10 - 11 Sep 2005 (Sat - Sun)

10 Sep (Sat)

Woke up at 8am. Need to start preparing the food for tonight's dinner. I was going to do soup and salad. So intend to do the salad first. Got potatoes, shrimps, chicken breast meat, egg. So cook the potatoes first den followed by boiling the prawn. When potatoes cooked, started to peel the skin. This is really the hard part. Peel until my fingers skin wrinkled. Den peel the prawn and sliced into half. By the time done with everything was abt 10plus. Then my mum woke up already. Was teaching me how to prepare the soup. It's actualli chicken soup with white fungus. But I think the uncle whom i bought the white fungus cheated me. I wanted the more crunchy one but he gave me the one that soften very fast. Haiz. So was OJT den by the time soup was done was abt 12pm. Den left for church for worship practise for the Youth Fellowship. Si En is leading with Xin Ling supporting. Ding Yi playing keyboard, Amelia on the bass which was too heavy for her and I played the guitar. The worship turned out pretty well. Si En now is more confident and less hesitant. Keep up the good work. I think Auntie Khim also praised that it was a good worship session. So after that went to small group. Today only Ding Yi and Jason around. Haha! I dun know whether I am doing it right or in fact doing injustice. My small group time always the faster. I dun think I shortchanged or compromise on the sharing. But rather a lot of time, i just feel tat the notes are too much and the youths' attention span is getting shorter. I believe if i can get the point across within 30 min rather than the allocated time of 45 min, den why not. But den I just pray that the Youth will not take my 'goodness' for granted and only attend my class becoz I am short and end earlier. But I'm pretty sure they are matured enough. After Youth Fellowship, Charles gave Daniel, Claudia and me a lift back to get our delicacy. Actually my dishes not complete yet. Still have to go Lydia's place to do up the dressing for the salad. Didn't want to do earlier or else the dressing not fresh. Hmmm! Me sound like a chef. Haha! So by the time reached Lydia's place was abt 7plus. So started t do up the dressing . Secret recipe, cannot tell! Auntie Khim brought curry chicken and English Carrot Cake and Achar. Claudia bought this very unique vegetable dish - cabbage wrap with other more ingredients in it. Daniel brough chilli fish. Emily brought Oreo Cheesecake (with authentic cheese). Den William also had Vinegar pork and egg. Suppose to be for Lydia as this dish is always prepared for lady who just went thru labour. I guess we all need this dish as well since Youth Ministry is very much like going thru labour. Haha! Honestly, it is more like a feast for 3 days than a dinner. All the food was superbly delicious. After dinner, we sat over coffee and cheesecake and started our discussion. SO many things to talk. By the time we were done, it was nearly 11plus. Yawwn. Really very stoned by den. Den Auntie Khim gave me, Dan and Claudia a ride home. THk you so much. Imagine still have to take MRT. x x" So reach home and knock out.

11 Sep (Sun)

(BLUR) Woke up at 7.30am. Go church. Attended Chinese Svc. Pastor was talking to the theme inline with the Yellow Ribbon drive that it concurrently running in S'pore. This is an organisation that help released prisoners to enter back into the society as well as to educate the society not to look down on them but to accept them back. Pastor mentioned that Jesus did not just mingle with the crowd but also the outcast of society - leprosy, prostitutes, sickly. He had compassion for everyone and His unconditioned love is for everyone. We ourselves are sinners and had been forgiven thru God's grace and mercy. We were once lost but was found and accepted. We have experienced the love of God and the more we should extend this love to others. It's not so much that we are better people but rather we have tasted the goodness when we wer e far off and we want to share it with others.
After svc, went for last bible class taught by Auntie Khim. After tat suppose to go for lunch. But den as usual they couldn't decide. And i was really not in a mood to entertain them. So i walk towards CGH while they still fickling minding. Well no one followed me and i also didn't really care. TOo tired. At the end, i also nvr eat. Still having 'hangover' fr yesterday's dinner. So went to draw money and went home. Den change into soccer gear and left for church again. Helping to 'nannified' somebody's kid. Den at 4.30, brought the kid to the soccer training at Bedok SOuth SEc. The sky was cloudy and lightning was seen. So me and the kid pray to God to ask God to hold the rain. It's really interesting and nice to hear how innocent a child can pray. And true enough the sky kinda dispersed. But the Sport Council pple told us we can't use the field becoz of lightning. So no choice got to leave the field. Then we went to this overly crowded field beside Temasek Pri Sch. Ai yoh! Have to play on a small field. After the games, went to have a quick makan. DEn Daniel actually injured his leg again. After dinner went with him to A&E. Thkfully no broken bone. Haiz! He always like tat one. Coming to Mission period, he injured himself. Last yr also the same. Suppose to go Mission but injured himself den end up in cast and cannot go. Hopefully, his injury will recover in time. So after that, went home.