Thursday, August 09, 2007

hey ... back for national day's hols...

booked out real late yesterday. left camp at 8+ cos' we had to wait for the exercise to cut, when i was like.. not involved? so we rotted our way till it was time for us to book out...

yesterday, me and weihang were involved in national day ceremony in camp. was quite funny. both of us were flag-bearers... were quite kancheong la.. then end up our flags were not raised totally to the top of the mast! mine was ok, cos' mine was the state flag, which is always higher than the two flags on the right and left. weihang's flag, however was quite obvious, cos' his was the saf flag, which is supposed to be on the same level as the army flag... but its priority must be saf flag being more important than army flag. but hor, his flag was obviously lower than the army flag, which is quite bad. RSM came over to us and encouraged us that we have done well for the parade, but also commented quite sarcastically over the flags. both of us secretly raised them up again bah... =P


today was quite a relac day. woke up at 845... thought i was supposed to rush down for an appointment at 10, but realised that she messaged me to tell me it was cancelled. it's ok bah. =) then i was surfing net and all until 12... then left house to visit uncle swee guan. everyime i visit him, it never ceases to amaze me on the fact that he is alway so wise in his judgments and so intelligent. He shared about stuff which i feel that are so encouraging. He was also quite amazed that Elaine changed quite a bit ever since she attended church, which I have to agree 100%. haha.

then i went to meet Thaddeus up at Taka at 3. Walked down to the Cathay next to Plaza Singapura to book tickets for tml's cg outing. 15 tickets in all. hopefully all will turn up tml bah... if not all my money will go waste... yeah lo...after tat we went to chill at starbucks and then walked down to penisula to look at guitars. city hall area was packed like crazy. people are mvoing toward the esplanade to catch a glimpse of the National Day Parade happening at the floating platform along the Bay... really exciting.. but had to go home early to be with family bah. oh, and i lost my Hillsong CD while window shopping for guitars!!! grr... but actually at that moment when i realised i lost it, i didnt feel so frustrated. dunno why also. heh... only when i got home, i realised the reality of it all.. i just lost a 20 bucks CD... hahas... forget it . =P

anyway, was talking about stuff with thad during our trip back from city hall to the west.. home... i started to talk about the reason why i joined city harvest church and all... and it struck me about the fact of how God really brought me through.. throughout my 9 years as a Christian, God has brought about so much miracles in my life. I was miraculously saved in a family environment which may not outwardly reject Christianity, but it was an environment whereby i was not appreciated for being a Christian. I couldn't go to church until i was 15, and that was after much persuasion. and i was baptised only when i was 19, and that itself was a miracle, because of much parental objection. Today, my mom and dad are very open to the Church, and are quite glad that my sister joined the church and was gloriously saved... i heard that she is going to get baptised at the age of 18! haha.. even earlier than me... and when i was thinking about how God pulled me through in my Christian walk with Him, it really reminded me of how much I have taken God for granted in the past few weeks. I didn't honour HIm with my words, with my deeds. Sometimes I really thought to myself, " what's the point of being a Christian at all?"... then it came to me, that God has really played a huge role in my life for the past 20 years in my life. it's time for me to consider God's feelings first in every situation... and not do things out of my own strength anymore.

Thanks for everything. Love You... =)

tim.
Posted by Timo-mo at 10:27 PM