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Friday, March 16, 2007


went for "encounter" at riverwalk on wednesday. first time i've ever been to the church's riverwalk office. quite nice, i must say, although both the snacks and drinks vending machine there is severely depleted. guess that's what happens when there's no good food around.

i went with rachel. she was the only other person i knew who was going, so i decided to go with her. "encounter" was good, we started from session 2, prayer all the way, had a short break then had session 3, where we watched this video sermon from a guy who came to our church a long time ago. got to see how Pst Kong looked like years ago. hmm...

anyways, the preacher on the video preached so aggressively, but that was nice, cause he wasn't holding back just because he might offend some people. his style was more of "in-your-face", which is scary at first but actually is quite good. he talked about stepping out, how many people walk towards this "invisible line", but very few actually cross it. nice sermon.

gatecrashed rachel's bible study class, gifts of the Holy Spirit, which is like, 2 levels above my current bible study. the lesson was on faith. thank goodness it was a mass class, otherwise i would immediately stick out. not that it mattered though, according to what rachel said, or as rachel's friend put it, "crash lor."

the lesson was good, taught me some useful things. went to the macdonald's at clementi interchange for dinner afterwards. chatted with rachel for a long time, although it didn't really seem that long. rachel is such a great person to hang with (rachel, don't smile yourself mad). she can talk and talk and talk and talk and talk and talk and talk and talk and talk, but the things she talk about, far from boring you, is actually quite interesting. haven't chatted so long like that for a while. only really realised the time when i checked my watch and it said eleven. so she called her dad, and we talked somemore until her dad came aand fetched her home, with me taking the bus.

next day, aka thursday, aka yesterday, is a day i HAVE to blog about. this post is dedicated to weijian, the guy who always beat me at pool.

i reached bukit batok inter at 2.45, just as i had planned with rachel. rachel, being rachel, only made at appearance at 3.45. not that i mind, trains up my patience. so we slacked around macdonald's, not knowing exactly what to do, waiting for weijian to freaking reply my sms to his whereabouts and when-will-he-arrive-abouts. so ended up, rachel and i watched "The Pursuit of Happyness" (yes, the title is spelled happYness, not "i". refers to a wall mural on of a daycare centre in the movie). the movie was about the struggles of this guy, played by will smith nonetheless, trying to make ends meet. along the way losing his wife and having to take care of his 5-year-old son, while trying desperately to sell bone scanner machines for a living, which gives "slightly clearer images than x-rays, at double the price". in the meantime, he also had to undergo a stockbroker training internship programme which gives no salary whatsoever, and to make the odds near impossible, 20 interns are trained, out of which only one gets hired.

needless to say, this is hollywood, but considering that it's based on a true story, it's really quite inspiring. after the movie, met up with weijian at kfc, and went over to BTP for pool. this is the part of the post which is dedicated to dear weijian.

i played 3 games with him, and unexpectedly, i won 2! woohoo!! first one, he sank the black 8 ball by mistake. next one, i defeated him by my own "pure talent". yea right. he seems slightly more off-form than usual, though, and i had to admit, it was a close finish.he beat me in the first game by four balls. but then again, when you look at it from my angle, I BEAT WEI JIAN! muahaha...

played a few rounds, yuanmei came, and we headed over to madjacks, where along the way, we found out kok isn't working, so our 30% discount was gone, but lucky for us, weijian knew the person behind the counter (apparently he came very often...), so we got it in the end :)

here's a tip, never get the fish baked rice, or any form of baked rice from madjacks. tasteless and stingy serving of cheese...

nothing really eventful happened after that, except that i missed the first episode of prison break 2... zilah, ask danial to lend me!!!

got home, on com, on msn. found out from rachel what winnie's condition was like. sad. what does a cell group do when their leader is down? lucky for us, she got someone to help fill in for her for the time being, but still, hope and pray she recovers quickly.

didn't go out today. woke up at 2pm (woot!) nothing special happened. ah well, not everyday is eventful.

6:17 PM
And through it all, the rise and fall...