9:16 AM
Acts 20:24Was reading the verse of the day in my blog seconds ago, and it reminds me of Jacob's sub-MSN nick when he mentioned about this verse as well.. During the DG meeting yesterday, he shared with us about his mission trips to Thailand and China in the month of June, and he showed us the video of the mission work that he had gone to in the previous time to Thailand, and I really almost broke down and cry when I saw the whole thing... The situation in Thailand, is really really very bad.. Visit this website if you haven done so, and read the blog entry on the 25th May 2008...
http://thehmongshope.blogspot.com/
Lets start to pray for all the people in Hmong and all the needs that they required which is listed on that website.. (as I am lazy to copy and paste here, and so as to make you all really go to that website and see everything which is there and read up about it..)
Acts 20:24
“However, I consider my life worth nothing to me, if only I may finish the race and complete the task the Lord Jesus has given me—the task of testifying to the gospel of God's grace.”
Victor Lim
8:09 AM
Things revolving around me....Lately, lots of things are revolving around and within me, to the extent that negative stuff > positive stuff.. It happens from my bus enthusiast community (both juniors & seniors), to my school (RP), and even around the world also (especially Asia for the past few weeks till now)..
During the DG (Discipleship Group) meeting yesterday with a few students (guys in CCC) plus Jacob (who is our head/advisor for CCC) at a small secret meeting room in the school.. 1st of all I wanna thank Jacob for inviting me down to DG meeting (whom he got to know it when Qiu Yun told him that I am interested in the DG as well... Thanks Qiu Yun also!). In yesterday's DG meeting, Jacob talked about the 3 types of calling, which indeed lead us to really think through what is our level of calling right now, and how to proceed on to a higher level... He also mentioned about the whole of Psalms 90..
In verse 10, it says that:
"The length of our days is seventy years— or eighty, if we have the strength;
yet their span is but trouble and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away"
We don't live in this world just to enjoy our life.. All of us here bound to encounter any troubles and sorrow somewhere in our walk of life, and it's through this that God really lead us to walk though it and overcome it as well... As what I have mentioned in my blog months or years ago, that life is never easy for all of us living in this world, but thank God that whenever I faced all the troubles and sorrow and even any trials and obstacles, that He will always be by my side, to walk with me together and overcome it...
Our walk of life, is never always smooth, and is never always peaceful..
In verse 12, it says that:
"Teach us to number our days aright, that we may gain a heart of wisdom."
In a sense it's very true for me.. Life is always too short for all of us here, and hence, we have to really live life to the fullest, and not having to stick onto a certain troubles or any difficulties, and not go forth to solve it, to overcome it... Sad to say, some of us here have failed to achieve this point.. In Buses@SgForums, I can already see very clearly... Every single week or even day, I have never failed to see any person either trying to create troubles/flamings, or continuing to make the troubles/flamings go even worst... I believe this is not the way that we should lead our life, and at times, when we lack a heart of wisdom in this area, some of us tend to do such things..
This evening, I am going to meet up with Ben and Isaac (Wilcent may join us as well if he's free) for dinner at Bedok, and after that, to share our troubles or problems which happened around and within us, and closing off with prayer as well, because the main objective of the meet up tonight is for prayer.. It's when I feel that there is a urgent need for us to gather together as brother-in-Christ and pray for one another.. Too many things have been happening around and within every single one of us here, and there is really an urgent need to seek God for His help, directions, and blessing as well...
Okay... time for me to have my breakfast and busy my own stuff...
May God bless every single one of us here, and take care everyone.. ^_^
Victor Lim
Monday, May 26, 20085:52 PM
Don't lead me to any negative thoughts...Sigh... Now... Things around me in school is starting to get more secretive towards me.. Somehow or rather, I just feel that............that................ I guess... It's better for me to talk it over the phone... I don't want to let this affect my FYP meeting...
Victor Lim
Sunday, May 25, 200811:59 PM
Anointed by Your presence..Quite some time every since I had a proper blogging...
Past few days, it seemed to me that I had faced quite a tough and depressing moments in the area of school life.. It's only until 2 days back when things started to get better for me..
Right now, I am not going to say anything much because I have school lesson the next day morning.. But I just really want to thank God that He has guided me on the right path and to give me words of encouragement whenever I am feeling very down or depressed or even stressed in my spiritual walk of life.. Thank God for all Your blessings that He has provided me, especially in the area of emotionally wise..
Just now during the service (both morning service & prayer meeting), I can really sense the ultimate strong spiritual atmosphere and the anointing presence of God. When pastor asked us to visualize all our visions and dreams, I know that God in indeed giving me the call to vision myself that I will become CGL or even my bus enthusiasts Christian fellowship/prayer group leader..
This coming end of May and 14th June, there are 2 activity in total,
- 31th May: CG community service which I needs to lead a small kids group with my assistant leaders (there are 8 teams with 1 main leader each on every team, which I am 1 of the 8 main leaders) at Botanic Garden.
- 14th June: De Amazing Bus Fans Race (June 2008), with me as the organizer of this race..
Okay shouldn't talk much here le... I am pretty sleepy liao... Got time I will blog more... Cya and take care everyone... God bless everyone here =) Nitez..
Victor Lim
Thursday, May 22, 20087:39 PM
Just don't feel good...I also don't know how should I describe my feeling right now, 7:46pm at 2nd level of RP library..
And right now, I don't know why, I just feel like thinking back of the past... There was this saying:
"The only easy day was yesterday"
How nice if time can bring me back to the days when I was in Zhenghua Sec.. I really miss those good old times that my schoolmates and I had back then...
Right now, I just don't feel totally right... I just feel that I am not fit to be part of the group.. It's like every time I am with them, I am always so quiet... I am really so lousy in talking crap, and then all their topics, most of it I don't seem to know about it and I just keep my mouth shut.. The feeling is just very negative, very bad, very not alright... I just feel like don't do anything now and just lie down my head on the table and keep quiet for a moment...
Leave me alone for a while... I will feel better after that....
Labels: thoughts
Victor Lim
Saturday, May 17, 200810:37 PM
Reflecting on my spiritual life..It's time to reflect on my own spiritual life...
I still find that my spiritual hunger level is pretty dry... My level has not reached till the expectation that I myself want to see.. Now the pattern for me is like: (in terms of the spiritual hunger level)
Sunday - Monday: High..
Tuesday: Starting to get a bit lower..
Wednesday - Friday: Very low & dry..
Saturday: High up again..
In terms of my spiritual discipline wise, it's also pretty bad for me... Especially when it comes to daily prayer and quiet time with God.. Every single day, God has indeed blessed me in certain ways, just like this morning for a Mercedes bus for Service 966 (instead of all the crap Scanias cameo which for today, there's 3 of them at least, TIB564Y, TIB658K, and 1 more with ICM rear blue ad), and without much waiting time for Scania K230s on Service 24, and not to forget the NTU buses this afternoon and night (SBS2822H for Service 174 and SBS2818X on Service 16). Of course in areas other than buses, God has indeed provided me with blessings.. But sometimes, I just failed to speak to Him and thank Him for what He has done for me, which I feel that it's a very sad and disappointment for me, that I have failed to do my part even for a simple yet grateful task to thank Him...
Talking about my prayer life, I feel like sighing even more.. Often, when I pray with a few people together, I will hear them praying for a very long time just for a certain stuff and I tend to feel very panic because I know that when I pray, I don't speak very fluently (and very fast as well?!) and have a lot of things to say.. During my quiet time, I will just speak to God naturally, just like how I usually speak to all my friends here, and hence, there isn't any so-called 'chim chim' words being used as my vocabulary isn't that great actually.. Someone did actually mentioned that it's not the 'chim chim' words which determines my prayer level.. The most important thing is that I must really have the hunger for more prayer and pray for wisdom from Him, so that I have even more things which I really wish to pray for in all areas of my life..
Talking about my daily quiet time, it's also actually pretty bad, in the sense that I failed to do so every single day.. I just find that I have encountered with obstructions and barriers to it, most of the time it's at my home whereby I have disruptions from my parents and brother, especially the latter. There isn't any open space court or what around my block area. In the bus, usually the amount of time I have in a particular bus does not exceed 45 minutes (which I find that 45 minutes is too short for me to have my quiet time), and usually for SMRT Buses (it's not because I am biased but that's the true fact because SMRT is well known for poor frequency during peak hours, both in the area of buses and trains), it's already grateful for me to be able to step onto the entrance/exit steps and board the bus, let alone having the luxury to sit down and be able to concentrate for my quiet time... The only time when I successfully get to have my own quiet time so far is when I settle dinner outside alone at night in the city area and after that either go to Benjamin Shears Bridge or somewhere else (for last Tuesday, it's somewhere along Singapore River near the Parliament House).. Indeed, I really find that my spiritual hunger level is not really there yet, because when it's there, no matter what, I will still set aside some time for my quiet time...
For now, I just really need to pray that I will have even greater anointing, stronger presence of God, and that God will speak to me especially when my spiritual level is dry and really need Him to refresh me..
Victor Lim
Wednesday, May 14, 200811:46 AM
Something in STOMP which attracts my attentionhttp://singaporeseen.stomp.com.sg/singaporeseen/viewContent.jsp?id=22910
http://singaporeseen.stomp.com.sg/singaporeseen/viewContent.jsp?id=22206
http://singaporeseen.stomp.com.sg/singaporeseen/viewContent.jsp?id=22880
This issue really caught my attention while I was casually browsing through STOMP...
My views to this issue:
Even if this is a form of punishment, I would say that it's really nothing compared to NS... In NS, that's when the real form of torture begins... For this NCC one, I can already see that cadets were very happy enjoying the Mud PT, especially after a stressful week of lessons and perhaps a hot weather week... It's a form of de-stress for those cadets to really have fun and get bonded together... I strongly agree to some comments made by the viewers in STOMP that talk about kids nowadays are getting more and more pampered...
Was on MSN just now with Xing Wei, and I showed him this link and discuss about it...
Btw the link for the blog is as below:
http://creative-indeed.blogspot.com/
Have fun discussing about this issue especially for those in UGs... Haha... I will be discussing it with Wei Chuen and Jian Yew about it when I see them on MSN... Lolx..
Cheers and God bless to all! ^_^
Labels: school
Victor Lim
11:17 AM
Unexpected disastersSome say that the World is coming to an end soon...
Well... for the past few weeks, unexpected disasters have been happening around, especially in China and Myanmar. I hope most of you are aware of these 2 unexpectedly and deadly disasters... Attended the GDOP (Global Day of Prayer) last Sunday and they got mentioned about it... And we as Singaporeans living in our safe country, we should be feeling very fortunate and blessed.. Throughout all these years, our neighboring countries have been experiencing disasters, such as the Tsunami in Indonesia and all the usual flooding and famines everywhere around us, and our safe country, Singapore, managed to escape from all of them... Thank God for the safe location that Singapore has...
It's truly a painful and heart-breaking thing for me (and for all of you here also?) to see such disasters happening around, and countless innocent lives were lost just like that... Thank God that we have kind soul to be sent out to these affected countries to save as many innocent lives as possible...
Perhaps in our quiet time, we can pray for the world's peace, especially in Asia whereby even disasters can happen around us... The world is dying, and we will do all our best to salvage the situation... What SMRT has implemented (The "Go Green With SMRT") is definitely the right time.. Although I may have condemned SMRT a lot in the past because of the well-known poor services that SMRT has brought to us, but definitely, this campaign is definitely going to make us feel proud and honored of it.. Being the 1st in the whole of SEA (South-East-Asia) to implement Euro V buses (Euro 5), I finally have a good impression of SMRT for once, for what they have done...
Speaking of which, Saw Phaik Hwa (The CEO of SMRT) has promised that the new Mercedes Benz O.500LE Euro 5 bus is going to be on the road by today, but until now, still no news to it.. At least please don't make me and my bus enthusiast friends to be disappointed about it.. Broken promise that the CEO has brought to us..
Hope you guys here will be able to appreciate that all of us live in such a safe place and not whining here and there.. And do whatever you can to save the world..
May God bless those poor victims over at Myanmar and China..
Victor Lim
10:40 AM
Why I join CCC?Hmmm.. Some people may wonder and start asking me how come I join RP CCC (Campus Crusade for Christ)..
Well.. It all starts with 1 fine Monday when I saw something happening at Agora Hall (Forum area), Qiu Yun saw me and approached me, and told me about CCC in RP, and it really inspired me to join..
XY had been telling me about his own poly CCC (NP/Ngee Ann Poly, and Hai Jie also told me about his own poly CCC (SP/Singapore Poly). All the while I thought that RP don't have it, until Qiu Yun told me about it, and immediately, I told her that I will join the next Live meeting which falls on every Monday.
Last Monday, I went for the Live meeting for the 2nd time, and indeed, it has been an eye-opener for me, for me to explore and get to know more people, and interact with them. Edwin and Raymond were the 1st 2 that approached me when I sat beside them in the lecture room during the Live meeting. Jacob Ng, whom I thought that he's a student at first because of his appearance and heart-warming attitude, also talk to me a lot from school to church to off-topic during the fellowship & dinner last Monday at Causeway Point, and rather, I think I will treat him as a friend more like a facilitator.. When Melissa saw him together with a few RP CCC student at the library walking past us while we were doing our FYP, she was like "huh? he's a facilitator ah?".. Was kinda shocked to hear Melissa saying that... Lolx.. But indeed, such a very good facilitator in RP is really hard to find... Speaking of which, I kinda miss some of my year 1 faciliators, especially Lawrence Wong (Y1S2 Enterprise faci), Vicky Wong (Y1S1 Communication faci), and Susan Sek (Y1S1 Enterprise faci). These 3 facilitators were my top 3 favourite ones among all the facilitators that had taught me for my Year 1 modules, because they have left me a very deep and positive impression of them... Long story for that...
Okay... time to get back on track... I was reading though Qiu Yun's past blog entries, and I know that she has a very fruitful time being together with the people in RP CCC.. I hope the same thing will apply to me too, as I get along in RP CCC... ^_^
I hope this will answer you why I have decided to join CCC le ba?
Labels: CCC
Victor Lim
Monday, May 12, 20081:25 PM
Manhood Seminar & GDOP 2008Past few weeks have been a busy period for me, even till the extent that some night I only slept at about 3-4am and wake up early the next day.. Truly it has been a very shag and tired period, but God has indeed blessed me even through tough times.. Busy with school work (FYP and Year 3 modules), church & CG commitments (Usher ministry & doing up my CG blog, target to finish at least 3/4 of the whole blog by 2nd week of June), and also within the bus community (planning & preparation of our very 1st Amazing Race adopting from the Amazing Race show in Channel 5 instead of the usual ones we had), and now, the freelance work (which will last till 1-2 months later based on assignments) & the upcoming tuition job.. Well well... I really have to "jagar" (manage) my time well and let God decide on the path that I am going to take for the next 1 year or so before my enlistment for NS..
Last Saturday, my CG brothers, together with a few of other CG brothers in other CG until the same sub-zone, went for combined manhood seminar that was organized by my CGL. Actually in 1 way or another, I am pretty honored to have Quanhan as my CGL because in this sub-zone, he's the only male CGL..
3 sessions in total, but I only went for the 1st 2, because I got to go to Causeway Point in the evening for Mother's Day dinner, and it has been quite some time since the last time we have dinner together as a family (which means must have a full strength of 5 people consisting of my parents, my elder sister, my younger brother, and myself). Coming back to the manhood topic, I really learn quite a lot from the sessions, but so sad that I cannot attend the evening one.. (Nvm I will find out more from my CG brothers who went for the evening one..) ^_^
Sunday morning, went for service as usual.. And my section (in usher ministry), were chosen for the external traffic again.. Guess what, I was chosen AGAIN to do Traffic 2 (for the 2nd consecutive week) , which is the back door for the VIP cars, the most 'siong' among all the roles in the ushering ministry.. Thank God the weather is very positive or else we would have more work to do... Went for lunch with Jia Yun and Zi Xuan at ** CENSORED: cannot say location because of Amazing Race for bus enthisiasts, if not you all will know and it's of no fun le.. ** Meet Ben later on to recee the place and then we took bus down to City Hall to meet up with XY. Together, the 3 of us went somewhere to have discussion and casual talks for a while at Kallang Leisure Park before Ben went for his Mother's Day dinner while XY and myself went for GDOP 2008 at Singapore Indoor Stadium.
Inside the indoor stadium, I was quite surprised (and happy also) that 1 of my current semester classmates was there, and somemore he sat beside XY.. The GDOP event was a very meaningful one for all of us to witness and to pray as a nation.. Saw Pastor Derek (from my church) there as among the few people who sat at the stage area too, and when the speaker called up Pastor Derek to stand beside the representatives of different country people to lay hands to pray for them, I heard a loud *woo* sound and it's truly a very positive feeling..
After the whole event finished, we took some photos before we proceeded to Stadium Walk (outside Singapore Indoor Stadium) to GO GREEN WITH SMRT!! In the end we took TIB805C which bears the GO GREEN WITH SMRT advertisement to Kallang MRT Station bus stop and went home from there..
XY and myself.. (using XY's camera)
My classmate, Tengyu, and myself (using Tengyu's camera)
Inside the Indoor Stadium (using Tengyu's camera)
Cheers & God Bless! Have a great day everyone! ^_^
Victor Lim
Thursday, May 01, 200811:59 PM
2nd Bus Enthusiasts outingShall take some time to blog about it first before I went to sleep... 1st I really wish to thank all those who turned up today.. Without all of your presence, this thing won't turn out to be a successful one.. 2nd thing I wish to thank, is XY for organizing this activity and made this a successful and smooth one.. Not to forgot to thank God also, for everything that I (and probably XY & Ben also) had prayed for this activity..
Really, I feel very touched and happy that we as fellow bus enthusiasts can come together and bond together as 1 big family... This is the way that that we want it to be (at least for XY, Ben and myself). Previously, there were some issues and conflicts between the seniors and the juniors, and for now, through these kind of bonding and gathering, we really hope that all these conflicts and negative issues will minimize.
Quote from XY in SG Forums as I am quite lazy to describe everything here.. Lolx...:
First of all, some of us have lunch together at Kovan Area. After that we have Ice Breaker by introducing each other followed by the mini Amazing Race.
After that, we took Sv 119 followed by Sv 132 to Hougang Int
Took Sv 72 to Tampines Int
Followed by Sv 27/MRT to Changi Airport
Dinner at Popeye's Fast Food Restaurant(Terminal 1)
with interactions...
Bidded farewell by taking different bus services from Changi Airport T1
Next of the event, will be the coming big-scale Amazing Race which will involves running all over Singapore for checkpoints, and as the upcoming organizer for this event, I will do to my utmost best to run this whole event smoothly and successfully, with the help of all of you guys here.. Every month, we will organize activities for our fellow bus enthusiasts friends to come and bond together as 1 big family, and between XY, Ben, and myself, the 3 of us will rotate the role of being the organizer and the sub-organizers for our upcoming activities...Shall post the photos before I end off this post... (All photos credited to Afiq, lazy to put captions and not in order)
Take care everyone and God bless!~
Victor Lim
8:40 AM
SMRT Go-Green Campaign @ NUS Cultural CentreWent over there yesterday since it's on a Wednesday and Wednesday I have no classes other than FYP meeting in the afternoon... Shall let the photos do the talking from here...
Arrival of SMRT CEO, Saw Phiak Hwa, with a warm greeting from her "hello" when she walked past us..
Token of appreciate from SMRT CEO to the Guest of Honour.. I would say that it's very creative for her to use a plant for that instead of the normal plaque... Lolx..
The rear EDS so small for who to see? Lolx...
The very low bumper integrated with the small headlight. What happens if the bumper suffered from any damaged? The headlight also affected..
LAWO EDS and Konvekta air-con controller..
In-build CD player as told by the senior Service Leader who drove this bus. Probably it will be used as the announcement system because even the exit door chime is using SMRT train door-closing style..
SMRT CEO Saw Phiak Hwa being interviewed by many reporters...
SMRT CEO Saw Phiak Hwa being interviewed by many reporters...
After the interview, she made sure that she still looks very neat and presentable in her dress code..
Huat ah! Group photo shot of the CEO and all the SMRT staffs who were present there..
Enjoy!~
Victor Lim