Tonight, I had a sudden wanting to hear Michael Learns to Rock. My da jie had the Paint My Love album while we were at our old house. It is the first memory I had from listening to an album. I am very glad to have just found it in a drawer and am ripping it to my iTunes and iPhone. I remembered I liked the track, Wild Women, very much. Especially the intro. We had a HIFI stereo set. I would play with the volume dial and sometimes when the set is switched on, it plays at the loudest volume and get a shocker !

Maybe I got bored by the latest hits being repeatedly played on radio. And those are just not good ! Those songs have too much reliance on music mixing, and the singers nowadays sound like cat in high pitch. They just can't be listened to over and over again !

What a significant day today is !
I dyed my hair for the first time in chestnut brown using Liese.
And Sitong gave birth !

Served in church at Suntec for the first time today. It was really "A New Day". All but the two main cameras were upgraded. Now the cameras each have a super big viewfinder. And the crowd camera I was using this morning have a new tripod. Thank God for all the technology ! We went down to lvl 3 Chinese church to help them tear down and move some equipment. Wow the theater they were using is really posh !

With all these great things coming our way in church, it is easy and convenient for the public, unsaved friends and family members to criticize and comment negatively. We who are in Christ must always forgive them, for they don't know what they did or say. The unsaved are blind to the work of God, so we must give them the benefit of doubt. I see why Pastor kept telling us to choose LOVE.
I don't want to comment on the dollar value we paid to get a location in Suntec for our services, only to say that it was a sensible decision to move. The Expo rent and frequent hall relocations cost us a lot of funds. And the total seat capacities at both JW and Expo were bursting, more especially during big days. Uniting the church at one central spot in the country will put us in a more effective position to serve the multitudes. I believe many members were a little dampened in their spirits when we heard the main hall had to be scaled down significantly due to government space regulations for use of commercial premises for religious activities. I was too. But I also dreamed that one day the rise of big churches in Singapore will eventually pressure the authorities to lift that space restrictions and then we can expand our place in Suntec !

Yes, more travelling time for me to attend service every week, I cannot deny. But I just love the presence of God in the church, the fresh message delivered by Pastor and all the guest speakers every week.

Today I also figured out that one of my cg member's bf is in the same ministry as me! Big wow for me.

Also want to thank God for the progress in my lab report. I also have a hard time doing it every semester. Not because I don't know what is going on in the lab, but because I wanted to streamline the flow of details and the neatness in the work. I'll never allow myself to submit something that I don't even understand(when people usually copy wholesale from senior's report). The professor may or may not see the genuine effort put in by me, but God is not fooled, for whatever the sower sows he reaps also. =)

I have been frequenting the low points of life. Quizzes in school continued to dent my mood. And this semester I kept feeling oddly lonely in school. I am someone who loves being around with people I trust and know very well. But these friends in school don't have exactly the same timetable as me. So most of the time I chose to avoid all the buzz in the school and study at a remote place, or get home after school.

Last Sunday I had a high jump competition in NYP, where i usually trained. I managed to clear 1.65m. It was job done. Exactly what I prayed for. Thank God. I reverted back to the single high arm swing that Staffan (the man in the main picture of my blog) used. I cannot do double arm swing technique because it tends to break up my runup pace very much. This technique that Staffan used, is hard to master because I can't see where the jumping force is coming from. He made it so smooth in his jumps. Admirable !

Exams are about a month away. I do not plan to do jumps at all, but I will be focusing on gym weights and strengthening drills on the track. I last did 45-50-55-60-55-50-45kg half squats and 60-65-70-75-70-65-60kg calf raises. With the main competition IVP in about 6months time, I am giving myself the goal of 1.75m.

Also want to thank God for healing my sprained neck afflicted during the Sunday competition. I think it is related to my curved spinal problem from the past. The condition was so bad that I had a big and firm bump on my right shoulder, while my left shoulder was loose near the neck area. It is obvious that some stress in my spine is pulling the muscles one way from the balance. Now it is fine on both sides and no more neck pain.

This couple of weeks God revealed more of my cracks to me. The things I prayed for, they came true one by one. But after I got each of them, I wanted something better than what I had. Take the Expert Advisors for example. I got my hands on some old versions of EAs that boast immense profitability. But when I actually backtested them, all of them failed terribly. I wanted a profitable EA ! Then it was the university modules this semester. I wanted a lab slot as the same group as my group of friends and I got the exact same index number. But I'm in another sub-group?? It's okay, I tell myself. At least I never tapau any modules and my schedule now is settled without any problems.

Recently I met someone in my course who has the most wrong reason to try to join a particular lab group, or tutorial class. Because there is pretty girl(s) in that group. The way he talked about it, it was like a bee attracted to pollen.

I wonder, if man's nature really had greed wired into it.

Tried the laksa at Quad Cafe in school. It appeared on a campus food hunt before. I give it 7/10. Remember not to queue at the zi char store.
Today my mood in school is probably 3 out of 10. I kept appearing in situations where I heard people chatting about getting very good cumulative GPA grade as compared to mine. *Taking a deep breath and sighing inside* Pastor spoke that I should step out of my tent, and count my stars. I should look further beyond my grades.

It doesn't matter what others say, because if God said it is so, it is so.

These past two days it was terrifying on the road for me. Last night, I was driving around in Gek Poh. I was driving casually and about to drive past a right turn opening in the road. I was in the first lane(right side) of the two-lane road. All in a flash I saw a van pop out from my left passenger window, going way faster than me. It cut sharply across and in front of me into the right adjacent road. The van was driving so fast the driver had to brake while taking that "to death" turn. I thought it was going to flip over anytime soon.

Then this morning on my way to play soccer in Clementi driving went quite wrong for me, but it was my error this time. I was lining up behind a medium sized lorry at the edge of a big junction. That lorry was going to filter right. I wanted to go straight up through the second lane. At that point of time I believed my car was pipping over or on the pedestrian crossing lane already. The lorry went right and the car on my left stopped. And I got stuck in the big junction ! By God's grace I was able to assess the traffic from the filtering-right cars in the opposite direction. And best of all, no red-light cams !