A morning of sleep..

It was a very fun weekend I had. Attended the service after being refreshed in the camp and learned a few stuff in the sermon itself. We are all marked by a mirror. It is really true that many youths are struggling with insecurities in their life, even for myself. I used to confuse/mix up between pride and insecurity, until it was thoroughly explained by Ding Chuen during one of the shepherding we had last time. In a sense, both are quite related, when one overcomes his/her worldly insecurities, s/he can become prideful over that issue, but when s/he compares with another better person, s/he'll feel insecure again, and so on, so forth. This is when the security in the Lord and Kingdom mentality comes into the context. Security in the Lord is important so that we won't compare ourselves too much with other people or to meet certain unnecessary standards, while Kingdom mentality is about prioritizing the Kingdom business above all else, "By doing this, does it help to extend the Kingdom of God?" because the work that we are doing lasts for eternity, not just in this temporal world. Luckily I'm quite restricted financially, so I get to know what I should spend my money on, knowing what comes first. Thank God that I don't earn too much, hahaha..

Then after service and dinner at Meridien, we went to Marina Square for Bowling! My 2nd time bowling, haha.. I did quite well during the first set of game, then deproved during the 2nd game, I guess some beginner's luck is quite significant, haha.. Xinyi, Yao, Walmond, and Lee are the pros in bowling, seriously. And poor Ben Wai, always left at the last turn to save the day for his teammates, all the burden was upon him, but well, we won the first set and lost the 2nd one, not bad. Oh, and we had Ben's Flying Phoenix stance, Lee's Countdown, Walmond's high throw and Walmond-Yao handshake too! Those were quite funny as well. It was very fun indeed, besides the cost involved T_T

After Bowling, Huili, Ben, Puay, Layling, Jiancong, Matthias and me went to Jiancong's house at Sengkang, taking Puay's car. And when we thought that the car wouldn't be able to carry all the 7 of us, we were wrong, Puay could actually push down the middle seat to make the whole space more open, so the 5 of us could sit behind. Very cool!! Never saw such a car before, hahaha.. It was a very fun journey, we shared about our families, siblings, and some other random stuff. Now I know that people in MinOps are quite random one =P

Then we spent the night at Jiancong's house to discuss some Y-Comm stuff. It took us so long to settle down until we reached around 2/3am just to get started, because we were very sleepy and stone. We spent the time talking some random stuff (again) and digressed from the main topic to other topics (almost everytime), and in the end, only a few issues were settled. We went round to share our crush, customize our future spouse and stuff, haha.. Everyone were quite high at that time, especially Layling (excited over what we were gonna eat for breakfast). Then at 4am we ordered Macs after much digression of where to go for 'breakfast'. After breakfast I literally fell asleep on the spot, regardless of the hard 'mattress', because I was super tired that time. Then we slept all the way till 1230pm!! Ben, Matthias and Boss left us behind, though T_T Then after lunch, we went back to Jiancong's house with Walmond substituting Layling, and LeeJun waiting for us at Jiancong's house. Then they played mahjong!! While I was doing some stuff with Jiancong's computer, haha.. We stayed until around 8pm and all went home, phew, tireeeeddd.....(-_______-) but definitely fun!! (^ o ^)

And to end this entry, there was a very cool 'poem' by Audrey Hepburn that I heard during the sermon on Saturday:

Beauty Tips

• For attractive lips, Speak words of kindness.
• For lovely eyes, Seek out the good in people.
• For a slim figure, Share your food with the hungry.
• For beautiful hair, Let a child run his or her fingers through it once a day.
• For poise, Walk with the knowledge you'll never walk alone.
• People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed and redeemed; Never throw out anybody.
• Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.
• As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands; one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

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My verse of the day:

'I will praise You, O Lord, among the nations;
I will sing of you among the peoples.
For great is Your love, higher than the heavens;
Your faithfulness reaches to the skies.
Be exalted, O God, above the heavens,
and let Your glory be over all the earth.'
[ Psalm 108: 3-5 ]