Born of the Spirit

John 3:6 (AMP)

"What is born of [from] the flesh is flesh [of the physical is physical]; and what is born of the Spirit is spirit."

Essential Upgrades

2 Peter 1:5-7 (NLT)

"In view of all this, make every effort to respond to God's promises. Supplement your faith with a generous provision of moral excellence, and moral excellence with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with patient endurance, and patient endurance with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love for everyone."

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

Through It All

Jeremiah 29:11 - "For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope."

Even as I began to ask God to manifest His thoughts towards me, He started leading my imagination to a wonderful image.

In the vision, was a beautiful picture of a dad sending his boy to school. Even as the child entered into the classroom, the dad stood by the windows of the class watching his dear boy by the side, ensuring that he would be fine. To the boy, after parting with his dad at the door of the class, the presence of his dad watching by him could be felt strongly, though not seen.

With this impression, I was led to another thought. This time, I saw myself in several occasions. One was when I was in primary school, where I was so naughty, constantly being punished for giving problems to my teachers and bullying my classmates. Another one was in secondary school, so lazy, not studying all the time. One funny one was me doing all sorts of crazy things for this girl whom I thought I will marry. A depressing one was where I lost all directions in life, wandering all over the place. A joyful one showed the time when I first came to know God, critical in attitude, but touched by His love.

Though all of the scenarios look so diverse, with happy and unhappy ones but the common thing was, my Father was there looking through the window ensuring that I was fine through it all. This time round, I am assured that He will be there too.

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

Broadband on Mobile and Essential Softwares for your E61i

Recently, I subscribed to Singtel's broadband on mobile, and it's has been working wonders for me! At just $22.42, I am given a limit of 50 gb to utilize every month (It's really impossible to even use 2 gb on your mobile device). With it, I am now able to surf, IM and check my emails on my E61i all over Singapore. Don't belittle these functions because they surely come in useful and can even help you save up on communication costs if used in a smart way. Some suggestions:-

• MSN Live

With MSN Live on my handphone, chatting with all my online contacts has never been easier. But the amazing thing is not just common instant messaging. Did you know that it can turn your handphone into a 'walkie-talkie'? How I do it, is to send voice clips over and vice versa receive voice clips from the other party that I am communicating with. Although there is a latency of about 10 seconds due to data transfer, but it surely does come in handy when you need to communicate non urgently. I fully utilized this function together with Jason during the last zone camp, when one of us is in Singapore and the other in P.Ubin. In this situation the conventional walkie talkie doesn't work due to the distance, however as MSN Live sends data via network, the distance did not matter at all.

• Twitter

As I shared in one of my previous posts that Twitter is able to send your updates to the devices of the people following you. One great way is really to use it to send free SMS. With Fring, you are able to utilize it just as if you are sending a SMS. Very convenient! However, make sure your counterparts do not reply to the number that sent the 'tweets' as it is an international number.


With just some brainstorming and creativeness, your E61i can become a powerful tool that makes communication more affordable and life more interesting.

Some links that might interest:

1. Singtel Broadband on Mobile
2. Mobile One Broadband
3. Starhub Mobile Data Services