Cellgroup Day

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30.9.08
It's Monday, It's first day of the week and it's Cellgroup Day!

Today's cellgroup was awesome. Loved the message shared by Alex about how our situations do not define us, but God gives us authority to define our situations. How simple yet powerful is this statement. Many times in our lives, we let our situations define our personality, our emotions, our responses, our relationships with people and with God. With God as our father, we can define our situations and how we respond to things happening in our lives. Instead of telling God how big our problems are, wouldn't it be easier to tell our problems how big our God is?

Agnes and Davina have come back from their Europe trip and brought back beautiful presents! Love the earrings from Venice. Is that cool or what? Agnes and Davina gave Alex a piece of Berlin Wall. I want to go to Europe!!! Any1 interested?


Earrings from Venice. My first item from Europe


A piece of Berlin Wall. A piece of history.
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Awesome Sunday

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29.9.08
Got home last night and saw this next to the lift


Not :) at all, considering that I live on 8th floor. Took me a while to reach my room due to the fact that I was quite tired. Just when I was resting and trying to catch my breath, the fire alarm went off!!!

1ish in the morning, off I go again, down the stairs onto the field in front of Unicol. We waited in the cold for more than half an hour because some really "smart" students think that it's funny to smear margarine on the walls and put the remainder in the microwave and turn it on.

Well, it's NOT funny:
1. the whole place just smelt burnt
2. the false fire call out costed $1300
3. we all have to walk back up the stairs to get back to our rooms

Totally did not appreciate the humour behind the 'joke'. Turned out that I was not the only one that think it's not funny. The deputy master aka the boss aka the person running the place locked us outside and semi-screamed at us for 5 minutes.

This morning, Alabaster Box from Australia came to Nations Christian Church! Loved the instruments, leather jackets and cool hairstyle.


Soundcheck
The keyboardist looks so cool, playing both keyboards at the same time


Alex (guitarist) with Alabaster Box's guitarist



Josh (keyboardist), Alex, Ron and May May

The sermon by Naarah (the lead singer) was really awesome. She shared about how as Christians, sometimes we can become numb to our surroundings and do not make a difference in the world. Her friend and her was driving to a Christian music festival once, and on their way, by the side of the road was a guy who appeared drunk, half on the pavement and half on the road. They brought the guy to the police and turned out that the guy was having a diabetic episode and needed insulin. Sometimes we can become so used to things happening around us that we forget to shine for Christ and to make a difference in this world.


Love this photo taken by Alex: University of Otago's Clocktower

Spent the night at Janice, Jocelyn, May and Sharon's flat. Had Jocelyn aka Kakak prepared steak for us. Bloody juicy rare steak. Enjoyed the time fooling around and talking to everyone. I will definitely miss these days for years to come.


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Separation

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24.9.08
4.38am in the morning. Should be studying. Should be sleeping. Should not be blogging. Should not be wasting time.

It's that time at the year again! Sadness floating in the air. Spending time with friends who are leaving or staying. I like separation for it means new adventure with new people. I dislike separation for it means missing out on having adventures together with 'old' people.

As part of cellgroup, we had a sports night at Logan Park yesterday. It was fun, fun and fun! It was probably the sum of my whole year's worth of exercise. Running around like kids, but with much less stamina. Wonder how I managed to run around for hours non-stop when I was a kid. Sitting down and enjoying God and each other's presence. Talking about random things like leg thick enough to support buildings. Fooling around, throwing grass at people. It's times like this that I would definitely miss for years to come in the future.


Shine '08: Best camp ever
I will always keep you guys close to my heart!
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48

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21.9.08
The last 48 hours would probably be my most exciting 48 hours for weeks to come. Woke up at 2pm in the afternoon and Alex suggested that we go paua fishing. After a call to Jocelyn and May, we got our jackets and off we go.

Too bad when we arrived at Shag Point, it was almost high tide and we could see but not catch (not sure if this is the right term as they don't run) paua. The scenery there was amazing though. Seals and paua shells, beautiful creation of God. On our trip back to Dunedin, we were really hungry so we stopped by a Fish n' Chips shop for food and saw this interesting poster.


Guessing time: How many of the items in this poster are edible?
(Picture from Jocelyn's blog as I didn't bring camera)

Got home, had dinner and off to bed at 8pm. What I had in mind was a short 1 hour nap and ended up sleeping through the night until 4am. Just when I was having a wonderful dream about food, the fire alarm at Unicol went off. The 'beauty' of living in the biggest hall of residence in Dunedin with 500+ students. Got up and got everyone out through the fire escape stairs and into the rain. Turned out that a burnt toast had us all waiting outside in the cold for 20 minutes. Interesting comments that I heard include "who ******** eat toast at this time", "I will ******* give the person ********. Living in a hall has its pros and cons but this definitely was not what I had in mind when I moved in at the start of the year.

2 episodes of House and several attempts at counting sheep later, I went back to bed, only to wake up late for church (Oh no!!!) Thank God I woke up before, not after the service has finished. Wonderful sermon from Ps. Graeme about Jesus coming at 4th watch of the night and that we have to have faith to hold on till then and to call out for God, regardless of the situation.

Brunch and after quick packing, off we go again for paua fishing, this time with Janice, Greg, Kitty and Tao. Saw many baby paua, so cute but too bad we can't catch them as it's illegal. Kitty took lots of interesting pictures tho.


Greg, Janice, Me and Alex on our way back


Look at Kitty and Tao, so pro at posing *jealous*


Unidentifiable object. Suspect: sea snail


Urinating? Yuck...


Three beautiful girls: Janice, Kitty and Jane Doe

We came back literally minutes before the last formal dinner at Unicol started. Quick cleaning up and changing before going into the dining hall. The food served was probably as good as it gets. Awesome food, awesome fun and awesome floor mates!
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Friends

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19.9.08

I dedicate this blog to my friends, for they make me who I am
I dedicate this blog to my friends, for they are awesome
I dedicate this blog to my friends, for they are always there for me
I dedicate this blog to my friends, for they always accept
I dedicate this blog to my friends, for they hold my hands
I dedicate this blog to my friends, for we are so different yet so similar
I dedicate this blog to my friends, for we are a family


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