Just a story to share...

The Pastor and his son

A good reminder of God's Love.

Every Sunday afternoon, after the morning service at the church, the Pastor and his eleven year old son would go out into their town and hand out Gospel Tracts.

This particular Sunday
afternoon, as it came time for the Pastor and his son to go to the streets with their tracts, it was very cold outside, as well as pouring down rain. The
boy bundled up in his warmest and driest clothes and said, 'OK, dad, I'm ready.'

His Pastor dad asked, 'Ready for what?'

'Dad, it's time we gather our tracts together and go out.' Dad responds, 'Son, it's very cold outside and it's pouring down rain.'

The boy gives his dad a surprised look, asking, 'But Dad, aren't people still going
to Hell, even though it's raining?'

Dad answers, 'Son, I am not going out in this weather.' Despondently, the boy asks, 'Dad, can I go? Please?'

His father hesitated for a moment then said, 'Son, you can go. Here are the tracts, be careful son.'

'Thanks Dad!'

And with that, he was off and out into the rain. his eleven year old boy walked the streets of the town going door to door and handing everybody he met in the street a Gospel Tract.

After two hours of walking in the rain, he was soaking, bone-chilled wet and down to his VERY LAST TRACT. He stopped on a corner and looked for someone to hand a tract to, but the streets were totally deserted.

Then he turned toward the first home he saw and started up the sidewalk to the front door and rang the door bell. He rang the bell, but nobody answered. He rang it again and again, but still no one answered. He waited but still no answer.

Finally, this eleven year old trooper turned to leave, but something stopped him. Again, he turned to the door and rang the bell and knocked loudly on the door with his fist. He waited, something holding him there on the front porch! He rang again and this time the door slowly opened. Standing in the doorway was a very sad-looking elderly lady. She softly asked, 'What can I do for you, son?' With radiant eyes and a smile that lit up her world, this little boy said, 'Ma'am, I'm sorry if I disturbed you, but I just want to tell you that *JESUS REALLY DOES LOVE YOU* and I came to give you my very last Gospel Tract which will tell you all about JESUS and His great LOVE.'

With that, he handed her his last tract and turned to leave. She called to him as he departed. 'Thank you, son! And God Bless You!'

Well, the following Sunday morning in church Pastor Dad was in the pulpit. As the service began, he asked, 'Does anybody have any testimony or want to say anything?'

Slowly, in the back row of the church, an elderly lady stood to her feet. As she began to speak, a look of glorious radiance came from her face, 'No one in this church knows me. I've never been here before. You see, before last Sunday I was not a Christian. My husband passed on some time ago, leaving me totally alone in this world. Last Sunday, being a particularly cold and rainy day, it was even more so in my heart that I came to the end of the line where I no longer had any hope or will to live.

So I took a rope and a chair and ascended the stairway into the attic of my home. I fastened the rope securely to a rafter in the roof, then stood on the chair and fastened the other end of the rope around my neck. Standing on that chair, so lonely and brokenhearted I was about to leap off, when suddenly the loud ringing of my doorbell downstairs startled me. I thought, 'I'll wait a minute, and whoever it is will go away.' I waited and waited, but the ringing doorbell seemed to get louder and
more insistent, and then the person ringing also started knocking loudly. I thought to myself again, 'Who on earth could this be? Nobody ever rings my bell or comes to see me.' I loosened the rope from my neck and started for the front door, all the while the bell rang louder and louder.

When I opened the door and looked I could hardly believe my eyes, for there on my front porch was the most radiant and angelic little boy I had ever seen in my life. His SMILE, oh, I could never describe it to you! The words that came from his mouth caused my heart that had long been dead, TO LEAP TO LIFE as he exclaimed with a cherub-like voice, 'Ma'am, I just came to tell you that JESUS REALLY DOES LOVE YOU.' Then he gave me this Gospel Tract that I now hold in my hand.

As the little angel disappeared back out into the cold and rain, I closed my door and read slowly every word of this Gospel Tract. Then I went up to
my attic to get my rope and chair. I wouldn't be needing them any more.

You see---I am now a Happy Child of the KING. Since the address of your church was on the back of this Gospel Tract, I have come here to personally say THANK YOU to God's little angel who came just
in the nick of time and by so doing, spared my soul from an eternity in hell.'

There was not a dry eye in the church. And as shouts of praise and honor to THE KING resounded off the very rafters of the building, Pastor Dad descended from the pulpit to the front pew where the little angel was seated.

He took his son in his arms and sobbed uncontrollably. Probably no church has had a more glorious moment, and probably this universe has never seen a Papa that was more filled with love & honor for his son.... Except for One.

Our Father also allowed His Son to go out into a cold and dark world. He received His Son back with joy unspeakable, and as all of heaven shouted praises and honor to The King, the Father sat His beloved Son on a throne far above all principality and power and every name that is named.

Love is....

A few scriptures from 1 Corinthians 13: 1 ~ 8a (The Message).

If I speak with human eloquence and angelic ectasy, but don't love, I'm nothing but the creaking of a rusty gate.

It I speak of God's Word with power, revealing all His mysteries and making everything plain as day, and if I have faith that says to a mountain 'Jump', and it jumps, but I don't love, I'm nothing.

If I give everything I own to the poor and even go to the stake to be burned as martyr, but I don't love, I've gotten nowhere.

So, no matter what I do, I am bankrupt without love.

Love never gives up.
Love cares more for others than self.
Love doesn't want what it doesn't have.
Love doesn't strut.
Doesn't have a swelled head,
Doesn't force itself on others,
Isn't always "me first",
Doesn't fly of the handle,
Doesn't keep score of the sins of others,
Doesn't revel when others grovel,
Takes pleasure in the flowering of the truth,
Puts up with anything,
Trusts God always,
Always looks for the best,
Never looks back,
But keeps going to the end.

Love never dies.

Loving others is never an easy task and it is a life-long lesson. But God wants us to love others like we love ourselves, like how He has loved us and we have the best model to look up to which is Jesus Christ!!! =)

New day awaits~~

Here I am sitting in front of the computer after a LONG day... Just came back from CF and I know I am supposed to sleep NOW because I need to be at school tomorrow morning, 8.00A.M.. But another voice also told me that I can't sleep right away after my supper. In order to make myself feel better, I do something -- blogging.
Went to school around 9 o'clock today. Thank GOD that no one was there in the petrology lab. I was thankful because yesterday it was crowded. All machines were occupied. Today, I can slowly choose which machine to use. Prepared few more samples today to be annealed tomorrow. Talking about annealing, I must mention about the furnace... Haha... It started long time ago that I found out I need to use the furnace together with Argon-hydrogen gas. Then I was told that the new tank of gas has not arrived yet. So I waited. Then someone suggested me to use the vacuum furnace. So I got a slot for the vacuum furnace. That morning when I finally got to use the furnace due to some unexpected incidents happened that delayed the use of furnace, I was then told that the furnace was spoilt. The technician asked me to wait for few days. But it was not a very good idea. I was told to just use the furnace together with argon gas although it was expected that the results were DEFINITELY not good. What other choices do I have? NO! So after some discussions, negotiations and what-so-ever, I got a slot from a friend. For the next few weeks, I woke up early on the Monday morning just to go to school and get a slot for the coming week. BUT, then only I was told that the gas arrived and I should follow the initial plan. I managed to use the furnace and the gas for once, and then it was finished AGAIN in two weeks. Now, I need to use the vaccum furnace again which is now fully booked!!! Thank GOD for Shu Lee who managed to get a slot for tomorrow and allowing me to put in my samples together with hers. You have no idea how greatful I am... I just hope that it will not spoil AGAIN!!!
Also, I finally got my XRD results today. mostly of them were not that good but there were some really nice results as well. But still, I am still very happy about the results although I still need to continue with my lab works.
Came back to the room at 5, rested, played game then went to CF. We had a speaker today and a bunch of young, talented people. Great to have them here. But I was too tired to entertain them much. Still, I managed to chat with a few of them.
Left with Jason Ling because I was too sleepy and tired... Yes, sleepy and tired. But why am I still awake? Probably I am not... Haha... Good night people~~~

FYP stress~~~

I have not been very productive these two days, reason being I just passed up the chapter 2 of my thesis which has already haunted me for days. Besides, things I wanted to do have been delayed again and again. All I can do is just wait... And letting myself regenerate after the exhaustion of writing my chapter 2. Seriously, I have been dreaming about my supervisor scolding me because I haven't passed up my thesis and stuff... Tension~~~
Wanted to get my XRD results so that I can do the comparison and then continue with the next part of my experiment. Hopefully the last part... But the results are not out yet. It is already out of my schedule... Haih~~~~ Before I get my results, I have no reason to see my supervisor. But if I don't see her, she will assume that I am not doing anything... If I make myself to go see her now, I have nothing to tell or ask her... So you know what I know everytime I come to school? I check and see first whether her car is in the school. If she is not, I will really feel relieved... But of course, I will still do my stuff which I am supposed to... Now... I am blogging here at the school's computer lab, waiting for the time to pass, hoping that later I can get my XRD results already.... I really do not want to get scolded again lar~~~~~

Bad Experience of Blood Donation~~

As I said I shall elaborate more on why I think it was a bad experience~~~ This was my second time to donate blood... And I finally got the little red book. Haha.. Ok... It happened when we went to Taiping Central. I thought I want to try finding a dress for Bahan Night there. But the mall was quite small, so my search ended in about 15 minutes time. When Sze-Lyn and I were at the ground floor roaming around to wait for time to pass, she was told that some of them were donating blood at the first floor. I was very excited, so we decided to go and have a look. When I queued up, Lian, Ann Nee, Ming Chung and Derrick were already there. I was just 3 persons behind Derrick for registration. After all the procedures of filling up forms and checking blood pressure and all, all four of them got their place already. Ann Nee even almost done. Lian has been sitting there for quite some because they can't find her veins. I sat down and chatted with them. Before I realized, more and more people came and some even took up my turn. So I stood up and waited. But there were already two persons taken my turn. Thank God for the guy who saw me and gave me the place. Ming Chung and Derrick were done then even before I sat down... =( After sitting down, no one seems to bother about me.. I sat there for quite some time and no one attended to me... Tow Lian was finally done too... Left me alone.... =( Ming chung went to tell the nurse and finally someone came... She tried finding my veins on my left hand and she said cannot see. So I said right hand might be better.. So I changed place. Then she said my veins are too HALUS... The first time she poked, tak kena... So she pulled out the syringe and I had to wait some more before she try the second time... Argh... Already feeling very guilty to make so many people to wait for me... Some more Ann Nee was not feeling well after the blood donation.... After a LONG time(long time to me la), she came again to try the second time. She kept on saying cannot find my veins and I kept on saying also the first time it was very easy to find. Haha.... I did not know whether it was her problem or what that this time was painful. But she finally got it.... The "flow rate" of my blood was fast. It was done in quite a short time la.. And thanks to Derrick I donated slightly more than I was supposed to... The funny thing was Aaron and Lian were saying very fast but Derrick kept telling me that there was a long way to go, don't get deceived as he was the one looking at the weigh. Mana tau, he baca wrongly la... Hahaha.... Now my hand got two needle hole's scars. And Ann said it looked like I was bitten by vampire... Where got vampire bite here one?? Hahaha... I thank God that I do not have any bruises like some people always do after donating blood.... Will it stop me from donating the third time?? Hm... Don't think so... =)

Final Year Retreat ROCKS!!!!

I have been lost for quite awhile AGAIN... Have been very busy with CF concert and FYP after the Chinese Year... Too much to update but I have very little time now since this is 5.00a.m. in the morning and I need to sleep for two hours before I wake up and continue my works. Perhaps I just update the latest one first.. Since the memories are still FRESH... Hahaha....
This past weekend, we had our final year retreat at Maxwell Hill... Only 15 of us managed to make it for this retreat where 4 were the master students and FES worker. To those who can't make it, you guys really missed out a lot of fun ler.... =P
On the first night, we stayed at Derrick's grandma's house. It was quite a cozy place actually for me... Nothing much happened that night except four of us were so excited about playing mahjong... We purposely borrowed and brought a mahjong set... -_-|||
The next morning, we had breakfast and then bought stuff for the steamboat dinner. We reached Maxwell Hill later than the time we expected but still we decided to hike part of jungle trek. It was tiring because I seriously have not been excersizing after KK trip. But still we managed to reach the place in the estimated time. Then we took the jeep up to the place we stay. We stayed at... Hm.... I forgot what's the name. But it was a nice bungalow with lots of space for us to "entertain" ourselves with mahjong and rummy-o. Hahaha..... I guess I was at the mahjong table most of the time for the rest of the day when we were not eating, bathing or having session. Hahahha.... The steamboat dinner was quite nice. Thanks to Master Chef, Ah John! Thanks to Yew Kong and Aaron as well who washed the dish for us.... Hehehe.... Then more MAHJONG.... We had our session after one game... The session was about "Called to choose, called to community". It was quite an impactful session though. But to me, the interactions between all of us were more significant. Then more MAHJONG after the session... and you know what, I won with 十三幺. But some of them do not know what is 十三幺 since almost 80% of them just started to learn playing mahjong during this retreat.... Anyway, I won!!! To me, it was like something that only happens once in a life time.
The next day we had a short session before leaving the hill. we wanted to go Taman Tasik to continue the session but too bad it was raining. SO we went for lunch and we had banana leave rice... Hm.... no comment because I do not know how to comment. Ok lo~~ Hahaha.... After that back to Taman Tasik again, and it was raining again. Managed to take few group photos and had a more proper ending of the session. Then few of us decided to go Taiping Central while some went back. Nothing much there but the most unforgettable one was my bad experience of donating blood there. Should talk more about this experience in the next post since this is seriously time to sleep. Only one and a half hour left. Opss....


Proofs of my 十三幺... Hahaha....

Eventful Day!!!

I absolutely had an eventful and blessed day... This morning, I was the interpreter for the speaker, Bro. Mugan in church. I was kind of blur, I guess I should say really blur... Haha... When he tended to speak longer, I could only remember the first two lines and the later part. So this was the worst experience of all interpretation I have done. Kind of disappointed with myself. However, i have learnt a new line today : "The main thing is the main thing, the main thing..." I was supposed to translate that but seriously, I have no idea how to because I do not understand a bit. No one knows how to translate that. My guess was no one understood... =P Besides, I enjoyed the P&W with a really nice Hokkien song I just learnt and PBBC version of "How Great Is Our God". After the service, we used to go Tong Kee for lunch with the generous church members. But since today onwards, they have decided to have some home cooked food instead. We had really nice food today, especially the pork.

"Too bad Simon~~ You've missed it. =P"

Ok, then four of us (Aaron, Terence, Edmond and I) went to Jusco Bandar Perda for a little shopping... Had great time there too... We had Papa Roti and Secret Recipe for tea!!! It was really nice to eat Papa Roti while it was still a little hot. Then we had cakes!! My all time favorite -- Chocolate Indulgence... Yum yum.... After the tea, I went to buy the sunshade Simon and I spotted few days ago... Not for myself... Eventually I chose the one I like and he did not quite like at the time...I think he will now... Or he needs to... Because I have already bought it... Hehe...
Reached PB about 7 something and we decided to have some sports. So again the four of us plus Nicholas ( who came about one hour late, I guess ) went for tennis... The two hours were great!! Aaron and Terence were quite experienced player... The rest of us were quite noob... Quite new player and Edmond was first timer. I really had a lot of fun.... Then got back room, took bath, out for supper.. Dinner actually... or dinner + supper = dipper?? Hahaha.... There were only Aaron, Ming Chung and me... We had fun chatting about family and stuff.... Great time too...
And now here am I blogging because I should not sleep right away after coming back from supper. But I seriously need the sleep because I had to do lab tomorrow. Just hope everything is going to work smoothly... Good night then....