playing

the president cant sleep thus she is posting. haha. this is me, sitting outside church after service today playing with jie jie shirley's christmas gift from uncle timmy and aunty min. its a monkey sweet dispenser and if you push this knob, the monkey's mouth will open.

being in church is tough sometimes. you gotta share toys, share food, share things basically and sometimes i just want to play it on my own. thankfully, mummy shows me how to share by sharing her snacks with jie jie shuling, shirley, samantha and kor kor joel and i guess you gotta give me time to get the hang of sharing.

godpa is sick with a viral infection of the throat. jie jie shuling is feeling dizzy all the time. kor kor josh has a bad throat and cough. dear Lord Jesus, take away their discomfort and heal them quickly so i can play with them!

christmas eve!

mum's been busy! and i am all grown up! i say NO a lot these days. i respond quite well to food, but kor kor joshua says i am getting too fat. i am NOT fat. i am chubby and cute. and i am in the 75th percentile, indicating that i am of acceptable weight for my height! 

this pic was taken during the get-together at kor kor josh house on christmas eve. it was a nice get-together. alot of people i like came: jie jie yanleen, shuling, meiying, cat, serene, shirley, godpa, kor kor junhao, nat, zhiwei, uncle rongchang, whom i call call kongkang, aunty doreen and baby gywn. 

as usual, i did many silly things to entertain the adults. they were really noisy and i didnt like it, so i told them not to talk so loudly, but they refused to listen to me until i said - PLEASE! i sayang mei mei gywn just before she left, she was really sweet when she blew me a flying kiss, but it quickly turned into a "ppppbbbbbtttt..." contest. it was hilarious. thats her way of greeting people i think. but something not so nice happened to me too. i knocked my eye on kor kor josh head. it hurt really badly and i cried. what's worse was that those adults laughed at me when they watched the scene over and over again on jie jie cat's camera. i cried even louder. these days, i understand a lot more than before. hmm.. i am a big boy, so much so that the adults have to resort to spelling words to avoid letting me know what they are talking about. i am not supposed to be able to spell at my age yet. 

jie jie shirley brought her new macbook to show off. haha. but the really cool thing is that it has a webcam, which explains the photo. though jie jie serene was not supposed to be in the pic, i think she looks quite good. besides i dont have a picture with her! so tis good.

i was able to sit through worship and bit of the sermon today at christmas service. thats not too bad aint it? considering the youths were fidgeting quite a bit as well and they are many times my age. haha. 

today's christmas! its a celebration of Jesus' birth! blessed christmas, everyone! remember, christmas is not the same without Jesus!

(: 

Da-ta!

Mum finally found her way to my blog. Knowing Dad so well, she figured out the username and password on her own! Wow! Thanks Shirley Jiejie for blogging for me for the past months. Please continue to do so. It's nice to have a different point of view.. :)

So where do I start... Hmm... maybe from my second birthday on 13 July. :)

I am so happy and grateful for all the Jiejies and Korkors who celebrated my birthday at Vivo City on my birthday evening. I actually cried because I was so touched by their love for me.

Before I met them, I was taking my nap in the pram coz I spent the afternoon with Dad and Mum at Sentosa beach. I was surprised to see them when I woke up. It took me a while to get warmed up with such a big group!

After dinner, we played bubbles at Vivo playground. The bubbles were really big!

Then all of them had coffee at Starbucks while I had noodles for dinner. After which I kept Catherine and Shirley Jiejie busy chasing after me around Vivo City. It's a great place to run as the malls are so empty at night!

I enjoyed myself very much! It was one of the few times that I can stay out late till 12am. :)

ready, get set, GO!!

heyho! i received 2 balls yesterday in church! one from angel jie jie because she bought 4 balls for me and she's intending to give me one ball each sunday. the other bigger one is from shirley jie jie because i, thaddy john, can say a 5 syllabus word - HIPPOPOTAMUS! i said it last week (30 sept) in the car when daddy was driving us to gwyn mei mei's birthday. woohoohoo~

speaking of birthday. here's one taken on my 2nd birthday. we were at vivocity!

btw, do you know my MUM's on facebook. she's so savvy! where's daddy? haha. daddy - can you please let mummy be the administrator for my blog instead?

blog revived!

i am so sorry for the lack of updates. daddy's busy as usual, mummy's looking more and more radiant, it gotta be me! haha! i had celebrated by second birthday, went to frasers and perth, and did lotsa fun stuff. mummy went to a retreat for a day without me. i was so happy to see her at the end of the day and jie jie shirley says mummy had that joy in her when she saw me too! i went for supper with them. we had prata, drank milk tea (them not me), played with ice and coins and spilled it all over myself. its fun hanging out with big kids. they are like little kids sometimes. jie jie angel kept making funny faces. and i couldnt help but laugh. president's a bit tired now. so we are gonna stop here. heres a photo! hmm. i am kinda angry at jie jie shirley. she got this other kid, joah's picture in her notebook but not mine. sigh. how can she do that to me!!

Busy

My dad's been busy (what's new?). The President of my fan club has been busy writing her essays. So there is no updates! But a little picture for you while they are busy. The President promises that she will put up something better when she finishes her exams on 5 May.

Meanwhile, enjoy me! I put on a little more weight since this picture, and I am supporting a healthy tan now!

Funny Face

We went to visit Godpa John on Sunday after Service. We met Kor Kor Saiho, Jiejie Shuling, Mel, Serene and Shirley. Godpa seems to be looking good. Thank God for His grace! We went to this place, apparently my dad's favourite place for dinner. There they were teasing me and making me do all sorts of funny things. Of course, being the really nice kid I am, I entertained them greatly. These are my funny face pictures. Dad, Jiejie Shirley asks how much are you willing to pay for the video clip. Haha. At this moment, my dad will surely say, "黑色会啊!"

Vespa

I wanted to see kor kor Moses' Vespa after service today, but he left before I came out of the cry room. What a sight I missed, because he came with his two other friends who rode motorbikes. They looked really good I think, all three of them.

I guess my only consolation is that kor kor Moses came to look for me before he left. At least he remembered that I like to go 'vroom vroom'.

(:

Reflection 22 Jan 07

You and I like Israel

Isn't it true that we often treat God as a vending machine? Putting a little more effort to pray during crisis, being a little more sincere and having stronger desire to seek Him when the 'rubble meets the road'? Hoping and expecting to get the 'can' of prayer answered right?

Once that moment of trial or hardship floats away and sunshine pierce through the dark clouds, we are back to our self-sufficient, complacent and prideful drive.

During trials, what makes us macro focus on ourselves and blinded to see the bigger picture that God has for us?

We fight, we quarrel, play politics and even lie to get what we want and to falsely create the sense of security and an imaginary fortress to protect us from what we think others will try to harm us with.

We are so focused on the macro and have forgotten that God hold all things and know all things.
Why are we like Israel complaining about food and drink during exile and yet forgotten the Lord saying in PS 130:7 O Israel, put your hope in the LORD, for with the LORD is unfailing love and with him is full redemption.

The lacking of Faith... we are unable to trust, to have confidence and unwilling to see the disagreement God has for us. Thus, refusing to trust in God is the renouncement of Christ the authority in us and our faith in Him. For Christians who have been in this relationship with God for years can divorce the only love which is Christ in your heart because of an affair (trials) that breach trust in God. Not the other way round because God is always faithful.

We are wounded sojourners on earth. The lack of faith in God for healing and comfort make us just like any other pre-believers that will pass our insecurity to everyone.


Lev 26:12 I will walk among you and be your God, and you will be my people. 13 I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt so that you would no longer be slaves to the Egyptians; I broke the bars of your yoke and enabled you to walk with heads held high.

This is my prayer to all God's people who are hurting regardless the number of days to years. That we may not deconstruct the faith we once have in God, but to fan the flame and allow the Holy Spirit to quicken your heart with the Word (Christ) and be encourage that God is walking with us. He will still be our God and we are His people no matter what trials we are going through.

God has given us the promise of salvation and redemption if we have place our faith in His mighty hand. He is God, let Him be Himself that is faithful even though we are faithless..

Reflections 18 Jan 07

Church without Holy Spirit

A good analogy of a Church without the Holy Spirit is like a tree without zap circulating to the branches that produces life.

There should be no dichotomy between the Word and the Spirit. But Churches today are being organised and structured in such an sophisticated manner that she can function without the presence of God and the empowerment of the Holy Spirit.

The service starts with the pastor or minister saying a few politically right statements and the worship band rolls into action and take off the service. The heavenly arrangement of the music brings people so high that they lose the presence of God below the CD like quality of what the band can produce.

Preaching is always a major segment of the worship. The pulpit is often abused to drive and to persuade people to build a kingdom on earth thinking that numbers pleases Him who created people and HE is unable to bring them back to Himself. Is it no longer as the prophet Isaiah as saidthat one entering into the temple, seeing the work of the Almighty on earth should feel so ashamed of his or her weaknesses and consumed by the awesome holiness of the creator. Don't blame the preachers.. they go out of job if a member complains that he or she felt unrest after God spoke through the preacher.

Collection of pledge is never a problem but the minister have to end of the happy gathering bringing the blessings of God with right wordings so that worshippers will have a good night sleep.

But yet many complained that they are not being feed, not growing, pastors not dynamic and worship is so so... The Church seems to be the blamed for the reason of their spiritual 'stroke'; losing the first love since conversion; unable to recover as they once was before.

No members would blame themselves for not proactively seeking God as Josh demanded his people in Josh 1:8 to do... "study it (The Word) day and night!!"

Thus to justify that lack of love for the word that harnesses a loving relationship with God, they hook on serving in Church ministries as an placebo to replace the being. As an result, the inner being is not nurtured by the word, instead the role of the Holy Spirit of bringing the Word to remembrance becomes dysfunctional.

The Holy Spirit is to bring life. He is the person after the session of Christ to regenerate our hearts and minds. Those who believe out of their belly will come living waters (Jn 7;36-38) How can a christian life be pleatu and dry if the Holy spirit is dwelling in him? the gushing power of living waters will not hold and produces 'dunamus' the power to driving our lives.

This gushing water should not stop till barriers are being set up. Barriers of disobedience, sin, pride and hardening of hearts.

If such barriers are up, the only way for the water to flow once again is to demolish them.. This is the most painful and humbling experience one can have. The challenge is whether one is game to bare the consequences. The process may seems 'hell' but the promise of life with Christ, the promise of the life in the Spirit will once be so real and tangible. The bi-focal lenses will once again tell the difference between the damming world and the salvation of God. Love, Joy , peace and Hope will once again overwhelms your heart as you travel in the vulnerable path of the cross.

Ephipany of Thaddaeus John the First

Shalom! ...
I am not losing out in the Blogosphere... Thanks to Shirley (president of Thaddy Fan Club) and gang helping to create this Blog.

Daddy and Mommy were very excited about my arrival into this planet ever since they concieved me in 2004. Mommy said it was a few days before Daddy and mommy was going for missions in cambodia (Takeo).

Well, I can proudly say I've been family missions already ever since 6 weeks old...


This is mommy with me looking radiant...

I came to this planet on 13 Jun 05... Daddy said it was the engineering of God, blue prints of His plan that I can.. Do daddy showed me the "Plan of God" from the start.

I've got a series of photos since young..

Praising God I am here...!!


Thumbs up for the good job!!

Cheers

Wonder if what will happen on my birthday??

My favourite eating spot in the kitchen.. mummy has all the food stuff stocked up behind me..

As I was saying, I wonder what will happening for my birthday.. I was pretty excited.. I can't even fall into deep sleep...

Worries about the date for the party...

What to wear???



Practising the birthday tune....

Even preparing the invitation....

Finally... the big day is here...this was my 1st birthday bash in Church of the Good Shepherd.. Mommy was so excited about it and got almost the whole Church to come.. She got a birthday cake with my picture on it too...

She even got the whole family to wear stripes for the party.. she said is the theme for the day.