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this week passed pretty quickly for me, probably because i was taken ill for two days. and i am totally going to blame it all on ops manning on saturday, when i got so busy i couldn’t even drink or eat! for the whole day. Well ops manning day was just one whole crazy day of calling, and scolding people.. and calling ns men back, and some of them were definitely unco-operative. After ops manning, i met up with damon and leqiao for dinner and went to the hospital to visit christie, who had a back operation. haha. well we ate at thai express and were doing our own eye-exercises.
then on wednesday, admist my mc, i went for this really cool event called mrt pub crawl. it’s really really cool! it starts at boon lay, and at certain mrt stops, we would all get off, hop to some kopitiam or a convenience store to get a drink (preferably alcoholic) and finish the drink. all in all, each stop was about half an hour. i went with phyllis, daniel (new acquaintance), and serene ( phyllis’ friend and new acquaintance too). it was a fun night. We were all wearing this orange tee with the words ” Hi my name is _________” and behind it wrote ” and i am a ________” well i’ll leave it to your imagination to guess what you can write. This event was either aimed at the caucasians, or wad we call ang-moh, or it was just a coincidence, but the main bulk of people who attended this event were caucasians and mainly they were all uni students. Serene has a really mature imagination. Firstly, she wrote ” sex addict, and i failed terribly at rehab.” for daniel, “stripper in training. Bring on the pole!” for phyllis, and “toyboy, and i love older ladies” for me. Promiscuous and Provocative indeed. haha. well it went on quite well. Oh i forgot to say, after all the mrt stops, the event would end at a club of choice. This time, it was thumper at goodwood park hotel. (well i hear the durian mooncakes at goodwood park hotel are really nice) all in all it was a fun activity.
(disclaimer: if you are not interested in religion or get bored or are averse to christianity, you may skip the next paragraph)
The next day, thursday, i attended the stephen tong gospel rally with a whole bunch of church youths. and subsequently on friday and tonight too. All in all, it was a really fruitful rally and it kind of re-awakened me. I am more re-affirmed in my faith and more dedicated. Not drifting as much as i was before. well he made a very important point. “don’t just anyhow believe in him just for the sake of believing in a god, and don’t just reject him anyhow cause he may just be the true one for you”. In a way, this is a really different gospel rally because the approach he has towards preaching and how he spreads the word is different. He is more concerned with you understanding the faith and the religion and letting you make your own choice, instead of just pushing you to just believe, and add to the numbers. He also made another interesting statement, ” i’d rather have a church of 20 people, who truly understand what they believe in, than a church of 1000 who go with the wrong beliefs.” i think that’s a very very good point for him. Many mega-churches now ( i’m not slamming any of them) have the wrong preaching points. they are very focused on instant gratification, on the here and the now, and fail to realise a very important point, that god has a time and place for everything, that he will reveal things in his time. well i learnt alot, still more points, but i guess that’ll be a separate passworded post.
and on saturday night, i watched nus Blast concert held at ucc.. jinglin was performing (as usual) haha. well she was good. especially for the first performance (that we missed because of a whole range of factors, cause the waiter at munchy monkey’s had tunnel vision and failed to spot our hands, cause we din ask for our desert early, cause we ate too slowly, cause we missed the first bus back to ucc, cause we all went to toilet before the concert) anyway the concert was a hip-hop concert. ucc theatre is EXTREMELY HOT. i suspect they forgot to turn on the air-con, or did not turn on all the units. the dancing in general was okayish. There were good dancers, and a variety of different hip-hop styles, and some more contemporary hip-hop. i particularly enjoyed the dance with the sofa. It reminded me of one of the episodes in sytycd where travis and (dunno-who) danced a contemp piece together. well it has been a long while since joel, stella, chien, jing and i met up. we promised we would try to meet up more often to catch up. haha.. hopefully this time it actually comes true.
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