RC Remote Control

January 27th, 2007 by genfaith

Two months ago, I bought an RC GT sports car set for my friend’s daughter. I wasn’t able to send it to my friend last year. Hopefully by next month I should send it…hhmmm before it will crush down because I played it once in a while with my cat. She likes to catch it and it’s fun also. My cat likes to push down anything on the table especially cups, glasses..oh my… all my cups and glasses were all broken. So now I have plastic cups and glasses, no more broken glasses hehehe. 

And here’s my story my cat push down the RC remote control last night and I thought it was alright but then when I played it today, the gear to the left and right were broken.  Hhhmmm…I tried to played it but it’s no fun if the car will just go forward and backward. And I have to fix it because its not mine.

It took me two hours to fix it. One screw’s head were broken because it was so tight and I can’t open it up. It was a damn thing trying to open the cover with one screw still on it. It was half open and trying to find out what’s wrong with this remote control thing, it’s really a damn thing. My patience was tested and I’m thinking  to throw it and break everything. But I still have control of myself and thinking what should I do. Now I think..hehehe, I put the cutter in the stove to heat it and cut out the screw’s base and surprise the screw was cut half. So finally,I opened the remote control and checked what happen to the gear (left and right). Well, I like doing this, fixing things…I’ll tell you,I’m a handy woman…anything I’ll try to fix hehehe…except life’s problem ONLY God can fix it. So I checked everything, trial and error, analyzing and checking out the parts. At last it was fixed. Now the next problem is putting it together, it took me for a while to put it together. My patience is tested again. It came to my mind if somebody was able to put it together I could do it also,it’s possible. And then voila…it was fixed…without exerting any effort…I just let it go.

The remote control was not the same and not as new as before, there’s a big scratch on the side that I put an electric tape to cover it.  But the thing is it’s fixed and can now be use for it’s purpose.

Well, there’s a lot of lessons I learned. You may think it’s so insignificant but it makes sense. At first I thought of just buy a new one. I even thought being so crazy of doing this nonsense but I was so persistent to go on. Sometimes it helps a lot doing small things like this once in a while. But lately I’m doing small and nonsense things. My mind is so far away of where I am…hhhmmm….let’s see what’s next. But for sure I’m still alive and kicking by HIS grace and mercy. There’s a lot of great things to look forward. I’m just in a time of seeking and in the cross roads.

Voila….my friends.

My bday celebration

December 7th, 2006 by genfaith

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September 14th, 2006 by genfaith

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Just A Few Women

August 12th, 2006 by genfaith

Tamar, Rahab, Ruth, Bathsheba (not mention) Matthew 1…these were the women in Jesus genealogy.

You might have expected the ancestry of Christ to be an especially pious one, filled with all the right people, people of outstanding moral character and impeccable blood-lines, a veritable Who’s Who of historical Hebraic high society.

It may surprise you, then  to learn that such is not the case. No, ma’am. Not at all. In fact, you may discover that these women singled out by Matthew are not the sort you would prefer to stand in line behind at the bank, or sit beside on the GO train, or live in the same part of town with, these Biblical bad girls.

Tamar, Rahab, Ruth, Bathsheba. They are none of them good Presbyterians, these ladies, they are not the ones which leap to mind as the natural president of the Women’s Ministry Committee, not the likely choices for Eldership or Clergy. Yet Matthew adds them to his list, to the exclusion of all others, picking them out of the long line of worthies, dangling them like so many skeletons in the closet; an incestuous daughter-in-law, a harlot, a foreigner with a penchant for climbing into old men’s beds in the middle of the night, and an exhibitionist social climber whom any decent court would find an accessory to murder.

And in making his list, in writing this uncomfortable genealogy, Matthew is saying that there is hope for us all, that from the unhappiest and most unlikely of beginnings can come a miracle, can come a wonder, can come a Christ.

There may be things about our past, there may be things about our lives of which we are ashamed, which cause us to wonder how God could love us, how God could use us, how God could take the lead of our lives and turn them into gold.

There may be times when, like Tamar, we feel abandoned and wasted, cast side and forgotten; when, like Rahab, we seem to be less worthy than any other; when, like Ruth, we seem to be struggling simply to survive or when, like Bathsheba, we have taken a path from which we cannot seem to turn, despite what we know or think is the right thing to do: and yet, says Matthew; and yet, from the unhappiest and most unlikely of beginnings can come a miracle, can come a wonder, can come a Christ.
For where we are, there God is.
And where there is God, there is hope for us all.

Thanks be to God, for our women - and, yes, for our men.
Thanks be to God for loving us all, for using us to his good purpose.
And thanks be to God, who from our lives; empty, unhappy, unseemly, ashamed: from our lives brings Christ to the world. ~ Amen.

what matters most

July 27th, 2006 by genfaith

am i boring and bored?…probably i am unbalanced?…maybe i am just different…i could be boring to some people and interesting to other people…i could be a happy person all day and a boring person all day…sometimes i just don’t care about it and sometimes it hurts me though seeing myself left behind in the corner…but i have to see it in a positive perspective and see both sides…it’s a matter of choice actually…my mindset…my past matters a lot in who I am today, so whatever my actions today matters a lot…my decisions, my choices, my preferences, the people i am with MATTERS A LOT…your decisions, your choices, your preferences, the people you go with TODAY will determine your FUTURE..

give

July 21st, 2006 by genfaith

Successful people see life as a place to give, and as a by-product of giving, they receive back in the end. They are not giving just to get something back, but that is what happens. When a person takes the high road and helps a wayward spouse, sibling, partner, or friend mature through love and enforcing limits, they often get a mature spouse, sibling, partner, or friend in the end as the reward for their sacrifice. By “losing our life” as Jesus put it, we “gain it.” But to demand it in the beginning, we lose it. The high road that leads to payoff is always the one that begins with sacrifice. That may not be fair, but it’s true.

Strong Faith…

May 17th, 2006 by genfaith

Weak foundations produce weak faith. If your life of faith is centered around church attendance, ministry work, discipleship programs, and other seemingly “good” things, then your sandcastle is on its way down. Only a faith built on the rock-solid foundation of Jesus Christand Christ alonecan withstand the winds of adversity.

One of these days….

May 15th, 2006 by genfaith

"I got this forwarded message from my friend. I don;t know who’s the author."

A friend of mine opened his wife’s underwear drawer and picked up a silk paper wrapped package:
This, - he said - isn’t any ordinary package." He unwrapped the box and stared at both the silk paper and the box.
"She got this the first time we went to  New York

, 8 or 9 years ago. She has never put it on! , was saving it for a special occasion. Well, I guess this is it. He got near the bed and placed the gift box next to the other clothings he was taking to the funeral house, his wife had just died. He turned to me and said:

"Never save something for a special occasion. Everyday in your life is a special occasion".

I still think those words changed my life.

Now I read more and clean less.

I sit on the porch without worrying about anything.

I spend more time with my family, and less at work.

I understood that life should be a source of experience to be lived up to, not survived through. I no longer keep anything.

I use crystal glasses every day.. I’ll wear new clothes to go to the supermarket, if I feel like it.

I don’t save my special perfume for special occasions, I use it whenever I want to.

The words "Someday…" and "One Day…" are fading away from my dictionary. If it’s worth seeing, listening or doing, I want to see, listen or do it now. I don’t know what my friend’s wife would have done if she knew she wouldn’t be there the next morning, this nobody can tell.

I think she might have called her relatives and closest friends.
She might call old friends to make peace over past quarrels. I’d like to think she would go out for Chinese, her favorite food. It’s these small things that I would regret not doing, if I knew my time had come.

I would regret it, because I would no longer see the friends I would meet, letters… that I wanted to write

"One of these days".

I would regret and feel sad, because I didn’t say to my father, mother, brothers, sisters, sons, daughters, husband, wife and relatives not times enough at least, how much I love them.

Now, I try not to delay, postpone or keep anything that could bring laughter and joy into our lives..And, on each morning, I say to myself that this could be a special day..

Each day, each hour, each minute, is special.

If you got this, it’s because someone cares for you and because,probably, there’s someone you care about.

If you’re too busy, remember that "One day" is! far away… or might never come…

May 10th, 2006 by genfaith

Reaching and Teaching Children/Principles of Effective Teaching

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Chinese wedding

April 24th, 2006 by genfaith

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P & W first….and then welcome everyone and ask the groom and the 2 helper to be on stage…and then

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Everyone will stand up and the host welcome the bride with the father…everybody went to the aisle just to see the bride…

Img_0921 The Ptr asked the father to give the hands of his daughter to the groom…and then so on…the groom, the bride and their helpers stand the whole program..whew….and the program goes on…friends render a song to the new couple…

The wedding was really different from where I came from. But I’m really blessed that night.