Sunday, August 26, 2007

spiritual concentration

i'm really happy today. yesterday was a great day, and today is gonna be better. :D

as you can see, i woke up with almost half my day gone...i just seem to cannot wake up once i get connected with my wonderful bed. ahhh...

anyway, sorry guys for not blogging the past 2 days. i was really tired when i got home and i did turned on the computer, intending to post, but i fell asleep while the laptop was still loading. :X

actually once, my internet connection failed me. kinda understandable since my dear router is in the study room, which is next to my room. hmm...frankly speaking, i experience some problems with my school's wireless connection as well. how many times have it happened when i wanted to surf the net but i couldn't have internet access... =.=

ok so just to share what happened the past 2 days:

on friday, i was at home all day "stoning". with nothing to do, i almost slept through the day. originally, i was to have bible study with cedric but unfortunately, he forgot to bring his bs book...

i went down to meet cedric in the evening at orchard. we walked around the mall before finally settling at yoshinoya.(takashimaya) ced didn't order anything while i ate the new? spicy beef thingy. he kept asking me whether i wanna buy a bracelet, said it was really nice...found out later that actually he wanted one for himself because there's an offer 2 for $28. =.=

we met up with michelle, jon, isabel and huizhen before going to eat fish & chips at taka. i wanted to try the beer battered fish & chips so i ate again. =.= haiz...i must start spending less and saving more! anyway, james joined us some time later. after dinner we went over to starbucks(paragon) to discuss about the cellgroup appreciation. eleanore and cheekiong joined us. then i realised that i was the only person who is not a helper... they were discussing about cellgroup stuff and i had nothing to do. zZz well, i did try to help by brianstorming for ideas for the chalet/bbq and games, but i guess i wasn't really resourceful enuff huh?

so anyway to keep the long story short, i left early with my parents since they were around orchard too.

sat was really fun. in the morning i went over to cckss for the carnival. intended to meet jinnyang and weikai at 8.30am but i woke up late...ahh i forgot to set alarm!(see i fell asleep while i was waiting for my laptop to start up the previous night...) so i went to school alone. met up with weikai and his classmates at macdonalds and we went to cckss together. i felt as if i'm part of 4/9. =.= didn't wanna be extra so i stayed at the basketball court area to watch the people play basketball while they went to walk around the stalls. my classmates only arrived like one and a half hour later...so when they finally came, we went to check out the stalls at the carnival. i didn't buy any coupons :X but i kope some cocktails from the others. :D

rushed over to jurong west to support isabel's, olivia's and candice's water baptism at 1.30pm. originally i was thinking it would be sooo sian to leave so early because i wanted to stay longer at the carnival...in the end i realised it was pretty a great idea anyway since the carnival was kinda boring anyway. so at jurong west church, we waited in the hot sun for the candidates to get baptised. unable to stand the heat, joshua and i went to vend some drinks before going down to the stairs to enjoy the air-con indoors. when we went back up...they already got baptised and we missed it. =.=

anyway, we took one of the church's shuttle buses to expo for service after they bathed and got changed. we had to pay $1 for the shuttle bus. man why do we have to spend for everything?! guess it's because of the church building fund, they gotta start saving up if they want a nice hall eh?

service was great, which leads to my title of this post. pst Kong continued on the sermon of the mount series and talked about spiritual concentration. the service was really long so just to share what impacted me most, pst Kong talked about a question of ambition.

we should not worry all the time. just like what matthew 6:25-34 says, God feeds the birds of the air and clothes the lilies of the fields, what more are we, who are of more significance to Him? who of you by worrying can add a single hour his life?(matt 6:27) therefore do not worry about tommorow, for tommorow will worry for itself. each day has enough trouble of its own.(matt 6:34)

i remembered that pst Prince once shared that stress is the number 1 killer in singapore. stress leads to many sicknesses, such as heart diseases, depression etc. and worrying only adds to our stress! thus we should not worry, worrying does not change the situation or make things any better. it is unproductive, it is unreasonable, and it is unnecessary.

after a really lonnnnggg service, we went over to changi airport to eat at popeye. the mash potato, choeslaw and fries are like sooo nice lah! but the chicken is okay only lah. xD hey but i ain't complaining aye? great fellowship that night. had bible study with cedric after dinner and both my legs became numb after sitting on the chair so long!

haha, we had a really enjoyable day and the ride back home was just as fun as well. on the mrt, an angmoh was looking at the mrt stations map, then jessica asked me to compare whether i was taller than him anot, so i stood up and pretended to look at the advertisments...then the rest all laughed so loud. =.= then the angmoh turned and look at me sia...like we making fun of him...sian lo, give people bad impression of singaporeans le lah...

hey guys i tried to post some pictures...but it is not in the right place where i want it so yah...sorry lah i'm not very good with computer stuff. i will ask around and post more pictures the next time. PROMISE!

cheers :D

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