Exam Testimony

Today i will to have share something that happen in my life recently. As most of us are student, exam time might be one of the most stressful times that we have every year. I normally sleep about 1am and wakes up at 9am everyday. And my brain will be active from 9am onwards. Last semester, my exam timetable was very "bad" i think for me. Cause i had got 3 8am papers. Oh my gosh, when i saw my timetable, then i try to re-adjust my body to try to sleep early and wake up early to prepare myself for the 8am paper. But it just can't work effectively, even with coffee in the morning, my brain is still not active and at night when i wanted to sleep, my brain is very active even when i drink warm milk to try to make myself a bit sleepy, count sheep, i still can't sleep before 12midnight. And the more i force myself, the more tired i became and more i lack of sleep. The whole re-adjust my body to sleep early and wake up early doesn't work.

When i know i need to take exam, i prayed that God, if it is possible can it not be 8am paper. Then when exam timetable came out, it is 8am paper, i was like oh my gosh, not again, 8am paper. And this time, it still didn't work for the sleep early and wake up early training that i gave myself. The night before that 8am paper, i slept about 12 plus cause my brain is too active to fall asleep and i tried counting sheep to go to sleep but it doesn't work, until i decided to pray until i fall asleep. And i set my alarm the next day at 6am, so i pull myself to wake up, i did wake up but i know that my brain is still sleeping, so i decided to make a strong coffee that day, and estimate the time i need to leave the house, and realised that i had some time for breadfast, then when i wanted to change to leave the house, i feel a bit sick and vomitted. And after wash up, i rush to the bus stop and reach the bus stop at 7:30am to take a bus to uni, however, when i realised that the time is 7:40am, then it struck me that i had miss the 7:30am bus somehow, and the next bus is at 7:55am according to the timetable, then i started to do some calculation in my mind, and realised that i will reach the exam hall at about 8:10am if the bus will to reach on time at 7:55am. This time, i know that if i will to talk to uni instead of taking bus i will reach the exam hall at 8:15am, even no way. As for that exam, the main challenge in the exam is lack of time, 10min time preusal is very important for that exam. Cause for uq examination, if you are more than 10min late for the exam, you might not be able to take that exam. So, this time, i pray to God, and a peace is in my heart that i can't really explain, cause the situation that i faced with isn't that good. So i choose to believe in God and commit this whole situation into His hand. So the bus came at 7:52am and when i got up the bus, a 3min ride to uni become 5min as the bus drive very carefully with the interested of all the passengers in that bus. So when i got to the uni bus stop, i walk quickly to the exam hall, and when i reach the exam hall, it was 8am and the examiner just closed the door before i can reach the door. Then i open the door to get into the exam hall, then the examiner ask me what subject i'm taking and ask me to go out with her. For a moment, i thought, i'm just only late for 2min max, still able to sit for the exam right? Then when we are outside, she told me, "Somehow, the UQ examination make a mistake, there isn't enough exam paper for my subject and they are going to print it now." She lead me to another room where i saw another 7 of us who are taking that same subject. Then an examiner explain to us that we will be given the same time as the other student who are taking the exam now. And ask us to wait until the exam paper comes. At that time, when everyone outside the room is very stress and wondering why will this type of thing happen, but i'm the only one that is having a smile on my face. Actually i'm quite happy that this situation happen. So in the end i started my exam at 8:45am instead of 8am and ends my exams at 10:25am instead of 9:40am. I was so happy. Cause i did a similar one before, when it starts at 8am and finished at 9:40am, my brain is totally blank until about 9am then only i start to really answer the question more effectively. As i result the first one, i didn't do well for that paper. So this time, when it starts at 8:45am, i actually have more effective time in doing my exam, even this time i will be harder a bit and more challenging questions as compare to the previous one. It is very rare to what i know that exam starts at 8:45am, maybe an exam may starts at 8am or a few min after 8am, if there is some delay in getting as the examiner explain the uni policy.

I don't know what will be the outcome of that exam, but i have the peace that in times of trouble and challenges, i will know that my God is with me thru it, as my God is one who really loves and cares for His people. A God that will hears the things the His people made to Him. There is no other God that does that.

Judah 2 Getaway

I enjoy this getaway alot. Just coming together to do team building as ONE in some places can be quite challenging at times in organising it and have a common time where everyone is free and in brisbane.

Above all, i learn alot in during this getaway and being refreshed to continue with the "real" world life. This getaway is like a holiday in God. For those who do something for that getaway, thank you for making this getaway a success.

When i reached there the first night, i'm waiting in expectation that God will move in our mist as the presence of God can be so evidently during the first night worship session. And the second day of the getaway, from morning QT until night time games, i learn and encourage so much. It will be a long blog entry if i will to record everything that i learn and encourage during these few days, as i'm quite a detailed person that will thru every single details and make sure that nothing is missing. :)

So here i will just share one area of the funny thing that happens. During the last night, we are all playing my favourite game "Murder" and the loser will have to do a "banana dance on the street". So during that game, 2 "murders" wins and the rest of us were to do the banana dance on the street. It was very cold that time, and we quickly do the banana dance with Matt doing the demo at the same time. But after that banana dance, the 2 winners, Suni and Lem, wanted us to do it again. Then the rest of us gathered together and discuss on how to get back on Suni and Lem. So we decided that the girls are going after Suni and the guys after Lem. So when they said start, then we will all ran towards them and try to get them. So Suni ran when all the girls that are doing the banana dance ran after her, and i was one of them, then we manage to catch her and we gave a some "ticker" to get back on her. Which later when we heard what the guys attempt to do to Lem, i feel that we are too kind to Suni. But during that time, all of us had a great time laughing and having fun.

I had decided to put as much as possible of the things that i had learn into practise in the "real" world. And most of it, i will discuss with shep about how to apply what i had learnt from the getaway back in the "real" world.

Shrek the Third

Last few days, i went movie with a friend of mine to see "Shrek the Third".

Just thought of blog down a few things that i learn from that movie.

1. If people said that you are bad, it may not mean that you are bad.
2. The thing that stop you from becoming who you are, most of the time is yourself.
3. Sometimes you just can't see things from the surface, at times when people might do something that you thought is bad, which they actually do it out of love and to protect you.
4. The strength of unity if we can don't focus too much on ourselves but focus more on the group.
5. Sometimes fear of something might be due to a past experience which might not be a real fear if we have the correct perspective.
6. People who are "young" might be look at things base on the "appearance" which can be dangerous.

Disclaimer: this is just my personal opinion of what i learn from that movie.