You Are My Hero

I've seen you stand alone and face the fight
When others laid their weapons down
And headed for home
I've seen you face the fire and come out shining like gold,
And I want you to know...
I've seen you lay visions down for someone else
And give your life as a sacrifice, no fanfare around!
I've watched you weather storms that would have left others
drowned,
And this is what I've found:

You are my hero, my knight in shining armor
A warrior of God's grace, standing alone faithfully!
You are my hero, a light that pierces darkness
With love that's not afraid to fight for someone like me,
Encouraging me to stand firm and free!
You are my hero!

I've seen you look down the road and see beyond
The miles and head for truth in faith while bearing a load
I've heard your anguished cries for grace and watched joy
unfold,
And I want you to know:

You are my hero, my knight in shining armor
A warrior of God's grace, standing alone faithfully!
You are my hero, a light that pierces darkness
With love that's not afraid to fight for someone like me,
Encouraging me to stand firm and free!
You are my hero!

I've seen you face death with a deep burning faith
That stirs up the passion in me!
Your heart, like a fire, abounding in grace,
A beacon helping others to see; help set me free

Updates

Well, it seems like I haven't been doing any updates for the past one month. AY0809 Semester 1 is over and the holidays came and now holidays are going to be over this coming Wednesday. Fast! Time slips away without you noticing.

AY0809 Semester 1 was rather exciting with 5 modules plus the time consuming, strength draining Final Year Project 1. I can conclude that though tiring, semester 1 has been rewarding. During this semester, I have gotten closer to some classmates and of course good results. Just on Monday, the results were released and God has done it again, 6As inclusive of my FYP. Even as I compared all my semester results, I saw a trend and the conclusion is, in God it's always from glory to glory.

Two more days and here we go again. There are many things in my mind now, and soon it will be posted here. Til then!

Cheers,
Desmond

Updates

It's been some time since I last blog and I must say that this period is the busiest of all my entire 3 years in Republic Polytechnic. FYP submission is just around the corner and I have been spending the last entire week coding and writing reports til late into the night.

However I must say that I am rather pleased with the accomplishment of my group. For the majority of the school, everyone is doing web applications and if they can shun any project requiring the use of Java they surely will! For my team, we are a little adventurous. We undertook a project that enables users to share images and chat on a peer to peer network. The entire project is Java based and utilizes JXTA for the networking portion and Swing for the GUI portion

The process of developing the application is tough, very tough but it's tremendously enriching! I have definitely enjoyed the fruits of it and I am looking so forward to the day of presentation! I will be back blogging more and I promise more down to earth stuffs. LOL!

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Unbounded is Your power, Lord
All things You have accomplished
Those things which appear to be impossible to me
They are very possible for You
The very second I have no strength
It's your love that is perfect
The moment I believe
The miracle is real
Not by might, nor by power
but by Your Spirit, oh God
The moment I believe
The miracle is real

Counting Down - 246 Days

Another 246 days or to be specific, 16th February 2009 will be the day in which I will be embarking on another phase of my education journey. This time round, the difference would not just be in the level of knowledge I am going to receive but mainly the difference in location; Melbourne: 6076 km away from home, from church and from friends.

Having personally been to Australia, I guess that I did not really enjoy both trips there. Probably the main reason, is going there with the Singapore Armed Forces and the destination was some 'ulu' place called Rockhampton. In addition, the lifestyle there did not really excite me. Being a typical Singaporean and City Harvest member, who lives a fast paced life running from place to place and having late nights, the thought of seeing empty streets at around 5pm daily, with shopping centres closing at 4pm except on Thursday 8pm and doing gardening on Sunday certainly is beginning to strike fear within me.

The thought of being away from church, the zone and my cell group is also a thumbs down. I guess that apart from home, they are the people that are constantly on my mind. To calculate, being away for 10 months from February to December, I would probably miss so many big days and major events; Easter, Emerge 2009, etc. :S

However, I guess on the brighter note the chance to do a fast tracked degree from one of the top universities in Australia does not always come around, especially when it is going to help me win back time which I have lost previously. As I look at coming back home during December 2009 and commencing with my career, I am greatly excited! I certainly hope that I can perform as well or even better during my stint in Monash as compared to Republic Polytechnic.

A Friend In Need, Is A Friend Indeed

People rarely quit simply because of adversity, but rather because of the lack of encouragement during times of adversity.

2 Cor 7:5-6

5 For when we came into Macedonia, this body of ours had no rest, but we were harassed at every turn-conflicts on the outside, fears within. 6 But God, who comforts the downcast, comforted us by the coming of Titus

Baby For Sale On eBay!?!?!

Just read up on this in the news and I thought some people are just ridiculous.

BERLIN - GERMAN police are investigating a couple after they offered their eight-month-old son for sale on internet auction site eBay.

Renee Beck, a police spokesman in the Bavarian town of Krumbach west of Munich, said on Saturday the 23-year-old woman told them it was only a joke.

But he said police were nevertheless continuing their investigation and the baby was put in state custody.

'She says it was a joke,' he said. 'That's not yet clear. Detectives are investigating on suspicion of child trafficking.'

A number of people called authorities across Germany after seeing the offer on eBay that read: 'Baby - collection only. Offer my nearly new baby for sale because it cries too much. Male, 70 cm long.'

The opening bid was 1 euro ($1.57). There were no bidders during the two hours before the offer was removed, police said.

The mother was quoted in Bild newspaper saying: 'It was only a joke. I just wanted to see if someone would make an offer. They've taken my son to hospital and I've got to take psychiatric tests next week.' -- REUTERS

The Lee Family

My family portrait taken during Chinese New Year 2008

Catching Fish

"If you want to catch fish, you shouldn't cast your nets in the bath tub."

- Reinhard Bonnke

Penning Down My Revelations, Dreams & Visions

Hab 2:2-3
Then the LORD answered me and said:

"Write the vision
And make it plain on tablets,
That he may run who reads it.
For the vision is yet for an appointed time;
But at the end it will speak, and it will not lie.
Though it tarries, wait for it;
Because it will surely come,
It will not tarry."

If you can't write out what is in your heart, probably you have not really thought it through. Cheers! :)