Faith Noodles

To be quite honest, sometimes I get just a little irritated (I'm sorry God for using this word, but this is how I feel sometimes) at God because there are so many things I can't do as a Christian with my friends.. and sometimes I think: - "Oh, if only, I could say some swear words and not use my 'wholesome' Christian lingo all the time, I'll be more accepted."  - "If only I could drink like a fish like all my other friends while I'm playing that drinking game so that I can join in the fun." - "If only I didn't have to think twice about going clubbing." I've always been someone who really seeks to be accepted, since I was a kid, I've always wanted others to approve of me. And even now, although God has previously shown me that knowing Him just doesn't match up to anything this world can offer and that I should not conform to what everyone thinks is "socially acceptable/admirable" (see Romans 12:2...

If God is "living and true" (1 Thes 1:8), that means all the other idols/things that I've ever loved more than God are all things "that will never bring life.. only death and are false/counterfeit/lies/fakes". 

I wonder if I've always been destined for a long academic life.. Hmmm.. - I graduated twice from kindy (from Mandarin and English sessions) - I graduated twice from secondary/high school (Form 5 in Malaysia and Form 7 in NZ) - I've got my undergraduate degree after studying for four years; I will be able to graduate with my Honors by the end of my fifth year of study and hopefully, with my Doctorate in three years time if all goes well, which I believe it will - primarily by God's grace, and secondarily, a lot of hard work and less procrastination on my part! (that's three graduation ceremonies) Ooooh, that's a total of 7 graduation ceremonies. The fact that I'm even asking myself this question is ridiculous! Gah. It's terribly exhausting but I know since this is what He wants me to do, He'll certainly help me through it! *You can do this, Abby - by the grace of God!!!!* (and if I really rely on God's grace and believe that it's more th...

So "Mary Poppins: The Supercalifragilistic Musical" is drawing near and with all my hard core sing-a-longs during my childhood days (was and still am quite the chronic songbird..), I've pretty much memorised the whole song and saying "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" forwards takes very little effort - but now, I'm learning to say it backwards (yea, I know, I'm cool heee) and I found some pretty fun facts about the word on wikipedia ! #1 Apparently, supercalifragilisticexpialidocious DOES have a meaning! When asked how they came up with it, Sherman and Robert, the writer and co-writer of this song commented: "That's a word we sort of concocted from our childhood when we used to make up double talk words. In the screenplay version of Mary Poppins we wanted her to give the children a gift they could bring back with them from inside the chalk drawing when they came out into the real world. If it was a tangible thing like a seashell or pi...

There are many things in my life that I wished had not taken place and so many plans I made that God thwarted which just broke the little heart that had its obstinate mind set on doing things its way. It's true, trials do build character but they only build character if we hold on to the lessons we learned during them. We don't THINK clearly until a long time passes - but we sure can SEE clearly right now and right here. We won't be able to reason WHY we have to obey, why this is being taken away, why this is happening or has been allowed to happen. And strangely, the more we try to think and reason our way out of a problem, out of confusion on what God's will is - we get more confused. Sure, we can do that in intellectual matters but in spiritual matters, it just lands us in further spiritual confusion. "Simplicity is the secret to seeing things clearly - to see things clearly, to 'conquer' spiritual confusion, I must obey. Even the very smallest th...

Come meet a friend of mine who has added plenty of zest to my life. I can't seem to properly standardize the font sizes of the captions under each photo (ok, I own up to having noob IT skills), so we'll let the photos speak for themselves!