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Tired. Feel like I’ve carried so much stuff over the last week that I’m a little hurting on the back and arms. I’m going to shower and sleep soon.

Yay!

Supper with William

Got this shot of him and he didn’t even know. Shows how powerful my sneakyshot^TM skills have become. I like it very much. The camera settings were abit unusual today, higher contrast than normal on purpose. I really enjoy taking quiet shots of people when they are at their most natural un-posed state. Partial reason why I think I’ll never pick up a SLR as an everyday camera. Anyway, the long story is as such:  Went to get a burger after band practice cos he needed to hurry off. Seriously, we’re all getting busy and need to slow down. Anyways, its quite a nice thing to both be attached. Can talk about common experiences. I think this one will work out all the way for him if they put self aside and put each other first. Soon we’ll all be married, have kids, bring them go to the park to play together kind of thing. Haha.. right.. thats going to be in like.. 4-10 years leh! I can’t wait. Lastly, spot my wallet! ha..

I’m just watching Everest: Beyond the Limit and as they go to the summit, there are supposed to be like.. 200 over dead bodies along the way nearing the top called the death zone, quite a few of them in plain view along the path. There have been expeditions just to bring back dead bodies: “Last year there was a Korean expedition that was solely here to retrieve a body. They got to the body, moved it a hundred yards in five hours and gave up.”. Then this documentary is quite raw.. there was this guy who was dying along the path and nobody can do anything for him because its too high to fly anything there, all of them will die above that altitude if they stay there for too long. There’s this double amputee who managed to summit, but couldn’t come down all the way. So when he reach camp 4, it took 9 sherpas 9 hours to drag him on a jerry-rigged sled to camp 3. The sherpas are crazy fit cos after that one of the sherpas strapped him to his head like the way we put our sling bags on our forehead and carried him down. Here’s some footage of a re-enactment

This place has really taken a holiday man. I could never have imagined I would be this busy during holidays! With what you ask? I’m not sure.. its just.. I guess when I have the time, these things (blogging and general online activities) suddenly take a backseat. I’ve been house-sitting when my mom goes out, helping out at (read: slacking) at pastor’s place. Its quite funny actually cos there’s nothing much I could actually do other than just be around and carry stuff here and there abit. Most of the time is spent just spending time together talking and messing with his things. I’ve to rest more I guess, and read too. Anyways, I came across this funny picture from last year.

I think I did it when I microwaved an egg and covered it thinking it would prevent a mess - obviously I was wrong cos the explosion was so strong the cover flew off.

That was utterly unrelated. Anyway, I had a few fruitful talks this week. Daniel on Sunday, pastor on most other days and Jonathan today. It was not really the talks or its contents that were edifying, it was the realizations about myself that I gained after thinking about what they/I had said and viewing firstly in the context of being a church member and then in the context of supposedly being bible believing Christians. When I look at these two, really the Christianity I live is so shallow, as with so many others around. How much we obsess about people around us really suprised me greatly and I became very conscious of it in my own talk and in others this week. Surely when we are judged we stand alone.

Lastly, although I’ve been with people this whole week, I’m feeling quite lonely already cos theres nothing much to do with myself. Now its the end of another week and I’m just.. here. I really want to go out lim kopi but theres nobody to go with me. Sitting down and doing some reading would be nice.. I keep falling asleep when I read myself, even after 3 chapters of the bible I’m so tired I doze off sitting outside the house where its bright and green with all the plants.

William seems to be busy. Gone are the days where we were all slackers, free at a moment’s notice. Haha.. I wonder if growing up really catches up with you and your friends so much so that its not so simple to just call each other and go out for coffee. Really as one of my GP essay topics put so rightly: youth is wasted on the young.

I’ve decided I want a canon G9 so I’m going to start saving for it. Thats a funny thought cos I can just buy it outright with the money I have. Still, I feel I’ve lost the art of saving. When the money in my bank account reaches a certain (undisclosed) amount I’ll just ask my bro to buy it from the states if the warranty covers it.

Thats all for now. Maybe I’ll sleep early today. hahaha.. who am I kidding..

Had dinner with Ruiyi, Shirley and the Cherns at sakae sushi. Haha.. I think Ruiyi is quite funny.

Psalm 96:9 - Worship him in the splendor of holy attire! I always thought it meant in the splendor or GOD’s holiness. When it really means (i think) is to worship him with our being holy. Of course.. his holiness covers us.. so its still his holiness.. but you get what I mean.

Going to find all the drivers and format the craptastic vista machine I’m using now. It’s slowed to a crawl!! >:(

I’m quite glad I’m abit busy these few days. Packing up the house, mounting projector, moving pastor’s stuff. Its all been whole day activities. Had supper just now with ppl after prayer meeting. Spent the night running cable with ps upstairs, both the VGA and the power.

We need to move man. sigh.. either that or this church need mega major MAJOR reno. The place looks like a wordpress install from my early days. Hacked, patched and jerry-rigged like mad to just survive and get on by to the next day/week/month/year. You should see the amount of cable and re-cable and the amount of stuff running off one breaker. The trunking is all full of cable!! cannot even ‘tamba’ one more inside. Trunking run once, twice, thrice.. like.. this is how the 2 offices are wired up and drawing power.

• A single breaker
  • photocopier #1 (inside office)
  • aunty pat
    • extension #1
      • PC
      • Monitor
      • Printer/fax
      • speaker
    • extension #2
      • fridge
      • microwave
      • boiler
      • fan
  • outside main hall
    • extension #1
      • photocopier #2 (childrens hall)
      • laptop
      • projector
      • speaker
  • pastor’s office (possibly another breaker, but unikely due to the place being one big hall originally. Not supposed to have offices!)
    • extension #1
      • pc
      • monitor
      • printer
      • scanner
      • speaker

Sigh. I was actually laughing at the situation at first when ps opened the trunking to find it full and we plugged 2 multiplugs into the double wall plug. But when I opened the false ceiling to pull the wire through it really wasn’t so funny anymore. I’m not complaining. Sigh, just.. sian. Why people can take ownership of their home.. spend craploads of money on a place that really doesn’t edify anyone (mostly) and has no eternal purpose and value and we as a church cannot take ownership of the church, spend craploads of money on it and make it BEYOND functional.. We are the church.. why does it feel like its just a building now which someone else owns? “not mine what..” kinda attitude. When you spend on the church, you spend on yourself because as all the kids know:

I am the church

You are the church

We are the church together..

Sigh. God, what do you want us to learn before you allow us to move on? Please, admonish us, humble us, teach us, unite us and bless us. I’m just sad to tears.

Writing a web application to schedule church service schedule as an exercise. Its going to be my first! Think it’ll take up my entire holiday. haha.. It’ll be so fun.