Oh no. After almost one year of blogging, I have finally come to the end of whatever ACJC photos that I have that are worthy of being put up on this blog. Somehow I am tempted to "recycle" the older pictures yet at the same time I realise that original content is often much more appreciated.
It shall be seen that one of these days when me and my brother are free, I shall go don my white and blue again just to snap a couple of silly photos in my uniform in "AC Tradition". Of course, I only have three or at most, four shots in mind. So it speaks for my creativity. Or whatever I have of it.
its amazing that if you give two persons the exact same scene. Some people can only take dull and bland photos of the landscape, yet others can bring out the depth of field as well as warmth of the photo. So with regards to photography, perhaps it is just another "professional test" of our creative ability. Something that indeed isn't so easy to develop.
Easter has been rather eventful for me. Just two non-stop days of ministry that went back to back. I believe that with every year that passes by, the drama team gets even better and even more creative than the previous year. To have the creativity to bring forth life in its purest essence, minus the dull bits in real time stage play is something laudable indeed. Not to mention it is run concurrently with live music from the church musicians. I really love such creative outlets of the ARTS!
Ministry duty was particularly memorable, although the indoor stadium was terribly crowded to the extent that about a thousand over people had to be kept outside. The place was so terribly crowded that there was hardly any room to move about. I saw that people began queuing for seats at about 5.30, when the service would only start at around 7.30.
There was this mother and daughter pair that walked in. They were new visitors to church and my guess was that they were unsaved because throughout praise and worship, they were just standing still with no reaction, whatsoever. Then came an announcement that a free CD would be given out. And somehow, I was tasked with this very simple duty.
However, I was nowhere near my area of duty when the announcement came and so no one actually managed to get the free CD. It was only sometime through the drama show that I just tapped the girl, probably just about 11 or 13 years old, and handed her the CD. And walked away.
However, just before I moved off, I noticed this sudden joy and excitement in this girl's eyes. I believe that some forms of communication need not be verbal, and that some of the strongest feelings that we experience can be read right through the sparkle in our eyes. What was more apparent just an instant later was that this little girl's mother just suddenly burst into a total smile with quiet laughter.
So came the drama and the like and strangely. As much as I didn't cry during the Passion, I had to walk away from my duty area when they started to hit Jesus. Its like, with every crack of the whip, I can feel pain in my heart. Yes and I had to walk somewhere behind a wall to wipe away my tears.
Ok, so cold hearted people like me still shed tears when confronted with the enormity of the sacrifice that Jesus went through for us. I have to add that I always love the part when Jesus descends into hell and kicks satan and snatches away the keys of the death and hell from satan. It just resonates with my feelings rather well.
So came the call for salvation and to cut the long story short, the girl gave her heart to Jesus! Somehow, I felt very happy! Then came the call for those who had given their hearts to Jesus to collect a "counsellor's pack" - a small ziplocked bag with some basic fundamentals of Christianity. And she didn't raise her hand!
So I just grabbed one and passed it to her. Her mum gave a SHOCKED reaction. And they left the place immediately after that. This really makes me wonder. Oh, the amount of sociol-politico-religious debate a simple affair like this can stir up! I wouldn't be surprised with what might happen. Some things in life are just too predictable at times.
Well after service was done and over with. If I'm not wrong, I saw the ever beautiful SHERYL LIN! So pretty! And she had been sitting near my area all the while! Ah, how blind can I be at times! Well, whoever reads this can gain reference from the testimonial Mr. QL-BECKIE wrote for me in my friendster account, and the one that I wrote for him regarding HER in BECKIE's friendster profile.
Oh dear. Looking at that girl makes quite a number of memories crash back on me! It like whisks me back to my ACJC days and suddenly all that deluge of thoughts start pouring forth once again. Anyone, STEPH, she is your senior in 2SG4. And some of the ARTS people might know her "as the girl who switched from arts to sciences after the 2nd intake". And I agree with the unanimous notion of my fellow "brudders" that she is one of those AC girls that deserve to be in the top 10.
Its been more than a year since I've left the school. So I guess its no longer taboo to talk about the girl's in a "more open" manner. At least it still proves to me that I'm "quite so normal" despite a "delayed reaction to the moderating factors in JC". Amazing phrases AC Boys can come up with to describe all kinds of simple "phenomena".
But then again, I never disagreed on calling "no sex before marriage" a more politically correct and confusing "system of limitations and boundaries". It really bodes well for the parents for realise that this "coming of age" is being taken into at a "more responsible perspective". I really have to salute some of the most creative ACSians I know that can cook up such phrases because they are simply so funny and such unique one-liners.
Then again, when I think about the church drama, somehow, I wouldn't have minded joining the drama "society" if not for all the self-destructive politics and teacher-biasedness/favouritism to an obvious degree. They are really one hell of a "society" with their special "rules and regulations" and self-proclaimed "elitism" plus "all kinds of weird things go on in there".
Then again, I guess that the more weirdoes there are in drama, the better it becomes. I really ought to have been a part of it. Would have been the most suitable candidate for the role of a "person of unsound mind". I wouldn't say that I'm really crazy or suffering from a severe degree of schizophrenia. But I am definitely unstable just as I am. My frame of mind as well as thought process are just so weird and most of the time it gives rise to me behaving in a rather "unstable manner". Food for thought indeed.
"Eh, you know ah, I think that drama is really the collection of all the weirdoes in school. Nowonder they always win first prize every year. I always can't understand what they're acting about! It just looks like a weird gay charade type of show to me!" - anonymous.
(Ha)^3!
And with regards to elitism of another kind. I just saw one of my old AC friends today. He was doing the job of a delivery boy, delivering couches to offices in the CBD. On a sunday as well. Interesting indeed. What is more interesting is that his dad is a very successful investment banker at one of the top financial institutions in the world.
Talk about learning humility, coming "back to basics" and "starting from the bottom". And he's really smart to boot as well.
Humility must be learned by the self-humbling of one's spirit and a desire to regards all the rest of mankind above self. To be selfless as well as having a deep passion for compassion for others. Whether they be blessed, lost, unsaved, disabled, handicapped, condemened, mocked at or ridiculed.
One of my good ACS friends, Anthony has only this to say about humility,
"It is probably the hardest character attribute to achieve"
It shall be seen that one of these days when me and my brother are free, I shall go don my white and blue again just to snap a couple of silly photos in my uniform in "AC Tradition". Of course, I only have three or at most, four shots in mind. So it speaks for my creativity. Or whatever I have of it.
its amazing that if you give two persons the exact same scene. Some people can only take dull and bland photos of the landscape, yet others can bring out the depth of field as well as warmth of the photo. So with regards to photography, perhaps it is just another "professional test" of our creative ability. Something that indeed isn't so easy to develop.
Easter has been rather eventful for me. Just two non-stop days of ministry that went back to back. I believe that with every year that passes by, the drama team gets even better and even more creative than the previous year. To have the creativity to bring forth life in its purest essence, minus the dull bits in real time stage play is something laudable indeed. Not to mention it is run concurrently with live music from the church musicians. I really love such creative outlets of the ARTS!
Ministry duty was particularly memorable, although the indoor stadium was terribly crowded to the extent that about a thousand over people had to be kept outside. The place was so terribly crowded that there was hardly any room to move about. I saw that people began queuing for seats at about 5.30, when the service would only start at around 7.30.
There was this mother and daughter pair that walked in. They were new visitors to church and my guess was that they were unsaved because throughout praise and worship, they were just standing still with no reaction, whatsoever. Then came an announcement that a free CD would be given out. And somehow, I was tasked with this very simple duty.
However, I was nowhere near my area of duty when the announcement came and so no one actually managed to get the free CD. It was only sometime through the drama show that I just tapped the girl, probably just about 11 or 13 years old, and handed her the CD. And walked away.
However, just before I moved off, I noticed this sudden joy and excitement in this girl's eyes. I believe that some forms of communication need not be verbal, and that some of the strongest feelings that we experience can be read right through the sparkle in our eyes. What was more apparent just an instant later was that this little girl's mother just suddenly burst into a total smile with quiet laughter.
So came the drama and the like and strangely. As much as I didn't cry during the Passion, I had to walk away from my duty area when they started to hit Jesus. Its like, with every crack of the whip, I can feel pain in my heart. Yes and I had to walk somewhere behind a wall to wipe away my tears.
Ok, so cold hearted people like me still shed tears when confronted with the enormity of the sacrifice that Jesus went through for us. I have to add that I always love the part when Jesus descends into hell and kicks satan and snatches away the keys of the death and hell from satan. It just resonates with my feelings rather well.
So came the call for salvation and to cut the long story short, the girl gave her heart to Jesus! Somehow, I felt very happy! Then came the call for those who had given their hearts to Jesus to collect a "counsellor's pack" - a small ziplocked bag with some basic fundamentals of Christianity. And she didn't raise her hand!
So I just grabbed one and passed it to her. Her mum gave a SHOCKED reaction. And they left the place immediately after that. This really makes me wonder. Oh, the amount of sociol-politico-religious debate a simple affair like this can stir up! I wouldn't be surprised with what might happen. Some things in life are just too predictable at times.
Well after service was done and over with. If I'm not wrong, I saw the ever beautiful SHERYL LIN! So pretty! And she had been sitting near my area all the while! Ah, how blind can I be at times! Well, whoever reads this can gain reference from the testimonial Mr. QL-BECKIE wrote for me in my friendster account, and the one that I wrote for him regarding HER in BECKIE's friendster profile.
Oh dear. Looking at that girl makes quite a number of memories crash back on me! It like whisks me back to my ACJC days and suddenly all that deluge of thoughts start pouring forth once again. Anyone, STEPH, she is your senior in 2SG4. And some of the ARTS people might know her "as the girl who switched from arts to sciences after the 2nd intake". And I agree with the unanimous notion of my fellow "brudders" that she is one of those AC girls that deserve to be in the top 10.
Its been more than a year since I've left the school. So I guess its no longer taboo to talk about the girl's in a "more open" manner. At least it still proves to me that I'm "quite so normal" despite a "delayed reaction to the moderating factors in JC". Amazing phrases AC Boys can come up with to describe all kinds of simple "phenomena".
But then again, I never disagreed on calling "no sex before marriage" a more politically correct and confusing "system of limitations and boundaries". It really bodes well for the parents for realise that this "coming of age" is being taken into at a "more responsible perspective". I really have to salute some of the most creative ACSians I know that can cook up such phrases because they are simply so funny and such unique one-liners.
Then again, when I think about the church drama, somehow, I wouldn't have minded joining the drama "society" if not for all the self-destructive politics and teacher-biasedness/favouritism to an obvious degree. They are really one hell of a "society" with their special "rules and regulations" and self-proclaimed "elitism" plus "all kinds of weird things go on in there".
Then again, I guess that the more weirdoes there are in drama, the better it becomes. I really ought to have been a part of it. Would have been the most suitable candidate for the role of a "person of unsound mind". I wouldn't say that I'm really crazy or suffering from a severe degree of schizophrenia. But I am definitely unstable just as I am. My frame of mind as well as thought process are just so weird and most of the time it gives rise to me behaving in a rather "unstable manner". Food for thought indeed.
"Eh, you know ah, I think that drama is really the collection of all the weirdoes in school. Nowonder they always win first prize every year. I always can't understand what they're acting about! It just looks like a weird gay charade type of show to me!" - anonymous.
(Ha)^3!
And with regards to elitism of another kind. I just saw one of my old AC friends today. He was doing the job of a delivery boy, delivering couches to offices in the CBD. On a sunday as well. Interesting indeed. What is more interesting is that his dad is a very successful investment banker at one of the top financial institutions in the world.
Talk about learning humility, coming "back to basics" and "starting from the bottom". And he's really smart to boot as well.
Humility must be learned by the self-humbling of one's spirit and a desire to regards all the rest of mankind above self. To be selfless as well as having a deep passion for compassion for others. Whether they be blessed, lost, unsaved, disabled, handicapped, condemened, mocked at or ridiculed.
One of my good ACS friends, Anthony has only this to say about humility,
"It is probably the hardest character attribute to achieve"
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