All that is gold does not glitter.

INTJ

2011-12-22T20:03:00.004+08:00

Introvert: 95%
Intuition: 74%
Thinker: 68%
Judging: 58%

Looks like my T went up. lololololol

2011-11-26T23:49:00.001+08:00

Lights will guide you home
And ignite your bones
And I will try
To fix you.

The cross before me, the world behind me.

2011-11-19T01:53:00.001+08:00

Today is the start to the rest of my life.

Lets do this.

Giver of life.

2011-11-17T00:17:00.001+08:00

The irony of playing the zero-sum game with God is that the zero-sum game assumes the players will pick themselves over the other to ensure survival.

God, on the other hand, plays this game specifically to lose on the Cross and ensure our survival, hence rendering the assumption and, by extension, the entire zero-sum game moot.

This is how the Giver of Life works: With full abandonment, with complete trust, that we will reciprocate. And when we do, we make His heart sing. Death is no longer the end, but it is a means to an end with means so much more.

Whose system do you prefer?

Something greater to look to.

2011-11-15T20:51:00.001+08:00

1 Corinthians 2

¹ And so it was with me, brothers and sisters. When I came to you, I did
not come with eloquence or human wisdom as I proclaimed to you the
testimony about God.^[a] ² For I resolved to know nothing while I was with
you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. ³ I came to you in weakness
with great fear and trembling. ⁴ My message and my preaching were not
with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit’s
power, ⁵ so that your faith might not rest on human wisdom, but on God’s
power.

To you.

2011-11-14T01:20:00.001+08:00

Amazing grace, how sweet the sound
That saved a wretch like me
I once was lost, but now am found
Was blind but now, I see.

T'was grace that taught my heart to fear
And grace my fears relieved
How precious did that grace appear
The hour I first believed...

My chains are gone, I've been set free
My God my Saviour, has ransomed me
And like a flood, His mercy reigns
Unending love, amazing grace.

Amazing Grace (Bridge by Chris Tomlin)

Every birthday, I send a prayer up wishing this song would one day be on your lips and in your heart, that you might truly know and experience how amazing God's grace is.

Freudian slips and halting lisps

2011-11-13T11:01:00.001+08:00

Do not a leader make.

1 Corinthians 1:27-29

New International Version (NIV)

²⁷ But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. ²⁸ God chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things—and the things that are not—to nullify the things that are, ²⁹ so that no one may boast before him.

Through the storm, & the fire.

2011-11-08T23:33:00.003+08:00

The basics, the very heart of all there is to this.

You have saved me.

Hey beautiful!

2011-10-22T01:04:00.000+08:00

Proverbs 18:21
The tongue has the power of life and death, and those who love it will eat its fruit.

I've been learning a lot about this recently; through my friends, through random strangers while waiting behind them for the bus at the airport, both negative and positive demonstrations. I've experienced it for myself too; how a word said in the right time can restore, can bring healing, but one of malice can destroy self-worth, valued relationships, sometimes for years.

And the more I experience it, the more I want to try my hardest to love life-giving fruit. I know that I'm the least of my friends to try (whiny ttm hahaha) but at the very least that is what I want to do- to try.

Who knows? Maybe one day I'll really not only stop speaking words that destroy people, but also build them up.

Don't just avoid darkness; chase the Light. =) You are loved!

A quote of a quote of a quote

2011-10-20T02:13:00.002+08:00

‎"a woman's heart should be so lost in God that a man must seek Him first in order to find her"

Unleash the teeny-bopper!

2011-09-26T02:15:00.000+08:00

I know this is a relatively old and unknown song, but Shifty's Slide Along Side really brings out the groove in me! It's such a feel good song with its ridiculous lyrics and ... I have a distinct memory of going to my sec sch friend's house when it came on MTV. Good times. =)

One love, one shot,
It's all we ever got
Girl you got me started now I'm not gonna stop
Now slide along side yeah baby that's right
I'm gonna show you the time of your life!

No Good Deed goes unpunished

2011-09-21T01:05:00.001+08:00

I got goosebumps listening to Idina Menzel sing No Good Deed.

Wicked, you can't come to Singapore shores soon enough for me!!! =D

Differences.

2011-09-15T20:53:00.000+08:00

There was a secret chord.

But you don't really care for music, do ya?

Hands.

2011-09-11T23:40:00.000+08:00

The hands that carved out the ocean, holds my world in His hands.

The heart that lived and loved and died and rose again, died for more than Himself.

The same power that conquered the grave, now lives in me.

Whatever dreams, relationships, love, hopes, goodwill, life that has died, can live again in the powerful, wonderful name of Jesus.

God of infinite worth, with hands that carved out the ocean

You hold the universe, yet still You run to the broken.

2011-09-04T00:36:00.000+08:00

Give me faith, to trust what You say

That You're good, and Your love is great.

I may be weak, but Your spirit's strong in me.
My flesh may fail, but my God You never will.

Burgers are good for you.

2011-08-31T20:14:00.001+08:00

Today, I was challenged while I sitting alone overhead, people watching as they ambled around getting dinner.

Are you ready to embrace a legacy that is far greater than yourself? One that will live on?

I wanted to say yes. But I couldn't.

And then I realised why I haven't been able to see -couldn't, wasn't allowed to- see the future that's laying in wait for me to take a hold of.

Because if I were to see it now, I'll seize it, take control of it, say yes to it, for all the wrong reasons.

And I don't want to say yes to it- I want to say yes to the Person who gave it.

And I couldn't say yes... well, because to say yes to something that is so completely bigger than yourself, you stare at the enormity of it, and know that there is no chance at all that you can do it by yourself- independence is not even an option on my mind.

The only chance I have to not just survive, but to thrive, to be wholehearted and to enjoy it wholeheartedly, requires only one thing. My total, absolute, complete dependence.

That kicks up the question to a whole new level. Yes is no longer a word I can take lightly. Yes can no longer be half-hearted. Yes will be a commitment, a desire, a cry of my heart, that no one else can fulfill, or will fulfill, besides the One that will bring me through it.

I have stopped straddling between the exhilaration and adrenaline versus the fear of the unknown. I have started running in the right direction.

Not ready to say it. But wanting to say it.

I want to say yes.

Lead me, with strong hands.

As far as the east is from the west.

2011-08-26T00:55:00.000+08:00

Today, I finally started running in the right direction.

Flying rose petals.

2011-08-25T00:14:00.000+08:00

It's not a silly little moment

It's not the storm before the calm

This is the deep and dying breath of

This love that we've been working on.

My dear, we're, slow dancing in a burning room.

Wouldn't mind slow dancing now.

Even if I don't know how to slow dance and I've been dancing solo all my life.

Even if the room's on fire.

I just need to take a breath.

A deep breath.

And I'll close my eyes, and know that You're my breath of fresh air.

The animal kingdom.

2011-08-15T09:49:00.000+08:00

Blackbird singing in the dead of night

Take these broken wings and learn to fly

All your life

You were only waiting for this moment to arrive

Blackbird, fly.

Lead me.

2011-08-08T01:24:00.000+08:00

Lead me with strong hands

Stand up when I can't

Don't leave me

Hungry for love, chasing dreams

But what about us?

Show me, you're willing to fight

That I'm still, the love of your life

I know we call this our home

But I still feel, alone.

So Father, give me the strength

To be everything I'm called to be

Oh Father, show me the way

To lead them

Won't you lead me?

10 things to be thankful for.

2011-07-21T20:17:00.001+08:00

1. Work experience where I am now. (Esp my classmates there too)

2. Cell members (x23)

3. Good food when I come home (Less than three)

4. Pretty skies when I come home (even though the weather is madness)

5. Good music =D

6. All the love and support from friends in the past few weeks. You know who you are!

7. Good books

8. Feelings (Double edged sword, but I'm still grateful no matter which way it cuts)

9. Little adventures

10. A good night's sleep

I might be a grumpy old bore at times, but I know the heart of life is good (to steal from John Mayer)

Can't wait for next next week; for there, a new adventure awaits. =)

This is the way that I say-

2011-07-17T18:23:00.000+08:00

Hello, good evening, how are you?

What makes your rising sun so new?

Don't know if you read this or not (I remember giving the link to you once) but if you're reading this, come back soon. =( The things we do just kinda suck without you with us to share it with.

King Lear

2011-07-10T17:17:00.000+08:00

Have more than thou showest,
Speak less than thou knowest,
Lend less than thou owest,
Ride more than thou goest,
Learn more than thou trowest,
Set less than thou throwest;
Leave thy drink and thy whore,And keep in-a-door,
And thou shall have more
Than two tens to a score.

The Fool, Scene IV

I want to dance.

2011-07-06T23:24:00.001+08:00

"Observe how Christ loved us. His love was not cautious but extravagant.
He didn't love in order to get something from us but to give everything of himself to us.
Love like that." Ephesians 5:1-2

The 14th, the 20, and the One.

2011-06-19T02:12:00.000+08:00

Thank you.

You didn't know it, but it came on a day that I really needed some sunshine in my life. =)

For the first time

2011-06-16T21:54:00.000+08:00

Oh, these times are hard

Yeah they're driving us crazy

Don't give up on me baby

Nothing good comes out of being awake at 2.

2011-06-11T01:44:00.001+08:00

I am quite possibly one of those rare creatures that does not have patience for korean dramas.

oops.

My thinker side gets grumpy because the lovey-dovey stuff slows down the plot. I recently tried to watch a drama, and I got bored so I went to read the summary. I wound up being amused more by the style of writing and the sarcasm than the actual plot.

My feeler side gets too emotionally caught up in the lovey-dovey stuff and I wind up getting stupid dreams. Or nightmares, depending on the situation.

Grumpy + emotionally unstable = a recipe for disaster.

Shall stick to mind-boogling stuff like White Collar. Whoo new season! =D

This is four words.

2011-06-06T21:40:00.000+08:00

X MEN WAS AWESOME.

Never too small.

2011-06-04T23:48:00.000+08:00

The boy looked in his lunchbox

At the little that he had

He wasn't sure what good it'll do

There were thousands to be fed...

But he saw the twinkling eyes of Jesus

The kindness in his smile

And the boy cried out with the trust of a child

He said

Take my 5 loaves and 2 fishes

Do with it as you will

I surrender

Take my fears, my inhibitions

All my buderns, my ambitions

You can use it all, I hope it's not small.

Replacement.

2011-06-03T00:13:00.000+08:00

On the off-chance that anyone still visits this blog, hello! =)

I've done away with the old contents, and I'm starting anew again. It's so strange to see this blog all squeaky clean, but it's so liberating at the same time.

And I -hope- that I've grown a little wiser, a little kinder and a little more encouraging than the me that I was a few years back.

So here's to June- a new slate.