Its Truly been a LONG TIME..

Right.. its been some time since I updated.
My hope is, after such a long time, less people will read my blog.

Lets start off with a story.

One day, a super holy Christian named John (same name as the one on Patmos but the similarities end there) was fasting and praying. Easter was drawing near and he wanted 50 people to come to his CG.

Jesus was looking down from Heaven and saw John, His heart warmed up and He decided to award the highest ranking miracle to John. He was gg to jio John for lunch..

So Jesus came to John and said, " Yo Bro, lets go for a meal and a long chit chat!"
John said with a troubled look, "But Jesus, I am fasting. Cannot la..."

This is obviously a fabricated story. This kind of response can only be extracted from a obviously fabricated John with a brain of order "RETARDED FIRST CLASS"... It is equivalent to rejecting the girl of your dreams when she asks you out for a lunch date.. I tell you if I were John, the lunch will nv end..
I will push everything out of my schedule, who cares about the schedule anyway? I will probably throw my damn handphone away..

John missed the whole point... but he was doing all the right things..

From the other end of the Spectrum, the whole point can be missed on the other level.

Connect Group IC (aka CGI) asks, " hey you wanna come for OPM on friday?"
Member replies, "Nope.."
CGI ( super stunned) asked, "but why, I thought your exams are over? you got something on?"
Member replies, " Nope.. jus dun want to go.."

Win liao lor... CGI diam diam errr nothing to say.
Member triumphs.. thinking this is really effective. If it works on the CGI why not try it on the CGL?

Steady sure work one, thought the Member..

What difference is this from John in the story? Do you think on the day you stand before God, your CGL or CGI is gg to be sitting on the Great White Throne? or you think your CGL's name is spelled J-E- S-U-S? God is not man, that He should be mocked..

If you are one year old Christian, I say ok nvm... young..
If you are two year old Christian, I say ok nvm, late bloomer..
If you are three year old Christian, I say nvm, probably needs a kick in the ass..
If you are above that.. What the hell did you attend all those services and cgs for?

I watched a movie that really got me watching.. Christianity is about the relationship.
That is almost becoming a cliche.. but to draw an effective parallel, I recommend anyone who is super free to watch " The Devil wears Prada" and watch Anne Hathaway's character. It depicts a road that transforms a person inside out.

She entered into the fashion magazine industry, a complete idiot.. struggled with the new environment and angry with everything associated with it. Just like the new Christian after maybe a month, sometimes frustrated at why things are changing in life.. Some simply quit at this point.. but Anne Hathaway din.. She said to herself she is gg to beat the odds and not let the frustrations take her life away. (as they claim in the movie, you work for Miranda for a year and you can get a job in any magazine, a million girls would kill for this job). So please, to all the new converts with a new found love for God, don't quit.. (You serve God for a year and you are gg to be blown away)

So Anne got on with the program, learning the names of the various designers and their first names, putting in extra hours of work, working her ass off, keeping her mouth shut. She was putting in all she's got and it was not enough.. why? cos she was focused on getting the job done and looking fwd to waving the office goodbye.. She refused to change her fashion sense, refused to get serious with the industry she was in, refused to take on its identity and basically, refused to change...

Its true, you gotta get your heart into what you are doing..

There was a classic line in the movie when Anne mentioned that she is not interested in changing herself (upgrading her fashion sense) for the job she landed, Nigel (a senior department head in Runway magazine) said to Anne, "so I guess this is what this multi billion industry is about.. Inner Beauty..." That got me laughin.. but it got me thinking.. what am I holding back from God? What am I holding back from my loved ones? With all your mind, all your soul and all your heart...

Alright, lets get on with the program.. so eventually Anne decided to take her job seriously and ASKED Nigel for help to upgrade herself.. Point is if you want something and you don't have it, you really got to ask... just ask for it, whether you get it or not doesn't really matter. (cos most of the time, you get it anyway). Ask and it will be given..

This was the turning point in her career. If she did not decide at this point to change, she be sitting at the same desk pushing papers, buying coffee and getting Miranda's coat and bag thrown on her desk for the next ten long years (if she can even last so long in the first place) and still be dreaming about her big break.. You gotta decide to give it your all, your best shot.. cos time doesn't change a thing, only you can..

so Anne stunned the whole world with her new found interest in Chanels, Jimmy Choos, Gabbanas.. what says you.. You gotta get interested in things like Bible reading, Prayer, OPMs, Service PMs and Pst Ulf screaming China!! India!! and you realise you got 20 billion people to save.. haha..

Then she found herself getting further and further away from her old relationships. Her boyfriend begins to think that they no longer have anything in common. Her friends began to think that she sold her life to Miranda...

Well.. doesn't that sound super familiar? and Nigel contributed another amazing line here, "Let me know when your whole life goes up in smokes, it means that its time for a promotion.."

I am jus pulling a parallel here so I dun mean that you got to blow your whole life up when you become a Christian, we have diversely different values from Nigel in Runway Magazine.. for more info, please refer to Pst Tan's sermon on V.A.L.U.E.S...

But the bible does speak about the circumcision of our lives, about denying our flesh.. to becoming spiritual.

so eventually she got past the Martha in office, the snobbish girl in office who thought Anne was hopeless, and eventually go to Paris, The Heaven of the Fashion Industry, with her revered boss, Miranda.. See guys, thats what we are going for.. well I guess what I wanted to say ends here.. cos my fingers are tired and I guess you must be getting bored by now..

Well I just used word count and found this entry to be 1300 words in length and took me an hour. I hope my reports can be typed out that fast, 1300 words per hour.. steady.