the risks that i take are all worth is even if it's for a loss

The classic!

AMANDA NICOLE
eighteen
taurus
24 april baby
catholic
guitarist
aikidoka
msn-addict
prone to getting high
CRAZIED
tomboy-er
sms/chat lover
JOKER OF THE YEAR
st. anthony's preschool
chij bukit timah
art club
st. theresa's convent
RED CROSS
acjc(three months)
CANOEING/DBOAT
catholic jc
canningcollege
Shopping fan
curtin university
ROWING
swimming
working to earn a living

looking through the glass

playing on my guitar;D
searching for tabs online
music
OUTDOORS:D
water sports, CANOEING
mountaineering
camping outdoors
orientation camps!
SHOPPING!
ROWING
movieing with friends
being totally ME
smsing/chat
blogging;D
scouting for eyecandies.
Chocolates
running/crunches
reading for leisure
suntanning<3
SUN SAND SEA.

aspirations

conquer mount kinabalu
master drums one day
learn guitar tabs ( currently)
to be a rich woman!
grow taller!
learn how to do makeup
travel around the world backpacker style
get back home to singapore!
do well in up in uni exams
ROWING CHAMPIONSHIPS!
hiphop street dancing
the special coffee blend
do something crazy and wild
get my honours!
work hard in both my jobs
throw the old, get the new
be the next AUSTRALIAN IDOL

fingers crossed

crumpler bag
rowing championships medals
more eyecandies!
to dye my hair brown/red
my food hunt
workout dumbells
GET AN AWESOME TATTOO
another piercing to go with
new balance dryfit apparel
nike running dryfit tee
splurging on sunglasses
COME BACK HOME!
lesser projects/schoolwork
another jar of jellybeans!
retain my 46kg
running machine
doritos nachos
cadbury icrecream tubs
up my fitness level
to get my HOT abs
to able to carry a scull by myself
get tanner under the sun!

tagboard

friends

♥Aileen ♥BaoZhu ♥Charmaine ♥Caroyln K ♥Chris ♥Dorcas ♥Edlyn Ng ♥Honey ♥Jannah ♥Li Zhen ♥Kelly Ann ♥Kelly Low ♥KY ♥Michelle Ng ♥Randy ♥Sharon ♥SiJia ♥Tammy ♥Yi Jing

credits

designer Dancing Sheep
resources + +

Sunday, April 22, 2007 4:40 PM

22nd april 2007

Day nine.

Sometimes God’s presence in my life is very real. At other times, like the disciples, I do not recognise Jesus in my life at all. Lord, help me find you when I feel distant from you.

Church service at Saint John and Paul Church was great. I went for the 1030am mass. Though the church compound was a little small but the warmth of the community really something I cant describe. The sense of comfort and assurance in the Lord’s presence was so immense and not to mention, the interiors of the church was really neat. Though I’ll rather prefer Saint Mary’s crucifix of our Lord (the one that hands on strings away from the cross with arms outstretched all the way and his facial emotions carved out on his face says it all), the one at Saint John and Paul church was the usual one that hanged on the wooden cross. The homily was really inspiring.

A few days after the Lord’s resurrection from the dead, He appeared to His disciples time to time again.

Peter and a few of the other disciples went out on morning to the seas for a catch. Most of the Lord’s disciples were all fishermen who caught fishes before the Lord asked them to follow Him to catch men instead. The disciples stayed out the whole morning but they still didn’t catch anything. And then, in the distance, they caught sight of a boat floating towards them. On the boat was a man. Seeing that their nets were empty without a single catch, He instructed them to lower their nets and cast them into the seas again. With this, they did what the man told them and from the waters, they heaved up a large catch of fishes 153 in total. (that was the number of types of fishes known that time. Therefore, having caught 153 fishes in total was the Lord’s way of showing us that it was complete cycle of Jesus coming down to live among us, suffer on the cross for our sake, died and risen from the dead.) Though it was a huge catch, the net did not break under the immense weight of the catch. (this showed the mission of the church, and that is to draw fishes of people towards the catholic faith and that no amount of parishioners was going to break the nets of the church.) When the disciples saw the miracle before their eyes, Peter immediately wrapped his cloak around him and leaped into the waters for he knew that man was the Lord he loved so much.

Back at the shore, the Lord had in preparation a bonfire and some fishes cooking over the flame. ‘Get some of your catch here and we’ll cook them over this fire.’ Then, the Lord approached Peter who was soaking wet from his swim back to the shore.
Peter, son of John, do you love me?
Oh lord, you know I love you.
Tend my lambs.
And with this, the Lord asked a second time.
Peter, son of John, do you love me?
Tend my sheep.
Lord Jesus, you know I love you so.
The Lord then asked the third time and this made Peter very upset.
My lord, you know everything and all that is. You know that I love you greatly.
Feed my sheep.

The reason why the Lord asked Peter, the disciple that He placed in charge of the foundation of the church was because the Lord wanted to confirm Peter’s strong love for Christ. The bonfire serves as a memory to all of us. The same bonfire where the fishes were cooking on was the same one where Peter stood near to warm himself in the cold weather when the Lord was sent away from the courtyard to be scourged and questioned by the authorities. It was at that same bonfire where Peter denied the Lord three times. And those three times, the Lord asked Peter back ‘do you love me?’ so as to reconfirm Peter’s undying love for Christ. The reason to why Peter was upset when the Lord asked the third time on whether he loved Christ was because Peter knew clearly his mistake the last when he denied the Lord three times before the cock crowed. Peter regretted having not acknowledged the Lord then. But the Lord was always there to forgive us when we made mistakes in life. Because of His great mercy and love for all of us, He chose to suffer on earth for us on the cross when he could have easily chose to stay up in heaven with the Father. But he didn’t.

In one of his appearances to His disciples, He foretold about Peter’s death and his great love for Christ and the works that Peter did for the Lord that cost him his life.

‘When you were younger, you would tie a belt around your waist and you walk anywhere you like.’ ‘But, when you’re older, you would raise up your hands and someone would tie a belt around your waist. You would be pulled along by that belt.’

This was a forecast of how Peter would die. Peter died on the cross, with arms outstretched on the wooden cross where he was tied. However, he felt unworthy to die in the same position that Lord died, facing upwards. Thus, he chose to be crucified upside down on the cross, his head closest to the ground.

After the resurrection of the Lord, word got around that Jesus had risen from the dead. Because of all the rumours spreading about in town, the Pharisees and high priests were all afraid that they would be blamed for taking an innocent man’s life and no one wanted to take that blame so they decided to put a lid on such rumours and to silence anyone who spoke loudly in the squares of the proclamation of the Lord’s resurrection from the dead. However, the disciples didn’t care. They continued to spread the word of the Lord in various cities even when their lives were at stake. Because of their great love for the Lord, they didn’t mind whatever was befallen on them even if it meant death. They continued to preach openly in the squares that was when Peter and other disciples were brought in front of the authorities and had the death sentence.

Oh great. I have officially counted the time I have to wake up everyday. Crap, it’s the same as in Singapore, just that its half hour later. Got to get up at six every morning cause I have yet to make my own breakfast and pack lunch for school. im starting school tomorrow, though the excitement hasn’t settled in yet. im sure it will the next day.

A new life, a new tomorrow, a new me.