When you've prayed every prayer that you know how to pray
Monday, August 22, 2011
Ziteng? Matthew?
Many people ask me why do they still call me Ziteng since i have a christian name, matthew? well, heres why..
when i was born, my dad somehow or rather forgotten to include Matthew in my birth cert, so it was just Lim Ziteng.. but i guess since all my sisters have christian names so my mum wanted me to have one too.
so when i was in pri 3, my mum brought me to the lawyer, who's shang jun's father, to add the name Matthew.. and some adjustment needed to be done.. like in pri school, when my form teacher started calling me matthew.. the whole class (being pri 3s will go)," who is matthew? new student in class ah, how come i don't see him?" OR sometimes when the teacher calls Matthew.. i won't even respond! so it took some time to get used to it.
but since people in church know me as Ziteng since i was young, i'm pretty much happy they are still calling me Ziteng till now except for one or 2 who enjoy calling me matthew. zzzzz. and also my family calls me Ziteng too, THANK GOD!
so its left with school.. since the first group of people who called me Matthew were from school.. i just decided that ONLY people in the school i am attending will call me Matthew, the rest of them shall call me by my chinese name cos thats the way i like it!
which brings us back to today.. as you can see, if you are my family member, or something in church or CF, you'll know me as Ziteng. but if you're in Barker or NYP.. you'll know me as Matthew.
okay so with that said, no one needs to ask anymore k.. and you SHALL call me Ziteng if you are from church or family or CF or Matthew if you're from ACS or NYP.
kthxbye
8/22/2011 09:28:00 PM
Saturday, July 30, 2011
Secret Millionaire
every friday, somehow or rather, when i switch on the TV around 9pm, i'm usually on the BBC knowledge channel . well, its usually on that channel because before that, i'll be watching Top Gear which is from BBC. but thats not the point, for a couple of weeks now i've been watching this series of episodes called Secret Millionaires.
well, Secret Millionaires is basically a show where on each episode, a Millionaire is taken out from his confortable home, multiple credit cards, luxury cars and many other stuff and live in a city in the USA for 1 week where people are living in poverty and he/she is supposed to help go around looking for people & organisations to help people out. and at the end of that week, he will write a cheque of X amount of dollars to bless the people or organisation.
and so last night's episode was about this Millionaire staying in Las Vegas and he was tasked to live in a certain part of the USA for 6 days and he had to help various people and organisations and at the end of it, bless them with a cheque.
to cut the long story shot, he met various individuals who shared with him about how hard is it to make ends meet in the city and even caring for their children. he volunteered in 2 organisations which gave young students a place to study and learn in a healthy enviornment. the last place he volunteered at was this group of people who clear the rubbish that people dump around the city. and basically the whole episodes shows a little glimps of how tough life it.
so at the end of his 6 days, when it was time for him to leave, he went back to the 3 different groups of people. he gave a cheque of $10 000 to a mother and son to help finance in their centre's facilities and also to provide food for the students. he then gave a cheque of $20 000 to the organisation that help clear the dumpsters. but now only that, he also bought equipment which will help the volunteers in clearing the rubbish easier.. like brooms, a lawn mower, and many more, which honestly i thought was a much practical way of giving back to them.
and the last organisation was for a basketball club. this coach, who is already in his late 50s or early 60s, wants to retire already but can't bare to leave the students who are learning basketball. and bear in mind that these students come from broken families, their parent(s) don't have enough money to give them and stuff.. so the millionaire gave the organisation a cheque of $75 000 and then to that coach $25 000.
well i guess with this short summary of whats going on. you might think, well, this millionaire is only here to give money and then after 6 days go back to his comfy home what. but i think we should also consider that, its because of that this millionaire has done, has opened doors for the various people he has blessed. through that generous amount of money they were able to afford more children in to their centres to teach and guide them and not let them wonder off in the streets which might turn them into gangsters and what not. and through this amount and resources they can clear the rubbish with more convenience. and through this amount, people can go to high school, followed by college and then even get a decent job there after.
the world we live in is messed up.. we need to have a heart of compassion.
7/30/2011 09:05:00 PM
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
its been a while since i last blogged. so i shall.
some of you might know.. i pass my time once in a while playing Chinese Chess online. well, call me a geek or whatever, but at least i'm not doing worthless things like drugs or gambling or pick pocketing.
k so maybe i should explain how this online game works. the rules of chinese chess apply, each player can play with the same player for only 2 games max, the winner of each round can win between 12 points to 20 points. and each player can only play with a player who is at least 100 points lesser or more than him. so for example, if i have 1450 points, i can play with someone as low as 1350 or as high as 1540 points.
so just awhile ago i was playing a game with this fella. IIRC he probably had 1410 points and i had about 1430 points. so we started playing.. and since his total number of points is lower than mine, i was more or less certain that i would probably win him, but i could lose the game as well, so i was pretty careful. but well, i won him eventually( i'm guessing its a him and you'll know why further down) and it was quite an easy win since he either wasn't paying attention, or he just wasn't ... paying attention. ANYWAY, i really don't like such players cos i feel they're not playing a fair game so after the first round i decided to leave the table and look for someone else to play.
and soon after, he opened up a chatbox with me and called me a dog.. and i thought to myself, well, can't admit defeat la but its okay i'll just ignore him.. and that probably made him even more annoyed and then he typed," your mother is dog "then i'm like. wow what does this gotta do with my mother? so i shall show you how ridiculous he is in his convo.
S: U R Dog S: your mother is dog zit: why? S: dog zit: why? S: because y win and y get out S: Hate zit:? zit: what does that have to do with my mother? please learn some manners, thanks. zit: i can teach you how to have proper manners. zit: firstly, don't be rude. zit: secondly, don't insult other people's parents! S: Dog zit: its okay, i forgive you
and that was that, after i typed i forgive you, he stopped. so firstly, judging from what he says, i'm guessing he's a dude (without any manners at all). and for one, its certainly not a crime getting myself out of the table after 1 game just because i won.i feel sad for such people now, they hide themselves infront of a computer and do stupid stuff which does no good to them at all.
and i'm glad i said "i forgive you" because i felt much more sane then after he insulted my mother. and also, i certainly hope that when he see's that someone forgives him for the stupid and immature things he has done, he will try to learn his lesson.
what are your thoughts on this? :)
6/28/2011 09:58:00 AM
Saturday, June 04, 2011
Technology
i was just thinking.. i think i know why nowadays people aren't so personal anymore. you read in the bible where people weep because they'll be leaving each other for a really really long time.
but in like present time we're like.."oh you're leaving ah? okay bye." and then it just stays like that because we know for a fact that even though they're apart from each other, technology allows them to still communicate. but back then, i've no idea how they comminucate.. probably they tied a ring with a note attached to a bird's legs and it'll fly back and forth? who knows? might be true after all :)
6/04/2011 11:39:00 PM
Saturday, May 28, 2011
Hiding Under a Rock
Lately, i feel like i'm hiding myself from the world..
its like, friends ask me out and i say i'm not free. but in actual fact, i just stay at home i give myself excuses like "oh i want to save money and all " well, yea thats true, but after a while, its just lame.
in my family, my little cousins talk to me on facebook i just close the window and ignore them and all.
then in church, people come talk to me, i talk 2 or 3 sentences and i tell them i gotta rush off somewhere but in actual fact, i'm just lazing around one corner.
something is terribly wrong with me, but i don't know..
5/28/2011 03:56:00 PM
Monday, March 28, 2011
Interesting Dream!
i would say i had a really really interesting and fun dream last night.. probably thats why i woke up at 9am today instead of my usual 8am wake up time. at the end of the post i will explain why i had this dream.. so my dream started off with me driving a Honda City which was Manual Transmission. i was definetly in melbourne and monica was sitting next to me in the passanger seat giving me directions. i remember driving down this really steep hill and this driver in front of me was driving so slowly i was so ready to honk him! haha & then! the next i remember was i was heading to the airport, while driving up a slope to the departure hall, i saw 3 people walking up. and i was wondering to myself," why on earth are people walking up this slope when they can take a lift to the departure hall. so when the few of them turned around i remember seeing hannah and chrysan. k i can't really remember what happened after that but now i was still in a Honda City and now Tin tin was in the car! haha ikr so weird.. and attached to the car was a Caravan! and like we were driving around this huge ass field trying to find a suitable place to park the car & caravan and i remember telling tin tin that we must find a place which is near the toilet and place to eat! so while driving, i remember looking at different caravans and how the people have pimped their caravans up and stuff. OKAY THEN I WOKE UP! BUT now that i think of it all, i can slowly trace back why i had all the images in my dream. - starting off with my dream while driving a MT honda city, during the time i learnt driving, almost on all my lessons, i drove a white honda city.. - with regards to driving in melbourne. well, i was in melbourne 2 weeks back and it was such a hilly place which so many many slopes and on some days, i sat in the front passanger seat while monica drove around. i guess i must have dreamt of myself taking the wheel since i really really wanted to drive in melbourne but didn't get the chance to. - then we move to the airport, hmm i've no idea why i drove to the airport, but it certainly didn't seem like changi airport. - but i know why i saw hannah and chrysan. cos a few months back on one saturday evening, i drove my family to How Sun drive there to eat dinner before going to my grandparent's place and for me to drive there, i need to pass by bartley church and drive up a hill before reaching there. and so happen that day just as i was driving up, i remember seeing hannah, chrysan and i think jiamin walking up that hill. so far everything sound logical right? hmm - okay THEN right, in all honestly, i've no idea how did tin tin come into my dream? cos he's so busy with school i don't even meet up with him so often with him. so i found that ABIT strange. ABIT only. - then its the caravans right? haha that ones coolio. cos a few days back i was watching top gear and there was this challenge where james, jeremy and richard had to drive a caravan a few hundred miles to this site where people park their caravans and relax there, and in that episode, James May had problems trying to park his car with the caravan behind it. hahaha - okay i think i'm getting better in remembering my dreams. someone give me a high 5 pls. thanks :)
3/28/2011 10:17:00 AM
Thursday, March 24, 2011
The end of it all
couple of hours back, the world recieved news that some parts of thailand had a massive earthquake which could have kill thousands of people.
i was just thinking, if my sentences don't flow please pardon me, i'm just typing whatever i'm thinking, so yea..
upon hearing that, i just asked myself, just when would Jesus come again. and i'm for sure most of you christians out there would ask the same question whenever you hear over the news some country has an earthquake, tsunami or drought or cyclone..
and then i thought of japan.. probably the one location in the world that has the most and deadly earthquakes and tsunami. but in the midst of all that, only 1% of its population of close to 130 million people are christians. i'm just questioning myself why would God allow Japan to face with all this natural disasters and its number of christians so little.. i mean, then who do the 99% of non christians depend on?
i'm really glad i got the chance to visit Japan last year. almost exactly 1 year before the most recent earthquakes in japan.. cos over there, we were educated on the movements the missionaries are taking to spread the word across the nation, and i'm glad though the numbers are still small, its increasing.
its just at this moment right now my heart really goes out to Japan.
19 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”
