our lives, His story...

no more blogging... ?

noreply@blogger.com (ahfei) — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 01:12:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (ahfei) — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 02:44:00 +0000

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...

noreply@blogger.com (ahfei) — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 05:07:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (ahfei) — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:17:00 +0000

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...

noreply@blogger.com (ahfei) — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 11:03:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (ahfei) — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 01:49:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (ahfei) — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 10:21:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (ahfei) — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 03:36:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (ahfei) — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 03:34:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (ahfei) — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 05:46:00 +0000

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

2009 Choir Competition

noreply@blogger.com (ahfei) — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:39:00 +0000

Hey all,
do u know there was a choir competition?
it was at Tanjung Puteri...
and our church has two girls participated!!!

well, they are Convent girls - Yup.. the school is represent Johor for this national competition...
wanna know how good they are?

chk it out....

Angela and i were there this morning...
Vouah!!! very impressive...
not juz Convent, but many teams were good...
oh, btw.. the 2 girls from our church is none other than...
Nicole Ong & Stephanie Choo...

thousands of words...

noreply@blogger.com (ahfei) — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 02:35:00 +0000

juz 2 weeks! i wrote almost 10000 words..
3000 for each paper, plus footnoting...
1st paper - Christian Family paper: an interview with Sianty
2nd paper - Corinthians: Christian suffering
3rd paper - Hebrews: Jesus, High Priest for New Covenant

everyone paper was really rushed out...
last paper handed in last Sat...
which i did it in the midst of ER...
but thank God with Danny's help i managed to hand in...

then last nite I received an email from TCA (my school)
that due date for Hebrews paper is 30th June!!!!
aiyoyo, if only they inform earlier then i dun hv to rush like mad...
i probably can do a better paper (err... mayb?)

BUT good lah, dun hv to worry, already handed in...
however, i really determined - muz start early!
i muz start my next paper now...
due date: 27 July...
I AM DETERMINED...

pls forward this...

noreply@blogger.com (ahfei) — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 04:32:00 +0000

Lots of 'forward' email nowadays...
all kinds of 'pls help..', 'if you have a heart, u will..', 'only if u care...'
then as we search online...
through 'true or false', 'truth or hoax' then we'll realize all not true...

then i received an email this morning...
telling me how all the email that asked us to fwd contains virus...
it tracks as we fwd...
then somewhere down in the middle the email wrote this:
You can do your friends and family members a GREAT favour by sending this information to them.."

errr... i thought the email said not to forward? then must I forward that email?
what if it's another spam mail?
alamak.. wat to do lah...

oh.. at least it provides some worth knowing information... be smart :)
E-Mail petitions are NOT acceptable to White House, Congress or any other organization - i.e. social security, etc. To be acceptable, petitions must have a signed signature and full address of the person signing the petition, so this is a waste of time and you’re just helping the Email trackers.

McDonald's food doesn't go bad...??

noreply@blogger.com (ahfei) — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 10:00:00 +0000

as some of you know, angela and i are on a diet program...
no pills, no other kind of supplement help...
totally juz using food...
wanna know more, gotta talk to u face to face...

anyway, what i wanted to say is...
we became more and more watchful with our food intake...
recently watch a youtube clip - french fries that last more that 2 weeks...
and we're so convinced that Mc.Donald's food was full of preservative...
since then we didn't go Mc.Donald anymore(almost more than 3months)...

then...
i came across an article about the issue...
long story.. i'll juz extract some of it...

This is not a fact, but an assertion by Morgan Spurlock, creator of the famous anti-fast-food film Super Size Me. There is of course no scientific proof of these assertions, nor is it clear what the implications are if it’s true. Nevertheless, it focuses attention on the issue of the levels of preservatives in food. Foods can be salted or pickled, and smoked, dried, frozen or canned to stop them going off, or they can be treated with chemical preservatives.

There are now 30 or so of these chemical preservatives that may be legally added to food. They work either against microbes, or against oxidation, or both. Benzoates are added to fruit juices, margarine, jams, pickles and many other foods to extend their shelf-life by stopping fungal growth. Sulphur dio xide and other sulphites are coated onto dried fruit and vegetables to stop them going brown and to stop bacteria growing. Propionates are added to bread to stop it going moldy.

There’s no doubt that preservatives have made food available and edible for longer. They can even be life-savers. Nitrates and nitrites are the food industry’s best defense against the botulin bacteria in meat, as well as helping to preserve the meat’s pink color. And in 2006, it was discovered that nitrite food preservatives might one day be used to help treat patients with the lung disease cystic fibrosis.

It has long been an urban myth that corpses today don’t decay as fast as they did in the past because of the amount of food preservatives that have built up in our bodies. After watching the decay of exhumed human remains buried over the last 30 years, Professor Rainer Horn of Kiel University in Germany has concluded that this is actually true. He believes that the combination of food preservatives and cosmetics is literally embalming us while we are still alive.

So.. what to do?
i think just give thanks and eat by faith la..
Live one day at a time for His grace is sufficient for us..

Acapella - the Voca People

noreply@blogger.com (ahfei) — Sun, 24 May 2009 17:23:00 +0000

someone sent us the video...
it's so so good!

they muz have taken so much time to perfect it...
watch it, u won't regret..

agree?? :)

book that I read...

noreply@blogger.com (ahfei) — Thu, 21 May 2009 01:48:00 +0000

i'm now in the class of 'Hebrews'...
not the language but the book in the bible...
prior to the class, we were required to read the text book...
by Barnabas Lindars (suppose to be the mentor of D.A. Carson)...
Since i dun wanna fall asleep in the class, let me write a bit abt the book

here it's the review of the book:
This is undeniably a finely researched-written book by Barnabas Lindars that is focusing on the main theme for the Book of Hebrews in the New Testament. His thesis for the book where the purpose for this writing was the issue of the believers’ guilty conscience through unresolved post-baptismal sin can really be very convincing if the reader of his book would to just take his book as the only reference for studying of the writing. From the Septuagint, Apocrypha, New Testament and other Jewish writing, he expediently quoted them to make sure that his case was strong and convincing.

He claims that the situation to which Hebrews was written was viewed by the author as critical and urgent - Christian believers were in danger of reverting to Judaism because they had no practical (tangible) way of dealing with their consciousness of sin as before under the Jewish cultic system of sacrifice. Setting the letter in view of such a situation brings to light the entire thought-world in which the letter breathes and moves and Lindars is quick to return to the issue at hand as he wades through the letter's theology; this is much preferred to breaking a letter artificially into categories and then treating each subject as distinct.

Wow...

noreply@blogger.com (ahfei) — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 02:18:00 +0000

Evelyn sent this in the morning and as I watch it...
hmm.. really good,
wat a pity that i can't embed it on this blog...
so you guys go ahead and click on this URL

Susan Boyle - Singer - Britains Got Talent 2009

ya.. we shd never judge a book by its cover..
enjoy...

Knocking on the door of heaven

noreply@blogger.com (angela) — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 07:24:00 +0000

came across this song the other day as I was listening to an album. I was encouraged by the song. Part of the lyrics came from Isaiah 62:6 - give Him no rest, give ourselves no rest... just to knock on the door of heaven and pray for our nation... here to share with all of you :o)

Knocking on the Door of Heaven - Various Artists

Verse:
We will give ourselves no rest
'Till Your kingdom comes on earth
We’ve positioned watchmen on the walls
Now our prayers will flow like tears
For You've shared Your heart with us
God of heaven on our knees we fall

Pre-chorus:
Come down in power reveal Your heart again
Come hear our cries the tears that plead for rain

Chorus:
We're knocking, knocking on the door of heaven
We’re crying, crying for this generation
We’re praying for Your name to be known in all of the earth
We're watching, watching on the walls to see You
We're looking, looking for a time of breakthrough
We're praying for Your Word to bear fruit in all of the earth
All of the earth

Jogging Field

noreply@blogger.com (ahfei) — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 02:16:00 +0000

Ha! what a nice poster...
oh well, i went to one today... in church...
after so long, so so long...
wanted to do it since so long ago, finally...
i ran today.. hah
1.25km... no big deal for many...
but it's a good start for me
i wanted to stop at juz 0.7km..
feel my leg 'stepping on the lemon'
but then i told myself.. don't quit, don't stop...
so i continue...
i remember eric, terence, danny ever said...
don't easily quit, ur body can take it, juz go on...
so i went on...
juz one more round...
but it's a good start...
i feel like running more...
maybe tues, thurs and fri will be some good day to run...

picking up my old shoe... i'm in running zone...

Mighty Mum

noreply@blogger.com (ahfei) — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 02:51:00 +0000

Thx to amelia - a qualified mother who provided this link...

Wow, never realize a mum can have so many things to say in a single day...
and that is juz in one single 'helping'...
what if they repeat?
T_T

after Seven Pounds...

noreply@blogger.com (angela) — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 00:32:00 +0000

Neo (i prefer to call him this name, ha) suggested to boonfei and i this show...
Seven Pounds, not heavy yet heavy...
oh, nice movie poster boonfei found.. i think is Japanese version...

not heavy because 7 pounds of things is not heavy..
heavy because the story itself is kinda heavy..
seeing a man lost everything - except his life and struggles with pain and guilt..
of course there funny and heart-warm moments..
we say it's a good movie.. many things to learn..

but what i really want to say is not so much the film itself, but the viewer..
there's a scene where lady fainted because of heart condition..
and u know wat? in front of us (probably 5 rows) a group of teenagers laugh!!
yes, right where she fell on the ground..!!
and throughout the show at different scenes they laugh..
i laugh as well (you know i can really laugh)..
but only those funny scenes (very rare in this show).. but they kept laughing..
'THIS IS NOT A COMEDY, YOU UNCIVILIZED!' boonfei wanted to shout at them..
they finally stop laughing (probably finally realized their mistake) at the jelly fish part..
ya, almost the end of the show..

after the show, I said this to boonfei, 'our young people are too desensitized..'
ya, many are numb.. even when it's touching..
wait a minute..
it's the media that numb them, so..
i suppose the producer can't blame the young people when they laugh at a touching movie..
the show it's kinda sad... but when i left the theater, i was more sad..

errrr.. you are a...

noreply@blogger.com (ahfei) — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 13:13:00 +0000

do you believe in evolution?

i don't...
especially after this ad...

ha, i dun wanna be a cong-cong... or watever u call that...

knowing that God made me is so encouraging..
I AM NOT AN ACCIDENT...

Next one...

noreply@blogger.com (ahfei) — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 12:04:00 +0000

went to SG to buy ballet shoe for Eng Svc dance ministry with Angela...
when we reach there then found out that we actually dunno where the shop is...
anyway, too hungry so we ate 1st (as usual, makan is the priority.. hehe)
then we called a brother to find out where is the shop...
then he gave us exact unit number...
but...
cannot find leh...

so we called him again...
he gave us the shop telephone #
well, dun wanna waste time so i called the shop immediately...
unit number.... CORRECT!
Building... WRONG!!!
haiya.. it's the next building which is just next to it...

suddenly i was just being reminded...
to find the real place... ask the real owner...
sometimes others might not give the correct answer...
even the person who have been there might not give the right direction...
dun depend on others how to experience God...
contact God directly and experience Him directly!

is this the place?

noreply@blogger.com (ahfei) — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 15:44:00 +0000

Angela and i were having with Max, Vince, Mond and Stella this afternoon...
then we were talking about getting PR in Spore...
so i was sharing with them that my elder sister actually became a Singaporean recently...
well, she married a singaporean so it's actually better for her...
so we ask Max if he would give up his citizenship and become a Singaporean...
he answered "no la.." "family here, parents here... not now"...
then i said "i won't give up my citizenship unless Msia buang me"...
(as if i'm so wanted here...)

after Sat night svc, we went to have tea with dave, nech, mag, vynn, cs and two new friends...
then we were talking abt JB kinda unsafe...
david was telling us that don't walk early in the morning to go to work (in spore)...
coz he has seen many case where men kena slash bcoz of robbery...
one of the new friends was saying that bcoz those people kena mark..
earning sing dollar mah...

sigh... is this the place to stay?
on one hand, the leader of the nation tells us (the 'C') that it's a great mercy and grace for us to stay here.. (means we're not really wanted la?)
the other hand is all the robbery, snatching, slashing, killing...
is this the place to stay?

then i'm reminded of the song we sang during the service...
"renew them in our day..."
Lord, let your awesome power renew in our day...
indeed, no where on earth is worth staying...
even the safest, nicest, most peaceful, beautiful...
but everwhere that God place us...
we need to make a difference...

Prison Break...

noreply@blogger.com (ahfei) — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 11:38:00 +0000

is this real? or the dog has been trained?

the titile is call - Michael Dogfield... from Prison Break, Michael Scofield
needless to explain the contain rite?