Sunday. 26th July. The most important day of my life. Today, I died, and I rose again. The old me died. The old me, the lazy one, the vain one, the lustful one, the pervertic one, HE DIED. The new me, the hardworking one, the one who loves others just as much as he loves himself, the innocent one, the naive one, HE RISES AND HE LIVES FOR HIM ALONE. ARISES IS A NEW MAN. KEITH, HE IS A NEW MAN, AND HE WILL LIVE TO SPREAD GOD'S LOVE TO HIS PEOPLE.

Today, I can officially mark as the best day in my entire life. One of my CG leaders, Noah, said that there are only two real decisions we have to make our entire lives. That is the decision to follow Jesus, and the decision to marriage. Both decisions will last for the rest of our lives. So today, 26th July, and the day of which I will be wed to my future wife, these two are the days I will remember from now till forever =).

Haha =). Woke up at around 830 today? Made my way to church. For once, I AM NOT LATE! =DDDDDD. So today, I got off on a good start =). I can't remember the service because I was not really listening, sadly =(. Was feeling a bit anxious for the baptism later (but we all know how that went right ^^?) After that, had a free lunch, but lollllll a series of very unfortunate events happened. It tasted very dry, so we went to put what we thought was dark sauce in it. It was not dark sauce. It was sweet sauce. You ever tried sweet chicken rice? It's not horribily disgusting just.... weird. Strange. So I decided to even out the taste by putting light sauce. Thennnnn, John put pepper into it. So it tasted sweet, salty, and spicy. Horrrrible. The weird thing was, John liked the taste and ate it all up O_o. Below is a picture of it.

After that, went back to KAPT where the pastor held a prayer meeting for us. one of the many highlights of my best day. Honestly, I was half listening to sermon, half joking around with John. But my God is a faithful God, and he forgives me and rewards me. When he called those who were to be baptised that day to come up, we sang a song, about how we have come, to sing of his love, to sing of glory. And indeed, it really spoke to me. I have finally come before my Lord, finally reached this point in my life where I can say,"Jesus Christ is my Lord my savior and I want to walk with him for the rest of my life." Finally. As I was singing/praying, someone laid me down on the floor, and I can feel a multitude of people praying for me. That's when it happened. I was speechless, thoughtless before the Lord for a moment, and He gave me the Gift of Tongue. I received the Gift of Tongue! It felt so natural. I had prayed before about asking God why have I not received the Gift of Tongue, and He answered me simply that I am not ready. And now, to show me indeed I am ready to call myself His Son, He gave me the Gift of Tongue, which I prayed to him for! God answers prayers! Honestly, there came a point when I decided that the Gift of Tongue would be nice, but as long as I can speak to God, I am happy. Well, with the Gift of Tongue, God my Father made me twice as happy =). Really, really happy. My God is the one true God =).

After that, it was time we made our way to East Coast. My mum came! I love my mum and all, I am not ashamed of her, but she's my muuuuuuuuuummmm. I don't really want to let her see how I act around my friends =p. Anyway, we got on the bus and off we went. Half way, I got really worried that Ivan and Ivin wouldn't be able to come on time, but fortunately, they did =). Thank God that they were able to see me be renewed =).

We lined up, Cher Young helped us took Pictures. Me and John were being baptised that day =). Real glad that I am baptised on the same day as him. I feel that *maybe* it's a sign from God that we are going to great things for our church together one day =). To me, I felt that the process of baptism is indeed special, but what happened after the baptism was beyond words. I was guided to the spot in the middle, and uncle Alex asked me some questions, Do I believe in him, am I willing to follow Jesus for the rest of my life? With a big smile across my face, I said,"Yes." I went into the water, and came out. The old me died in the water, the new me arose.

When I arose, I was greeted with an abundancy of smiling faces, of cheery voices. Everywhere people were saying "Congratulations!" Without reason, I felt happy. I felt, the happiest I have ever been for my entire life. I got out of the water, and alot of people hugged me, congratulated me. High Fives were thrown, Cheers resounded. All the way, I was beaming from ear to ear, with a smile unknown to me. I felt.. blessed. Overjoyed. Coming out from a dark, cold place, I was greeted with light, and warmth from the people that I love. I felt that.. maybe, just maybe, this is how heaven will be like when we ascend =). Being greeted with smiling faces and cheers, people congratulating for having made it, and you of course, being elated beyond all reason. Of course, being happy for one reason is that finally, you're about to see your Father. I feel that baptism, maybe is also a pre-show, to show you exactly how heaven will be like when you ascend. Because that is certainly how I felt. Like I was in Heaven.

Ivin was there, he congratulated me and gave me a big hug despite me being all wet and sandy. I really appreciated him being there for me. Ivan was hiding behind a tree! Haha =p. While waiting for John, I bid farewell to Ivin and his girlfriend ^^. John came out, and I wanted him to feel exactly how I felt, overjoyed, welcomed, loved. I gave him a highfive, gave him a big hug, and cheryoung took pictures =D. Then as we were all about to leave, I wanted to take a picture with my mum. That's when she started getting cheeky and tried to kiss me infront of all my friends O_o. NOT NOW MUMMMYYYYYYY! LOL. Any way, everything ended up like this.

I love my mum, the mum that God gave me =).

So yeah, after lots of picture taking, I took my leave and left east coast to buy stuff for the steamboat at Jx's house, which was AMAZING.

The food was of course, delicious. But it's the people you eat it with that makes steamboat fun and meaningful. We all played Truth & truth, cuz with the people there, die die dont want do dare. Haha =D. Anyway what we talked about at the table will not leave the table, so I'll just leave it in that we all grew a little closer with each other today. Isn't that right, Nicholas Jeredy Ivan Jin Xuan Zheng Hou Ken Kiat Wei Qiang Wei Chuan =)? Our hopes and dreams, our dream houses... Let's run forward with all we got.