hello, you!

oh i had like the most fantabulistic dinner tonight. at the brazlian restaurant at sixth avenue. being a little lacklusture in the cranium arena after a mind boggling exam, i dropped way to early.

and being on an EZlink diet (the lose wieght and save the fare a step at a time diet), i walked. and stupidly walked for like 3+busstops in HEELS and in the rain. arghs! *faints* my little toes have the hugest biggest wateriest blisters ever. sniffles. 

but dinner was so good. the meat was like beyond yummy and these cute brazilian uncles will go up to you and keep on tyring to feed you. sho schweet. and the greens were fantastic too. esp the onions which were caramlised with some small green herbie looking things on top

the conversation was good too. altho i was seriously braindead from all that stupid random sampling things..there were still some funny things going on

like when J (of ya.kun. fame!) said
J: you know when chelsea wins, it means manchester loses?
and all of us: uh huh, we believe that is how a game of soccer works
[he actually meant winning the entire premier whatever]

and M looking at the chicken hearts
M: wah, how many chickens do they have to kill to get that *Points at skewer*?
me: uh, one chicken gives you one heart.

hahaahahahah

off to study! yay!  

and you know you've been studying WAY WAY WAY too much history when you can have….

THE GUMMY BEAR WARS

it is the way the GMD fight, the Commies fight and the aftermath

and you know your friends and you are bored of studying when you have this

 ahahahah

fun days it has been, i say…peppered with spoilers like exams..but who cares!  

today while we had morning praise at the green tables, i couldn't help but feel terrible. most had their eyes close but not me, cuz i saw a sight which troubled me deeply. there we were singing of the goodness and holiness of God, and there was this aunty cleaning the floor, most probably unable to understand the language we were singing in, and much less the content.

and i can't reconcile these two things.  

so i went for part one of the 22pg visa application procedure which is to take a chest xray cuz my shiny island is classified on the same health level assessment as myanmar by kangarooland. *rolls eyes ad infinitum*

and the xray lady went 'ok, D, you can go home now'. and just cuz they waster $63, i had to open my mouth to say in a super cheery voice 'oh great! no tb!'. and now for my next $42 medical exam to prove i am not pregnant or have AIDS. sheesh.

so i went to school to study for the dang biod exam. *bangs head repeatedly on spot on table till i pass out* ARGHSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS. it is PAINFUL. excruciatingly painful. so painful that i had to go for icecream therapy. reading about extinction of species was horrible…so horrible that i felt like making myself go extinct by plunging my pilot g2 pen into my veins. only thing is that i dont like the idea of my last view of the world being my hand transformed into a fountain. 

but when i looked out of the broad SMC window, i saw the most beautiful thing…i saw an eagle flying over the trees and it was really majestic. it was as though the eagle was performing for God, and an absolute sight. the shadow of the wings of the eagle was cast onto the canopy and even watching the shadow move was mesmerising. and just when i thought that made my day, two hours later i saw the same thing! this time with the setting sun as a backdrop. and when i went home for dinner, the sky was this amazing palatte of blue pink green and yellow (seriously no idea where the green came from..i should eat more carrots).

and after all that amazing dancing and gliding by the eagle, what can one do except stand in awe of God who created all things?

Your love, O LORD, reaches to the heavens,
       your faithfulness to the skies.

    ⁶ Your righteousness is like the mighty mountains,
       your justice like the great deep.
       O LORD, you preserve both man and beast.

    ⁷ How priceless is your unfailing love!
       Both high and low among men
       find refuge in the shadow of your wings. (Ps 36:5-7)

ta  

Praise God!

I've got a successor!

I say 'Winnie' you say 'Png'! Winnie Png Winnie Png
YAY! such an answered prayer
ah..and have a nice song too, the One Tree Hill soundtrack

I don’t want to be anything other than what I’ve been trying to be lately
All I have to do is think of me and I'd be somebody
I’m tired of looking ‘round rooms wondering what I gotta do
Or who I’m supposed to be
I don’t want to be anything other than me 

go!

go look at the cross

don't avert your gaze because you think the sight would be gruesome

don't avert your gaze because of your shame

take a look.

the cross is empty.

no one is hanging on it

Christ has died, Christ is risen, Christ will come again!

and the cross is empty. 

the tomb is empty too.

but, my heart is not.

and i can only thank God for that.  

and so we went..and we saw…

pretty flowers

pretty girls

 
our frennies walking

the apparatus which facilitates walking

munchings

We also saw God's palette (and in such wonderful colours too!) 

attempts to capture beauty in a pinhole, ableit a digital one

and how when one chapter ends, another begins…

most importantly, we saw how good God is. all the time. an outpouring of thanksgiving and praise, befitting of only one.

we saw, on hindsight, how God stretches us, far beyond our imagination, (and beyond what we thought we could cope) and after that, we know, we can trust Him to carry us through even more stretching.

We saw how even though times are tough, God places people in our lives (like the funky thursday people whom i love to smithereens! and other frennies too!) to encourage, cajole, and direct us back to God. We saw how despite our small hands and weak feet (and hearts sometimes!), our God is still so big, so strong and so mighty and there is nothing our God cannot do.  

we saw, even in this brief academic year, the goodness of God and all we can do, is to give Him back all glory and honour.