this is my first testimony in the church.

actually i did it few months ago.

but last night when im clearing the doc in my com, i accidentally saw this testi and i read it once more..

and it touched me a lot..

i felt quite amazing i can write this kind of testi..

if you are a christian, maybe you can understand more deeply in my testi..

dunno why, i just feel like want to blog this testi..

and this testi had touched many ppl in the church too when i presented it last time..

 

** for your infomation, this is a campaign where everyone read a book called "Purpose Driven Life" by Ps Rick Warren. everyday we have to read a chapter. after this 40 days we have some sort of celebration in the church. and i was chosen to do the testimony.

here it goes..

 

Greetings to all brothers and sisters in Christ!

 

Thanks to Ps. Ngui for giving me this opportunity to do the testimony for this 40 days purpose driven life campaign.

 

During this 40 days campaign, I’ve read The purpose driven life book one chapter a day(but sometimes did left behind and rushing for it till “up to date”), I also attended  6 session of the youth fellowship small group discussion every Saturday and I’ve listened to the Sunday service sermon for 6 weeks.

 

From this campaign, in general, I’ve got to know my purpose in my life and it also answered some of my questions all this while since I received Jesus Christ as my Lord and Saviour.

 

Frankly, my family had experienced troubles during this campaign. We were helpless. We were looking for something or someone to support us. And that time it was the day just right for chapter 25 and the topic is “Transformed by Trouble”. In this particular chapter, Ps Rick Warren said “Life is a series of problems! No one is immune to pain or suffering!” I was shocked! I’m asking myself.. How can this be??  I can’t understand it but I continue to read it. As I go further, God says: Surrender everything to Him for He will take care of us”. When situation get worse for my family, the only thing we can do is surrender everything to him. And that night, God sent 2 angels to our family to comfort us! They encouraged us, they shared our problems, and they gave their supports to us which are so lovely and nice of them!

 

Jesus seems to have listened to our cries and our prayers. He saved us! He didn’t save us physically; instead He did something even greater! He saved us spiritually! By His grace and mercy, my family was able to face all the troubles and obstacles that are right in front of us with FAITH in God! One of my aunty was amazed with our courage in facing all our problems! She asked my mum, how can you all still look so calm and steady, not sad at all?? But I think the only answer to this question is, we have faith in God, and we believe that If He brought us here, He will sure bring us to go through this hardship. And I remember Ps Rick says, when you’re facing troubles, don’t ask God “why me??” Instead ask, “What do you want me to learn from this?” Understand that God uses troubles and temptations to develop our character! And life is supposed to be difficult! It’s what enables us to grow!

 

Another sinful nature of human being is stepping on people who are in troubles! In hakka we said “kon dao ngin ga soi du han oi cai doh liong giok he”. My family and I witnessed this situation especially during this hard time. People like to say things that are not true! But as the untrue story being spread, it will become true for the outsiders! Sandakan is a small place where hot breaking news will just spread like virus do! But in the purpose driven life book, Ps Rick says, God teaches us “love” by putting some unlovely people around us!! I confirm this is exactly true! I read this phrase to my mother as soon as I read it! And we’re laughing! Maybe God wants us to show our love to each other especially those who hurt us and our enemy! But I admit this is a very difficult task to do! Because it’s hard to forgive someone! Not easy at all! Imagine how great is our Lord Jesus Christ died on the cross to save each one of us!

 

And now my family and I are walking out from all this troubles. Maybe there are many to come, maybe not! No matter what, we always believe that God always with us! Emmanuel!

 

For brothers and sisters who are still in the halfway of this book, please keep up your good work! Because you will gain more and learn more from this book than you expected! And for those who didn’t take part in this campaign, I would still encourage you to read this book! After reading this book, I finally understand why pastor said become a Sunday Christian is not enough! It’s true!

 

Lastly, I wish to share with everyone a phrase that impressed me the most in this book is “You will never know that God is all you need until God is all you’ve got!”

 

Peace be with you! Thank you!

 

By Adeline Chang

12.04.2007

6.18pm

 

 

as usual, my activity for today is catch insects.

this time we do it at the trig hill park again!!

 

yesterday, our mission was distracted by the orang utan..

TODAY!! WE WERE DISTRACTED BY THE CHILDHOOD GAME IN THE PLAYGROUND!

 

we saw the "box box game"..

we climb it to the highest point..

me and wan jie dont dare to climb... we only reach the first level.. :(

rest of them no prob oh.. geng!!

**when i was young, i rmb i play once in the golf club and that time i can climb to the highest box..

 

since me and wan jie cannot climb that thing so we go to play "swing swing"..

the swing swing dunno safe or not de..

but i got play la..

quite happy leh

morning around 9am..

the air there is still fresh and very refreshing..

the wind blow.. yuhoo!!! so nice!!

 

at this time.. somebody said.. is time to go back to our mission...

 

CHILDHOOD MEMORIES ENDED....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

so special!! my title for this blog is "NO TITLE"

 

looking at my keyboard but dunno what should i write..

but just letyou know what i did today in the morning ya..

 

this morning, we (vk, ah khen, me, ykk, wan jie and johnny) were busy for our bio project again..

this time we are neither catching insects nor plucking plants, but we do "quadrats"..

(will you ask me what is "quadrat"? if yes, i think what i can tell you is we calculate the population of plant in one meter square)(i hope the answer is right ya)

 

as johnny's place was cleared earlier on, so no plant for them to do quadrat..

and so their grp join us to do quadrat at TMN PECKY VALLEY BASKETBALL COURT!! it is the nearest basketball court to me as i live in tmn pecky valley!!

we go there around 9.15am from my house..

not even 1 min, all the moquitoes like going to have their big big meal oh..

there was one time i did not move my hand for just a little while. when i look at my right hand.. there were 5 mosquitoes sucking my blood at the same time!! it was so so so disgusting.. kind of weird.. very "geli"..

 

in one hr time we finished settled 10 quadrats..

thanks to VK.. for her intelligence to bring INSECTS REPELLENT..

the research i conclude today is, the insect repellent can only stand for about 20-30min..

after that you have to spray again.. if not the mosquitoes will come near to you again!! RMB YA!!..

 

we fish around 11am and we went back to my house.. and my mummy bought everyone of us a pack of mee and nescafe..

and we have our breakfast and brunch..

then we have a little meeting.. then my frens all home sweet home lo..

 

photos of proving we are working!!

 

1) that is the quadrat..

2-6) acting working only as the marks wil be given based on the photos..

 

THE END

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hmmm.. recently i love to play "audition"..

a dancing game.. yet is a nice pass time for me..

i fall in love with it!!

i will take my time to play!!

 

 

 

hello everyone!!

 

hey.. i went to visit my "cousin" again!! not only my cousin.. but everyone's cousin... unless you are not a human!!

we(me, khen, vk, ykk, johnny, wan jie, shi kee, man tien, fui yee and yee ling) met at tmn tyng gam lok at 7am++ then we have our breakfast there then we started our journey to visit our cousin..

 

as our cousins live in mile 14(if you are sandakanese, then you should konw who are they la).. so it took us a little while of time to arrive there..

 

actually we are not going to see them la.. but we go near thier home only.. we went to....(oops forgot the name.. the building inside sepilok.. near RDC)

we went there for our biology project.. this time my grp, vk is our representative to the ENTOMOLOGY department(about insects) while ah khen and i went to the HERBARIUM department which is all about PLANTS..

i guess wat vk and ykk did is only collect the insects we put inside the owen for 2 weeks.

some of our insects lost their 2 legs and some were dry till the leg is transparent!! amazing!!

 

after that, they met us in the herbarium department.

what we do was, arrange the leaves we collected and sent into the owen 2 weeks ago.

the leaves ah.. some looks quite good.. some looks like dying.. some even like hangus dy!! burnt!! maybe the "up and down fire" are not balance...so..end up like that..burnt!

there is a burnt plant which really make 3 of us "bingung" cause it is too crispy and it hard for us to stick in on the manila card vk ready..

as we hold the twigs, and leaves will automatically fall down!! urghhhhh!! so we decided to make an artificial one..

we stick the twigs first..

then only we gum the leaves.. though not so nice.. but that's all what we can do at that time..

 

then we leave the sepilok and went to mile 4 indah for lunch.. and it's a 10 miles hourney where im so sleepy.. feel like coming back from kk..

we meet with "lee sim ying" --our former classmate, a future teacher..

we have lunch with her and chit chat with her lo..

then everyone "home sweet home" lo..

 

and today i managed to play with ah khen's niece... woah..so so so so cute..

may God bless this little baby girl..

 

this is a cacat blog.. will redo the beginning part of this blog later.. not now.. going out soon..

 

cherish your parents.. tell them you love them as often as you can.. because one day they will leave you..

i only got to spend my time with my daddy for 12 yrs.. and all the memories were so wonderful and beautiful..

that is why, i think no other man in this world will be better than my daddy!! i can't even find one!!

in his office, he is a great boss!! with a very serious look when working, even ME!! her daughter also don dare to talk to him, but have a friendly face when having lunch time with his staffs.(nowadays, i can't really see the boss will go out for lunch with their staffs la)

when at home, he is a loving and caring daddy.. the one seldom scold his children, but when he is angry with our faults, he can be really dare to punish us. (have you ever seen a daddy punish his kid to bite his own slippers that just came back from outside?? of course, that's not me..)

oh ya.. and i never see my parents argue one oh.. really never..

and usually business man has a lot of bad mood that bring home and show their black black face..

but i never see my daddy like that.. i really never..

and i think my daddy is always my "dong jin pai".. that's so sweet!!

i remembered my mummy told me that, my dady once said:"although i have few hundred workers under me, i still manage to control; but the 4 children i have at home i will always lose to them"..

see..this is father!! hehe...

 

hmmm.. im proud to tell everyone.. i have great daddy and mummy!! and i have a great family!! 

this is the best gift i received from GOD.. though now daddy is not with us.. but we are sure that He is always looking after us!!

DADDY, I MISS YOU..

.. i did not manage to tell him how much i love him before He died.. that's the only regret i have now..

 

my wish to everyone out there..

remember to say I LOVE YOU to your parents and your family members.. do not hesitate...

 

GOOD LUCK!!

 

 

 

 

 

as what i set for my title and it is the question which i really need an answer...

 

haih.. i wish i could have found the answer for this question..

i dunno oh.. recently i really find that im very busy with many things..

i think im failed in my time management.

i can't keep my time in order.

i can't schedule programs as i wish.

im not manage to fulfill everyone's request around me or maybe my own resonsibility..

i can't even have my quiet time with my GOD(which i wish to do many many times but end up with doing something else).

 

i think i have too much of "can't"than "can"..

this makes me feel miserable and frustrated somtimes..

i have too much things to do in the same time..

sometimes, no matter how good is my time management, things will just crash accidentally or unexpectable..

 

i dunno what i did this past few days consider busy or not?

can you pls let me know?

what i did:

1. biology project -catch insects, ready specimen in sch

2. accompany my family -going to pay bills & banks, have meal with them, family day

3. have my time we my loved one

4. hang out with friends that are coming back from further studies

5. going to church for some activities -choir practise, caroling practise

6. giving tuition -usually happen at night

7. my personal time -online, playing computer game, homework, rest

 

for today (21.11.2007), i've done 2,3,4,6,7..

haih.. i dunno whether im having too much of things in my schedule for today.

im stupid..

i dunno how to have a balance lifestyle..

and i dont even know how to make my time balance..

BUT I DON HAVE MY TIME WITH MY GOD!! because i finish my time to accompany my family, loved one and my friends.

 

i know it is my pleasure to have so many loving and caring person exist in my life..

but they came all at the same time.

i wish to accompany everyone of them and have time with them..

i dont wish to miss anyone of them..

but i failed!!

 

when im able to accompany my family i'll have no time with my loved one and friends..'

same thing will go so on and so forth..

 what should i do?

 

my problem is the response from each of them:

family: älways go out.. never stay at home.."

loved one: "i want to have more time with you.."

friends: "why so busy oh? don busy eh.. come out yum cha la.."

church friends:"why you didn't turn up for the choir and caroling practise?"

GOD:(i think this is what HE will say) Daughter, please have more time for me and you..

my body: you are tired, you need some rest..

 

time.. why can't it prolong to 30 or 40 hrs?

it's not enough for me.. really not enough..

miserable at the moment, frustrated later, laugh a little bit later..

is this a normal sequence of emotion?

i dunno..really dunno..

i wish i can accompany and have time with everyone i mentioned..

 

my words to everyone i mentioned just now:

Dear, mummy, goh goh, 2 jie jie, friends, GOD..

i just don have so much time for everyone of you.

and im sorry for i didn't do my part well..

and i can't find a balance among you all..

again.. sorry.. and i hope everyone of you would understand me..

because i care..that's why im worrying i have not spend much or enough time with you..

 

 

 

 

today!!

9 of us from 6R that are..me, ah khen, vk, wan jie, ykk, johnny, shi kee, fui yee and man tien, we had our very first catching insects operation..

we are divided into 3 groups.

me, ah khen and vk one grp

ykk, johnny and wan jie one grp

and the other 3 another grp..

and each grp has a net to catch flying insects like butterflies and dragonflies..

** for ur info, the insects we catch are for our biolody project.. we are not killing them for fun..

but sacrifying them for the better future in science and technology..

 

scout nature part was the first destinaiton for our operation..

we saw many dragonflies there and also butterflies..

in the beginning we all got to catch the air only because we are not used to the technique of catching insects with the net..

not long after that..with our wisdom & intelligent.. ykk broke the record to catch the first butterfly..

and it seems like God sees our effort then more dragonflies, moths and bees were around there..

we managed to catch dragonflies and moth but we do not dare to catch bee because we did not ready for any safety precaution.

 

then it seems like all the insects were frightened by us so we move to eh tshun ngen rain forest park.

it was so surprised for me because i think it was quite different with my last visit to the park..

there is a little exhibition hall there to show the insects and also plants in rain forest..

there is also "periuk kera" garden but it is not open yet.. i mean under renovation maybe..

 

okay, back to the operation..here we got to catch insects liek dragonflies and grasshopers..

wuahahaha.. no other species we found in this operation..

 

anyway, i think what we did this noon was like the pic in our kindergarten or primar books..

cchildren holding net on thier hands to catch butterflies..

it's exactly like that..

and shi kee was awarded as the "heroine" for this operation..

in the beginning.. their grp got nothing.. at last i think their grp got the most insects..

and tonight!! ME!! ADELINE CHANG! its going to have my own opeation at TMN PECKY VALLEY.. i believe that's a very potential place to catch insects..

so everyone out there.. wish me luck!!

 

however.. im tired now.. sleep...

 

***p/s: pls view vk's blog..

ii was with her when somebody is barking..

trying to act like she's the headmistress whenever the principal is not around..

see.. she is so... whatever bad word may use on her..

if  you said im bad..

i think i can never fight with her to become bad ppl!!

angry...