ChIcKeRiFic LiFe

Dear all, Thank you so much for giving comments so far…….So sorry I was unable to reply or even update myself cause I was very very busy these few days…..But it was a fruitful type of busy for me cause God was really speaking and teaching me lots of stuff.

NATIONAL CONFERENCE 2005

National Conference (NC) was held from the 28th of Nov till the 3rd of Dec in Peace Haven, Genting Highland. About 450 students attended this conference. They were all from the campuses and colleges all over Malaysia and there were even students from Hong Kong, Korea and Japan. The theme for this conference was en.ZYME…….in lame man’s term ‘like YIS in a batch of dough’. As Christians we are called to be like YIS….to permeate into our society to spread the love of Christ. The Conference was great…I met lots and lots of people there. Met up also with my Camp Cameron friends and also my Camp family. The whole conference gave new meaning to lots of CFs that attended. There was one participant who said "I believe that God will do something great after NC for all the campuses". As for me, God really spoke to me. The whole conference really was a refresher and also a rechallenge by God about my Christian walk with Him in my campus. When I was in 1st Year….somebody once prayed and said that God has a big plan for me in campus. I didn’t realise what it was until 2nd Year when I was serving in my CF. It was really to show the CF that it needs to be an aset to the university. My conviction always was if one day USM decided to ban our CF, will the community in USM fight for us? For the time being I guess not…the CF have become a social club for Christians to meet. We have made our own comfort zone for ourselves. It challenged my president and me a lot. The CF have come a long way indeed. The unification of the Chinese and English section was indeed a hard but a fruitful decision. Right now my burden is for the BM section. They have been secluded long enough and now it’s time to bring them back. It’s going to be hard but I believe that God is really calling for that. So please pray for us…

I was also part of a small group…actually I led one. CHEGAR PERAH was our name. A small town in Pahang. My group was a very quiet group but a very spiritual one. The people in my group were from Mature Christians to a new believer. But our discussions were really fruitful and meaningful. I really miss yo guys.

15th NATIONAL LASALLIAN LEADERS CONVENTION (NLLC)

The NLLC was held on the 4th of December till the 9th of December. Yes I had no rest. Unlike NC, NLLC was a project I was involved since Form six and have been loving it every year. The convention was attended by 88 participants from all Lasallian schools in Malaysia and Singapore. I was part of the Organizing Team and believe me it was GREAT. The theme this year was ‘A STEP FURTHER - CHALLENGE THE BOUNDARIES’. The theme really spoke to a lot of people including myself. The whole convention process was really challenging. Firstly I was in charge of Ice Breakers…..again. Sigh, when I first got the job I wanted out cause I didn’t want to be labeled the Ice Breaker guy aka Energizer Bunny. But Eric told me something one day…ever thought why you are always there….have you ever thought that maybe you are there to train people up to be like you..TING…didn’t think of that. Haha…It was really a selfish decision not to do it because maybe I didn’t want other people to be better than me….well it was the first boundary broken…..with that I want to thank Moira and Cheryl for being the greatest kuncu-kuncu I ever had.

I was also incharge of the Heritage Play. A real killer cause it was the OT’s doing it. My greatest fear was time….can we do it?…..well OT’s you have proven that you guys can do wonders…..and yup the play was sucessful. For me it was the process of getting the play to work that became a learning for me. Personally I’ve seen myself grow a lot from this experience.

But the thing I wanted to share was that God was working in this convention. Personally I was asking God questions like whether I should continue on this journey. The whole week God was showing signs that He did and then I realise, I’m helping people realising that we need to help our society. A lot of Christians were in this convention and  alot of them were convicted that they too have become ignorant and also apathy towards the poor and the less fortunate. Some have even repented during one of the nights (btw the convention is not a religious programme). I was touched…and God really worked in mysterious ways like when the rain should come or shouldn’t come haha…….Anyway it was great. And i’m ready for next year’s convention (if I get invited…Vinesh hint hint)……put me down as Ice Breaker Man again……..