Easter Evangelistic Nite

Date : 29 March 2008 (Saturday)
Time : 8.00 pm
Venue : Melaka Gospel Chapel, C-1146, Limbongan.
Ticket Price : Nil *free*

*IMPORTANT*

Dinner will not be provided, because the choir doesn't want to mess up their voices with dinner before singing. Hence, programme is as follows:

1. Singpiration by Sharma
2. Cantata by the Bukit Panjang Choir
3. Sharing Session by Mr Loo Wing You from Singapore
4. Light refreshments
   

The first three in the programme list are confirmed, but I'm just guessing about the light refreshments. Cuz the adults asked me how many sandwiches I can eat. So I'm just supposing we will have something to eat after everything is done up. It will not be dinner though. So please tell the friends you have invited to have their dinner first before coming for the event.

The banner has been designed by Yen and hung up very nicely behind the pulpit (is that the right description? =.=)

Invite your friends, k? And pray before you do.

Let's put our whole hearts into this event!

I Was Thinking...

moth and rust has destroyed

...this gate of ours might not last very long.

With The Great Cloud of Witnesses

Auntie Kim Neo left the world for a better place on Saturday, 9.45 am.


The sms I received from my mum while out shopping with sis was short, but its message struck me to the very core.

Kim Neo passed away at 9.45am this morning. Time of wake will be informed later.

I stopped walking and stared at the sms for a few moments before showing it to sis.


I'd thought she was getting better after the cancer treatments she'd been going through.


I had thought that perhaps it would be better for her to be in Jesus' arms, but I had never really imagined it would happen.


Not this way.


The wake was held Saturday and Sunday nights, at 8pm. The funeral was held at 2pm on Monday.


All Sherene said when I offered my condolences was "she's gone to a better place".


I stared at the colourless face in the coffin on Saturday night, and I couldn't help noticing how different she looked from the portrait they'd placed in front of the hall.


And in my heart, I knew that Sherene was right.


She has gone to a better place.


Our condolences to Uncle Bvarry, Marcus, Sherene, Sharonne, Jaslyn, and the other members of the family.


We'll see her again.


And Auntie Kim Neo... We know you're watching.


We'll be there.


It's a promise.

A fragile lamb.

this is taken from the daily bread.dated march 19 2008.
read: 1 Cor. 11:23-26
He was wounded for our transgression, He was bruised for our iniquities.-Isiah 53:5

After the Easter eggs were located and the Easter baskets had been opened, Uncle Jay felt compelled to find out whether the white chocolate a lamb was hollow or solid. Without thinking of the potential consequences, he squeezed the lamb. Suddenly Jay's whole body stiffened as if he'd ingested some paralyzing poison. Finally his eyes moved to see if anyone had witnessed the deed. His thumb however, remained stuck in the side of the lamb.

We waited for the reaction. A wail. A howl. A cry of anguish over the crushed chocolate candy.As the adults in the room scrambled for words that would soothe the sorrow of 3-year-old Kenna, he calmly spoke words that soothed us." That's okay, Uncle Jay. The lamb would have been broken when i ate him anyway."

While we adults tried to make sacred memories out of Easter traditions, a 3 year old made a sacred moment for us. She reminded us that Easter is about the perfect lamb of God , broken so that we can be whole, Her youthful wisdom reminds me of the words we recall at communion: "This is My body which is broken for you." May we taste and see that the live He offers is sweeter than anything we concoct for oursleves.-Julie Ackerman Link.

see, from His head, His hands and His feet,
Sorrow and love flow mingled down;
Did ever suich love and sorrow meet
Or thorns compose so rich a crown?- watts

nothing speaks more clearly of God's love than the cross.

DMSJ 2008 - Typical Mangkuk Days in MGC

We managed to get the infrared on shuen's laptop to work, so I transferred all the photos I've been snapping =D Some moments captured when yen wasn't with her camera =) and when I had enough memory in my handphone -_- (read the p/s at the bottom of the post)

lepak-ing before mime practice. church really feels like a 2nd home now ^_^"

watching ourselves on a little handphone's video. the video's little. not the h/p.


this is what we actually look like when mime-ing (so serious) ^_^" shaun hadn't stepped in to replace qi yet so yen's all alone (ei? like mangkuk!) did kev sit like that during the fellowship nite? just wondering. -_-

sharma & shaun hanging out on uncle anthony's truck after the cleanup for dmsj prep

hard work on Friday nite! whoop! didn't have nuff memory in my hp to take a pic of the mamak-ing we had afterward =(

got a snapshot of kev's dinner a few days back tho. same dinner we had friday nite.
kev: "they like simply throw the fries all over the place wan"

Oh yeah. One last pic.

guess who?

p/s: quality of photos no good cuz i don't have photoshop T_T anyway, mgc-ians look good with or without makeup! =p

p/s2: i have now improved the quality of the photos with photoshop =)

random pic

Dare You To Move

Alas, the 9th DMSJ is over.

The results: MGC walked off victors for the 4th place... yet again. Is there no church who can topple us?

For the past 9 years, the trophy for 1st place has been changing hands but MGC has already taken home the trophy-less 4th place 6 times, twice in a row. SAGC may be the 3-time Champion, DAYA and JGC, 2-time Champions, but MGC is the 2-time Champion AND reigning 6-time 4th place.

I hereby propose a challenge to the other 3 churches to come, see, and try conquer the 4th place. It is far more difficult to get it than 1st place. When you're fighting for 4th, you lose all dignity, you doubt your abilities, and most importantly, can you "win" with gaya?

I've issued this challenge a year before the 10th DMSJ for you guys out there to prepare well.

See you next year... and be ready.

p/s: saun used my account to write this. i only edited it. -hwei-

video video!!!!

we made a few mistakes and it shows that we did it rather than took it from utube. hehehe..*lookin at the bright side*

One clear shot!

This is the clearest shot on Sat nite! Anyway guys, good job! Our kemangkuk-ness is very membanggakan! Heehee... Most pic with si Gary tu. Ok~! Chow first! God bless! Oh..btw... Yes..Ah Hwei... you deserved to be remembered. Love you guys always!

-chen-

adrian's piece of mind.(yenmei's bombastic title)

This Ah Hwei ar, she wished so many ppl thanks but she forget to wish 1 person... Which is her ownself laa...

Without her hard work and notes,we wun be able to get 150++ score..
Without her asking us to study everytime she meets us,we wun get 100++ score...
Without her fetching me and livia all the time,we wun even get 50++ score...
Without her drilling and setting those questions everytime, wun would actually get 0...

So,the bottom line,this Hwei says thx to everybody but herself... She tried her best and we oni gave her 4th place... (Sorry for that)
We (i hope every1 is with me) ,from the DMSJ contestants,the floor members and also all the members of the MGC,MMU and the other churches would like to extend a really big thank you to our trainer,Hwei, for everything that she has done for us...

Personally,i really wanna thank u for fetching me all the time... And also for the awesome dinner last nite... That dinner yesterday was like Grace.... We do not deserve it,but we still got it... We got 4th placing but there's still a free dinner for us.... Thank U so so much....

Dun u all think she forget to give a lil credit to herself? ^ ^

p/s : Hwei,if u read this,dun delete k? > " <>

sincerely from adrian.

DMSJ 2008 - They Came, They Saw, They Conquered

Yeah. They. Not we. Haha.

Anyway, here are the quiz results:

1. SAGC
2. DGC
3. JBGC
4. MGC

We may have lost the quiz, but we kalah dengan bergaya sekali! Whoop!

As in, nobody cried or sobbed or hugged the church pillars woefully.

We're not sore losers, and that's all that matters right? That, and the fact that the contestants didn't pass up blank papers, but made the best effort to answer the questions.

Many thanks to:

• Uncle Rodney for coordinating the whole event
• The aunties (and some uncles) for preparing the delicious food - especially Sunday's chicken rice balls *yum* (chilli was too hot though -_-)
• Uncle Philip for preparing the quiz questions
  
• Sharma for keeping accurate time (must have been quite boring to sit up there and tekan the bell every few seconds) and for coming and doing the mime although he sprained his ankle
  
• Frederick for keeping score
• CK & Shuen for slaving over the games on Saturday and pretty much everything else
• Gary for the lunch at Wesley Centre
• Carina for doing up the labellings (Table 1 etc) so beautifully
• Kevin and Shaun for songleading and emcee-ing so whole-heartedly
• The musicians - Daniel, Adrian, CK, Shuen, and Shu Lynn for all the hard work and commitment
  
• Raymond for taking photos and videos of everything (yes, even the Hey There, Delilah parody)
• Uncle Anthony for painstakingly making sure everything was in order and in place, and for shifting everything here and there
• Uncle Tony for making sure the electrical components were working fine
• SAGC, DGC and JBGC for coming up with presentations although it might've caused them some inconvenience
  
• Jessica, Livia and Adrian for being our fantastic representatives up there
• Yen, Aaron and Celine for reading the whole book of Judges just to answer two True/False questions each (and for doing so well!)
• All the youth for committing to the presentation (which was very well done =D)
  
• And last, but really, not least - to everyone who came back and who stayed on to support our MGC-ians in the quiz!!!!

Am really thankful and touched that the adults bought our T-shirts just to support us, although they'll probably never have a chance to wear it to pretty much anywhere, that the ex-MMU-ians (CK & Stephen) came back to help and to provide much-needed support, that the MMU-ians (Kevin, Carina, Shu Lynn, Frederick, Gary) were so willing to spend so much time helping out with the quiz (almost making MGC their second home in the process), that Geng Yi made sure he laid everything aside to come (and even took a bus to Wesley from Ayer Keroh), that our outstation youth (Ju & Chen Li) made the effort to come back, and that Uncle Ivan came all the way from New Zealand =)

Really miss the times we were all together as The MGC and everyone was around T_T

Well, we can't have everything we want in life, right?

Thanks for making it almost happen though.

Good job, everyone!



p/s: photos are with Raymond at the time of writing. he'll burn the photos and videos and pass them to Yen. so wait up! oh, and happy birthday again, Geng Yi!

on dmsj and cleaning.

we had cleaning last weekend at church. we kinda do this anually? maybe. i thought i don't have to clean coz i'm involve in true/false questions luckily i brought clothes along. just like ol times, i scrub the mold out from the cement floor. this time around the use the machine. the water spray is so fast the it just separate the mold from sticking. but humans' energy is still much needed. so i scrub and scrub until i decided to cabut into the dmsj contestant's room where they're revising on their 21 chapters of judges..cleaning up is kinda nice. i love scrubbing the floor.

many of the church aunties and uncles stayed back to help but didn't snap their pics. the above is a random one anyway. oh btw..GARY came all the way back for cleaning. ROFL. so sweet of him rite..*sacarsm* hahaha

as i mention, i was (sadly) chosen to be the floor members along with two kids. i'm the oldest.bah.but because i left some 10+ chapters untouched after 2 weeks trying to keep up with the contestants, i have a lot to catch up in one nite. *they told me i'm gonna have to answer some 100 Qs on Sunday.* but actually 47 nie.so i did my part by reading the brick testament. faster and i wont fall asleep reading bible stories. not to say the stories not interesting BUT my eyes have a thing for words..to many words make me drowsy.worrying if the brick testament is enough, i tried to read a lil, only a lil of the Gideon part again. but i think i did ok je lah at the small test the lims got me into.

after i cabut into the dmsj room aka library...i..nono..we, kinda distracted the dmsj kids...hahaha
introducing
contestant 1

Livia Chee Yen Siang
contestant 2

Jessicca Lim Ee Ting.
contestant 3

Adrian Mau kwok ming.

syabas eh! MGC boleh!!!!!

*sorry copied my own blog again*

the video, as promised

dengan semangatnya all the kids did the actions. oops..jess an livia..gotcha...*hics*