wat a happening month

firstly.. i wanna thank all of you for celebrating my birthday for me... really enjoyed the evening and am very blessed by your efforts.. serious! esp the planning.. card.. cake.. etc.. basically everything la... hope all of you enjoyed it as much as i did.. =)

next.. it has been a long and tiring month for all of us im certain... maybe its time for some testimony of how much God bless us haha..

for the whole of the last 2 weeks.. i been working on this project for my database module.. i am supposed to come up with this web application cataloging music albums, artistes, as well as songs... and for 7.5% only.. its certaintly a lot of work... esp the troubleshooting and fine-tuning of the "behind-the-scene" codes...

even on my birthday... i was rushing through the project report which was due at 5pm.. with totally nothing done except the cover page (which i designed long ago for fun).. i had to juggle between coding the project (due the following wednesday) and coming up with the project report.. thankfully.. i managed to get everything up and done by 4:30.. and submitted it before the "jam-period"..

yesterday was the deadline for this project.. and my group is supposed to do a demonstration/presentation of it at 10am in SOC.. and guess what... on tuesday night at around 11pm.. i discovered something horrible beyond words.. the codes done by another project mate could not be fitted directly into the main project.. and majority of it produces at least 4-5 error per page... at that point.. i was totally mind-blank.. donno whether to scold him.. to ask him to do again.. or to troubleshoot thru everything and get it working..

after much consideration.. and the fact that i wanna ensure that everything WILL work the following day.. i decided to re-code the entire thing based on what he has done again.. by normal standards ( or rather.. my own lousy standard ).. doing such a task would require like 2-3 days at least.. but i remembered in my desperation.. i asked God to give me strength and wisdom and speed.. and thx God.. i managed to skim through the code rather quickly.. and by 4am.. majority of the application is working fine.. with only 2 nagging problems that i cannot solve..

however the following day morning during lecture at 8.. somehow donno how i also cannot explain why.. a solution just popped into my head.. so i quickly skipped my lecture and went out to code them in.. and miraculously.. all of them work in the first round of coding aka no finetuning/troubleshooting needs to be done.. amazing rite... those who did programming before will know this is nearly impossible... haha

something nice happened during the project demonstration itself too.. as i was explaining to the assessor how our application works.. both me and my members saw certain logic error in our application.. it was like... GONE CASE.. i just quickly press the link to another page... and the assessor didnt see that.. fastest fingers win~ wahahaha..

overall... i got a rather decent grade for this project too.. i got 17/20 for this .. though i kinda regretted on not doing that extra bit to attain the remaining 3 marks lost... but oh well... considering what happened just less than 12 hours ago.. a miracle has already been performed! =)

i also wanna share about my mid-term results.. the initial scores i gotten was 46/60 for database, 8.5/20 for software engine, and 68/100 for comp.networks.. i was quite happy with my DB results and my networks results.. both much higher than the average of 39 and 55 respectively.. and yet at the same time quite upset by my SE result.. next came moderation of marks for DB and SE.. after discovering of mistakes in marking by both lecturer and students.. my DB score went down by 2.. and my SE marks went up by one.. but on average.. im still doing badly for my SE.. at the very least.. i failed it... when i see the excel file on the results... im seeing double digits (10 n above) and one pathetic 9.5 in the midst of them.. super demoralizing..

den this morning... due to oversleeping and reaching sch late by 30 mins.. i decided to go for the next slot of tutorial and went to compcen to check email etc instead.. realised that the SE marks are changed once again.. so i clicked on the excel file... the single digit was gone! haha my marks went up to 10.5 for some unknown reason hahaha.. song bo :P

so in general... i did quite well for my mid-term! and for projects that has already been graded.. i gotten nearly perfect score for all of them! Praise the Lord man =)

Hope this encourages all of you as we continue in this long and arduous journey in NUS.. things are definitely not easy.. but there is definitely a way out despite circumstances... and dont be too surprised when things turned out much better than you expected.. we have someone working in ways we cannot see ;)

... now back to work on my just-around-the-corner projectS deadlines... 5 down 3 to go~~

:P

nikorasu scribbled away at 5:18 PM
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nicholas' birthday

HAPPY BIRTHDAY NICHOLAS :))

photos of nicholas' birthday celebration! err.. actually photos of the early part of the celebration, cos i realised my cam dont have flash and it was getting dark so i couldnt take any more photos. haha anyway, these shots are so blurry!

joycee scribbled away at 10:26 AM
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Let's have quiet time together.. =)

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Dear bro and sis,

Just to keep everyone of you in the loop..as discussed over dinner on Sat, we decided to have a time when we can either do quiet time (QT) aka bible study together or we can discuss about the questions which we encountered during our personal quiet times or apologetics questions..

Believe that these sessions will be helpful for us. Let's aim to learn, grow in depth and understanding of God's Words..and also to learn from each other as well as to encourage and strengthen each other..

Think most of ur should remember the QT times together ya..=) personally for me, quite miss it..remembered that though may feel tired (cos i am really not a morning person..=P) but after each QT session.. I am really refreshed not only by God but also by bros and sis around..which better enabled me to face the rest of the day.. =)

Yup.. so propose that for the weeks when we have no cg, we will be having QT sessions together in the morning..=)

Then, in view of people with lessons, the sessions will be staggered so that hopefully not the same person will miss the sessions. Then if it is a passage, ha maybe will post the passage up the blog..(depending..=P )

So thinking, the first QT session, will fix on the week of 23rd Oct.. thinking of Friday 27th Oct 2006 10am at HQ. Any violent objections ??

Jiahao and Yanteng r encouraged to join us too.. =)

Do let me know if ur have any suggestions..n Jia you for whatever projects , assignments , ur have k.. will be keeping all of ur in my prayer!!

Oh yaya, though i post it here, but as ur know not everyone will read the blog ya.. so haha can help to inform those who dun visit blog often also k..=)

God bless: Yufen =)

cheesecake scribbled away at 9:33 PM
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We are blessed to be a blessing!

Hey bros, sisters!

Think you all know by now that we have 2 new sisters in 2 weeks!!! \(^.^)/
Zhi Chun (from Michelle's CG) and Ai Wei (from Qiaoping's CG)! Wow... so happy and excited to see them coming to know Christ! Indeed, as Jesus said, when one sinner repents, all the angels in heaven rEjOiCE! And two sinners repent? Go figure! :D

Haha... But think this is even more encouraging when you consider the barren period before this year when our NUS ministry really had a very hard time bringing people to Christ... but God is faithful! He encouraged the entire sub-D last year with a prophetic word from Sijia and Huichun during the church camp about Him building up a broken-down castle very quickly, brick by brick. Wow, praise God! And we are seeing this happen before our very own eyes.

'The stone the builders rejected
has become the capstone;
the Lord has done this,
and it is marvelous in our eyes'(Matthew 21:42)

Praise God! :D We are seeing God's blessings pouring out into our ministry... remember what Jasmine said during today's sermon? It just struck me just now about God giving us a new provision... He will pour out His blessings upon us! He is doing this, not because we are good by ourselves, but simply because He is SO GOOD!

And He wants to bless us, so that we can be His channel of blessing to the people around us on campus!

aMeN! Dear bros, sisters, since God has been so good to us, let's really not be half-hearted in our ministry to God, but let us be a generation that seeks, that seeks His face! Let's really seek Him with all our hearts, because He has promised in His Word - and He does not lie - that He will be found by us when we seek Him with all our hearts!

Let's be a generation that seeks His face! And He shall pour forth His wonderful grace!

rEjOice in the LORD always!
Love,YA

yeu@nn scribbled away at 12:51 AM
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"Physicists discover that the structure of a brain cell is the same as the entire universe."

Pretty cool, go check it out. Not much words, mainly 2 pictures =p

"Physicists discover that the structure of a brain cell is the same as the entire universe."

Flince scribbled away at 4:27 AM
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photos!

thanks eugene for the inspirational poem. it spoke to me quite a lot :) so.. how's everyone been recently? for me.. i've been sleeping a lot! oh no.. feeling quite guilty for sleeping also. please help to pray for me to manage my sleeping time better!

anw, i'm happy to see so many pictures here! it's good to know how much fun we have during fellowship. i shall post some photos here too!

joycee scribbled away at 9:36 PM
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Words of encouragement

I believe we are all having a tough time these couple of weeks, having to meet 'dead'lines(literally,haha...) and getting our results for those CAs we have taken. Whatever the results might be let's not get demoralised. I got back my CA result for pharmacology and it wasn't good, jus passed it by 1 mark. But it's okay i will try harder next time.... i've another CA for this module. Isn't that a blessing, hahah........
I found this motivation quote somewhere, and would like to share with you guys:

If you think you are beaten, you are
If you thnk you dare not, you're right
If you like to win, but you think you cant
it is almost certain you wont

If you think you'll lose, you've lost
For out of the world we find,
Success begins with a person's will
It's all in the state of mind.
If you think you are outclassed, you are
You've got to think high to rise
You've got to be sure of yourself
before you can ever win a prize

Life's battles don't always go to
the stronger or faster man
but sooner or later the man who wins
is the man who thnks he can.

I believe you would only fail if you failed to keep trying but you would never fail to succeed if you don't give up. It's jus a matter of how you see success.

Eugene

Eugene;ユージン scribbled away at 2:36 PM
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Photos from the Mooncake festival celebration( includes minchen and joyce's bday photos)

中秋节

Having dinner at chinatown...



xingcong was in our team for the photo taking game....haha
Doesn't this look like a cross




[more photos...]

Sorry for the delay, below is the link to minchen and joyce's bday photos
Minchen and joyce's bday photos

Eugene;ユージン scribbled away at 8:56 AM
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Guanrui's Bday Celebration 7 Oct 06 at Le Meridien!

Guanrui chooses a song while Bo looks on.

[continue...]

yeu@nn scribbled away at 1:04 AM
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the reason and hope for living

lalala. im here to blog before bowen discovers how to post an entry here! haha just kidding.. im just too bored now! getting a bit restless from studying. anyway, did someone do something to the html code on the left side? there's smth wrong with it now.. i cant even see our cg picture haha. i dunno how to make it okay again.. errr.. nicholas need ur help here!

joycee scribbled away at 11:45 AM
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mid-autumn pics...

some preview pics of what i took during our mid-autumn celebration...

yumyum~~ sambal stingray!

how can we not have pomelos during this festival... 2 for $6!!


some photos taken along Eu Tong Sen Road...




arrived at destination! ChinatownのSky-Garden!


some group pics...










lastly... lets take a look at some of our photogenic bros and sis!

will post more when i have the time to sort them out and upload them... yufen gonna kill me hahaha...

hope everyone had a good time @ chinatown today... for me personally... i was quite stressed by my projects and the upcoming tests this saturday.. but thank God for the fellowship throughout the whole event.. by the end.. i was quite refreshed.. until now i still cant sleep so im uploading the pics hahaha...

pray that everyone have a good nite rest and be refreshed again to take on whatever challenges we have in the following week(s) to come... God bless!

P.S. the rest who have photos upload some also leh haha... wanna see...

nikorasu scribbled away at 2:07 AM
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unit outing tonight!

hey! huili wanted me to post something about tonight.. so here it is! (hope it isn't too late)

WHAT's happening tonight?
unit outing to CHINATOWN!!!

we are gonna..
appreciate the moon
guess riddles
eat mooncakes
drink chinese tea
play with lanterns
and find chang er!

WHEN are we meeting?
6pm at HQ!

and and.. please bring along your camera phones/cameras! it's for the games part. (:

er okay. i think that's about it. hahaha. im not going though.. cos i've lecture from 7-9pm. :l have fun guys!

joycee scribbled away at 12:13 PM
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Love isn't an option.

This thought just came to me as I was trying to do my programming assignment.

"When Christ told us to love our neighbour as ourselves, He did not give us the option to love selectively."

Mother Teresa: "You only love Jesus as much as the person you love the least."

"The King will reply, 'I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me.... I tell you the truth, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.' (Matthew 25:40,45)

Was thinking about some other people, actually. But ah, the plank in my eye. So quite solemn when reflecting about it. Then was reminded of this:

"But He will give us the grace and strength to love freely."

It's really reassuring. I think, those who sincerely want to do what is good, even if they feel they really cannot make it - never mind! Because Jesus will help them do what is good - because He understands what it feels like.

Was thinking, after a conversation with a brother yesterday. About how some people, we find it hard to love, but Christ commands us to love them anyway. "But, why? That person is REALLY hard to love!"

Then Christ replies, "Ah, but don't forget - you are just as hard to love. Yet I loved you enough to die for you. Come, think of My love for you. Isn't that enough to move your heart to love your brother, for whom I died too?"

yeu@nn scribbled away at 3:53 AM
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One of Xinying's blog entries - meaningful

Just read this entry from Xinying's blog - think it's very meaningful. I've pasted it here...

Love,
YA
*******

Pastor Dinah recalled for us a very fundamental and important truth today:) That the key to unity is SELF. dying to self.
it's a very basic concept... yet one that is once again, easy to say, but hard to do. in the world where people puts themselves over other things, it's hard, really, to die to yourself.. people have the tendency to want things done THEIR way, and when things ain't done THEIR way, they're blinded by their 'self righteousness' and that's when emotions start to get stirred up, that's when disunity happens. it's hard to die to self 'cos dying to self means for us to lay our pride aside. and seriously speaking, won't most people, if not everyone, naturally want to hold on to that pride inside us? even when somehow or another, we know that it's wrong to be proud? for some people, they might not even realize that they've pride in their hearts.
humility is so much to the key to being successful in life. being humble enough to want to change. humble enough to learn from everyone around you, for there's always room for growth. humility is like a value that's not highly regarded in the world anymore... viewed as a sign of weakness. it's as if being humble will cause you to lose out in the world. should we then say that the world is right in this? no. for if that's how things are intended to be, if the world is doing the right things in general, then WHY is this world, for the lack of words, so screwed up?:)
ah. i digress:)
Was really refreshed today by pastor ben and pastor dinah's sharings:) so much on the core values... the SIMPLE core values... yet so important. as we grow in our spiritual walk with God, and even as we grow as a human being in the world, so much of the core values we've laid aside for the peripheral... we've become so concerned with the doing on the outside, that we've forgotten to evaluate what's on the inside of us. i remember alan asking this question... if one day, everything we have (our deeds, characters...) is put into a bowl and put under the testing of fire... will we still have anything left in the bowl?
i asked myself. what will be in the bowl. what sort of things will be in the bowl? the character of the person? the things i've done? volunteer work? i don't have an answer... haha. sorry about it. but i can only figure out that what is left in the bowl has to be something that withstands the test of time, till eternity. that withstands the test of man, without fault. withstand the test of deeds, beyond self.
think this is a question we can all ask ourselves, for an honest evaluation of ourselves thus far. is there anything in my life which can last till eternity, is blameless and without fault and is greater than myself?
i wonder.

in love wif You!

Tuesday, September 26, 2006
12:54 AM

yeu@nn scribbled away at 2:57 AM
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Hey bros, sisters, just want to share a small testimony... :) I just copy and paste from my blog:

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Wow, thank You Jesus! :D You answered my prayer so exactly... :D haha...

Was in the TV room of PGP blk 16 reading my Bible just now, when 2 security guards came in. Froze a bit, but prayed in my heart to God that He'll let me stay and not let them drive me out. Then one of the guards commented that the place was very messy, with the sofas all around... then this thought came to mind, why not help them? So tried helping them, but they said it's ok, said it's not my fault, so no need to worry about it. Then they left the room.

Wow... God, You are good and Your mercy endures forever!!! :D

As a bonus, they fixed the Aircon That Refused To Stay Turned On. Wow... God really is wise! :D Haha... so touched by His care and concern for His children... :D
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Also very blessed by Jits, haha... since I was in PGP, I decided to bless her with some potato chips...

Then a few hours later, she came down and blessed me with HOT CHOCOLATE!!! Not just any hot chocolate... It's a Swiss Miss Hot Chocolate... mmm~~~~....

Haha... thank God for her! How true God's Word is: "A generous man will prosper; he who refreshes others will himself be refreshed." aMeN!

Love in Christ,
YA

yeu@nn scribbled away at 3:25 AM
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