Of You and me

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• pour a bucket of blood to inspire a drop

• its not what you expect, its what you inspect

• always give the benefit of the doubt

• economize to evangelize

• the window model

• the sandwich model

• never do something that other can do; do something that no one else can do such that together, we will do more for the Kingdom

• Kingdom Mentality

• willingness is key

• availability over ability

• character is key when choosing leader

• we believe God so much that’s why we work so hard

• we emphasize everything according to the weight-age of the bible

• we can have quantity without quality but when we have quality, we will have quantity.

• serve God as if no one else is doing it

• Jesus #1, Others #2, I #3

• it's normal to grow

• love God, love people

• do all that is humanly possible leaving the impossible to God

• 99% of the people will not do anything until they are being challenged to

• major on the major and minor on the minor

• accounting versus informing


Here is a list of HOPE values I found from Ps Jeff's blog. Maybe it's time to start remembering them.

Just finished a hectic week of tests and papers. To make the long story short, had 3 papers - 2 take home tests and 1 project report to complete by Friday. Man, it's no joke. It's not a matter of 'I should have finished it long ago'. The take home tests came one last wed and one on tues, the report can only be done after mon's movie screening. It was really no joke.

I just wanna thank God for giving the ideas to complete these 3 papers. It's really no no no joke to do all these. As the saying goes, I have done what is humanly possible and left the impossible to God. I really dun believe that it's entirely my own effort. It's an effort with God. Apparently, He has shown His grace once more. Well... what to say, didn't the Bible already tell us that Jesus is the good shepherd?


Wednesday saw the first MACHO gathering of the semester. The topic of the gathering proves to be very relevant to most of the brothers... in fact all of the brothers. It was about courtship and dating. It makes me think of noslein. In case you all dun know, noslein is someone I know who is currently having a crush on one of his friends, bought a necklace with a heart and planning to propose to her (dunno for what) on Friday. Perhaps the one thing I was thinking about is why do we, as guys, wanna propose to another girl to go 'steady' with us? But a few things to clarify... one thing actually, that is it is normal for guys to be interested in another girl. I think we have to ask ourselves, why are we attracted to the girl, or what the girl has that really attracts us. Maybe sometimes it's cos the first impression, maybe sometimes it's cos of the long time together that feelings begin to emerge, maybe sometimes we are just horny. A lot of things to think about, but certainly, when we are so-called 'in love', we start to think with our little head, we dun start contemplating whether the girl is someone we know we can spend the rest of the life with. Of course, at the start of every relationship, the couple is forever optimistic that it will turn out fine, and it will last. But hello... on what basis?

Thank God for MACHO.

In any case, I joined the History Society Special Project Committee a few hours ago, under the counsel of Benaiah and QP. Decided that maybe it's the breakthrough move I needed to make more new friends outside of the HQ circle. I was quite surprised that Shuyi also decided to join in as well. Well, since that the presence of Eric worked. Looking forward to work with him soon.

In the meantime, signing off from school.

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