My Life Story

Created: Saturday, 15 July, 2006
Edited: Monday, 19 February, 2007

Hello, friends! My name is Steve Ngai. I would like to share a little of how God has changed my life after I made the decision to be Christian, which is 8 years ago.

I got to know about Christianity during my secondary school time. My classmates tried to influence me about Christianity, but I never appreciate it. In fact, I made fun of them. But, whenever I faced big problems, I prayed to Jesus because when I did that, things seem to work out. But, when there were no problems, I didn't pray and thank Jesus and back to my old bad lifestyle. How do you feel if someone only come to you when he got problem and when there is no problem, he just ignore and never see or interact with you? This is how I treated God that time.

During my diploma years in APIIT college, what I think about most of the time is fun. Even since young, I have many hobbies and mostly related to sports. I like soccer, badminton, bowling, ping poing, snooker, basketball. Besides sports I like to sing, listen to music, play video arcade.

Back to my college life. At that time, I have great obsession to snooker and play video arcade. I spent almost an average of 4 hours every weekday hang around at those snooker and video arcade center. Because I spend much time there, I also spend much money of my parents for these pleasures. Playing snooker in our society today always involve gambling and I also got into this gambling sometimes.

Because of this, I did badly academically. I fail my diploma final year project and even fail when reset it. Because of this, much extra need to pay for redoing it and one year got wasted just to re-do and complete it. I have lousy attitude as student. I never bothered much thing. I am not grateful to see that I can have a chance to study is a privelege and those money is from my parent's hard-earned money.

The Turning Point
After I become a Christian, I still find it hard to give up snooker and video arcade, because I feel so addicted to enjoy them. But, as times goes by, I desire has changed. I no longer get addicted by them. Last time, my source of joy mainly from snooker and video arcade. But now, my source of joy has changed. My source of joy comes from God, when I'm able to connect to Him, when I put into practice His teaching, doing things for other people.

Being a Christian also helps me to be a better student. During my Higher Diploma time, my attitude as student has changed. I learnt to be grateful. I need to do well in my studies because my parents work hard to support me. I want to do well to make them feel proud. I learnt to give my best. I started to seat in front. I took out my courage to ask questions. I took the challenge to be team leader for some projects. Because of this changes of my attitude, I have improve academically. Since then until my degree time, I never fail any subjects. At the same time, I didn't compromise my commitment to church.

This year is my 8th year as Christian. As much as I have learnt and grown as Christian, there are still so much of things I need to work on and overcome. Sometimes, I feel so struggle to be strong as Christian. Sometimes, I feel so lonely. Sometimes, I fell as Christian. But, during my struggling time, I know I can rely on God. And when I fell, I learn to pick up myself, by turning back to God, for He is gracious.

From, Steve Ngai (11 April 2006)


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