Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Sinners yet forgiven

Yes... lets face it.... WE ALL SIN .... not trying to condemn us or anything but its human to sin. The reason why this post came up to me was what I did randomly always.... flipping through the bible hoping God would speak to me through the page where i will stop. (Lol) yea.... soo i almost did it until i saw a poem i copy in a piece of paper in the bible. The poem was copied from one of the pictures in St. Lucas Centre, lols. It goes like this

When things go wrong,as they sometimes will,
When the road you're trudging, seems all uphill.
When the funds are low, and the debts are high,
And you want to smile, but have to sigh.

When care is pressing, you down abit,
If you must, but don't you quit.

Life is queer, with its twist and turns,
As everyone of us, sometimes learn.
And many a failure, turn about,
When he(Jesus) might have won have he stuck it out?

Don't give up, though the pace seems slow
You may succeed, with another blow

Success is failure, turn inside out,
The silver tint, of the clouds of doubt.
And you never can tell, how close you are,
It may be near, when it seems so far.

So stick in the fight, when you're hardest hit,
It is when things seems worse, you must not quit.

Don't quit! (forgetting what lies behind and reaching foward to what lies ahead) Phil 3:13

Yes, its long but meaningful. I was curious what this poem is about. I thought its only life in general, but specifically what?? So i looked into Phil 3:13. It was St.Paul's message to the Phillipians, saying "Of course my friends, I really do not think I have already won it; the one thing i do, however is to forget what is behind me and do my best to reach what is ahead"

Then, i flip to the book of the first letter to Timothy. I read BLINDLY then my eyes were caught on the verse 1 Tim 1:12-16. It speaks of Paul's conversion to Chriastianity. Now for those who don't know Paul, he was a Pharisee and prosecuted the Catholics in the beginning after Christ's ascension into heaven when the gospel was preach. He also stoned one of the faithful disciple to death. Altho he did alot of bad stuff, in the end it was he who contributed the most in preaching the Gospel worldwide!

So from his story, we can conclude one thing. Everyone is a sinner, even a Saint! Then we should learn from his story. to forget what wrong we do in the past, no matter how bad. Lying, stealing, everything will be of the past, provided that only you repent and make an effort to stop sinning. Paul doesn't just stop by just believing in Jesus, he became one of his faithful apostle and went to the extend to go againts the pharisees and spread the gospel. So we should repent, confessing our sins through the sacrament of confession is not enough. This include prayer and time of course. This isn't just a one day thing.... It might be longer than 20 years to just stop yourself from doing one sin! But always believe in God's promise of prayer that He will help you to stop sinning. Keep on praying and keep on trying. NEVER GIVE UP! Do not give up on the hope that Jesus death on the cross means that sin will not overpower our lives! Which brings us backs to the poem itself :).

I would like to end with this.
Fr.John Corapi shared this message:
Everyone has a bad habit, it might be pornography, sexual harrasments , stealing, one-night stand. I don't care who you are you have a weakness. Everyone has one~


Sunday, July 18, 2010

crazy saturday and sunday

Yesterday (Saturday) , instead of having my usal morning add maths tuition, went off to a program called CLIOD (College Life In One Day) program organise by Taylor's College..... i pick Architecture class instead off SAM (South Australian Matriculation) which Amelia picked. Well it was fun. In Architecture class, we get to build stuff with legos. Some were chosen to build buildings while some were chosen to build a fotress/base. Then the fotress will present their model and say its advantage in defence, design and shape while the weapons will be presented and state their effectiveness againts which fotress they choose to destroy. Then we were ask to build bridges from straws and legos with the help of cellophone tape. It was fun, but too bad no pics. Then they days went on as usual, go to tuition on the afternoon and then mass.

For this morning, went off to the Sri Sarjana Form 4/5 revision for physics. Wanted to go for chemistry but went to walk walk instead with Isaac and Jonathan... went for lunch at hock lee, then go window shopping, and more window shopping and then Jonathan say, lets go 'The Rock Shop'. This shop, my first impression was, WTF! Seriously??... but when i saw the brands and the price i was like @.@.... imagine a original surf pants could cost you bout easily more than 100 ringgit? but here its like half price!!! yea, but din buy anything cos no money =.=" LOL...... sad life... haha... will go back there to buy something to fill my wardrobe!! And then went off to 'OneTJ' to look at computers specs and stuff.... Isaac remember about his father's coming birthday and bought him an 8GB pendrive.... and Jonathan just wanna find out more about the laptop he wishes to buy :O.....then we went home....well practically, they went hom....Jon was lazy to drive me back home, so he drop me at Isaac's place and i walk home ....... 40 minutes... reach home and sit in front of the computer till now.... so yea :P well, thats what has been happening to my life so far i guess? Chaoz~

Sunday, July 4, 2010

7 months, and SPM is nearing......

Lols, its just as u had read it up there......time seriously move so fast as if someone wants us to die faster O.o , oh well, cant say much about it tho....... neway, updates since a very very long time......
Came back from MYC, was quite fun but as i had experience in camps, organizing one is such a tough job...... seriously.... and i've been on 3 and they give me a handful of stuff.
And after the camp it was nothing much. We did a YCS gathering for that and it was one of the Evaluation Meeting for the younger generations to take over our post :D . Had fun in the meeting, yes, the people are actually quite good for their first times because they are in comittee since this year, but last time, it was only me, damien and dick..... haizz, and we are so new, but damien took up the courage to speak so he get the president post :S, boo hoo =.=" haha. Neway, notice some tweaks here and there but the whole thing was ok for the meeting....... we only had a hard time to post them in the comittees as they are the current comittees as well and there are new comittees too.
Then there is parent's day, and instead of teachers complaining its parents =.=" the usual larh.... haizz, "my mum was like, he is always in front of the computer at home" ....haizz.... wad to do ryte.... and i found out i havent get my form 4 YCS marks :O..... so now my current KK marks is 0.... seriously.... this KK thing in our year SUCK! I mean, why is the government doing so..... if there is alot of candidate to choose from to give scholarship, then why not all , invest money on them , on the young.... so that our country can grow intellectually .... not wasting some billions of ringgit trying to connect Sarawak and Sabah to west Malaysia...........
Haizzzz....school is not about competition, its about education and social life.....sometimes i dunno why the heck im going to school anymore......and yea, met some really nice friends in MYC, Rex...( lols... I wud have met him sooner if i was serving for ER this year but no.... my parents did not allow me to and during that weekend they go Sematan... WTF ryte, i missed one ER because of this.... but i guess wad to do la. God ask me to obey them anyways........), Michelle Yap(someone's gf *coughcough* , Blaise Tan (Ben's bro) and some others :D , nice meeting with u all and hope you can stand my akwardness,lameness and stupidness :)