tired

I am so dead tired from school work...

Hope it ends soon...

Questions abt Christianity

I've been out with a few friends lately. Had lots of sushi and food over the weekend. Many questions were raised while talking to my friends about Christianity. The same questions were repeated over and over again.

Here is a sample, answers anyone? I will be doing some research on these topics too. I think it is good knowledge to have.

Enjoy.

1)How was the early church formed?

2)Are Roman catholics, catholics? What's the difference?

3)What are the fundamental differences between Catholics and Christians? Do we all believe in the same God? Should I view a catholic as a brother/sister in Christ as well?

Are catholic practices right or wrong? Who is right? Christian or Catholic?

4)Do muslims believe in the same God as Christians? i.e Is Allah the same god as the God we believe in?

5)What happens when we die? Is hell an ever-burning place like the Lake of Fire described in the book of Revelations?

So many questions but so little knowledge. How long have I been a christian???

Choices & God's Will

Read a friend's blog recently and was really quite enlightened about the question we have about God's will: How do we know the choice we make is God's will for us when faced with two good choices? This is a question that has been asked in cell group and a question that Christians usually ask.

When You Have Two Good Choices

Ray Pritchard

Keep Believing Ministries

An email arrived from a friend with a question that came up during a discussion time with some young women–most of them in their early 20s. All the young women are single. Here is the question that came up during the discussion:

“How do you make decisions in life when both roads seem to be good?” We were talking about having a “willing spirit”, and I asked them if there was anything God was asking them to do and if their answer would be yes to whatever he was asking of them. Some of them are faced with future decisions and not sure how to come about with making those decisions, especially like I said before that both roads seem good. I think they just don’t want to make a “wrong” decision. Thoughts?

This is a nice kind of question compared to a lot of things people ask me. The real answer is that with the Lord, when your heart is truly willing and open, there are no “wrong” decisions. Sometimes we get hung up on doing the “perfect” will of God and being in the “center” of his will. While I understand what those phrases mean, they are not describing a biblical perspective. The truth is, you can’t know in advance how your decisions will turn out. Sometimes (often) we choose to go in one direction only to find out later that it didn’t work out the way we expected. And sometimes we seem to foul up only to discover that God uses that difficult time to deepen our walk with him and ultimately to get us where he wants us to be.

The only thing God wants from us is an open heart to do his will. And if our hearts are open, when faced with two “good” choices, and when we have prayed, meditated, studied Scripture, considered the circumstances, weighed the pros and cons and sought godly counsel, when all of that is true and both options still seem good to you, well then, just close their eyes, take a deep breath, and then go and do whichever one you prefer. After all, God is perfectly able to lead us forward when we are willing to be led.

Sometimes we waste enormous energy seeking something God never promised. We want a guarantee. We want to know it’s all going to work out. We want all the uncertainty taken away. After preaching on this a few years ago, a man came up and said, “What you’re saying is, ‘We’ve still got to choose.’” Bingo! We’ve still got to choose. It’s going to be Wisconsin or Washington, dental school or the Army, Georgia Tech or Wheaton, Mike or John Mark, an SUV or a Mini-Cooper, a Mac or a PC, buying a new house or fixing up the one you have. You choose this doctor and that treatment and not some other doctor or some other treatment. And so it goes through all the decisions of life.

Knowing God’s will can never remove the uncertainty—nor should it. The uncertainty is good for us because it keeps us trusting and praying, it keeps us from being overly self-confident.

When your heart is right and you are faced with two good choices, take either one you like. And trust God with the result. If the heart is willing, the decisions of life will take care of themselves because God will direct your steps exactly where he wants you to be.

Final word. It all goes back to your view of God.

Is he sovereign?

Is he good?

Can I trust him?

It’s not about your decisions, and it’s not about your future, and it’s not even about you. It’s all about God. When we start from that perspective, we can make our decisions even in times of doubt and uncertainty, and we can sleep well at night knowing that our God will put all the pieces together in exactly the right way.

Bible Definition of Love.

Been thinking and reflecting recently, have been really upset over a certain issue in my life. Its been bothering me quite a bit. Been asking lots of questions like, God why does this have to happen to me? What are you trying to teach me through this experience? Lord I can't understand what the hell is going on!
After careful thought, I've been reminded about the need to love one another, especially our brothers and sisters in Christ. Its been a struggle because I often use human logic to make sense of their actions and then decide if what has been done was wrong or right. If the person does right to me, I will love the person. Otherwise, he or she is just being a bitch and there is no reason for me to love that person.
Was just doing some reflection and this verse from 1 Corinthians popped up:

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no records of wrongs.
1 Corinthians 13:4-5

After reading this verse by written by Paul, I was immediately convicted of the kind of love I have been showing in my own life. Too often my love for a person tends to be self seeking and I can only love when I feel good about the person, or the person has done something good for me or has benefited me in some special way. That's just any normal human's way of loving.
Well, clearly my concept of love is flawed when compared to the standards defined in the bible. Christians are called to love others even when others do not love them first.

God be my strength, Help me to love others the way you have shown love to me when you died on the cross for my sins. Your perfect love displayed when you died on the cross for all.

Pain

My heart burns. Sometimes the person you care for the most, hurts you the most.


God be my strength.


"The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not be in want. He restores my soul."
Psalm 23:1 & 3

A Post at Last!

Hey friends, finally posting something here in a longgggggggg time.

Anyway before I go on, I gotta post this picture. Please celebrate with me if u can,

















Champions of Europe once again. Can I say more? Hope you enjoyed it if you are Man Utd fan.

Was watching a video at night recently and my internet got cut off, wonder why...
Tried to restore it but it still didn't work till the next day, Coincidence?













Here's the link, http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5079206342978505621&hl=en. Watch it at and be your own judge, at your own risk though haha. Just kidding, Singapore is a democratic country right? At least I think it is :) Ok better stop all these before someone gets angry, roar!!!














Ok enough of politics. I should be thankful, and I quote my friend up there, Singapore is a 'Freak of Nature' and should never have gained independence. 'You did not live in a time where you had no jobs and nothing to eat'. Blah blah blah, go read the straits times and his recent case with the Chee Siblings for more details. Its always the same old argument everytime his integrity and power is put in the spotlight.

Anyway I've been thinking about this question, How patriotic are Singaporeans? Seems like so many surveys have been conducted these days but this topic is hardly raised. On a scale of 1 to 10, my patriotism level is a 3. Simply because I don't feel at home in this country and there is always someone to replace me if I leave. Besides, my friends in school are getting scholarships and a citizenship even though they don't serve National Service for 2 years. How can anyone be patriotic? Given a chance, I'll leave for a better place, I'm sure they(the govt) can get someone to replace me. But Spore has its good points though, Stable Rich Economy, Safe, Plenty of Jobs, government saves for you, good enough if you want to live a simple life. But its getting crowded over the years and I feel it in the train everyday. Please Circle Line please come quick!

So enough of Spore, time to move on to what's happening in my beautiful life:

Ending my attachment soon with this company,







and heading back to China, I mean India, no Vietnam, ah whatever,











Anyway, Thanks to this company for giving me a great leaning experience in regards to networking and how cables are installed in buildings. Also how to deal with crafty main contractors like those from Singapore Technologies Electronics Engineering(STEE). One thing I've really learnt throughout this attachment, email is a powerful tool for making friends and enemies. Always CC to your client's Boss to make sure things get done! Sounds evil but sadly its a tool to motivate people to work. Great work culture in Spore eh.

Made some great friends along the way, will kinda miss talking to the Malaysian Floorman Ah Liang, here's a nice pic of him to appreciate him if he's reading, and his favorite phrase to me: 几够力啊你们新加坡人！















Talked alot to him while he was on-site and kinda remembered one thing he told me and I'm not making this up to make myself look good:
"Hey RJ, 你是我第一次看过最不骄傲的新加坡人，大多数的新加坡人都很骄傲的lei."
Hmmm, are we really? Never really seen it from a Malaysian's perspective. Maybe it was cause we won ownership to Pedra Branca that day.
哈哈哈！现在你知道新加坡是几够力的吧！我们不是开玩笑的!

Los Angeles

Hey friends I've uploaded photos of my trip on my multiply site. You guys can check it out when u are free. http://ngruijie.multiply.com/

Survivor

Good day to all. Ah... Nice warm and humid night, perfect time to write something here. Ok, let me inform my friends in Aus especially to Mr.Tay Cc, Mr Ng Qr and Christina to remember to collect your money from the GST offset package. I believe its 300 dollars for next three years for all three of you and 200 bucks for those who stay in private property. Sadly, I believe all of you fall in that category... Oh Chris, I think you only get 100bucks cause the other 100 bucks is for national servicemen. :(
Well, raising GST is to help the poor in Spore. Its for a good cause. Keep that in mind... Remember to sign up by 25 June on the website or you can kiss goodbye to 200 bucks this yr.

Anyway, lest you get too depressed, let me share with you some photos of beautiful Tibet
























































My parents just got home from Tibet safely and that's my mum in the picture who looks like the wind got the better of her hair. They took the train from Chengdu and reached Tibet but not without suffering a culture shock from their fellow China passengers in train. My parents and their fellow Sporeans were treated to a wonderful display of spitting in the train by their fellow passengers. I dont understand why only Chinese spit so much, dont see many Ang Mohs spitting ard in Australia... maybe Chinese have more saliva.

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Yea, its the holidays once again. Was very much looking foward to the holidays during the exam period, but once the exams ended i felt really lost.

Ok, then i was looking foward to go for church camp where i could listen to the teachings which i sincerely hoped would help me learn something. But on the morning of the camp I woke up feeling gidddy and stomach was churning. I tried to go back to bed and i fell asleep.

At ard 10am I woke up again, this time my stomach was killing me, went to the toilet to let it all out and then took a shower. So then i started vomiting, the feeling was magical, lovely. I began to see some white spots and it took three tries before i fainted in my vomit. I dont know how long it took before I woke up lying on the bathroom floor, it felt like a bloody movie, a bad dream, but this one wasn't going away. So I woke up lying naked in my own vomit, pathetic... Standing up in my own puke and with the energy I had left, rinsed myself, grabbed a towel and ran into my room. This time I barely made it to my bed before I fainted again, crap...

When i woke up again, my head was heavy and bedsheets were stained with vomit cause there was still some vomit on my leg. Woke my sis up and thankfully she made me some porridge before she went out. Then waited till about 4pm before my dad sent me to the doctor, waited half an hour in the clinic and was told that it could be virus or dengue. When I got home I felt better after taking medicine.
One thing I can thank God for in this situation is that he blessed the pple ard me to take care of me while I was sick. My dad rushed backed from work to send me the doctor and my sis woke up early for once to make porridge for me. Praise the Lord, for his blessings are new everyday.

Open your eyes pls

The first few moments of my bday well spent...















Bittersweet bday... First, the circuits paper was tough as expected and that didnt start my bday well. But my sis baked me a cake!!!! That's the first time anyone has done something so special for me, feel so special...(actually I was from express in secondary school so i nvr knew how it felt to be special) .
I thank God for my sis who put in so much effort to bake this cake for me even though sometimes both of us quarrel over little things. I'm happy that in the midst of my exams, my family took some time to celebrate my bday. Thank the Lord that he has blessed me so abundantly cause sometimes I take them for granted and just hide in my room w/o saying a word to them... prob need to learn how to cherish the pple ard me more...
















this must have been the best bday gift i ever had, my sis also made me a card.