Monday, April 06, 2009
No class today! Hee...
But you know what, I went all the way there to find that there was no class. They postponed it yet I wasn't informed! Trust me, I was really prepared to battle against the 'Z monster' during this 4 hour class. I even bought a cup of coffee (thick and rich, koptiam auntie's coffee won't lose to Starbucks) and lots of snacks to go through the wilderness. Hmm, since there was no class, fine, I'm actually quite happy about it. Oops. :X Mug at home lo.
It was a fruitful and enjoyable week! Breakdown:
(1) Last Sat 28 Mar - Pst Phil's svc! He looks more youthful each time we see him! He loves sailing. He began sharing, that each time when the current hits, his speedboat will be directed to another position, away from the direction he is moving towards. But with his motor on, he has no worries. He can steer the wheel back to the right direction each time it gets diverted. The same thing applies to our life. Each time when we get distracted by our daily cares and burdens, away from our visions, we can shift our steering wheel back to the right position. The control is in our hands. The control is definitely also in His Hand. As long as we keep moving and not lose heart along the way, we WILL surely get to our 'promised land'.
After svc, we celebrated Shing's birthday. We went to 'The Aston' at SIA Flight for dinner together. They have business class seats, haha mainly for phototaking and chit-chatting purposes. The food was yummy, Jol and I shared steak and rib eye, half of each. Just wondering where's the spicy fries which I had at The New Cathy, nvmind. After that we went to Bistro Cafe to listen to live band! I kinda love live bands, especially when they sing the songs I like. The song 'Hey Jude' was rehearsing on my mind for days before I finally forgotten to mumble it. But feels like it is here to stay!
(2) Last Fri 03 April - Had cg at Dbouby Gaut. After cg, my members went to the foodcourt just directly at the flat downstairs to eat. Nana and I decided to watch movie after contacting Jol. We walked to the new Cathy to check out the movie timings, then to PS and eventually we settled at Cineleisure. We bought the tickets at 2.35am for the movie, Confessions of a Shopaholic. Jol came after her meet up, bought us chips, not Calbee hot & spicy de, :( . Haha :P
The movie talks about a woman Rebecca who loves shopping way too much. She has 12 credit cards at her expense. One day she is retrenched and is desperately searching for another job to keep her massive shopping addiction. She finally gets a chance to go for an interview at her favourite fashion magazine. Before that she sees a green scarf which matches her outfit very well, yet her credit cards just won't let her as a small amount of each still hits the credit limit. She runs to a hotdog stall wanting to exchange her cheque for money to pay the difference.
'My aunt is in hospital and that's her favourite scarf,' she lied. After much talking with the hotdog owner, one man at the start of the queue decides to give her the money.
'You get your scarf and I get my hotdog,' he said.
When she reaches the office, to her disappointment the job has been offered to another woman who is tall and seems outstanding. The receptionist tells her that there is another offer at the same company as an advice columnist. She decides to give it a try but to her surprise it is the guy (the editor, Luke) whom she saw at the hotdog stall.
The story goes on, she gets into this job and an advisory report that she writes about financial spendings gets the magazines selling like hot cakes. She is soon crowned as a 'the lady with the green scarf'. Luke and Rebecca gradually fall in love with each other. The joy adds in when her best friend, Suze is getting married and she is her bridesmaid. While she hopes no one uncovers her identity as a woman who is heavily in debt, her pushy debt collector comes searching for her and consequently exposes her identity during a live interview. Her world falls apart. She lost Luke. Suze's trust is gone too when her bridesmaid's dress is mistakably given away.
She decides to give up her addiction and she begins to sell off all her favourite clothings, even her green scarf which seems so significant. She trades off her expensive clothes in exchange for her bridesmaid dress. True repentance. :) The story comes to a close with her reuniting back to her love ones and most importantly living a life of integrity and openess.
(3) Last Sat, 04 April, met my cgl Rachael along the way to svc, so we sat together. Svc by Pastor Kong was fun, especially the one on 'annoying habits'.
(a) Policy of radical honesty - learn to be a truthful person.
(b) Policy of joint agreement - never do anything without any enthusiastic/mutual agreement between you and your spouse.
After svc, we went Baba King to have dinner. It was a sumptuous feast! Five dishes: devil's chicken, spicy kang kong, bean curd soup, wu xiang and the final one very chim, but it took Kelvyn some time to finish. He used an ice cream stick to scrap the ingredients to the meat, haha... not easy. We rewarded him by serving him first for that dish.
Kelvyn drove Peiling, Elaine, Jol and myself to Eunos station. Jol and I eventually chilled at Raffles City Starbucks until 11plus.
The end! ^^
Monday, April 06, 2009