21-23 July (Thur- Sat)

21 July (Thursday)

My mum slipped in the toilet and had knocked her right knee against the toilet bowl the day before. And now her knee is in such pain that she has to limp around. Seeing that it was worsening, we persuaded her to go for an X-ray and see a doctor. So this morning, I brought my mum to Tampines Polyclinics with my Dad tagging along. At the end of the check-up, I thank God that there were no fractures or major issues. It is just simply because that such knock at her age may be more painful for her and will take longer to heal. So got her painkillers, my dad went back with her while i went over to Tampines Central to get some stuff.
So i went to Tampines Mall NTUC. It has just been renovated and honestly, everything was in a mess. At one corner, you can find tinned food mixed with other non-edible stuff. And I just simply couldn't find my stuff. After one round of quick glancing, I was frustrated and becoming impatient because i simply can't find my stuff. So I left with much irritation. So i decided to go to Simei, East Point Mall NTUC instead. Took a train down. Then when reached there, i got all my stuff with little effort. The tricky part was that all the queues were pretty long. So i spotted this queue with only 2 person but with many stuff. But i didn't mind since only got 2. Shd be quite fast. So i took the queue. And guess wat. SOme technical problems. Den end up waited like about 10 minutes before my turn. ARGGGHHH! NVM!
After paying up, i went to one of the coffee shop for lunch. The shop sell chicken rice and economic rice but different counter. At first, i queued at the chicketn rice stall but the queue was not moving so i jumped to the shorter queue at the economic rice. But guess wat, as i changed, the queue on the other side grew longer while the chicken rice stal was getting shorter. I was pretty annoyed. And then the queue stop moving. So fickle-minded as i am at times, i changed back to Chicken rice and then the queue at the Economic rice cleared. Haiz.... Pretty annoyed. But eventually got my chickent rice and sit down to eat. Then i start to think about the 3 incidents that happen. All similiar in nature and i dun believe that it is so coincidental. As i came to the Lord, i feel that He was telling me that I got to be more patient and not to rush into doing things simply becoz it looks like a better choice at that moment. And i guess i tend to do things in this way. Got to be more patient and not so haste in making unnecessary changes. Really thk God for His valuable lesson.

Another lesson that I learn today. As you know my mum is injured, so nobody is doing dinner. I offered to. OK! DUN GIVE ME TAT LOOK! I CAN COOK! (My rationale is that nowadays girls dun do or rather do minimal house work. Having said this, how can i depend on them in this area. SO best is that at least i'm independant in this area) It's something that I'm proud of and i see it's something worth investing in since i always see that when i do get married, houseworks have to be shared between the spouses. So i always tell myself that i will do housework, cooking, washing when i get married. But this day, the Lord impressed upon me this. Why not do it now? Why wait until only when i'm married? If i start now, it is preparing me and not until I get married den i figured out how to go about doing it. And really thk God for helping me see it in such a way. And as i do the cooking, i do it with so much joy.

22 July (Friday)

NO class today. MUAHAHHAHAAHA! Went to church to look for Eleanor and Lydia but they all not in. On course. So i went to Chapel and played the piano. So nice. How i wish i had taken keyboard lesson when i was young. Really love the piano. But since i'm such a beat-deaf person, i'll most probably shortened my teacher's life span. Den in the evening, went over to Novena to meet Claudia. Going to see the restaurant where the Youth Ministry is organising this "Dinner under the stars" dinner for the youths. It is meant to mark the end of our recent programme For Men/ For women and also the start of abstinance, remaining pure for God and our future spouse. The place looks splendid but need to finalise further details. So after that, decided to drop by Claudia's cell. For the last 3 yrs, i have been out of cell because I was with the Youth Cell (THIS IS NOT A COMPLAINT) And i really miss the times when i was in cell where i just sit there and do nothing and enjoy the fellowship and God's word. SO that nite was really enjoyable and brought back a lot of memory. Though i struggled with my Mandarin, I tot it was a good practise to 'retrieve' back my mother's tongue (no intention pun in it) and also to know God's word in another language. And the best part is the makan session. Got glutinous rice ball, rice dumpling, 'kueh', vegetable pao, bombay toast, and durian. Muahahahaha.

23 July (Saturday)

Had a worship practise with Si En and Xin Ling in the early afternoon. Den followed by Bass practise with Yvonne. After tat we had our NO Apologies, session 2. Then after that, went to TM to celebrate Joanne's birthday. Went Genki Sushi. WOah! 7 of us but eat until 100 plus. Thkfully got discount, end up onli 86 bucks. After that went home.
One thing i just want to thk God and also to the people involved (no name mentioned) TOday need some rearrangemet of chairs in the church MPH for next day's service. I didn't really bother to rally people to help. I just tot tat if the youths really understand the meaning of servanthood, without me asking, they will take notice and come and help. And true enough, a few of them, came and help. Not just the guys but the girls also. I won't mention names but i'm sure you know who you are. If you are reading this, I want to affirm you and say a well-done to you.
When we offer ourself to help out, i always see 2 aspects of it. 1st is Service and the 2nd is Servanthood. Service is offering ourself to do things that we are able to do becoz either we have knowledge in it, skilled in it or trained in it. For eg, if you are able to play an instrument or can sing, you will provide the Service to the music ministry. As for servanthood, it's beyond just doing what we are good at. It's doing things that may not even be within our area of work. For eg, like the rearranging of chairs or even other small things like clearing up or throwing rubbish bag. We may not have the 'skill' or the 'strength' to do such things but that does not mean we can say it's none of our biz. As those girls who help out in the chair arrangement, I'm proud to say that this is called servanthood. I know to remove the chairs from the stack is not easy and 'dangerous', and that could be your best reason to excuse yourself from doing the job. But you all did not. Though you didn't help with the removing from the stack (which is understandable), you all help to rearrrange the chairs. And all these are done with your own initiation. That's another part of servanthood. Own initiation, without people asking, not under any obligations but purely becoz you choose to you. Good job and keep it up. I can guarantee that if your life is a life of servanthood, God is going to do great things in your life. Just like Jesus, He came not to be served but to serve.