Year 1 Sem 2 Week 7 - back to school from the CNY break... Looking at my planner for the coming weeks, I kinda realised that its gonna be school work and more school work till end of term. 4 mid term tests spread across 2 weeks and 3 term papers - 2 of which due in March. Then its time for exams come end April. Cant wait for this sem to be over and for the long awaited 3 months holidays to come.

Today is the 2nd day Artz comm did Bread and Water fast for Lent. Fr. Val joined us in our prayer and 'break-fast' together with us. Think today is the first time Artz Comm actually came together for dinner without having meeting either before or after which I guess its a good time for all of us to get to know one another better. He brought up that there will be a Vocations Retreat this coming 11-13 May for tertiary students. He encouraged us to go(but its only for guys, gals can go for Choice retreat)... still considering but actually its not a bad idea to c what it is about. Even my cat class boys had gone for such retreats before.. Think it is not so intimidating if a whole group go together, cos like wad Fr. said, can hide behind each other. Anyone interested? And also we thinking of going to Genting (ideal place for Artz Retreat?.. haha) or anywhere just to R and R prob first 2 weeks of May...
More holidays plans - Church Con 3 camp in end May then CSS FOC in June. Finally thinking of LISS in July.... plus its time to start doing relief teaching during this break.

But reality sets in.. its only Day 1 of Week 7. 7 to 8 more weeks to go.....

Great fellowship, great company, great food! Thank you Elaine and Steph for opening up your homes for us to gather together and have fun! Thanks for the food! And also thank you Moses for organising it! Playing In between was damn fun! haha.. i am sure Marc will agree with me and I dun think i am that suay a dealer la, need me to add money to the pile wad. So I am doing all a favour. Haha. It was just great fun! BUT, Epic Movie wasnt that good - damn lame and random dun really think it was funny.. watched it Daryl, Sam and Malo-ery.. while the others watched Letters from Iwo Jima, nvrmind will watch it next week instead. We should do this every year man!!


Josephians

4 of us taking random photos after Epic Movie

Fellowship!

Acting Cool? haha

HE IS GOOD, ALL THE TIME! Yesterday's rally was amazing and awesome man! No words can really describe how I felt during the rally. Preparation for CAW and Rally itself started only 5 weeks ago, back then we had no clear direction of where we were heading. All we knew was to make CAW at a bigger scale and to make Rally that of a Shine Jesus Shine scale. Having that vision, we formed our Rally Team! Yes our amazing Rally Team - Publicity (Si Bei Fun peeps), Admin (Team Admin) and our Programmes (SJI dominated team)... without all this people being part of Rally and without their hard work, dedication and more importantly their passion to serve God, Rally yesterday would have been impossible.

Through this Rally, I really felt that God works in the most marvellous ways. Right from the start, we were worried about the numbers exceeding what CJC PAC could take. And our reservation list actually had about 770 people who signed up. We were worried that we would have to turn people away. But HE didnt allow us to turn anyone away and HE ensured that everyone had a seat including the organisers. Just looking at the auditorium filled with the people who came forth to experience really just brought a smile to my face. We were worried about so many other things, standing position of ushers, registration problems, programme flow etc.. but really in the end things didnt follow according to plan but it turned out sooo well... HE took control of all that we did. The spirit really got everyone's heart on fire, through the priase and worship and from the sharings, the exposition of the blessed sacrament and the praying over. Talking about praying over and resting in the spirit, I used to be quite skeptical about it and even when Fr. Simon was demonstrating it during his sermon, I had my doubts. Through a twist of events, I actually ended up being a prayer warrior together with Steph. Sometimes its better not to doubt. I was afraid at first but I somehow decided to get the courage and told myself to let the Spirit to take control of me. After witnessing the first person being slained, I realised that it was really the Spirit and I could feel HIS presence. As more people got slained, I started to actually feel the Holy Spirit working in me and I felt inspired by it. It was amazing!! Thought I never experience what it is like to rest in the spirit, but just being able to be part of it was really heartening. The atmosphere was high, real high, high on the eagerness to want to worship and praise him. It was awesome, simply awesome. At that point, I knew all the efforts placed by everyone was worth it for HEARTS were really on Fire.

Now that Rally its over, I am thankful for this whole experience, I have gained so much from it. Thankful for making us His instruments in bringing people to Him. Thankful for the angels He sent.
Think I must really thank my co-head, Steph, it has been great working with her, thankful for her support and for all e late nite phone meetings, those stressfull days, for all the prayers, those trips to adoration room, doing the 9 day novena and of cos for her bimbo-ness and her nonsense but really also for bringing so much joy to us all also.
Marc Khoo.. This Boss is one great support to Steph and I, he has been a great source of inspiration and a great role model. anyway.. SJI boy that's y!haha
Albert/Cheryl - Thanks for being around for us and supporting CAW right from Day 1. Outreach was a great success in campus and out of campus. Thanks for being around for us throughout this journey.
Publicity peeps - Moses, Elaine, Gomes, Rachel - mad rush to publicize rally in such a short time but you guys did it and it spread like wide fire. Registration and everythin was just amazing.. Thank you si bei funners.
PRogrammes peeps- Ewen, Ben Yeo, Chris, Marc, Dan Yeo. - The programme line-up was just great, it touched the lives of so many people including us man! Thank you for all the behind the scenes efforts too!
Admin peeps - Carol, Charmaine, Christine, Ryan, Ben C - Thanks for all the hard work in planning the admin and logistics for Rally, CAW Mass and for making everythin so professional. And Taking the extra effort in sourcing the stuff needed! Ben thanks for the website and all the gudiance too! You guys been great!

Amen! God is good All the Time, We have been his instruments in getting the youths' (young and old alike) hearts on fire! Now is the time - to worship, to witness, to rekindle, to experience. Youth Rally 2007 -