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Give thanks to the Lord for He is good!

It’s been a busy week in work as well as busy updating some information for the church web site.

Ever since I came back from Sabah for Chinese New Year, I feel that time passes by super fast. Unknowingly it is already the end of the week, and Saturday and Sunday just over within a blink of an eye. Wow!

Anyhow, I just want to thank God that He has everything in control and over me too; for He has been blessing me with the strength and wisdom I need to move on for the next day.

A good testimony I would like to share about how God help me in my job. I am working as a customer support engineer that deal heavily with challenging technical questions from customers all around the world who use our product in RF and microwave signals. Sometimes it can be quite a scary job as the depth of the question being asked is deep and also very wide. Each day as I walk to the office, I will say a little prayer to God to guide and give me the wisdom to perform my job. Here is how I encounter God’s presence; EACH time I see challenging question in my email box - before even thinking about a solution for it, I will read a prayer guide from a note pasted on my wall. And the amazing part is, always in less than 5 mins I will be able to reply back the customer with a answer. Isn’t this great? With this, I can always feel God’s love towards me. I am not sure whether you believe me or not. However, I would like to take this opportunity to challenge you if you happen to face some life challenges in the future or even right now, please remember that God is in control over everything. Just say a little prayer to Him and see the glories of God is going to bless on you.

Here is a verse to share from Philippians 4:13, "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me".

Here is a photo taken recently during our CG outing in Cameron Highlands.

A lot of my friends asked me how am I going to celebrate the New Year, and my answer to them is, "I am going to church for the Watch Night service". There are so many other things to do than celebrating in the church. Well, I have my own reason why I choose so.

1st: Celebrating in town and watching fireworks is fun, however when I think about the traffic jams I am going to endure, I just could not convince myself hard to do that.

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God Bless.

Hellowwwwww….. Guys, Ladies….. I am officially 80kg now. Wow! What a remarkable result. I was 91kg++ on the 5th Nov 2006, and today I weight at 80kg. That’s 11kg of weight loss.

Another great news is I have finally completed my MBA. Phew! 18 months of toils, truly it’s not easy to get through this process. Along the way I have learned a lot of things. Indeed it’s another unforgettable experience. Anyhow, I’m glad that I do not need to face any more exams. Now I can focus better in my career and also my relationship. Just one step at a time, no need to worry so much as God is here with me; I just need to be still.

That’s all for now.

It’s been a while I have not update my blog. Anyhow, I just finish reading Richard’s blog and I think I should write mine too – the last one for year 2006.

2006 has been a year of learning for me and let’s see how God has blessed me and what I’ve achieved through Him:

1. I am about to finish my MBA now, that’s another 22 days for me. Yeah!! Can’t wait for the last day. God really has guided me well in this, especially from financial support.
2. I told God that I wish to have a smooth year in 2006, hmm..yupe, I would that I achieve 80-90% of it. There isn’t any much trouble or challenges. Every single step is a learning curve for me.
3. In relationship, I learned a lot and grow more mature. Thank God for giving me and her a second chance to start all over again. Somehow God has given me comfort and wisdom thru’ His words from the Holy Bible and also MOC. The MOC helps me to understand how to be a real man and being a man of covenant. I hope that God will continue to bless me a girl with many blessings.
4. I also told God that I would like to build up a closer relationship with Him. Yes, I can see that I start to serve in the church ministry too, where right now I am serving in the Media ministry. More ever, this is an opportunity to learn God’s words better and how it impacts our daily work in the office.
5. I also pick up some technical knowledge in lead-free process, something that I never thought I will know more in details about lead-free.
6. Finally, I managed to reduce my weight from 91kg to 82++kg in 5 weeks. Very happy about this result as I can buy better cloths to wear now. Anyhow, I am not going to stop at this level, still got a few more kg to go.

I am sure all of you have different experiences. Anyhow, I hope that all of us will take our past experience in year 2006 as a guide to lead us perform and do better in year 2007. Here’s a photo taken recently at Penang lastes mall  - Queensbay Mall.

So, let me wish you all a Happy New Year. God bless.

Adapted from the movie "Meet Joe Black"; this sentence is my favourite line in the movie. Why? Try reading it by yourself.

know it’s a cornball thing, but love is passion,obsession, someone you can’t live without. If you don’t start with that, what are you going to end up with? I say fall head over heels. Find someone you love like crazy and who’ll love you the same way back. And how do you find him? Forget your head and listen to your heart…Run the risk, if you get hurt, you’ll come back. Because if you haven’t tried, you haven’t lived… Stay open. Who knows? Lightning could strike.

I was about to fall asleep, then I look outside from my window and saw the moon was so bright under the clear sky - an amazing situation which during the day the sky was super hazy.

Here’s some of the photos I taken of the moon. Can see the crates on the surface.

Photos parameters:

ISO:400, Aperture:22, Shutter Speed: Vary from 1/20 to 1/60, Focal length: 300mm with Canon 350D.

Click the photo thumbnails to view larger image.

The family always keep in touch through phone call, sms or email. But I like email the most, especially if it comes from my youngest sister. She will tell us her campus life; that’s full of interesting and funny stories. Here’s a poem she wrote recently. Enjoy and be blessed.

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It all started with the conversation of money management, eating balance food, and also weight management. Somehow these topics lead to a challenge between me and a friend. As he said he is a natural born fighter, never say die to get something done. So I dared him to take a challenge and see who can live with RM1 for a day - that’s all. Whoever loses will get a long day horrible teasing as a punishment. So, as you know a fighter will never say no and the fight begins starting from the next day.

~~~The Next Day~~~

Once I step in canteen for our weekly breakfast meet up, I saw him eating noodle. I took out my Nestle cereal and put on the table and smiled at him. Haha..he was speechless. By that time I know the answer already and asked him, "How much is that?" with a finger pointing at his food. In reply, "Can we forget about the challenge? I spent extra 50 cent". "HAHAHA!!! CANNOT!! A challenge is a challenge, and the loser must bear the consequences". ….Because I respect him and some of our friends do not what is happening, I just got to show some mercy and grace. I don’t want him to get embarrassed with the horrible teasing.

For the whole day I keep on reminding him the challenge and it’s pretty fun when you have the privileges to tease. Anyhow, I didn’t do it too. It’s just for fun.

September, October, November, December…..January 2007!!! 5 months to go for me to complete my MBA study. What is next? What am I suppose to do? I am so eager to complete my studies. Truly can’t wait as I want to do so many things after that. I want to buy new jeans, go traveling, doing mission trip, saving money for new car and maybe buying a house so that my family can stay with me whenever they want.

Even it’s just about 5 months to go, my mind begin to wander and imagine how would the situation be. Constantly I seek God’s wisdom and direction, "God, what do you want me to do after my MBA? God, you know my heart desire to work in China for a short period, will you open up the door for me?" So many questions in my mind.

Ever since after the Men’s Retreat, I also realize my relationship with my brothers - the MOC (Man of Covenant) grow stronger. Could it be God is preparing something for me as I am going thru’ the threshing floor? But I know God is always in control in situation that surpasses our human ability. I just need to trust and obey His words and continue to do my best in every circumstance. Yes, doing my best in every where even though there are things we are so tired with it.

Finally, I also want to thank God for blessing me a wonderful and understanding family, which they always been supporting me.