IKEA Opens Today

Today, IKEA Tampines opens and to join in the mad rush to see the new IKEA, my whole department drove there during lunch hour. Haha, in the end, we found out that it was indeed a mad rush just to see the crowd. The whole IKEA is too crowded and even to eat at its cafe or restaurant, you got to queue in that long 'snake'.

Eventually, we drove back to eat at our company canteen.

Not too bad.

Got beef burger to eat leh...

hahahahahaha... so funny.

This has to be the joke of the week!

Struggles

Currently, struggling in my job. Realised that I got many things to learn, knowledge to gain and tasks to complete. Lagging behind and many times in my job, I am doing "fire-fighting".

Need to continue to trust in God and His word to see me through everyday of my work.

Time passes really very fast and tomorrow will be Thursday?!

Press on, Endure and may God see me through all things by granting me perseverance and strength.

Trust in the LORD

I searched this phase, "Trust in the LORD" using Biblegateway search engine and found 61 verses pertaining to this phase. 信主

No magic number but just trusting in the LORD in all things. =)

When the Stress Level is HIGH...

Go take a rest... sleeping is still the best cure. Trust me... =)

(1 Kings 19)

A Busy Weekend For Me

This weekend has been quite busy for me. For yesterday, I have to attend two church wedding ceremonies and one wedding dinner. Need to be out of my house for the whole day. Saw to the logistics and traffic control matters for my Bible Study Leader’s wedding in my church and then rushed down to attend one of my NTU brother in Christ’s wedding at another church. This brother is also my Bible Study Leader’s long lost secondary ECA friend. Wow, small world.

It is indeed a great joy to know that both of them are entering into a new phase of their lives and not alone (of course!) but with their respective beloved life partners. Congratulations! May our dear God bless both couples to have a blissful marriage in the many, many, many, many years to come. Praise the Lord for instituting marriage as a grand rehearsal for our marriage to Him in eternity. Praise Him for joining males and females together spiritually, physically, emotionally and mentally. Praise Him for teaching and training us about what is true, self-sacrificial and unconditional love through marriage. Thank God for giving us His amazing marriage gift too. =)

God is right indeed when He says that it is not good for the man to be alone. Man definitely needs a helper. It is great to know that every woman is created beautifully for her husband alone. Who else to thank but God and God alone? Adam must have been very attracted to Eve when God brought her to him. Amazing!

I will like to continue to pray for the both couples who got married on the same day – 18 November 2006. Let’s be praying together for them and be thanking God for His gift of marriage, shall we?

A Simple Song, A Simple Blessing.

Everybody knows about "The Happy Birthday Song". I have found out some background about this song and posted it here. This is indeed a simple song with a simple blessing. Enjoy... =)

About the Songwriters: The "Happy Birthday" song was written in the late nineteenth century by two sisters from Kentucky, Mildred J. Hill and Patty Smith Hill. Patty was a nursery school teacher, while Mildred was a composer and pianist.

About the Song: Mildred was the sister who came up with the simply eight-note melody for "Happy Birthday", after which sister Patty added the lyrics. Originally sung "Good Morning to You, Good Morning to You, Good Morning Dear Children, Good Morning to All", the song was written as a greeting to be sung to students each day. It is unclear as to when the lyrics were changed, but by 1924 the new version of the song had appeared in print.

About the Tab: "Happy Birthday" is a simple three chord song, written in "waltz time" (3/4 time). Strum each chord three times, with one exception (see tab for details). As the song is so short, you might want to repeat it several times. As finding a good key to sing "Happy Birthday" in can be tricky, tab has been provided for playing the song in both the key of D and the key of G.

How to play the song leh? Here are the chords! So exciting, right? haha.

Gotten all this information from http://guitar.about.com/od/tabchordslyrics/p/birthdaysongtab.htm

Giving thanks to God

I thank God for bringing a brother into my midst to teach and guide me in playing the guitar. It has been great to be able to play the instrument after five years. Finally, I can play some worship songs “decently”. (haha, that is if you think I can play well)

My classical guitar (my one and only guitar) was bought from a brother in Christ, Teh whom I have known in my army camp. At that time, he was encouraging me to learn guitar. Even my current pick is given by him. He is a great brother and I remembered him well because he was the first person to bring me to the camp’s cookhouse at that time when I first reported to the unit.

As of now, I have lost contact with him. During our army days, he was down with leukemia and was on long mc even till he ORD. Subsequently, I visited him at his place a few times and I was even preparing to cook some claypot chicken rice for him. That was also the period when I bought his guitar from him. However since 2004, I have been unable to contact him. His mobile line was unsubscribed. He did mention to me once that he would never unsubscribe his line.

I wonder how is he now?

The last sms which I received from him was on my birthday in 2004 where he wrote:

Soh, wanna wish u a happy birthday today. how have u been man? Remember the treat u own me, hahaha… when u treating me huh? :)

God, is Teh with you safely now?