Late review of year 2011

I'm late. It's almost mid of Jan 2012. But still I want to wish 'A Sojourner': Happy 1st anniversary! =D
It's quite a 'success' for me personally given the fact that I never write diary, lack of consistency in doing...basically everything, and I don't express myself well. But one thing for sure, I like to write than to talk.

For the review, I'd like to conclude the Learning post for year 2011. haha.
(i) 早睡早起身体好 - I think I'm quite on track in the 3rd quarter of the year. Nonetheless, 江山易改，本性难移啊！ It's a total failure in the final quarter of the year. and I can feel that health is deteriorating. *sehr schlecht*

(ii) Schwimmen - Ich kann jetzt schwimmen! ..aber nicht so gut. Quite confident about this. I'm improving on it.

(iii) Kochen - hmm..I have evidence..

Sorry wrong photo I didn't cook any of  that.

Now this is the right photo..
Spaghetti edible only to PLXY + instant mushroom soup

Spiral pasta version 

chicken rice!

Now this is the best thing I've ever cooked - chicken rice! It was a sweet cooking coordination with Dr. See. The picture doesn't serve the dish justice. It was really tasty - the taste of the rice + the chicken. The proportion of everything was just nice! *schmekt gut* 

Mashed potato - so-so.
Quite satisfied with it. As long as I like it.

(iv) Guitar spielen - I can remember the chords very well and tried to play more hymns but not much progress.

(v) To gain weight - I got a 'D' for the effort and a 'F' for the result. I'm a living skeleton now. (I've always been a living skeleton.)

2011 had been a long year for me, from 4 months of my 4th sem, then 4 months of holidays, to 4 months of 5th sem. If not for the resolution we'd made before the Lord at the beginning of the year, it would have been a year of vanity though it's filled with challenges, happy times, difficult times, deceiving times...
He never forgets our resolution and consecration. 

31-12-2010

19-11-2011 - Gospel work in Kemaman.
I'll miss the time we went together in small kancil and the hymn we made.

Now the beginning of 2012 wasn't as what I expected. It started with exams and farewells...can you believe it? =(
Anyway, for a whole new year ~
Phil 2:13 ~ Brothers, I do not account of myself to have laid hold; but one thing I do: Forgetting the things which are behind and stretching forward to the things which are before.

(sorry for the random German words here and there, they just popped out as I'm writing) 

Uniform

An early 'celebration' of 'Monday Blue' on a Sunday night.

That's how we release stress..........and produce great photos..lol.

Children Camp 2011 - the last children camp serving together as campus students

I admit that I'm a very nostalgic person. This has become even more apparent when one gets older. Whenever I come to think that companions are leaving soon, I mean really soon, it's just yet another sigh. Today is the last day of the 5th sem, even there's still 1 month/ few months/a sem before they graduate, a lot of things that we do/ did/ are going to do, are not going to happen again.
Once a sis told me that the campus time is the best time to be builded up with the sisters.

The first children camp we participated - 2009

To wear the same colour or same shirt is definitely an outward thing; inwardly how much have we been builded up together, I don't know. Have we experienced any building?

Beware of dog

This is the recent me.

There's something I've always wanted to say to all people around me these 2 weeks

for everything. 

Anyway, someone suggested that in my case it should be 'beware of cat' instead of dog. So here is it.

13-12-2011

...because we love the Lord

2 Tim. 2: 22 

~ But flee youthful lusts, and pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.~

Like other church kids who were born and raised up in the Lord's recovery, we're too familiar with this verse. We can memorize it at our fingertips, we hear messages from the brothers concerning it, we even declared it boldly in the meetings and training. But only recently does it shine.

As a "doing" christian, there're a lot of do's and dont's in my list. I do this because other saints do it as well; I don't do that because we're told not to, because it's not beneficial for us, because the serving ones advice us not to do so, because it's not good, because it brings trouble to us.......bla bla bla. I have 1001 reasons accumulated in my being for not doing certain things.

In the campus blending and perfecting, it was pointed out that the sole reason why you do or you don't do certain things is because you love the Lord. 

What is it to love God? It is to pour out your whole heart on Him. It's altogether a matter of our heart.

In this situation, a question just pop out again and again in me: What do you want? 

Well, I don't know...I don't feel like I want to seek something other than the Lord....and that's just because of the 1001 reasons mentioned above. 

But now I know....my answer is: I want to pursue the Lord with those who call on the Lord

out of a pure heart!

Everything becomes clear. I don't do it because I love the Lord and I want to love my Lord.

Sabah blending trip (photos from my camera)

Time to sort out the very few photos I took with my camera.

The 1st group of pics were taken at the district of Kuala Biah. There's the 2nd meeting hall in Keningau.

Misteri yang agung: Kristus dan Gereja!

 Out of 20+ saints came, half of them are children. The children presented a hymn for us. =D

"Ini kisah ku dan kidung ku...."

Sharing from local saints

Sharing from PJ bros

Nice pose, say cheeeese!

Photo checking - super cute

This was taken in Kota Marudu

The next group was taken at the meeting hall in Tambunan.

Teaching bahasa Dusun

Bad dog!! Always bully the other dog..

Buah pinang - a kind of fruit? I dunnoo..

The youths and children in Tambunan. Amen.

Enjoyed and touched by the testimony of the sister

Next few photos .........

Air terjun Mahua

Breathtaking

Final group - Moo!...Desa Farm

very healthy cows 

 Check..this blog is privatised right...

Our beloved sisterss  =)

It's obvious - which didi we're laughing at....

 I'm motivated wherever I think of the saints and the Lord's move in Sabah. Sometimes I thought my situation is hard and do not know how to confront it. But whenever I think of the labouring saints there, I feel so childish to be overwhelmed by the insignificant situation. This hymn conveys all. (The newer version of translation is different, I want the older version)

Tuan, kami g'reja, kingdom-Mu,

Pengembangluasan, pejuang-Mu,

Dalam kingdom kami hidup,

Berjuanglah demi-Mu!

Moga p'mulihan Tuan

Cergas maju, sebar luas;

Kaki p'lita sinar

Terang di tiap kota;

Bah'ya, perit tak digentar,

Tuan di sisi kami.

Paper Crafts (3)

I spent one hour to do this little thing...sigh.

Where did my artsy-fartsy instinct go? Ok, I don't even have it right from the beginning.

Guess... what is the above thing?

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It SUPPOSE to be...... a flower, a rose.

Let me add some leaves to it.

More like it?

I found a previous same craft which I used less than 5 mins to complete...

...and it looks much better. At least more like a rose. sigh 2nd time.

All you need is leftover colour paper, cut them into small pieces of uneven shapes and arrange them into the shape of a flower. Super easy + paper/cost saving.