life has been busy but I am enjoying it day by day...

* being able to read the purpose driven life with rebe

* being able to conduct the test with 4/4 without any invigilator (i needed to leave early for the softball match)! a showcase of integrity!

* establishing strong rapport with the softballers and cheering them on with all my heart during the match on wed! being able to share with them a word of encouragement on the way to the match! they won eventually! :D

* seeing the female guppy that Christian is rearing give birth!

* encouraging my students in their performance for physix

* sharing with 4/1 and 4/2 about evolutionist vs creationist

* meeting Merry Riana http://www.merryriana.com.sg personally for a time of mentorship, the author of the entrepreneur book that i bought

* spending time with my kids and sharing with them about the Bible

* going for a 3.2 km run all by myself

* discussing with j.c about evolution and irreducible complexity

* advising j.j again about friendship and personal growth

* realising that c.r.s is fine after she has gone "missing"

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* drawing near to God in the morning :D

* finished marking the class test papers!

* spending lunch with rebe to read with her about the purpose driven life (day 1)! To find the right purpose, we got to start from the right point: not ourselves but God! since we are created by Him and for Him, we can only find our purpose from Him!

* conducting CEP with 4/1! I am really glad to give them my 2 cents worth of advice in terms of career options and I am encouraged by the words of encouragement written on my goal setting paper. My goals this year are: to be whom God wants me to be, to be a loving husband, a responsible father and an inspiring teacher!

* cheering for the softball team with all i have got (almost lost my voice while doing it!) - though they lost by a small margin, i sincerely hope that they will not be discouraged! hope to share this with them on wed: champions are not those who never fail but those who never quit! it's so appropriate right now cos they have 2 more matches to go, one of which is against the strongest team in the league.

* being able to physically last through this long day and having the energy to blog it down! :D

see ya tmr!

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* waking up @ 7am to draw near to God

* having a good breakfast

* making my wife smile again

* playing street soccer with the youth brothers in my church

* going for the first month thanksgiving celebrations of my baby cousin-in-law (my kids has an auntie who is only a baby!) - glad to pass the parents a copy of the parenting book "shepherding a child's heart" which provided me with the best parenting method and goal i have ever encountered: the biblical way to raise godly children for His glory!

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* attending speech and drama class with ariel

* visiting the Love Fiesta carnival @ JJC and seeing so many of my students who graduated from Nan Hua High and some of the students who are still studying there! When they call my name and beam with a smile, it was really heart-warming!

* coming up with a modern day adaptation skit of the life of Job for the YYPM. If you lose all your possessions and loved ones in one day and you are struck down with a disease subsequently, how would you react? for Job, this is what he said "Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked shall I return there. The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away; Blessed be the name of the Lord." and "Shall we indeed accept good from God, and shall we not accept adversity?" In all this Job did not sin with his lips in cursing God or saying that He is unfair or having any bittterness or anger towards God. (Job 1:21, 2:10)

* eating the bbq chicken wings from Newton Hawker Centre

* disciplining Christian (my son) with God's wisdom and love for his misbehaviour.

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* being able to pass the "purpose-driven life" book to rebe and knowing that she is reading it now!

* being able to talk to jaq about parenting

* SPA exams for my classes are finally over for now!

* having fellowship with my auntie about the Word of God and praying together with her for others

* eating my wife's "Bak Kut Teh" for dinner!

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* being able to have a short chat with reb about finding the purpose in life

* being able to tidy up 4/2 classroom so that it will hopefully inspire them to tidy up their own lives too and also not to get a 'D' for cleanliness check again

* walking past 4/1 and seeing it spick and span without my nagging. I am so proud of them for putting in the effort!

* being able to have a nice long chat with Bo about forgiveness, the importance of seeking God above all things, the purpose that God has for us, the argentina prison that had a revival (can you imagine a prison with no bars and locks, just colourful curtains, guards and inmates praying together and inmates sharing the word of God to relatives who visit them, amazing!), the evidence in creation that strongly leads to the existence of God and why man choose to believe in evolution though it is so unbelievable... If man can disproves the existence of God, then he does not need to be accountable for anything he does in his life... he can commit all the sins that he wants and live a wanton life since it does not matter at the end of the day!

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