Sunday school teaching

This coming sat evening, i will be teaching the sunday school. This wk lesson topics are 1 kings 21:1-29.

Still have no ideas how to conduct the coming lesson... sometime i feel i really need a lot of wisdom to teach the kids... to make them interest in the story and hope they will understand what we trying to teach them through story-telling. Craft & games that are related to the story-telling. Link all the story-telling, craft, games to the story is the best, but sometime, i cant link the game together.

Naboth's Vineyard

¹ Some time later there was an incident involving a vineyard belonging to Naboth the Jezreelite. The vineyard was in Jezreel, close to the palace of Ahab king of Samaria. ² Ahab said to Naboth, "Let me have your vineyard to use for a vegetable garden, since it is close to my palace. In exchange I will give you a better vineyard or, if you prefer, I will pay you whatever it is worth."

³ But Naboth replied, "The LORD forbid that I should give you the inheritance of my fathers."

⁴ So Ahab went home, sullen and angry because Naboth the Jezreelite had said, "I will not give you the inheritance of my fathers." He lay on his bed sulking and refused to eat.

⁵ His wife Jezebel came in and asked him, "Why are you so sullen? Why won't you eat?"

⁶ He answered her, "Because I said to Naboth the Jezreelite, 'Sell me your vineyard; or if you prefer, I will give you another vineyard in its place.' But he said, 'I will not give you my vineyard.' "

⁷ Jezebel his wife said, "Is this how you act as king over Israel? Get up and eat! Cheer up. I'll get you the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite."

⁸ So she wrote letters in Ahab's name, placed his seal on them, and sent them to the elders and nobles who lived in Naboth's city with him. ⁹ In those letters she wrote:
"Proclaim a day of fasting and seat Naboth in a prominent place among the people. ¹⁰ But seat two scoundrels opposite him and have them testify that he has cursed both God and the king. Then take him out and stone him to death."

¹¹ So the elders and nobles who lived in Naboth's city did as Jezebel directed in the letters she had written to them. ¹² They proclaimed a fast and seated Naboth in a prominent place among the people. ¹³ Then two scoundrels came and sat opposite him and brought charges against Naboth before the people, saying, "Naboth has cursed both God and the king." So they took him outside the city and stoned him to death. ¹⁴ Then they sent word to Jezebel: "Naboth has been stoned and is dead."

¹⁵ As soon as Jezebel heard that Naboth had been stoned to death, she said to Ahab, "Get up and take possession of the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite that he refused to sell you. He is no longer alive, but dead." ¹⁶ When Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, he got up and went down to take possession of Naboth's vineyard.

¹⁷ Then the word of the LORD came to Elijah the Tishbite: ¹⁸ "Go down to meet Ahab king of Israel, who rules in Samaria. He is now in Naboth's vineyard, where he has gone to take possession of it. ¹⁹ Say to him, 'This is what the LORD says: Have you not murdered a man and seized his property?' Then say to him, 'This is what the LORD says: In the place where dogs licked up Naboth's blood, dogs will lick up your blood—yes, yours!' "

²⁰ Ahab said to Elijah, "So you have found me, my enemy!"
"I have found you," he answered, "because you have sold yourself to do evil in the eyes of the LORD. ²¹ 'I am going to bring disaster on you. I will consume your descendants and cut off from Ahab every last male in Israel—slave or free. ²² I will make your house like that of Jeroboam son of Nebat and that of Baasha son of Ahijah, because you have provoked me to anger and have caused Israel to sin.'

²³ "And also concerning Jezebel the LORD says: 'Dogs will devour Jezebel by the wall of ^a]">[a] Jezreel.'

²⁴ "Dogs will eat those belonging to Ahab who die in the city, and the birds of the air will feed on those who die in the country."

²⁵ (There was never a man like Ahab, who sold himself to do evil in the eyes of the LORD, urged on by Jezebel his wife. ²⁶ He behaved in the vilest manner by going after idols, like the Amorites the LORD drove out before Israel.)

²⁷ When Ahab heard these words, he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth and fasted. He lay in sackcloth and went around meekly.

²⁸ Then the word of the LORD came to Elijah the Tishbite: ²⁹ "Have you noticed how Ahab has humbled himself before me? Because he has humbled himself, I will not bring this disaster in his day, but I will bring it on his house in the days of his son."

Footnotes:

1. 1 Kings 21:23 Most Hebrew manuscripts; a few Hebrew manuscripts, Vulgate and Syriac (see also 2 Kings 9:26) the plot of ground at

Start the day with a laugh! Enjoys

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Project starting

The project are about to start liao.... today my vendor engr will be on-site... starting to do the configure. my new hardware have been power on more than 24 hour. I think will need to work hard on this project liao. Really hope i am able to gain and do a gd job out of it. As this is the first project i am handling... of course i have a suspervisor to seek for advice when i need it.

New PM figure

This is the new PM figure called"May Your Spirit Always Soar"... so cute... oh no... i have more n more wishlist of the PM figure.

I am still waiting for the graduation figure, which i havent see in local.
cant afford to buy so many figure... hehe

Camera for wendy

Yesterday was suppose to meet up with my primary school gang for supper... but i am too tired yday. i fall asleep at 9pm+

Wendy have lost his handbag at AMK hub recently. Inside was a brand new camera, she just bought, specially for the hongkong trip. she is real sad. We all surprise her, share $$$ buy one for her early xmas gift. Wanted to see her expression but hor.... haiz.... really too tried to go and meet them.

Diarrhea :(

Sob sob... i dont know why, since yday after mid-night i keep going to toilet. Just reach office... really dont feel like taking mc again. Last thur just took mc, as that day also go toilet, stomach bloated, and slight fever. Friday was on leave.

it like many days never go to office. now resting awhile at office and replying email. Going to see doctor near my work area soon. now my stomach still feeling vy upset. =(

actually, only yday i took 3 full meal. On thur, i skip meal, as got slight diarrhea. friday was prepareing my ccna, so i start to take solid food. sat after ccna, i was sleeping most of the time. Only 1 meal also. I wonder is it because of sunday, i took most of the food outside, and thus upset my stomach. haiz... i hate seeing doctor and taking medicine....

Passed 1st module of CCNA

Today I managed to pass CCNA first module... lucky man, passing mark was 70%, I managed to passed with 83.7%.

After the online exam, I am so tired...I slept from 2pm+ all the way to 7pm+. totally knocked off. maybe it because i haven't fully recover... Thur I am having fever, friday also cannot really focus on the study too. Manged to pass, i think i am really lucky. =)

CCNA module

wah!!! time passes very fast, i have completed attended all the lesson on the first book of the ICND. yesterday, just did a trial test of 51 qns. i didnt really do very well. I only got 65.7%. I need 70% to passed... oh no.... i would need a lot of practisal but till now havent settle my emotional to study. i have only try to do the lab quiz.. manage to complete.

Now need to do all the online quizes. hope i able to do trial test again. =)

Lunchtime is Lunchtime

During Lunchtime, the office phone rings... One of the employees picks up and says:
"What kind of an idiot is it that dares to phone me in the middle of my lunch break?!?"
The caller shouts back:
"Do you have any idea whom you are talking to...? I am the CEO of this company!"
The employee replies:
"Do you have any idea whom YOU are talking to?"
Perplexed the CEO mumbles: "NO!!!"
The employee heaves a sigh of relieve and say: "Thank goodness for that!!" and hangs up.

Hahaha.....very smart employee!!

Day after night job

On the 27th May 09 morning was back to work. after work about 3am+, went to meet another co-li who is doing working at another venue.

After meet up, we went to eat prata. by the time i reach home was about 5am. Compiled all the test cases and sent out email. By the time i went to bed was after 7am. Wake up around noon time, watch a bit of online drama, about 4pm sleep all the way till 6pm. Read and replay a bit of email, ate dinner, the day was almost complete... i have wasted another day in my life doing nothing.

This morning wake up, till feeling the tiredness on my eye lid. I think i will be feeling this for the rest of the week... No matter what, tonight i need to force myself to do some ICND reading, as the coming sat, there will be a revision (51 qn), next sat will be the actual final online quiz for the term1. Till now i havent really start doing my revision at all. blur blur on what was being taught from chapter 1 ~ 12.

Jogging on sunday morning

Yday, finally force myself to go jogging...but i think i only jog very short distance... i nearly faint... i think i am really too weak liao... i am feeling aching all over now....

everytime, give excuse that work bz no time to work out. Reach home too late.... but it true, by the time i usually reach bedok, it already 7+8pm... need to go home put notebook. everyday go to work carry so many stuff, till hard to bring exercise clothing out.

How i wish i no need to bring notebook to work....so i can go exercise stright after work...

keep feeling tired....

wah...last wk had 2 wk of night job in a row... till now i keep feeling vy tired... on n off i will sudden doze off for a few sec...
whole body aching, and my stomach keep produce a lot of gas. morning will sure want to vomit... i hate it...whenever i don't have enough rest, all this signs will come out....

Precious moment figures for graduation 2009

This is the new 2009 graduation figures. I prefer the second figure. look so joyful.

Patient....

“Patient waiting is necessary that we may fulfill what we have begun to be, and through God’s help, that we may obtain what we hope for and believe.”

ST. CYPRIAN OF CARTHAGE

Two Choices

What would you do?.... you make the choice. Don't look for a punch line, there isn't one. Read it anyway. My question is: Would you have made the same choice? At a fundraising dinner for a school that serves children with learning disabilities, the father of one of the students delivered a speech that would never be forgotten by all who attended. After extolling the school and its dedicated staff, he offered a question: 'When not interfered with by outside influences, everything nature does, is done with perfection. Yet my son, Shay, cannot learn things as other children do. He cannot understand things as other chi ldren do. Where is the natural order of things in my son?' The audience was stilled by the query. The father continued. 'I believe that when a child like Shay, who was mentally and physically disabled comes into the world, an opportunity to realize true human nature presents itself, and it comes in the way other people treat that child.' Then he told the following story: Shay and I had walked past a park where some boys Shay knew were playing baseball. Shay asked, 'Do you think they'll let me play?' I knew that most of the boys would not want someone like Shay on their team, but as a father I also understood that if my son were allowed to play, it would give him a much-needed sense of belonging and some confidence to be accepted by others in spite of his handicaps. I approached one of the boys on the field and asked (not expecting much) if Shay could play. The boy looked around for guidance and said, 'We're losing by six runs and the game is in the eighth inning. I guess he can be on our team and we'll try to put him in to bat in the ninth inning.' Shay struggled over to the team's bench and, with a broad smile, put on a team shirt. I watched with a small tear in my eye and warmth in my heart. The boys saw my joy at my son being accepted. In the bottom of the eighth inning, Shay's team scored a few runs but was still behind by three. In the top of the ninth inning, Shay put on a glove and played in the right field. Even though no hits came his way, he was obviously ecstatic just to be in the game and on the field,&nbs p; grinning from ear to ear as I waved to him from the stands. In the bottom of the ninth inning, Shay's team scored again. Now, with two outs and the bases loaded, the potential winning run was on base and Shay was scheduled to be next at bat. At this juncture, do they let Shay bat and give away their chance to win the game? Surprisingly, Shay was given the bat. Everyone knew that a hit was all but impossible because Shay didn't even know how to hold the bat properly, much less connect with the ball. However, as Shay stepped up to the plate, the pitcher, recognizing that the other team was putting winning aside for this moment in Shay's life, moved in a few steps to lob the ball in softly so Shay could at least make contact. The first pitch came and Shay swung clumsily and missed. The pitcher again took a few steps forward to toss the ball softly towards Shay. As the pitch came in, Shay swung at the ball and hit a slow ground ball right back to the pitcher. The game would now be over. The pitcher picked up the soft grounder and could have easily thrown t he ball to the first baseman. Shay would have been out and that would have been the end of the game. Instead, the pitcher threw the ball right over the first baseman's head, out of reach of all team mates. Everyone from the stands and both teams started yelling, 'Shay, run to first! Run to first!' Never in his life had Shay ever run that far, but he made it to first base. He scampered down the baseline, wide-eyed and startled. Everyone yelled, 'Run to second, run to second!' Catching his breath, Shay awkward ly ran towards second, gleaming and struggling to make it to the base. B y the time Shay rounded towards second base, the right fielder had the ball . the smallest guy on their team who now had his first chance to be the hero for his team. He could have thrown the ball to the second-baseman for the tag, but he understood the pitcher's intentions so he, too, intentionally threw the ball high and far over the third-baseman's head. Shay ran toward third base deliriously as the runners ahead of him circled the bases toward home. All were screaming, 'Shay, Shay, Shay, all the Way Shay' Shay reached third base because the opposing shortstop ran to help him by turning him in the direction of third base, and shouted, 'Run to third! Shay, run to third!' As Shay rounded third, the boys from both teams, and the spectators, were on their feet screaming, 'Shay, run home! Run home!' Shay ran to home, stepped on the plate, and was cheered as the hero who hit the grand slam and won the game for his team 'That day', said the father softly with tears now rolling down his face, 'the boys from both teams helped bring a piece of true love and humanity into this world'. Shay didn't make it to another summer. He died that winter, having never forgotten being the hero and making me so happy, and coming home and seeing his Mother tearfully embrace her little hero of the day!

Working now...

I am at work now... waiting to do a delete and remove route on my server... follow by simple test cases... guess it will about 5am+

Now at office doing some troubleshooting. gathering the logs to do analysis. It all about work, recently...haha

Designing poster @NUS

Today, show my sec friend, Zheng Gao on the posters that I did during the period when I was working @NUS. Kind of miss the period of doing poster design and etc... hehe..

Gallery on my poster creations:
Poster that created on NUS

Feeling tired....work, work work...

Did a night job this morning. the lucky thing, i am able to do remote into my server and all the people are easy to work with... i didn't sleep long as my mum wake me up at nearly 10am... slept only 4hr+....

Tonight there will be another night job.... at first, i thought i am able to go to office later but they have no access, therefore i need to be there at 12.30am... work till 4~5am... i think i will be supper tired after the 2 night job straight... haiz....

My sunday school class on 9th May 2009

It was a nightmare to teach them on last saturday.... they are making me very tired after the class... This coming satuday, I will be teaching them again. Hope they will be more "guai" hehe....

Blessed By A Stranger

By Joan Wester Anderson

It was winter when Nancy Williamson answered the door and found a friend, Barb, and her daughter, Anna, standing on the porch. Happy to have company, Nancy fixed coffee and the women talked of vacation wishes.

"Someday I'd like to take my daughters on a vacation to Prince Edward Island," Nancy said.

"Why don't we go?" Barb asked. "I'd love to see that area."

They had plenty of time to save money, and plan a two-week trip. "But two days before we were to leave," reported Nancy, "I noticed a grinding sound when I turned the steering wheel of the station wagon."

She had already had the car checked out, and knew the noise was coming from a small steering fluid leak, which would cost several hundred dollars to fix. But, instead of cancelling the trip and fixing the power steering, she bought several bottles of steering fluid instead.

It was an adventure from the beginning. "Every day we had to add a bottle of steering fluid," Nancy said. But the journey continued without a breakdown, and on the fourth day of driving, they reached their destination, a campsite on Prince Edward Island.

The area was beautiful, and perfect for relaxing and enjoying the sights. But the leak was getting worse every day.

Every day required a trip to a service station to buy more steering fluid. Uneasily Nancy wondered how they were going to get home. Were they going to break down at night? Or on a dangerous stretch of road?

God, she prayed. Please take care of us, even if we don't deserve it.

Their departure morning arrived. The women stocked up on bottles of fluid, and headed for the ferry to return them to the mainland, New Brunswick, Canada. Barb drove off the ferry but almost immediately they realized that she had made a wrong turn. Barb pulled to the side of the road, and took out the map.

Just then the car behind them pulled up and a nondescript man got out and approached their station wagon. He put his hand on the back of it. "God bless you," he said. "Can I help?"

Barb explained her confusion, and the man gave her directions. As he turned to leave, he said again, "God bless you."

It was a four-day trip back to Michigan, and every time the women stopped the station wagon, they checked the steering fluid. "Not once after we left that man in New Brunswick did we have to put a drop of steering fluid into the car," Nancy said. They arrived home safely.

The next morning Nancy went outside and started the station wagon. The grinding sound was back, and there was a large puddle of fluid under her car. But a final miracle awaited her.

"I had enough money left from vacation to pay the entire repair bill," Nancy said.

The angels think of everything.