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About a month ago, Philip Yancey (author of Disappointment With God , What’s So Amazing About Grace? was in town and he conducted a writing seminar. As one who has read his books, loves to write and currently helms the Creative Communications newsletter, I wanted to hear what he had to say about writing. I was caught by surprise [...]

PRESENTING… From L-R: Me, Yiling (from NTU), Huang Li (SMU), Andrew My heartfelt thanks to those of you who have given very generously to my needs for this trip. It was very timely encouragement for me. Yiling is a Mass Communications student in NTU, majoring in Broadcast and Film. Underneath her seemingly quiet exterior lies a bubbly, pleasant [...]

Seeing is believing, but sometimes the most real things in the world are the things we can’t see. — The Conductor, The Polar Express

I haven’t watched The Polar Express , but that is some wisdom from an animated film. In the past few months, there has been some struggle in the area of trusting God, because of the [...]

My ah ma (阿嬷) is the best cook in the entire family. She can make the most tedious and complicated dishes — chicken rice, mee siam, lontong, ba zhang, oneh oneh (where the liquid gula melaka squirts out of the soft skin)… but unfortunately, none of her descendants inherited all of her culinary prowess. My mom, [...]

BUILDING A LIFE TOGETHER For the yet uninitiated, Alvin proposed on 30th January! We have received the blessings from both sets of parents and are slowly and steadily planning our wedding that is to take place mid-2011! As a first step to “one-ness”, we have set up a joint account to save, save, save for The [...]

Paul tells us that if we are in Christ, we are new creations. In terms of inspiration and hope, this is huge. He doesn’t just mean we are renewed. If that was the scope of it, we would merely be a breath of fresh air in an old world. It’s bigger than that. Through us, God [...]

“We serve the people around us, not so that they can serve us in return, but so that they can go and serve others.” — Rev. Jeong In-Soo When I read this quote posted on Twitter by a fellow colleague, it hit the core of my heart with the perspective of what service truly is. [...]

Thank you for praying for If You Knew Me , the short film festival WAP organized with Project X. I had a great time as an emcee for the program, even though having to coordinate the program and emcee at the same time was a tad stress-inducing! I also had the opportunity to befriend 2 girls, Weiyan [...]

ruthliling wrote a new blog post: updates from “If You Knew Me”

Thank you for praying for If You Knew Me, the short film festival WAP organized with Project X.
I had a great time as an emcee for the program, even though having to coordinate the program and emcee at the same time [...]

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ruthliling wrote a new blog post: settling into 2010

And so we have arrived. Yet another year gone past.
As I observe the patterns of the year before the last and last year, it seems both years took a slight turn sometime from the second half to the last third of the year. Strange. In ‘08, it was the trip up to Phetchabun, Thailand. For [...]

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ruthliling wrote a new blog post: “If You Knew Me”, a short film festival

If You Knew Me is a short film festival designed to center around the theme of Acceptance. This festival is organized in conjunction with Project X, a regular segment in META* that sees students engage [...]

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If You Knew Me is a short film festival designed to center around the theme of Acceptance. This festival is organized in conjunction with Project X, a regular segment in META* that sees students engage in initiative evangelism, whether through street evangelism, or through intentionally meeting a friend. Those who have chosen to meet a friend [...]

ruthliling wrote a new blog post: fresh off the press: cheers and tears (dec09)!

It’s finally completed!
Apologies that this update took particularly long. Things have been rather crazy on both the personal and ministry front since my last update in late August; read this one to find out why!
I was given the opportunity to write [...]

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It’s finally completed! Apologies that this update took particularly long. Things have been rather crazy on both the personal and ministry front since my last update in late August; read this one to find out why! I was given the opportunity to write an article for IMPACT magazine on the power of using film [...]