P.S Sry for this huge delay!! I need to get the pictures from my friends, and this post is really long!! But everything still applies, I believe you are really going to be blessed from this post!! Enjoy ;)
So I reached there at around 11.30!! I chionged from training, that I waited outside USS for my classmates to pick up my call cause a newbie just arrived. Guess what, I waited 30 mins outside while they were enjoying their rides!! -.- Until they called me back. Then they told me they were at the Mummy area, newbie did not get lost ;) but he waited again for 30 mins in USS itself as my classmate did not tell me thy had moved on -.-
Wow, imagine my impatience! I spent 1 hour just waiting, and I paid $66 t do that! I was angry, in my head, I was thinking what a great class outing in a sarcastic tone. It was a great test of patience and a test for myself to make sure I would not be a spoil person and spoil the fun on a day that everyone greatly anticipated and was so agog for!! Thankfully, God gave me patience and help me. And the day was savaged and it drastically changed after I meet them... Praise God!!
That was just the daily trial each of us would face daily. And a opportunity God uses to change me.
BUT this is a main gest of USS for a first timer in USS!! Hehe!! God revealed to me the kid in me!! and He got me thinking of many things about him, about His word and principles of life.
When I first stepped in USS, I was amazed by the scenery. It was very nice but like a "grown up" boy, I quickly realise this was cheap thrill. The place seemed like as if you were in Hollywood but it was just a fake, a copycat, and it was a cheap thrill! Perhaps it is the values the world teaches us that we will not settle for second best, hence my "cheap thrill" judgement. Well, today God was going to change my thinking today! Mind-blown :O
When I meet up with the rest of my class. They decided to rest, so instead of sitting with them and wasting away my $66, I went with Avery to ride my very first ride in USS!! BATTLESTAR GALACTICA! I knew that the ratings for this ride was very high, and as I watched the people screaming, and the pace of the ride. I was afraid!! Yes, I was afraid. Someone who is known to be very brave/fearless suddenly was as timid as a mice!! Eeks!! But Avery got to me ride the red line!!
So before I commentate on my very first ride. We need background info on why I was so fearful!! Well, I have never taken a roller coaster ride since I was 5 years old! Yes, I am that deprived but its a like of an athlete, we all have to scarifice! So lets get back on track with the adventure yea?!
I remember walking up the ride, to the platform. That fear within me. It felt so weird, it has been a long time since I felt so nervous and afraid. Then again, I was so amused, by the decoration and design. Wow, its has been a long time since I felt this amused. I was taken aback.... I don't know what to say, but all of a sudden, I was no more that brave Yue Seng I knew, or had always been. I might be a whiner at times, and refuse to do things, but I have never been afraid to do them! I have done high elements, and all the scary stuff at Serve'11 but I was never frightened, so why of a sudden was I afraid? Hm.. I don't have a reason, but I was afraid, scared, terrifying yet excited. This was something I have not done since 5 years old!! So lets get on alright!!! The ride was so scary!! I closed my eyes most of the time! And I held on to the seat with all my strength! I was so scared!! Eeks!! I felt like an elephant seeing a mice!! Suppose to be brave but scared by something that people enjoy and deems at fun!!
Usually guys would say must be brave, cant scream like sissy! I tired not screaming, but I failed badly after halfway through!! Well, I thought I was going to die!! I remember the shocked face I still had after getting off the ride. Wow!! I am really very stunned!! Or I was!!
Then after that I went to take cyclon!! It is the blue one, the one where your feet dangle in the air!! And it goes 360 degrees turn, twisting and turning, and at high speed!! Eeks!! This was worse!! You know why? Avery got me into seating into the first row!! And I was taking this for the first time, I did not know what to expect!! I was more terrified, I was going to see everything in a front view, the whole USS and all!! Terrified ttm yea?! This time, must be more "man" I
would open my eyes!! Ahaha!! And I did, I managed too!! But now, I was sure I was dead!! Ahaha!! Really, after the ride, I was like, "are my legs intact?" and "am I alive?" I was traumatized.... Yet, I was hyped up!! I could not stop talking about what I saw to Avery. It was like as if I was child again!! I could not stop chattering about it, even after the ride, I could not stop talking about it! It was great yet so scary!! I don't know why, instead of the "orh" me, I became a chatter box!! Soon USS was no more a cheap thrill, this was the real thing!!
Well, it got me thinking why all of the sudden in thinking. My reason, I become a kid all over again. That fear changed me. Why? Simple, as we grow up.
Each of us experiences hurts, and we harden our hearts so we won't feel them. Am I not right? Admit it, its true. as we do so, we tend to be less sensitive because we refuse to open up. I did, I refused to scream remember?? BUT for me, just as my mouth was forced to open and give out that high, sharp, and piercing scream that had made Clara shocked, my heart was also opening up. It was vulnerable all over again. I was no more a grown up that had put on the front of being wise, but a kid all over again. And being a kid, I felt like I had no more pride to look after. I was a child, simply a child. Not concern about keep face, or pride but just wanting to enjoy what they was for me to enjoy! It was a lesson, that my pride was not that important. "Why bother about leaving some face for yourself and then you hide the self that God wants you to live out loud? Why would you choose pride over the plans God had planned for you? Why live life the way the Earth says and miss out of the great fun God has for you?"
I took this ride again and again and again at around 6 when we had rode every other ride and everytime I put on that safety beat, I was afraid. Still afraid, but I was willing to scream like a kid again. Not wanting to act tough though I was sitting next to girls (guys, you know you tend to act tough in front of them, don't you?) but just enjoying this ride. And guess what, I rode it until I could lift up my hands, open my eyes and SCREAM!!
So here is the next point. Remember the part when I said I was going to die? Why did I say so, because I had no trust in the safety of the seat belt until I had tried it and realised that IT WORKS!! :O
God taught be two things. The first time I rode it, I asked myself why did I do it and not back out. simply because of faith!! I did not trust it, but I need faith to do this and trust the safety!! I don't really care about stats, I just knew I was scared! So it is the same when God tells you to take a step out of your comfort zone! We need faith to make that first step... Faith indeed.
The second is this. After I rode it many things, I became to trust it and could lift up my hands. It reminded me of how once we have experienced God's goodness and his wonders. We will begin to trust him totally, just like how I began to trust that seat beat... Some pics, sounds cools?
Then another place that got me thinking was Far Far Away.
Ok, actually Far Far Away got me thinking a lot more than Battlestar Galactica!! I hope you all know how does Far Far Away look like, is a grand castle. And of course that sense of awe was still tingling within me. And it was this sense of awe that got me wondering, how would the kingdom of God look like??
Hm.. For this section of the post, I will need you to look at some of the wonderful picture I took using my friend's camera...
Just looking at it, I really want to imagine. Imagine God standing at the top of the balcony, and we are at the bottom all looking up to him. Hear the applause, hear the cheers, hear the praises.. Wow.. I wonder how heaven's will look like when we go there someday. Where the streets are made of gold, and everything is so wonder. Being in Far Far Away, it got me wondering if this place looks so nice, how much more wonderful would heaven be!! :D
The Sign "Far Far Away is Here!" As I took this picture, what came to my mind was the phrase in the bible.
His lord said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant; you were faithful over a few things, I will make you ruler over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord. - Matthew 25:21"
Imagine God telling me that at the end of my days on Earth and that will be the moment I enter into Heaven!! Wow!! Why did that thought come? Coz Isn't Heaven far far away from us now?? And to see the word "Far Far Away is here" sign, it struck me like this is the moment I was entering Heaven!! haha!! Though, it was not since I am still on Earth but it struck me how cool it would be to see the sign "Heaven is Here" sign in future!!
Next up!! As you can see, is this shield I took while going to watch the Shrek 4D show!! Hm... Are you thinking what i am thinking??
Yes, it served as an reminder that god is our shield!!
"As for God, His way is perfect; The word of the LORD is proven; He is a shield to all who trust in Him. - 2 Samuel 22:30-32"
So it really reminded me of how God is my shield, my strength, my refuge, and my everything!! Entering Far Far Away reminded me many things about God.
Well, get this is our mind. God is your shield!! He protects you, He will always protect you. How comforting is that!! :)
Here is a song that really is timing with this small truth!! :D
And next, is this crown that you see. I bet you can guess what this all about!! Its about our King!!! Yes, God is our King, and he will come again... Well, I found this crown very cool!! You know why, because its is giving out water...
It reminded me of how God continues to fill us up, pouring out his love for us. Well, the crown symbolizes God, and the water, his love, his peace, his grace, his mercy.... Always being poured out to his children.. Did you have think of that when you when into USS??
Well, those were more or so the images I wanted to show you and talk about... Indeed, going to USS was an eye-opening experience. One that I will remember for a very long long time!! :D
So some pics top end this off ;) Enjoy yea!! :D
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