Why Jesus is Better Than Santa Claus

By Rev. James Spellman of Ohio

*Santa lives at the North Pole... JESUS is everywhere.

*Santa rides in a sleigh... JESUS rides on the wind and walks on the water.

*Santa comes but once a year... JESUS is an ever present help.

*Santa fills your stockings with goodies... JESUS supplies all your needs.

*You have to wait in line to see Santa... JESUS is as close as the mention of His name.

*Santa lets you sit on his lap... JESUS lets you rest in His arms.

*Santa doesn't know your name, all he can say is "Hi little boy or girl, what's your name?"... JESUS knew our name before we did. Not only does He know our name, He knows our address too. He knows our history and future and He even knows how many hairs are on our head.

*Santa has a belly like a bowl full of jelly... JESUS has a heart full of love.

*All Santa can offer is HO HO HO... JESUS offers health, help and hope.

*Santa says "You better not cry"... JESUS says "Cast all your cares on me for I care for you."

*Santa's little helpers make toys... JESUS makes new life, mends wounded hearts, repairs broken homes and builds mansions.

*Santa may make you chuckle but...JESUS gives you a joy that is your strength.

*While Santa puts gifts under your tree... JESUS became our gift and died on the tree, which is the cross.


Its obvious there is really no comparison! Jesus is still the reason for the season. Yes, Jesus is better, he is even better than Santa Claus.


(something bloh shared during carolling.)
(i found this online.)
=)))))

deep calleth unto the deep.

a deeper level with God.
a greater passion
a more intense hunger
I want.

If I would run, it's not away from You or away from reality,
let it not be so anymore,
let it be a pursuit after You.

Reality is not harsh and it is not full of trouble or problems as the world paints it.
Reality is where Jesus is.
For HE IS REAL.
All of this is not just what I dream of or conjured up in my mind; for
I've seen His works
I've tasted His goodness
I've experienced His overwhelming love
I've dwelled in His presence
=)
so I know.
I know You are REAL.
and I know You love me.
and I know You see me more than what I am right now.
=DDD

now that we are back.
it's time, we live this reality. =)
Live the culture of Christ.



dearest HAHA JOSHEEN
we cannooooottttt ROOOOMMM TOGETTHHHEEERRR
so I say no to charlotte and josheen as room mates
me and jo super cannot wake up!
and after visiting some people's room,
me and jo LOVE our room despite having it in like super ulu level of the hotel.
like everyone's at 10, 16 or lower.
we are at level 20.
but our room is HUGE.
HIGH CEILING
ROMANTIC LIGHTING
double the size of other room's walkway
lol.
and for the 2nd or 3rd time, we allowed wenqi into our room for toilet business.

HAHA.
and for those who are looking forward to photos...
yeahhh...
we all heard about the war between fern,adora,abbey,rach VS justin,keiji
all the soap water, coffee whatever, chocolate pudding...
guess what.
I found photos.
HAHAHA.
(of the chocolate pudding that was smacked on the glass door)
(haha I shall put in facebook)

we also talked outside convention hall level 2 through the night
had boxing matches
mini exodus to prata place
girls' version tau pok
SHOPPING in Malacca
=)


I will search. and I'll find You LORD.

"Then you will call upon Me ad go and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart. I will be found by you, says the LORD, and I will bring you back from your captivity."
Jeremiah 29:12-14

无论是住在,美丽的高山.
或是躺卧在,阴暗的幽谷.
当你抬起头,你将会发现.
主已为你我而预备.

云上太阳,它总不改变,
虽然小雨撒在你脸上.
云上太阳,它总不改变,
哈~~它不改变!

无论是住在,美丽的高山.
或是躺卧在,阴暗的幽谷.
当你抬起头,你将会发现.
主已为你我而预备.

云上太阳,它总不改变,
虽然小雨撒在你脸上.
云上太阳,它总不改变,
哈~~它不改变!

云上太阳,它总不改变,
虽然小雨撒在你脸上.
云上太阳,它总不改变,
哈~~它不改变!

云上太阳,它总不改变,
虽然小雨撒在你脸上.
云上太阳,它总不改变,
哈~~它不改变!

主已为你我而预备.



Like the sun that never cease to rise each morning, Your faithfulness in us never cease.
Great is thy faithfulness O LORD!
If we place our hopes in man, our assets, our money, they are bound to fail and disappoint us.
but because LORD, you are the same yesterday, today and forever more!
You never change!
And the hope that we have in You, will carry us through everything and anything!
A hope set in things above, in heaven.
Looking towards not just a better tommorrow, but eternity with Jesus Christ.
=)

Recent endeavours. =)))

Baked another cake. This time for my family. haha.
It looked boring without decor, so I just anyhow took the mini tangerines in the fridge and put on the cake. lol.

INTRODUCING! MY PURPLE ROOOOMMMM!!!
HAHA. tho, it looks rather messy from here.
(the shade of purple in the picture is not exactly the same as the shade of purple on the actual wall.)

Then I had some paint left. so i painted my mirror frame and my chair oso.
HAHA. so I got purple chair and purple mirror nowwww.

FINALLY PHOTOS FROM JOGOS!!!

Bin bui and bheebing behaved like ding dongs for my sake. hahaha. Cause I asked them to look dumb for me!
Nalani and Charl (charlotte) are role-playing teachers at registration booth. And Charl, you are like the Little Miss Fierce and Nalani is like Little Miss Nice. hahaha.

We decorated the place to look like after school.
hahaha... and this is like erm our "classroom" with puppets as classmates!

This is the "copy-answers-from-answer-sheet-stuck-on-teacher's-back-and-not-be-caught-cheating" game. HAHAHA. AND IT WAS FUNNY.


Real Life Wii Rabbids Classroom game!
In the game, you are a student in class and the idea is to throw as many paper balls as you can to ka jiao the teacher. HAHA.
And here is the real life version, and you are a student in class and the idea is to throw as many paper balls as you can to hit Keiji, who is the teacher.
and of course, don't get caught. LOL.


Here's introducing the Wii.


girls can play.


kids can play.


guys can play.
(and Grace play until her veins all popping out. haha)

LOL. And old people can play oso! Good for family bonding.
haha! free advertising for Wii.

LOL. And here we are, the game-masters of other board games and best, wong is the organisor, but we all abandon our games and came to play Wii!!! hahaha.


Wii CHAMPIONSHIPS

Here we have, the 4 finalists to compete in the Wii Championships, playing a series of mini games from Rayman Raving Rabbids!!!


And from the characters they chose, they are dressed up to look like them. HAHA!

And in this photo, all you have to take note is Wee Ling. =)

Yay! That's all folks!
Come for the next JOGOS!
DON'T MISS IT!
=DDDDDDDDD

FIRST UP!
PHOTOS FROM WEN'S BIRTHDAY!

you can ask wong what was she doing there... hahahaha.

Birthday girl! Birthday card! Birthday cake!

lol. I think i saw a similar photo somewhere... HAHA

hi wong. I totally love your face here. hahaha. and you totally covered my face!

lol. and that photo looks almost like this one!!!

to end with a more sound photo.
here's the girls at marvelous cream!
(and wong. you still look funny here. haha)

I have alot of photos to put here!!!
ohhhh my goshhhh...
THE PHOTOS ARE SO FUNNNNYYYY
HAHAHAHAHA.
so must share with everyone!
(no, it's not those photos you wish they are deleted. haha. it's the laughable and bloggable kind)
it's just that I just looked through the JOGOS photos.
I CANNOT STOP LAUGHING...
and I am super amused!
gosh. it's really funnnnyyy.
HAHAHAHA...

Plus, there's still photos from wenn's birthday celebration.
which is somehow equally dumb.
HAHA.
thennn... I think I'll put a few photos from our tree top walk too!
=DDD

till thennn...
stay tunedddddd.
=DDD

hoho. my newest "creation"! lol. COOKIE MONSTER cake!!! for wenqi's birthday! hahaha. =DDD More photos another day! The camera refuse to connect to my com!

put on your dancing shoes and DANCE like Willoughby dance!

Asher Toy! =DDD

actually I type like a blot of words out... thennn... I decided, I think I prefer to let pictures do the talking. haha. Since I'm not thatttt good with words. =)




A picture is supposed to speak a thousand words right? sooo, what do you think these photos tell you? HAHA. =DDD

The "A"s has ended...

The "A"s has begun...

(reminders to myself)
What are you distracted by?
then think.
What are you distracted from?

"To the man who himself strives earnestly, God also lends a helping hand."
-Aeschylus

"God will always do right by you and thus, we should always do right by Him. Works both ways."
-Bro db

I think I talk more nonsense than I talk sense.
hmmm.
and yes, I have finally decided to agree with many that it's finally time that I grow up and behave more like 18 and soon to be 19. (random but just that this has been in my mind for a while)
hur. =)

More challenges to come! (after I CONQUER the one that starts with 'A' right in front of me)
But all the more opportunities to show GOD'S GLORY!
Like the quote I saw in the powerpoint shown in MORNING PRAYER
(which is REALLLLYYY REALLLYYY TIME I GET MY SLEEPING TIME IN CHECKKK!!!! AND ALSO WAKING UPPPP TIMEEE!!! WHICH MEANS I'LL BE ASLEEP IN 20 MINS!!!)

Not for tasks equilvalent to my strength but for Your strength that empowers me in my tasks!

I wanted to blog that I shall be a giraffe now then a koala bear after As ('cause they sleep 2 hrs and 19hrs respectively) some days back. (haha)
but, I shall strike a balance in my life! and sleep 6-8 hours a day! and be a human being!!!!
HAH.

so. this is Mission Balancing-out-my-life
and if it's all successful, I'll become very disciplined!
yeahh.

STEAMBOAT IN CANTEEN!!!
HAHA. It was fun man! And not super AA la, cause canteen got very little people.
But we still attract some attention like the stall vendors came out to see and some people gave us weird looks...
But it was still fun! AND WE ATE FOR A WHOLE 1 AND A HALF HOUR!
WAH.

Farewell Assembly performances/videos were really nice! And Math Dept's video is the one that made me laugh the most most...
hahaha... OK! MORE ANOTHER DAY WHEN MORE PHOTOS ARE UPLOADED BY CLASSMATES! =)))

Tomorrow is Farewell.
hur. And my class is going to celebrate after that eating STEAMBOAT!
waha.
IN SCHOOL.
They say CANTEEN...
but I hope maybe we can eat in class.
wah. I think this will be one of the most "insane" thing I've done.
Maybe eating in canteen isn't so bad,
quite dumb and super AA.
gosh.
we'll be bringing a pot, the electrical thing to cook food over, and there's bags of food in my fridge now... Plus utensils, plates, blah blah blah, a group of 13 girls and a boy.
wah. hahaha if eat in canteen really super attract attention.
HAHA. -.-

FAREWELL. SO FASTTTTT...
A LEVEL. SO FASTTTT ALSOOO...
hah confirm will miss my classmates!
ah. see what happens tmr then I'll blog more!
=DDD

I wanted to find a photo that maybe possibly describes my mood right now. But I didn't managed to find one, or maybe my mood's too complicated! =DDD

I think I kope this picture from Miriam's blog or someone else's blog, so now I'm pasting it on mine!

TO ALL DEAREST A-LEVELS FRIENDS!
YES WE CAN DO IT!

This picture make me feel so like a feminist. Like hey-i'm-macho-too, don't-look-down-on-me-cause-i'm-female kind of attitude. But no, i'm not against any guys in particularly. haha.
And this reminds me all about women's rights/gender roles/blah blah blah in GP which is a topic I am more inclined to be fond of.

A conversation with my classmates today:
A: "A level is my boyfriend!"
B: "I'm going to divorce him soon..."
C: "I'm going to divorce him soon too!"
C: "No, I won't even marry."
B: "Wrong choice."

Hi A levels, I'm going to embrace you so much right now until I'll think of you night and day and even dream of you in my sleep. But I'll bid you farewell for the whole of eternity in exactly 1 month and 4 days!!! no. I won't even say bye! I'll just leave! =P

woooo... and 2 years just past like that.
ok, I learnt something. Photography!
hahaha...

back to embracing A levels!

Let it rain.

can everything just slow down for once.
at this rate, i'll just go crazy, or just
dehydrate from the amount of crying...

i don't want to go school.

yes. I'm still alive and
I shall not continue to emo.
hur.

wah seh.
Yahoo has a start wearing purple website.
LOL.
The website is purple, everything inside is about the colour purple.
wah. purple paradise. LOL.
ok and the shade of purple of the site is my fav shade!
...
haha. but i think you all will puke,
cause I think my love for purple has made many hate it.

ironically also, I don't even have any purple clothes!
though, I have alot of other purple things.
haha.

ok, but I think my love for purple isn't so extreme now,
and my food season of ba chor mee and oreo ice blended
has gradually die away...
so sad.

maybe i'll like something new!
till then, i shall stay in moderation...
hopefully.

yay! I finish my prelims! but no feeling de.
hur... ok. I declare myself 3 days holidays and I'll return to my studying life.
hai.
and it's sad, I don't have holiday given by school after prelims
AND i don't have truncated time table at least 1 week...
OH. NO MONDAY BLUES even though school ends at 7pm!!!!
hur hur.
off to play!!!
waha.

yeahh... A previously unpublished photo! Blue Cell jumping shot! Another photo that took several attempts... But we finally got everyone in the air. LOL.

Jump up and down! Jump up and down! TOMORROW LAST PAPERRRRRR...

yes. I ought to be studying! and yet I've been posting up photosss!!! ahhhh... ANYWAY, here's the retardedly freakish photo of the day! BYE!

Here's my FIRST and definitely not my last PHOTO DEDICATION!!!
to my dearest dearest friends! =DDD
ok, doesn't mean you are not in the photo then you are not dear to me!
I'll dedicate you one next time! (muahahahaha... *evil laughter*)

It was a relative torturous experience taking this photo, cause I dunno how to get them to laugh!!! But they were so cooperative and told each other lame jokes. -.- Didn't seem to turn out too bad? COMMENTS APPRECIATED! stranger or no stranger. Or if you think I over-photoshopped this. Or even under-photoshopped!?!? (HAHAHAHA)

This is taken soooo long time ago, so it seems pretty random that I upload now, but ok so just take it that I'm being random! yeah!

be sure to catch more photo dedications! hoho.
esp after I finish my A levels. Maybe I'll go crazy shooting photos and playing around with photoshop. Since my laptop now has space for me to store photos (YESSSSSS!!!) and I have a hard disk to store even even even MOREEEE!!!!

yeahh... this is so shiok for me.
that's all for now! BYE!

I throw myself on extreme sides of a balance.
hur.

There's a peace i've come to know
though my heart and flesh may fail
There's an echo in my soul
I can sing, It is well

Jesus, has overcome
and the grave is overwelmed
The victory is won
He is risen from the dead

And I will rise when He calls my name
No more sorrow,
No more pain
I will rise, on Eagle's wings
Before my God, fall on my kness, and rise
I will rise


There's a day that's drawing near
when the darkness breaks to light
and the shadow's disappear
and my faith shall be my eye's

Jesus, has overcome
and the grave is overwelmed
The victory is won
He is risen from the dead

And I will rise when He calls my name
No more sorrow,
No more pain
I will rise, on Eagle's wings
Before my God, fall on my knees, and rise
I will rise

And i hear the voice of many angels sing
Worthy is the Lamb
And I hear the cry of every longing heart
Worthy is the Lamb

And I will rise when He calls my name
No more sorrow,
No more pain
I will rise, on Eagle's wings
Before my God, fall on my knees, and rise
I will rise

argh...
kill me kill me kill me kill meeeeee...
I never spend so long on a GP essay before
and it is driving me CRaZYYYYYYYY
I almost finish with one para left after spending few days struggling with it
being tormented by it
and it got closed without savinggggg...

hahhhhhhhh..
kill me.
I'm wasting timeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
ahhhhhhhhh...
hur.
HURRR.

hurrrr. I want to cry.
it's 6pm and i'm awake since 7am
and I'm still stuck in this stupid essay that I must re-write now.
hahhhhhhhhh....

hah... ok i'm ranting and ranting and ranting cause I wan to explode alr.
hur.

I left a part of me in Egypt, while the other half is trying to head to the land of Canaan.

there are somethings I didn't let go; somethings that I wouldn't let go...

somethings I didn't want to sacrifice.

I wanted the best of both worlds.

made myself feel really horrible; miserable this week.

deluding myself.

I really wanted to give up; let go and just forsake it all.

but I couldn't bring myself to...

We won't change until the pain of staying the same is worse than the pain of change.

and I honestly have enough,

if I continue on like this, I'll just walk myself away from everything.

but no. I will not. I must not. and I refuse to.

there are dreams to be fulfilled,
destiny to be reached,

battles to be truimphed,

and the greatest adventure that awaits.

let faith be my eyes.

I am going to Canaan.

and I am not going to die in the wilderness.

Lord, take the wheel.

my blog has entered a stage of non-existence. -.-

and this week I actually succeeded not coming online for so long!

pretty long!
and i'm only online now cause I want to do my GP research!

*pat myself on the back*

I forsee the death of my blog in days to come.

lol. and I'll soon be back to resurrect it once I triumphed from my exams!

hoho.

and yes, i will work very very very harrrddddddd...

lol. For Michael Phelps, he eats, sleeps and swims.

I'll eat, sleep and study!

(but no I won't eat the way he does... He consumes 12,000 calories a day!!!)

SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

i bid you farewell, till I someday...

hi.
actually I have 2 stupid stuffs to blog about, but I'll leave it for another day...
I'm just here to say I'M EXCITEEEDDD!!!
hohoho.

haven blogged much, cause I dunno wht to blog abt sia!
put picture I oso a bit lazy then like recently not much pics to put.
haha...

okkkkk...
THIS IS WOAHHHHHHH.
some may understand.
seriously, no words can do justice to whatever that is happening.
even 'explosive' dun seem explosive enough.
haha. if you know wht I'm talking abt.
hoho. =DDD

I'M EXCITTEEEDDDDD!!!

none but You Jesus.
no one else but You.

I have 2 things to blog about, actually I think 3. lol. eh, no maybe 4. I'll just crap...

Firstly, today I had my first PE lesson after june hols, so it's time to take height & weight again! haha. I was quite looking forward, cause I think I should have lost some weight and I did! =DDD
1 or 2 kg. yeahhh... It's a good thing, cause I have been over-eating and i was seriously getting heavier and ahhhh rounder! soooo... yeahhh I lost weight! =DDD

annnddddd, I am still on my growing schedule! =D sometime ago, I decided that 160cm will be a good height to stop at, soooo, if I grow 1cm every year, by 21, I'll be 160cm tall. =) soooo I'm glad to announce that I did not stop at 156cm! I am now 157cm! hahahahaha... yaaaa I knowwww, I'm not veryyyy tall, quite short actuallyyy, but nvm. It doesn't really bother me. haha. I am living in self-denial, most of the time I don't realise how short I am cause I feel quite tall at home! (cause everyone else is just as short, or shorter. hahaha)

Also, today we get to know which game electives we are in for PE this term, and I'm happy cause I get to do rock climbing! =D maybe abseiling too! hoho.

thennnn, honestly, the rest of today I was not in the best of mood... I wasn't upset or anything like that, just quite sian. My timetable this term has been the longest of all the other timetables I got so far... and I really feel like whining and complaining a whole lot because of it, but I think I managed to keep my mouth shut. comparing to some classes that ends 505 everyday, I'm already better off, at least some days I end earlier. And I heard other JCs are having extra lessons until 6+/7+... hur hur...

and thus, my nightmare has finally arrived. It's books and books and books from now onn...
but on a good and optimistic note, my dream will come when I've endured the nightmare.
haha. =) yeahh, it's applicable! =D

sooooo after my nightmarish A levels, my (short term) dream is just to do anything and everything else except touch my textbooks during my 6 months holidays!!! anndddd I shall never ever ever ever ever ever come in contact with maths againnnn. I shall refrain from answering any form of maths question even if it's 1+1. ok I'm kidding, maybe I'll answer you if it's 1+1.

andddd I shall go to thailand for holiday, and shop like crazy and eat very shiok food! thenn I will have all the time and permission to go church as much as I want, and I'll have time to go learn photoshop and lighting. thenn, I'll have time to play around with photography and learn how to bake/cook/sew...

okkkk... my 'planned' activities are so exciting. lol. ok, but before alllll thattttt I'll have to endure the nightmare first!!! yeahhh! altho I think I seriously screwed up my mid years, I seriously don't think I'll pass anything, but nvm, all is not lost. I shall work hard from now on. hahhhhh...
alrightttttt, a lvls here I comeeeeeeee!!!!!!! =DDD

UNSOUND WENT CHOMP CHOMP!
(photos taken after eating at chomp chomp)

I'm going to remove my tagboard!
soooo... you can add comments to my entry posts instead if youuuu wannnntttt...
ok!
ok!
byeeeee.
=)

Introducinggggg... MY 'COLLECTION' OF HAIRBANDS!!!

so right now, I am left with 10 hairbands. I broke 5 hairbands, 4 are in the picture. The other is so spoilt, it's like beyond repair. hur hur... and my broken ones are the shiny ones! I need to be more careful. haha. But actually I broke more than 5... the black one is my 2nd or 3rd one, red is my 2nd one i think, aiyaaaa... long history of broken hairbands...

and I realise I have been wearing hairbands since sec 2! LOL. ok. I might just get some new hairbands. or like think of some new way to do my hair! hahahaaa...

you can like just assumed my previous post is like wenqi's BFF post's photo section.
LOL.
and yaaa... wenqi!
i agree we should go back to chomps to take that picture!
hahahaaa...
we can go on friday!
if everyone is free that is.
=)))
hahahaaa...
and we should like go take a set of new neoprints.
for fun.


i feel like screammingggggg...
for a lot of reasons la.
the stupid kind of scream not the I am very miserable kind of scream.
lol. you get wht i mean.
and I think I'm quite stupid,
like the funny sort of way...
so I'm quite amused.
lol. if that even makes sense.


oh oh oh.
I want to go cycling again!
like later!
hahahaaa...
cause I think it's quite good exercise,
I perspired so ya it means I exercised!
and I don't have to jog!
lol.
and I can travel faster so I can go explore pasir ris!
altho, I think it has quite the effect on my right leg like jogging.
heh. I feel olddddd yet young!
hahahaaa...
I'm not making sense.
I'm just typing whatever that's coming to my head.
hahahaaa...


Exams overrrr!!!
for now.
like 3 days.
I will go crazy then I'll come back to study.
I have plan a series of activities for myself!
ok. and I'll make sure I won't waste my time away!
soooooo...
first up!!!!
PACK MY ROOMMMMMM
it has never ever ever been this messy.
my piles of notes are everywhere.
it's not so bad when things are messy and you still know where things r.
but it's very bad when it's this messy,
and i can't find all my stuff!!!
aaaahhhhh...
unleashing my 'OH EVERYTHING MUST BE NEAT AND ORGANISED' beaver now.
LOL.
BYEEEEEEEEEEEEE...

Random photos, since we were sec 2 till now.

We really changed alot! =D

for the better of course!

definitely for the better.

I love you all too! =DDD

(post 'inspired' by wen's BFF post)

p.s I was seriously up to no good. Hahahaha...

but ehhhh... you all look fine in the photos! so no harm done.

yeahhhh...