Soar like Eagles

For even young people tire and drop out,
young folk in their prime stumble and fall.
But those who wait upon God get fresh strength.
They spread their wings and soar like eagles.
They run and don't get tired,
they walk and don't lag behind.

Isaiah 40:31 MSG 

Love it. That is tonight's meditating verse. :) amen.

Friend.

Some people are just better at making friends. They just know how to warm up to people.

Some are just... Not good. Or trying too hard. Till its bad.

And of cus, there'll always be that few who are not good at it, but doesn't suck either. It's the worst I suppose?

Okay. #justsaying. Okay.

Fine line

I ask myself all the time; why Lord, why?

It's really tiring. It really is.

Sometimes I just feel like going away for a while and pray. Why pray? Because that's the only thing left that can be done.

Some things just can't be changed. No matter how much you pray. But what prayers does sometimes is not to change things. No no no.

Sometimes prayers work in a way where we are changed. We look at it differently, despite how shitty it STILL is. We show grace.

That's why I pray. But... as of now, it's still shitty. Oh lord. :(

Okay I just need to pen these random thoughts down. Okay.

Lights will guide you home

Sometimes I really enjoy taking the night to myself, just going down that lane of memories, walking down familiar places just to re-live those moments again. Hah. Tonight's one of those nights.

Let's just say that there aren't many places that gives me that kinda vibe, but of cos, there will always be that one or two. Tonight's different. I usually get a little emotional when I'm there. More often than not.

But tonight I didn't feel a bit like that. I actually smiled and thank God for all those precious memories. Like, really. I wouldn't trade a billion dollar for them. So precious. How precious, they really are.

I enjoyed my night with Jesus tonight. :')

Throughout, I was just replaying Coldplay's 'Fix you'. Haha I've no idea why but I just felt like looping this song tonight. And I did. 

There're many great covers of this amazing song, but I think this one top them all.

Enjoy.

Gem

Like how I've always said it. It's their loss for not wanting you. You're the gem.

Thank You and grow

"When life is sweet, say thank you and celebrate. When life is bitter, say thank you and grow."

Life has been pretty mundane these days. Nothing exciting to look forward to already. Perhaps the only thing that's coming now is... Reservist? Hah. 17 more days to go. 

I guess I'll have to learn how to say thank you, and grow from it. Because the truth is, there isn't much people around to celebrate with these days. Haha. Oh well. 

Life goes on. It always does.

Catching up with the Bud!

So... after like 892739847928347 years, I finally lose that disappearing act and caught up with the Bud again! Hahaha. Okay. Maybe not that long but... yeah. You get the point.

Actually, it was the Bud that made the first move... again. Hahaha. I ought to be ashamed of myself. BUT ANYWAY... the point is, I'm glad we caught up. :)

Here's the many pictures we took that evening!

So, we had a pre-dinner DINNER kinda meal at the Sushi Bar at FEP. Haha. I thought it was a good place with some salmon sashimi goodness. Just that the acoustics of the place is not ideal for conversations. Oh wells.

The Bud! Finally. Hahahaha.

Chanced upon some random children's day performance at the stage outside Esplanade! Hahaha. It was quite entertaining, to be honest. At least I was entertained? Hah. The Keyboardist that provided the background music was good though. He could come up with all sorts of different kind of BG music for different kinda mood/scenarios. 

Ended the night with us visiting the washroom at a gorgeous hotel! Hahahaha. Yeah. This is the kinda things one do with a buddy, no? ;-) 

Till the next one! Hopefully I won't do the disappearing act again. Amen!

Thoughts.

They can be some demanding at times, so strange at times, so random at times. Thoughts sometimes make you feel like nothing is gonna work out, yet they can also make you float about and just be in your own world for that couple of minutes.

Thoughts. Ah.

20 facts about me

So I was tagged by somebody to do this. Haha usually I'll just ignore and carry on with life. But since I'm kinda bored at work now.... 😆✌

20 facts about me

1.)  I'm a Jesus-follower. Jesus lover. Jesus boy. And I'm proud of it. :-)

2.) I have a twin brother. ✌️

3.) I play the guitar (or so I try), and I composed songs too.

4.) I'm going to composed a love song for my special someone in time to come, which will be sung in our wedding. (hopefully la HAHA)

5.) I live in little India, have Indian neighbours and work at an Indian bank. 

6.) I have some amazing friends whom God placed in my life. Simply amazing.

7.) My favorite bible verse is Romans 828. It's a verse that really see me through so much in life.

8.) I always believe in how we shld use money to serve man. Not use man to serve money. Money we earned are meant to be spent. So why not spent it on people that matters? :)

9.) I was born w a cleft lip. Went through some operations since young and now here I am. Legend Larry. HAHAHA. ✌️

10.) Got diagnosed with epilepsy right after NS. Prayed about it and ever since then, there is no more relapse l. Hallelujah! 

11.) I use to be really really skinny. Servely underweight. Some friends started casting their fats to me after saying grace and I got fatter. Haha. 😂

12.) I don't snore when I sleep. In fact, I have bare minimum movement. Some friends of mine mentioned that I sleep like a statue. Lol. 

13.) Use to be really mad when people mess up my hair. But I'm ALOT better these days. Still don't like it when people so that though. Like... What's your problem man!? Hahaha.

14.) I own a pair of meggings (man's version of leggings) HAHA. Pls don't ask me why. 😆

15.) I like fitting clothes. Really can't stand too baggy a clothes. 

16.) I eat everything. Really everything. Except for BITTERGOURD. 😩 who eats bitter food? Lol.

17.) I have a middle name. "Lakizy". Hah. It's a name "given" by hillsong by mistake.

18.) I like Korea. Not just their variety shows but their food as well. And their language. I attempt to speak like them at times, even though I suck at it so bad. LOL.

19.) This IPhone 5 of mine... It's only my third phone on my entire life. First the Nokia 3310, then IPhone 4, and IPhone 5. Oh and I pre-ordered iPhone 6 already. Heh.

20.) I take a lot of pictures. In fact, sometimes I think I take more pics than a girl would. Hahaha. 😎🙊

There you go! 20 fact about me. Totally random. 

I'm tagging anyone who reads this. You're next to do it! Haha. Just for the fun of it I guess. It was initially quite difficult to think of 20 facts about myself, I must admit. But as you get along the list, it will come naturally one. 

Have fun!

His Beloved.

Calvery covers it all.

Psalm 91, always

Psalm 91 protection always. :)


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Some random selfies along the way.

These days I've been doing many many things. In fact, I don't even know how to begin saying it here. Haha. But all in all, life has been amazing. I am enjoying every minute of it, be it at work or at church or even outside w Jesus or w some amazing friends that really build you up.

Yup. Oh and I'm going BKK in Sept. Heh.

Till next time! A proper entry!

Ramdoms

The skies has been amazing these days. It's as though God is welcoming back all those we went for Legacy camp 2014. 

God: Welcome back, my beloveds. Here's a gift from me to you. Enjoy. :)

Hah. Oh well. There are so many shots of these fluffy like clouds, that comes along with that amazing sunset and sunrays. It's all over Instagram lor.

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On the side note, it does feel good to be out in causal wear! Hah. I know. It's just casual wear. But imagine being in office/formal wear for at least 6 days a week. It's been what since like forever since I last wore berms out man! Hah. Okay. I just feel happy that I get to dress down today. Heh.

I need more tailored shirts and i NEED a dark blue blazer. 

Thank you Jesus. Amen.

An Open Door

It's times like this that makes me wonder sometimes whether all is worth waiting for. Sometimes it's really not about how much effort you place it in, but, yeah. Just that one drop of God's kinda favour. Just one drop, and it'll set you going on high.

I might not have been dealing with this the best possible way, in all honesty. But at least I GET to do this, the right way it's suppose to be now.

I am really excited to see the future.

Can we get there already?

63 Degree cafe + Not so interesting life + Random

Hello world. It just occurred to me that, actually its quite hard to be a consistent blogger. I mean, you gotta have like really colourful lifestyle and all right? Since you gotta be blogging more often than usual and then... Yeah. You kinda need that everyday-got-something-nice moments to worth the blogging experience? Haha.

Maybe I just need to be more creative and entertaining. Oh well. Anyway, had the most mundane week ever. It's just like work and work and the usuals after work kinda thing. But I did try a coffee place near my workplace and I thought it was a pretty good place to chill out kinda place!


63 Degree Cafe

It's actually located at Asia Square. I know right. Everything here looks really expensive for a usual lunch. It can probably stretched you from close to 20ish dollars? All I'm saying is a Ten dollar note probably can't fill your stomach so much at Asia Square. Haha.

Got introduced to this cafe and decided to just give it a shot. I guess the name of the cafe says it all uh? They believe that coffee shouldn't be too hot to fully maximise its pleasure, or rather, its purpose. They believe that coffee should be served at 63 degree Celsius. Hmmm.

Quite a cool concept eh? But of cus la. You can also request for a pipping hot cup, if you like your coffee that way.

We got their Mocha ($6) and their regular white ($4.50). It's actually not too bad their prices. Oh but I think this is really called the free favours of God man. A friend of mine got her Mocha at their menu price, but I only got my flat white at like $3! I was rather shocked at first, since Its my first visit here and all that. So I asked her why so random the prices? 

"Oh. It's okay la. Just wanna give you discount"

Haha. Wow.... ;-)

Anyway, the place is pretty decent too. I would say it would be a nice place to meet people and all that. Yup. :)

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Random shots!

I thought I was rather artistic in the above picture. No?

Yes. I'm going for the Hillsong United Concert in June. I'll see you cool people there. 

So after Titus and Charis' Wedding Holy Matrimony earlier, since I was kinda plan less for the day and I've struggled with the thought of cutting my hair... I decided to just go for it. 

Let's just say that it's a rather distinct change of hairdo now? I'll share with y'all the new hairdo soon! Ciaos.

The not so exciting life + Jeyna's random surprise birthday dinner at Skinny Pizza + a random thought

I've always wonder how do people do life in such a way that, it's always so exciting and filled with many many happenings daily? I mean, do they have like, plans almost every other day as well as the day itself? Hah. Wouldn't that be really bussssyyyy and all? I guess I'll never know until.... Yeah. No until. Oh well.

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In other news, Friday night was suppose to be a night where I work late at work... Then just to reward myself a little bit for working so hard the entire week, I decided that and then to just head town to shop. Shop for a birthday present, in particular! But I figured that I should reward myself too. Haha.

Out of nowhere, a familiar voice flew from afar!

"LARRY KOH!"

Haha. Rachel was shopping alone as well and we bump into each other at Takashimya! She honestly gave me a shock. Hah. But since we were both looking for presents... we thought we should do so together! So.. off we walk back to Ion in search for gifts and lo and behold, we bump into Jochebel! Oh my. Apparently, Jochebel, Mel and Jeyna were meeting up to celebrate Jey's 19ths birthday. So at the end of the day... this happened. Hahaha.

We all decided to just feast together @ Skinny Pizza Wheelock! Hahaha. How amazing. Decided to "surprise" Jeyna since she weren't there yet and AGAIN, we saw Sam there too! So she was kinda like, part of the "surprise" too! Hahaha. Epic I tell you. Epic!

Ordered the Meatball pizza ($24) and Turkey ham pizza ($24),  as well as some of their side dishes. Was quite meh that we had to pay for ice water too. Oh well.

In anycase, I thought that Skinny pizza was quite ordinary. I mean, I always had the impression that It was rather good. I guess not now? :\ 

Mandatory Selfie!

Blessed 19th birthday Jeyna! You're blessed beyond words could ever say! :-)

Cafes in my area + The Tiramisu Hero + Claire's Recital

Met some of my favourite people in the world last night for dinner and then to the cousin's cafe! I know right. I think I visit her cafe so often that I should totally be the permanent member or something. Hah. I am just glad that the Tiramisu Hero is located really near my place. Actually... like what Tboi said, my place is filled with cafes. And other things too... which I shall NOT mention here. HAH.

I am blessed to have SOOOOO many cafes near my place. In recent times, there are actually alot new cafes setting up in the Owen Road / Tyrwhitt road area. I can at least name you like, 3 of them on hand now?

1.) L'etoille Cafe.

It's located at Owen road, near the small little junction that leads to dorset road. I've been there like a couple of times before. Love to decoration and stuff. Love EVEN more than I can just walk down in less than 3 mins, and I get to have my decent cup of coffee. 

I've not tried the food yet, since I'm always working late and all that. But I heard it's pretty decent stuff? I'll try it soon I suppose!

2.) P Bistro

This is another cafe located really near L'etoille! It's like literally a few shops away only. What I like about this cafe is the simplicity of the cafe. I've taken a glanced at their menu and it's actually pretty simple stuff there.

Yet to try this place though. Soon! 

3.) Cakes Literally

This is another one that i've yet to try, but on first look, it looks pretty decent. Will talk about it more once I have more insight about it.

Of cus the list goes on and on and on... Haha.

All in all, I am just glad that I GET to live in this neighbourhood. In the words of Mr Foo Yong Jie, "This place is actually a very nice place to live in sia. No wonder Larry's always on time for everything."

;-)

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Went for Claire's Recital earlier! This girl here is finally graduating from Lasalle! A star in the making man. Mark my words guys. Amen.

I thought Claire did pretty good just now. Those original songs of hers are definitely inspiring in some sense; ignite the songwriting passion within me again. Haha. The band of hers that supports her were all quite tight too. A very good job done in other words! :-)

Till next time, folks! ;-) Blessed Mid week!