In the Bedroom after the War
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August 29, 2008
lionel yang Ivan 'Vern' Poh from URL @ 1:03 PM it's either or if not neither nor you choose one out of many options if not time chooses for you it does by restricting your options one by one cutting them down and leaving you with none in the bag then you make the final decision you thought it would be a good decision a thought through a satisfied one but actually u didn't know you had no choice you bent over you lost liberty to choose it felt easier but ain't it supposed to be easier? with more options cut out you're left with a few you don't take a year for a few decisions has to be made fast in fact when all doors are opened wide in fact now when you are young Pastor Lia says that we have most clarity when we are young people say old but no Pastor is right when you're old too many things eats you up when you're young you stand at the threshold of a good untainted future therefore make decisions now it's not the devil who comes to still kill and destory neither your neighbor who ignores you or your pet who refuses to come to you it's just natural oh and doesn't this sound like soccer to you? turn a defender, one try on or off target beat keeper or beat keeper and score a goal i tried so hard to get pass all those defenders and i only scored a few marcus was very funny calvin is a very visible wall BUT i have never seen such an ownage goalkeeper for a long time like Lionel Yang next wednesday i'll score more Now you know, i've been thinking about how this guy gets his reflexes you should hear his great story. pretty much like robinhood (: like david shepherd boy to david the king saviour of the soccer team and stuff like that he's good but it's all very funny too August 26, 2008 "always faithful" Ivan 'Vern' Poh from URL @ 11:56 PM we kinda messed around the orchestra a lot today we played that huge drums thing and of course the snare as well the violin smells bad anyway but the orchestra and conductor definitely smells very good so we were messing around and my cousin taught me a few things about that gigantic drums she played gavin asked me how i practiced actually, the orchestra's culture is kinda good we should have more people there of course prior to all this i was at the lights console i saw nicholas do lights and of course jordan messy around marcus just sitting around we tried summoning fainting spells on melvin but we failed terribly we were talking about how teng & apparently she will be down on thursday for lights well so, all her peers are saying she's good at lights i'm intrigued by how much my friends eat on staff it's crazy and it's quite scary i knew they were food lovers but not to the extent before today's pay per view now i'm totally convinced they really can eat today was the earliest of my time on staff going home it felt weird but it was good the train was packed because it was 6pm approaching 630pm i'd wonder what was going on in church as much as 5 minutes after i left there are a million things i want to do now & i'll be very stingy with this i'll make sure i hit 999,999 things soon oh and yes tomorrow there is soccer with lionel and company it'll be fun, i'll hang out a little longer for supper or something and i saw a couple of those guys i played soccer with in church over the weekend i never knew they were coming to our church man it'll be even more fun tomorrow with that fact i've been thinking about my JC 1 compatriot's promos on top of that A levels for some others army for another group O levels for another precious group there are countless things man and i think i'm becoming a grandfather worrying too much for people i want the end of the year to come quick because time will give us victory like i've mentioned, i watched this powerful film it was about the marines i have a new respect for soldiers & a new perspective about life marines, they say, put the mission before themselves it is very simple as winning missions and taking care of one another they talk about trust and having to trust the man on your left and right in battle it's also more than just trash talking they really do live up to it i saw injured marines too and they all live together in rehab that is a family together very powerful & i definitely will tell you when i watch that, i was very humbled not even close to a ordinary marine for goodness sake i won't talk so much about it already but my point is that we have that all with something more a spiritual purpose & a God if marines can do what they do, demand perfection, fight, win, come back on their feet i think we have to be the same i don't think it's about the physique. it does matter but the marines speaks about the warrior ethos the warrior characteristic spirit of a culture manifested in aspirations and attitudes i so think i need to have that and everyone in my zone need to have that too (: Dominic spoke about getting dirty we need to don't mind getting dirty "they can quit..." once they quit they will never be allowed to recourse to be a Marine ever again Marines believe so that quitting is a spiral "if you quit once, you will always quit again" powerful huh... so just a few things at the end of the day the marines want to be the worse enemies anyone could go to war with - i want that too the marines have only 2 objectives: win the mission & take care of the people around you - i want that zero-ed in simplicity the marines don't believe in quitting - i want that tenacity & ethos the marines are a family - i want to fight alongside people similar to myself the marines have goal before self - i want to have this humility my zone better be like that too :p this is a big hint the marine corps are the smallest in numbers but the best. the lean mean fighting machines i remembered 2 years ago in a small office in ftms Pastor Lia called Dom, Jm and i the lean mean fighting machines zone f was new then, i was very tired but very passionate. there was a fire in my eyes and reserves burning too in my loins now it's 3 years after zone f has launched. what remains only i can determine (: the same too applies for b zone i have that same love for what i do 3 years ago and now i've too many close relationships with people, those who left and those who have promise & it crafted my heart out i'm only 20 and i ain't seen nothing yet if what i see scares me now, then i'm as good as finished "semper fidelis" has a new meaning to me i want every battle & opportunity for the battle and opportunity losing stops now nothing worries me now my day of getting anything i set my eyes on comes back now patience will be my friend all i want to do is... WIN let's leave it as that for now... (:
good post good post Ivan 'Vern' Poh from URL @ 12:57 AM let's see what is going to happen today here very possibly i'll be right to say all of us had a great monday! well because i had one & i think if mine was good, yours would be better. there are so many things happening lately zone f service was a blast it was so good listening to Pastor Lia we had a great youth service too w Pastor How celebrating Pastor How's birthday was very fun too so many things have been going through my mind lately woah i think i need a little bit more control over it (: sometimes i cannot wait for myself to grow up & i find that i constantly dream of being 25 now at 25 i would be all that i want to be and doing all that God wants me to do there are too many you know the feeling of wanting to accomplish yet being subdued by time? argh crap i hate it as much as you hate it just plain old strife as old as David needing to let Solomon build his own beautiful temple for God i think obedience is the key to the river of God flowing through our lives i've experienced it and nowadays i find myself panicking to run back to it so scared to be disobedient unknowingly and let things slip through your fingers yeah that's it it has and will be a major change; this period of time and i'm excited because i'm entering into a new phrase of life i think i no longer will complain about army in fact i'm excited to face it and build strength into my heart i guess life just changes and many of you will identify with me i need that extra obedience in my life entering into a new phrase my thoughts my will my emotions my destiny my everything obedience has always been the key i guess it will be the key now and forever more i'm actually a very stubborn 20 year old (: muahaha gdnight now
August 21, 2008 you have possessed my heart Ivan 'Vern' Poh from URL @ 1:06 AM recently i've been getting to know some people on friendster & it has been fun (: that's something i don't usually do but well we all have a 'new' arena to explore all the time it is not very boring actually in fact it's kinda fun i had soccer with lionel and guys & i tell you i've never seen a goalkeeper like him before he's real good and i appreciate him diving around and making all those saves it definitely did lighten everything up and make us 'wow' lionel is great. he said, "i was born a goalkeeper yeah you could figure out the laughter we had in fact for a few minutes i took over at goal & i tell you i regretted it freak accident but then all redeemed with brilliance too embarrassed i just didn't want to play at goal anymore (: well i think lionel is a nice guy... no wonder roy keeps talking about him i wonder what he's doing in the army. he should join some football team or something or maybe SAF. he reminds me of Artur Boruc & yeah you can see how amazed i am with him i really didn't think or know he is so good that bishan place is all good for a game. we should all go there again & lionel promised us it was awesome how someone ushered me all the way to the court and went back home there ain't a need to but it was cool (: thks apparently i also got lost around the area after the game but it's all cool i found my way with some precious help it was all cool & beautiful too (: why is the night so different today? i desire getting into my sleeping position too soon it may altogether be the soccer game but then it may just be the difference i cannot grasp today was a good day. i haven't practice on the kit so much in my entire life before. i had sam teo lead a great prayer meeting. i had all those stuff to do on my laptop which are building blocks.. out right important :p i had a trip to yamaha and got a huge thick carter beauford stick. i vowed i never use promark again nor huge thick skins but things change. i had a funny piece of news today. very hilarious and only quite amicable in this case. it would have been serious crap on other occasions. i can name countless things i did including the toasted tuna bread i ate...aha alright my eyes are closing on me now gdnight & gdbye this is the new day (: August 20, 2008 we'll be massive Ivan 'Vern' Poh from URL @ 12:16 AM someone said the following and it is so amazing "i just feel, our praise and worship is just getting stronger each week! just so awesome man." this was said in the zone f context and it's really encouraging it just confirms we're building something big and strong here give us some time we will be massive helping out in powerhouse is fun. i just got an sms to go down for the next 3 days to help (: it'll be good & see you there well that's that goodnight & see you around August 19, 2008 another day remains Ivan 'Vern' Poh from URL @ 10:00 AM powerhouse was really powerhouse today today didn't feel like a morning when ppl pick themselves up and dread coming off their beds we had 3 plus hours sleep but we jumped out of where we were and was ready to run the powerhouse it was a good night before today and there was laughter and alot of joy you know the usual shuffling talking that all of us do that quite makes ppl giddy and laugh with no apparent reason so that's that, a gd night and a good prayer meeting we were just talking about what is going to happen on friday and sunday and we're very excited we have all of 'pattern' to show off and it'll be quite funny in fact the man of it all is sleeping beside me now as i type this and get ready to work ks is a joker but nevertheless a very good and close buddy i have been to friendster a lot lately. more than the total number of times i entered that site over the last 1 year. it is quite a drastic change. i'm kinda linking up with friends in poly whom i never use to talk to but now it just all seem right to connect once again i spent a few minutes just now reading my soccer news and i'm kinda waiting to see who Arsene Wenger will buy before the second leg with FC Twente we'll have a midfielder definitely but who man we'll get a destroyer, dogfighter all in one i guess Nasri was a hit. Goal on Debut!!! HE IS LIKE ROBERT PIRES i kinda like Arsenal because of that french flair it is very mind blowing going back... everywhere is warm and hot and humid except the MPRs i'm here again after ushering for powerhouse and i tell you ushering is fun last time i ushered was many years ago in henderson and it's quite cool doing this the best part about ushering for me is the greeting of people i like to look at faces, see how they respond to me, the more they don't smile the more i must make them smile kinda like i must make them see me and feel lifted!!! i don't know whether that's true or untrue but i definitely think it's quite fun in fact so fun we had a game going on between me and ks when we fish people to their seats it's quite fun today is a good day another day remains (: August 18, 2008 our lives a kaleidoscope Ivan 'Vern' Poh from URL @ 3:31 PM today is monday & heaven will be a thousand times better than a good monday. i slept alot today. i don't have anything to do today except a couple of stuff here and there. today is going to be great. i did not have anybody at home last night. it was just me and my house keeping me accompany. i used that chance to pray a little bit and worship God. it's good waking up after having sought God the night before. it's 4 weeks to army and i hardly can even grasp a single bit about army life. i really do love my life at this current point. it's so good to see my zone growing and gaining strength. good to see the leaders moving to a new level. so so happy to see f2 finally moving to a diff prism after 3 to 4 months of building and sowing. i was so encouraged meeting maeann yesterday and i can't stop thinking about her cg and her people now. good to have people around you doing life together and running it to the best of our abilities. refining my character, iron sharpens iron. it's good to know where to grow and how to change having these people around. yeah leaders but also friends. you know how to grow and what went wrong but when they tell you it's a diff story. though it's all the same, it is a diff story. so life is good and very fulfilling. life is good. life has all that is noble, of virtue, of good-report, that is lovely & that is true. how bad can life get? it is a gift of God not of our own works lest anyone should boast. our lives are a gift from & of God. our lives are like a kaleidoscope first, very beautiful. secondly, always having new patterns. thirdly, always having new reflections. it's colored glasses and beautiful pictures. praise God for life. let's meditate on all that Pastor How has preached last weekend. take control of our emotions & our minds do the phillipians 4:8 test gdday August 15, 2008 help the redemption (: Ivan 'Vern' Poh from URL @ 12:56 AM i am yet again in mpr1 & it's stayover time. we just had food and it's very nice of course especially with the family. i lament at the state of my tagboard. in fact lament is too hard a word i think. i just think this is quite amusing. my tagboard became a confession box, a shoutout & maybe not quite live up to it's purpose. well, i guess the tagboard doesn't have a destiny so that's okay (: and cassandra, if you're reading this, please come and talk to me when you see me (: we'll talk more with samantha and fedora too. they'll get you over the weekend! (: i'd just prefer a blog to remain a blog... i need to redeem it's purpose guys (: muahahaha alright enough of all that. i had a great week. i did many stuff. it's not one of the usual super productive week but significant as always. i can't name all.. thursday was good and friday is going to be very very good. i can't wait for saturday and sunday too. zone f service this saturday is going to be amazing so look out for that (: jianming is going to preach so that is going to be good! i'll be meeting amos this saturday & he is one cool 16 yr old guy i haven't seen for a long time. hopefully charmaineee too & of course tingwei and marcus. i'll be meeting many new faces too and it's going to be exciting. times are different... we need to redeem the purpose of my tagboard (: just messing around. gdnight & gdbye. the guys are around and there's plenty of laughter. hope you had a great week. see you around and we are going to have 3 very good services this week! so... help the redemption (: thks guys! August 14, 2008 dinner time for replying tags (: Ivan 'Vern' Poh from URL @ 8:51 PM i just have to reply to my tags because i'm intrigued! TingWei: You must come up to me and say HI this weekend! I've mixed you up with many other people. Pls pardon me and help me remember! (: Thkq so much. You're very funny. In fact, i dislike maths & have always been average in the subject! hahhs... Nadine & Nelson: Woah, you guys know the zone well. I'm impressed (: ZiLing: Yeah it is... this whole thing is really quite funny though Marcus: Hahhs! You are so dead too. I've lived 7 more years than you and i know more ways of escaping death. Aww crap... The only Marcus who is so random is F Zone's! Monkey! Jordan, Nicholas & Leona let's tao pok him! (: I'm just kidding. You should love me (: muahahaha tw: Aww... the tingwei i know! andy: YOU are super funny can? Pls inject some fats and gain some weight. vik: save the cash man. didn't you know i have legion of angels at my command? hahahahaha i am staying over in church today and i'm really quite excited. this is the first time. feeling so hyped up i mean. i just had rehearsal and a whole afternoon planning some stuff. met garrett and he turned it around man. you could see the difference. no wonder he is a zone leader man. i'm really hungry right now. it's thursday and it doesn't feel thursday to me. hahhs next wednesday is napfa & technically i'm less than 5 weeks to army. awww... blog more later (: have a good dinner. August 13, 2008 a picture and no conclusion Ivan 'Vern' Poh from URL @ 12:37 AM i'm currently in the MPR1 and it is a place totally different from any other in hoGc at this time of the night. well there is aircon (: many people are here & we're waiting for 6am to prepare for the prayer meeting. we've got our laptops out and we're all doing our own stuff. it's quiet it's tired it's midnight i wonder what you guys are doing. i can make wild guesses but i'd prefer to be able to look at you an examine you with a cctv :p i'm kidding really but then i miss you guys already. today things happened many & it was saddening. i totally enjoyed myself during soccer being on the same team as Pst How and he was enjoying it too. later he injured himself and we were all shocked. i just don't know what to say... pictures are flashing across my mind as i try to imagine those audible voices i cannot seem to conclude at something and it's worrying! hmmm... that is why i want cctvs yeah crap if only huh... so i guess that's about it. wooo time flies 6pm onwards and it's already 1252am i hope everything's fine and here i try to picture what prayer meeting is going to look like tomorrow pls come... at least once in this 2 weeks it will blow your mind. try.. even if you have school (: gdnighttt & come for prayer meeting August 11, 2008 we're no maniac Ivan 'Vern' Poh from URL @ 11:29 PM people demanded i talk about ee shen's twin and yes i am going to do so (: we were at the foodcourt and we met this girl, youth & pretty much around 15 to 17 years of age and she looked exactly like ee shen. we were irritating. we went right up beside her to just look at her. it was obvious. she was with her dad and clearly she knew what we were all talking about because we were loud and very unnatural. it was like 50 people stalking one girl. i wanted to show you guys how much she looked like ee shen so i suggested we get both of them to take a picture! well we kept discussing who to approach her and we decided jian ming and i shouldn't because we'll be like idiots and cheekopek respectively. so lynette suggested we send the most harmless - benny. yeah who will reject benny right. but benny was no where to be found but jordan was there so naturally he became our choice. he insisted randyne go with him. so they did and they went up to the girl and by this time she knew our brilliant master plan... public harassment man. before jordan could even say anything she was shaking her head already... poor jordan had to smile and walk off. we had a lot of laughter and we meant no harm (: i just really wanted that photo. i've met alot of people who look like a few of you guys too and all i want to is to show you how they look like you. no weird intentions :p but people just don't cooperate with us you see. hahhs they think we're some maniac (: which i understand is very likely they will do... we hid our faces and left the place right away. it was very funny. jian ming and all the f1 guys changed table to the one next to her. while i was purposely speaking loudly about her behind her. brilliant... to the day... prayer meeting was awesome and we were packed out. i did something in fact many stupid things today that i haven't done and said will never do for the longest time! then i went for sushi buffet and those people took too long to give me my sashimi... we had 18 people eating (: i had a great rehearsal. it was fun and it was very enjoyable. everyone i spoke to today had a dreaming look across their faces. i am going to have an early night. gdnight & gdbye August 10, 2008 my zone f Ivan 'Vern' Poh from URL @ 11:48 PM i was glad i didn't wait for team s'pore to march out (: zone f service was superb yesterday. everything from beginning till end was flawless. there was such an expectancy about the people and it infected me, i felt so pumped walking around the auditorium before service. it was different in spiritual atmosphere, the worship team was awesome, joanne was great and the presence of God had that extra touch that we were missing for so long. & the LIGHTS, it was awesome. and i pray something happens and things start to move over that ministry. the lights and worship team were one and that was what it is supposed to be. there was a picture of worship painted more than told. an atmosphere and environment more than an instruction. when we have livefeed, it will be one with this other 2 too. it was beautiful. i will remember this service as one of the highlights of my year. whatever we've planned came through. it rubbed somethings into the people. lynette was awesome and everything was tight and beautiful. to add to all that dynamic service we had, we had a great time hanging out together after service. we were at bugis at parco and then raffles city. it was really fun being with all these cool people. seeing them smile and doing all their shuffling talking is so amazing. it warmed my heart and though we were all very tired, it was still just so satisfying being with these people. we invaded the mall and people knew zone f were there. the security guard came and we almost did a storm wanting to video him down. he's really like muthu (just follow law) anyway. we ran across the fountain and yeah we did attract a crowd. we pulled dominic into the core of the fountain and he was water sticking wet & being very affectionate he went around hugging people (: amazing... we did crazy stuff, we tested icecream flavours one after another and we bought gigantic sausages. jordan and marcus spent $9 on gummies from cocoa trees. eckk.. then everyone went to catch the fireworks and maeann was so excited. she called me and screamed into the phone. i love zone f (: you are one i'm going to miss so much very soon. i went back to church tired and having being ushered around by all sort of authorities because of the NDP crowd jam at cityhall. i arrived in church more tired but i'd looked forward to discipleship class and that did pump me up alot. meeting the people in discipleship class blessed me and pumped me up so much. it was revelational meeting them at night as well as the group in the morning and it was beautiful listening and just looking at them. i feel a need to examine them (: hahaha it was all great in the end and i left the place more charged up than tired. i was on my way home and kinda already contemplating whether or not to go to newton circus with nicholas lee and gang. ernest was going too so yeah... well i kept that to myself and continued talking to huimin, flea, howteng and alastair. before long we hit newton, i said the rest were going to newton circus and huimin ran out of the train. it was forceful. it was very compelling and all of us went in the end. we had a good time. got the chance to meet ernest and talk to him. had to chance with lixing, eric and dexter too. haven't had the chance to fellowship with them for the longest time. it was a great week i had and i'm so impacted and humbled by all these amazing people around me. in fact today i was at another church with Pastor How. He was preaching there and it was brilliant... i was so blown away by my Pastor and he rocked the house down... it was such a great learning experience for a blur me and a very good exposure too. well you had better figured they were a chinese church... yeah VERY GOOD exposure. i feel bad not knowing what hoGc is in mandarin. one of those folks asked me and i was so embarrassed. i am going to find out and let's all learn chinese and speak good mandarin (: the sleeping giant, or dinosaur, is on the rise... china is rising! well just not in basketball... they got trashed by USA. a margin of 30 over points. Lebron was sitting on the bunch by 4th quarter? hahaha i am loving what i do even more even more even more even as the day goes pass. i want to go to gelato and have tiramisu icecream. 7am is prayer meeting. it is going to be amazing. gdnight and rest well now (: August 9, 2008 looks like i'm loving it Ivan 'Vern' Poh from URL @ 12:53 AM they say that david silva is close to joining barca. you see arsenal and barcelona want to buy the same type of players nowadays. well... that's very gd news for me because no matter what i get to see and support the players both clubs want to buy. football channel comes handy this season. it is very important to me all of a sudden. i met alot of people today & in fact church was packed this evening. it was really distracting but i totally enjoyed it. dilan and i were looking around during follow up man... ahhahhs i caught a little bit of the opening ceremony of the beijing olympics. i actually planned to watch singapore march in but it took more than 2 hours for all the nations to march in so it was boring and i went home instead. USA 'redeem' team will win GOLD this year man according to Lebron James who is doing a 'I GUARANTEE'. US better win then for the sake of his big mouth! hahhs Argentina, Spain, France and China are kinda good too man. I'll just watch the basketball matches and the sprints for the olympics. if i happen to watch the rest, i'll watch the rest. i am waiting to see who is the fastest man on planet earth. there are alot of coverage about 100m sprints so let's wait and see. i used to remember being trashed hard on marvel v.s. capcom by this young adult at the country club when i was in primary school. i remember i did a 'TIAN' with my Akuma but he finished me off with Wolverine's 99 hit combo. I just couldn't do anything but beg him to let me down.... idiot. i never or don't usually play the games at 13th storey but today was quite fun hitting the buttons. there's a stupid comedy out in the theatres. i think it's hollywood b. LOVE GURU. it looks quite entertainingly crap but i am thining i should catch it because of that mike miles? guy. let's see if red cliff is still on. i'm 1 month late... hahhs the night is cool... see ya around August 8, 2008 uncontemporary thursday Ivan 'Vern' Poh from URL @ 1:33 AM monday, tuesday, wednesday & thursday and all of them were pretty amazing just perhaps thursday edged the rest that little bit. it was uncontemporary thursday & i had an amazing family outing which was so funny. it was beautiful. was at benny's house but alan had some guitar performance so didn't come home so early and i had to leave by then. well that makes it better because i get to go more times and i know guitar fellas... and with all that beautiful planning to play soccer today, there was a thunderstorm the second we approached the street soccer court so it was terrible. we ended up kicking the ball around in the void deck. we had 2 little girls playing badminton in the void deck anyway and i thought that was quite funny yet fun but more funny. i see them aiming very hard because of the wind but it was sweet. i watched the badminton but i didn't see their faces i realised. awww no.... argh i feel like playing soccer.... while i am soon but i want it and i want it now! thursday would have been more beautiful if i played soccer i suppose well... that's that. hmmmm i heard many people unpacking their school bags for no school tomorrow... that is pretty much something i will do too... gdnight night now August 7, 2008 switching numbers and unfinished tales Ivan 'Vern' Poh from URL @ 11:19 AM nelson mandela says so much and that guy who wrote his biography spent 2 years with him and never wanted to leave him after that. that is our modern day symbol and idol. mandela said 8 things that was quite refreshing to know. i bet all of you read that too. it is amazing, those 8 things and i am not even sure that guy is a christian or not. it is kinda late last night & i had to brainstorm and imagine and work my creative juices now. it is so unappropriate to do so at that time but i guess i had to. maybe that creativity will get a little bit tainted. we'll see... life is good. life is prosperity. life is many options. life is just good with God & this family i have. it will not be the same without the latter. i've learnt all trueness about life from them and just glad that they left a lasting mark on me. i am excited about my life. yes the current state and prospect. it has been a destiny defining week. what God has exalted and lifted up, let no men tear down and destroy (: i'm 20. i can't wait to be 26? 30... 35.... 40.... 64.... then 89. i just had drum lesson this morning and it was fun. my teacher is quite spontaneous or did he plan the lesson? i don't know... i went in there, played a little bit of funk that hong hwee taught me and then he took out the book and started going through all those funk stuff WHICH is very fun. the whole time this morning when traveling i was listening to jazz, funk & r&b. then suddenly after class i wanted nu metal. hahhs it's quite crap but then yeah your taste changes like that... maybe it's the clock. well i need to listen as much as i can and have to. it will be good for me. later today i'm going to play soccer with a couple of the people. i just smsed jordan and nicholas to come along, hopefully they can. after soccer we'll visit benny's brother, andy and it is going to be fun. then later tonight, it is going to be fun (: tomorrow morning is going to be fun too. so yeah... let's live life, grow old together and bring a nice ending to this beautiful tale. oh have you watched nasri play? oooohhh.... gdday ahead (: August 4, 2008 ooohhh a good monday Ivan 'Vern' Poh from URL @ 3:11 PM it has been a long weekend for everyone especially our beloved ushers. i was talking to our head usher jian ming yesterday and he was dying. nonetheless, new level for all of our ushers. insanity is, when you expect to reach someplace you've never been to without first doing something. man our ushers are so good at what they do now, benny & jordan and so many else, not even deployed ushers in our church did what was kinda ordinary & now they like all of us have grown (: ordinary is to step out. woah jianming, now i miss ushering (: hahaha this is beautiful... i am excited about my week ahead. it is already packed and i kinda must maximize every bit of it this week. i am excited about meeting the people i need to meet & getting alot of things in place. it is beautiful... my sister has been telling me for the 100th time, that my uncle is coming back with his fiancee to have dinner with us. she smsed me, called me and wrote this huge note and placed it on my table man. i bet she's excited (: so very am i.. and eric! i was just chilling out with roy yesterday and we were having some huge discussion about army. argh, yeah it's a waste. but nevermind this week we have our own service back! hahaha we'll catch up more again well i'm just thinking about all that roy was saying to me yesterday. man, it's quite cool... & assuring. alright man today is monday, achiever's day.... see ya guys around (: August 3, 2008 strength...?? Ivan 'Vern' Poh from URL @ 12:41 AM i was praying a little bit moments ago & i read in the bible in psalm 99 and it was powerful. strength and love comes together. in fact, in as much as faith and works are inseparable, i think strength and love are too. strength is love. love is strength. our God is the Lord of Host. a warrior. the reigning God. the bible says he dwells between the cherubim. and the people tremble and the earth moves because of our God in strength. He is high above all the people & that includes you and me. the powerful part comes when the bible says that 'the King's strength also loves justice' His strength loves justice. it makes no sense man... but now it does... before no.. but now yes. i don't know what this is to you but to me i know i serve a reigning God. all powerful, all great, all awesome and magnificent. yet at the same time a loving God who is close, immanuel God who is with us. one thing i've learnt is that my God is strong with me because strength is love. the King's strength also loves justice & He loves a million more things. He operates in His strength. He reigns in His strength & that is awesome to me. to be loved is to be strengthen. and how to be strengthen you can do the mathematics and derive yourself the answer. you will get stuff plucked out of your life to be strengthen... ironed out... whatever... love is strength. so now it leaves me in a dilemma when i see people not being able to take love. and when i say love, i mean strength! argh... it irritates me... you even learnt in follow up that STRONG love....... strength is love!!! why do people reject love? i guess that leaves it pretty simple, just my thoughts - they refuse to be strengthen. therefore they only spiral down, stay in limbo... whatever they end up at. when someone cuddles you all up that is good, sometimes... but strength is love. reject one strengthening opportunity, you are rejecting the love. so what is it? pride? insecurity? maybe just pride... i don't know, we all derive answers for ourselves. God has established equity. He has executed justice and righteousness. we worship at His footstool. the same power that conquered the grave lives in me. the same love that rescued the earth lives in me. power (strength) is very much inseparable from love. be em-POWERED today.... August 2, 2008 so big Ivan 'Vern' Poh from URL @ 1:05 AM today was brilliant. had one good meeting and met many other people. took a look around topman and zara & it was all pleasant and very perfect. headed for lunch, soon finished up lunch and went over to dhoby ghaut. yeah and i'm hating blogging in this chronological 'what happened today' kind of way. let's dump it right out now. FOP was awesome & it's just the first night. i'm so proud to be from a great church and i guess i always say it so yeah... so cool to see charleston leading prayer and i was just looking at Psts the whole time. we were walking home and roy was just saying that hoGc should be this massive now because we are so ready for it. yeah we have amazing Pastors. Parachute Band is un-typical which made tonight quite special. Reuben Morgan had his hillsong band wacking away and i was telling Hong Hwee that the drummer is crazy. GOOD!!!! But very crazy... i hope i picked up a thing or two today. tomorrow will be totally different. it's day out with the gang. few hours in church will be fun and then out with charleston and co. sunday would very much be the same. today was so significant for our church. alright man, i'm thirsty and i need a drink. see ya. can't miss out now huh? we're so big now. August 1, 2008 friday at 131am Ivan 'Vern' Poh from URL @ 1:13 AM i tried some strokes and i couldn't get some today. argh i thought the book was easy. i'll try tomorrow again and slow it down more. anthony and hong hwee always say don't run when we can't walk yet so i guess that summarizes drumming in 1 sentence. it's a good day. had the chance to view drumming video with hong hwee and it was hilarious. still serious but funny to sight. noni bought me chicken rice that cost just $1.50. he bought 2 apparently and i finished $3 worth of chicken rice at one go. yeah that was so good. some places you get $3 and just half the portion. it seems to me that hougang is food heaven then maybe yishun is just hell. brilliant. today was brilliant. spoke to joanne, that was very amazing. hung out a little bit at the artiste room with noni and you have nadine and huimin there too. yeah 2 watching 1 work and very interesting. yakuza was studying and that was so soothing to my eyes. so too was genghis studying very hard. many tents were up today for CG. well i had mine in the mpr2. i like that... it's cosy and not too spacious. just right for cg. games today was wacky; pillow fight. benny actually made a pillow fight championship f2 belt. the f2 logo can really spin. amazing... to kick start the pillow fight, benny did the traditional. he performed the mui thai thing which wayne had on video. i'll be getting it tomorrow. it's really funny. howteng was there doing crossword puzzle too. it's quite funny the reason she is doing crossword puzzle. she found the book and it cost $3 plus i think and she doesn't want to waste money so she's doing it. quite cool huh. after that i had a wonderful mtg with nadine weiling and fedora. which howteng just sat around doing crossword puzzle argh, noni missed it. so did jian ming and samantha. i so wanted them there. weiling amazed me today... she really did. i was supposed to go jog again today but i'm too tired to. i'm contemplating going to borders tomorrow or the day after or maybe next week. i have some 3 major outings this weekend. that will be cool that's it. nothing spectacular. pretty much the usual. spectaculars are for tomorrow. it'll come soon and they stay only for a while. seems like we all build and work very hard for that moment... but it last for a while. forget about the moment. it comes, teases, even taunts and runs off. hahhs sensational... i want to be sensational
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