Semester Break and Final Year Project

            In my 3 weeks semester break, I did quite a number of things. I listened quite a number of sermons online by Pastor Kong, Pastor Tan Ye Peng, Pastor Kevin, Shirley and North Point Community Church. Besides that, I prayed a lot, watch tv, sleep quite a lot for almost more than 8 hours a day, eat a lot and rest a lot. Haha. I was fully charged during semester break. I learnt quite a number of things also from the sermons that I listened such as letting go of the past and move ahead, we need to do the right thing even though other people is not doing it, be confidence with who we are in God, we need to be responsibility and etc.

            I also began to finish up the things in my Final Year Project part 1 so that I can do my presentation slides for it. Thank God that I was able to implement the things required by my supervisor. Then I began to do my presentation slides for Final Year Project part 1 and I had put a lot of hard work in doing the slides.

            After I had completed the powerpoint slides, I sent it to my supervisor(lecturer) through email. However, my supervisor asked me to modify my slides according to the things that he mentioned. So I modified my slides based on the things that he mentioned in the email and sent again. Again, my supervisor asked me to modify the slides. This process kept repeating again and again until I had edited the slides for 7 times. In my life so far, this is the most difficult presentation slides that I needed to do.

            Every time after I had edited my slides, I prayed hard that it will be the finalized one but it did not happen until I had edited for the 7^th time. At the beginning, I felt so discouraged because I had worked real hard on the presentation slides and I prayed so hard but yet every time I received a reply that I did not wish to receive. But thank God for that because if not where got the chance for me to grow. Haha. God even reminded me that I am not doing it for my supervisor but everything that I do, I should it for God. So I did not procrastinate and edited my slides immediately each time I was requested to do so and then sent back to my supervisor.

            My presentation schedule was out on few days earlier before MMU new semester starts and I was so happy that my presentation was scheduled on the Friday evening of first week in new semester because that Friday I did not have any classes and after finish the presentation for Final Year Project part 1, I can focus in doing my Final Year Project part 2. The Sunday that I came back to Cyberjaya, I started to have sorethroat and the next day started to have headache. On Tuesday morning, I went to MMU to see doctor and then went to Church Wide Prayer Meeting at night.

            On Wednesday and Thursday I worked very hard in my preparation for the presentation on the Friday evening although I was feeling unwell. However, I was informed by my Supervisor on Friday morning that my presentation in the evening has been postponed as my moderator is on paternity leave on Friday and the new date and time of my presentation will be set after my supervisor have discussed it with my moderator when my moderator returns to work.

            I was quite discouraged after reading the email because it suddenly postponed after I had put so much effort in preparing the presentation for the day. But thank God because of that I have the chance to grow. After my presentation had postponed, I attended my friends’ presentation in the evening because MMU requires us to attend another 2 students presentation besides own presentation. I had no time to sleep on Friday evening and was so sleepy in the whole day and my sickness getting worse (from only sorethroat becomes sorethroat + cough + flu). On Friday night I still chose to go for cellgroup and shared testimony during testimony time because I wanted to live by Spirit and not by emotions. I remembered Crystal said before God gave us the decision making and even drinking a cup of water is also a decision whether to drink or not to drink. One of my goals for 2010 is to live by spirit and not by emotions. The challenges come real fast. Haha.

Final Exam Result

        I want to thank God that I got an A- in the only subject I took in previous semester and a pass for my internship which has only either a pass or a fail status. Although I had only 1 subject in previous semester, but that subject was a tough subject and it was a short semester. Besides that, I had a Final Year Project to catch up everyday, a presentation for my internship and other things to do.

        The midterm exam for that subject was in the following week after EmergeKL 2009 and the presentation for my internship was in the morning the day after EmergeKL 2009 final sessions. Even before Emerge, I already started to fall sick. Yet, I still chose to go for all the sessions in Emerge. When my coursework marks were released, amazingly I had 31 marks out of a total 40 marks for my midterm exam+assignment although I had some parts did not finish in both the midterm exam and assignment.

        One week before my final exam, I tried my best to prepare well for the final exam. I also prayed hard and started to visualize that in the exam hall I able to do the exam questions and even when I do not know how to answer, God’s wisdom will come upon me. One of the things that I learnt from City Harvest is the power of visualizing! One day before the exam, I slept earlier and woke up early the next day to pray. Before I went out from my house to go for exam, I read about 1 or 2 pages of my bible first.

        When I got the final exam question paper, I was in the dilemma of choosing questions to answer. I just need to answer 4 questions out of 6 questions given but not even 1 question I have 100%confidence to answer all the parts. I prayed in my heart asking God to help me. So, I just chose 4 questions by faith and answer them. As I begin to write, ideas started to flow into my head. But once again, I did not manage to finish all parts in the final exam because I had spent too much time in certain questions. But thank God when the results out, I still managed to get an A- grade for that subject. Hallelujah!

2010, A New Beginning

                  Yesterday night I had listened to the Pastor Tan Ye Peng’s online sermon called “See, I am doing a new thing”. It was a very powerful sermon and I had listened to it repeatedly for a few times. The sermon brought out the message about “New Year, New Beginning”. I was impacted by the sermon. Our God is a God of new things. We need to forget the things that are behind and should look forward because God has new things for our life. The former things that we should forget are not only all the bad things but also all the success because we can be so stuck to the past success and could not move to the new things that God wants to give us.

                   Although I have a lot of breakthroughs in my life for the past few years, they were good but the best has yet to come. I am not going to look back at past breakthroughs and failures but am going to look forward to have newer and greater breakthroughs in year 2010. I will look into the future and not the past. God has greater things waiting for each one of us. God is not limited by our situations or our abilities or anything. God is a great God!!! I am going to live a more victorious life in year 2010 for Jesus Christ! Hallelujah! No matter what challenges maybe, I am going to take one feet forward so that I can move forward with God. Not going to live by what I see or by what I feel but will keep pressing on to God. Forgetting the things that are behind but going to look forward for the new things in life.