Name: Yan Shao Location: Singapore
hmmmm... I guess i'm a person who is intrigued by the unexplained, won't talk for the sake of it and would aid a friend in need without thought.
Life's a Meaningless Game Without Him
You shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free.- John 8:32
Thursday, December 14, 2006
Just got back from breakthrough camp!
This is the one camp that I didn't experience an emptional surge in. Or at least not much. Maybe cuz I'm getting used to camps or maybe cuz I'm getting old haha. But it's unique in the sense that it convicted me mentally without giving me an emotional high. And no doubt, winning the world by the end of the month sounds just as impossible as it did b4 the camp. But 1000 isnt that daunting anymore and is almost easy to achieve. Almost.
Daily denial of not only urself but the lies of the world and the devil for the rest of the month is required to breathrough this breakthrough point. Something that is fundamental in Christianity, but something no Christian has done completely. But if there's one useful thing I've gained from camp, it is inspiration to perspire. And inspiration to perspire is worth so much more than inspiration to see results. 1 person per day doesnt seem that hard to do now and I'm prepared to do it even if it means being rejected 18 times. (which wont happen!)
yanshao scribbles... 11:49 AM Saturday, July 08, 2006
Why do people reject Christ? Is a lack of understanding or evidence? Or is it more than that. It's become apparent to me that it's because christians fail to project the goodness of God in their lives most of the time. And this is the area I must grow in. I've been a lousy ambassador but it's gonna change. I must not be the one who's preventing the kingdom of God to grow in NJ.
Anyway for those people who just need evidence, it can be proven quite simply. Not by the evidence from the books I've read, but rather how christians living all over in the world today (including me) experience God in such a real way it is impossible to reason God away. I know of a christian who opened his house door with his car key by just praying, another who got God to stop the rain to stop for the time while he cross the road and yet another who preached in a foreign language in a foreign land, just to name a few. And all did these miracles were done simply by praying. I hear you say they may be lying so to make christians more committed so that they'll give more money right? Well I have had my fair share of miracles occuring in my own life. The interpretation of the heavenly tongue during the recent camp which was confirmed by 2 others, for example. Coincidence? Well you don't become more lucky just because you become a member of a false religion. And I wouldn't be lying cuz I would seriously have stopped going to church a long time ago if it were all a lie.
Oh got my common test results. Can't say I wasn't shaken when I realized I failed chem but got over it a lot faster than I expected. Not because I succeeded in deceiving myself but think cuz of the realization that there's no reason to doubt God.
Oh had a dream the other night. About how NJ will become a christian institution and people will lead morning prayers during assembly and everyone else was bowing their heads. Haha wonder how long more before that dream becomes reality. But for now, I'm claiming every soul who's ready to say YES.
yanshao scribbles... 10:09 PM Monday, July 03, 2006
hmmm just learnt recently that faith isn't just a measure of a how much u demand from God but is really a knowledge that everything's under His control, whether good or bad. And once u know that, life becomes a lot easier. =)
CT's weren't as good as i expected them to be. Made a lot of careless mistakes here and there. Haha this is the first time I got hardly any clue what my grades will turn out to be. Maybe cuz my grades have taken a rollercoaster ride since entering JC.
Jamming last fri at De wei's house was the perfect way to celebrate after my main papers. Oh I seriously regret agreeing to help Roger now back then haha. Thankfully it'll be over soon.
Only one thing's on my mind now. End sep. 16. Breakthrough.
yanshao scribbles... 8:49 PM Friday, June 16, 2006
Oh today was quite cool. Went orchard to busk for some bone marrow drive. But it wasn't that that made my day. Haha I had to rush all the way back to school from lido cuz I left my bow behind. (cuz I was transferring my cello from the school's soft case to my hard case, which i just go back from CO). Anw I took a bus back and it was obviously going to rain. I realized that I had to walk the long way in and out of school and that I'll be carrying an unprotected bow. So I prayed. On my way out, the rain was just about getting to heavy when a cab came by.
There isn't any shelter around lido so I guess that was why God stopped the rain for the time I took to get out cab to when I was indoors. Then it started pouring again.
OH recently I've become increasingly excited about existing. Like I get all hyper by the fact that I'm actually looking from behind two eyes. That I've freedom to do nearly anything my mind wills. Age has that inevitable effect fot ridding us of excitment over things that has always been here. Oh wells..
yanshao scribbles... 9:46 PM Monday, June 12, 2006
Woohoo! Got my new blog skin from Darren (thx!)
Anw, I just came back from my church's encounter camp on sat and boy was it powerful! Never expected to meet God in such a real way.
Well it started the day before camp. I was about to make for home from school when it started raining very heavily. I prayed as usual for it to stop but it didn't. Which is quite weird cuz it usually does haha. I waited at the bus stop for abt half an hour, hoping the rain would stop soon. It didn't. So I scrambled home through the rain while holding on to some unprotected cello scores haha. I reached home drenched and confused, and became even more so when I went to bathe immediately. See, the rain had stopped when I looked out from my bathroom's window. Haha as if God was playing around with me.
I forgot about this incident until the next day in camp, when I found out the theme for the camp is "The Rain". And apparantly it's a phrase that God has been speaking to many leaders in church for the whole of the year. Spiritual rain. One that will quench our spiritual thirst. And yeah, it rained indeed for the next 4 days, both physically and spiritually.
Something really amazing happened on the 2nd day of camp. For the first time in the history of Y-hope, someone spoke in tongues and then interpreted it. And what more, I got the interpretation before she said the interpretation! For those of you who have no idea what speaking in tongues is, it's the holy spirit (e 3rd person of the Godhead) speaking in a heavenly language only God can understand through you in short. Well it happened again on the 3rd day again to prove to me that it was no fluke.
Other than that, God spoke to me a lot more. Both during sermons and praise n worship. Well, this is probably the first time I met all my camp objectives so swiftly too.
Oh yesterday went to jam at Roger's house (A really weird guy who's super naggy). I'm supposed to help him with his album which I dun think will sell at all haha. I only like ONE track out of a total of 10. I'm getting 20% of the profits but dun think it'll come to more than 50 bucks haha.
Well I'm going back to physics now. =p
yanshao scribbles... 5:16 PM Saturday, May 27, 2006
Yay I'm blogging again!
Been wanting to do this for a long time. Since I found a reason to blog few months back. Mainly to proclaim the essence of title of this blog more vividly through my life.
Gonna change the blog skin to something cooler.. soon.. hopefully.
hmmmmmmmmmm.. . . . . . .
it's late and my my mind's blank.
Hahahaha so much for the first post after 14 months. =P
yanshao scribbles... 12:31 AM Friday, April 08, 2005
Cant believe I'm actually UPDATING after a month of letting my blog rot. So much has happened since I last posted. One is that I've been affected by the nj culture and have started mugging. Another is that I've realized that I can wake up at 7.15 and still reach school on time, provided the bus drivers do not go on strike, and not bringing anything on wednesdays is quite ok.
School's getting into full swing and I can never get enough sleep (like anybody is) except on sundays when I cannot wake up any earlier than 12.
My timetable couldn't be worse. Got school until 5.20 without any free periods and then 4 consecutive free periods on friday, giving me a grandx total of 3.5 hours free b4 our last period, pe. Today I spent it eating, walking around A LOT, and stoning A LOT. Haha i just need to be more of a mugger and have a super side parting to become a true njcian. Also had shepherding with sida but I was so knocked out already I really couldnt pay attention :|. so I ended up drawing a lot of stupid pictures.
SO rehearsal is getting heavier but is still quite slack, considering syf's in 2 weeks. Its very pressurising to have 2 paerforming art groups get gold with honour, especially since I'm no way confident we are going to get a gold. Hope a miricle happens on that day...
Its becoming so apparent I'm not practising my grade 7 stuff ms zhao is probably going to scream at me for the first time on sunday. Havent touched my scales for a month and I dun even feel guilty. Well, at least my pieces seem to improving without practice :P.
"You can have a lot to live on and still have nothing to live for"- Rick Warren
"Reason is always a kind of brute force; those who can appeal to the head rather than the heart, however pallid and polite, are necessarily men of violence. We speak of touching a man's heart, but we can do nothing to his head but hit it"- Gk Chesterton
"I'd rather have people hate me with the knowledge that I tried to save them"- Keith Green
"Live as though Christ died yesterday, rose from the grave todeay and is coming back tomorrow"- Theodore Epp
"God's answers are wiser than our prayers"- unknown
"Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so establised, that unless we love the truth, we cannot know it."- Pascal
"If christianity is untrue, then no honest man will want to believe it, however helpful it might be. If it is true, every honest man will want t obelieve it, even if it gives him no help at all"- C.S Lewis
"faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted in spite of your changing moods"- C.S Lewis
"Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had been done"- C.S Lewis
"The only thing Christianity cannot be is moderately important"- C.S Lewis
"If there was a controlling power outside the universe, it could not show itself to us as one of the facts inside the universe- no more than the architect of a house could actually be a wall or a stairway or fireplace in that house, the only way which we could expect it to show itseld would be inside ourselves as an influence or command trying to get us to behave in a certain way"- C.S Lewis, mere christianity
"If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found that it has no meaning, just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes we should never know it was dark. Dark would be a word without meaning." - C.S Lewis
"It is because of the hasty and superficial conversation with God that the sense of sin is so weak and that no motivation have power to help you to hate and flee from sin as you should"- Tozer, A.W
"The gates of hell are locked from the inside, not the outside."- unknown
"None so empty of grace as he that thinks he is full"- Thomas Watson
"Do you not see God in science? How can you miss Him? Is it so much easier to believe that we simply chose the right card from a deck of billsions?? Have we cecome so spiritually blind that we rather believe in mathematical impossibility than in a power greater than us?"- Dan Brown
"Science and religion are not at odds with each other. Science is simply too young to understand"- Dan Brown
"To be a molecular biologist requres one to hold on to two insanitites at all times. One, it would be insane to believe in evolution, when you can see the truth for yourself. Two, it would be insane to say you don't believe in evolution. All government work, research grants, papers, big college lectures- everything would stop. I'd be out of a job, or relegated to the outer fringes, where I wouldn't earn a decent living."- A molecular biologist
"The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of god and the refreshment of the soul."- J.S. Bach
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