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Sunday, April 27, 2008

I seriously miss my old cg

Struggled with thoughts of quitting church totally, enemies' playground is my mind, and it is also my battlefield. Thoughts like this, are of the flesh, not of me. Even when I do feel suicidal after things happen, it is of the flesh, not of me too.

Today I was feeling really random, after a really GOOD SERMON, an awesome praise & worship by Darlene, singing my favourite HOSANNA & Healer by Planetshakers was sung too and a chat with RC, I walked around aimlessly and I realized that I was walking around places that I once hung around, I call it "tpcg hotspots". I seriously don't know what to say but it feels as tho my surrounding is making me miss my ex cg. Not that I don't wanna move on but the more things around me feel sucky the more I think. But I didn't even see one of them, sadly. I miss the shopping queens in the cg... seriously...I once thought that tpcg was too kiddy, but now come to think of it, I regret moving up cuz I thought I was out of topic with them and thus I miss them like crazy.

Pastor Benjamin's preaching seemed like it was talkin' to me again.
I am in a state of famine, feeling so very dry, he also mentioned about CG, oh man so spot on can. Not wanting to be with people very much, esp cg. I really can't explain it but it sucks. I don't want to continue feeling like tiz. I wana drop cg commitments yet all i can do is blog. I miss my hyper n zealous self, screaming for Jesus! N ever looking forward to cg sessions, cg befrienders meetings, calling up d newcomers to find out whether they are coming or juz dropping a word of encouragement. There were many meetings n I never ever got tired of them. But now that sunday is no difference from a normal weekday, rawr, instead everything seems slow and draggy.

Yesterday as i was spending time with YWA RSM, it was really enjoyable.
But I seem to be giving in to the thoughts of isolation...but it is also cuz I don't wanna be commited to cg anymore.
I feel like going into isolation, thoughts of the flesh? Maybe.

I don't know what on earth is wrong or right with me la. I dun enjoy Sundays as much I did before, and the first time I came, in June 2006.

Is it really my famine period?



princess לינדה הודית the Beloved @ 5:25 PM


Saturday, April 26, 2008

Spend More Time With Arrow YWA RSM people

I like the Arrow YWA RSM people, they are such a cheerful bunch. They are seriously helpful too. Bridget loves cleaning the toilet, Rong loves being the security, Yin Yin loves the door greeter position HAHA cuz she likes to stand one corner & not move at all (juz give more mentos!!) HAHAHA!!! All the interesting & happening people I meet. Lol. Love them lots. Haha... & Rachel is a very gooooood partner to serve with ;) ZJ is so uber caring...Ben is sooo sooo ENCOURAGING. Xiao Han always buys food for us. =D
I WANT TO GET TO KNOW ALL OF THEM BETTER.
hmm at least another "care group" I see that I love.

Arrow students security, JPR full time staff, my friend, RC has been coming for Arrow YWA services recently... & questioned, "hey how come I seldom see you with the Arrow RSM people" .. well I am always with the care group ma...

honestly... yes, I WANNA GO WITH THE ARROW RSM people instead, this time...or, isolation? I'll see about it...when you seriously don't feel the flow with certain people, don't force...
people I wanna be with, juz don't seem to be free...
yet people I don't really feel the flow to be with, are (ok not so) contactable...
I juz don't really wanna be with some people. REALLY REALLY don't feel like being with some people. I WANNA BE ALONE UH. EVEN IF IT BORES ME. like any stupid weekday. who cares already la. cross out fellowship. don't talk to the people nearest to me everyday, don't talk even on Sundays...whatever...I'll juz keep quiet forever...Haiz looks like I can only express myself on a Saturday...Arrow service...

Something in me juz feel like bursting sometimes...
Now that I'm back to blogging...blablablax.

The Zone Youth Concert - Finally, a time to express & release myself after so long... The zeal within me seems to be stuck whenever I am at Arrow YWA services.
I can't scream like I used to.
I can't cheer like I used to.
I love to jump but I rarely get to hear catchy songs anymore.
It's juz so not me.
(try cheering at YWA services everybody will turn & look back at you)
juz like try sharing with the people they'll spread it like the epidemic.
You juz simply lose touch after moving up, like who shall I bring for the concert?
I am still thinking, seriously... hmmm.
VISUALIZE; a packed max pavillion - 200 souls

Anyways... GRACE IS RENEWED EVERYDAY.
tomorrow is Arrow YWA!
& time to spend more time with Arrow YWA RSM servers!
dinner with them.
and sweep my Sunday off again like any other normal day...
service, overflow place, and home I go?
already feel so enclosed from Monday to Friday.
now, even Sunday is like that.
Should I juz go & work for a 2nd job?
*BLOOBLOOBLOOB*
miss those days with tpcg :(
sometimes I really wanna move on,
yet the environment juz allows me to keep thinking & seeing them in my memories...

Hey tpcg (plus all the ex cgls of tpcg) if anyone of you are here...I really miss hanging out at "stevebucks", before bs & after services. I miss the chats at suntec mcds. I miss running for places in the auditorium. hunting for seats like little mouses together. I miss q-ing up in the ticketing que & start sharing with everyone about each other... I miss the pre arrow service games & meet ups... I miss q-ing for bubble tea... I miss the supper sessions after BS & cg...I miss having dinner with the whole poly cluster after Arrow service...(like a long stretched table of Harry Potter students)

Sundays are a big change without your noises =\
very soon you'll hear your hyper linda has gone into hiding on Sundays...
prolly except the days, I'm serving for God =)

when you're alone you tend to think much.
why not juz take the time to pray as much?



princess לינדה הודית the Beloved @ 12:41 AM


Thursday, April 24, 2008


flooded with boredom recently... I start to miss the Arrow students life more & more... my wonderful 19th & 20th birthday... with so many different people from different care groups...team I.M.-ers...beloveds...historymakers camps...laser quests...taboo-ing...mafia...tian xia wu di-ers...even the group of dota clan from tp care group... the dota brothers... I am filled with so many different people..different culture... transition is indeed a pain...which I still can't get over...I really didn't expect it's a slow moving process & it sucks...

I miss going for 4th service with the buncha Arrow students people...coming so early juz to get tics & head to play games/lunch...Serving or not serving, wherever I am, Xiaohui / Amy never fails to give me a call...or rather, few times, even on my way to debrief (esp for 3rd + 4ths) Xiaohui would say, "hey dear give me a call after you're done" ... I didn't expect the change to be so great after moving up to YWA... It's like I don't bother about Sundays as much as before... (well, Linda, going to church is for God, but .. WHAT'S WRONG OR WHAT'S RIGHT WITH ME?!)

The feeling's juz not right...Sundays seem to bore me alot...ever since transition. So much so I don't even bother to que for tickets like before... rather isolate myself...very soon I'll make myself into a busy bee. Cuz I used to keep my Sundays free for fellowship & church... but looks like it's so pointless now..
Sunday seem like any normal day now...it used to excite me so much...Saturday Arrow services, at YWA the culture is juz kinda different.

I juz can't fit in...no matter hoiw... I rather be by myself...
Sometimes I juz don't know even know where are my own cg people...Feel quite fed up. GOD, IS IT WRONG TO FEEL THIS WAY? haiz

I remember the celebrating of birthdays at Sky Garden & even poly cluster flooding it for blind mice, plus MAFIA @ starbucks...it's always before 4th service that we'll find most of the poly care groups planted around Mcds.And after 4th service the poly cluster would flood the marina square foodcourt...
I.M. team babes were a lovely group to be with as well..The weekday brainstorming sessions & props preparations was juz something to look forward to...
Honestly, I rather look forward to a serving Sunday than a non serving Sunday...somehow the sense of satisfaction on a serving Sunday is there...
I really can't tell, what's wrong or what's right with me? I feel as if a non serving
Sunday is a resting day yet it becomes like a day I dwell on missing the fellowship with my buncha Arrow people...
Therefore I've been thinking of making activities on Sundays... But I really can't figure out what to do... I juz felt like making it busy...
I receive the Word during service, but after service I walk around Suntec...& think of the old care group people =\
WHAT'S WRONG OR WHAT'S RIGHT WITH ME?
I DON'T KNOW.

3 days to Sunday now...
& blahx

LOOK FORWARD TO HILLSONG UNITED THE ZONE YOUTH CONCERT 08.

IT WILL BE GOOD.

cheer up babe! JESUS LOVES YOU!



princess לינדה הודית the Beloved @ 12:18 AM


Friday, April 18, 2008

love actually

Recently, I've been contemplating a complete makeover.
Apart from hair treatment, I wanna go for facials & maybe, even slimming centres =.=
but I am thinking of doing it, before I leave for Australia (if it's even successful)

A total new life, different person... bet people can't find me that easily too.
I wanna leave Singapore & be alone. Juz working the shyt out of myself.
Nobody to be bothered about...

I still remember when I first came to NCC.
I also wanted to isolate myself out of fellowship.
Because after all the backstabbing shyt that happened in my previous church, talking about my crush, (blablabla) & some problems, spreading the news to my usher leader, man it was like days of hell in a church. I thought it was juz useless being nice to people...

& the next church, the G12 shyt, being judged by the amount of friends you bring to church..
I got fed up...tho, they said I was on the verge of becoming a leader,
I couldn't give a rip... Cuz I felt my friends weren't treated the way they were supposed to be.
"forcing salvation into them" & thus, they got pissed off.
& yes, they hated NCC, and some other church. blahx.

With an utterly disappointed heart...
(and juz amazed at how strife can occur in a church)
I wanted to be in a church where I can go for services peacefully.
(and I thought, it could happen in a mega church)
Stay out of fellowship...
Nobody to be bothered about...
Nobody knows me...
So when Charissa was serving in choir, I went for BS alone.
But well, Kim found me alone in the que!
So in the end, she contacted me every BS.
& soon, I got integrated into Campus Ministry.
I juz knew I should stay out of fellowship.
At least I'll be a nobody attending services alone.
And yes, again, nobody knows me so that people could leave me alone.

I don't know how but somehow my network juz grew very rapidly in NCC.
Looking back, I was juz amazed.
Cuz even Pris Gan can't believe I am in NCC for only 2 years.
She ever said that she was in Arrow for about a year plus, but not knowing much of the people.
I wish I was somehow, like her.
But well, her family is in church with her, so that's a different story altogether.

It's not that I've not been enjoying church.
In fact, the Arrow school of helps, YWA RSM babes have been really nice & stuff.
Oh yeah, we're dominated with girls & only 3 or 4 guys?
But it's juz that too many things are going on,
in order to stop spreading this epidemic disease around,
I should juz shut up & keep to myself...

Blog is a danger.
I can't keep a diary at home too.
I remember how my mum juz loved to open up my diaries & letters.
Yes, I used to even have phobias receiving letters at home.
I never had privacy in my house.
She loves to touch my stuff.
My bro found my blog before...
hell yeah, that sucks. but my bro is a total IT geek.
so do I have a bloody choice?
haiz. I think I'll juz stick to blogging tho, rather than bottling it all up.
else, soon I'll be hitting the clubs, getting bottles of barcadi & in due time, be broke like a mouse.

but heck, well Sunday services, most of the time.
I choose to be alone, and not join the cg.
Maybe soon, after Arrow service, I'll dinner alone too.
I am going to start isolating myself.
I don't know what am I going to say next.
But I feel like a b*tch...

From a not depressed person...
all the shyt happening around me is making me juz wanna be by myself.



princess לינדה הודית the Beloved @ 11:00 AM


Thursday, April 17, 2008

isolating in progress

the third problem has begun...like man, why must all these be happenin'...

as I trace back the root causes, it always starts with family problems...it sucks, like totally. It's always THEM who brings problems to my friendships. People feel I'm squashing them with problems. Cuz my family always gives me problems & I can't bear them.
My parents disallow me to have emotions when I am at home. Sometimes it feels as though I am holding them in my heart. I remember getting scolded once for locking myself up in my room & cry.

I wanna cease all the friendship problems...that were birth outta family shyt.

Therefore, I feel it's time I move out of this place.

But first, I wanna get a laptop...

That's my essential gadget of my life.



princess לינדה הודית the Beloved @ 11:43 PM


Sunday, April 13, 2008

3rd post of the day


Somehow after not blogging for quite some time... I feel like blogging so much again...

Ms Debra Francisco (a teacher from CHIJ SJC, who happened to be Andrea Kirsten Francisco's cousin. Andrea, my fellow Arrow team I.M. mate who so happens to be my schoolmate too)
posted this on facebook today.

Re : SJC's 70th Anniversary Festivities

Hi to all SJCians!

I am an ex-girl from class of 1992 (who misses the days at Hillside Drive!) I also have been teaching at SJC for the past 8 years. We will be celebrating our 70th Anniversary this year with a myriad of events from June to September (including an Old Girl's Dinner).

We would really be grateful if you could pass the word around and tell all other ex-SJC girls of what's happening this year. We also need to urgently raise about $300,000 for our indoor Sports Hall. As you know, every Secondary School has to construct one on its grounds. Being a mission school means we have to fork 5% of the $4 million dollars (while govt schools get it FOC)

If you want to be informed of the coming events, just drop me a short note on FB.Better still, if you would like to make a donation in cash or kind, we would be really grateful.

Here's to all of us SJC women out there in the world, trying to make each day count, and still holding on to the memories of SJC that have made us who we are today. God Bless!

Debra

Well yes I guess I am probably spreading these news around. OLD GIRLS DINNER. must go.
oh MAN I'M SO GOING BACK!!!
lol. Call all the ex band girls. WAHAHAHAHA. tell EMULEE, DEBBIE, AG, Shalz & JOY JOY JOY! OH YES! AND AMANDA LEE FROM CARE GROUP! but I don't see her already =\
obviously Andrea will be notified. SHE'S MS DEBRA FRANCISCO's couzie anyways.



princess לינדה הודית the Beloved @ 11:37 PM




Isolation is a total danger

Recently, no matter how I rebuke the thoughts of isolation, it juz doesn't seem to be working.
Simply cuz the circumstances are allowing me to isolate myself, sadly.
During my tpcg days, Jon knew whenever I had those thoughts rising up, I always walk away or hide myself from my cg, therefore he always called/smsed me whenever he sensed that I went missing in action.Isolation was a thing that often occurs to me... and yes it comes to me whenever I feel upset...I tend to sit away from people....and juz go missing in action suddenly...

I remember when Bok from Ngee Ann care group spot me at the corner ...sitting on a wooden chair near the rock auditorium, or rather nearer to Wan Yang, almost on the verge of tear-ing (it was during a "family crisis" again) She juz asked if I was alright & asked me to join np cg for fellowship. It was then I realize how fellowship can drive my sad feelings away.

BUT sometimes, when people are too happy... and I really feel those upset feelings coming.
I juz don't wanna be around people...or many... lest it spoils their mood.
So I tend to "run away" ... I don't pick up calls, from my cg whenever I isolate. I sit in one corner & stone/cry.I don't know... but it really seems that only Arrow students leaders can sense it whenever it's happening.

Recently, I have been isolating myself successfully.
Seriously. Is that supposed to be a proud achievement? I don't think so.

Jon was sharing one care group, I guess it was cuz he knew that I had that habit...
about how isolation can be a danger, in life...and it's juz so true...
how much stupid things I've done during my school life when I really isolate, isolate.
And recently, whenever I isolate. I take panadol. =.=
Something that never happened in Arrow students.
Probably cuz I wasn't that bottled up,
I had hundreds of listening ears around me,
which encouraged me to share & not bottle up.

Now it's the other way round. I call/sms someone to ask if anyone if they are free for fellowship so as to avoid isolation. But circumstances, like nobody's free, juz seems to let the isolation come true...And somehow, I juz feel that negativity is getting stronger. It makes one do stupid things...
I really don't know...

Isolation is a dangerous thing. I don't know, but it really sucks when I don't really feel like going out. But like I told some people, my house is not a condusive place to pray or even study. Somehow my thoughts tend to run even wilder when I am at home, alone. In such a big house, with so many idols that used to scare the wits out of me when I was a kid. Not that it scares me now, but my parents hate it when I say a prayer at home. Or even mention "God" ...

Coach Maddie shared with us in Campus Ministry few years back about being SAFE. I can only remember this. "F" stands for Fellowship, how it can help us to stop our thoughts running wild when we are upset. We should be rebuking isolation.
I know it, yet no matter how I rebuke it, circumstances are juz allowing me not to have Godly alliances... or even allowing me to fellowship. SO HOW?

Enemy's playing mind games, not funny at all.



princess לינדה הודית the Beloved @ 5:11 PM




and it is only temporal.

these recent days are tough. Pastor said something today, which seems to be speaking to me. I really wonder... is it really temporal? Honestly, I am getting so fed up with myself that at times it seriously feels as if it's a viscous cycle.

I hurt the friend closest to me again.
And then I get so upset.
I start to self abuse in some way or another.
And then it's isolation.
I don't really feel like going out, or mixing too much with many.

For some moments, I thought I was hooked onto paracetemol. Juz cuz I felt stress, I started popping. The previous time I took 5 at one go, my stomach started hurting.
And people started saying, I lost alot of weight. True, cuz I simply had no appetite for dinner.
And I took panadol/paracetemol without meals.

It was in the past...that it was the other way round. In fact, now it still happens.
First, I get hurt by people who I thought I could trust.
And then, I start to cut myself.
And then it's isolation.

But now it's not friends that hurt me, it's my own flesh & blood, family members. That was happening since the age of... maybe... 7? I can't recall, but I only remember my parents always saying negative things about myself... That led to inferiority complex.
I probably would have fallen into bad company if I didn't land myself in a convent school.
Those b*tches were stuck up...somehow I started to isolate myself from people in school ...
It only improved in my ITE days... At least the people were real.

Now I feel like a b*tch, I start to hurt the friend closest to me...unconsciously by accusing what happened in the past to a friend of the present. I feel so freaking stupid.
I want to love like Jesus. I don't wanna love out of my own love, cuz it seriously makes me feel like a person that ain't really loving... cuz of whatever happened before.

I don't know, but I start to cannot stand my own bloody behavoir.

I want to love, but I end up hurting.

Is it cause of the way I was brought up?

How parents used to poison my brain? About friends?
Or even the true stories that happened in my previous church/schools?



princess לינדה הודית the Beloved @ 4:03 PM




Blogging Again

I've always wished I had a blog with many readers but well, though I am a person of high profile, I hate it when too many people know about my private life. Juz look at Britney Spears, how many people talk about her.

It was the multiply days & tpcg days...When everybody exchanging blog urls, friendster profiles & msn addys was a normal thing. But now, it's facebook.

I love to write, but maybe when I have a space of my own in the papers someday, I won't be writing about myself.

On the outside, many describe me as outgoing, "not shy", cheerful, contagious laughter & always smiling. But not many know about my private life. What happened to me before, how I really feel and what I really love to do. So this was what I told a friend of mine. I am a person who can make friends very quickly (I guess, thats why they selected me as one of the cg befrienders in my previous cg) BUT I do not share with everyone how I really feel.

I can give great hospitality to most people out there, I enjoy customer service.
But have you ever wondered, what the person who is giving you the customer service is actually feeling within?

You may ask but I may not tell. But since you're here, you're on my blog.
Yes, you SHOULD be my friend. Unless, you happened to be a passer by (like I don't know how, maybe you googled me)

So yup, right here are my honest feelings & a place I vent my frustrations.

I love writing essays. So I should, write an essay about my life here.



princess לינדה הודית the Beloved @ 3:40 PM