BEEEEEEEEEEEEP!!!!!

FALL IN ALL YA ELITE MARKSMEN!!!!

So ya all think u're good at counterstrike and battlefield 2 huh?
So you think u're some top marksman ya?
Miss yer good ole dayz in the army and range?
Wanna prove that shooting is not just a GUYS thing?
Enjoy paintball but think the $$$ is too expensive????
Think laser quest is boring and a waste of $$$?
Virtua Cop 3 and Time Crisis 3 is no longer a CHALLENGE?
Think u've got what it takes to command a 3 man team to victory?

If yer answer is YES to any of 'em, then come and get IT, take up the challenge of being SHOT!!

But before yer go ALL GUNS BLAZING, you need to meet the following requirements:
1) Be at least 15 yrs old, we protect our children not force them to become CHILD soldiers!
2) Be at least 1.5m tall, anything SHORTer and u'll have to wear HEELS and no one wears HEELS into a COMBAT ZONE

Let's see how GOOD you REALLY are...

3SG IVAN KOH

Jesus loves us@ 12:19 AM

Sunday, July 09, 2006

Hey there one and all...

Just wanted to drop a post here to tell you all that ill be goin away for a week to malaysia and thailand for my program's field trip... So if you guys need anything, feel free to email me abt it ya? :D

Anyway i thought of blogging this cos i guess God has really been speaking to me lately these few weeks abt tons of stuff... And i guess this post also serves as a testimony that God hears our prayers and even the thoughts from the innermost recesses of our heart.

Anyway i flash back to 1 week ago when ps bryan spoke on compromise. Really it touched my heart and im thankful that he shared that message, because i know that it was a rhema word from God. A word that was meant to encourage me to hang on and persevere even when the whole world seems to be goin in the other direction... I'll just share briefly abt this starting another week back abt my program...

Anyway most of you by now shld know that im involved in the NUS-Yale summer school exchange program. Personally i count it as a privilege to be in this program. Well cos of a no. of reasons. 1) you get to hang out and interact with yale students... if you dont know anything abt yale, lets just say they're the cambridge of the usa and harvard, the other famed US uni is the oxford of the usa. 2) the class is only 20 strong. 10 yale 10 nus, therefore there is a great deal of personal interaction, more so since we stay together in PGP, thus it wasnt difficult to make fast friends. 3) you have NO exams just essays, you get 8 MCs for them. 4) you get to watch films and go on lots of field trips, incl a week long trip to malacca and bangkok. 5) the whole course is subsidized by FASS cos we're the 1st intake, so i only had to pay abt $300 for everything in summer sch. :)

Anyway from the 'yalelies' as we call them, you hear abt stories and experiences that you wish you could see in person... from the good (the stories of university football championships to visitin TRL in times square to talking to alicia keys in person) to the normal (they have museum based classes, 4 yrs to direct hons etc) to the bad (the boozing, partying, and even strip parties). However our NUS students are no push overs as well... I count myself fortunate to be in the midst of at least 1 SAF pilot, 2 scholars, 1 deans lister and most of our cap ranged ard the high 3 range. Yet if there was one thing that i did realise and could see from the others, it is this, they truly are people that live for the moment. The yale students club and pub almost consecutively everyday for the 1st 2 weeks (and they all still scored an a for their papers...), living out fun. NUS students bring them abt the place... DUH?!! so it came down to me that i decided to spend time being with them when they didnt go pubbing ie for meals etc but i chose to make a stand to go for life conference... And it wasnt before long when the pilot friend of mine called me over and told me this. "Ivan, ill tell you something, religion and church really is a social playground. Nothing more." And he recounted how he had experienced it first hand. He talked abt the working world being a vicious place to live in and Christians often get makaned for their niceness and eventually he succumbed and became a skeptic. Well now he still calls himself a christian, but he smokes, drinks, pubs and clubs like any others... Another girl... she claims to believe in the simple fundamental tenets of God is love, God forgives us and God accepts us. All these i agree but when you think abt it carefully... something VERY impt is missing... It's the bit where YOU have to make amends to love God, where you choose to turn away from sin and live life differently. Yet another girl, i knew... she studied the religious history of medieval europe which is essentially the hist of christianty... btw she studies the bible and Koran as a reading text, along with other ancient christian philosophers... and you know something... she said this to the lecturer one daywhen he asked "so what's your religion?" Her reply was instant "basketball"... I felt terribly disturbed by this not becos they have rejected Christianity but becos they seem to have their eyes veiled, blocked by the pleasures and pressures of life. Yet, i kept quiet, turned away and just lamented to God, how do i talk to people who know so much more and have seen so much more... How do you deal with hardened hearts, disillusioned souls and warped minds? I dont know... but it dosent mean i dont care... I do... I honestly do... because if i dont, i wouldn't be posting this up here... Im not one to judge, but i cant bear to see them in their state... I remember asking God so what do i do?

Just preceding Ps bryan's msg, i was talking with the pilot again and he was smoking and he offered me a cigarette, i promptly shook my head and smiled at him, he knew and puffed away... Taking the cigarette out he said this, "Ivan, in life, 3 things will get you far in life - drinks, smoking and golf" I laughed it off as he left to the lib to work on his paper. Yet i thought to myself.. What would make someone so hardened? so disillusioned? Another week went by...

This week i shld say has been yet another week where i can barely catch my breath... on mon had a meeting and i had to plan for gel for tues cell, on tues had a field trip and cell, on wed had a photo shoot and meeting, on thurs had a paper due and dew ministry, on fri yet another paper due together with field trips and on sat, another paper... (so much for no exams huh!) and i stil had to get my hall's proposal out in time and buy a bag and pack my stuff for the trip!! But thru it all i really want to thank God for answering my prayers and speaking to me, even when i feel slightly spiritually deaf... Well for one, i never prayed to God abt such feelings of desperation... I could almost breakdown from the whole workload, yet all i was focusing on was just wanting to shut in with God in those days of fasting... well i just want to say this. God cancelled one of my fieldtrip, postponed one of my essays and gave me clarity of mind to finish my essays due! and it was all in comfortable timing, even in the midst of having to attend cell and dew and goin out with steph. The only prayer that i made was this, "God, i dont know if this relationship with steph will work out and as you see my schedule, if it's your will then do something abt it and give me an opportunity to meet her before svc on sat." And he proved himself faithful. In addition to the above, he even prompted steph to ask me out at the very moment when i had one of my papers postponed! (PS for those of you who dont already know... yes im with steph now... it's official. :)) PS, one of my mom's business associate just gave me a brand new bag, so yea... i dont have to shop for no bag... hehehe

I learnt something from dew and svc today. God truly is love and He wants to hear us, even when we seem so far away. He is ready to meet us at where we are. All He wants is to be in constant communication and in close relation with us. I went up to the alter today and i told God these words, "I'm not contented standing at the outer courts, I'm not contend eating the crumbs from the masters table, I'm not contend with where i am... I want more of you, to be in a position where i know i am close to You. To be in a position where you will reign and i will submit whole hearted allegiance, to be in a place where im soaked in you." Because i know this, that in the face of compromise, if i give in, i will remove myself from being under God's covering and i will lose sight of everything good that God has planned for me. It also reminded me abt something from the past... God always first.. oikos 2nd and then me last... And i pray that as i enter this field trip, God will continue to lead me wholly in ways of no compromising and i believe then my actions will speak for itself if it'll get me far in life...

Does compromise compromise your communication with God? You're dead rite, it does.

Ivan - Destiny Defined

Jesus loves us@ 2:40 AM

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Monday, July 03, 2006

Hi guys, gno last week was great fun. Cell tmr will be held in church. The meeting place will be the Meeting Place. *grin* Cell starts at 6.45pm. Thanks for RSVPing. Till then :)

Rouen

Jesus loves us@ 11:09 PM

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Sunday, July 02, 2006

Girl's night out was fun!...

Jesus loves us@ 8:52 PM

after attending service at TCC, we headed down to TCC for some chilling out time...
(heh.. so funny my toes are laughing..)

Jesus loves us@ 1:09 AM

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