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Life of simplicity can sometimes be complicated.

For those who are still wondering what went missing in the picture....
I introduce you the 'Mr Viper Switch'.. This is the thing that caused me all the headaches this few days... In case, you are wondering how much does the thing costs.. It is RM95 for a second hand viper switch and another RM30 for service charge( six screws unscrewed to replaced the thing back, assume x as the cost for each screwed unscrewed,therefore 6x=30, x=RM5) Its RM5 for one screw I tell you... Nevertheless, thank God I didnt break any more VALUABLE parts. Thank him also for this chapter of my life. Without it, I wil never know how much it costs me to be an adult. Yes, an adult! Just turned 20 this year.

Moral of the story: DRIVE more CAREFULLY!

I have stopped listening to that song which I posted few weeks back, rarely listens to love songs too . I didn't think of her as much as I had when I came back to college after semester break. But tonight, after a yamchaing session with my Ipoh mali friends, I walked back to my room. There was only me, alone in my room. Time began to slow down after a long and busy day. Quietness was all around. Thoughts of her creeped slowly into my mind. Knowing that this relationship was hard to work out, I wanted to put a stop to this feeling. I just couldn't bid farewell to this feeling. I have failed....

I missed Ipoh.
I missed scouting despite the many difficulties
and challenges that came my way.
I missed my camping days.
I missed my parang, bamboo, mangroove, marching, gunny strings....
I missed those torturous days of punishment
by my committeees with my scout comrades.
I missed my fellow brother scouts and sister guides.
I missed the days when I loitered in my school compound.
I missed my schoolmates.
I missed Yuk Choy
(despite how bad people may think of YC, Yuk Choy still ROXXXX!!!)
I missed those days when I hang around
with my childhood pals in church.
I missed doing crazy stuffs with them.
I missed my church.
I missed maggi goreng in Salim's Corner.
I missed those days when I was just a naive boy.
I missed those days before I turned 20.
I missed home.
I missed mum's cooking.
I missed sister's noise.
I missed dad's discipline for me.
I missed Ye Ye's pamper.
I missed Ma Ma's cooking too...
I missed those cycling days in Ipoh and Canning Garden.
I missed the times when I don't miss her.

Is it fair for me to say that
guys generally have egoism flowing in their veins?
If the game is on his side, he will stay cool.
If not, he wil go bull.
He will keep quiet when he fails in his attempts to score,
but when his teammates misses a
score, he will yell at that person.
He frowns at others' aggresiveness
when he didn't realise he is a hooligan himself.
He thinks the team will lose without him.
It's sometimes good to give motivation
but it will serve no good
if ones pushes his team too hard.
Well, it needs not be true for all guys to be like that.
But those are things i have in myself.

Are we true sportsmen or mere bull-fighters?
We need to check ourself.

It was some time between 30 and 31st December 2007. Usually for my devotion, I would follow a guide where a passage is considered for each day. For that particular day, I was caught in a timing which is nowhere. Close to 31st but 30th has not end. So I decided to just read both the days' text. I didn't get the time to do some serious reflection and making of new year resolution but those words from God really aligned me to His direction for 2008.

Luke 12:35-40- Be dressed in readiness, and keep yours lamps lit. Be like men who are waiting for their master when he returns from the wedding feast. so that they may immediately open the door to him when he comes and knocks...... But be sure of this, that if the head of the house have known at what hour theif was coming, he would not have allowed his house to be broken into. You too, be ready; for the Son of Man is coming at tan hour that you do not expect.

I was kind of puzzled when I read this, wondering why would God speak to me about this. Nevertheless, I moved on to the next passage.

Psalm 23:5-6- You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies;You have anointed my head with oil; My cups overflows. Surely goodness and lovingkindness will follow me all the days of my life, And I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.

This passage made sense to me because for the past 2007, I never did realise this part of the psalm though it's familiar. I have been living my life on my own too much, too much that God that seemed very much in the picture is found nowhere. I have literally kept God in my closet when life could have been much better if I lived my life with His strength. I have learnt my lesson again and I do hope I will not step on my foot again in the future.

I retired to bed after doing my devotion though I still couldn't understand why God gave me Luke 12. On 31st, I went to the watchnight service in my church. People were anticipating much and the supposed- to- be two hour meeting strecthed on to 4 hours. The speaker finally took over the meeting at about 11pm. I was waiting eagerly for the message. He was speaking on the urgency of spreading the gospel. Things mentioned in the Bible of the end times were fulfilled one by one and we have known of that. But what are our responses towards these happenings. This message appealed especially to me because he cleared my doubts on why Luke 12 was given to me that night. God was simply telling me to live my days as if its my last. It made sense to me now.

Today, I read from Psalm 90. This are verses that again lights up my pathway towards 2008.

Who understands the power of your anger.
And Your fury, according to the fear that is due You.

If only I can fully fathom the depths of these words of Moses. Transformation would definitely take place. I look forward to exploring this year. A year which I pray that I can be a more effective witness for Him. My service for Him should be an expression of my outpouring of his overflowing love in my heart an not the otherwise. And of course, a new year resolution that was carried forth from year to year, Taming My Tongue, an area that I have failed time and again.

"Use your mustard-seed-faith!!!"