So come just as you are,
Chainbreaker, Heart Savior,
Jesus, The great Redeemer
Life Changer, Liberator,
Jesus the great Redeemer!
AMPLIFY TODAY WAS AWESOME. =D
It's like, words can't describe it.
Plus, today's talk was really cool as well,
i took down really cool notes lol,
Really ROFL haha,
but i can elaborate everything i write there.
The talk was really interesting and all,
And the Topic today was
"Develop a Love of Gratitude"
The first step we can take,
is to cultivate an attitude of gratitude.
Be thankful for what people have done for you.
Teflon is not good for the heart,
it's only good for the frying pan.
Don't let things that god gives you,
hope, love, joy, friendship, faith,
just slide out of your heart just like that.
VELCRO it to your heart.
Be grateful for what you have,
and learn to share!
here's a quote,
"Some people ask you how your day was,
just so that they can tell you how bad their day was."
Are you getting the most out of a relationship?
Do you take more?
Complain to your friend how bad everything is,
just so as to hope he/she can comfort you?
Are you hoping for a friend,
hoping that he/she will make your life happier?
.. Or less miserable?
Learn to serve and bless someone who's less fortunate.
If you think you've had a series of unfortunate events,
someone in the world may be experiencing hell.
A great talk by Leonard from Amp. =D
The songs today was great too,
more on the upbeat side.
Andrew asked me how i got my gift of tongues,
since i didn't go for the camp and all,
but i really have no idea.
My first real experience with it started 2weeks ago.
Sometimes when words cant express my feelings,
it really helps pour everything out.
Amp was really really nice today!
After Amp,
went to the coffeeshop to have supper with the peeps.
Didn't really hang around for long,
talked to chris at mac at rivervale plaza.
About band stuff,
School stuff,
Life stuff.
If things would be much simpler,
it wouldn't be complicated much.
._.
Doesn't really make sense i know, but lol.
Just have faith that god has planned great things for us,
and it'll be faith that keeps us moving.
Made coke float for supper.
I bought a medium coke.
As well as a 70 cents cone.
Then i drank a bit of the coke,
then toppled the whole ice cream on top.
Used the straw to push the ice cream in,
took quite awhile but finally managed to get it in.
It tasted like thick vanilla coke,
maybe description's kinda bad,
but it was good!
You should see me show you try it someday XD
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Neway,
past few days has been kinda fulled up.
And i'm actually, trying, starting to sleep earlier.
So you see, it's tough to compact my thoughts down,
cause i usually blog at around midnight,
but i have to pay my sleep debt and all,
so i can't actually blog.
but neway, had amp just now so i'm kinda energized.
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Intensive was alright.
Was kinda disappointed with the turnout,
though i wouldn't say i didn't see it coming.
Well i guess the truth is even i didn't feel like going for a camp.
I had this sort of thinking the day before.
"You know every intensive,
you seem to dread it so much at the start,
but you always end up enjoying yourself."
So yeah, i came into camp on the first day,
with a very open mind.
And let me tell you that helps alot.
Cause it make things much more fun,
no matter how you see it.
Several cool learning games to point out.
Heard of Dota?
Here's Dotn.
We had this flag thing,
where a square patch of thick newspaper,
would be wrapped at the end of a long stick.
Like a signboard.
The objective of the game was to get the newspaper as wet as possible,
with the defender running around the arena with two hands on the pole.
In the team there are blockers and attackers.
Blockers are people who are tied together around the waist(loosely),
and they can block people from running.
Attackers are two people tied together and they have water guns.
So the game's actually all about strategy,
where you can get blockers to either block the attackers,
block their flag,
or block their blockers.
well, the we as campers,
we were just having fun i guess.
But the importance i saw in this game,
wasn't strategy,
it was welfare for other members,
as every unit depended on each other much,
be it to move, or to win.
The other two games i liked,
was trust fall and integrity push.
The trust fall is like you just fall from four chairs stacked up,
and people catch you.
But you should've seen the spirit everyone had,
as we shouted that we were ready to catch the faller and stuff.
You could not just feel,
but see even with your eyes close,
a team.
The integrity push really shows what life really is about.
There will be 3 people pushing against you,
and two people supporting you only through words.
whatever your goal you've stated is,
the people pushing against you will just continue to criticise you.
And as you reach the end,
and go back to the start only to be pushed to the end again.
The thing is,
you must never give up.
Campfire was fun as well.
I think SB's performance was rather cool,
cause "that was so not him."
And people were saying they saw the different side of me ~_~,
cause i was playing this guy who falls in love and says,
"I have 2 words to say,
I love you,
Cause you and I are one."
Yeah got damn from rich last time XD.
Nehow, after camp ended,
had meeting with the sec 3s,
and then supper and then finally home.
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Yesterday(thursday)
wasn't much as well.
I went to have lunch with Archy!
After that,
caught a movie,
"The day the Earth stood still."
Message is strong,
but not say very good as a movie i expected.
Thought it would be something like the day after tomorrow.
After that had Ice cream with KL SB WB & KC.
I finally had my double belgian waffle ice cream thing!
And i like it very much haha.
Thanks so much to WB for giving me the treat,
cause i KL SB and I won a bet lol.
After that went to NUM.
I got a shirt there.
Thanks so much to CL Bernie,
for helping out.
Towards dinner,
went to check out the newly opened national geographic.
Really cool stuff there.
I went into this container,
where it was -2 degrees,
and i could see my body temperature change from the tv.
Pretty cooooool. haha.
After that, had dinner at Kopitiam.
Then went to candy empire,
then saw Bruce there!
lol.
Then finally i was home.
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Phew,
updated everything for the last few days.
Lost abit of feel to blog towards the end.
That's all cause it's 2:40AM neway.
Wilburs coming back in a few hours time!
At the airport!
Oh, less sleep again today.
NIGHTS!
Lord we're breathing the breath,
you gave us to breathe.
And we're singing these songs
With the very same breath,
To worship you.
Your grace is enough for me.
JoelJonas.
