Stronger Better Faster

Praying, Praising, Learning

I'm back from my 2 weeks of Army confindment, yeah am a little too tired to blog about alot of things, so I'm just gonna make it short. During these two weeks, I've been pushed beyong my physical and mental limts, through the Physical training and the commanders.

Physically, I had never been able to do 40 push ups with muscle achs over my whole bodies nor had I ever ran a 2.4km run with a strained hamstring before. Mentally, I had never been ordered around by anyone before to echo out a command or fall in platoon level within 30 seconds before nor had I ever been surrounded by a sea of vulgarities before.

Personally I think it's really thanks to God that I'm able to come out of the first 2 weeks of BMT with only a slight fever and a slight cough, God pushed me through the physical training in BMT, whenever I felt like giving up or slowing down, I would pray for God to give me Strength to continue pushing myself. And when others are sprouting vulgarities like drinking water, I would pray silently in my heart for understanding and peserverance.

God has been Good to me during my first 2 weeks of BMT, He has came to my rescue when I needed him most, and He allowed me to conqure my problems through my own determination, He will never give me a challenge I cannot Handle.

Lord, Still I praise Your Migthy Name
Love,
Henry

Persevere and become a Inspiration for someone

This is most likely my last post before I get enlisted into Army on Friday, haha yeah guess I will be posting about Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday.

SUNDAY:

Sunday started out with a powerful discipleship class with Lynett, I learned so much about Church Culture and what it means to be a church builder! really powerful!
After discipleship class, was prayer meeting. During Prayer Meeting, Charleston taught us how to pray using the book of Psalms in the bible, I was totally blown away :)
Service with Pastor Josh Kelsey was really powerful! It's quite impossible to relay such a powerful message through a blog post, the only way you can experience it again is to go get the DVD!(which cost around $4) at the Generations Bookstore at Heart of God Church :P

"If you Believe, Then God can Move"

My Sunday was completed when Raven 18 captain came to Heart Of God and had Dinner with us! haha it was really great seeing Panther(no longer FAT) prowl Heart of God Church again haha! Dinner was a really enjoyable as we all brought food up to the AL Frasco and just spend the next hour or so fellowshipping, a great way to end My last weekend.(I'm not dying, just going Army)

Monday:

Nothing really special happened on Monday, other than me oversleeping and waking up at 9am(DARN! CANNOT!!) and that the birthday Coordinator's meeting got cancelled at the last minute.
Oh yeah! a series of forgetful events managed to prevent Shi han & I from boarding the Bus to go for the Meeting! haha Shi han and I were supposed to meet at 6pm but shi han kept forgetting to bring things(firstly the creative brief secondly his own EZ-Link Card) so what was supposed to be a very frustrating wait for him turned out to be a blessing in disguise! haha!

Tuesday:

Tuesday was the All Lan day, 6 of us went to play Left 4 Dead at Dhoby ghuat there haha and in Ah Koon's team was Koon wei, Shi han, Shi heng and Duncan, on my Team was Eugene, Yong Xin and Me. It was a great match! haha lots of us got mobbed by zombies, pounced on by hunters, strangled by smokers and "Tio Zap" by boomers. Haha in the end the Match ended in a Draw!
After that we went to bugis to get some stuff for Koon wei, and I managed to get a Topman tie for $9! Originally $29! I save $20! whoo! I knew waiting was the right choice! mwahaha! :)
But the most memorable part of Tuesday was probably us celebrating Koon wei's birthday! haha we came up with a ingenious birthday scheme which involves Shi han, Eugene and I hiding on the 11 floor, and Shi heng, Yong xin and Duncan being the decoy for Ah koon on the 1st floor!

Operation Invading the Panthers Lair

Alpha Squad a.k.a Preparation Crew:
Cake Holder/Captain - Ong Shi han
Operations Manager/ 2nd in Command - Henry
Scout/Lieutenant - Eugene

Bravo Squad a.k.a Distraction Crew
Communications Expert - Shi heng
Backup Communications - Yong Xin
Master of Arms - Duncan

Charlie Squad a.k.a Special Operations
Espionage/Mother - Koon Wei's Mom

The Operation started with Alpha Squad para dropping on the 11th floor, before giving briefing Bravo squad with the procedures, Communications Expert Shi heng then contacted the Bogey(Koon wei) to leave the house while back up Communications Yong Xin kept Alpha Squad in touch of the situation.
When Bogey had left the premise, Alpha squad Swooped in and made contact with the Spy Koon wei's Mom to pass the Package before proceeding back to demilitarized zone.

MISSON COMPLETE

Haha I'm just kidding, we didn't really paradrop to the 11th floor, but other than that the rest were all real! haha we managed to sneak the cake into Koon wei's house! and at 11.25pm, we all celebrated Ah koon's birthday! haha :D
After the Celebrations, Eugene came to my house to stay over, We were planning to watch the movie "The day after tomorrow" but half way through we both agreed that the movie was too boring and decided to talk about Ghost stories! haha we spend the next 1 and a half hours just spooking each other out!

Haha Army is going to change a lot of things for me, but one thing it won't change, and that is the Love of My Family and Friends, they may laugh at my Bald hair but I know that deep down inside they really do Care. Even Kenny! haha He passed me a book which is entitled "the unofficial Guide to BMT for Enlisting Army Man", haha I consider that a early Birthday Present from him :)

Love,
HENRY

Woah! Looking COOL!

The Lan Shop we were AT!

Panther is officially 19 years old! trivia! so is Raven 18!

Happy Birthday Koon WEI!

Bring It

obstacle

- One that opposes, stands in the way of, or holds up progress

This Post is to everything that had told me I can't Make it
To everyone who said I was useless
To everyone who had taken me for Granted
To everyone one who has ever insulted me
To anyone wh had ever underestimated me

I tell you right now to...

Stronger...
Stronger...
Stronger...
Stronger...
Stronger...

The only people who can tell me that I'm not good enough are those who really care for me. I won't let you destroy and affect me any longer, I am freed from your lies and deceptions, I am Free

Love,
Henry

Dead 4 Left

This Generation Belongs to Jesus.

Just came back home from the awesome LAN outing with Mong, Shi han, Yong xin, Koon weiShi heng. It was really a fun outing, we played L4D and walked around queensway till our legs became jelly, then rested, and walked again before having dinner at the coffee shop in our area.

Fellowship this good doesn't come often, its easy for a group of people to come together and just LAN and go shopping, but its hard for a group of people to be able to scream "EH! I TIO ZAP!" and laugh their heart out and enjoy each other's company so thoroughly. I'm starting to understand why Kenny said "Its good to see you again Henry" the day he first came home from Tekong, I can't wait for the day where I would be able to say that to every single person I know be it from Family, Church, school etc, because the day I say that will be the day my 2 weeks of confinement is Over!

I'm praying for a breakthrough in every aspect of my life in Army, I believe that God will change my mindset of everything I see, think and say, just like how he did when I first came to heart of God church and when I first discovered L4D.

Speaking about L4D, I always wondered what would happened to the infected if the tables were turned against them? hmmm.... and


That would be wrong on so many Levels, even for the undead haha.

Shi heng and I, haha :) Gonners for Life!

Love,
Henry