year end happenings

SPM
Looking back.. I still cant believe how I actually got through those four weeks of exams… phew… four weeks is not like four days but 28 days lieh… God was really great and faithful during my exam.. I believe He’s the One that sustained me.. carried me.. and rescued me through those days…. He brought me through the dreadful and wearisome time… He brought me through the high and low tides… especially during my bm and bk paper… I just felt so nervous.. bm maybe it’s because it was the first paper… couldn’t concentrate for the first 15 to 20 minutes.. ugh… but after that… I could concentrate like as if I was doing my normal exam paper:). Bk… I was nervous… I was/ am scared that I will failed Him again.. fail as in getting results like a C or B… I want His name to be glorified and I wanna be a good testimony to my friends around…. I still dunno what my results will be… but if I really didn’t get what I expected then.. it.. is… ok…..



After SPM.. (band practices)
It’s always fun and enjoyable to have band practices together… singing and playing and exercising our talents… but I was reminded again and again to not take this whole thing as a performance… as a show to human beings… as a time to be proud about how well I can play or maybe as a time to gain praise from others… but instead as a worship pleasing to God… sad to say… all these are always easier said than done… anyways….. you all really did a GREAT GREAT job!:)



“Undang-undang kursus”
I was left alone with strangers in the “ceramah room” all because I went in different cars with my other friends and took the “nombor” too early… ugh… I felt so horrible at first… why must I be left alone while my other friends can be together? Haha… but after thinking back…. It was not that scary at all… maybe this I just the beginning… I’ve to face more of all these things in future:p…



Caroling
:D…really look forward to caroling every year… dunno why… maybe it’s the people that made this whole event more joyous… singing carols… chit chatting… going up and down the bus… laughing… playing tambourine… teasing each other… praying for families… blessing the community…taking pictures… being ah long collecting money(:p) whao… so much more to name out… really had a woderrrffuuulll time…



One Joy One Kluang…
Everything turned upside down on the morning of 24th. In my heart I was praying that the rain would stop… if not now then later… I truly believe that God heard our prayers… and indeed the rain STOPPED:). Praise God!! Dancing with such a “big” crowd in front of me was my first experience…. The AIYAH dancers did a good job!!



CHRISTMAS IS A TIME TO LOVE



After Christmas..
Got the opportunity again to catch up with my school friends… we went bowling and steam bot-ting… glad to see some of them… our hottest topic we chatted about was what our future plans were.. some said engineering.. some nursing.. some teaching.. some mass com(ing)… and much more…



The year is coming to an end… looking back… it was really a tiring… stressful… happy… pretty.. wonderful… amazing 2009.. many sweet memories to be remembered… many experiences that I’ve been challenged… many people that I’ve come across of that I need to be THANKFUL of… many fearsss that I’ve overcome(d).. many scoldingss(parents and teachers) that I’ve faced… many undesirable problems that we(5sc1) had to go through… and… the list goes on… hehe...

Treasures in Jars of Clay

In a basketball or netball game, attempts to throw the ball into the "basket" are not always successful. oftentimes, the one who attempts to score misses and he ball bounces off the rim. there is no time for the team to moan and wallow in regrets. in split seconds someone else on the team lunges towards the stray ball and makes another attempt. a successful second attempt brings applause but if this try fails too, there will be yet another effort made to score.

our lives are often like these ball games. we aim for success but are sometimes failed in our attempts to be good and righteous. we are sorely tempted to give up but Paul reminds us not to throw up our hands in despair in the face of opposition. believers can find themselves hard-pressed, perplexed, persecuted and struck down but these tests are opportunities to experience the strength of the Lord in their lives.

Paul likens us to clay jars-fragile in the face of the storms of life. but the resilience of believers lies in the power that in theirs because of the death of Jesus on the cross and in the treasure of His abiding presence in their lives. moments of greatest human weakness are also moments when God's power in most gloriously expressed.

hmm.... these article was one of my QT material few months back... i wanted to post it... but didnt have the chance until now:).

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"Dependence on God is not a sign of weakness but is only the way to see more achieved through us than we will ever hope to accomplish on our own"