Farewell Dinner at IMM

Isabel and Morgan!

Bye Morgan. Bye Isabel. Today they leave Singapore to go back to Malaysia. And I guess it will be one year time before they return.

Yesterday, some of us went for a farewell dinner with Morgan and Isabel. We went to IMM to eat Ajisen Ramen. It was a good time as we talked, laughed and just enjoy each others' company.

Stop! Don't take my picture!

Cheerful Morgan! He's missing one tooth...

Thank God for the both of them. Thank God for the salvation of Morgan. Thank God for bringing both of them for Uth Camp. Thank God for how big a blessing they have been to those around them. Thank God for the joy and laughter that they brought to this ministry.

Morgan and Jiahao!

I may not know Isabel that well, but still I'm thankful for how God has placed her in this ministry and in my life. On the other hand, Morgan has been a wonderful blessing to me. Seeing his childlikeness makes me want to be a kid sometimes.

I miss you two! See you both soon. :)

Morgan with his funny face!

Street Evangelism

Street E yesterday was a renewal of passion for evangelism. As I went out to the streets yesterday, I was so thankful for giving me a new passion for evangelism. Thank God firstly for the one soul saved. As I'm reading the Book of Revelation recently, it was a reminder that God is coming again and we are living in the last days.

This world is coming to an end and we have to work while it is day, for when night comes, no man can work. So I was burdened yesterday to just take the gospel to anyone whom I met. I don't have time to stop and rest because these people are going to hell.

I've been thinking about many things recently, and one thing that strike me the most was that people nowadays think that they are very smart. With the access to a whole range of information through the net and with the availability of books and information at their fingertips, people are rejecting God.

Books are written to say that God don't exist, debates are conducted to prove that God is fake, people are thinking that they are capable of saving themselves, movies are downplaying the truth about God, jokes are made about the Bible and God.

People have lost that child-like faith. Jesus have said that anyone who comes to Him have to come as a child, humbling themselves to receive Him as Lord and Saviour. God is extending His hand out to you this Christmas, He wants to give you eternal life and abundant life, but you have to receive that gift from Him.

This Christmas, don't let it pass by as another Christmas, make this Christmas real, make it Christmas in your heart. Come to Jesus today! Will you?

History of Oasis

As I was coming back from Thailand, I stumbled across this area in the airport and it's called Oasis. So I couldn't resist taking a picture of the signboard and here it is.


And as the year draws to an end, I must thank God for this tribe, Oasis! Oasis has indeed been a HUGE blessing to me and I'm so thankful for each and everyone in this tribe. The impact that you all have left in my life will be remembered.


The name 'Oasis' came about because personally I like the idea of an Oasis. In fact, even before I became a tribal leader, I was thinking that I wanted the tribe to be called Oasis.

Picture this, you are in a desert, and the sun is shining bright and hot. You are thirsty and tired, your legs are giving way, you are filled with fatigue and you think you are about to die. Then, you saw a pond and you make your way towards it. You go down on your knees, cupped your hands and scoop some water to drink.

You drink up the water and as the water flows down your throat, you feel the cool sensation of water going down your throat and into your stomach. At that moment, you feel refreshed, you feel revived.

This is the reason why Oasis exist, we hope that in times for trouble, trail and pain, we can be there for you. Our tribe verse is Matthew 11:28, 'Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.'


This is a brief history of how Oasis was born:

Alex wanted to join and he's part of us.
Benjamin wanted to join too, maybe because Jon Muk was in the tribe, but whatever the case, he has become a vital part of Oasis.
Charmaine made the decision to join after much thought and the blessings that she has brought was tremendous.
Jiawen asked to join and so we welcomed her.
Jiaxin decided to join during one particular vibe and thus she's in.
Jon Muk smsed me one day asking whether he could be in, and of course, he's part of this family.
Joy came with Charmaine and she has brought much joy and laughter to Oasis.
Melody was asked if she wanted to be an assistant tribal leader and she said yes.
Patricia requested to join and I'm so thankful for seeing her grow in the Lord.
Sihan was deciding between two tribes and Oasis was her decision and she has been a great encouragement to Oasis.
Sili probably followed Sihan but after a while, she left. But no matter what, once part of Oasis, always part of Oasis.
Siling maybe followed Sihan and even though she's not regular, but we really appreciate her presence.
Xiuying decided on Oasis before she left for Australia and even though we may not have communicated with her alot, but now that she's back, she has fit in quite well.
Yvonne is Melody's friend and joined Oasis, and I'm thankful for a dear sister like her in Oasis.


The year 2008 is coming soon and Oasis will probably cease to exist, but no matter what, the memories are here to stay. You guys will always have a special place in my heart. It's going to be sad, but I wish you all the best in the upcoming year and continue to stay so near to the Lord in everything.

Remember that Oasis will always be here for you! We're ONE tribe, ONE family and we share ONE bond and we love each other with ONE love and we worship ONE GOD!

Thank you all for making Oasis such a BIG BIG blessing to me!! 2007 is memorable because of Oasis. Thank God for all of you!

Shall we meet up as a tribe every year from 2008 onwards? Like alumni meeting. Haha. what say you? :)

My beloved princess

Well, today after Street E, someone ask me 'So how's Eleanor? Still together?'. And I realised that God has wonderfully placed this precious girl in my life and maybe I haven't been giving thanks for her enough. The past six months haven't been smooth-sailing. There were ups and downs, there were good and bad times, there were challenges and struggles, but all in all, I'm so thankful to God for this relationship.

As the year 2007 draws to an end, this relationship is one of the biggest blessing I've received and I would like to take this time to say thank God for Eleanor. Thank God for the support and encouragement that she has given me and how she has been so supportive and understanding.

As the next year approaches, my dream is for the two of us to continually be focus on God and may this relationship be one that glorifies and honours Him. May all we do and say brings a smile to God's face. May we grow in love for each other and grow in love for God!

I love you, darling!

Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails.
1 Corinthians 13:4-8

Thailand Day 5

Last day in Thailand. I'll be flying off in seven hours time. Well, this trip has been fruitful as I managed to spend time with my family. There are ups and downs, but I'm glad it ended well. The food is good, the stuff are good, the people are friendly. Overall, it has been a pleasant trip.

Let me begin my thanksgiving now. Firstly, I thank God for my family, without whom I would not exist. Thank God for my father. He has been instrumental in my growth and maturity. Though he may be unsaved, but I still thank God for placing my father in my life and I believe by faith that one day he will be saved. It has been great exchanging thoughts and ideas with him and getting to know more about him and his thinking. In spite of a tough exterior, he has a gentle heart and it's just nice to see him being gentle and loving. Thank God for him being such an awesome dad!


Thank God for my mother. Thank God for her bearing me for nine months, for working hard, for taking care of me, for looking after me. Thank God for the life lessons that she taught me, for the things that she imparted to me. Thank God for how she has almost always given me what I wanted, for guiding and providing for me. I have learnt many things as I watch her, listen to her and learnt from her. Thank God for a wonderful mum!

Thank God for my sister. She has indeed been a superb blessing to me, in my life. This trip has been good, as I managed to grow closer to her, at least to me. Haha. But then, being able to go through life together, spending time together each day, talking, laughing, being stupid. Going through highs and lows, fights and quarrels, talking and understanding is part of being siblings. Thank God for her salvation, for using her in different ways. Thank God for a lovely sister.


My prayer requests for the three of them...
1. That my dad will be saved.
2. That my mum will continue to grow in the Lord and be the lady, mother, wife that God wants her to be.
3. That my sister will keep on drawing close to Him and continue to be a blessing to those around her and to be a lady that fears the Lord.

Thailand Day 3

I'm in Thailand now. Finally managed to get a cheap lan shop to access the net. Thank God for this time that I can blog and share some stuff I learnt. Over the days, I have learnt many things and many lessons.

Been looking through the Book of Revelation recently and it has been a joy to read His Word. Yet, it has not been that smooth a ride in my Christian life. There are times when sin enter, when the things of life draws me away from devotions, when thought, words and actions fly.

But I'm rather thankful for everything that God has done over this year. Maybe shall post something up soon.

Take care and I'm missing you all.

Thailand Day 1

I'm in thailand now.
Blogging to say hello!
Take care guys!

Mark 1

The Importance of Devotions

Now in the morning, having risen a long while before daylight, He went out and departed to a solitary place; and there He prayed.
Mark 1:35

Aiya, I got no time to do devotions la.
Wah, must wake up early to read the Bible arh, don't want la.
Sian leh, I so much things to do, still must do devotions, cannot la.
If I pray in the morning, I sure fall asleep one.
Morning I just wake up, how to do devotions?

We hear of many reasons and excuse why people don't do devotions. Many people give the reason of busyness as an excuse to not do devotions. But does busyness give us the right to not do devotions?

Of course not. We read in Mark 1:35 that Jesus woke up early to pray and seek God. He did His devotions in the morning. Jesus understood the importance of devotions. He understood the power of seeking God.

Jesus knew that there are many things waiting for Him to do, and because there were lots to be done, He had to spend time with God first. Time spent with God is to equip us with the necessary tools and abilities for the day ahead.

The reason for doing devotions in the morning could be summed up in the analogy given below. When we go to a concert, the musicians tune their instruments before the concert. No one tunes their instruments after the concert. Each day is like a concert. Doing devotions is like us tuning our instruments to prepare for the concert. That is why it is generally better to do our devotions in the morning.

As we think over Mark 1:35, let's think about the importance of devotions. Let's think about the power of seeking God. If Jesus who is God, needed to seek God and do His devotions, what about us, mere weak and frail men?

1 Corinthians 5

It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you...
1 Corinthians 5:1

Pornography Time Statistics
Every second - $3,075.64 is being spent on pornography
Every second - 28,258 Internet users are viewing pornography
Every second - 372 Internet users are typing adult search terms into search engines
Every 39 minutes: a new pornographic video is being created in the United States
http://www.internet-filter-review.toptenreviews.com/internet-pornography-statistics.html

At 13.3 billion, the 2006 revenues of the sex and porn industry in the U.S. are bigger than the NFL, NBA and Major League Baseball combined. Worldwide sex industry sales for 2006 are reported to be 97 billion. The revenue of the pornography industry is larger than the revenues of the top technology companies combined: Microsoft, Google, Amazon, eBay, Yahoo!, Apple, Netflix and EarthLink
Internet Filter Review

72 million: The approximate number of unique visitors to adult websites in 2006, per month, worldwide.
420 million: Total number of porn pages.
40 million: The number of U.S. adults who regularly visit porn websites.
Internet Filter Review

Hollywood currently releases 11,000 adult movies per year – more than 20 times the mainstream movie production.
LA Times Magazine, 2002.

38% of adults believe it is ‘morally acceptable’ to look at pictures of nudity or explicit sexual behavior
59% of adults believe it is ‘morally acceptable’ to have sexual thoughts or fantasies
38% of adults believe there is nothing wrong with pornography use
Morality Continues to Decay. Barna Research Group, 3 November, 2003.

March 20, 2007: At a men's summit in Oregon before 2,000 men, Shelley Lubben of Shelley Lubben ministries challenged those who were struggling with porn addiction to stand. 30% rose to their feet. She immediately challenged them a second time, with the result that some 70% were standing.

April 6, 2007: 70% of Christians admitted to struggling with porn in their daily lives.
From a non-scientific poll taken by XXXChurch, as reported by CNN.

August 7,2006: 50% of all Christian men and 20% of all Christian women are addicted to pornography. 60% of the women who answered the survey admitted to having significant struggles with lust; 40% admitted to being involved in sexual sin in the past year; and 20% of the church-going female participants struggle with looking at pornography on an ongoing basis.
From the results of a ChristiaNet poll reported by Marketwire.com

In December of 2000, the National Coalition to Protect Children and Families surveyed 5 Christian Campuses to see how the next generation of believers was doing with sexual purity:
48% of males admitted to current porn use
68% of males said they intentionally viewed a sexually explicit site at the school

In his book, "Men's Secret Wars", Patrick Means reveals a confidential survey of evangelical pastors and church lay leaders. Sixty-four percent of these Christian leaders confirm that they are struggling with sexual addiction or sexual compulsion including, but not limited to use of pornography, compulsive masturbation, or other secret sexual activity.

In his book "The Sexual Man", Dr. Archibald Hart revealed the results of a survey of some 600 Christian men, on the topic of masturbation:
61% of married Christian men masturbate
82% of these have self sex on an average of once a week; 10% have sex with self 5-10 times per month, 6% more than 15 times per month, and 1% more than 20 times a
month.
13% of Christian married men said they felt it was normal.

In March of 2002 Rick Warren’s (author of the Purpose Driven life) Pastors.com website conducted a survey on porn use of 1351 pastors: 54% of the pastors had viewed Internet pornography within the last year, and 30% of these had visited within the last 30 days.

Above, you see the statistics!
Shocking?!
Well, this is the truth!

What a world we live in. Everyday you are bombarded with sexual images and temptations. From the internet to television programmes. Walking down Orchard Road makes your mind and eyes wander. Everywhere we go, we are just surrounded by sexual immorality.

It seems that Christians are losing this war against sexual immorality. It seems as though people are giving in and moral standards are falling. In a sex-crazed world, we need to be strong, pure and holy. Christians have to be living a pure and holy life!

Are you struggling with pornography?
Are you trapped in sexual immorality?

If you are, God is waiting for you to come back to Him.
It's never too late to come back to God.
Ask Him to cleanse you of all your sins, ask Him to clean up your impure thoughts, ask Him to wash you whiter than snow, ask Him to restore you once again.
Help is available, do talk to someone today.

Start living a pure life today!

1 Corinthians 4

We are fools for Christ’s sake, but you are wise in Christ! We are weak, but you are strong! You are distinguished, but we are dishonored!

1 Corinthians 4:10

Consider the following conversations:

A: How's life?
B: Ok.

A: How's everything?
B: Good.

A: How have you been?
B: Fine.

A: Everything's ok?
B: Of course.

So often we are defensive about our personal life. People are constantly putting on a false front, a smile, a mask to hide the emptiness and pain in their hearts. People are afraid of showing their weakness to others and making themselves vulnerable. In a sense, we are fake, we are just pretending.

I personally believe that no one is so holy that he or she does not need God. I don't think anyone is so spiritual that he or she does not fall into sin or struggles. I don't think anyone is so strong that he or she is never weak.

From past till present, strong men have fallen. Even men of God, men of the faith have fallen, what makes us better than them? David fell to adultery and murder. Peter denied Jesus three times. Moses committed murder. Samson fell into sexual immorality.

People are tired of hypocrisy. People are disgusted by masks and false fronts. People are not looking for leaders who are high, mighty and strong. People have enough of others acting, smiling and pretending to be fine when things aren't going fine.

Our relationships are now superficial. We say hi and bye. We stick together in good times, but we are not there in tough times. We act so strong that others don't know how we feel or what we are going through.

We need to learn to be foolish, to be weak, to be vulnerable. We need humble leaders, humble servants. We need people who is willing to expose themselves, to show and share their sins and struggles with others. We need people who are willing to be fools for Christ, people who are willing to show their weak and needy side.

For myself, the musical have been a challenging time for me. There are discouraging times, times when I feel like giving up and throwing in the towel. There are times when I'm impatient and lose my cool. I'm actually weak. I'm easily discouraged.

Yet, I thank God for the people that God has brought alongside me to encourage me, people to support me. Each one of their help, though small or big, means so much to me. Their prayers, their sms, their act of service, their words of encouragement, their touch, their time, their gifts gave me the strength to continue.

As a tribe leader, I have failed in many areas. I haven't been the best tribal leader exactly and I probably have disappointed or failed some of my tribe members. I always treasure the time where we just open up and share our struggles and challenges. Those times when we see the weak side of others mean so much to me. It's at those times when you see who are your true friends, it's at those times when you see God work. Personally, God has always work when I'm weak, when I share my struggles, when I admit my weakness, when I tell others I can't do it.

Yet, I thank God for Oasis. This is been my pillar of strength and support. Each one have made an impact and difference in my life. The sms that you all sent, the times when we talked, the prayers made together, the outings, the photos, everything and everyone of you has brought joy and good memories to me.

I'll end with Oasis tribe verse:

Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Matthew 11:28

For God to give us rest, we need to come to Him. And coming to Him involves acknowledging our weakness and inability. It means humbling ourselves and saying that we cannot do it. It means making ourselves vulnerable. May God help us in this area.

Are you willing to be weak for Christ's sake?
Are you willing to be a fool for Christ?
Are you willing to make yourself vulnerable?
Are you willing to share your struggles with others?