what's motivating me.

"...now several months later the tree is getting huge, full of good fruit for you and me to pick from the tree. If we never do anything but talk about our ideas and dreams then nothing ever grows from them. Little steps towards our goals will eventually become giant accomplishments. The best part about it is that once we step into faith and action God jumps in and helps. "

i'm sticky!

went to 4 beaches in one day today!
wah, thinking back, we really are so geng xD
even went all the way up to cherating.
but it was worth it :D




4 of us and 2 dslr cameras
"SY, RX, AL, PT WERE HERE"
yup yup, i managed to influence somebody to buy a dslr xD
i believe more more will come. yeepee!

wanna upload pics without editing them
i really want to
but i don't think i can really get through the photos without getting my hands on them first. :P
is that a good thing? 8)

praying for the right thing.

when you pray to have more faith, God puts your faith to the test

when you pray for courage, God gives you the chance to be courageous



God, i know You will put me out in the battlefield
i want to bruise
i want to be punched in the gut
so i can be molded through this.

put me out there.

korek telinga!

when in a dilemma, it's always hard to hear God's voice
but it's not impossible.

it's faith time, time to power it up and believe!



Daddy, help me to hear Your voice. Help me believe it.
amen.

0000

the time when i can still use the internet past 12am is when my dad is not home
he he he :D


ahh, freedom and time to browse the endless beautiful photos on deviantart
here i come !!!!!!!

*sinking in beautiful photography, xing fu daoooo* :3 ♥

beautiful quotes.

“Your attitude is the aroma of your heart. If your attitude stinks, it means your heart’s not right.”






”If the Lord never gives us children, will you still love Him?”

“I Feel like there are giants of fear and failure staring down at me waiting to crush me”… “I’m tired of being afraid”

“You can’t judge people by their actions, and yourself by your intentions. It doesn’t work that way”.

a highly recommended film. 

i watched it and was hugely moved and touched by the message. 

God is good, Gos is real and He loves us soooo much.

" Two farmers prayed for rain, but only one went one to prepare his field. Who do u think trusted God more to send the rain?"

God will not listen.

This is an important lesson to remember! 
If there is sin in our life, our prayers will be hindered. 
Genuine repentance, (recognizing our sin, and turning from it), 
will allow our prayers to be heard by God.  
When we continue to live in sin, it hinders the effectiveness of our prayers.  
Take a good look at our scriptures and see if you agree. 
Examine your own life, is there known sin that you have not yet turned from, 
this sin will prevent your prayers from being heard by God. 
God is a loving God and will hear us if we turn from our sin. 
Don’t allow sin in your life keep you from the blessings of God.




(taken from a devotion)






once again reminded of how important it is to talk to God, 
how we need to pray to our Daddy everyday.
no way u only talk to ur dad once a week right?
(if so, there's something unhealthy)



pray for bigger things, 
and the rest God will add them upon you.

Psalms 66:17-18 I cried out to him with my mouth; his praise was on my tongue. If I had cherished sin in my heart, 

the Lord would not have listened.

i is sick.

i have been having on and off fever these two days, sore throat with phlegm D: and stuffy nose
not too major but yet i still went out with friends acting so normally
:D
i haven't been an obedient sick person,
and now i'm feeling my disobedient consequences kicking in
garrrr.

antibodies, fight fight fight!



tomorrow is the big day. yes, it is. i answer again.
no matter the size u want to use to measure it,
it's all still light in His hands,
take it Daddy :)

oh yesssss.

500GB of free space feels sooooooooooooo goodeh.


what a pleasant view
xD

the time of day

working in the morning is good
waking up early is good too
:D


these few days i had been up to photoshop marathon
trying to rush and finish the camp photos
and i come to conclude that
2 nights of editing add up to 1 morning of editing

i believe that i edited twice the amount this morning
i told myself last night that i wanna try different strategy
and it blessed me
He blessed me :)

& tomorrow morning is Sunday morning!
morning of all mornings :D
although i can't spend it digging through photoshop,
i spend it in Daddy and charge up!
praising Him in the morning is good.
so i'll have what i need to do what i do.


jia youuuuu !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i'm home.

just something for u to read.

& yeah, i am back from camp.
my 3 days 2 nights camp is over, but there's still much more to look forward to
i'm glad we did what we did!
i only hoped for 1 group picture with my fellow 18 year old mif-er's
but i ended up having more than 20 at the least
:D
i missed those camwhore-ing moments very the much right now
we've never snapped so many group photos for our 18 years of life together xD
just us four.
i'll miss u guys.



after editing for more than a couple of hours already just now,
i feel really tired now.
but i also got something out of it

not one photo is the same.
you can try to snap as many same angle as u want
or try to duplicate an existing photo
u still never get the same result



and so,
u can't apply the same photoshop action to every single photo.
that's what i've learned from my photoshop hours today.



even when they look pretty before u download them,
but when u load the action to ur own photo
u go like "urghh.."
that was my reaction for almost all the photos :D
different captures, need different ways of treating them.
can't be aggressive and try to force them to somehow get along
and look good.
it just doesn't mooshh.



with all that said,
of course, i reflected them to our own lives.
each and every person around me
can't have the same expectations
can't use the same formula to solve problems
u gotta find the one and only way through the Loving Father
then only u can go "aahh.."

:)

packing like there's no tomorrow!!

i still found so much joy packing for camp :D
i'm now in the midst of packing for tomorrow,
and there's so much anticipation going through my mind.
even more anticipation than any other camps,
i dunno why xD
i can't wait, really.


this will be my last camp for my years in mif
i had so many great great greaaat memories spending my youth in mif
what a growing experience.
i pray for everything to be going according to what we planned & what He planned.
nothing less to glorify His name. 
:)

i can't really tell the kind of feelings i'm getting now
can't find a way to put into words.
but all i know is
i will definitely cherish each & every moment
with my dear mif's
:D

:')

please don't make me cry on our pillow talk night at the second day
arhhh.

no matter what, i know we will be awesome. 
this is our effort
this had all been our blood and sweat
we could do it because of Him ;)

GO MIF !!!!!!!

we'll meet again after my technology fast.
"pray as though everything depended on God, and work as though everything depended on you."

-Augustine

have a blasted week ahead everyone!

Dear God.

rooms for improvement :D

drove a car all by myself today,
i really feel so proud of myself xD

starting from this week, my mum can't fetch me to and fro for guitar lessons anymore
and so, being a big girl who already has her own driving license
it's only right for me to drive myself.
*eeek*

honestly i had been worrying the whole week about today,
i panicked mostly just by the thought of it. haha.
but afterwards, i really felt as if i have so much more room for improvement.
and so much more time :D
who's rushing anyway?

negative words were putting me down, attempting to discourage me
"you can't do it, how can you??? your car's died so many times before when u drove, what makes this time different??"

in fact, i didn't hope for this time to be different,
all i hoped for was me still being in one piece when i get home :)
Daddy reassured me again and again,
even though my car did died for seeeveral times today,
i didn't panic as much :D
He was the reason that was calming me.


it wasn't that bad after all,
it's not scary.
now i know better, for how to prepare myself the next time :D

intentions of the heart..

" ..For instance, if you want to call a friend and invite them to a church gathering 
so that they can be included in it, that is a pure action. 
However, if the real reason you are calling that friend is because you have not heard from them in a long while,
and you are using the excuse of the church event to contact them, 
that is not a pure action. 
You have a hidden reason for the phone call. 
Examining your motives can be a great way to discover areas of our lives that we need to be praying about. "




me > O.O "oohhh...."

don't wanna be dead.

nothing can happen without effort

words without action is dead
hope without effort is dead
promise without action is dead
dreams without work is dead too

i want my dreams to be alive.


Inspire me to make it happen, with action!
God inspire me.

the funny thing.

when we have different interests, we see things differently.

even though we're all seeing the same thing,

what we take from the subject are not the same.

so cool huh?

xD

i see an advertising photograph poster outside a make up store,

but what i really look into the photo is,

nice lighting, nice composition, ooh i like the flare too.

walk past another advertising photograph about hand bags,

which is taken out in the woods,

i'll tun to my dad and say "Pa, that's a nice bokeh!"

then my dad will say "yeah, you're right" xDD

if i were anybody else, who does't really like photography,

i probably wouldn't even take note on things like that.

they'll probably say 

"that girl's make up is nice"

"that dress is the latest fashion!"

or a lot of other different kinds of response. haha.

human's perspectives are so funny.

xD

beautiful lyrics.

a song from my sunday school days.. :D


"Little by little everyday
little by little in every way
Jesus in changing me
He's changing me.."



".. although it's a slow growing,
    but still there's knowing
    that one day perfect i will be."

changing changing transforming transforming renewing renewing

little by little!

i will do my best :)

explosion.

another breath-stealing shot by the underwater photographer i've shared about before.

it's stealing my oxygens away..

sweetness of the sun x)

i was woken up from my nap this afternoon
by a hugeeee stream of sunlight that shone in from my open window
and the first thing i thought was
this lightning is so nice! get camera! -ok la, practically my first thought was "waa jiang sai de?!"-
xDD

so i rushed downstairs before the sun got chance to escape down the roof of my neighbour's
and i got a few silly self portraits.
it's so hard to do self portraits with such a HEAVY camera.
i tried my best.
muahahaha.

and i made it into a collage!
my new found toy on the internet maa >=D

little pleasures.

what He lead me to discover during this downtime of nophotoshopness

muahehehehe~

i shall continue to satisfy my hunger for editing photos 

jdbviadbonvunoasbcu.

:D

i wil finish it!

i will change that fact

i won't let my procrastinations get the better of me aaanymore

i'll have to pay for the price afterwards if i do

i ALWAYS finish anything!

Daddy keep tambah tambah tambah!

:D

you are my everything in my everything's everything xD

..where would i be without You

  here in my life?

i honestly dunno. 

because He's the only One who makes life worth living,

the only One.

nothing & no one else could even compare.

☺

my flying instructor

" We must maintain a close and personal relationship with God, 
so that if we encounter difficulty we will be familiar with his voice, 
able to hear and trust his direction. 

Once we learn to use the instruments in the kingdom; 
such as, seeking God first, loving one another, reading Gods word, worship, prayer, hearing his voice and fellowship,
these are just a few, 
we then can be promoted to being trusted with more powerful weapons. 

The bigger the plane is the more people you can carry, while you fly higher and further. 
God wants to entrust you to effect more people. 
Challenge yourself to fly a bigger plane in God’s kingdom.."

:)

Miss Dorothy Muthu Tan.

such a tiring day,

but all we really did was sat in the music room making noises the whole day
xD

what a way to spend it with so much endlessss musics & stupidity muahahaha.
oh, and two unexpected indian strangers dropped by,
i think they're *makes circular finger movements beside forehead*
roti & no name
nice to meet you guys!
xDD

okay okayy,
looking forward for another fruitful day.
CHARGE !!!!

you're welcomed :)

people who say thank you's are people whom i respect, really.
even for small small matters,
just a tiny task that doesn't really need any praises,
a thank you means a lot more to the person who receives it than you know.

i've experienced it in many different ways
i really feel grateful for the people who're sincerely grateful of me.
not just about boosting confidence, but also it shows your manners :)

be humble,
because what we have and receive are not what we deserve anyway.

:)

family movies

old people movies are so easy to tug at people's heartstrings
at least i'm always tugged successfully by them x)

& to catch the moral of the story are usually easier in those movies
and everytime i watch them, i caught something new.
thanks Dad for reminding me over & over & over...
heh :)

appreciate.
just take the time to feel gratified by love.
you will see awesome things.

xD