My favorite Psalm

My favorite Psalm

Psalm 139

O Lord you have searched me and you know me.

You know when I sit and when I rise;

You perceive my thoughts from afar.

You discern my going out and my lying down;

You are familiar with all my ways.

Before a word is on my tongue

You know it completely, O Lord.

You hem me in - behind and before;

You have laid your hand upon me.

Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,

Too lofty for me to attain.

Where can I go from your Spirit?

Where can I flee from your presence?

If I go up to the heavens, you are there;

If I make my bed in the depths, you are there.

If I rise on the wings of the dawn,

If I settle on the far side of the sea,

Even there your hand will guide me,

Your right hand will hold me fast.

If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me

And the light become night around me,”

Even darkness will not be dark to you;

The night will shine like the day,

For darkness is as light to you.

For you created my inmost being;

You knit me together in my mother’s womb.

I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;

You works are wonderful,

I know that full well.

My frame was not hidden from you

When I was made in the secret place.

When I was woven together in the depths of the earth,

You eyes saw my unformed body.

All the days ordained for me

Were written in your book before one of them came to be.

How precious to me are your thoughts, O God!

How vast is the sum of them!

Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand.

When I awake, I am still with you.

If only you would slay the wicked, O God.

Away from me, you bloodthirsty men!

They speak of you with evil intent;

You adversaries misuse your name.

Do I hate those who hate you, O Lord,

And abhor those who rise against you?

I have nothing but hatred for them; I count them my enemies.

Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts.

See if there is any offensive ways in me,

And lead me in the way everlasting.

Delilah is back to town!

Wowowo… how POWERFUL the luring and the charms of a women to a men!

Today (24/8/08) I went out with some of my friends, contain both boys and girls. One of my friends was precious beauty to the eyes of the guys in the group. After some time of chatting, and some “heehee and haahaa”, miraculously my friend was able to make one of the guy to pay for her meal. Wowowo!!

At that time, I was thinking in my heart that, “Men are Dumb”. (It will make a good movie title) Maybe when I’m broke next time, I can do the same thing like my friend, so maybe I can get some free meals. I was tempted to proceed with such an evil plan, however very quickly I came to my senses and I ask does the “heehee and haahaa” makes me become more like the virtuous wife, which I always longing to be or will I be similar to a Delilah?

My friend really has the charm, she can charm almost all men with her “heehee and haahaa”, and I would not blame her for I think her effort and working or the “heehee and haahaa” does pay off. The footprint of the item I saw the other day written “Men are Dumb”.

Well, being a Delilah have its goods, they basically can get what they want with their “heehee and haahaa” If the things got to do with Delilah, I want no part in it. Being the virtuous wife may not get me free meals but it’s ok. At least it can contribute a little by giving Glory to GOD.

Oh, it’s a virtuous wife, is all I want to be!

P/S: I saw a billboard on the road to heaven that says, “Are men dumb?” (hehe)

No wonder the strongest men on earth Samson lose his battle to a small little

woman name Delilah….. Aiyo Men, you can do better than this la!!

I apologies if I had offended any man out there. Please accept my “heehee and haahaa”

Back to history

Do you know where do they get the name "Kota Kinabalu"?

Here is what I learned in the 20 minutes taxi ride to the airport.

Back to history, the first group of China people that came to Malaysia were located in Sabah. The reason that they came, is no other reason but to do business, how typical it is? Chinese = Business!!
(why I mentioned so much of China in my blog.. scratching head, just coincident)

Last time Kota Kinabalu, were contain mountains, jungles and it's surrounded by the sea. The only transport is by boat. The China people settled there and spread their seeds in the country. They are very rich, so they kind of take over the whole island.

So came a rich China man who became one of the most influential person in the Island, he married a local and he love his wife very much. However.. I can't remember whether was it the man died or the wife died. Anyway, so he bought the whole Island and name it after himself and his wife.

"Kina" actually mean "Cina" and "balu" actually mean "wife". He dedicated this island to the wife.

Ironicly, there was no person that originally come from Kota Kinabalu. Originally the island and mountain only filled with plants and animals, human were not existed there. There is no one that original from Kota Kinabalu, the people that are staying in KK now are from all over Sabah.

thank you Encik Azmi for ur info..

Ben, I'm so forgetful!

How could I forgotten this important date?? So angry with myself!

" Happy Belated Birthday Benno... "

Sending you good wishes all the way here in Malaysia to Australia haha..

On your birthday... you are remembered!

Luv May

Today

Man, I realized that I have a dozen of blog that I yet to post. I drafted it and kept postponing on publishing it. Gosh.. when would I ever finish doing all these blogging homework?

Well, here are a few acknowledgments of life during these few weeks:

1) China ROCKS! After the Olympic, I would not view China the same again. During the opening of Olympic, as my family and I was sticking our eyes as close as possible to the TV screen. I remembered telling my dad that I'm so proud to be a Chinese, I'm so proud to be Chinese, so proud that Chinese people can do such excellent and magnificent work. Wohohoho!

This pride were not my own, it belongs fully to China, I only a passerby, sharing the end of the cloak of the Glory. Anyway, China ROCKS!
2) Do you know one truth about you and I, which we often long forgotten due to the pain and mess of the world. This truth is 'YOU ARE BORN TO BE LOVED". Yes YOU ARE BORN TO BE LOVED. This is why we are born, even though human had messed up this important element in life, yet God has not forgotten, through life pains and mess, YOU ARE LOVED BY GOD!

Climbing the mountains with God!

My experienced of climbing mount Kota Kinabalu especially with the gentle guidance and leading of William had proven to myself that by faith in Jesus Christ there is no mountains of problems in the future which God and I could not handle. Matthew 17:20. Ruth, you got to alway remember this experience, and hold on to it!

The hand of William which holding tightly unto my hand throughout the whole journey, was such an assurance and security that God was with me. William was such a blessings to my life. I can never thank both GOD and William for helping me to encounter the fourth highest mountain in Southeast Asia, the mount Kota Kinabalu. Praise God!!

Even pastor failled! We are human too.

I was reading a blog from daren talking about Pastor Mike Guglielmucci was lying about his terminal illness.

He came out with this song called 'Healer" one of the most outstanding, inspiration and comforting songs. The song and lyric itself showed many true about Our God who Himself came to Heal!

However, the fraud was that the pastor self declare having cancer and was singing with his oxygen tube attached to his nose in one of hillsongs conference turn out to be he is not having any cancer. All this were a fraud and he was now seeking helps from profession regarding his condition.

Wow, human is still human.
Wowow, what a grace of God, only His great grace can forgive all our sins and lies.

Human came to this world to live a selfish life, making name for ourself, making fame and building our own Babylon, I myself is guilty of this. But Jesus came to this world to share His grace with us, He came so that we can forgive the sins which is too great to be forgiven and He also came so that we can lives the right way.


pastor Mike, Our God is a good God.

His grace is sufficient for all of our sins.

2 Corinthians 12:9
But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLbjqcG4OT4 check it out in you tube.

To the end of the world

The word of God is like drugs to me, the more I read and understand it, the more I want to know His word more. It is an addiction. Maybe this is what it said in Roman 6:16-18 where we are slaves to righteousness, slaves to God. I am tide to the Word of God! Well, even though my statue is a slave but I thank God that sins is not my Master, I belong to a loving and caring Master, Our Lord Jesus Christ. Who is your master? Just a thought…

Romans 6:16-18

Don't you know that when you offer yourselves to someone to obey him as slaves, you are slaves to the one whom you obey—whether you are slaves to sin, which leads to death, or to obedience, which leads to righteousness? 17But thanks be to God that, though you used to be slaves to sin, you wholeheartedly obeyed the form of teaching to which you were entrusted. 18You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness

Well, above is just an introduction…

Today devotion I came across Ephesians 2:14 saying, “For he himself is our peace, who has made the two one and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility….”

Even thought in this text its talk about the Jews and Gentile, which is why Jesus said he made the two one, where both can accept and hear about the good news, and the gospel is not for the elect people only but for everyone.

When I read this here were my thoughts (before I read the commentary and know the above…)

God is peace, how wonderful it is that I can go all over the world to preach of this peace, especially to places where have less peace. Am I asking God to send me to Africa??? Wowow wait a minutes! I think not in that way haha. (Hopefully! But when I’m old, I would like to travel to country like Africa and India for mission though.. In His will)

I felt a stirring in my heart when I read this word, I felt soaring high hope that the gospel can break through all barriers, reaching to people who never heard of Jesus, reaching all “gravezone” (North Korea, Tai Dam, Laos, Myanmar and Indonesia.. and many more!) for the message of HOPE, LOVE, JOY and PEACE through Jesus. With the authority and the power of the Gospel, we can go to the villager in the largest jungle in the Peruvian Amazon, or traveling to the continent of Antarctica, to the largest desert in the world to reach to the villager living in the Northern Africa’s Sahara Desert, telling them about the message of HOPE. I was thrilled very much because the line of barrier was destroyed by our Lord Jesus.

Wow, that is one powerful Good news!

Though I have deep passion for traveling, not doing commercial traveling, like the tourist type, my passion is on those Not an Average traveling one of those kind, where even normal tourist do not want to visit.

Wowwo it ROCKs! Anyone wants to go with me?

Teaching the world about life!