Sub D Sports Day!! 1st October 2005

wahahah this is like my first time hosting an event for Sub D...its our Sports Day today "Sweat It Out" Was asked by Peiks to host the event two weeks before...mixture of excitement and anxiety actually...although i have been cheerleading during Uni days...this is a whole new ball game to me..the crowds the AGE group wahahah and of course the spirit of the people bah..still rather new to Adults i feel..:P

had spent the last few days prior to this event rather i would call it "sleepless" nights wahaha...besides the occasional waking up in the middle of the morning to pray , i had stayed up to brainstorm the script with Chukai my co-host for this event since Monday! i was telling God its like "Bam Bam Bam, ministry!" You see Sunday I had just played for 3 services...this week is the starting of the downloading of data for 26 countries reporting to be done...by midweek...my face started to outbreak and stress was written on my brow! wahaha..Our script was edited a few times actually wahaha...

Initially we had written scripts in to "poke" at our Co-hosts wahahh then Peiks came in and went "the golden rule is :- You should NOT put down your Co-host!" I am so blessed by this sister! she stayed up with us and gave us good tips on how to host...even re-wrote the script for us!! Peiks if you are reading this, *BIG HUGS!!* Thanks!!

Finally the day has arrived, sms-ed our dear brother Tony a birthday greeting, very groggy, O Lord You must lead me Lord! I am nearly drained from all the late nights and I realised that I had to drive also....took the car at 1030 and started driving to ah Zhu's house..realised that I am so "blur" i missed a turning and hafta turn one big round!! wahahah after picking up Ah Zhu, drove on to Kim's house!! could you believe it? MISSED the exit to Kim's place again!! wahaha..now i have to go through unfamiliar roads....indeed i was circling around the Boon Keng and Towner Road area before i finally settled down in one place and whipped out the Street Directory to get my coordinates right...so farnie!! wahaha...Pa dun scold me for wasting the petrol man! wahah...

Finally reached Kim's place...had a good time eating Nasi Goreng and Roti John. Kim offered to help Ah Zhu iron her shirt...its her first Sunday serving as a Usher toml! I am so proud of her!! :) Really its God that changes hearts! Really blessed also by her spirit to serve and grow in the Lord!!

After a short prayer we set off, met with heavy rains and visibility was really bad..think a lot of us volunteers were really praying in our hearts for the rain to stop for the event to carry on..true enough..the moment we reached the Pasir Ris Park the rain stopped! God is so faithful! Thank You LORD! The volunteers are already there at 2 plus and setting up and tying water bombs...me and Chukai started to rehearse our scripts and so farnie...din know we were so comfy with each other!! wahah we were so natural at poking fun at each other, must really thank God for using Chukai! He was the one who brought me to Hope all those years ago. Chukai, me and Yee Ping were year 1 course mates in NTU and we all were part of a gang who always stayed together to study. I guess I really saw the Christ living in him and one fine day, I went up to him in 2001 after a prompting from God to commit my life back to Him, "Hey Chukai, could you bring me to your church?" He was like, `eye big big' whahah for those who have known me earlier...i was really an true blue "Ah Lian" my former days without living for God was terrible..

I went clubbing, i hang out in pubs, i drank a lot...yeah hang out with all the "ah bengs" wahahh had a really crazy life without much aim and meaning...really God changes lives! As I look back at what He has done in my life from 2001 till now...its amazing i tell you! Think my friends whom i used to hang out with last time will not have expected this man..."Rachel Holy-moly" some of them would chant when i told them that i am part of the church worship team...:) I guess its really true during one of the sermons when the Pastor mentioned that as you grow more in Christ, you draw further away from your wordly friends..:)

Anyway, wanna thank God for bringing Chukai into my life to let me experience this life changing love that only God can give..:) We had great fun, asking the group to mimick all the cheers of the "super action heroes" and noticed some great stunts do look at my photo link which i will send out where i would consolidate all the photos...

We all felt that the warm up was more tiring than the actual games itself! so farnie...had a go at Dodgeball where i joined Dennis' Bruce Lee team...wahahah i really siam all the shots coming at me like crazy! think its because they think i am an easy target for being so big sized!! waha...i became the last person standing! thanks to Yicheng! i was finally knocked out...too tired to siam balls already...took a lot of pictures of people around...:)

Kok Siang and Nicholas brought along their pet dogs and they became instant superstars! took a lot of pictures with the cute "starhub" puppy also..heheh well then during tug o war, the hose actually broke!! so we resumed with water bomb games also...wahahh really whacked everyone with the water bombs in our hands...me lah itchy fingers go and provoke those who are really armed with water bombs and was dretched to the skin!! wait till i catch the person who threw a bomb on my head...all my hair cream to sustain my curls came oozing down my face!! It was a Inter Unit sorta competition whereby we would have to destroy the piece of vanguard hanging from our UL's neck.....all of us "bakat" and we rushed towards A unit! wahahah i was hugging Ai Ai and kena from the rest showers of blessings too ....its a warzone back there..:P Guang Rong who ran so fast that no one could catch him emerged victorious! yay! we won just like that! wahaha..:P

i really look a sight! Thank God for Chukai, always filling in the gaps during the hosting them and i can't stop praising him for being part of the hosting..can't imagine anyone who can be so "mo qi" with me...dinner was spent quietly on groundsheets spread on the ground...its really a wonderful day...

Guess the cheer that i bring home with me today is from Peiks and Poy's group who were in the "Neo" group from the "Matrix" haah
it goes, "THERE IS NO SPOON!!!"