The New-Singaporeans Stain

A novel titled “The Human Stain“, tells a story about a black man who spent his entire professional life passing as a white man. A scene that particularly interesting is when he brings home his white girlfriend, and introduce her to his black mother. His girlfriend broke down in tears when she find out that [...]

How to handle discouragement

This lesson taken from God’s Answer to Life’s Difficult Question by Rick Warren.
Discouragement is the world deadliest disease, because of three factors. First, it is universal. Everyone experience discouragement at one stage of their lives. Second, it is recurring. Third, it is highly contagious. Someone with negative feelings easily affect others.
Main bible passage: Nehemiah 4
People get [...]

Jesus DNA

Deputy Senior Pastor, Tan Ye Peng from City Harvest Church give his sermons today. He posed this questions: What makes all Christians same?…That is the Jesus DNA (1 Corinthians 4: 15 – 16), which consists of the following (1 Corinthians 13: 13) :

Faith
Hope
Love

All three can be summed up in Servanthood.
Let’s take a look at two figures [...]

How to live above average

I happened to chance upon Christian book written by Rick Warren, God’s Answer to Life’s Difficult Question.  One of the Chapters is “How to live above average.” Lessons to be learnt as follows:
Main Bible Passage: I Chronicles 4: 9 – 10: 9 Jabez was more honorable than his brothers. His mother had named him Jabez,  saying, [...]

Monster

I watch a very interesting anime, Monster, recently. You can watch this masterpiece either on youtube or Veoh.  The story revolves around a young surgeon called Dr.Tenma, who saved a boy, which turns out to be psycho. This psycho goes on killing spree and the police suspects Dr.Tenma to be responsible for all the killings. Dr. Tenma goes [...]

Example through brokenness

Pastor Tan Ye Peng, the deputy senior pastor at City Harvest Church is giving sermons today. The title is L.I.F.E, which stands for:

L – Leaving to cleave. (Note: Cleave means sever along natural line)
I -  Intimacy with God. Numbers 32: 11 – 12
F – Faith in God.
E – Example through brokenness.

Well, in my opinion, the first [...]

What to do when you don’t know what to do

By Rev Kong Hee of City Harvest Church (Singapore). 22 April 2006.
2 Chronicles 20. Jehoshaphat Defeats Moab and Ammon
Jehoshaphat defeats all threats, when odds go againts them. Verse 5 – 6, There are three things that Jehoshaphat ask to God: Are you not (God almighty), Did you not (we know who God is), Will you not [...]

The Power of Pray

Rev. Kong Hee delivered powerful sermon on 17 May 2008. Here are important lessons for Christians:
2 Chronicles 7: 14 if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and [...]

Names for future daughter

Suddenly, I found an inspiration to jot down names for my future daughters:

Kirsten Ashlee Yong
Lynn Kayleigh Yong

The above names are protected by copyrights, hehe…

The truth about working for government / statutory boards

Based on my experience working for a stat board, I will try to list down few points that would describe working for government, regardless of divisions / departments

General responsibilities of an executive level
· Lots of writing papers. These papers usually approval papers, which described certain proposals of project and directed to senior management for [...]