A toast to make!

We noticed a girl drinking Isomax during B.U.G. yesterday. Why is she so noticeable then?? Well.. She was dressed in black (like most of the people there), drinking Isomax (like most of the people there), standing under the shed (like everybody cause it's raining) and standing there like a wet chicken (cause stayed under the rain just to get wet). Eh.. Sorry.. Still haven't go into the point. She's noticeable because...

-Blurr picture due to the main character moving here and there, laughing everywhere...-

LOADING...

-ISOMAX is VERY nice after staying under the rain...-

LOADING...

-Don't take my photo la.. I shy shy wan ar...-

LOADING...

Because...

SHE"S THE BIRTHDAY GIRL!!!!!

Happy Birthday Eliza!!! A year older, a year closer to maturity. May God bless you in whatever you do!! =)

E - emotional creature (like most of the girls)
L – love bird
I – important (to the youths in Elim)
Z - zyz (for more info call Clarence)
A – aarrgghh (she likes to shout)

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Carmen & Clarence

Who's Carmen?

A picture, people says paint a thousand words. So with all this shout out for Carmen's birthday, visitors to the blog might ask who's Carmen? So to not disappoint the masses, I have here a picture(s) of the birthday girl. Tada.........

Now with a face(s) to the name, people might still ask who's Carmen? So folks, anyone out there can try to describe Carmen? Tu Xin (the previous post) basically summed it up pretty good. And permit me to add one thing that stuck to my mind since knowing you. The thing that stuck to my mind was that you had a nightmare of not doing that well in your PMR. Now, people (that I know) usually have nightmares of having exams not so much of getting the results after the exams. Now, if you freaked out for PMR, I really would like to know of your dreams about SPM. Chill Girl and have a Happy Birthday.

Katan

shouting out loud!

you can't (and shouldn't) write a birthday shout out for yourself, so i'll do it for you.

So Kar Men, here's one for you.

to the one who runs about,
to the one to shouts about,
to the one who toils about, Happy Birthday =)

to the one who smiles a lot,
to the one who cries away,
to the one who grumbles endlessly, Happy Birthday =)

to you, who have taught me about serving God,
to you, who have always updated me with latest events,
to you, who have always smiled when I'm back, Happy Birthday =)

to you, a sister of everyone,
to you, a friend of bystanders,
to you, a faithful servant,
to you, Kar Men, Happy Birthday =)

my roommate says the post is complicated, but ah well, i feel like writing a weird birthday shoutout to Kar Men.

EY Program Part II

Here’s the second installment of the EY program. The second game was a competition to get the team across a row of chair. The respective team starts from one end and then move their way across the chairs. When the different team members meet, they then ‘one, two, som’ (for the life of me, could not remember what’s one two som in English) The loser gets kicked out and the winner proceeds on the chairs till he/she meets another opponent.

One Two Som!!!

Let’s do the mambo…

Steven, even the chair is trying to get away from you…

The next game is a copy from one of the TVB gameshows. We have 4 members from each team and the team leader is supposed to call out a number. At the same time, the team members are supposed to stand and if the number called out by the team leader matches the number of people from the other team that stood up, the tema that called out the number won. The loser will then need to roll a dice and based on the number shown on the dice, will then need to apply the said number of condiments on a bread and eat it. They got 6 condiments like curry powder, chocolate, salt and pepper, cinnamon and some other thick stuff which they tried to tell me and I just did not want to know (ignorance is bliss).

The teams faced off.

The six condiments

The six condiments on a piece of bread which a lucky youth managed to throw a six.

The lucky youth.

Katan

BUG Attack!!!

After months in planning and praying (OK, not that true but sounded great though, in reality we only planned it in about 1~2months time and it only showed the Glory of God as only He could pull this off in this short amount of time). We finally had our first BUG. On last Sunday (02/03/08), 5 pm, we saw a gathering of 100+ youths of Ipoh in YMCA for a time of gaming fun. (40+ for Ultimate Frisbee, 30+ for Captain’s Ball, 40+ for football) and this was only from a few churches as some did not manage to come due to the fact that many of the schools are having exams in the following week. In truth, the BUG was not exactly an overwhelming success but all the positive signs are there and we are looking forward to this coming Sunday BUG. (Personally, I enjoyed the games and the seeing the fun that the youths had; was very satisfying for me and seeing how the Lord provided, was very encouraging for me.) So here are the positives:

1. The Turnout!!! 100+ youths and that are only from a few churches. I shudder to think what would have happened had every church brought their full complement. Well as the Lord had brought in the people, I am sure He will also bring in the workers.

2. The weather!!! Earlier in the morning, I was sharing in the Sunday School class about faith and as an example I used the illustration of the two previous Inter Church Games whereby for the period leading to the ICG, has been raining and on the very day itself, we had perfect weather. (Well for the first ICG, we prayed that it would not rain, I got sunburned. For the second ICG, we got smarter and prayed for a nice weather, and we had perfect weather). So as it was for this BUG, it was raining every evening leading to Sunday. One of the youths asked whether we had any contingency plan in case it rain. Well, I replied no. At about 4pm, dark clouds were looming and truth to be told, I was apprehensive. And as I turned in to YMCA, a few drops of rain fell on my windshield. My faith was a wee bit shaken. One of the youths in the Sunday School asked me did I prayed enough, and I could only smile. At the end, we had…perfect weather!!! Truly praise the Lord. Though we did have a slight drizzle but it was only a short burst and did not interrupted the games at all and I don’t think many had realized that it rained.

3. The Volunteers!!! Here I have to say a BIG thank you to all the folks that helped out. From the coaches who taught, the older youths who showed much maturity in playing and participating in the teaching sessions when they could have easily played the games themselves, the helpers in setting up the field and logistics. And of course, lastly but surely not the least, our friend who came all the way down from KL and Seremban. A VERY BIG THANK YOU!!! Philip and Melinda for helping out with the football and Grandmaster Doug for the Frisbee Sessions.

4. The Funding!!! As with all activities, money is an important part not to the extent of making the world turn but close enough. And here we had a contribution of RM1K and in the planning, we decided to use the fund to get equipments for the BUG (balls, cones, bibs, Frisbee, etc) When we tabulated the cost it amounted to RM985. And then we realize that we still need to pay for the rental of the field from YMCA (Another BIG THANK YOU to YMCA as they have assisted us by providing the facilities and giving us a superb field at a very minimal cost. This would not be possible without their timely assistance) which incidentally was RM15 giving a grand total of RM1K. (I literally had goose bumps when we got the final amount. I don’t know about the others but here one main thought was echoing through my mind, Jehovah Jireh, God provides!!!)

There are many other positives which I am sure others could fill in. For me it was indeed a very good day, and here I am reminded by Chris Tomlin’s song “How great is Our God!” See you this coming Sunday BUG and let’s join our God in this wonderful work of His.

Katan.

PS: Where are the photos? Here are the few that I have, will post more when I get the others…

We need to get a better camera. The Frisbee here looks more like an UFO

Football!!! Future Ronaldos in the making.

The first BUG group. (many had left as this was taken at the end)