Sinking Sand

There's this song I learnt in GLCC that goes:

On Christ, the solid rock, I stand;
All other ground is sinking sand.

Here's one observation I always see, especially within these few years - which is particularly what I hate to see: People, who want to leave first the church, then God when things go awry in life.

There are different factors. Once it was school work and fallen trust in friendship. Another time it was a job not acquired. Yet another time it was the people issue again.

There are many reasons given too:

The church isn't for me. I don't belong.

He/she won't be happy to see me there.

God doesn't want me to have this.

I can't get along with the people there.

Some Christians just put me off.

Maybe later/next time.

I met many Christians with different issues - doubt, depression, trials in life, indiscipline. But it is those who have weak foundations are the ones who first decide to leave church. That's why I was particularly disappointed when someone, whom I thought had grown a lot through the years, told me that.

Christ alone is the solid rock. All other ground is sinking sand.

If you're a Christian and things happen, and you want to leave God - maybe all through this time you never knew Him. Because if you did, you will know that you're leaving the only One that can get you out of the mess. And if you did, you'll know that even if all is lost, you still have your foundation of faith - with Christ as the rock.

Many times when I address those words I sit back and think if I didn't put myself in people's shoes. Here's this girl who's life is as smooth-sailing as a ship in the calmest seas, who is she to comment on thunderstorms?

Believe it or not, I had my own issues of faith, especially these few years. I struggle every time I read my blog archives, when I said I'll trust God I wondered if I'm still the same person I was. Although my experiences are different from yours, and yours, and yours... I knew God was going to get me through them in the end. And He did, and He will.

So every time before you want to let go, think: What are you letting go off? Do you jump off the rock just to dive into the sinking sand, thinking that through this everything will be solved? Or would you cling to the rock?

Youtube Delight

I don't know what came over me but I've been you-tubing quite excessively these few days. And found a few gems along the way, although they may be really outdated.

First, I was addicted to the Les Miserables musical. I know it's a little too late to be all over this now, when it's been out such a long time ago, but still, you can't help that 'wow!' feeling when you come across nice things in Youtube when you least expect it. The songs in there are superb. I love At The End of The Day for its strong musical background. The singing is grand too, hitting all the high notes and bringing out the atmosphere just as it should be.

The other songs were wonderfully nice too. I love them all! The one that really touched my heart was A Little Fall of Rain, where Eponine sang right before she died. You need to really know that part of the story to appreciate the song. In a nutshell, Eponine died trying to save Marius whom she loved - she blocked a gunshot for him and was fatally wounded. Marius loved Eponine as a best friend, and was in love with Cosette (who is the main character of the story, more or less). Anyway the song is song by Marius and Eponine as a duet where Eponine died in Marius' arms.

I do love Eponine in the musical! So do many others, in fact I think she's prettier and sings better than the actress who acted Cosette. And the whole thing about her makes the musical so much more saddening because she died in unrequited love - yet she was so contented.

I found other songs like Memory in Cats too - though I knew of that during Choir days thanks to Shu Shan (I never bother to find out these things on my own LOL). Les Miserables was 'discovered' due to Andrew's earlier recommendations in the semester.

Somehow or other I decided to watch a Disney Movie yesterday night and picked on Sleeping Beauty. There and then I had the shocking revelation that Mable had never watched Sleeping Beauty before - as far as she remembered! Poor girl - for once I feel that my childhood is way more complete than hers, haha. Anyway, it was a nice movie to watch - you only appreciate the humor of the fairy godmothers and other little quips like 'This is the 14th Century, Father!", after you've grown up. When I was a kid I only took things as they were. I just finished watching Hercules today too.

Ooo, and heres one thing I always want to mention but never do - I adore the Three Investigator series! They are simply lovely to read - even after so many years. Haha, that was random but I just wanted something to close off this blog entry.

The Procrastinated Post: PJ Trip Part II

OK, here's part II of the PJ trip, complete with pictures.

After shopping at Sungei Wang and Times Square for one whole day (refer to part I in the previous post), I had a good rest in the next day for the shopping spree began a little later than usual. Dawn had a late day in school and by the time she was back it was dinner time. I joined her Christian Fellowship in UTAR for dinner. After that we went to Midvalley to shop. By the time we reached Midvalley it was already past 8 p.m. So you could imagine how we rushed when we toured the place.

Some pictures in Midvalley:

Teh Tarik Man at the door entrance. Dawn dragged me to take a pic with him as soon as we got in. Charming, is he not?


Dolls in front of an already-closed shop. Could imagine how late we were then.


Fluffy toys being sold. We sneakily took pictures of them (hence my funny expression), since we reckoned the sellers won't really like it.

We had ice-cream at Baskin' Robbins too. Dawn had chocolate mint (as usual) and mine was apricot mixed with white chocolate or something. It had some complex name that I had already forgotten. Too bad we didn't think of taking pictures with those and messed around with soft toys instead.


Pictures of previous days: Nandos Dinner at Sungei Wang.


These two pics above are of us taking silly photos until the food came. We did a range of expressions. You could check out the whole selection in Dawn's facebook photos. My photos were decidedly worse because they were saved at the first take. Dawn deleted most of her previous photos and had around 3 takes before she proclaimed them decent.

This is another picture of the food we had. The drink is Coke (unlimited refill). The refill somehow became Ice-Lemon Tea though.:S

Emo Dawn tired after a walk in Times Square. This particular photo comes in a range of colors as well. To know what I mean, view her Facebook photos. The bag in front of her contains doughnuts. Again, I didn't think of actually taking a nice picture of those doughnuts. And the doughnuts accompanied us for 5-6 hours in the remainder of our shopping spree.


This picture was taken at 1Utama - the place called Bar B Q in my previous post.

Happy-me with funny expression. My pictures always turn out weird somehow.

Happy Dawn with normal expression. See, she always takes better pics then me. :(

Yes, yes, Hunny came too. Dawn has adopted her as a daughter. She told me she ate a little and drank some soup. :S

This is how you cook the food. Interesting, isn't it?

And here's what we ate between us. There was unlimited refill of green tea too.


This was my comfy mattress on the floor which I slept on throughout the stay. Biddy (the nice round pig there) is as good as a pillow herself. She's fallen from Dawn's graces somehow (by being too boring I suppose), and Hunny is now the new pet.

Yes this is Hunny. Cool Hunny, though she might have sore ears at the moment.

Another picture of cool Hunny, with Dawn's purchase of the day - her Strawberry bottle!

There - the job in done. The PJ Trip Narrative Series is over! :)

PJ Trip Part I

Went to PJ with Dawn (my sister) these few days. Took some silly pics with my phone but have to wait till I'm back for it to be uploaded (provided D doesn't delete too many of those unglam pics of herself). Hunny came too.

I slept on a mattress on the floor with a nice squishy pillow and Biddy, who is almost like a pillow herself. She's this nice round pig belonging to Dawn. I like Biddy, she's nice to hug, squeeze and irritate Dawn with. Dawn, on the other hand, is obsessed over Hunny, my Carebear.

We Dawn's place in the late evening on Sunday so didn't have time to go anywhere. Dinner was an event worth remembering though. I never waited over an our in a cafe just for a plate of fried rice (which we shared).

The next day, XJ treated us for lunch. After that we went shopping at 1Utama. Brought a blouse, jeans and shoes. Dinner was fun. It was at this place called Bar B Q and it was both steamboat and bbq in one. Dawn went home empty handed for once. She said it was alright as the next day she was sure to come back with lots of things. According to her, no girl comes back empty handed from Times Square and Sungei Wang Plaza. Those were the places we visited yesterday.

So yesterday we set off to Times Square and Sungei Wang, and shopped the whole day. I never shopped so much (as in brought so many things) before. And surprisingly Dawn came back empty handed too! Maybe I just wasn't her shopping buddy, she said. In the end she brought a few hair accessories to pacify herself.

Dawn is in class now and we're going to Midvalley later. :) Somehow I still prefer the public transport in Singapore by far. It's faster, cleaner, and most of all, you don't have to worry so much about your safety when you go around in unlighted areas at night. But oh well, this shopping experience has taught me one more thing. Clothes and food are SO MUCH cheaper in Malaysia! I have a good mind to convert all I spend in ringgit over there so that I can cut down my expenses a little bit more.