To all CPU and SAM students (and CAL as well!)
THERE IS CF THIS COMING FRIDAY (25th March 2011) at the same time, same place!
As much as it is a holiday, take a break from your assignments and do make an effort to come to fellowship with fellow believers! :)
Till then, see you there this Friday! :D
Let's come together and be blessed while having a rockin' time in God's presence! See you there~ =P
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Trials
Wellm it's not actually trials, it's the FINALS. CAL has started their AS and A2, and SAM is starting soon. Just posting this up to remind you guys, those of you who are burning the midnight oil, squeezing in last-minute past year papers, cramming in a year's worth of studies into several hours, hoping to regurgitate it perfectly the next morning, SLOW DOWN.
Take a moment to remember that it's not always possible to do all this by ourselves. We can push push push ourselves, "Ok I'm going to stay up till 5 a.m. to study!" and then fall asleep at 11 p.m. We can get ourselves fully prepared for a paper over the weekend, but then have a stomachache during the paper. Or to concentrate on one topic, only to sit for the paper and discover that it doesn't come out at all.
That very thing happened to a new friend of mine. She was a bright student, all prepared for her AS paper in the morning, when over the night she developed some stomach pain. By daybreak, it was so unbearable she had to call her mom to bring her to the hospital. The doctors discovered a tumour in her stomach and she had to undergo surgery to have it removed. She missed the rest of her papers so that she can recover from her surgery.
And I know she's not the only one. Many of us experience these things, where things just don't happen the way we'd like it to. Studying hard for an exam, but getting crap exams after that? I'm sure most of us are quite used to that situation. Being careless on an exam. Mis-reading an essay question and you get a big fat red egg on your paper. Forgetting your pencil lead and the examiner refuses to let you borrow someone else's during an objective paper. Getting a cacat-ed question paper where the last page wasn't printed, and you didn't realise till the last 2 minutes. Man, these things happen.
Basically, what I'm saying is, things don't go according to plan all the time. Not that God means ill of us, but sometimes, these things happen to remind us, hey you're getting a bit ahead of yourself eh? Exams exams exams. Is it worth putting your church aside? Your health? Friends? Family? Things just happen, and rather than cursing and cussing away, there's plenty we can learn from all this. Learn to let go and let God. I remember this Malay saying, "Manusia hanya merancang, Tuhan yang menentukan segalanya" which basically says that we can plan all we want, but what happens ultimately is in God's hands.
I'll end with some verses I'm sure most of you are familiar with, but it's still a verse that provides me with comfort on nights before exams.
Trust in the LORD with all your heart
and lean not on your own understanding;
in all your ways acknowledge him,
and he will make your paths straight.
Proverbs 3:5-6
God bless ya guys! And all the best!
Take a moment to remember that it's not always possible to do all this by ourselves. We can push push push ourselves, "Ok I'm going to stay up till 5 a.m. to study!" and then fall asleep at 11 p.m. We can get ourselves fully prepared for a paper over the weekend, but then have a stomachache during the paper. Or to concentrate on one topic, only to sit for the paper and discover that it doesn't come out at all.
That very thing happened to a new friend of mine. She was a bright student, all prepared for her AS paper in the morning, when over the night she developed some stomach pain. By daybreak, it was so unbearable she had to call her mom to bring her to the hospital. The doctors discovered a tumour in her stomach and she had to undergo surgery to have it removed. She missed the rest of her papers so that she can recover from her surgery.
And I know she's not the only one. Many of us experience these things, where things just don't happen the way we'd like it to. Studying hard for an exam, but getting crap exams after that? I'm sure most of us are quite used to that situation. Being careless on an exam. Mis-reading an essay question and you get a big fat red egg on your paper. Forgetting your pencil lead and the examiner refuses to let you borrow someone else's during an objective paper. Getting a cacat-ed question paper where the last page wasn't printed, and you didn't realise till the last 2 minutes. Man, these things happen.
Basically, what I'm saying is, things don't go according to plan all the time. Not that God means ill of us, but sometimes, these things happen to remind us, hey you're getting a bit ahead of yourself eh? Exams exams exams. Is it worth putting your church aside? Your health? Friends? Family? Things just happen, and rather than cursing and cussing away, there's plenty we can learn from all this. Learn to let go and let God. I remember this Malay saying, "Manusia hanya merancang, Tuhan yang menentukan segalanya" which basically says that we can plan all we want, but what happens ultimately is in God's hands.
I'll end with some verses I'm sure most of you are familiar with, but it's still a verse that provides me with comfort on nights before exams.
Trust in the LORD with all your heart
and lean not on your own understanding;
in all your ways acknowledge him,
and he will make your paths straight.
Proverbs 3:5-6
God bless ya guys! And all the best!
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Futsal Outing
Heya guys, just wanna inform you all that although this Friday is a public holiday and there's no college, thus no CF too, we're having an outing!
Yeah we'll be heading to Sports Planet Subang for some futsal, and bonding at the same time. A family that sweats together, stays together! (whaddayamean you haven't heard that before?)
Even if you have a bench leg (read: kaki bangku) don't worry, so am I! Those of us who can't kick the ball can simply kick the air. We'll tell them we're practising martial arts. NO LAR. Don't be so self conscious wei. Just go there, sweat it out and have some fun.
Details are as follows:
Place: Sports Planet, Subang
Time: 10.oo a.m., Friday
Meetup location: Taylor's Subang guardhouse, at 9.30 a.m.
Do RSVP! So we can expect how many people are coming and whether or not you need transport. The meetup location is especially for those who don't have transport and/or don't know the way. You can head straight to Sports Planet if you already know the place.
If you are coming, or bringing a friend along too, drop us a mail at taylorscf@gmail.com, leave a message in the chatbox on the right, or SMS me directly at 017-3674123. Please indicate your name and your mode of transport.
Well that's all, any enquiries feel free to contact us as well. Take care and GOD BLESS. =P
Yeah we'll be heading to Sports Planet Subang for some futsal, and bonding at the same time. A family that sweats together, stays together! (whaddayamean you haven't heard that before?)
Even if you have a bench leg (read: kaki bangku) don't worry, so am I! Those of us who can't kick the ball can simply kick the air. We'll tell them we're practising martial arts. NO LAR. Don't be so self conscious wei. Just go there, sweat it out and have some fun.
Details are as follows:
Place: Sports Planet, Subang
Time: 10.oo a.m., Friday
Meetup location: Taylor's Subang guardhouse, at 9.30 a.m.
Do RSVP! So we can expect how many people are coming and whether or not you need transport. The meetup location is especially for those who don't have transport and/or don't know the way. You can head straight to Sports Planet if you already know the place.
If you are coming, or bringing a friend along too, drop us a mail at taylorscf@gmail.com, leave a message in the chatbox on the right, or SMS me directly at 017-3674123. Please indicate your name and your mode of transport.
Well that's all, any enquiries feel free to contact us as well. Take care and GOD BLESS. =P
Sunday, August 22, 2010
a lesson in obedience
I Will Move the Rock
by Cindy Lu
A man was sleeping at night in his cabin when suddenly his room filled with light and the Savior appeared. The Lord told the man he had work for him to do and showed him a large rock in front of his cabin. The Lord explained that the man was to push against the rock with all his might.
This the man did, day after day. For many years he toiled from sun up to sun down, his shoulders set squarely against the cold, massive surface of the unmoving rock, pushing with all his might. Each night the man returned to his cabin sore and worn out, feeling that his whole day had been spent in vain.
Seeing that the man was showing signs of discouragement, Satan decided to enter the picture by placing thoughts into the man's mind such as: "You have been pushing against that rock for a long time, and it hasn't budged. Why kill yourself over this? You are never going to move it."
Thus giving the man the impression that the task was impossible and that he was a failure, these thoughts discouraged and disheartened the man even more. "Why kill myself over this?" he thought. "I'll just put in my time, giving just the minimum effort, and that will be good enough."
And that he planned to do until one day he decided to make it a matter of prayer and take his troubled thoughts to the Lord. "Lord," he said, "I have labored long and hard in your service, putting all my strength to do that which you have asked. Yet, after all this time, I have not even budged that rock by half a millimeter. What is wrong? Why am I failing?"
To this the Lord responded compassionately, "My friend, when I asked you to serve me and you accepted, I told you that your task was to push against the rock with all your strength, which you have done. Never once did I mention to you that I expected you to move it. Your task was to push. And now you come to me, with your strength spent, thinking that you have failed. But, is that really so? Look at yourself. Your arms are strong and muscled, your back sinewed and brown, your hands are callused from constant pressure, and your legs have become massive and hard. Through opposition you have grown much and your abilities now surpass that which you used to have. Yet you haven't moved the rock. But your calling was to be obedient and to push and to exercise your faith and trust in My wisdom. This you have done.
"I, my friend, will now move the rock."
At times when we hear a word from God, we tend to use our own intellect to decipher what he wants, when actually what God wants is just simple obedience and faith in him...
By all means, exercise the faith that moves mountains, but it is still God who moves the mountains.
God, You call us to obedience everyday. Sometimes, I want to see beyond obedience. I want to know why, how and when. Yet, it is usually long after the obedience that I begin to realize what Your plan was back then. So help me just be obedient for today. I am learning, Lord that by being obedient today, I am stronger for tomorrow. In Jesus' Name, AMEN!
recently a friend of mine used an analogy to describe what she was going through, she said it was as if she just kept climbing out of the dark hole she was in but just as she was so close to the top, she would fall again, and have to start climbing out from scratch. and i just remembered this story again. and i'm not too sure if my theory is correct, but i feel it might be very similar. as she struggles with her issues, she is pushing the rock, getting stronger each time. and similarly, as we face all the difficulties in our lives, we are called to climb, to push, and ultimately to let God bring the victory. :) and you'll discover that the climb is what will bring you closer to God, deeper with Him and give you strength to call out to others in the same dark hole. :)
God bless you all! :)
by Cindy Lu
A man was sleeping at night in his cabin when suddenly his room filled with light and the Savior appeared. The Lord told the man he had work for him to do and showed him a large rock in front of his cabin. The Lord explained that the man was to push against the rock with all his might.
This the man did, day after day. For many years he toiled from sun up to sun down, his shoulders set squarely against the cold, massive surface of the unmoving rock, pushing with all his might. Each night the man returned to his cabin sore and worn out, feeling that his whole day had been spent in vain.
Seeing that the man was showing signs of discouragement, Satan decided to enter the picture by placing thoughts into the man's mind such as: "You have been pushing against that rock for a long time, and it hasn't budged. Why kill yourself over this? You are never going to move it."
Thus giving the man the impression that the task was impossible and that he was a failure, these thoughts discouraged and disheartened the man even more. "Why kill myself over this?" he thought. "I'll just put in my time, giving just the minimum effort, and that will be good enough."
And that he planned to do until one day he decided to make it a matter of prayer and take his troubled thoughts to the Lord. "Lord," he said, "I have labored long and hard in your service, putting all my strength to do that which you have asked. Yet, after all this time, I have not even budged that rock by half a millimeter. What is wrong? Why am I failing?"
To this the Lord responded compassionately, "My friend, when I asked you to serve me and you accepted, I told you that your task was to push against the rock with all your strength, which you have done. Never once did I mention to you that I expected you to move it. Your task was to push. And now you come to me, with your strength spent, thinking that you have failed. But, is that really so? Look at yourself. Your arms are strong and muscled, your back sinewed and brown, your hands are callused from constant pressure, and your legs have become massive and hard. Through opposition you have grown much and your abilities now surpass that which you used to have. Yet you haven't moved the rock. But your calling was to be obedient and to push and to exercise your faith and trust in My wisdom. This you have done.
"I, my friend, will now move the rock."
At times when we hear a word from God, we tend to use our own intellect to decipher what he wants, when actually what God wants is just simple obedience and faith in him...
By all means, exercise the faith that moves mountains, but it is still God who moves the mountains.
God, You call us to obedience everyday. Sometimes, I want to see beyond obedience. I want to know why, how and when. Yet, it is usually long after the obedience that I begin to realize what Your plan was back then. So help me just be obedient for today. I am learning, Lord that by being obedient today, I am stronger for tomorrow. In Jesus' Name, AMEN!
recently a friend of mine used an analogy to describe what she was going through, she said it was as if she just kept climbing out of the dark hole she was in but just as she was so close to the top, she would fall again, and have to start climbing out from scratch. and i just remembered this story again. and i'm not too sure if my theory is correct, but i feel it might be very similar. as she struggles with her issues, she is pushing the rock, getting stronger each time. and similarly, as we face all the difficulties in our lives, we are called to climb, to push, and ultimately to let God bring the victory. :) and you'll discover that the climb is what will bring you closer to God, deeper with Him and give you strength to call out to others in the same dark hole. :)
God bless you all! :)
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