^_^ Hello! everyone ! ^_^ I'd like to begin my diary with blessings from God to encourage all of us. ^_^

 

          The blessings from God was on me last Saturday.  I was asked to help one of church member moving out. The time began at 9.00 am. I used to help my ex-classmate moving out on two weeks ago and it took half and hour. Then, I thought this time would spend time as much as the previous experience. On the contrary, it was absolutely opposite. Her room was on the second floor of the apartment and fortunately an elevator is available there. When I saw her stuff, Oh! my God! it was a huge mountain. (Just kidding! not too much like that but I just want to compare for you understand) 5555555

 

          We had 4 people; these were the room owner, her boyfriend who is my housemate, her neighbor and me. We started moving her stuff down and picked it up to a pick-up truck. It took 3 rounds for completing tasks. Of course, we were exhausted. The most heaviest stuff was the trade-miller, which is the equipment for running. Its weight is about 100 kg. I hardly ever helped my friend lifted it because I was exhausted. Anyway, I tried my best.

 

          After we finished this task, we had a rest. It was nearly 2.00 pm that we relaxed. I thought that we completed; however, thanks God! it had not ended yet. 5555555 When time passed to 3.30 pm, the real estate agents came and explored this room. They said the room was not clean although my friend had already cleaned. As a result, we had to clean again, such as rubbing the floor, cleaning windows, removing dirtiness in the kitchen. Not only did agents say this but they also required my friend to fix some defects on the wall. That is the coat of paint was detached and she was needed to paint all the walls. It annoyed her because its size was just about 3*4 cm and it was on the corner. I didn't know what you think but I agreed that they took advantage of her. During that time my friend argued against them. Eventually they said that they didn't want to make a deal now, so they would come back to check the room again around 4.30 pm.

         

         By God's grace we worked hard to honor Him. When they came back, they were impressed and amazed how clean it was. They gave a compliment that we like a pro. Moreover, my friend negotiated to them again and they changed their mind. They said that my friend had to fix it and they would not ask to paint the wall.

 

         To sum up, my points are

1. Even though I was tired, God was my strength.

2. Commitment is crucial because bible says that we should share our burden.

3. Hardship is the effective equipment that God has tested us what we response to unfairness.

4. The most important qoute I learnt is that "The difficulty which comes to our life is the lesson we should learn. It's not our burden but it's a lesson"

 

          I'm sorry if you couldn't understand all of them. ^_^

         

           Wow! time is passed very fast. From the recent blog, it has been through more than 1 week. Wow! What have you done for 1 week or 1 month? ^_^

  

           As I mentioned about my title, it was a normal week but something is special in each day. Why did I say that? Because Bible says the old things have passed and the new situations have come in each day. Also, God's grace is new for each day. 5555555555

 

           Today I would like to share my last experience in God's lesson which he taught me last week. It was the first day that I came back to study after 3 weeks holidays. I studied in a new class, EAP (English for academic purpose) Advanced level (it seems Hi-so but it's not really).

^_^ I felt boring and thought that my main teacher was quite inactive. In fact, he is about 40+ years old, so it perhaps accounts of this character. Anyway, I talked to my ex-classmates and we gossiped about our teachers. Holy spirit reminded me that it was unrightoues to commit that; however, I still was stubborn to him. A day after that, I was convinced by a testimony from one of care group members said that he was exhausted from his work and sometimes he complained to God a little bit. Actually he didn't complain in the bad way but it was like a kind of not thanksgiving. As he was babbling or mumbling, God reminded him to Israelite's response during the exodus. He realized that he did mistakes and repented. Instead of complaints, he praised God for this wonderful job. When he shared his experiences to our group, God also took me back to my own situations which was similar to him. Consequently, I confessed my sins and developed to give thanks to him.

 

           Could you imagine what happened to me for a next day? 55555555555 As a qoute " God's never changed any circumstance unless we've been improved ourselves " is true in my life. After I put my emphasis on thanksgiving, he blessed me. I've got two actively enthusiastic and funny teachers. In addition to this, my first teacher that he left me cold (=I felt bored) has taught a lot of strategies and practices for an IELTS test to my classroom.

 

            God also renewed me on last Sunday and I've learnt that our attitude determines us in our life. Therefore, we should make an effort to develop our mind to imitate JC everyday. Keep going on pondering his word in each time. We should realize the value of time management. For example, each 10 mins. we should shortly pray, 10 mins. we can read a couple pages of book; 10 mins we practice our listening skill by BBC News website or 10 mins. each day to write an English diary. If we value it, I believe that we'll experience great improvement in our life. 

 

God bless,

^_^ 

 

 

        Hi! ^_^ Everybody!  I hope that all of you are fine. Right? yes, ^_^ I think so.  First of all, I'd like to thanks for visiting my blog, which is the first blog in my life. 55555555  If I've done some mistakes, pls forgive me. ^_^

 

        Today I'd like to share my experiences to visit Gold Coast, Surfer Paradise Beach. Basically, Gold Coast is the city, which is located on south of Queensland State. It's famous for beaches and surfing. In addition, there are some campuses.

 

        I went there with one of my classmates, YouXin. If you remembered, he was only one classmate that I usually go with him. It's not because I don't have many friends but he's always free. 555555 OK. let's skip that detail. I've planned to go to Gold Coast for a long time. In fact, I thought that I would be there during Christmas period but unfortunately, it rained for the whole week. As a result, I stayed at home and studied for a few hours and after that it was relaxed period. 55555555

 

        We'd made this plan together and we finally decided to travel on last Saturday ( 6 Jan 07). We went there by train and afterwards we took a bus. Overall, it spent 2 hours and 40 minutes approximately. While we were on that train, it was cloudy and had light rain. In that time, we nearly approached to the terminal train station and I was so anxious about the climate. Suddenly, there was a song emerged to my heart. That was "With all I am", Hillsongs song. The lyric is " Into Your hand, I commit again. All I am, for you Lord. You hold my world, in the palm of your hand. And I am Yours, forever. Jesus, I believe in You. Jesus, I belong to You. You're the reason that I live, the reason that I sing, with all I am. ..........  Thanks God for reminding me that He is the only one to control everything and I should put my burden down to him and trust in Him, so I gave thanks to Him and had faith. A few minutes later, the rain clouds were gone. Hallelujah! Prais the Lord. 5555555

 

         Instead of rain, it became sunny. When we got off the train, a bus was waiting for us. 5555555 By his grace, we've got on that bus before it couldn't handle a lot of people. Everything followed our plan. Eventually, we've been there about 11.40 am. We directly went towards Surfer Paradise beach. ..............

 

          Wow !!!!! Brilliant!!!!! Fantastic !!!!!! Wonderful!!!!!  Oh! my God, I couldn't wxpress in English 55555555. Kidding!!! 5555555 The shore is very clean and sand is soft yellow. Moreover, tides are not too high to swim. I don't know how long the beach is exactly. In addition the wave, safegaurds limit zones to swim because they're afraid that people will be in danger if they swim in some deep areas. Banana boats, parachutes or any rides I couldn't see. I don't know why.

 

         I should have swum but I didn't do it because both of us needed to swim. If we swam, no one would take care of our possessions. Another reason is that public bathrooms are not available, so I couldn't take a bath after swimming in the sea. I don't want it. We spent around an hour walked along the beach and took photos among the extreme UV. 55555555 Nevertheless, I've applied sunscreen lotion already before I reached to the sea. 5555555

 

          When we were exhausted, we've had lunch in the park. I've prepared my lunch from home. 5555555 Of course, it's saver when you have a meal with yr stuff. 5555555 And after that we walked around the city and decided to go home very early, 3.27 pm. We didn't interest anythings there. Actually, Gold Coast is famous for shopping too because there are some factory outlets which sell some goods cheaper than in Brisbane's city. However, it's still expensive for Asian. 55555555 

 

          We took a bus at that time and caught the train back to our place. We arrived to our destinations about 5.50 pm. We were exhausted from exposing the great sun light. 555555555

^_^ Happy new year 2007. ^_^

 

          How are you all guys? I hope you all are fine. ^_^ Yesterday (Sunday 31, December)  I went to new year's eve party@Southbank, which is public park in the city. It began the party at 4.30 pm. onwards to midnight and it was sponsored by Wall Ice cream company (but here isn't called Wall). I believe that most of you need to know some details.555555 I don't know much about Southbank. It is located in the middle of Brisbane city and it's close to Brisbane river. In addition to a location, it has an artificial beach which many Australian families and others have a rest here on weekends or holidays.

 

          OK. let's come back to my story.5555555 I've been there about 6.40 pm by Citycat, which is the transportation by boat. When I arrived there, I saw a lot of people there. I estimated that around 60% of people were families group and 25%, 15% were students and senior citizens respectively. There were 5 exhibition areas; these are 2 dancing areas, a mini concert, a firework area and an outdoor theatre. I chose to walk around and had a look. ^_^ Even though it was a city's party and had many interesting activities, nothing attracted me. 55555 

 

          Among participants, I noticed that there were about 60% were Australian and 25% were from Africa's continent and India. The other was China (include Taiwan). I was not only one who felt quite bored because I saw some slept, some played cards, and some had dinner with their families. However, some people were excited with dances and participated in that area.

 

         When the time had come to 9.00 pm, the fireworks started. Certainly, a large number of people might cluster when it was near to begin. Therefore, I've decided to stand at the riverside to watch the fireworks ringside at 8.15 pm. 5555555 Thanks God! The spot that I stood was in front of the fireworks stage which was another side of the river, so I had looked clearly. Unfortunately, my digital camera didn't work well in the night time, so I couldn't take some beautiful shots. It took about 10 minutes for that show and it was lovely. Nevertheless, I think that Thai's fireworks are much more brilliant than Brisbane's. 5555555

 

         After the fireworks finished, I walked around again but I didn't join any activities. 5555555  There was another fireworks at midnight but I was afraid that it was too late to go home, so I went back around 10.00 pm. but I got on the boat at 10.20 pm.  While I was getting on the boat, I recalled that there was a new year's party at one of church members' place. Thus, after I got off that boat, I walked to the house. 55555

 

          Oh! I forgot to tell that I went there alone because I couldn't contact to my classmates and also my housemates didn't want to visit there. Nevertheless, I preferred to be private. 555555555555  Actually, while I was walking on the footpath, I didn't want to take part in that party. I didn't know why but I delighted to be away from people. In that time, it was about 10.40 pm. Whilst I was walking, I heard some laughing sounds and I knew that it came from the party, so I decided to join there. Amazingly, I met some members were going home and they told me that the party still ran on. I glanced into that house but I couldn't see anyone, so I thought that I should go home. 55555555555

 

         I felt a little depressed during the walk, yet I still smiled to myself and considered many aspects in the past. I knew that this was quite normal in my life that some days I felt this. However, with God's grace I was healed by walking 555555. I was entering to my home; suddenly, I heard someone called me. I turned back to that guy. Amazingly, he was the same guy whom I met at that house and he was going to the party. He persuaded me to be there. 55555555 Thanks God! Actually, I really wanted to join that party after I felt better. 55555

 

         Eventually, I was in that house but immediately I arrived, everyone was going to another house to watch fireworks. According to that house, we can have nice sightseeing because of  its location which is near the river. Undoubtedly, I was in too.5555555 It was about 11.30 pm. and we sat down near the river and waited for fireworks at midnight. When the time passed to midnight, I heard loud explosions but I couldn't see anything. 5555555 Because the origin of fireworks was on another side of the river, we could see a few high fireworks. 5555555

 

        Nevertheless, I still had a great time and "Happy New Year 2007" to everybody. ^_^

 

See you later, ^_^