The Magic Annexe

The Magic Annexe (www.themagicannexe.com) is one of the most well known magic club in Malaysia among magicians and those aspiring to be. It was founded by international illutionist Anslem Roy from... Malaysia! =) And Anslem attends Grace Assembly PJ. Check him out at http://www.anslemroy.com/

For those who do not know about what I have been up to, this is the day you find out. I actually did not plan to post this up but then it is too cool to be left out. Well I am actually into Magic, I have been learning the art for almost 3 months now. It has been a wonderful journey so far. Will share with you next time on why I choose to learn the art of magic.

As for today's post. It is a short review on what The Magic Annexe club members did today. We went to PJ's Pure Life Society to perform a magic how for them for about 1 and a half hours. The Pure Life Society is a home for orphanages. I was the photographer for the event and this is just 16 of the hundreds of shots that I took today. More will be posted up soon.

Our roles for today:
Performers: Anslem Roy, Han Chung, Kenoph Lai, Alvin Ling, Reuben, Coco, Jeff Gan and Jonathan Lee.
Stage hands: Ethan Lu and Weng Cheun.
Photographer: Zlwin Chew.
Videographer: Wei Ken.

Magic is a respected art. Not a tool used to fool.

The Magic Annexe magicians that were at the event today:

From left: Alvin Ling, Wei Ken, Me, Anslem Roy, Han Chung, Jonathan Lee, Kenoph Lai, Jeff Gan and Weng Chuen. Not in the picture are Rajen aka Coco the Clown, Reuben and Ethan Lu.

Anslem Roy starting up the show with his illusions.

Han Chung with his Cups and Balls routine.

Whacky and ever-energetic Lai.

Jonathan Lee the heartbreaker =)

This is one guy you don't want to mess with - Mentalist Jeff Gan.

Romeo Ling, I mean Alvin Ling. =)

=)

Rajen aka Coco the Clown! He's cute haha.

*Applause!

Another clown, Reuben =)

The crowd.

The larger crowd.

The Magic Annexe...

Me with a classic magician pose. Well I am still thinking of a suitable one for me that will fit my personality =)

More pictures up soon in http://www.zlwinchew.blogspot.com/

They Touched Me...

Yesterday, HICT’s Christian Fellowship had the honor of having Pastor Gurmit to come share with us. We had an encouraging message from him, one that touched us as much as it touched his heart. The shared on the healing of Jesus on a leprosy man in Mark 1:41-45.

I will share on what I received from Pastor Gurmit and also further study on my own on the verses.

In Mark 1:40-45 we read of the account of Jesus healing a man with leprosy. During the time of the Old and New Testament, lepers (people with leprosy) are considered as outcast. Once a person has leprosy, he will be sent out of the city to live in the desert or caves. No one dares to go near them because according to the Mosaic Law, a person that touches a leper is considered a defile. When a leper is allowed into the city on certain days, they are to cover themselves fully from head to toe and are to ring bells so that people will be aware and move far away from them. Therefore, lepers are really lonely people since they have no one to care for them and be their friend.

Jesus came... Jesus saw... Jesus was filled with compassion.

The word compassion comes from a Latin word which means “suffer with”.

The Scriptures wrote that Jesus felt compassionate. He felt “suffered with” the man with leper. Read on and we find that it was written,
“Filled with compassion, Jesus reached out his hand and touched the man.”

Jesus touched the man. He broke the Mosaic Law which “protects” the people from lepers. Jesus could have just healed him without touching him, Jesus was God alright? But no, Jesus went beyond what a normal human would do. Jesus reached out his hand and touched the leper.

A touch represents friendship. When Jesus touched the leper, Jesus wasn’t only trying to tell him, “I’m God. I can heal you.” But Jesus’ touch told the leper, “I am also your friend and I accept you as my friend.” Jesus’ touch was a symbol of healing, restoration, friendship, acceptance and love. The power of touch...

Many people have touched me in my life before. And every touched transformed me to a better individual in life. Every touch carries a long lasting effect that will go on to eternity. The love of someone whom has shown great compassion towards me will be remembered for eternity. The friendship that was made in my loneliness will carry me through life.

I will never forget the first time I stepped into the Youth Energy Meeting. Poh Leong befriended me. He sat beside me and became my friend. After getting to know each other more, we grew so close that we talked for 2 hours on the phone every night without fail for a few months.

I will never forget the first time I went to GY Camp 2003. Although I was a total stranger to Joel Gan, he paid for my Barley drink the morning before we left for camp. He talked to me and told me that he liked my hair. He started a conversation with a stranger.

The Jews believed only that God could heal leprosy. Thus, Jesus healed him to prove that he was God. Will you touched someone and prove to the world that you are a child of God? Will you show compassion to someone so that he knows only Christians will have such love?

There are a lot of lepers out there. Will you be filled with compassion and go touch them with the love of God?

Weird Shots from College =)

Weird can be funny =)

Join Us In Prayer...

2 Chronicles 7:14
If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sins and will heal their land.

Like food the body, prayer is spiritual food to the spiritual body. Like how our body gets weak and eventually break down, without prayer, our spiritual body will breakdown as well.

What do we pray for? There are no ends to prayer. We can pray for anything and pray about anything. I will not spend time teaching you the fundamentals on prayer. You should know by now how what prayer does. A famous Christian author wrote, “Prayer is like a missile that can reach someone thousand of miles away.”

Can we see that out land is in turmoil? Are we able to see what will happen to this nation in 5 years’ time? Are we able to change everything? No we are not, but God is able.

We Christians must spend a lot of time praying for this nation. But prayer alone is not enough. We need to rise up and do something. We need to take action as well. But let us start with prayer. How often do we pray for our nation with a sincere heart and how often do we pray for our benefit alone? We must get serious.

We must also pray for the youths in this nation. The youths are the ones with all the potential and energy to cause change with their radical personality. Once a youth is determine to do something, no one can stop him. He will go all the way to gather people for his cause. That is how powerful and potential a youth is. One that is radical for God can do great things with God. Not by might nor by power but by the Spirit of God.

The sad thing I see is the youths are not doing anything. The Christian youths nowadays place God far away in their lives. So will you join me in prayer and pray for the youths of this church, city, nation...? We want to see a generation of young ones who drools to be ministers of God, who drools to be pastors, teachers, evangelists, apostles and prophets! We need to pray that God put hunger and appetite in their heart for Godly ambitions.

You can’t do much on your own. But by prayer and with the help of God, no one can stop you.

Join us (Grace Youth) in prayer every first and third Saturday of the month at 2.15 P.M. at the Watch Tower room. For more information, email me at zlwin.jesusfreak@gmail.com

Those who are not from Grace Assembly, I encourage you to start a prayer group in your respective churches and start praying for the youths of your church. Those with passion and fire; spread them through prayer. Send burning flames and zealous passion to the youths in your church through your prayers and believe God to do something.
Dedication of the Watch Tower Room on the 28th April 2008 (Last Monday).

Hoping and praying that one day I will stand among these great weapons of God... =)

Left: Senior Pastor of Grace Assembly, Pastor Henry K. Pillai, Me, and Pastor Charles Popson from Africa.

Me standing beside my work =) I was the one who took this picture =) this is a lady from one of the Grace Home resident.

Jump Jump!

These pictures were taken quite a long time ago =) Poh Leong took the picture of me jumping and I took it for him in return =)

Nice =)

I love taking pictures of people.