Site Updates

* Change blog music.

* Added countdown timer (to count down the time of the results of my mission trip).

* Added my pics of Junting's birthday (group photo only) in Yahoo! Just click the link on "Photos of ME (aka YANDAO)". Filename is "junting Birthday Pics (Group Photo)".

* Added my wishlist.. well.. if u are a person who can fulfill some of my wishes, then i sincerely thank you.. however, if u can't, then forget it lohz.. take it as if u just reading a storybk ya?? dun need to feel obliged one.. btw, my 20th birthday is on 23/03.. so yupz.. welcome all presents.. *hint*.. =P

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allo.. update time..

well.. yesterday nite slept at 2.30am and woke up like 7.30am for church.. was really sleepy lohz..

anyway, the reason y i slept so late is becos' when i was about to off the computer and go to sleep (which is at about 11pm), i remembered tat today service, i was suppose to do a special item with huimin.. so yupz.. stayed up late and do the ppt lohz.. so after i finish tat song, i was like think i should do another song of the ppt which huimin and me going to sing during Valentine's Day service on 15/2/04.. so therefore i decide to do the ppt for tat lohz.. i was like do halfway, then fell asleep in front of the com lohz.. i was tat tired!

anyway, in the morning, went to church.. huimin led worship.. love the part of "My Redeemer Lives".. it has tat kind of hari raya feel becos' of the intro lohz.. and at a certain part, there is this part on we stop singing, and then we cont.. feel tat was a twist to the song!! so yupz.. High praise was also good today during huimin's worship.. Huimin, keep it up ya!! Good job!

then came the sermon part.. my pastor has talk about how some of the CNY (Chinese New Year) traditions has link to the olden times of the Passover of the Lamb in Exodus 12. it was definately very interesting! Well.. can see on ur faces tat u want to koe more.. so anyway, here it is:

* Chinese ppl eat nian gao during CNY (Nian gao is made up of rice flour but WITHOUT yeast -- unleavened) :

Similiar to Exodus 12:15-17:

"For seven days you are to eat bread made without yeast. On the first day remove the yeast from your houses, for whoever eats anything with yeast in it from the first day through the seventh must be cut off from Israel.
On the first day hold a sacred assembly, and another one on the seventh day. Do no work at all on these days, except to prepare food for everyone to eat-that is all you may do.
"Celebrate the Feast of Unleavened Bread, because it was on this very day that I brought your divisions out of Egypt. Celebrate this day as a lasting ordinance for the generations to come."

* In China, chinese ppl eat Mustard Greens which is somewhat of bitter herbs.

Similiar to Exodus 12:8:

"That same night they are to eat the meat roasted over the fire, along with bitter herbs, and bread made without yeast. "

* During CNY, chinese ppl have family reunion dinner.

Similiar to Exodus 12:22

".....Not one of you shall go out the door of his house until morning."

* For those non-believers, during CNY, they would always put a red cloth or paste red papers on their frame of their main door. They believe this would frighten off the nian2 (which is the monster).

Similiar to Exodus 12:5-7, 12-13:

"The animals you choose must be year-old males without defect, and you may take them from the sheep or the goats.
Take care of them until the fourteenth day of the month, when all the people of the community of Israel must slaughter them at twilight.
Then they are to take some of the blood and put it on the sides and tops of the doorframes of the houses where they eat the lambs."

"On that same night I will pass through Egypt and strike down every firstborn-both men and animals-and I will bring judgment on all the gods of Egypt. I am the LORD . The blood will be a sign for you on the houses where you are; and when I see the blood, I will pass over you. No destructive plague will touch you when I strike Egypt."

well.. interesting huh.. so now, guess u are as enlightened as me yaz?? =)

then after service, went to PS for lunch, becos nite time got meeting at church office and it is at Parklane Shopping Centre.. so anyway, went to PS food court and guess wat! Yupz.. u guessed it correct! I ate the good old Yong Tau Foo lohz.. guess it right.. n guess wat i ate for dessert!! well.. the good, old and refreshing Cheng Tng.. feel so happy tat i ate my favourite food.. =)

huimin went home to change after service, becos' she has to go sumwhere after the camp mtg.. so by the time she came, we was like almost finish liaoz lohz.. but anyway, juz continue to sit lohz.. dun care.. then we were like so-called make a bet tat huimin wld eat yong tau foo (becos' her usual food at food court is yong tau foo!! so tat's y i got influenced by her lohz.. well.. tat's now my fave food at food courts.. am i weird or wat!!).. so she like purposely prove us wrong!! she ate dumpling noodles soup instead.. haiz.. =(

anyway, after tat, all of us split up.. some went to do shopping.. huimin and i went to spotlight to find some of the materials to decorate the church during the valentine day service on 15/2/04..

then dun koe how come huimin say he (refers to my kor, Derek) is coming to meet her.. i was like quite shocked lohz at tat moment..

anyway, after about 15 mins, my kor called huimin and huimin was like go out and find him lohz.. so i was like looking around for wat things to buy summore.. then i was at the section (forgot which one liaoz).. n juz happen when i turn back, both of them (my kor and huimin) were like appeared behind me lohz!! my gosh.. i almost got the shock of my life ok.. Huimin and Kor, read this!! I ALMOST GOT THE SHOCK OF MY LIFE OK!! U BOTH GAVE ME A SHOCK!! FORTUNATELY, I'M YOUNG, OR ELSE, I WOULD COLLAPSED IN FRONT OF YOU MANZ!!

anyway, then huimin and kor was like walking with me to find out things tat i need lohz.. they hold hands somemore!.. wah... really at tat pt, i feel really very embarassed lohz.. playing gooseberry.. just thru'out the whole time they were together.. i really dun koe where to put my face manz.. serious.. both of them are making me nervous and embarassed lohz..

so anyway, i put up a brave front, and began to feel like nothing happen!! my gosh.. juz can't believe tat this is happening!!

anyway, seeing kor today was one of the best things tat happen to me today.. didn't c him for a long time.. so yupz.. =)

when almost we were about to go, wendy called and said she has finish shopping.. so they say they are at Starbucks coffee.. so its like 20mins before our mtg time, i went to Starbucks, while leaving the 2 lovebirds alone.. huimin went to PS Carrefour and buy a drink.. my kor of course followed lahz.. me, being embarassed enuf, decide not to join them and go to Starbucks and join wendy and they all..

then huimin mother came to Starbucks.. she happen to came out from carrefour, so i ask whether she has brought seen the 2 lovebirds.. she of course said no!! so anyway, i then ask huimin's mum whether she has seen my kor b4.. she again said no!!

then about 10 mins later, huimin and kor came to Starbucks to join us.. i was like quite shocked lohz.. so kor is like the FIRST time met huimin's mum.. so its like meet the parents..

not only did kor met huimin's mum, he also met, my dad, wendy, tiffany and carlise.. i introduce wendy to kor, and kor to wendy.. so yupz.. but kor kept very quiet today.. dun koe y.. usually he very chatty one.. but i think he just first time met them.. so not very familiar with the group probably..

i then told him is tat this is almost the FULL worship team in church lohz.. he was like a bit shocked lohz.. but not very obvious lohz..

then after tat, we left and i sat in wendy car.. while huimin sat in carlise car.. kor took mrt from PS, but dun koe where he is going.. so yupz.. =)

then went for the church camp mtg at church office lohz from 5pm-7pm.. was actually brain-dead thru'out the mtg lohz.. i'm very tired manz.. =).. so anyway, i'm in charge of publicity, so wendy is like in charge of me.. so wendy, me and probably 2 other members from OCC are mtg personally this sat (7/2) lohz.. =)

then after mtg, came home and ate dinner and now on my com doing my blog for today..

well.. need to choose the songs for my worship leading this sun (8/2) at church tml.. no time liaoz! *frown*

k.. gtg liaoz.. tired after the whole day of activities..

Ciaoz n have a GREAT day ahead,
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