lifesong
Everyone needs compassion
Love that's never failing
Let mercy fall on me
Everyone needs forgiveness
The kindness of a Saviour
The hope of nations
Saviour, He can move the mountains
My God is mighty to save
He is mighty to save
Forever author of salvation
He rose and conquered the grave
Jesus conquered the grave
So take me as you find me
All my fears and failures
Fill my life again
I give my life to follow
Everything I believe in
Now I surrender
Shine your light in
Let the whole world see
We're singing, for the glory
Of the risen King
Jesus, Shine your light in
Let the whole world see
We're singing for the glory
Of the risen king
Sunday, June 25, 2006
-3:15 pm
I must say I thoroughly enjoyed my holidays. But I now realise (a little too late) that maybe I enjoyed it a
bit too much. I spent the whole of the first two weeks playing, going out, watching movies, having fun, with the exception of one full day of studying at the library with nah. This kind of continued into the third week although I planned to supposedly start seriously studying for CTs then, but because of class sleepover and stuff, I was still stuck in play mode.
Now, I'm spending the last week of holidays (and the last day too) cramming- ok maybe more like studying? cramming sounds too harsh; I don't study
that hard- for CTs. Despite this sudden rush of pressure to cover everything before I have to sit for the papers, I must admit that I completely enjoyed my holidays, which is a rare occurence I must say, what with CTs right after the break.
I was studying at serene macs on thursday with nah and I saw a lanky, familiar figure in a brown sweater and jeans saunter past. I immediately ran outside and said, "Hi Mr. Chia!" It was so so nice seeing him again and I really do miss his amusing bio lessons. He's one of the teachers I really miss from RG. Found out that it is his weekly ritual to go to serene centre for his comics buffet every thursday. And he really looked as though he was enjoying his holidays.
He thinks that we're literally mad for mugging so hard at macs during the holidays. I kinda agree actually. But it's difficult to not get stressed over exams when everyone else is mugging their head off. Every time I went to a macdonalds outlet during the holidays, I found at least one RJC student studying there. SCARY STUFF. But anyways, Mr. Chia seems to think that it's ok to relax and have fun when you feel like it, instead of suppressing the urge to lime in front of the TV and hitting the books. I agree with him. I really do think that holidays aren't proper holidays at all in Singapore with holiday homework and tests immediately when the school term starts.
Anyways it was great seeing him again. After a not very productive 7 hours at macs (nah and I talked too much), we headed for nah's for dinner (we watched Oprah while eating and discovered the "secrets to losing weight and looking younger by 10 years"), then left for the revival meeting at church. When we went down through some condo to get to church, we realised that THE GATE WAS LOCKED. Just like nah's mum warned us when she dropped us off. !!! So I tried to be clever and climbed over the brick wall into the drain area while hannah held my bag. But I totally humiliated myself when who should come walking down the passage way but Christopher (one of my youths) and his mum! Oh man, I was caught standing on top of the brick wall looking quite stunned to see them, and desperately and futilely wishing that the ground would swallow me up. Gah. I knew how completely silly and stupid I looked, especially when chris' mum reminded me how dangerous it was, and the risk of the security guards mistaking me for a trespasser. So I climbed back down. And halfway down the long long flight of stairs at the otherside of the condo (we thought of attempting to climb the other brick wall because it was lower), we realised that we could have gone directly down the drain way from the top of the condo.
Me: Eh nah, isn't there like some drain way we can get down through? Like the time we did to go for jam?
Nah: Oh YA! Why didn't I think of that earlier?
Me: *smacks forehead*
So we climbed all the way up the stairs again and started down the damp and mossy longkang path. And that, was one experience that made me feel really really stupid.
Ok my time's running out. God has done so many AMAZING things that I want to talk about so I shall blog more about the second half of this week and the revival meetings another time- probably after CTs. *scurries back to the books*
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