Will be heading off for a camp in 6 hours' time.
At the beginning when I return back to PLMC, I knew I wanted to be going for the camp.
Not sure why, but I just committed myself to be going.
Until now, I'm still not sure why. Guess I'll play a supportive role in helping out wherever I can like AV.. =)
I'll be sharing on the girls' talk session. More on our identity as woman. I'm not someone who can pull off things to say very well. And I'm less than 30% prepared.
Hmm. But by some divine memory jolt, I took out 2 books from my mini library which helped me alot. "Captivating" by Stasi Eldredge & "Why not women?" by Loren Cunningham & David Joel Hamilton
Good books!
May I be able to finish my preparation.
Musings and findings in the joy of everyday
Saturday, December 18, 2010
Friday, December 10, 2010
The day the monkeys snatched my mushroom pie
I decided to take a stroll at MacRitchie and spend some quiet time there.
I was hungry when I reached so I decided to buy a Chicken & Mushroom Pie from the cafe.
As I walked and ate innocently, minding my own business, looking at the scenery, I felt there was somebody tailing me. As I turned to the left, I did not see anyone. The next thing I knew, something snatched my pie away! As I looked, it was a MONKEY!! Not just one there, but FIVE!
I let out a soft screech and stood stunned at what just happened.
There was no way I could snatch it back because the monkey had already thrown the pie on the floor and ravaged the paper bag.
As the rest of the monkeys joined and tried to eat, there was none. I was into the last bite before the monkey snatched it.
As I drew out my camera, my hands were shivering from the shock.
But because of this incident, I could snap some shots.
Never crossed my mind that there would be monkeys and you shouldn't eat while walking.
Lesson learnt: Eat at the designated place
Saturday, November 20, 2010
off to Thailand
In less than 12 hours', I'll be on the plane to Thailand and meet dear Mr Tee.
Not just me, but my mum & bro too!
This journey was interrupted by a re-time to an earlier flight, which clashed with my first flight from SG-BKK. Called up SG Airasia to re-time the flight and gave a wrong booking number. Called the next day and finally I managed to change it. But I had to pay $200+!! No way, I'm going to pay. Even if it was Airasia's fault to re-time, customers have to pay the penalty for another flight change as they are not responsible for any change in schedules.
Well, the good thing was that the night before when I gave my booking number wrongly, the customer service officer said I do not have to pay. So, I insisted. And I managed to get away with not paying extra for the change!
Looks like a good trip ahead. All of us are almost packed and ready.
And finally, I get to spend more than a day in Bangkok to do some real shopping there.
Not just me, but my mum & bro too!
This journey was interrupted by a re-time to an earlier flight, which clashed with my first flight from SG-BKK. Called up SG Airasia to re-time the flight and gave a wrong booking number. Called the next day and finally I managed to change it. But I had to pay $200+!! No way, I'm going to pay. Even if it was Airasia's fault to re-time, customers have to pay the penalty for another flight change as they are not responsible for any change in schedules.
Well, the good thing was that the night before when I gave my booking number wrongly, the customer service officer said I do not have to pay. So, I insisted. And I managed to get away with not paying extra for the change!
Looks like a good trip ahead. All of us are almost packed and ready.
And finally, I get to spend more than a day in Bangkok to do some real shopping there.
Friday, November 12, 2010
Malacca 2-day trip
Went on a Malacca 2-day trip over 10 & 11 Nov with 8 guys and 1 lady (me).
The trip was good. We ate so much, I was never hungry for 3 days (because the day before we stayed at Laguna and we ate alot too)
This is some of the people in the group.
I stayed in a room by myself with a Queen size bed. =)
This was when my camera lens went foggy. Cool effects!
The trip was good. We ate so much, I was never hungry for 3 days (because the day before we stayed at Laguna and we ate alot too)
This is some of the people in the group.
I stayed in a room by myself with a Queen size bed. =)
This was when my camera lens went foggy. Cool effects!
Monday, November 8, 2010
New blog layout
I have a vintage blog layout and added on some nice, vintage badges.
Special thanks to Just Something I made for the badges & *The Graphics Fairy* for the background.
Hope to put up more stuffs, like daily findings from the Word, DIY, food, photos, etc.
Let's see how long this will last... ;)
Special thanks to Just Something I made for the badges & *The Graphics Fairy* for the background.
Hope to put up more stuffs, like daily findings from the Word, DIY, food, photos, etc.
Let's see how long this will last... ;)
Sunday, October 3, 2010
Our Hand at Chicken Mushroom Sausage Baked Rice
We decided to prepare Baked rice for dinner for our family today.
Happened to google upon http://www.noobcook.com/chicken-and-mushroom-baked-rice/ and it looked quite easy so we tried it.
It went pretty good. Tee helped with the cutting, frying and most of it. I helped with watching the oven.
The finished product! Taste good!
Sunday, June 20, 2010
Beach day
Didn't realised today is the first day in 2010 that I've been at the beach with Tee. We must have been too busy and caught in city life to wind off at the beach.
Great day there at ECP with friends.
Saturday, June 19, 2010
This week, we went to recee some possible wedding locations.. Probably one of those "dream-fantasy" kind.
Found this place called "Gardenasia", it's a really nice place based on the pictures. I love it. The person liaising with me was very friendly.
It's in Kranji. Super FAR!! We had to take a shuttlebus to get into the place. It's near places like Sungei Buloh Nature Reserve.
As I stepped into the showroom, I really love the decorations.
Sunday, May 16, 2010
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Thai Movie: บา้นฉัน (My Home)
It's about the life of a Comedian Family. Father is a comedian and desires to have kids who can crack jokes and prolong the legacy. However, the son, Tok, wasn't much of a comedian while his sister is good at it.
As a result, he felt that his father may not love him because he didn't inherit the funny genes.
The show made me cry when he thought that his father didn't love him.
Touched on issues like Identity, Acceptance, Father Heart.
I'm impressed by the creativity of Thais. They dealt with issues at a friendly manner. So much to learn from about making movies.
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Star Munchkins
I learnt how to play Munchkins today at the PLMC Youth Lounge.
I've seen the normal Munchkins before, but thought it was a difficult game.
It still is a difficult game. But I had some fun.
The characters are cute and lots of interesting descriptions to tell you how you can win/lose the game.
Basically, you have to level up your character and depending on the situation of the card, you either get a booby trap or fight monster or level up.
The 'outreach-minded-sort-of' me thought it would be a great game for people who wants to learn English, because of the many English description on each card. But there are certain words that are concocted up, so it might, then, not be too suitable for English beginners. However, someone can explain the words. But, the game will surely end by the end of the next day. =p
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Saturday, March 13, 2010
What is News?
This week, the big 'news' is on a certain celebrity's life on public display. People are so quick to pinpoint each others' mistakes and condemn them to nothing. Have we ever thought about what we have also done that are just as bad? Even if it's a lie. Or a white lie.
Take some time to read about the other news that is in the newspaper.
What about the massacre in Nigeria?
Read something that will change your life for the better.
Take some time to read about the other news that is in the newspaper.
What about the massacre in Nigeria?
Read something that will change your life for the better.
Saturday, March 6, 2010
Sexually Indulgent Now, Marriage Ruined Later?
Sexually Indulgent Now, Marriage Ruined Later?
AUSTIN, Texas -- Oftentimes those who preach sexual abstinence have been told to stop trying to impose their beliefs on others. But what if science could prove sexual permissiveness does great damage to future sexual happiness?
That's what Dr. Joe McIlhaney of the Medical Institute for Sexual Health in Austin says. New research shows that sleeping around now could ruin your chances of having a happy, fulfilling marriage later.
"Neuroscientists have produced a lot of information in just the last few years. This is new," he told CBN News.
The sex reseacher recently co-authored the book "Hooked: New Science on How Casual Sex is Affecting Our Children" with Dr. Freda McKissic Bush. McIlhaney said the book contains, "The most modern neuro-science available to man today."
Chemicals Create a Powerful Bond
Research using brain scans now shows powerful chemicals are released during sex that should create a powerful, everlasting bond.
"When women are skin-to-skin with a man, their brain secretes oxytocin that causes them to bond emotionally to that man. Men secrete a hormone called vasopressin when they're having that kind of intimate behavior. And that hormone has even been called 'monogamy hormone' for men. And it bonds them to the woman," McIlhaney explained.
This oxytocin is so overwhelming in a woman's brain that just a 20-second hug can cause a female to become bonded to a male.
Both sexes get addictive doses of the pleasure-chemical dopamine as well during intimate behavior. That works out well for couples out to create lifelong marriages and stable families.
"They're addicted to sex, and babies result from that. They're bonded to each other," McIlhaney said.
Sleeping Around Weakens Bond
But that bonding, which acts like adhesive tape or Velcro, is weakened when people tear away at its power by breaking off with a sexual partner and moving on from one to another to another. So when it does finally come time to bond permanently with a spouse, the ability to bond is damaged.
"The brain actually gets molded to not accept that deep emotional level that's so important for marriage," McIlhaney told CBN News.
One huge result for the permissive is that, as McIlhaney explained, "When they do marry, they're more likely to have a divorce than people who were virgins when they got married."
Teens in a Sexual Wild West
Across much of the American culture, this big scientific news isn't known and certainly isn't much communicated to youth, who these days live in a sexual Wild West.
Teen evangelist Jeffrey Dean administers Web sites viewed by more than 350,000 young people every year. Thousands of them tell him they're pressured to be sexual and are often wounded by it.
"Anything goes is the new rule, and in the process, kids are experimenting," Dean told CBN News. "But they're finding out there is great hurt and baggage along with that."
Dean said he hears all the time from kids who've started having sex way too young about the effect these bonding chemicals in the brain have. They often write to him and tell him of the problems they are having.
"Well, this relationship didn't work, but I'm so emotionally attached to what happened there," Dean explains about the notes he receives. "I'm looking for that again, even if that means making choices I don't want to make or that I know are against God's will for my life."
Suicidal Tendencies
McIlhaney said the long-term harm from ripping away at that chemical bonding in the brain is bad enough. But he points to research which also shows how damaging this bonding can hurt young people now.
"If adolescents are sexually involved, they're more likely to be suicidal than their friends who are not sexually involved," he said. "Girls are three times as likely to be suicidal. Boys seven times as likely to be suicidal as their friends who are still virgins."
Such research is why McIlhaney pleads with parents to counsel kids to stay abstinent. He also warned that parents must realize it's a much more dangerous world sexually today then when they were young.
"Only about one in 50 kids for example had a sexually transmitted disease back in the 1960s. Today one in four of all adolescents has a sexually transmitted disease," McIlhaney noted.
STD's Rapid Rate Among Teens
Every four seconds, one more young person gets an STD. Dean can't shake from his mind a note he got from a young woman who'd only slept with one guy.
"She went on to college and three years after the sexual relationship from high school," he recalled. "She had not had another sexual partner, and she found out that she was HIV positive from this guy, three years later."
One more piece of information from brain scan research shows that the prefrontal cortex where wise decisions and judgments are made doesn't fully mature until the mid-20s.
"So it's impossible, because the brain tissue is not there in a mature way, for kids to make fully mature decisions. We're talking 24, 25, 26 before the brain is really mature," McIlhaney told CBN News.
Parents Must Keep Guiding
McIlhaney and Dean both insist parents have to guide and keep guiding their young people. Dean said they actually want it.
"Students tell us overwhelmingly at the top of the list, at the top of the list, the greatest influence in my life is my mom and dad," he said.
In his book "The Fight of Your Life," Dean said parents should explicitly state to their kids they expect them to remain abstinent, and back it up with scripture like I Corinthians 6:18 -- "Flee from sexual immorality."
"What God is saying here is don't even dance around it, don't even get around it," Dean explained.
Monogamy: Nature's Design
McIlhaney pointed out you now have science of the brain to back you up.
"The science proves that human beings are made to be monogamous for life with one other person in a faithful relationship. It is the way human beings are made," he said.
Dean warned you just need to make sure you back up your demands with solid support.
"My teens need to see from me that I am approachable and that I am unshockable," he said.
And no matter how badly a young person might fail, Dean said they should know, ".Mom and Dad are going to have my back."
http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/healthscience/2010/March/Sexually-Indulgent-Now-Marriage-Ruined-Later/
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AUSTIN, Texas -- Oftentimes those who preach sexual abstinence have been told to stop trying to impose their beliefs on others. But what if science could prove sexual permissiveness does great damage to future sexual happiness?
That's what Dr. Joe McIlhaney of the Medical Institute for Sexual Health in Austin says. New research shows that sleeping around now could ruin your chances of having a happy, fulfilling marriage later.
"Neuroscientists have produced a lot of information in just the last few years. This is new," he told CBN News.
The sex reseacher recently co-authored the book "Hooked: New Science on How Casual Sex is Affecting Our Children" with Dr. Freda McKissic Bush. McIlhaney said the book contains, "The most modern neuro-science available to man today."
Chemicals Create a Powerful Bond
Research using brain scans now shows powerful chemicals are released during sex that should create a powerful, everlasting bond.
"When women are skin-to-skin with a man, their brain secretes oxytocin that causes them to bond emotionally to that man. Men secrete a hormone called vasopressin when they're having that kind of intimate behavior. And that hormone has even been called 'monogamy hormone' for men. And it bonds them to the woman," McIlhaney explained.
This oxytocin is so overwhelming in a woman's brain that just a 20-second hug can cause a female to become bonded to a male.
Both sexes get addictive doses of the pleasure-chemical dopamine as well during intimate behavior. That works out well for couples out to create lifelong marriages and stable families.
"They're addicted to sex, and babies result from that. They're bonded to each other," McIlhaney said.
Sleeping Around Weakens Bond
But that bonding, which acts like adhesive tape or Velcro, is weakened when people tear away at its power by breaking off with a sexual partner and moving on from one to another to another. So when it does finally come time to bond permanently with a spouse, the ability to bond is damaged.
"The brain actually gets molded to not accept that deep emotional level that's so important for marriage," McIlhaney told CBN News.
One huge result for the permissive is that, as McIlhaney explained, "When they do marry, they're more likely to have a divorce than people who were virgins when they got married."
Teens in a Sexual Wild West
Across much of the American culture, this big scientific news isn't known and certainly isn't much communicated to youth, who these days live in a sexual Wild West.
Teen evangelist Jeffrey Dean administers Web sites viewed by more than 350,000 young people every year. Thousands of them tell him they're pressured to be sexual and are often wounded by it.
"Anything goes is the new rule, and in the process, kids are experimenting," Dean told CBN News. "But they're finding out there is great hurt and baggage along with that."
Dean said he hears all the time from kids who've started having sex way too young about the effect these bonding chemicals in the brain have. They often write to him and tell him of the problems they are having.
"Well, this relationship didn't work, but I'm so emotionally attached to what happened there," Dean explains about the notes he receives. "I'm looking for that again, even if that means making choices I don't want to make or that I know are against God's will for my life."
Suicidal Tendencies
McIlhaney said the long-term harm from ripping away at that chemical bonding in the brain is bad enough. But he points to research which also shows how damaging this bonding can hurt young people now.
"If adolescents are sexually involved, they're more likely to be suicidal than their friends who are not sexually involved," he said. "Girls are three times as likely to be suicidal. Boys seven times as likely to be suicidal as their friends who are still virgins."
Such research is why McIlhaney pleads with parents to counsel kids to stay abstinent. He also warned that parents must realize it's a much more dangerous world sexually today then when they were young.
"Only about one in 50 kids for example had a sexually transmitted disease back in the 1960s. Today one in four of all adolescents has a sexually transmitted disease," McIlhaney noted.
STD's Rapid Rate Among Teens
Every four seconds, one more young person gets an STD. Dean can't shake from his mind a note he got from a young woman who'd only slept with one guy.
"She went on to college and three years after the sexual relationship from high school," he recalled. "She had not had another sexual partner, and she found out that she was HIV positive from this guy, three years later."
One more piece of information from brain scan research shows that the prefrontal cortex where wise decisions and judgments are made doesn't fully mature until the mid-20s.
"So it's impossible, because the brain tissue is not there in a mature way, for kids to make fully mature decisions. We're talking 24, 25, 26 before the brain is really mature," McIlhaney told CBN News.
Parents Must Keep Guiding
McIlhaney and Dean both insist parents have to guide and keep guiding their young people. Dean said they actually want it.
"Students tell us overwhelmingly at the top of the list, at the top of the list, the greatest influence in my life is my mom and dad," he said.
In his book "The Fight of Your Life," Dean said parents should explicitly state to their kids they expect them to remain abstinent, and back it up with scripture like I Corinthians 6:18 -- "Flee from sexual immorality."
"What God is saying here is don't even dance around it, don't even get around it," Dean explained.
Monogamy: Nature's Design
McIlhaney pointed out you now have science of the brain to back you up.
"The science proves that human beings are made to be monogamous for life with one other person in a faithful relationship. It is the way human beings are made," he said.
Dean warned you just need to make sure you back up your demands with solid support.
"My teens need to see from me that I am approachable and that I am unshockable," he said.
And no matter how badly a young person might fail, Dean said they should know, ".Mom and Dad are going to have my back."
http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/healthscience/2010/March/Sexually-Indulgent-Now-Marriage-Ruined-Later/
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Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Be Real
Sometimes I feel and think that you never know if someone is really REAL to you. How many times have people "pretend" to be nice, but they really never mean to be.
It just always hurt me so much to know of such people. Much less call themselves child of God.
Lord, please help me to love these people and love them not with my own strength, but by yours.
I want to walk in the opposite spirit and be like you.
It just always hurt me so much to know of such people. Much less call themselves child of God.
Lord, please help me to love these people and love them not with my own strength, but by yours.
I want to walk in the opposite spirit and be like you.
Monday, March 1, 2010
Own home
I, very much, wish to have a place of my own, so that I can invite people to my home for meals and fellowship.
It's rather difficult to invite people over to my house now, coz my entire family is around. Can only do so when they are not around.
Praying, praying.
Had a small dinner fellowship with someone I've been reaching out to over the weekend. It was a good time, over a simple meal of spaghetti.
It's rather difficult to invite people over to my house now, coz my entire family is around. Can only do so when they are not around.
Praying, praying.
Had a small dinner fellowship with someone I've been reaching out to over the weekend. It was a good time, over a simple meal of spaghetti.
Sunday, February 28, 2010
Engagement
So, I realised that Engagement holds different meaning for different people. For the last 1 month, people thinks I'm married. (Haha!) Not quite yet.
Engagement just means proposal accepted.
I guess in Singapore context, there are so many things we have to go through.
ROM, Church wedding, Chinese dinner, get a house. And for my case, apply for PR. Oh God, I need you to come through because there's nothing I can do, except to trust in You. And see you show your faithfulness in our life so that others may be blessed.
Thank you for your blessings upon my life. May we be a blessing to others.
Thursday, February 18, 2010
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