Thinking Right

Its exam season and as I was helping out some juniors with their subjects, i realized that most of them were aiming for a pass because they know their capabilities with academics. I didn't give much thought to it as they are thousands of students in my college and there ought to be people that are better off with academics and the not so well-offs. But as i ponder on it, i began to think that it is not always necessarily true, to aim for what we think we can and not think above that.

I remember someone told me a story about grasshoppers. Well obviously the best think they do beside being green is that they hop. If someone were to catch a grasshopper, place it in a box, and place a cover over it, the grasshopper would start hopping in means of freeing itself. But as it hops, it hits the cover, and it continues to hop and hit, hop and hit. After some time, when that someone frees the grasshopper, it will start hopping at a height lower than when it was in the box with the cover because it thinks it will hit the cover again. Which is way below what its full potential could ever be, but sadly, it doesn't know.

Like the words in the photo i took in an art exhibition, the artist knows very well of her ability and capabilities. She knows there's things she can imagine and draw; there's also things she can imagine but cannot draw;

"but could I draw things I cannot imagine, that interest me greatly" :)

Don't put a cap over yourself, if you dare to think above what you can or cannot, who knows what could happen?

:) Cheers!

Look At The Birds

"...they do not sow or reap or store away barns,

and yet your heavenly Father feed them

Are you not much more valuable than they?" :)

"Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes?

Who of you, by worrying can add a single hour to his life?"

Mathew 6:25-27

"我是一只小小小小鸟", it's a nice song, but not really meaningful at all! Its exam season again, and i shall constantly remind myself how different i am compare to a bird :)

and btw, Happy Birthday Roselind! :)

pigeons beside a sushi shop by the road :)

Free Fallin

If it wasn't for the urgency of things,

If there wasn't that heavy demand to rush through everything with you,

I would take things slow, as if time doesn't matter,

and get to know every bit of you, you're past present and plans of tomorrow,

just to let time pass us by, and indulge in our intimacy

*&#@!$%!!!

Dare to Believe Above The Imaginable

The call to fervent prayer, the call to power evangelism, the call of planting churches, the call not just to go to church but BE the church, the call to love, the call to creativity, the call to purity, the call to excellence, the call to be willing to lay down our lives for the will of God to invade Earth.

ANSWER IT!!!

I was slapped in the face again through the realization that we TRULY CANNOT perceive or understand things with our own understanding because the things we understand are limited only to things we've learned or experienced. There are great things out there that we've yet to understand but that doesn't mean its not true nor should it shun us from experiencing it!


Am truly inspired by Jaeson Ma of his willingness to lay down his life and pray till God shows up and start doing great signs and wonders! Thank you for opening up my eyes to many things that I've limited it through my understanding and thoughts. Being in an environment where revival is not present does not mean that it should not be a status quo that we look forward to! Believe in greater things, greater than you can even imagine!

Your kingdom come, Your will be done!

Overdue Post

Was cleaning my camera this morning for the weekend's trip when i realize that a lot of my photos are kept in nicely in the small yellow folders of my computer storage drive without acknowledging them to nearly anyone. I guess it caught my mind that it would probably be a waste of time to snap photos and just keep them till Kingdom come. So here's a tiny fraction of my hundred Gigabyte of photos of Melbourne :)

Melbourne has a vibrant, up beat and multi-cultural city which is strategically located in the middle of Victoria state. The brilliant architecture is one of the many aspects that really got me excited besides the very efficient transportation, colorful people all along the streets, performers and rallies, the wide choices of food, as well as the bustling people that always held a smile on their face :)

That is the Eureka tower, the tallest building in Melbourne accessible to the public for breath taking views of the city. and guess what, i did not spend RM36 to go up there :D

i took this photo standing in front of

Federation Square! with art galleries, short film screenings, exhibitions, festivals and cafes. Told you the architecture over there kills.

and opposite Federation Square is

Flinder's Station. A main train station hub in the city. Bet you love the looks of that building :)

Going around Melbourne wasn't very confusing, not only because the whole city is a rectangle box with intersections in it, but many thanks to the company i had which brought me along familiarizing the streets and good restaurants :p I hearts Japanese food!

One of the many includes:

Christopher Bong

The only Bong of its year in the whole of Victoria State.

and

Ling Yien Yien

who was once writing on this blog as well, long long time ago

Both of them are friends from Kuching which i sort of grew up with. I knew Chris since i was 7, and Yien, 13? Both are lucky enough to be studying in Melbourne University, which was where i once wanted to study architecture so badly. But all is good, being there as a random visitor thinking of the "what if's" and "what could've been", i'm happy and contented to say that i am glad i stayed in Malaysia, which made me who i am right now :)

Melbourne University

they're sort-of-canteen

what cha looking at brother

yeap, that's in their university

they're everywhere

what a way to promote school events! Bet is more environmental then giving out flyers or printing banners, you think so? :p

ah, melbourne :)

Am heading to Ipoh with mum this weekend,

pray for a GOOD time and that God will show up non-stop through the days.

Oh, and pray that i will not keep the photos of this weekend to myself :)

Take care!

Cause its You and Me

You and me, we're actually very much in common. We are all given the natural talent of appreciating the beauty of sceneries outside our window, we have the ability to enjoy breathing in that first lung-full of air every morning when we wake up from our dreams, we all have sophisticated taste buds that has the capability of lighting up the whole room whenever we have a big mouthful of the food we love, how marvelous it is that when certain things interacted with us, could create such wonderful magic.

College has been really good to me. The cafeteria at the pool side is serving well-fried hash browns and scrambled egg with coffee. I still find photography and singing irresistible which both gives me the tingling's despite their subjectivity . Studies are piling up but I've decided to get work started so that last minute late nights would not be as dreadful. Even though my pocket is rather empty, i was surprise to be be able to visit the cinema twice last month despite vowing to myself not to at the beginning of the month. And i found love for a new sport which gets you dirty and sweaty but still, very happy :)

We do share a lot of things in common. We like to relate with people, people that we are able to relate with especially. We enjoy good company, which makes you forget about time and the fact that class is 8am the next morning. We like to receive personal text messages that reminds you of people that love and care about you. Sometimes, we take interest and get excited as well over things that make people around us jump on their feet. How beautiful it is to love our family which we're born into and sealed with the knot of blood and love. Its an amazing thing that we humans can have so much to say and feel about the sparkles, fire-works, shooting stars and butterflies that we have for each other although all of that, are just a small fraction of how we can describe the chemistry we have for human beings.

To love or not to love. I am glad i grew out of it and understand why i should love others as much as i do for myself. What a great feeling it is to see great things in every person and to love them without expecting benefits, any hourly basis consulting fee or even appreciation. Maybe i should appreciate them even more for teaching me patience and character. Relating with people is such a great adventure. It is not limited to how you can describe about steam burgers or football playing, it gives you the tingling's way more than what the material things can. I'm glad i take joy in meeting people, which gushes unlimited vibrant emotions which are as indescribable as how i felt trying to avoid a chocolate-selling-fund-raising-friend in the canteen but ended up finding it a nice gift indeed. Ain't that indescribable? haha

The greatest thing in common about you and me is, though many times kept unsaid, we have deep hunger for many things we can't see. Assurance, peace, satisfaction, sense of belonging and acceptance to name a few. In fact these are all the really matters at the end of the pursuit of all there is to pursue. We crave for them and seek to find it in different places with different ways. We want to know that we are appreciated, honored, blameless and loved. Yes, we all want to be love disregard of how independent, strong and tough we can be, we want to have someone exclusive to love and be love by, we want to be full and not empty. But as much as we try to rule things out optimistically, why is there always that something missing? Like how buying insurance does not really insure your heart with true assurance.


After stepping into the 3rd year of college, days have been drastically different as the past two years were literally packed with different societies and juggling different positions in each of them. Yea it helped me in lots of ways be it personality developing, CV building and network widening. But i've decided to stopped all of them and be only an active member for a local church. I won't say church is not packed, but it just seem to have a higher significance. Why, or how you may ask? Well because apart from the first two wonderful encounter we can have with the materials and the marvelous people around us, there is actually another greater phase of experience. An experience that not only satisfies our body like how hash browns and pop corns at the cinema does, or like how interacting with people and lovers saturates our soul, this phase has the highest nature of satisfying ALL that was said about the needs and wants of us. Assurance, peace, love, faith, they grow and mature as we deepen our understanding in this amazing person that made all these accessible. Someone that has a radical love and the ability to make miracles in every difficult situation. And once a person knows how much he or she is loved and treasured, everything's different. To look back at the years like pages of a diary, the true satisfaction, joy and life about college is to come to know, understand and grow in knowing Jesus who was God and yet came to Earth and died for us so that as a result, anyone that would respond and just acknowledge of His priceless love in return will have no needs unfulfilled!


You and me, we're actually very much in common, we need the excitement and the variety of ice cream flavor to choose from (can you imagine Baskin Robbins selling just one flavor?) We need different people in our lives at different times to make life interesting. And yet we also need God in our lives because it is only through Him that we may enjoy and reap the "unseens" and find lasting satisfaction.However of all three needs and experiences we have in life, the latter is actually the greatest. Because we can have the best food and entertainment and have no joy; we can have the best lover and have no peace and assurance; but if we put God first above all these, life can be truly fulfilling and every second (including this very one as you read this) is worth enjoying :)

Smoking Indian outside the window

"Hey Dave"

"What?"

"You look horrible with that cigarette Dave"

"No its an accessory"

"it still looks bad =.="

TGI-Friday

All i feel like doing today is,

to rest under the shades of the trees outside my window, watch the clouds drift by on the light blue sky, listen to the music that i never had time for, read a book in my own secret world, and have plenty of coffee

Coffee's ready, picked the perfect book for the perfect Friday, turned on a couple of songs, chose the most favorable chair, laid back, took a deep breathe and flipped the first page..





*phone rings.

Well its not always about what you feel like ain't it?

Ah wells,

it does not always have to be all about us i reckon :)


*photo taken from my room

But the greatest of these is Love

"For God so love the world that He gave His only begotten son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life"

Too often we repeat this verse, with such faithfulness that as if the 16th verse of chapter 3 in the book of John has been printed on the surface of our hearts. I recalled the first time i went to Canaan land to buy my first bible, it was the only verse that i knew that i could compare it between the different versions of translation. But with all honesty, I've never gave this world-wide used verse a deep thought, never even thought of why of so many lines there is in the full bible with such thin pages, this verse was so often-ly seen.

Have you?

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At times, its hard to love people that are naturally of no significance to you, a course-mate that you've never talk to, a stranger that rubs off your shoulder on a busy day. At times, its difficult to care for people that does not bother whether you exist or not, the people you are reaching out to, the back slided ones that would really prefer if you could stop calling them. And at times, it would be even tougher to love the ones that brought hurt and pain to you, an abusive father, someone that humiliated you, or a cheating partner.

I mean, think about it, why do you bother loving people that just do not care? Why pour out your heart to people that prefer you to disappear? Why love the ones that has so unfairly broken your heart, why?

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Had a great dinner and movie over Eclipse, despite having heard so many negative criticism over the movie. Too absurd they may say. Bella was so in love with Edward that the world does not matter anymore, that if a bullet were to come by one of them the other would not hesitant but to take it for the other, and that without the other there seem to be no meaning to life. Such intensity and passion. Maybe that's why people don't like it, that they think love of such measure does not exist, or it's just too much. I continue watching them parading their love, and the movie shifted gears suddenly the next thing you see Bella who just accepted Edward's proposal got into a real passionate kiss with Jacob right in front of him.

Drama. The sharpest knife into Jacob's throat would not even be enough to ceased the pain of hearing Jacob's mind caressing intensely on the one Edward love so much. But Stephanie Mayer did not write such brutal scenes after that, she made Edward stand still, and take no hate nor anger upon anyone...but why?

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"For God so love the world that He gave His only begotten son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life"

When i re-read this verse, it started speaking to me from mere memorizing into deeper revelation. It started of with the last line, that whoever believes in Him would not have to go to hell no more but rejoice in heaven for eternity. How great is that! Hallelujah!

But then, as this verse appears through time, the focus somehow shifted from the emphasis of heaven and hell to the first few words. "For God so love the world". Have we thought of that.

God so love the world, the world that has forgotten about Him and His love, the world that is not even the size of a speck of dust as compared to the Universe, the world that walks on its track like any stranger on the street, the world that does not care whether God exist, the world that does not want God's love, and tramples on it like a joke, the world that rejects His love, and betrays Him since the beginning of man, the world that is like His imprinted lover, destined to love Him back but yet chasing after other foolish and insignificant things, hugging and kissing passionately on the lips of things opposing to God and neglects totally how God has to feel about it..............

Yes, even though the world does not appreciate Him who gave up everything for us, John 3:16 says, He so love the world, that upon all that could possibly be imagined, He still chose to give His son and die for the world, the world who is us. Think about it.

I really just can't possibly imagine if i were to be in God shoes, pouring out His unconditional love even if we do the most foolish things to ignore, mistreat, trample, joke, gossip, laugh, blasphemy and betray His love. I don't know about you, but we who have known and has responded to such precious love by accepting Him, what more do we have against others? That Heaven's unconditional love is in us no matter what we did or will do, what more do we have to withhold against people that ignores us, mistreat us and hurt us.

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During prayer last night in that small stuffy room after a repeated hurt and the questioning of love, we sang this song over and over again knowing deep inside that God has granted all the answers that we ever need..

"Yes I Love you with the Love of the Lord,

Yes I Love you with the Love of the Lord,

I can see it in you, the beauty of my King

Yes I Love you with the Love of the Lord"

*photo taken in the beautiful house of God in Sydney Hillsong

Being typical for a purpose

I've live, in one of those, for 2 years

Typical, normal, nothing special

and people ask why don't you move out?

well...

just because :)

Jason Castro

The song just makes you happy :)

For all the heart-breakers and heart-brokeners, enjoy :)

Streets and waffle ice cream

:) i'll buy you one