC) had its website face lift?
actually done by professional...


go here and take a look!
really not bad.. after so many years...

Youtube channel

LOL.. i 'um-gong'ly created a channel for myself...
ya, on youtube > http://www.youtube.com/boonfei2

initially when i found others with got a channel with YT, i thot was something great...
now only i know, the moment u upload a video then they'll create a channel for you...
no wonder is call youtube.. it's for YOU...

interestingly.. i've got two subscribers...
i suppose not because they think i am interesting..
but they just wanna watch the rest of the Choir competition..
well, i'll upload all, but it takes a long time coz the video files are huge..
and our bandwidth? hopeless la..
so, if u wanna watch those choir video.. juz go to my channel...
phualamak, like real... lol