We are the champions!

Yeah Barcelona!

Booooo Man Utd! LOL!

YEAHHHH CHELSEA!!

Oh well, sorry Joseph Dimmick.. Man Utd is just not meant to be.. LOL

Its showtime!

The Temasek students of Singapore came to my school just yesterday and it was a real fun experience! They're quite a friendly bunch (leng lui pun ada wor! XP) and I must say, it feels GREAT again to finally speak to someone with "lahs" and "mahs" and the Malaysian/Singapore english accent!.. haha!

We started off with the recognition and graduation ceremony. Really feel sorry for the Singapore bunch as they had to sit all the way through it and they had nothing to do with the ceremony! lol! It was an event to remember! 4 awards!! Now thats something that comes like once in a lifetime man! Lol!! Outstanding Student Award, Best Student in ICT Award, Best Basketball Player Award and Best Sportman of KIS Award. It is simply amazing! And I wouldn't have done it without this God whom I serve. =D Pictures will be posted soon.. I hope.. XP

Today's the big annual concert and just earlier we had a practice session and with the Temasek people doing their catwalk-dikir barat-dance, its just fantastic! Their dance is so much more energetic, joyful and better than our school's! Lol! And I'm not saying this because of the Singaporean leng lui(s)! XP But man! You gotta admit, those girls look WAY better than the girls at my school.. LOL!

As for me, I'm one of the emcees for the event and also I'll be playing "Love Story" with the band a few hours from now! =D 

1 freaking week till KL!!!! WOOOOO! 

Its showtime!

Mother's day

One thing I find rather interesting here is that when there would be big celebrations and flashy advertisements all over the world on Mother's day, and where there would be gifts and flowers on sale for this special event, Laos would be in a totally different dimension.. =.="..

I went to this store looking for something to buy for my mum and I couldn't find anything much that relates to mother's day! The products there were mostly (if not all) made in China and the last thing I would want to buy on Mother's day is a wish card that has english written chinese words on it.. =.=".. Oh oh! And they still sell Christmas cards! XP

But with all that aside, we are just blessed by these women for who they are in our lives.. =) So to all dearly beloved mums...

Happy Mother's Day

A Breakthrough!

VIETNAM: MASSIVE CHRISTIAN CELEBRATION ALLOWED

Officials permit rare, open-air Easter event by unregistered groups.

HO CHI MINH CITY, April 22 (Compass Direct News) – In what religious freedom advocates regarded as a breakthrough in Vietnam, authorities granted rare permission to unregistered house church groups to hold a large, public Easter-related service here last night.

More than 15,000 people gathered at Tao Dan Stadium to worship God, proclaim Christ and experience a rare sense of large-scale Christian unity, especially house church members accustomed to meeting in small groups. The only other such event granted to unregistered groups was an open-air meeting during Christmas of 2007 sponsored by the Vietnam Evangelical Fellowship (VEF, a house church umbrella group).

At the event last night, the VEF endeavored to include all house churches, not just its own members, sources said.

Unregistered groups holding an event that includes worship and evangelism outside a church building violates Vietnam’s restrictive religion laws, and the celebration – in which 1,200 people indicated they had decided to follow Christ – did not happen without struggles. Reluctant to endorse such Christian unity events, authorities demanded and got the removal of one of the organizers – pastor Nguyen Ngoc Hien, who heads a Baptist house church and a group called the Christian Fellowship of Vietnam – as a condition to consider approval.

Officials did not grant permission until 4 p.m., just three hours before the event was to begin, though event organizers had requested permission several months prior. Authorities had assured them that permission was forthcoming, but organizers were understandably nervous. Adding to their concerns was the rain that hit just before the service began, though the rainy season has yet to arrive.

Since the celebration was held in the open air, a heavy rain would have been more than inconvenient. It rained just enough to refresh the air, stopping as the service began – an answer to prayer for participants. The celebration began with congregational worship; participants said the huge crowd sang with enthusiasm and joy.

“I never heard any singing like this, even in a Billy Graham crusade,” said one overseas Vietnamese Christian leader. “It was as if they offered to God all the praise and worship stored up in their hearts during many years of oppression.”

Worship included a dance group, and a 120-voice choir sang with gusto. Pastor Duong Thanh Lam of the Assemblies of God served as master of ceremonies, pastor Vo Van Lac of the Full Gospel Church preached a gospel message and pastor Pham Dinh Nhan of the United Gospel Outreach Church made an evangelistic appeal. People responded with loud applause and raised their hands in praise, and those who decided to follow Christ included old and young, students and teachers, rank-and-file workers and some disabled people. Witnesses said some were healed as leaders prayed for them.

Leaders of the celebration and religious freedom advocates in Vietnam said the event was significant in that unregistered house churches were allowed to hold a large public celebration. They added that authorities must have felt enough pressure to consider the event less harmful than possible negative publicity from denying permission.

The sources also said the event showed that Vietnam’s house churches, widely known for divisiveness and provincialism, could cooperate with good results.

“Those who have long urged and worked for unity can be pleased,” said one advocate. “While there is still a long way to go for Vietnamese Christian groups in practicing collaboration and partnership, this Easter celebration is seen as a significant step forward.”

A prominent overseas Vietnam leader who founded the Vietnam World Christian Fellowship witnessed the event and highly commended the leadership of pastor Ho Tan Khoa, chairman of the VEF, and his committee.

Some former Vietnam missionaries were incredulous that such events can take place in Vietnam, which until recently has had a place among the world’s top persecutors of religion. Prior to the Easter-related event organized by unregistered house churches, Christmas events were similarly held by the legally recognized Evangelical Church of Vietnam (South) last December.

“That a successful Christian celebration with mass evangelism approved by the government can take place in Vietnam where in some places Christians are still heavily persecuted shows the ongoing inconsistency of Vietnam’s religion policy,” said one source. “Vietnam Christian leaders have long prayed for such opportunities. They see these events as direct answers from God, whom they believe holds the hearts of rulers in his hands.”

Three representatives of a house church group in China were present at the service; they expressed amazement. They promised Vietnamese church leaders to send missionaries to help in the evangelization of Vietnam and invited Vietnamese church leaders to visit China to learn about the church there.

Vietnamese participants said the celebration was inspiring, describing it as “spectacular,” “splendid,” “glorious” and “phenomenal.”

Happy Birthday April Babies!

This post is dedicated to those April-ies who are having their birthday this month! Happy Birthday!! =D

15th April- Hannah Loke!

I already sent you a message on facebook.. So that would suffice.. lol!

19th April- Li-Anne!

Would never know how my life would turn out to be without her being such an awesome friend.. =)

16th April- My brother, William

Err.. Arsenal still sucks.. lol!

17th April- Rachel Voon

Stay beautiful and stay blessed! hahaha! =D

April 26th- Deborah Nicole Long

=.="... Thought she was a sweet little girl until I actually met her.. LOL! the first thing she did was hit me! =.=".. All Li-Anne's fault.. (actually it was mine.. lol!!) Happy Birthday anyway! XP

April 27th- Jane Ng

One of the most blessed testimony I've heard/seen is through this person right here! =D Really proud of her! ;)

You guys rock! =D Have a blessed and spectacular birthday guys! 

And as a special request, heres a song sung by one of the April-ers( a perasan one too.. LOL!), Rachel Voon! =D Dedicated to to the Almighty, the Alpha and Omega Living God! =D And also to all you guys at SE! Especially April Babies! =D So enjoy this one guys, its spectacular! but sadly, it only plays half the song.. the chunted part is at the back.. =.=".. so if you guys want the full song, contact her manager, ME! LOL! no lar.. you can ask me or her for the full song! =D

Rachels songs

I AM FREE!

he's under my feet, he's under my feet, he's under my feet, he's under my feet, satan is under my feet!

Thank You Lord for how You showed your unfathomable love and grace for me on that cross! You did it so that we your people would be save and be free! I am in awe, God! 

That for God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. [John 3:16-17]

Blessed Good Friday to you all out there! And Happy Easter!! =D

Will be blogging about my weekend soon!

Kong ka long kong chang! XP

This chips taste so good! =D

Ok, chips-ness aside, on to whats more significant.. XP 

Happy Chinese New Year people! =D

Ahh at times like this it gets me thinking about and missing the family reunions we use to have back at my hometown! Oh I'm from Kuching btw! XP The food, the angpows, the good-ol' family times and my dear grandma! =') She makes like the best ever food for the reunion! Love her cooking!

Well guys! Hope you're all well back home! May our God, the king of all kings and the lord of all lords continue to lavish His love and blessings upon your life more and more each day! =D take care!

Christmas the Lao way.. XP

Hey Guys! Merry Christmas to all of you! =D Have a joyful blessed week up ahead y'all! 

Christmas for me this year, being in Laos was quite unusual.. lol! But nevertheless Christmas is Christmas! Hehe! Its not the gifts, decorations or songs that counts but the real reason why its celebrated in the first place which is the birth of Christ the Saviour! =D Hosanna in the highest! =)

With my parents being busy even during Christmas (Yeah I was really surprise that the students even have school and workers still have work on this day! O_O"), we had to celebrate it in a different way.. =P

On Christmas eve, My family and I went for dinner at a French Restaurant called "La Terrase", which is quite a nice place! =) I ordered this lamb steak meal, which was a complete mistake - It came out as two pieces of bone with just some miserable meat on it.. =.=".. 

On Christmas day however(today), there was morning service so we set off and later had our lunch at an Indian restaurant.. XP What a good ideal choice of meal for Christmas eh? lol! Later in the evening, which is just awhile ago, we had dinner at our grandparents.. But instead of Turkey we had Goose.. XP Boy what a Christmas! lol! [Sorry I couldn't get any pictures though.. XP]

But it is still such an awesome day nonetheless just being able to delight myself in God and celebrate the day when He stepped down and came for us! =)

So, how was your Christmas? =)

Woo~!

I solved Rubik's cube! lol!

A 17th birthday!

What a trip! =D My family and I headed over to Thailand on my birthday and they suggested to spend a night there! It was awesome! Had a great time!

And guys I really appreciate all the wishes you sent me! haha! All that really made my day! Sorry I couldn't reply the smses though as Laos suddenly placed a price on the smses sent to overseas when it USED to be FREE.. =.="..

If theres one thing that could ruin my birthday its Laos.. T-T While chatting online with my friends suddenly the power went off... BLACKOUT!

But with all the Lao-syness aside, here are some pics I took on my birthday!

The market we went before heading back to Laos
The food!

Looking around~

The mangoes look tempting.. haha!

Look! Its brain-brain! (For Malaysians, laugh if you get it.. XP)

Thai food

This seriously tastes good! BBQ Squid! And at the bottom left of the tray are
squid eggs! lol! Never had them before! Certainly high in cholesterol! XP

More fooood~

And more~

Cut-ted mangoes

This is where we had our dinner

Really nice place!

The salad

My mum's meal

My meal! Teriyaki chicken and Tempura fish! XP

The basketball shoes I got for my birthday! haha!

The Cinema!

Yep! Thats probably it! Thanks once again guys! You people made this one heck of a special birthday! =D

Exams are over!

Yeah! The exams are over! Time to do the tribal celebration dance! XP

Now time for the 2nd wave... =.=".. Math exam in Thailand.. Have to travel by bus again.. Oh the fun.. You can see the staggering enthusiasm on my face.. XP *note the sarcasm* XD

(Nooooo!!! The horror strikes back! T-T)

But all in all, God will be with me and I'm loving each second of my life with The King of all Kings! =D

~Lord take me to the secret place, I want to see You~

Early Morning Post! =D

Hey guys! So sorry that I couldn't write a post sooner or later or as often anymore like during the holidays.. XP Exams are coming next week!

And behold! Ben is sitting on his mini sofa blogging right before going off to school! Awesome.. XP

Finally! After so long! Heavy rain streamed down the province of Vientiane! woohoo! Haha! Thank God!

Although it was scary though cuz I sleep in the highest level of my house and that water flooded the house because of the windows but still awesome! ! XP

So LOUD~! But awesome! XP Thank You Lord~!

Andddddd......

CHELSEA Won!!! WOOHOO! XP They beat Man Utd 2-1 in their match on saturday! Hahaha!

Other than that,

I would also want to take this time to want to encourage you guys to pray for this dear friend's mum of mine (Li-Anne's mum) who is going to have an operation.

And guys, lets just commit her unto God's hands and pray that everything go well. Lets just believe that theres gonna be hope!