The WORD was WITH GOD... in Old Testament

So, here is the counter post!
(okay, not really counter post, but a little sharing on my side when I read Michele's post) :P

I actually opened my Bible for this! 8D

John 1:1-2 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God and the Word was God; he was in the beginning with God.

John 1:3-4 All things were made through him and without him nothing came to be. Whatever has come to be, found life in him, life which for humans was also light.

This is how the book of John (in the NT) starts of; with reference to the Lord Jesus Christ as the "Word". And, in the book of Genesis, how did God create the world with all its creatures, stars, moon and sun?

Genesis 1: 3 God said, "Let there be light"; and there was light.

Genesis 1: 6 God said, "Let there be a firm ceiling between the waters and let it separate waters from waters."

Genesis 1: 9 - 10 God said, "Let the waters below the sky be gathered together and let dry land appear." And so it was. God called the dry land "Earth" and the waters gathered together he called 'Seas'. God saw that it was good.

Now, this means that the Lord Jesus was with God since creation, just that at that time,
He wasn't born (in human form) yet and thus had no name.

He also didn't have a form like a human being, since God's mighty plan of salvation wasn't revealed just yet.

So, in other words, the Lord Jesus was with God, in the mysterious form of God's Word.

Also, we Christians believe in the mysterious being of God as having 3 persons in one God;
God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit.

So if God the Father was mentioned in the Old Testament, obviously, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit would be present there, too... just not mentioned (if you don't read between the lines)

And yes, Michele, your reference to Luke and David was right :D
Go back and tell your teacher to study the Bible properly;
what's a lecturer if she can't get her facts right and has to rely on her students to tell her the facts? :S

*one lousy one* rofl!! :x

*she sure is proud to have read THAT much of the Bible without studying it properly to be able to come to that conclusion*

=/

XD lol.

Hoax Emails

Hi everyone :)

I'm writing here today to tell everyone to please, be at least, aware of such unscrupulous people who like to take advantage of the emotions that people have and write spam emails.

I, for one, do not like to receive e-mails asking me to forward the mail to my contacts.
Fine if it's genuine.
Or funny.
Or has some value to other people.
But it's not okay to me if it's not.

How would you like someone to tell you,

"Hey, DUDE! You've been tricked!
Someone on the other end of the world 
is laughing at you right now...
because you've just been pranked!"

Have you seen an e-mail (real recently and have ended up in my inbox twice now)
That goes like this?

Dear Reader,

I am writing this on behalf of my loving husband.  

Everything was fine, me, my husband and our two children. We had a happy family. My husband was an Engineer in a big company. He comes home early and helps me with the house chores and plays with the children... Our dreams were shattered in front of our eyes last week. It was a drunk lorry driver, who came on the wrong side and hit us and went. It killed my little baby girl and left my husband paralyzed. My husband is still in the hospital. Hisbrain is damaged and he needs an operation. I need 5 lakhs to save his life I have collected about 3 lahks from my friends and family. I need another 2 lakhs.I don't want to lose him. He is such a wonderful husband & father

He still doesn't know we lost our little girl.. I am looking after my son now.. Without my husband I won't be able to take care of him. Please help me
save my husband the one person I dearly love. I have already lost my daughter and I don't want to lose my husband as well. Please help us.
Thank you very much for your love & support.    

May God bless you.

Yours Truly,
Nirosha Silva
(I know you don't like to forward mails. I am really sorry to bother you.  If you have a heart and like to help a family, please forward this mail.
Every time you forward this it will add 5 cents per email ID to AOL and they will deposit it into my bank account. This will help me save my husband.)  

( Even If you treat it as all Fake ... Try to forward Please. It Does not CostFor You. BE OPTIMISTIC) 

      Whether it's true or false doesn't matter, but Pls forward this as Max as you can.

Well, I don't believe it's true.
According to hoax-slayer.com, this e-mail is a hoax.

I mean, think about it.
If AOL (or any giant e-mail company for that matter),
were to really give out 5 cents for each email ID,
and for every sad-case e-mail that gets forward to every inbox,
don't you think you've lost your e-mail account like years ago?

HAH! 
THOSE COMPANIES WOULD'VE BEEN  
BANKRUPT BY NOW!!!

Come on people, BE REALISTIC!!

Why you do want to help spammers all over the world?

You know, I could easily grab your e-mail ID from this forwarded e-mail alone and sell the info to people on the Net. (It's worth USD 5 for each of your email ID... that's easily USD 1000)

Like what these people are doing here: Go ahead and Google; I want to sell a list of e-mail IDs

And because I know that these (your!) e-mail IDs are from real people,
I could make a good sale from you.

And don't think,
"Well, I'm sure the person I forwarded this e-mail to
will delete my email ID before they forward it out."


No. DUH! 
I can safely say more 99% of the people who send me the forwarded e-mails DID NOT DELETE the history of e-mail IDs before they send the forwarded e-mails out.


You know why? 
Because out of the many people who send me forwarded e-mails, only one person deletes the history of e-mail IDs.
(If you're that one person reading this, thanks for doing so :)


So, anyways, if you are scared now that I might take your e-mail ID and sell it off, don't be.
I have a reputation I wanna keep.
And, anyway, it is unethical business to do this.

But remember!!
Not all people have a reputation they want to keep... and not everyone is ethical.
There are those who would do this without a second thought... they'd sell their souls if they could.

And you will never know if your email ID will be one of those sold to an unresponsible person.
Before you know it, your e-mail is hacked, and your personal details are stolen.



Peace yo.


P.S. Before I end my fury-filled post today, I want to remind you.
Be a little more responsible to your friends.
They are NOT words or numbers in your contacts.
Before sending out a suspicious/spam e-mail,
go to http://hoax-slayer.com, and look for that e-mail.
Most likely you are just sending out recycled stuff.
Not there?
Copy paste the first few lines of the e-mail body and do your own search.
You will find out, and it's confirmed to be a fake.

Christmas Party #3 [Christmas with Myanmar Refugees]

Okays. After the Sunway trip, I was dead beat and tired.

Walking around in heels when you're not used to it can be really exhausting!!
Especially when all you've been doing is walking around the house with flat feet...
You get the picture :D

I've been memorizing Bible stories by pacing my room, the hall, the kitchen and reading as well as telling myself everything I needed to know.
I think I was extreme, though.
I had paced my room while sis was sleeping [at 8 to 9 a.m.], and...

I was memorizing the part Paul and Silas were dragged to the authorities in the public square by the owners of the young servant girl who had a fortune-telling spirit in her. [In Acts]

They told the Roman Officials that Paul and Silas were Jews, and they were causing trouble in the city. The owners were Roman citizens, and they were unable to accept the customs taught by Paul and Silas.
Then the crowd joined in the attack.
So the Roman Officials tore the clothes of Paul and Silas, and had them whipped.
After a severe beating, they threw Paul and Silas into jail and the jailer was ordered to lock them up tight.

My sister got up after a dreamless sleep, heard this part and went back to bed, dreaming that she was

1. in Rome.
2. People were about to kill her.
3. and she entered this prayer room
4. and she begged God to protect her from them
5. and she was saved.

LOL!!
When I heard it from her  xD

Okay. Let's not get sidetracked here.

Coming back to this event.

We met up with the others in church and helped to pack the goodie bags for the kids.

And I tell you, I thought we were going to an orphanage or something or somewhere that needs charity work with kids because of the sweets we were asked to contribute.

MANA TAU, IT WAS WITH THE 

MYANMAR REFUGEES!!

WOW

Okay, you've probably going like, err.... so what? What's with the 'WOW'?

Not many actually knows this, but...

I have a silent dream, whereby, I wanna teach the Myanmar refugees English.

So as to ensure that they could get a better life in Malaysia.

Hey people!!

If you are a Malaysian, you'd better appreciate it!

Do you know why it is a BIG DEAL to own a citizenship in Malaysia?!

Because those who do not have the citizenship, are at the mercy of the authorities.

Yeah, sure. 

Malaysia takes in the Myanmar refugees chased away from Myanmar, but when the refugees arrive here, they are caught by the Rela Officers and who-knows-who-else and told to "pay up", or get detained, or something like that.

Have you experienced getting bullied in school, where the bullies punch you up, or extort money from you, or threaten you?

It's the same. A thousand times worse.

Okay, so the place we went weren't exactly facing all those problems.

But in other places, yes.

You don't believe me? 

Then join a Church Ministry, or just help out in the  

Myanmar Refugees Ministry.

The coordinator can tell you a lot of things about them. Which really does makes sense.

And those without the UN card... even worse.

So anyways, cruelty aside, let's come back here...

[I've been getting side tracked here often :S]

 On the road again.

Heaven knows where this is xD

After 1 hour [yeaps, not that far] we have arrived.

I'm not telling you where it is. 

Just in case it has been hidden from the authorities, I wouldn't like to blow their cover ;x

...And we have arrived!!

The kids were really welcoming.

They were the first to say hi :D

After a short briefing, we [the volunteers] were told to meet them and invite them to eat xD

 I guess this is their toilet.

 Following the trail...

Looks like a jungle, yes?

Something like that.

We were quite far from civilization, really.

 Really like a jungle path...

One of the houses that I passed by...

Can you believe it if I told you it was made out of papan?

and they even reused tyres for pots!!

 Yup, that's how big the houses look like.

Single storey papans...

 Their "basketball" hoop

 It's really in a jungle, k?

I wasn't joking D:

 A refugee mother and her child 

 The happy children.

Eventhough they are burdened with these circumstances, they still look very happy...

to receive us.

 The pup.

I tell you ah...

This puppy has been very naughty.

All it does is steal our attention from the refugees xD

 Improvision...

because they can't afford/can't get the real thing 

 The road back.

It was muddy and slippery.

Unlike the normal roads we have in towns/cities.

I don't think that the kampungs have these either =.=

 Maybe this is the pup's mother :O

After that, I helped to serve the drinks.

cause it was lunch time.

The refugees were told to eat first while we serve them.

Because we were there to bring some sort of Christmas cheer to them.

When we all had something, and were relieved of our duty, it was picture time!!

 Aw... one big happy family...

Clockwise from top left; Vanessa, Bernard, Monica, Bibiana, and Lily

Then it was time to carol.

Heh heh...

These people wanted to escape from singing!

So they decided to "give away" the goodie bags.

[Still, they had to sing, xD]

 Really nice oh o.o

Inside all sweets and balloons that Fiona requested xD

As we belted out "Jingle Bells", "Feliz Navidad", "What Child Is This?", and other songs, they listened to us xD

 Listening to us xD

 Carolling to them xD

Suddenly, they stood up and sang us a Christmas Carol in their language!

 Okay, I don't know the name of the song, so i just clapped my hands with them xD

After singing "We Wish You A Merry Christmas", we had 15 more minutes before we left.

So I decided to roam.

A bit... then I listened as a Myanmar girl told an aunty from our group that she was 15 years old, and teaching the other kids English.

I was like, WOW!

She's younger than me, yet she has already achieved what I wanted to do...

Awesome!

She was waiting for her documents to be processed so that she could go to the United States.

Hopefully, to greener pastures.

All of them looked older than they said they were.

I guess poverty has a way of making us age faster...

with the hardships and challenges that they bring.

 This is their only Christmas Tree.

If you're not happy with your Christmas Tree's size, think about their Christmas Tree...

and how happy they are to just have a Christmas Tree.

It's the only indication that Christmas season is here for them.

 Another group pic!

Clockwise from top left: Selina, me, Elaine, Bibiana, Bianca, Crystal, Mimi, Yvette, Precious, Lily, Vanessa, Monica.

After that, it was time to leave.

Really ulu place.

No, this is not their home xD

We hit the road, and I fell asleep in the car.

Exhausted. Tired. Sleepy.

Slightly hungry too.

I didn't want to eat so much, fearing they may not have enough to eat.

Who knows when their next meal will be? 

*sigh*

When we think that there's nothing worse that could happen to us, think about others.

You may be poor, but at least you have food to eat.

You have a roof under your head.

And you have every right to be on the soil that you stand on.

There are those who can't even stand on the soil that accepted them.

Because there are bullies, and the law could not protect them as it should.

This Christmas, remember them.

The poorest among the poor.

Hey ya'll [especially my beloved blog]!!
Been a long time since I've came here, yeah?

Yeah.
[LOL!! Answering my own question xP]

Today's been a really good day, thanks to the Lord Jesus Christ.
I'm re-learning my last year's lesson on faith. Still remember the miracle posts??

Miracles Posts
Or rather, specifically, this one

Today, that's what happened... or almost the same thing.
I sort of left my homework paper at home and I was supposed to pass it up today. Okay, so I did not panicked, but was sort of fearful that I might get scolding...

After a year and a half of Pn. Tan's lectures are still in my head even though she's no longer teaching us

T^T

Anyways, thanks to the Lord, I didn't have to pass it up *phew*
After that, there was a greater matter on BK Class today.

[No, not exam-related]
In BK Class, students are supposed to know the stories, quotations, and meanings as well as plot development by heart. My problem was that I was lacking in homework and I didn't prepare myself for the Missionary Journeys.

To make things worse, I was sort of late to class as Mum came late. So...
but I was in time. =)
Once again, thank you Lord.

In class, teacher kept a soft, but firm tone of voice. Last two weeks, we all had a sort of hard, scolding tone from her...

Which brings to mind the issue I would like to address here.
Although I know, not many are reading this, but if you DO stumble here and read this far; then please bear this in mind.

When the Lord Jesus Christ came to earth and started His Missionary work, it was the demons who first recognized Him as the Messiah and God's Son [Luke 4 : 31 - 37] when you compare it with us human beings. Needless to say, He is more powerful than the demons; even they obey Him, as He is the Son of God!

In the Acts of the Apostles, Paul had used the name of Jesus to cast out a spirit that enabled a servant girl to tell fortunes. [Acts 16 : 16 - 18]. 

So, my question is to you; if the demons and evil spirits recognize Jesus's holy name and would leave people that they possess [I'm not refering to the seven sons of Sceva; they don't even know the Lord Jesus yet want to use His name to cast out the evil spirit], then where does that put you, if you use His blessed name to curse?


Honestly speaking, if you are NOT a Christian, you would not insult them by desecrating the Holy name of Jesus. I was very, very, very insulted when someone said this out aloud in Moral class two days ago. If you think it's cool, think again. It just shows how disrespectful and insenstive you are. No normal human being would insult their fellow Christian friends, especially when they were sitting next to them. Just who do you think you are?!


And if you are a Christian, do not use His name as a cuss word. If you did, you would have broken the 2nd commandment; Do not use the Lord your God's name in vain. Besides, His name is very powerful to those who believe!

hmm... that's all I wanted to say.
God bless ;D

*haiz*

If anyone asks, its the most stressing day EVER

Don't even go to the part where I'm supposed to study for SPM.
*hate**hate*

*stabs SPM*

GAHHH!!!!

So... today?
I slept at 2.30 a.m.
All because of the Add Maths project. I forgot that we could pass it up on Friday... ended up rushing the Part 1 prematurely until 2 a.m. or something =.=

See?! I'm so so so careless!! ARRGGGHHH! 
*chokes*

Anyways, Thank You, Lord for reminding me about this... or else it would just slip by my mind and I'll just forget about it until it's too late. [yes, that sounds like me T^T]

hm... but today? Wasted time on the Assembly Grounds. It was like, erm... it's raining; go up to class.

10 minutes later; Not raining anymore. Go back to the Assembly Grounds. And stay there until 9.30 a.m.

=.=

What were we doing there? Listening to *some* talk presented by a chauvinistic person. Hmph!!

Dunno what, some prejudiced guy just came and bluntly told the whole assembly what *ONE* group of people should be doing; and how they fail at excelling in the Communications Field, and what are the benefits that *THIS* group of people can get if they control the fields.

@.@

I feel that even though his speech was long, and it was the nature of my schoolmates to clap 'enthusiastically' when one super long, boring and LAME speech ends, I feel that NO ONE should clap for him... since he was EXTREMELY BIASED.

I just don't favour people like this. Hate you! Hate you! *stab* *stab*

Then, we were treated to some more speeches. No, don't ask what speeches; even I was not paying attention.
And, and, and; since Michele wasn't there... *ahem*
So.... xD


Anyways, the rest of the day, I ended up discussing debate. But my efforts were in vain; nothing entered my brain. Honestly, I don't think tomorrow's results would be good. I think it will be bad. Not only are the opponents are great, they also have the upper hand, as we're going to debate in the home field =.=

Oh, correction;

THEIR HOME FIELD 

I'm so dead!!

BTW;

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MICHELE!!

I actually wanted to pretend like I forgot, then surprise you with the prezzie... but you didn't come in the morning and SURPRISED me instead e_e

*haiz*
Anyways, I hope you like it! If not...
You can do a refund xP

No, I'm not serious!! You better use it well!!!

When I slept last night, I thought I wanted to get up at 6 a.m. to get *some* of my homework done...
[of course, that failed!]
Instead, I got up at 8 a.m. [perfect timing!] and had just enough time to get ready for the outing I planned SOOOOO HARD for the past few days. *shrugs*


Unfortunately, we [Michele, She-Reen and I] had to wait at my house for 3 freaking hours because Mum's car tyre had been punctured [on purpose].

GOSH! What's wrong with compromising that parking lot?! If you can't park your car for a day, must you puncture people's car tyre?

I know it was done on purpose since this $m@rt-@$$ took out the cap and placed a stone there before closing it again. If you are a Malaysian, then I'm ASHAMED to call myself a Malaysian; seemingly you have NO TOLERATION [NILAI TOLERANSI] and CIVIC AWARENESS [KESEDARAN SIVIK]. What?! You never went to school, is it?

 ばか!!/BAKA!!/IDIOT!!

So now, after 3 hours [result was that, Michele's blog had a revamp! *wink* *wink*] we finally went to Sunway Pyramid :D

Ooooohhh~ Lala~!

Of course, we only had... 4 hours to be there, so first thing's first!
We snuck around certain places to complete our Add Maths 2010 project ==;
Honestly, if you don't believe that such thing exists, go find this;

www.spakademik.jpnns.gov.my/spa/kerja_projek_addmath/Guidelines.doc 

It seems as though Malaysian students have nothing better to do, but to work for huge stores like Giant and Jusco to survey prices and provide more competition -.-

We are irking giant hypermarkets in the name of Additional Maths!
You know who I blame :)

This one is the best photo I managed to take from...  *somewhere*
*pretends to look around*
*smirks*

After surveying prices and killing lots of headaches, we finally shouted ばんざい!!/Banzai!!/Cheers!! and headed to this place;

 Pasta de Gohan!!
[We didn't really head there. We sorta walked and walked and walked before entering this place]

I have more pics here :D

Well, once here, we were given 4 menus and 4 set lunch menus. Once I saw 'Scallop and Mushroom', I immediately casted my vote :D

She-Reen had trouble picking something, and Mum was busy on the phone with Dad. I have not one clue what happened here, except that I kept repeating "Scallop, scallop, scallop..." Yesh. I love scallops ;3

So we ordered our picks and She-Reen and I clicked away :D

Some photos;

If I see you and you see me, who's going to see... uh, nevermind ==;

Of course, we had a special guest! Presenting, MUM!!

[who decided she was a fifteen year old today xD]

Then, came out dishes, one by one, starting with;

Michele's and Mum's Hot Green Tea

She-Reen's Mango drink

Now, pay attention to the cherry...

My Blue Hawaii Float

[no, there are no streaks of red, actually]

This is *something*... *something-Italian* Chicken Pasta

Did you notice She-Reen's cherry from the beginning?

It's now at the bottom of her drink!

がんばって/Ganbatte, She-Reen!

Getting there!!
While we await She-Reen's results, let's have a look at the other things that came!!

Corn and Tuna Toast [Mum's Set Lunch]
o.o Naish.

Uhmmm... Cod ~~~~ Graffit?? [Michele's Set Lunch]
Creamyyy Cheese!!

CHEESE!!!

[She ended up playing with the pepper grinder until her plate was too spicy to eat xD]

She-Reen's spaghetti. Can't remember the name. 

The cheese and spaghetti go SOOO well!!

Oh look! 

She managed to rescue her sunken treasure!

Great timing, She-Reen :)

おめでとう! / Congratulations!

Now you see, now you don't! :D

Quote She-Reen, "The cherry is very sweet."

I can imagine that o.O

[I offered Mum mine, so BTW, Mum ate mine]

Finally, my Scallop and Mushroom Pasta arrived :)

I actually finished the noodles first then only advanced on the scallop.

One of them has eggs!! :9

 I don't have the pictures of me eating the scallops, so... when She-Reen sends the pictures, I shall definitely show you some... [maybe on a different post]

There. My empty plate of lunch...

[Taken at 4.20 p.m.]

Hey! I actually ate MORE than what was on my plate!!!

Opps... did I said it too loud? xD

Now we took some pictures as memories.

Heh! I look like I have an evil thought and plan ==;

Michele + She-Reen + Me

Looking a little haggard?

Me + Mum

With all that eating, you must be wondering how much the lunch would have costed. Well...

Can you see the total outcome/damage done? D:

Thank you Mum!!! *muacks*

Then we left the shop and directly came to this place...

Where the organizers were promoting Sunway Lagoon. o.O

Sunway Lagoon is open at 10.30 p.m.?!

I must check it out one day ;D

Random pics;

She-Reen + Michele

Lolz~ Look at that giant thing o.O

Michele + Me + She-Reen

Want to play a simple game?

Find the similarity between the three of us... ;x

*drumrolls*

The answer is; We're all wearing skirts!

[Yesh, Mum included, but she's not in this photo T^T]

 

 This is a small part of the exhibition.

Two rabbits.

Two... or is it Three? Guinea Pigs.

That's all folks!

 I hope you had a great time! 

I did, of course.

Except, we had to leave Sunway early due to unforseen circumstances.

*shrugs* Oh well. Maybe next time...

And next time, I wanna go ice-skating!!!

[after SPM... duh!!]

Late post. This is.
Weird. Weird. Weird. ==

ARGH!!!!!!!!!! BLEH.

It feels like I've been swallowed in and vomited back out.

That's what you get when you don't think calmly and coolly and just respond to the stimulation around you. Then you realized, 'I should have never opened my mouth.'

But honestly, being a Catholic is very difficult.
[well, nobody said it was easy == ]
And there are times when I wished I had a sort of higher intellect to guide my thoughts, words and actions so that it could make my [Catholic] life easier.

But of course, I am human, and I don't have that higher intellect to guide me.
BUT HOW I WISH :(

And there are times when one word of 'sorry' is not enough. The mind won't leave me at peace.
It nags and nags about the things I could have done, or should have done [or what I shouldn't have done :( ].

The worse is the guilt that it leaves mercilessly behind. I hate it. And I don't know who put those thoughts in, or what to do with it.

To me, there are 3 kinds of thoughts that I've heard with my mind's ears.

1. My conscience/guardian angel
2. My imagination
3. The Devil's

And to think of it, there's a weird order of things that one could hear the thoughts that is discerned as 'evil' as one of your own.
They pop-up suddenly without warning, and keep coming continuously.

There are many a time that I've tried to forget it, but it still comes, in my moment of weakness as if to tell me, 'You've fallen! You've fallen! You are very humanly after all!! God will forgive you, but those people would NOT!!'

And that's the time I want to cry push everything down the small neck of the bottle and seal it up with a cork.

I can't see God. I can't hear Him every so often. But I can see those people and hear them.
And that's why it's too much. That's why I can't take it in. And I see the unjust happening, the reports of certain brainless individuals who want to disrupt peace and fairness... that are too much.

And then there are those in power, who don't practice nilai 1.10. What, I ask, are they doing? Why are there no reports of action taken? If it were the other way around, if it were us doing it, and not them.... the authorities would've come down hard on us already, long ago, right after the article came out.

And what, I ask, is being done for their crime? If we say, 'Let God give them their punishment', should they be saying that too? If that's the case, we don't need prisons, police officers, not even the authorities! But the world is an unjust place, and there would still be unjust as long as there is just. We'll just have to suck it up and put on a brave face and say, 'God knows what He is doing. May He forgive you.'

And it boils back down to me.

Yes, I want to leave this place because I cannot stand it. I cannot UNDERstand what is happening as they have already OVERstand their ground and is looking to oppress others. I want to migrate to Australia/Japan where things such as these does not happen.

I am not blind, and I do not like what I see. I have never liked the look of it.
That's why I've decided, that I will have to stay and fight. I don't know if I can win, but I'll have to fight.

I just hope, what I fight, won't be like that fight that happened when the line between good and bad was blurred, which caused the Devil to win.


Maybe then, those taunting thoughts that come will be put at rest.

What a serious and vague issue. ^^u

How about a penny for your thoughts? :D