Monday, October 27, 2008

A Pretty Write-up by a Pretty Girl...

... and a pretty huge headache for the editor posting it up, pretty wacky font styles and all. (copying and pasting what she sent me just kills the post, thanks to the black background. trust me, it's not all that simple... but the hassle's worth it.)

report by: Eulene Ooi
photography: Tan Wei-Lynn and Elisha Low

Prayer,
groups of 3-5.
Leroy wanted us to pray about how God had blessed us which was something that we knew we needed to remind us.
and before prayer started,
Leroy asked if there was anyone to share about how God had blessed him/her for the past week.
Joyce shared about how God had
blessed her health followed by Justin with his studies and Leroy with his college assignments.

and Tania, our ice breaker planner planned the ALIENS AND MACHINE GUNS game.
doesn't it sound so FUN?
excluding the lights in the room that were switched off and two CREEPY aliens with their machine guns having their aim to kill us innocent people.
YEAH. it was fun. :]

service continued with worship led by Ming Yen with songs I'm Not Ashamed, By Your Side, Always By My Side, and More than Life.
doesn't the second song r
elate to the third song?
random, i know.
then,

we had our very first announcements in video !
awesome isn't it?
with NO deleted and edited scenes.
SO YOU TEENS FROM FIREBRANDS.
always wanted to show your true talents?

wanted to be famous?
then find MS MING YEN for any further information.


we had our preacher, Pastor Heok Cheow with his sermon adventure with Christ which was interesting, listening to his sermon and the past fireBRANDS' history.
"the truth is, God loves teenagers''
we can't help it but to just agree with him.
not that God doesn't love older people
but yeah.



God works in the SUPERNATURAL.


Pastor Heok Cheow ended his sermon with prayer.
and farewells for everyone

except those who went for supper.


and yes, there is ADVENTURE WITH CHRIST no matter what :]

Thursday, October 23, 2008

Camping. In Dorms.


camp (n.): A place where tents, huts, or other temporary shelters are set up, as by soldiers, nomads, or travelers

- smarterchild@hotmail.com

Tents? Huts? Temporary shelters?

Now thankfully, for any anti-nature modernist out there, there's another definition (many other definitions, actually, but you wouldn't want this post to transmogrify into a dictionary):

camp (n.): a place where young people go on holiday/vacation and take part in various activities or a particular activity
- Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

Now that's more like it. Kinda.

Finally, just for fun, another definition of the word 'camp':

camp (n.): a place set apart for God to meet the people in a powerful way
- Pastor Victor Lim Kok Leong

[You kinda get the groove of what Ps. Lim Kok Leong's dictionary would be like, if he writes one.]
Darn right God wants to meet you. Trust me, it's more than advisable not to keep Him waiting. Or you'll be missing out on all He has for you.

The poster above says pretty much everything (and I'm not about to write a whole essay based on it), but somehow it leaves out the cost (like most ads do), i.e. RM 220.

And, obviously, where there's mad people, there'll be mad games. (Think 'di mana ada semut, di situ ada gula'.)

It's the 12th time AYC is being held, but it never gets redundant.

And finally, as all promos say: Come!


[This promo ends with a request to all kind readers to refrain from spamming the chatbox with any remark which has the same implication as the statement, "Dorms?!". However, messages like "Kok Leong?" are pretty much fine, I guess.]

Monday, October 20, 2008

Where God is on a Saturday Night

Saturday night couldn't help but feel a little routine. Which isn't surprising, considering it's been going on for over a decade.
A decade with new faces, of course.

A write-up on the happenings on 18/10/08; 7:00-9:30p.m.

(It's really, really hard to write this without it sounding boring or clichéd, so do symphatise a wee bit and bear with it.)

Prayer. Small groups of 3-5. Only this time Sarah Khoo wanted gender-specific groups (confusion didn't occur, thank God), with an addition to the usual prayer points: guys pray for gals and vice versa.
And somehow Kutu got the idea of upholding gender-confused humans in prayer. Which we also did, mind you.

And as if this write-up couldn't get any more boring, it's this writer's unenviable job to painstakingly continue on, to the icebreaker. (Call it self-pity.)
It was Tania's bright idea. Four people 'kill' others while shaking hands, another four try to find out who the serial killers are. The others, well, they just go around, wide smiles, shaking each other people's hands, asking for full names.
It ended, as James puts it, as a "joke", when it turned out that one of the killers was accidentally killed by another killer.

Now, routines are meant to be routinely followed because they are routines. Next on the list, praise and worship led by Joyce.
The first two songs were aptly based on freedom; [freedom from PMR and] freedom through Christ (AYC '08's theme: Freed2Follow).
And it's pretty interesting to note that the female bipeds stand in front during worship, whereas the guys are, well, farther back (in more ways than one? haha just joking).

Having done this for more than a few times, it was apparent that preacher-for-the-night Leroy appeared confident through and through. (It's like a makcik making nasi lemak everyday; it seems relatively easy to her.)
His sermon encapsulated a few remarkable testimonies and the Nash Equilibrium (brilliant Economics mumbo-jumbo) in a nutshell, all set on experiencing God's miracles in our lives.

Finally, it ended with doughnuts for the PMR-ers, courtesy of Eunice Lee.

And yes, God's definitely there every Saturday night. He'd never miss it.

"Would you miss it?" - Justin Loh Shern Cho (the wannabe philosopher)

Sunday, October 19, 2008

The Opening Ceremony

The Ed (Ed stands for Editor) hereby declares this blog open.
(Applause, cheers and screams encouraged.)

[Yes, we did need a post just for that]

PS: Justin Loh'll create a blogskin (I hope) when he's free. For now, ignore the plain design and enjoy the awesome posts to come.