Our Song Official Video By Taylor Swift

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tim mcgraw by taylor swift

*melts*

TAYLOR SWIFT: TEARDROPS ON MY GUITAR

can't get sick of her.

Blessed.

I've been so blessed recently. 

Mom gave me $150 in total, spanning 3 weeks in total. A mysterious person that signed off as God blessed me with $50.

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When I'm in need, You heard and You gave. 

When I asked, You heard and You gave.

You said, "Be of no fear, for I AM with you." "Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened upon you."

All these promises that You gave may not have been fulfilled instantly, but in accordance to Your timing.

You said, "Look upon Me and I'll lift you up."

"Yes Lord." I said. "Take away these excess baggage, I just want to be that Joel once again."

"No. I've anointed you to do greater things for Me. You're not a nobody, but you're someone in the kingdom of Heaven. You'll provide for your family, you'll live in prosperity and you'll be a blessing to everyone." 

"A bruised reed I will not break, and a smoldering wick I will not snuff out, till I lead justice to victory." 

I think apple's really smart.

Launching their Safari (Internet Explorer) in Microsoft platforms, i can't help but download and use it.

Its smooth, links easily accessed and its an eye candy.

I think all the cool people should download and use it!

Taylor Swift - Picture to Burn [ Official Music Video ]

As usual. Super duper gorgeous

oh yah.

My links page looks pathetic. Send me your links and I'll link you up!

Taylor Swift has a new single!

Picture to Burn. Angst song, but it's nice! (because its by taylor swift) As usual, she looks extremely drop dead gorgeous. I'll probably turn into an apple if I ever get to meet her.

Check it out in YouTube! I tried uploading it in here, but it just wouldn't work.

Irritating.

Been eons since I wrote here in this space.

Feel that there's too many words here, lacking pictures! But I don't possess any camera phones or digital cameras, thus the lack of pictures.

Updates!

Easter has been fantastic. Though it was really tiring, but its all worth it! Did something different just now. I was the Wii station master at expo. The fun thing about that is that i get to see overexcited adults trying to box each other, or self entertained kids cheering whenever their bowling balls hit the pins.

Not to mention the numeral times I had to teach young and old on operating the Wii and gameplay.

I made several new friends too! All aged 12 and under.

Super cute kids standing shyly behind the crowd, wanting to play, but afraid to ask. But the moment you hand them the consoles, their facial expressions change. SUPER CUTE.

But then again, this happens only when they're happy. Heh.

School Of Theology! I checked with my ZS and he has confirmed that I've gotten into SOT! Praise God!! But the opening in church office isn't open for me as I lack the qualifications. Well, it's okie! I can still work at other places and I believe God will provide for me!!

So far, I've about 3-4 friends that signed up for SOT this year. Hopefully we'll get to work together and do great works for Him!!

To think of it, its just 2 weeks away from the first day of SOT. Wow!! Really got not much time left!! Got to look for a job to start working after I ORD!! Else i'll have to walk to church every morning and fast every single day. Haha!

Hello Mas Selamat,

Watch out.

I'm here to find you.

Cheerios
2LT Joel Kuek

Got to make decisions!

Decisions that will ultimately affect my destiny, my future and my calling in God.

Dilemna.

I'm feeling ultimately ultra-ly blessed right now.

Firstly, I had a zone prayer meeting yesterday and after the PM, i asked my ZS if he's rushing down to Jurong West. So he asked me to join him and travel down to Jurong with him, but he has to go back to Suntec first.

No problem with me, I felt.

In the cab, I asked if there's any vacancy in church office as I'm looking for a part-time job after I ORD. He said that there's a vacancy and its half related to what I did in polytechnic. Wasn't much details, but he'll check it out for me. Best thing is that I can work full-time for that job, while studying in SOT!

Then, he also mentioned that he'll find out if I'm applicable for sponsorship in SOT!!

Next in line, Pastor preached about being a servant. This time, he pitched for full-time ministry workers! My heart leaped in joy when he mentioned that and asked those who feels a call to full-time ministry to raise up their hands and he'll pray a special prayer for us. This happened in Jurong.

Rushed down to expo to support the security there..

Pastor shared the same message, but this time, not only did he ask us to raise up our hands, he asked us to stand up and asked those sitting around us to lay hands on us to pray for us! Wow! I'm really glad/blessed that I was asked to replace another security last minute. Don't tell me its coincidental because I believe everything has been planned for by God.

During the process of being prayed for, I felt this burning sensation on my eyes. The entire process of being prayed for, I felt this heat on my eyes and it didnt go off until we stopped praying. I strongly believe that it's the Holy Spirit's anointing and being on my eyes, it should mean something like the Holy Spirit strengthing the vision that God has given to me.

Well, thats my accessment. If you're able to interpret such signs, please let me know=P

So in 1 day, I seem to have gotten confirmation that signing up for SOT is the right thing and the jigsaw puzzle is forming at the right places now. I believe I've taken the right step, a step of faith into the unknown, trusting God that He'll provide for me.

Now I'm praying that these doors will remain open and more doors will open up for me to transform into what God wants me to be!

Praise the Lord!

Praise the LORD!

Let's hope for the best in the upcoming seasons! HAHA!!

SOT, HERE I COME!

I need more of You!!

Finding myself losing self control more and more. Especially when it comes to dealing with people that I dislike. Not that I hate them, but their actions make me slightly irritated at times. It doesn't help much when I'm related to them.

Though not everyone is sensitive to their surroundings, but everyone MUST learn to be! I'm not someone whom you can make fun of, tease about or joke of. I don't wear a red wig and nose with huge matching shoes. There's always a limit to something.

Whats worst is having this mentality. They can do it to me, but if I do something else, I'll get that, "How can you do that!?" remark. ARGH!!

So what are you trying to tell me? You're better than me? I don't have to prove to you that I'm better or whatever, but your antics are seriously irritating me! Its like telling me that I've a speck in my eye, but you've a log in yours.

Definitely, there's a lot for me to learn as well. I can learn to be much more long suffering, to learn how to love those that's slightly difficult to love. Maybe this is what God wants me to learn. So give me more strength Lord!! before I blow up and rebuke them.

Seriously resisting the temptation to scold them because they're just having fun and probably got overboard. Thats why they must all learn to be sensitive!! Can't expect you to keep smiling at me if I were to keep poking you right!?

So what did I do? Just smiled and kept quiet. SIGH. The meek ones are the strongest. I'm probably far from being strong, but I know that at least I made a right decision earlier and I'm slightly stronger now.

The journey continues and I really hope things will improve, though knowing that this is not the way God works. He sharpens me, with another iron.

>.<

I think I need to change.

Ok. Not I think, i MUST change!

Pastor Ulf taught about fears today for service. Something that's always being mentioned and reminded by many people. But its only today, I finally received something in my spirit, or simply mind.

Consider this for a moment. It would be difficult for you to talk to someone if he frequently shy away from you, or seems just afraid to talk to you. I realized that I've been doing that all these while and its certainly unhealthy.

I should learn to be more confident of myself, carry myself well and learn to speak with confidence. This will not just make me confident of myself, it dispels fears in my life.

I must stop being fearful of speaking up or being outstanding. Fearful of being the odd one out. But of cos, I do not want to appear boastful or prideful. Confidence is something that I carry in my spirit.

Even when situations screams in my face, I've the confidence and composure to make the right decision. I will not allow fear to take place in my decision makings and spoil God's destiny for me.

Its not self denial, thinking that you can handle situations that come your way. But it should come from the assurance that God is always with me and the Holy Spirit is always guiding me.

So when I serve Pastors every week, I should get more comfortable serving them. Things shouldn't remain the same from day 1. There must be growth!! Every week I serve them, there must be growth!!

If not, I'm just a person that walks them up and down every week.

Not that I become friendly with pastors, but I should become more confident whenever I speak to them. I shouldn't be mumbling my replies or look lost whenever I'm expected of something. I shouldn't come to a stage when I just get so tensed up whenever there are important guests.

Embrace the moment and serve with all of my ability!

Time to step out of my comfort zone and stretch my capacity again! Without fear, but faith! Knowing that through all these adversities, God will strengthen me and guide me in His ways!

Kids.

They're so adorable when they're having fun. Smiles on their faces or that gint in their eyes when they're up to something mysterious.

When you tell them something believable, they might just believe you whole heartedly. Probably thats why Jesus once said its easier for a child to enter the kingdom of God.

They simply just believe!

Kids don't even know what's pain when they're enjoying themselves. They can fall countless of times while ice skating, but because its fun and something new, they'll pick themselves up and carry on skating.

Or if they're about to fall, they'll automatically grab onto something. They'll not move unless being led by someone and if they are left alone at a place, they'll move to a place where they feel safe.

If only most Christians were like this too!

Always having that child-like faith in us, we're always hungry for more of God and His word. We absorb whatever the bible says and believes it whole heartedly. Even though we may stumble in our walk with God, we'll pick ourselves up and laugh about it. Then carry on with life loving God even more than before.

I was with my nephews and nieces ice skating at kallang and noticed all these things. Though it might be just a once in a blue moon experience, I guess its more than enough for God wanting to tell me something.

Basically kids really don't have any worries. Who cares about food? Because their parents are gonna pay for their food everyday. Who cares about clothes? Because their parents buy them new clothes.

All kids know and do is to enjoy themselves as much as possible. No matter what it is, it can be very enjoyable for them. From ice skating to dunking a piece of popcorn chicken into pepsi is fun, and they can do it with such great passion!

I'm definitely not asking you not to work and wait for money to drop from heaven. But I guess its the assurance that God will provide because you're His child and being a good Father, He'll definitely give you whatever you want and ask for.

But if you're a spoilt and bad kiddie, would God still pamper you? Probably not as much right? same goes for those spoilt and bad kids that we usually experience once in a while. Didn't you just wish that he/she would just disappear from your sight and stop irritating you? Parents, wouldn't you feel that your child is just a disaster and out of control?

But at the end of the day, your child will still look extremely angelic when he/she falls asleep.

Same goes for our Heavenly Father! Well, I don't think he feel irritated whenever He sees us misbehaving, but I'm quite sure that at the end of the day, God would tell Satan that we're His beloved children and Satan has no dominion over us.

But that doesn't mean that we can remain childish and immatured all our lives. It's cute for a 5 year old girl to give bambi eyes over sweets, but disgusting for a 30 years old lady to do so.

If God has enpowered us with something, He expects us to use it! If not, why would He even give these gifts and talents to us?

As kids, they'll probably not understand what's their gifts and talents. But as grown ups, you should know what're your gifts and talents and you should start learning how to maximize your potential within!

If you do not know, means you're still living in a nut-shell. So its time for you to emerge and breakthrough! Break out of your nut shells and find out about your gifts and talents! It's about time now!

Somebody buy these tops for me?

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You THE Leader!

Yes, YOU!

Amazing book. To think that I almost forgot Sharon brought for me that book years ago for my birthday. Thank God I found it and started reading it. Read it everywhere in my office. I think after a meeting with my boss, and the freedom that he's giving me, I'm so going to convert my office into a place of dreams and visions.

A place where people come and get inspired to achieve great results, and not just that, they envision success and enjoy the fruits of success after putting in hardwork.

I'll challenge my guys to achieve the impossible. Defintely within hardwork's and dedication's range, I'll place in them a vision to not just accomplish the ordinary, but the extraordinary. I'm going to place in them a vision that will last them thru their NS life and hopefully beyond NS life.

Since i'm their 'leader', might as well be one that empower their lives. Then we'll all have a fruitful 2 years of NS life and probably something that we'll never forget.

I think I'll spend majority of tomorrow to plan something life changing for my company.

*excited*

Late post.

Sunday was quite an eventful day. Served in Jurong West as Erick had an urgent job assignment, so I stood in for him. As it was Dr AR Bernard sharing the word with the church, i didn't mind serving an extra day because I get to listen to his sermon.

Missed out majority of his sermon as I was at backstage and there were pretty much movement in and out of the door. But I caught several points at the ending which I thought was very true.

Our character is so important, so is our reputation. If we are known to have good reputation and great attitudes, people would easily believe whatever we share with them. But if I do not have a good reputation and a good attitude, people may not believe whatever I'm sharing with them.

If I'm known to be a person that always lie, would you believe the things that I share with you? But if I'm a person that's proven to be trustworthy, whats the possibility of you doubting my words?

If I had a bad reputation, but I may have a good attitude, people may still judge me for my bad reputation. Things that I've done in the past may become my stumbling block, thus this is the reason why ex convicts find it difficult to adapt into society and some of them fall back into the vice again.

Good reputation but bad attitude? Always too proud to help those around you, snobbish and carries the 'holier than thou' attitude. These people are just building themselves an altar and they worship themselves. There's no God in their lives, but loads of 'ME-GOD'. Though he/she may have an excellence track of reputation records, such attitudes wouldn't attract much people into their lives because they're so self-centred.

So if you've a good reputation and good attitude, people trust your words and people would want to make friends with you because of your great attitude. Maybe they'll even lay down their lives for you if you help them out of a difficult situation. With good reputation, words that you speak carries power and anointing because its proven that you're trustworthy.

Talents vs Character?

Talents maybe good but without good character, basically its junk. If God has given you a talent, use it! Share it with others that may not be as talented as you are. Help those that aren't so talented. God gives you something for a purpose, not for you to indulge in self-admiration.

If God gives you the talent to sing, serve! Sing in the choir or lead praise and worship in CG. Do not just sing for yourself in KBox, basking in the admiration of your friends because they can't stop praising you after every song that you sing.

Some people may argue that they rather be humble and stay low. But I say its wrong as well! Some people are so humble that they're so proud that they're so humble. Its not wrong to accept praises, not wrong to bask in the glory for a moment. But its definitely wrong when people praise you and you keep denying even though you know that you're good. But in order to be humble, you 'reject' the praises.

Why don't you accept the praises and give thanks to God because He's the One that gave you the gift, talent or ability to do exceedingly well!

I think I'm speaking to several people in this post. I do hope that my short explainations do help you a little. But if you would like to prove your POV, you can always contact me and we can have a debate.

=)

Commanding leadership.

A question that burned in my head for the past few days as i thought to myself, "how am i going to command leadership, in my company that's full of sgts and some of them in the company longer than I've been."

Its not just wearing the rank on my shoulders and expecting everyone to respect me. No doubt they've to obey my instructions, but are they doing it with a willing heart or out of no-choiceness?

I thought being nice and everybody's friend would be the key. But soon i realized that there would be some that would step over your head and make a fool out of you. Sometimes you let personal relationships decide who gets the shitty jobs and who gets recognized.

I soon abandoned that choice.

Then I began to adopt a neutral attitude towards everyone. I should treat everyone as equal and set specific people to certain tasks. Knowing his capacity and abilities, I'll assign him tasks equivalent to his ability.

Then they begin complaining of overwhelming amount of work to do and why they're always doing such things.

Classical example of the rich getting richer, the poor getting poorer. Anyway, that's not the main point for this entry.

Based on what would my guys run if I ask them to. If I ask them to do something, will they do it because I said so or because i did so?

Being a leader, I set standards. At the same time, I'm a walking example of how things are to be conducted. If i want them to be neat, I've to be neat myself. If i want their uniforms ironed, mine has to be ironed. Everything I do HAS to be better then what's expected of them.

So if I ask my guys to run faster, I've to run even faster then them.

Something that i learnt during my exercise was that i set the morale and tempo of my troops. If I'm excited, they'll be excited. If I've a nonchalant attitude about things, so will they.

Basically, they'll adopt whatever the leader is carrying.

Of cos, I'm no superman. There'll always be somebody who's fitter, stronger and faster than me. So now, its not how I'm best in everything, but it's how I handle the situation.

I can be a loser and blame everything for the 'defeat'. Or I can be the ultimate winner and learn pointers from the other person. I believe this is what a leader is about. He's not just there to lead others, but he's also there ready to learn from others.

Leaders have always been associated as high flyers, proud snobs and impatient people. Not true! Jesus's a leader in his field of expertise. We don't read in the bible that He goes around ignoring people, insisting that everyone worships Him because He's the Holy One.

Instead, He goes around serving people and wins them over. He goes all over the place, preaching the gospel, healing the sick and performing miracles. So when Jesus asked His disciples to go into the world and preach His word to the lost, His disciples did!

Basically, they did what Jesus did when He was on earth. The disciples preached, healed the sick and performed miracles! Just like what Jesus did! Till today, such things are still happening all over the world.

So can you imagine the impact you'll be able to have, if you were to be like Jesus, going around doing things that you want others to do as well and in that process, impact their lives.

Wow.