Friday, January 12, 2007

最近在準備coop的功課, 例如cover letter 和resume. 滿腦子也離不開找工作, 寫完再找, 找完又再寫.

剛才祈禱的時間, 忽發奇想, 假如要大家向神求職, 你又會找一份什麼工作呢?

假如我們要寫一封cover letter 和 resume 給我們的神, 我們又會highlight 那些東西? 有什麼hard skills soft skills work experience 可以寫呢?

我自己也沒有一個答案. 現在我求的, 應會是求神給我繼續在CCF裡事奉

今天coop 的導師說, cover letter 寫的不是你想在工作裡, 在某間公司裡想學到什麼, 而是你可以為那間公司提供什麼, 有何貢獻. 那麼, 我們又可為神提供什麼?

我的間題, 大多都沒有答案. 所以今天我的祈禱裡, 我求的, 是神教導引領我, 不要只求神為我們做什麼, 讓我可找到更多可為神做的事. 讓我的cover letter 和 resume 可有所進步

Thursday, January 11, 2007

Hey how's first week of school? How do you find the courses you are taking so far? What about the professors. Do you get some really great professors this term?

I was taking 6 courses but just decided to drop one this morning and I did. I knew it's impossible to handle 6 courses on top of job hunting for next coop term, CCF serving and so forth. Plus, I want to have a life and enjoy my life. This is also God's will for everyone. I think God wants us all to enjoy the lives He gave us. haha... It's important to have a balance life. It's also difficult to do. How to have balance life? I think that's something we all need to keep on exploring. But, maybe to really understand what's important to you and what you value, then to prioritize your things at hand can lead you to a balance life. That's something I learned from a time management workshop.

If you think the courses you are taking this term are indeed too much. Don't hesitate to drop one of them. That not only help reduce stress but also give you time and energy to excel at the other courses. I dropped the Computer Networking course which is programming intensive. Though I already found it so interesting in the first class, I decided to drop it. Well, I can always take it later. Now, I am having 5 courses and I want to do my best in each of them. =P

As said in today's CCF gathering. Here's the link about setting SMART Goals Thanks Vivian for finding it for us. =) Hope that everyone find it helpful in making your new year's resolutions and setting your goals for 2007. Add oil!

Wednesday, January 10, 2007

I am taking this course FNH 355 about world nutrition problem. The professor told us many facts that many disasters happened on earth without our notice.

The tsunami victims got more than $1000 funding per person to rebuild their home but victims of another storm or tsunami in africa only got $27 funding per person.

Then she quoted " News are about something that are new" from a newspaper editor. Somehow that sentence struck me at that time.

There are many many things that we know it's happening but we all turn blind to it. As a Christian, we should care about others at all times. However, I guess many of us still ignore the things happening around us. oh well, at least I am like that more than half of the time.

We are the lucky ones on earth. We got to learn about god; we got to live happily; we have a safe home; we have enough to eat and clear water to drink. Think about the other side of the world, many people are struggling at the edge of live and death. We should definitely do something.

I am planning to sponsor a child. Anyone interested? I want to find some organization other than world vision. Any suggestion?

Let's do it together!!

Tuesday, January 09, 2007

天堂有無狗?

今日食飯既時候, 我地講左一個好有趣既問題: 究竟狗會唔會出現晌天堂?

遲d先寫我既睇法

其他人又點睇呢?

Friday, December 29, 2006


Currently Reading:
Praying by J.I. Packer

I am reading so slowly. other stuff keep distracting me.

There is a chapter about the right path and by-path. The excerpt it quotes from Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan is quite interesting. It says:

In the hike of the person called Chrisitian, he comes to the cross and finds his burden of guilt taken away. Later, he will have companionship from Faithful, who they share stories. However, Christian will lose Faithful very soon. He will have another companion, Hopeful, who will travel with him for the rest of his journey.

I find it interesting for its way of presenting Christian's life. This book is going to be the top one in my "To Read List" !

Monday, December 25, 2006

Link: Blood Donation Live!(Photos)

Also, Betty had something to say:
o岩o岩讀左一個article 覺得十分有趣所以同各位分享下

如果呢個世界係神造出黎既, 點解佢要做咁多似乎無必要既野呢? 例如Beetles就有450,000個品種! 佢造幾款足夠保持生態平衡未夠lor? 做乜要搞咁多多餘既野? 進化論似乎可以更合理咁解釋點解呢個世界有咁多物種.

但係我地原來可以從另一方面黎睇同一個問題: 神係一位有性格既神, 難道佢唔可以因為喜愛設計而設計? 可能佢真係好喜歡Beetles, 所以就整左450,000個品種出黎! 佢唔單只係一個Engineer, 重係一個Artist : )

當我地接受神係一位有性格既神既時候, 好多其他野就開始make sense.
Merry Christmas Everyone~~~

Saturday, December 23, 2006

Serving the community --- nothing is more practical than doing the practical things.

Today UBCCCF had 11 people going to donate blood. 9 of us sucessfully donated whole blood; 3 of us fainted afterwards. We are planning to join the Partners for Live program with the Canadian Blood Service. Below are some pictures:







UBCCCF Blood Donation Day! ^^

I just wanna say... we are all very brave!

more to add on... wait...
It is 12 hours away from Bible study, and I still cannot organize my thoughts together.

If you have read my other blog, the topic for this week is "work".

Remember in the last CCF gathering, Joshua was talking about "calling".
One concept that is stuck in my mind is that most of the time calling is not a mystique experience. Rather, on a personal level, one could decern his calling by knowing himself, his life path, his desires, his gifts, and his passions. On a wider level, by being sensitive about what is happening around him and through interaction with other people. These are of course based on being a disciple of Jesus, which is a calling shared by all Christians. Therefore, calling is not about a career choice, it is about responding to God's call. After all, you always respond to a call (you could either answer it or not), you dont choose a call. What does choosing a call means anyway?

Responding to a calling is to serve Christ; it is not restricted to "church work". Instead, any ethical work could be work done for Christ, as shown in Mat 25:35-40

The King will reply, 'I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me (v. 40)

It seems like we have dealt we calling now, but if we are satisfied with just Mat 25, then we are still high up in the sky. We want to be down-to-earth so that our lives are actually transformed. What is the difference between working with a calling and working without one? Dare I say this: Don't we do the same work anyway?

To answer the above question, we need to understand God's original intend for work. In Gen 1:26-30, God created man and assigned him work which is to manage the whole creation. It is til in Gen 3:17-19 that man has fallen and work became a curse for him. Genesis tells us that sin distorted the relationships with God, with oneself, with other people, and with the rest of the creation. So, God prepared a plan to rescue us. In short, God sent Jesus to redeem us, which is the costly salvation we enjoy. Skipping a lot of significant theological concepts in between, we now arrive at the end of days (!) because we need a good concept of the end in order to know the direction for today.
A common misconception is that in the end (末世), the world will be annihilated and then a band new world is created again. If this is the case, any work we do today will be meaningless, since they will all be destroyed. But the biblical description of the end is not like that. The end is not total destruction. This is why the work we do today, whether "church work" or not, has a value.

Before we go further, let have a short summary:
1. Calling is not about a career choice. It is about what God wants to do with you life.
2. Any work we do could be for Christ, including "secular work" as long as they are not against biblical teaching.
3. Work is not a curse originally.
4. The end is not destruction; therefore, what we do today is not meaningless.

One signature of a Christian is that he has peace. This is exactly God's plan because Christ restore our relationship with God, with ourselves, with other people, and with the rest of creations. Therefore, a Christian who has found his calling will find peace in his work. He will also make peace with people around him. The implication of this is that responding to God's calling is matter of how we live our lives instead of making choices in certain points of our lives. We will discover more if we read Gen 1:26-30 and 3:17-19 again:

1:29 Then God said, "I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food.
1:30 And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air and all the creatures that move on the ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food."

3:17 [God to Adam] ...Cursed is the ground because of you;
through painful toil you will eat of it
all the days of your life.
3:18 It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field.

Note what they eat! Before man's sinning, he eats plants and fruits while the beasts eat plants. After his fall, "eat the plants of the field". He is compared to a beast!
Salvation restores us back to God's original purpose, but are we still choosing to eat plants?

3:17 says that work has become a painful toil. What is worse is that the duration is "all the days of your life". But let us look at Psalm 23:6:
Surely goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the LORD forever.

The man who responds to God's calling lives his life with goodness and love from the LORD all the days of his life. When we talk about the Kingdom of God, it is really not very far away. Today Earth is mixed with bits of Heaven; in the future, Heaven is mixed with bits of Earth. This is why we pray:
thy kingdom come,
thy will be done on earth
as it is in heaven.

Tuesday, December 19, 2006

考試終於告一段落, 有什麼感想? 沒什麼...只有一大片迷茫

前幾天跟媽閒聊, 她說: " 我們要做一個入世的基督徒". 當時她是指小事如不賭博, 不買六合彩, 等等, 不須太執著.

我當時只是"哦"的回應. 其實我又不太認同. 我覺得有些叫我們守的戒律是對我們好的. (也不知道用戒律是否最適合的名詞).

究竟怎樣是入世的基督徒?

Wednesday, December 13, 2006

It's almost 2 am in the morning. I am studying for my last final exam which is going to take place in roughly 14 hours. I still have a lot to read but amazingly I am enjoying it because of the Christmas carols I am listening to. It's such a peaceful night to me though there is a storm outside.

Christmas is in less than 2 weeks. (well, Christmas time is already here.) This is the first time I spend Christmas knowing the true meaning of Christmas. It means so much more ... and I feel graciously blessed.

Merry Christmas! =]

p.s. Add oil. We can do it!

Friday, December 01, 2006

More Pictures...Love you all~

Joshua and Edward, our dear Mentors, thank you for walking with us and helping us grow into mature Christians and disciples. Thank you for your mentorship and sharing life with us!
Don't forget to come back and visit us!

dk and Mandy, our dear STs, thank you for your fellowship and companionship! Thank you for supporting and serving wholeheartedtedly! Thank you for all the fun ...
We will haunt you wherever you are. =p

Alan and Wayne, our dear Mentors, thank you for giving us the opportunity to learn from you.
We will serve God and share life together!

Thank you all for the memorable times! Let's always pray for each other, fellowship and rejoyce in the Lord.


Mandy乜都講晒啦...


我地今日按手祈禱呢 係象徵緊我地一班學生對導師既祝福同埋感謝
呢個moment同時亦都代表一個結束同一個新開始
雖然真係有d唔捨得, 但係我地深信上帝自有佢既安排
廢話唔寫太多啦,
呀Joh同呀仁, 我愛你!
有緣既話 我地一定會再見架!




由上個Summer等到e+既Singspiration終於返黎啦
希望term 2仍然繼續Singspiration, 直到UBC既末了.
可惜, 我短期內都唔會再出現 : (

Thursday, November 30, 2006

讓我容許自己忙裡偷閒十分鐘吧...

今天真的很感動. 為什麼? 原因有二

1) 今天coop workshop完了後, 同可愛的sylvia同學一齊飛奔由wood 到scarfe, 計時為5分鐘. 可想而知我們是多麼的"歸心似箭"! 幸好還趕上了為Joshua Edward 按手祈禱! 有這兩位導師是天父給我們的恩賜. 他們改變了我的生命. 改變了每個ST的生命. 改變了CCFers 的生命. 希望神繼續保守這兩位導師未來的事工. 加力給他們! 在為導師們祈禱後, 大家竟又為我和DK祈禱, 真的很很很很很感動! 真的感覺到 "being loved". 由上次大家知道我不能再回CCF帶週會的時間, 我已經收到很多祝福鼓勵的說話. 雖然很多的人, 大家相識了真的很短時間, 但這段時間裡, 大家一起學習, 一起歌頌神. 不知不覺間也有一個很strong 的bonding! 我真的很愛CCF這個家. 我真的覺得能來到CCF是神給我們的福氣, 沒有CCF 沒有今天的我... (雖然話說得有點兒誇張, 但可真是事實的確如此!)

2)另一樣我很感動的是...我們CCF 的lost tradition ---SINGSPIRATION 回來了! 還要比我以前去過的更強盛! 我只不過是在星期二有一個random thought 跟DK 分享一下, 誰知道他竟十分支持, 然後Roson 又一口應承彈結他, 最後更為我們做了漂亮的小冊子! Erico Vivian 亦很支持... 各位的反應是我意料之外的. 我本來以為天氣這麼惡劣, 大家會反對呢! 最後更奇妙的是, 天氣在今天竟然好轉, 不單止不下雪, 氣溫還升高了, 難以置信嗎? 我相信是神聽禱告, 祂看到大家火熱的心, 為我們打氣! 今天唱的每一首歌, 我都是由心的歌頌神的. 我很感謝大家的支持, 大家不怕冷不怕髒不怕醜, 高聲高頌我們的神! 我希望我們的歌聲可以打動別人的心! 大家下學期還想再唱嗎? 我很想繼續呢! 大家一起祈禱, 讓我們繼續唱下去!

考試快到了... 各位要一起加油噢!

Wednesday, November 29, 2006

Ok...I can't help slacking off once I got home. sigh...

Oh well, I am soooooo looking forward to tomorrow's singspiration! I got this random thought of starting it this thursday and I actually got the whole ST team to back me up! Thanks all! I love you!

Hope the weather is not too bad tomorrow. Let's sing with our heart and praise our lord with our voices!

Tuesday, November 28, 2006

It's close to the end of term. One more week to go then we are into the Final exam mode. I am just amazed that how time flies. Time flies; During the time, things happened, things changed, we got through them all together and we moved on, we moved on in One direction. The togetherness as a team, as brothers and sisters, as friends is something so wonderful that I could not ever appreciate more.

Next term, dk and Mandy are going on with thier coop workterm and coop workshop respectively. They won't be able to make it to our Thursday's CCF gatherings. We will miss them. Thinking of it now, I am already missing them. Of the ST out of five, Erico, Vivian and myslef will be there. dk and Mandy will be working backstage, helping, supporting and praying for us. E.V.R will be there to carry it out and carry it through. Yeah. dk and Mandy will pray for our CCF wherever they are. So will we pray for them.

dk and Mandy, do not feel sorry when you are absent from CCF. Enjoy whatever you are doing and glorify God in whatever you are doing! Love you~


God hears our prayers. He continues to bless CCF and bless our ST so that we grow as individuals, we grow as a team and we grow as a community. Father, please build our team , train us and expand us; please contiune to conform us and make us humble servants of Yours. Amen!

Friday, November 24, 2006

我想extend on 上一篇entry.

今日終於到左呢個咁特別的日子. 今天, 我剛好加入了CCF (由第一個週會到現在 )兩年. 由上年到現在, 帶詩歌帶了一年, 最後, 今天是我短期內最後一次參加CCF 週會.

本來我在心裡想了很多遍要說的是什麼, 大概有5-7點吧...誰知道說出口的, 一半也可能沒有. 不過今日所說的, 全都是由心所發.

今天的感覺真的很悲喜交集. 因為大家(尤其first year 的好姐妹) 都說了很多鼓勵的說話. 很窩心呢...

"千般百般暖流 從你關心的說話
深深感激一切 我一生記心中"

今天好像感覺到, 雖然面對茫茫前路, 但是我背後有一個家會隨時支持我.

"在這爭戰中 要儆醒奮起 以讚美作武器"

將來面對工作的時間, 我一定會記得讚美, 會記得在CCF中大家一起唱歌頌讚的時間

CCF 我會掛念你!

Tuesday, November 21, 2006

今天overall我很開心. 為什麼? 就是沒什麼特別, 所以就很開心. 而且我今天終於收到我訂的那兩本書 <> and <> also the CD of Casting Crowns with we are the body and who am i.

昨天去了jubilization. 三次回到世界中心的jubilization 我最喜歡這一次. 因為我喜歡除去舊人, 穿上新人的message. 當然希望自己能做到吧!

不知不覺, 原來這個星期四便是我在短期內最後一次可以在ccf 星期四的週會帶singspiration. 由year 1 下半年到現在, 返ccf都有差不多2年了. 我印象中我沒有skip過一次. (我平時上課應該skip得更多). 我真的很喜歡ccf.

CCF是我重新認識這個信仰的地方, 是我成長的地方, 是我找到一班志同道合的好朋友的地方. 我真的很捨不得走呀... ! 雖然不是完全沒有機會來, 但是這未來這一年多, 可以到ccf週會的機會也不知有沒有十次... 我一定會時時掛念ccf.

"願你帶著歡笑, 走進這個家" 進來當然開心, 離開卻總難免傷心.

不過我希望去coop 呢段時間, 我會可以更努力去裝備自己. 其實現在的我, 實在不足以去帶好一個週會. 頂多也只可以做好帶歌的部份. 希望我可以用這段時間, 做一個更成熟的門徒, 到我再回歸CCF的時間, 可以做得更好!

哈哈! 不過以上的所有事, 都有一個prerequisite. 就是我要pass我全部的courses 和 沒被人kick out of coop! 我會努力的.

大家記得要為CCF 禱告, 也請為我禱告吧!