Hey there campers!

Timetable:

Time	26th Dec Day 1, Saturday	27th Dec Day 2, Sunday	28th Dec Day 3, Monday
0700		Rise & Shine
0730
0800		Breakfast Leave for YM at 8.15am	Rise & Shine
0830			Breakfast + Pack up +Area cleaning Games if we have time.
0900
0930		Church at YM
1000	Arrive at Praise Haven
1030
1100	Lunch at Subway
1130		Lunch
1200			Check Out
1230			Arrive at Sam’s house
1300	Games		Lunch
1330
1400
1430		Games	Back at Sam’s
1500			Reflections
1530
1600
1630		Wash Up (a bit)
1700		Supermarket shopping	Home Sweet Home
1730	Wash Up
1800		BBQ + Clear Up
1830
1900	Worship
1930	Bible Study
2000		Wash Up
2030	Prayer Walk
2100		Bible Study
2130	Wash Up / O.T
2200	Board Games	Board Games
2230
2300	Lights Out

That's all for now! Also, the core group will be doing coordinated prayer for the retreat every night at 11pm,and you're very welcome to join us in covering our upcoming retreat in prayer. It's only with God's blessing and grace that we can make this retreat a roaring success for God's glory.

Any additional queries or uncertainties, please contact DOMINIC at 93277255 or CAROLYN at 90884248.

I hope you're excited, because I am!

XOXO
Carolyn

Hey there its Pok :P, its the exams and I hope you all studied hard for the Mid Terms

hey guys! This is in response to nic's post.
Just wanted to say that nic, YOU'RE NOT ALONE IN THE WORLD!!!
We're all here for you.
and just to let you know i completely know how you feel cause i sort of experienced it this year as well but it's my best friend.

she and i arent really as close anymore cause she like sort of did some stuff that really hurt me and she didnt apologise and stuff....
she used me for a lot of stuff and like used my name and lied (a lot) esp to me and her parents
for those who were there for my birthday last year, she lied to her parents abt that too
and even now as i try to patch things up right, she goes all defensive as says that it's not her fault and stuff and blames it all on her parents
all this stuff that she did made me cry(at home) way more than i've ever cried before... (nic, don't feel bad)

yea, so until now it's all pretty rough and doesnt seem to be getting better so yea.
just wanted to share that cause it's been bottled up for really long

so nic, dont feel sad cause we're all here for you!!!


-nat-

hey guys! really never blog for very long.
but im here today to ask and consult you guys about a big problem i have.
Friends that doesnt care.
i have this grp of friends. we were quite okay, last year. but things got worse this year.
it all started when i decieded to "pangseh" them for service learning. we all plan to go china, but then when the list came out, i dont feel like going anymore, so i opted for local.
and they got angry.
things kinda got "solved" but i can feel that they arent really happy about things,
and when i ask them, they say things are alright. (can feel that they're lying)

and my grp of friends arent really holy. most claim to be christians, but actions shows otherwise. they insult teachers behind their backs, call them names, plot plans to "get back" on the teacher. at first it was kind of fun, but then as time goes, it wasnt that fun anymore. i know its wrong. and sometimes they are just hating the teacher for no reason. just for the fun of it.

and knowing that they are this kind of ppl, it scares me. cause now i try to not be so close to them, and join another grp. im afraid that they will like insult and scold me and stuff behind my back. and they always like scold and gossip about people until super -what!- one!

and then, my studies the best among them. then they will always ask me problems and stuffs.
so i always try my best to teach them. but they dont seem to reciprocate it.
they always end the converstion with a "thanks nicholas, you are so kind" but who knows if it is real?

and then when i need help. no one cares. no one returns an sms, no one bothers to ask if i need help and stuff. so one day.
(its kinda embarassing)
i kinda cried...
and it was in class.
ok i know! its bad! and the term sarah would use is "gay".
but i couldnt take it anymore. the best part is..
THEY DIDNT EVEN ASK WHY I CRY!
what in the world la!
and then one of othem said, "if nicholas is angry with me, i dont know whats his problem."

what can i say?

then i smsed yasmine a few days later.
and she said i should help them even if they dont care.
the problem now is, it is so difficult.
its like putting a candle in the desert storm and expecting it to continue burning.
it should wouldnt burn on what.
i read the Lent Booklet today.
it says " Lenten journey is one of repentance, that is, changing directions from self, self-serving patterns and a myopic focus towards the others-focused way of life of following Jesus. We follow Jesus in laying down ourselves for others and trust that the power of that raised Jesus from the dead...."
how to do that?

now each time i think of going to school, this grp of friends appear in my head and it really kills the interest of schooling.

any suggestions?

Nicholas

okayy nich "arrowed" me to blog for fusion so I shall.
I wasnt expecting much cause last year I didnt really get much out of it but I guess that was because I only went for the night session.
it was quite cool as in the worship was amazing and I felt that God was there with us you know. and when they had the altar call for people who needed others to pray for them. nich wanted to go and I didnt really want to cause I didnt feel the pull to go. but he gave me the "I dont wanna go alone" look so I was like okay I'll go with you so I went up. and eunice prayed for me and its like when she started praying I just started crying and after that it felt as if part of my pain and worries were gone. and every time I go for altar calls somehow, people'll pray about the same topic haha. so yeah slowly its all being taken away. thats fun stuff.
k nich you better post! :)

this is my new design. for our YSG shirt next year.
the background is words, Bible Verses, many many verses.
like John 3:16, John 13:34, 1 Corinthians 13:3, Psalms 24:7-10 and many many more!
inspired by nothing, i was praying, asking God to give me a design, and then after thinking for awhile, this appeared. yeah. i've worked on this for 2 days. and there are special verses that have Keep, the Flames and Burning. yeah. workeed hard for this design!

this is the new design i came up with.
hand drawn and edited on photoshop CS3;
yeah. i dont know what the others will say lehh.
but i think we should print colour and a grey shirt in 2009!

comments?

IM SO SO SORRY IF I ALWAYS SMS U GUYS TO LIKE, CHANGE THE SECRET SANTA GAME.
cox we have like people joinning us every other day, so i have to make changes.
so now, just bear with me okay?
my logical and mental thinking about the not fast one.
yeah. so just buy a present.
and just keep the smses that i sent u guys,
and just try to buy a universal, unisex present! yeah.
so u just give the present u bought for the last person i sent u ok?
thanks!

look forward to the PARTY!

Hi, this is Nicholas here.
and i have made some changes to the plans.
POTLUCK IS CANCELLED
as what Jeremy said, the food will get soggy.
and i think it's pretty troublesome to carry trays of food around, especially if we have to shop for our Cookie Ingredients. :D

so, i plan to order Pizzas, from Canadian Pizza, cox it's 2 for 1! :D
whoo. and the pizzas are not bad,
so i need you guys to bring at least, $10, for the pizzas.
Price List:
REG 10” S$ 23.90
MED 12” S$ 31.90
EXTRA LARGE 14” S$ 37.90
so lets say we need like 6 pizzas? dont know.
you guys decide, but we need to buy dinner and also our cookie ingredients! :D

I've comfirmed that,
Myself,
Dom,
Lon Hau,
Andrew,
Andrew's Brother,
Samuel,
Yasmine,
Shao Cai,
Jeremy Soon,
Jonathon Soon,
Tze Yong,
Carolyn,
Ben

are turning up, so i'll message you ur secret partner! :D
and that means u are secret santa for that person, and please buy them a nice gift, below $10,
if possible.

sorry for the late planning, you can shop for them during the weekends, which is saturday,
or since it's the holidays now, anytime!!
so please make an effort to buy okay?
i'll message you guys the names by TODAY.
by 12am tonight.

so those that i havnt comfirm, please email/tag/sms/call me or dominic and let us know, lastest by Xmas, if not then.. no gifts for you?
sorry, cant think of any other way to make it sound better.
hehe.
yeah.

PLEASE TELL ME IF YOU ARE COMING!!
Lihao, Sean Lim, Sheena, Jonathon Gan, Sarah and Lyn.

thanks.

HELLO EVERYONE!!!
this is Nicholas here.
this year's annual christmas party will he held in Andrew's Hse,
which is in Tiong Bahru!
(yay)
Date: 28th Dec (Which is THIS COMING SUNDAY)
we'll go to his house straight after church.
and then we will have POTLUCK.
that means we each one bring food.
maybe like hotdog, or bread?
or fried noodles, and fried rice.
yeah.
so we can have more time to play in Andrew's Hse.
(any comments?)

We will be playing Don't Forget the Lyrics, Our CHRISTMAS VERSION! :D
so get to the web and listen to all the christmas songs you can find.
muhahhhaa!
(ok, i sound evil.)
and then we'll bake our cookies if Andrew has an oven.
:D
and then Secret SANTA AGAIN!
budget not more than $10, but if you think u are rich, then..
more than $10 also can.
We'll assign the secret santa once we have comfirmed who is turning up,
so please please please,
sms/email/call/leave a tag for Dominic or I
please. even if you are going anot.
and please please please please come.
bcause it's an annual event and it'll be fun.
i promise.
so look forward okay?
SEE YOU!

Hey guys!

I've tentatively reserved 28 Dec as our Christmas/Year-end annual Party!
Please set this date aside.
As per tradition, I will assign the secret santa again this year for those of you who are attending the party (this way, each one of us will get a present!).
Please continue to write to your mortal! we will reveal the secret angel On 4 Jan! That will give us another month to write to our mortals and get to know each other better! START WRITING NOW!
You can use the email address to email to your mortal annonymously (cos if you use your own email, your mortal will know who right? DUH!) and for your mortal to reply to that address. Of cos, you have to specify in your email SUBJECT who to attention it to. No peeping at emails that are not yours!

ok, I hope I can find time to post the photos... been working pass midnight everyday since last week!!! so I'm pretty tired.... :(

~Yas

hey guys!!!

hey guys,

I have just created a common email account for our small group, and the main purpose is for the angels and mortals game which we have been playing (or have we?). Anyway, please use this email account to send your little message to your mortal's own email account. The account details are as follows,

account: thesavedones@gmail.com
password: the same as this blog's password

please do email your mortal if you have the time, as i think that messages like this would brighten his/her day. Also the contact list of all the people have yet to be uploaded into the account's address book, so if you have the time, please add in your own email address, or you could just send an email to the account. This would make it easier for you to send mails to your mortal.

Disclaimer: no sending of thrash/insults to other people in or outside to small group.
no signing up with online profiles or create accounts on websites with this email
do what you think is right, and not send any malicious messages to your mortal

Anyways, and also, i had lots of fun over the last 2 days, and i hope that we can have one more sometime soon? maybe a proper chalet or somthing like that? hehe


Regards

N'drew

The Timetable is Out after some planning by the Chans... here goes...

SUNDAY
11.15am- service ends. go to PS for lunch
12.30pm- Buy food and snacks from Carrefour with the vouchers we won!
1.30pm- leave PS to go to The Superhappy House (aka the Chans residence)
2.00pm- reach home, unwind, unpack, chill
3.00pm- worship (led by andrew!) and sharing
4.30pm- prepare food for picnic/freetime/indoor games
5.30pm- leave house
6.00pm- dinner outside (place not confirm yet)
7.30pm- Night Safari!
10.30pm- End (the girls will head to Natalie's house while the rest will head back to our house)
11.00pm- reach home/bathe/watch DVDs/snacks and supper/games
late- zzzzz

MONDAY
9.00am- leave house
9.30am- breakfast at vivocity Macs
10.30am- head to Sentosa beach
11.00am- QT
11.30am- games (Natalie i/c) and more fun under the sun!! we can play the luge!

end around 4.30pm (but those who want to stay abit later for dinner together, feel free!)



ok that's all for now... looking forward to our First sleepover party and fellowship! yay!

hey guys!

here's the packing list for the stayover this sunday...

1. one set of clothes for sleeping (unless you want to sleep in whatever you're wearing)
2. two set of clothes for sentosa (the 2nd set to change when you get dirty in the sea)
3. swimwear for swimming at sentosa
4. toothbrush (we provide you the toothpaste)
5. towel
6. bible
7. notebook
8. markers and pens
9. some money for food and if you want to play the luge at sentosa (estimate $30 should be enough)
10. ez-link card
11. camera if you have to take many pictures!
12. lastly, bring your YSG T-shirt! we can wear it together when we go sentosa on Monday!

for the contact lens wearers, I have the multi purpose solution if you need. we will also provide the soap and shampoo.

ok... i'm really psyched for this retreat!!

the schedule will be posted later...

~yas

Hello hello. Its Carolyn here, and I'm super relieved.
Guess whose O level chinese paper is over?? :D
It was pretty manageable nonetheless, and probably closest I'll ever get to an A for chinese. So we'll see how that goes.

Anyway, I hope your week's been great, and that day by day, you're learning to love your life and yourself more and more.

Our God is a great god, and he will do miracles in your lives, if only YOU LET HIM. Imagine this, he's holding out an outreached arm, and on it, he offers you a gift, the gift of love like nothing you've ever experienced. Its pure, sincere and unwavering. More powerful than familial love, romantic love and platonic love. Its the best love of all, the love of God to his people, whom he created. Everything he does is based on that love- all the trials and tribulations in your life, all the joy and jubilee.

Ask him: If he loves you so much, why does he subject you to pain and agony in your life?
Because a smooth sea never made a skilful marine. You need hardship and sadness to make you stronger, and not take life for granted.

Our life's a journey, and only one who masters it can reach the final destination in Heaven. The journey is difficult and arduous, but at the end of it all, i promise its worth it- when you stand at that finishing line, and you see God smiling down at you, and he says "Hello child, I see you've found your way home."

Dam... Just random posting...coz i'm looking at my monitor blankly -.-
Just to keep this blog alive =D
My batch just finish OBS, this week going to bombard LiHao with Qns~ coz he's grp very happening. Heard some fighting happened or smth, he was there first hand!
Started mugging for Os le, but not so xiong yet.

Oh and whats the difference between Destiny and Fate?


Dura lex sed lex !

hey guys,

had fun today at sentosa, and for those of you who went, your skin would probably start hurting tomorrow, so do spam some moisturizer, helps alot.

anyways, just wanted to say something

HOW TO REIGN FOR GOD 101

1) well, I figured, Jesus was sent to Earth to take away our sins
2) he believes that we are destined to reign for him so we can spread blessing to others
says in romans 5:17 :"for if by the one man's offense death reigned through the one, much more those who receive abundance of grace and of the gift or righteousness will reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ.
3) so how to we reign for him? well guys the bible states that we are to reign in life through him by recieving two important thing: a) the abundance of grace
b) the gift of righteousness
those who think that these two should be earned, go shoot yourself. We do not have to earn it, God being the loving God he is, does not care what you do in life, instead giving you these two free-of-charge (yes lon, its free)
4) it is also said in the bible that when Jesus "sits down" means that his work on earth is already done, he has taken away our sins, and no matter how much sin is done now, is forgiven by him. (cool right?) (if you also notice, the pastors in the churches never sit, because they can never finish the work of Christ.)
5) Jesus came down to earth to fulfill all the laws - written law of the 10 commandments. take a bank installment when buying a car. after paying for the car with the monthly installments, you can stop sending money to the bank. likewise, no matter how much law breaking you have done, you can say Jesus died on the cross for that very sin 200o odd years ago, which was the monthly installments. but that does not mean we must sin.
6) Guys, in order to also reign for Him, we should also acknowledge the fact that we have God's grace, the grace that heals the sick, cures the weak and much more, by doing this we have already disarmed the devil. (yeah baby)

thus concluding, the grace of God is undeserved, and we should accept his righteosness and grace, then shall we reign for him. Keep this in mind this through out the week, and remember that Jesus wants us to live a perfect but yet impossible life thus him giving us the name CHRISTians. (sorry of it is abit too long)

signing out
N'drew (the-next-slash)

Exams are coming, parents are nagging, people are studying,

hey guys! you better watch out, you better not cry, you better not pout, i'm telling you why.. cos exams are coming!

below is the start date of the exams for the ppl in our group... for some of you who didn't reply me, I'm just gonna guess... anyway, it's a good way to show love to one another in the group by praying for each other during this stressful period (ok, maybe not so stressful for some of you). and if you are game, take the extra step just to drop a sms to say that you've prayed for him/her. i think that's pretty encouraging :)

22nd Sep
Lon Hou, Tze Yong, Andrew, Ben

24th Sep
Carolyn, Sarah

25th Sep
Jeremy, Jon S, Jon G

26th Sep
Carissa, Dom, Nat, Shenna

29th Sep
Nic, Sam, Sean, Lihao

3rd Oct
Kai Kein

Lyn doesn't have exams but she has been sick... so please pray that she will recover soon too!

Study hard! Nerds rule!

-Yas

Yas...u did'nt need to post it up did u?
sigh~
Life is hard, so is it to hate and love a person all at the same time.
sometimes i wish i could undo history, then maybe everything will be alright, but yea..u cant.
Somethings i wish i had never taken, somethings i wish i can undo, like a simple click on the computer, i wish so hard.

Quae nocent docent - latin

Hey guys sorry for the late post , woke up earlier so I could sneak on to do this :P

Labels: us

everyone seem very sad these few days.
i noticed. dont mind if i say it out.
kaikin seem to be very upset over a girl he likes?
sarah is upset over dexter moving out.
i'm upset beacuse life dont go on as how i want it to be, and i feel life rather sad at times.
i dont think this is called emo-ing, or as my school friends say "mid-live'' crisis for me!
i think they are just joking. but i really dont know why i feel like this all a sudden.
i know clearly that it's not because of exams.
i'm quite sad these few days cause.
frankly, i cant get over my last ex..
( i know some people will call it stupid!)
but then sometimes, we all have feelings too.
i cant say i dont like means i dont like what.
as in, i really like this girl, and she likes me as well.
but i think i accidentally hurt her, because i said i wanted more personal time with my other friends as she is quite "sticky" in that sense, cause she is new in the school and i'm her only guy friend. yeah. and then i think that caused her to feel hurt.
and then we didnt hang out as often and we broke up. and then i cant get over it because i know that it's because of the lack of communication between us. she has kept some unhappy things to herself, like she is very sad that i said that and stuff.
and now, she told me things have changed and that it would be difficult for us to get back together.

and i dont know. some guys in the other class dont really like me and i'm quite disturbed by that fact. i did nothing to them as we werent close at all.
in fact i never communicated with them. but they seem to dislike me alot.
my friend from that class said they are like that and they also dislike alot of other people,
but i just dont like it.

i just feel very tired both mentally and physically.
...

Carrisa's almost perfect handroll!

Nick, with his handrollHANDROLLS!! note: notice ben's is almost half-gone? :)

Must make the best handroll!! Concentrate!!!

sorry guys! tried to upload the vids.. but it's taking super long. i'll upload another time

-nat <3

Hey guys, just wanted to tell you somthing......

1. I need 2 tell u something, read number 5
2. Are u in a rush? read number 8
3. Are u curious? read number 9
4. Look its the following....u betta read number 15
5. I havent got the guts....just read number 17
6. I would like to tell u..but u should read number 16
7. I'll tell u...but first read number 2
8. Its very simple...just read number 4
9. Dont get nervous..its simple..jus read number 18
10. Not yet...but read number 19
11. Are u gettin tired? relax...just read number 13
12. Like i was sayin....read number 3
13. You're nearly there....read number 20
14. Just dropped by 2 say HI THERE,wassup!! heheehe!
15. Ur getting nervous..just read number 6
16. U still dont get it? just read number 12
17. Oh! im embarassed....read number 7
18. I dunno if u'll understand...just read number 10
19. Read number 11...slowly...and u'll find out
20. Now im'a tell u....read number 14...really quietly ok?

n'drew (the-next-hot-bod)

hey guys (nick especially)

I know posting on that chatting box thingy would be useless, so nick could you remove the song? or change it to something slower. thanks :D

N'drew (the-next-phelps-who-will-be-a-goldrecord-holder-in-olympics)

hey guys,

yesterday was fun!! looking forward to the next time we meet ( i forgot when the next time is). Anyway, one quick question : can you call a song satanic if the singer has a wrong interpretation of God? and also, would it be suitable for us to listen to it?


Andrew (the-next-rockstar)

WHO WANTS TO WATCH HELLBOY2 THIS SUNDAY AFTER SERVICE? (yes i know it's weird posting something like this on a CHURCH blog)

lon hau