Life

Sunday, February 13, 2005

I woke up late for church today..Last night, kaiyin figured out the skype thing and she was excited about it so we were talking on it for 2 hrs.. i slept about 330am.It was really fun.. we did Quiet time over the internet telephone haah..And so this morning, i woke up at 10 when my service is at 11.so i rushed and rushed..and amazingly, my bus came fast and zoomed and the train took 12 minutes..2 mins per stop.and in the end, i was only late for 15 mins. I was supposed to meet my friend ,Matt at the entrance of church at 1055 but when iwas on the mini bus, i actually passes him while he was waiting for the bus and i thought to myself that he was never gonna reach before me so i felt assured that i won't lose him like i did last week because he didn't get a mobile sim card till i bugged him to do so today. But guess what, when i reached church, he wasnt there so i waited at the entrance of the auditorium and waited until worship ended.. and he still didnt come..so i decided to go in as the audiotrium was getting so packed. Honestly, in Gtc, however late i am, i know i wil get a seat but its different here because they have a large congregation and seats fill up really really fast. so i found a seat, coincidentally next to Frankie, one of the other cell members so i was feeling good cos i wasnt alone.. i kept turing behind to see if Matt has come but there was no sight of him.. i was blaming myself for not meeting him near school before going to church..sigh..But i prayed for his salvation towards the end of the service..and at the end, when i was about to go, Matt was standing behind me! He got into the auditorium and spotted me at the end of the service. I was elated, i just grabbed his arm and asked him where he was!Thank God he didnt miss this service.. The sermon was about the fruits of the spirit: Galationas 5:16-25 and talks about how our flesh/sinful nature is always at way with our spirit and its the fruits of the spirit that counteracts and plays a part and slavages the spirit, destrying the flesh. The fruits of the spirit comes as a package and not as a buffet table for u to choose from.. its all together and surely takes effort to build.We have to monitor our speech too because, out of the overflow of the heart, the mouth speaks.. and our words can have a sharp cutting and can cut, hurt and insult.Then, Stop and think about where the fruits of the spirit are in you.It is in stress and pressure, times of oppresion and depression and challenges that the fruits of the spirit in us shows. Ask someone really close to your heart and knows u really well today whether you possess the fruits of the spirit and our awareness will be heightened..Am i loving, Am i joyful,am i patient, etc..So after church the church members wanted to eat dimsum and i immediately got defensive by sayig that my tummy didnt feel too good but id follow them cos i wanted matt to have fellowship with them... its so expensive.. way above what i can afford. but apparently, all the dim sum places were full and we ended eating where we ate last week but the cost was half so i ate with them. Self control taking place here huh!After that Matt and i went to the supermarket, to get some eggs potatoes, mayonaise, bread, french fries.. am doing a meal for some of the other singaporeans/dateless.. doing baked potato, french fries and roasted chicken(whole) so bought them to prepare.. Gosh, i trued buying ginger from roadside stalls and i wasnt too sure what it was and they couldnt speak english.. in the end.. i saw something that looked really very much like ginger and i decided to buy it. I was right! So difficult to be without someone who can;t speak cantonese, like MATT!then we took the MTR to central and tried searching for the cheap rpe paid sim card offer that i got and we did, without that much e ffort!Thank God, iw ont be stressed on sundays trying to reach Matt. We got back home and i went straight to my bed cos i was oooo tired..funnily, i got an msn invitation from my dad! funny how both my parents have msn now..hehe..and he was lecturing me on taking care of myself.. hehe.. which is fine..and so.. finally got under the blanket an hour later and before i knew it, it was 730pm and i hadnt felt like i slept one bit..guess i was thinking so much, time passes so quickly. I offered to cook for my friend weiyi cos she's so stressed with her work..and brainy students in the class that stress her.. so i cooked..and we watched America's next top model together..when she saw the egg rice.. she immediately took the light soya sauce to add it to the rice.. i guess she thought it was too bland?sigh.. maybe i should cook for myself next time or i may have to provide pills for dirrehoea. sigh.. i'm aspiring to be a great cook in 6 mths so i will keep trying till i get it!I got online again thereafter and tried downloading my pics and my my, i was so irritated cos i took one and a half hours downloading them and in a minute, cos of network problems, the page couldn;t be displayed. So the process repeated and took so long that i still hvaent got it done after 4 hours.. at least i wrote a praise report..salvaged my night efforts.. hope to get to do the pics.. i'm just a picture person cos i feel pictures speak volume and i want to share it with all my loved ones..ALRIGHT,time to do QT and sleep..Goodnight