Gd morning Singapore!!!

Guess most of you are still sleeping..

 

First of all, Happy Bdae Serene Pok!!! Hope you had a great time last night ya? 21st!!! Adulthood le.

Must pray that I don't doze off during the camp hor.. *lol..

aniwae thanks for ur hospitality. Hope that our "bdae committee" did a gd job last night!

 

Reached Changi Airport@ 540am! I'm the earliest! Everyone's late or overslpt!!! :S

But its ok.. no problem.. can unstd.

How do i feel now? Sleepy... lol..

haven't been having much slp recently...

later gg to slp on the plane!!! 5 solid hrs before I hit taiwan.

Excited!!! not the holiday kind of excitement cuz i'm there for WORK!!!!

First MISSION trip in my life!!!

So exciting..

taiwan, i've been prying for u! So here i come!!!

 

Gotta keep me in prys ya? Tks for ur msgs.. Rae, Vin, Bee, Don, Rene, Gary, Ros..

Appreciates..

Pry for wisdom and strength... gonna be a tiring trip but I pray that it will be a fulfilling one! Will be back on the 8th and will rush back for lessons..

Phew... i made it. Yes..

now new chapter le. Welcome RMIT University..

anxious? yes...definitely..new env, new friends... gotta force myself to step out more to really excel in studies! 1.5yrs more to go..

Edwin, jiayou!!!! after all that u've been thru, its worth it man.. (haha.. y am i toking to myself?)

 

*lol..

aniwae...cindy and sharon are eating now..

kel and cynthia w their mbrs spending qty time.

yufen w her fan club..

charlene w her family..

Edwin... with? YOU all from WiN's HaVeN!!!

Happily indulging on my Coffee Bean Ice Blended Mocha Regular w whip cream!!! Indulgence..

ok..i'll be frank..

i'm gg to miss the food!! char kway teow.. chicken rice..

the gym..(hey, i do njoy my routine k..)

my computer... hehe... who doesn't?

miss my bed!!! i love to slp!!

miss my CG.. my mbrs..

miss all my dearest fren!!! Shannen flying off soon le.. gotta really catch up!

miss my zone, my club and my dear dear mummy who's in myanmar right now.

 

ok.. i gotta go.. tag me ya? i can reply you via the Internet!

Have fun!!!

 

pray pray pray...

everyone all pray for my results..

coming out sooon le...

argh...so nervous...

pray pray pray...

 

 

Departure:

29 Jun(Sat)

CI 662 0810hrs

 

Arrival:

8 Jul(Tue)

CI 661 1555hrs

 

Attending 2 Youth Camps:

1-4 Jul Taipei,

4-7 Jul Kaohsiung

Was having supper with Rayvin and Donny when suddenly a man seated a few tables away suddenly collapse while eating and got into a fits..

He was foaming by the mouth and trembling vigorously. His pupils were dilated and his face turned purple. A small group of "coffeeshop uncles" gathered to try their best to help. As my back was facing him, I only knew what happene when I hear Rayvin pointing out about the incident than I turned around to check out what's happening. Immediately a few uncles went up to him and shaft a metal spoon into his mouth to prevent him from biting his tongue. Honestly, he looks very scary. He's dressed in a coverall and wears a tag stating that he's a contractor. He has tatoos all over the body and he looks pretty unkept. Apart from seeing such scenes in our deliverance services, I've never witness such an incident in my life before. I went up to him after a few seconds of shock and helped out in the "RESCUE". Another man in his thirties came up to the frontline and together, the both of us decided to tilt him sidewards to allow him to vomit out his food to prevent choking and blockage of air into his windpipe. At this moment, he was also bleeding on his right forehead due to the collision against the floor. We stopped the bleeding and manage to get him to respond to us bit by bit. Slowly we helped him to get his noodles out of his mouth as we guided him to vomit it out. Slowly, the man regained conscious and we slowly got him and sit on the chair. By this time, the crowd has departed and I continue to sit with him, talking to him trying to find out more from him. He was still groggy and doesn't know where he was. The ambulance came and the IC took down my statements as I described the scenario. They took his blood and pulse and they sent him to the hospital.

 

Through this incident, it got me to think about some issues of life. At the moment of crisis, we all need to make the right decision at the very moment and any wrong move will kill a person. Thank God we made the right choice and got the food out of his mouth and we sustained his life. We saved a man. I was nervous but yet happy about the whole incident that I manage to use my rusty first-aid skills that I learnt during my NS days and help him. If I move in fear and did not go forward, I would not imagine what might happen. I thank the stranger that helped me together in this operation. He waved goodbye to me as I departed from the coffeeshop.

 

 

Why Jul 08? Because a series of events will happen to kick start the 2nd half of the year.

 

29 Jun - 8 Jul *Extended!!! : I'll be flying off w CHC to Taiwan(Taipei) for Missions. They will be having their Youth Camp.

Excited? Yes.. VERY! 1st mission trip in my life! Pst Zhuang and Kong will be there. Wow.. working directly under the man of God! Cool..

Its a pity that I can only go for TWO camps as there are a total of 3 camps (TP - KS - TP)

I'll need to rush back to Sg to kick start my new school term *haha.. i'll miss a FEW days of sch

 

7 Jul : SIM RMIT Bach in Business Marketing (BBMKG). After a 15-mth period of Diploma in Management Studies(DMS), i'll graduate and embark onto my University curriculum finally [provided i pass my Sem 5 suppplementary paper, or else outcome will be disastrous]. Excited? yeah... but nervous and lost.. gotta step out of comfort zone to face stress formally as a Uni student. Transition I call it.. I'll tend to stress out during periods of transition in my life.

 

12 - 17 Jul : Bangkok w some WYZ leaders. Departing 8.40pm and arriving 8.05pm. Am I looking fwd to it? Yes and no.. Yes because this trip was planned ages ago... Many of us coming tgt gg to a place where I'm gg to attempt to immitate the Thai accent and hopefully not being bashed up by chao ar guas. We'll be hitting the beach, doing our crazy shopping etc... No because it clashes with my school term. Sch was suppose to start during Aug 08 but they brought it fwd. Sighs.. There i'm feeling very unsettled. I have to skip school as the air tickets are booked already. Sian? Yes.. its like entering into a new env w new friends but yet being labelled a "geng" or "pon-tan" person by strangers(hopefully not). I'm feeling very unsettled. But well.. I'll still go to thailand.

 

Busy busy and busy for Jul. I won't be around most of the time and I'm quite worried for the CG too. Finally the mbrs have broken thru after the 21-day fast/pry and youth camp. I'll be expecting growth to come. Hopefully the mbrs will stand in the gap and fight the fort while I'm away. I believe they can. Right guys?

 

So.. do keep me in prys yeah? Pry for gd health, journey mercy, CG growth and find a pretty gf in TW or Bangkok! *lol.. tw preferably cuz i won't know if what I find in thailand is genuine a not. kidding.. pls dun take it seriously.

 

Cheers,

PS: Thanks mum for all your sponsors especially for the impromtu TW missions. Thanks for ur understanding and encouragement

If you still recall my indulgence list that I had during my exams period, there's this item stating that I would love to eat Sakae Sushi Buffet.

And I manage to fulfill that item yesterday with some awkwardness..

Don and I went to Marina Sq to do some shopping and decided to embark on our buffet session.

This is my very first time eating buffet w him.

Unlike the teatime buffet, the supper buffet only allows you to eat from 9-1030. In another words - 大战!

The moment we got seated, we click on the screen to place our orders as most of the food on the food belt was either red plate or very limited in variety(purposely one lor..)

So I ordered A LOT(for ard 4-5 person's appetite). And our fren over here ordered a lot too not knowing that eccentric Edwin has already gotten enough food to store in the store house for a month. So when the food came bit by bit.. we were shocked!

Its a table full of food! I was busy gobbling all the food. From the sushis, to the handrolls and I even ordered a bowl of my favourite Kitsune Udon! Ya.. DON!!!

In the end.. we really couldn't finish. First time man..

So paiseh...

 

I was telling Donny the stories of the past on how I bia stun and did funny things to avoid detection of food wastage. By this time, many of the staff were already eyeing on our table waiting to pounce on us and charge us! Don was so confident and kept refusing to believe that they will actually charge us for food wastage! He was saying that they are just trying to intimidate us with scare tactics and will not want to lose us as customers...

In the end, when we wanted to call for the bill.. they really charge us! Our friend was like "erm..we haven't finish eating yet. who say we can't finish"

Haha.. after a few rounds of discussion, we conceeded. So PAISEH la.. the manager came and actually sat down to count all the missing and messed up food that we've attempted to fake it through.

So embarrassing... in total 5 plates were charged to our account! So malu.. first time in our lives eat buffet kenna charge for food wastage. so we left the place with embarrassment and still thinking of thoughts like "we should have... just now". (i think its so farni lar.. cuz we're just so 不甘愿)

it was a gross gross buffet that went soooo wrong.

But aniwae.. tks for the treat bro! u've oways been nice =)

 

Thankiew WYZ for the tremendous "STRONGER" experiences!

All of you have made this event possible..

From the friends, members, team leaders, committee and psts!!!

205 ppl for Inspire Camp and 342 in total including Haute Couture!!! Praise God!!!

 

I would like to thank Pst Zhuang, Kelvin Tan especially for your sacrifices to make this event possible!

Your leadership has proven once again why you're the most sought after men in church!

*Salutes!!!

 

so proud of u all!!! >>>

Bee Leng!!! Solid la... ur last day sermon was so applicable to all of us! U really rose up to the occasion man!! More to come...

Lynn, Xuemin and Huimei.. wad can i say? All of you took the step of faith and led for the very first time! Excellence debut! I'm sure the mbrs are all v blessed by ur voices!

Youth Band.. Way to go guys! History in the making!! Pinde Gary WeiSheng KhoonFai Schumann Jodie Chowtee... I'm really really very proud of all ya!!! The countless rehearsals, scoldings and funny moments have brought us so far.. more to come!!! Thanks Donny and Jace for your coaching.

A great thank-you to our guest musos... Jessel, Wei Tian, Wui Ping and Janice

Camp Committee.. Games ppl: Jonathan, Geraldine, Huimei, Xuemin, Wendy, Cindy, for all our long discussions of planning.. haha. Chicken fly! still the best game rite? lol.. Thanks Shannen, Rae, Lynn for all the hard work in the logis.. The house ICs.. Shannen, Rae, Davis, Jonathan... And to Cynthia Irene and everyone who has helped us with the admin and logistics directly or indirectly.. Thanks

W453.. really wanna thank every single one of you for being so understanding. you guys were so dedicated in your serving towards His kingdom. I believe all of you are STRONGER after this great camp!!! Let's grow the CG tgt in the 2nd half yeah?

 

Special thanks: WeiJian.. for loaning me your precious Taylor guitar. The most high end guitar in the market. What can I say.  Donny for your food and your time to come down to support the band. Mummy for your finances.. haha.. and my new hair style!

 

 

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4 Jun..

a day that I've been so gan chiong and anxious about..

my "babies" sitting for their preliminary exams..

yes, was given the responsibility this year to form a youth band for the camp!

nv has it been done before in the entire history of WYZ..

so the stress factor is there as its "HISTORY IN THE MAKING" moment..

after 1.5 months of selection and practices...

the band and vocalists sat for their "exams" today - to be vetted thru by Pst.

Its their dreams for the debutants.. most of them under 21.. youth... future generation of the church!

They're not professionals.. not trained, no experiences but they have the heart and eagerness to learn..

Every week when we come together for practices...

sometimes dunno whether to cry or laugh.. they're always just not there yet.

cannot flow well.. cannot co-ordinate. and they're creating more noise than music!

but as i see their determination to perfect it and the progress made...

all the scoldings and long sessions were worth it.

 

I'm so happy..

today pst gave them a taste of the pie..

allowing the team to play for the pry mtg. it was a breakthru!

they did very well today. so proud of them..

not perfect, still got room for imprvmt but as a rookie, there's nothing more i could ask for!

I'm really so priviledged to be serving in this team. Its really wonderful to sit back this year and train up ldrs of the next generation.

I realise the joy of seeing others succeed is much more than you "break-away" urself. Its awesome..

tks pst for this opportunity.. I will not let u down

 

Thanks to the band team: Pinde, Gary, Weisheng and Khoon Fai

To my wonderful BVs: Schumann, Jodie, Chow Tee..

And I'm so proud of my fella CGLs that led today... Lynn and Hui mei and of cuz Bryna on the tertiary side.

u guys rox!

looking fwd for more explosiveness for the camp!!!
(eh.. my band muz take a pic tgt!!!!)

 

hehe... jus randomly took a pic w Karuna(Cynthia's sis)...

cheers