Month: September 2012

Lenses

I squirm at how god closes a door and opens another. He fills you with anger and then leave you dumbfounded because only after a while you realise why he did so.

God brought me to a hike today at Mont Saint Hilaire and apple picking at a farm nearby. God let me share my testimony again today. God let me meet Christians from all walks of life. In fact God let me spend this weekend with a cheaper getaway with this itinerary than the mount tremblant plan that I was looking forward to.

God has showed me that things don’t necessarily go our way. Actually things hardly go our way, but looking through the lenses of god’s eyes changes everything. And I’m glad I wore his glasses this weekend.

So thankful for meeting Kuzi and jasmine this week. These 2 new friends are good to keep 🙂

Mid Autumn

It’s the mid autumn festival in singapore today if im not wrong, but hey we have that here too!
I havent seen the moon yet, I forgot to look up into the sky just now.
To welcome international students into Montreal this fall, the government gave out free passes to various attractions
So I went to the botanical gardens (again) (for free this time) with daphne and saw chinese lanterns and all! We had cheap thrills buying gross mooncakes for 1.50CAD

 

so glad the weekends are here! and im finally staying put in montreal this time round

good bye NYC ;(

I thought my weekend was great
Well it was all way until I missed the bus to Montreal last night at 12am

And I missed it because of pure ignorance of ensuring and figuring out the right location to board. I relied on inaccurate directions from the authorities here 2 hours before departure. So I was on 34th and 8th street an hour early, waited in the cold and nobody was there. I only remember singing worship songs on repeat mode and when it was 1215 I started to freak out because there was still no one. Thankfully Joel was in town and he directed me to port terminal where I got a replacement ticket for the first bus next morning.

I ran around dangerous NYC from 12-2am, slept on a stranger’s couch for 3 hours and now waiting to get home. My mother will kill if she finds out about this.

Conversations

The itouch is playing as I’m journeying through new jersey to Maryland on bolt bus.

I’m listening to the album and track, Conversations, recorded by Sara Groves who has penned meaningful lyrics like this one below:

I don’t know how to say this, I don’t know how to stand, I don’t know lwhere to put my feet, or where to put my hands.I’ve got them in my pockets, my fingers are freezing cold, they’re wrapped around a ticket stub that’s four weeks old, and I don’t know how to say this. . I think we’ve figured out this world is bigger than you and I. We’ve exhausted our wealth of knowledge and have no more answers for mankind. . Chorus: We’ve had every conversation in the world about what is right and what has all gone bad, but have I mentioned to you that this is all I am, this is all that I have. . I’m not trying to judge you. That’s not my job. I am just a seeker too, in search of God. . Somewhere somehow this subject became taboo. I have no other way to communicate to you. This is all that I am. This is all that I have. . Chorus . I would like to share with you what makes me complete. I don’t claim to have found the Truth, but I know it has found me. . the only thing that isn’t meaningless to me is Jesus Christ and and way he set me free. This is all that I have. This is all that I am.

– Sara Groves

On the road trip last week, I spoke to a friend about God and I shared with him the gospel through the four spiritual laws. I too remembered that evangelism is simply taking the initiative to share the gospel by the power of the holy spirit and leaving the results to God. I prayed silently before going to sleep in the cold forest and though I don’t know if God did speak to him in anyway, I know God is working somehow.

He’s just one of the many friends I’ve been praying for all these while, and the lyrics above sums up what I often want to convey to my close friends. I don’t claim to have found the Truth, but I know it has found me. .

Hechange orientation

So i visited all these places during Orientation one month ago (with ratings)

Jet boating the Lachine Rapids 3/5
Old Port 4/5
Guy-Concordia – Club 2/5
Square victoria – oriental Chinatown 2.5/5
Berri Uqam – rainbow Gay district 3/5
Saint Laurent – legendary Schwartz smoked meat 4/5
Mont royal park – Tamtam Sunday! 3.5/5
Pie-IX – Biodome, Olympic parc, Botanic Garden 3/5
Côté-des-neiges – Sports Day! 3/5

Bang

A mega load of adventure.

Four days ago I had thorough fun at Parc Omega with gabriel, ziqing and joel where we had direct contact with wildlife !!! For a fee of $20cad/person, cars drive through trails to see racoons, squirrels, deers, wolves, bears, buffalos, goats, horses, pigs, sheep etc The minute you drive into the park you see deers flocking towards you because they know you have tons of carrots. It was awesome screaming and dodging away from the deers who constantly barged through the windows. What I will not forget is their saliva that drips non stop (onto the window and our jeans) and the unavoidable carrot breath when they crunch in their mouth under our nose.

When we got home smelly and gross, I received an invitation from jerome to go on another road trip for the next 3.5days and so I dumped a massive lot of jackets into my rugsack and left dirty.

And so, I travelled to another 5 places in North Canada.

Les escoumins, Taudoussac, L’anse st jean, Parc du saguenay and Alma, further up north of Montreal, were beautiful and amazing. Together with 2 other polish D & M and 1 more Singaporean J , we watched whales, kayaked through a fjord, hiked a 7km trail, saw a waterfall and walked the village of Val Jabal.

Apart from the scenic views and photographic memory I get to bring home with me, I also am able to now declare that i have done a road trip the polish way. I did not manage to bathe for 3.5 days (did not bathe since i left in the morning for parc omega yuck), I spread nutella on bread for breakfast using a Swiss army knife , I changed while driving, I peed in the bushes, I pitched a tent, I slept at random self-declared camping grounds (an abandoned land beside a huge river for the first night and an empty field beside a cemetery at the base of the national park for the second night)

I really suffered sleeping and shivering in a tent overnight at 9 Degree Celsius and the second night in the car at 6 Degree Celsius so i gave up this camping idea and settled for a motel on the last night.

Right now we are heading home to another week of school. The car that served us well actually belongs to the polish guys, bought and driven from California (west of america) to Montreal (east of Canada) and they arent kidding.

Definitely wouldn’t mind travelling with them again sometime soon (minus the cold nights in tents)

Settled

 

im more or less settled in (:
over the past 2 weeks i concluded that i do not necessarily need personal space for myself but i need personal space for my things

today is such a needful day because i finally
managed to fix up my cupboard and got rid of the mess along the side of my bed
now that we have arrived into second week of school, im beginning to feel the rigour
it feels like summer school, just times ten
the play mode and study mode has to switch swiftly but apart from all these, i really am looking forward to visiting parc omega this coming week
first road trip yaye!

(Philippians 4:4-9 NIV)

Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near. Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things. Whatever you have learned or received or heard from me, or seen in me—put it into practice. And the God of peace will be with you.