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Greetings, friends.

Miscellaneous story from the last night of YouthQuake. A girl comes up to the circle i'm sitting it and asks for contacts. When it gets to my turn, i suddenly realise that i don't remember my name, so i turn to my friend and ask for it. i'm pretty amazed at how blur and stupid i can get when i'm really high after fooling around with friends for a few hours.

Anyway, the Monday after YouthQuake, i travelled to Penang with my family to visit my grandparents on my mother's side. Tuesday was spent walking around Penang buying stuff. Wednesday we travelled to KL where i was dropped off and i took the train to Seremban to spend a couple of days with my cousin Yi Zheng. A bunch of his friends were staying over. Interesting people. We spent a good bit of time spouting intellectual nonsense and insulting each other using our intellectual nonsense. Was pretty fun.

Thursday, after Zheng's friends went home, Andrew Ong came over and we went to DOTA for awhile. First time i've played in months, so i'm pretty lousy. Kept dying. Bleag. Oh well.

Friday we went to KL to look at Methodist College where we met En Ning, then met my sister, Yue-Yi, and KL Sentral, after which we went to Sunway Pyramid. Met some of the Ipoh Wesley Methodist Church (IWMC) youth there. Hung out with them till the Planet Shakers concert at night.

The concert was fun. i went there primarily to meet friends and have fun, not to praise and worship God. i know i didn't have the best motives, but i guess God can still come in and work in a person regardless. i found myself really enjoying the worship, allowing myself to just praise God, revelling in his grace and love together with my friends. It's something i think i don't do often enough, 'cause i'm normally feeling too judgemental when i go to this kind of thing. Here's why.

i think a lot of the time we fail as people to truly mean what we say, especially when we're 'praising' God. We sing songs, get really high, have an emotional rush and enjoy ourselves like crazy, but do we, as a generation, truly mean what we say and live out what we sing in our lives? Do we 'Tell the World' that Jesus lives and let our actions proclaim that 'God is Great'? Do we cast aside the cross Jesus chose for us to bear or do we 'Pick it Up'? i think it's something that we all need to work on, having integrity and truly taking to heart the things we say with out lips. We don't wanna be what God calls lukewarm, do we? In Revelations, God says he spits such people out of his mouth, 'cause he doesn't know what to do with them, wishing instead that we were either hot or cold so that he'd have a definite idea of what to do with us. Would really be lousy, being abandoned and spat out of God's mouth, losing all the good things that he's blessed us with, like room and board in comfortable homes, internet access (grin) and friends.

The last paragraph is definitely the most important one, for me at least.
Please, criticise and debate if you don't agree with something. i know there are still flaws in what i say, or at least the way i'm presenting my thoughts.

God bless all
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