Saturday, January 21, 2006

It's Saturday 1.18pm now. Sitting at my neighbour, vonnie's computer blogging. Thanks vonnie. It's mightily and gloriously burning out there. *mind shifts to ice-cold chai latte* mm.. ok, brings mind back. As most of you might have already know, I'll be going back to Malaysia for good this Sunday midnight. Spending whatever time I have left here in Melbourne is precious and I'll be honoured to bring back such awesome memories.

It's been an awesome past few days here with my God-given friends here in Melbourne, Australia. We had dinner together with 13 other people at Universal Pizza yesterday. Thanks to all of you who came - Jeremy, Billy, Tjokro, Jolyn, Sharene, Joshua, PJ, Ee Lin, Maureen, Stella, Bonnie, Vonnie, Brodie and Agnes who came later. You guys rock and I really enjoyed the dinner we had yesterday. Porterhouse steak kinda rocked too! :) Love the sauce and the smoky grill flavour.. *joy*

After that, we went to Boba as what the rest referred to as 'Pearl Party' hmm.. ookie. hahaha.. Everyone sat down promptly and by the time I sat down everyone was already there and directing me where to sit! That's how I knew something was up their sleeve. When we were all sat down and some of them ordered their drinks, Sharene pulled out a piece of paper and started reading her speech. It really did encourage me and spurred me on. You guys are absolutely God-given and my 3 year stay in Melbourne wouldn't have been blessed without you guys. Thank you once again.

As I mentioned yesterday, I believe that you guys are not just friends but champions that God has placed around me and us to fight together and to fight for each other for The Cause.

After dinner, a few of us were supposed to go back to Brod's to hang out, but it turned out to be a drive to Mt Dandenong. Brodie, who drove 3 of us - Sharene, Jeremy and muself took an hour drive there and an hour back. When we reached there, the gates where closed so we couldn't go in there, hence Brods deviced an idea whereby we peep at the scenery of the city through the driveways of people living there. We took a few photos and we're off back to the city.

It was all good. Brods, thank you for driving us there and thank you for your hospitality! You're such an amazing brother. You're in fact my closest caucasian friend, after Ps Matt maybe. haha!

In awhile, I'll be going for coffee at Gloria Jeans with a few of my good friends. It's all very precious and awesome. Like how my awesome girlfriend mentioned in her blog, I haven't had internet access for weeks now so, I'll have limited time to blog new things. Please feel free to leave a note on the comment page though :)

I am excited to go back to Malaysia and to start a new chapter of my life. To be able to live out God's calling upon my life and see myself taking a close step onto the edge of the boat and step out in faith even though most of the times I couldn't see what God has for me. Despite that, the vision and the purpose of why I'm going back to Malaysia this time is clearer than ever and with the lyric of the song 'Always and Forever' in my head. 'There's nothing better and living for you, than saving my world with you, there's nothing better'. It's true, there's nothng better. Nothing better than knowing that you're walking on His ways and not your ways and to follow His voice and not your own voice. There's nothing better than being able to see the call of God upon your life starting to take effect in a glorious way. Glorious not being all the fame and such for they don't matter compared to knowing how much God favours and delights in His children obeying Him and choosing to listen to Him. And there's absolutely nothing better than serving God and living for Him with the love that God has placed in my life. S k y e, thank you for always being there and always not letting God's calling in your life take second place. Thank you for you! You're awesome.

"When all is said and done,
And everyone is gone,
Lord You're really all I want

When the best the world has
Just leaves me feeling numb
Lord You're really all I want"

All we want is You, Lord. Take our lives and use it. We pray that you're show us Your glory to us and through us. Lord, we will obey and we will continue to walk on as long as we know You're holding us and taking us from glory to glory. We love You and we will always do.

5 Comments:

At 12:27 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Amen :) And praise God for God given friendships indeed. I don't reckon we will ever forget Melb and the connections made. One day, up in heaven, we will sit rd a a campfire (?) with everyone again and reminisce. and praise Dad. - skye

 
At 4:31 PM, Blogger raychuah said...

Praise Dad for all He's done and esp for everything He'll be doing in our lives! :D cant wait! LL

 
At 10:44 PM, Blogger Jeremy said...

My Bro.. My Bro..
Just came back from the airport and its really starting to sink in that this is not sending you home and seeing u again tomorrow or this Sunday in church..
I'm excited to see and hear the gazillions of testimonies that you'll have thru this step of obediance to His calling. I feel u bro coz like I always say, I have that calling too and its not by chance we met here in Melbourne and grew close in a span of just 6 months.
You're suce an encouragement, a great leader and brother in the Ministry.. Even tho I may not be led by you again or even attend the same church, sitting next to you in service or going out for dinners after service.. Its gonna be great partnering with you as we stand for our nation. I've got more to say.. but I guess I'll save some for my blog.. :)
Missing you already bro... keep it real Raysta, my brother, my friend and my partner (doesn't matter if its in crime or in justice.. hehe.. )
Will be seeing you soon... thats for sure... What is 6 months to a year anyway? hehehe...
Dream BIG, live BIG coz our God is BIG!!!

 
At 12:01 AM, Blogger ling long said...

Ray Ray Ray aka.. yi kor.. ( the one tt can neva be replaced).... hahhaha... though im gonna c u.. must and must and must... i already miss you heaps.. and i dun wan tt last meeting to come coz then.. it will pass as soon as it arrives... and i hate leaving.. wifout knowing.. when the next time comes.. to c u again... aiyo.. pls meet call me, meet up... hang out my no. in spore is 98465097

 
At 6:48 PM, Blogger raychuah said...

jeremy - hey bro, been great reading ur comment on my blog. u've been a great encouragement n source of inspiration at times. i thank God for putting us together and making our paths cross, we may cross paths again in the future, when we don't knw. but one thing for sure is He'll lead n guide us as we continue to stand up for Him.

denise - thank God for all ur energy, smiles, laughs n such.. it often lifts us up. continue to be who u r n let God shape u n mold u. we'll meet in sg for sure.. it's all gd!! :)

 

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