Monday, June 19, 2006 . 4:51 PM
Come, report what you have done over the weekends.
First of all, the weekends started on friday nite ( of cos man ) and i managed to get a mp3 player from Sim Lim. It's also a mp4 player (can play videos lar) I was eyeing ipod nano but it's so expensive. Btw, they do sell nano at a lower price. But i don really need a power mp3 player, im not a great music addict who can't live an hr without music. The reason for buying it was to put some ( and i say SOME) songs so tat i can always listen to them, esp christian songs bcos i like to meditate on them in my bedroom..but my pc is outside in the living room?? so that is a prob. So i don need big capacity and i don need a hoo haa brand like ipod tho i muz admit nano is really tempting. So wat i got was an super powerful imitation of ipod nano! It looks exactly like nano!! Flat n slim, except it doesn't have touch buttons, u have to literally press the buttons, it's got radio(nano doesn't hv) and u can record the radio or anything....and can play videos and can show u lyrics while the song plays. I mean man.......1Gb,$100. Nano, 1GB, $200. Some pple might think ah..100 bucks more and u can get ipod,...a brand u know!! Ya lar..but no radio,no vid,no recording. Anyway i juz wan something small, 1gd is enuff.
Sat noon was spent in church of cos. Bible study. And plans to move bible study to sun after morning service. I don find sat bible study a problem, but some of them prefer to have it after service, which yeah will cut down the times u have to come back to church, some of them are students and they say weekends are precious to them.
I wonder whose weekends not precious?? I mean i have even lesser personal time for myself, working mah..even worse. Haha..nvm.. MAyb it's my new found love for God that makes mi so looking forward to going to church.
Was supposed to go nite safari after church but van cancelled it. Her nephew went to nap at 5pm!! So we decided that we shall let the kid sleep and skip tis time. So went bukit merah with cell grp to look at furnitures. One of them wants to revamp her room. Then had din together, and i went orch shop shop shop. Been spending way too much.
Sunday, church service. Lunch. Shopped again. Then went botanical gardens with van and albert for some Guzheng orchestra performance. The last time round, me and van went for SSO performance there, was very gd. The guzheng one lasted 2 hrs..sit until my butt pain and in such a daze after the thing finally ended. Walked to Tanglin mall for din, and felt soooo tired. Been out the whole damn day.
And then it's monday again.
Had the pleasure of chatting with 2 v joyful cabbies over the weekends. And conversations started mainly cos i said please take me to the church. Then they started talking to me abt church, abt God.. One even blessed me in chinese and i was like,' oh uncle! Are you a christian?' Then uncle still have a sense of humor wor. He said,' no...haha...but i know how to speak christian language' oh wow. haha..
One uncle told me, christians are very nice pple. They are so sincere, have the heart to seek God oso..Another tell me, we are all placed on earth for a purpose and you can't live life for yourself or juz for enjoyment. Altho both of them are not christians, but was a delight talking to them. Their views on life are not twisted..in fact it's even christian-like. Both are so happy, so animated. The 1st driver told me he goes to the chinese service sometimes with his niece, just sit in and listen. I invited him to my church's chinese service. I also mentioned to him that i can't understand the sermons in chinese, which is the fact. He commended that my chinese is v gd, puzzled y i ccan't understand. The words are too chim lar. I still prefer english. Then u know wat he told me!! He told me i shd learn how to listen to chinese sermons, then i can bring the gospel to China!!! I was so stunned! Eh a non christian telling me that! I was reminded of the great commission and the need to walk out of my comfy zone to reach others, which means i betta start learning how to convey GOd's words in chinese. 2nd uncle said our lives on earth shd not b wasted, we have purpose to fulfill... if one day, u reach the end of ur lives, will you think back abt how much have u contributed to this world? B ashamed that you onli tot abt urself and ur own enjoyment? Or wished u had more time to do more?
He reminded me that i have a purpose here in life. I left the cabs, with deep impressions of the cabbies and i hope i had made an impression on them too. God will lead them to Him.
Sunday's service was on father's day. A view on a christian dad. Very touching sermon indeed as the pastor shares on some stories. And i almost cried many times. IN a way, i felt alittle crippled. I felt so incomplete. I never feel much of a fatherly love most of the time i was growing up. Pastor told of a story where a frantic dad rushed to his son's sch after an earthquake, onli to find the sch building in rumbles. Everyone told him his son is dead, no use digging for him. The policement tried to stop him, but he said no he has to see for himself if his son is dead. He told his son b4 that no matter what, he will always be there for him. But he didn't manage to. He dug for 36 hrs before he reached his son. And he was alive. The son told the dad that he had told his classmates not to worry, bcos if his dad is alive he will come for him and they will all b saved. A parent shd always b there for their child, no matter how numb their child will b if the parents always say that they love them, they shd still risk it and still tell their kids how much they love them, because it will come in handy when they are in trouble. I wanted to cry, bcos my dad was not there for me. My parents do not tell me they love me tho i know they do. My dad never says, don worry, i'll always b there for you. Kids need the assurance from their parents that they will always b there for them..but y do i feel that i'm alone? For a long time, i never tot of falling back on my parents. For the longest time, i don't feel that assurance that pastor talks abt. My dad never tells mi that he will always b there for me, cos he wasn't there for me. In fact, i have to b there for him now. I yearn for that kind of loving family. I yearn for that kind of fatherly love and i realised that i've been missing that out alot in my life...
ok finish my story.
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