Friday, January 04, 2008
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1/04/2008 11:26:00 PM
Just a Dream. [[Tidus]]
Tuesday, January 01, 2008
Well, it's been one heck of a year!! Spiritual, academic and social rollercoasters galore..
Let's see...
First quarter of the year was the usual get to know your juniors stuff, Angel-mortal which i still miss, valentine's day's sending of roses and crashing of orientation in school!! People actually believed i was a retainee.. heh. Never expected it to fly by so quickly.. had much to prepare for in choir and for the daunting A levels.. which i thought were still a long way to come.. I still haven't been doing bio tutorials.. surprisingly my results for Bio are always one notch above the rest.. ironic ain't it. SPA was constanly keeping us science students on our toes.. i remember when Mr shi opened the gas canister in the lab during one of our mock spa sessions and it diffused across the room.. -_-" My results never deviated from Ds and Es.. save for a C in Bio for Prelims.. VJ has made me so much more independent in getting my own info and making appointments to see teachers personally.. proud to say i didn't get private tuition throughout my entire A levels preparation. Except maybe once when i went to see Mr Patrick... Yet without friends like Mr Bear and Proff Wong, I probably would have suffered much worse for chem and math.. I miss the peace and quietness of the airport.. Then also without those daily morning devotions at the 2nd floor landing of the circular staircase, I prob would have been lost in more ways than one. God really owns whatever consequences that arise from wateva happens in the future.. Afterall, he took away a major distraction, provided me with chicken essence and made time for me to go for birthday parties amidst the A levels!!
Not by might, not by power, but by the spirit of God!
Spiritually then, God's really watched over me the entire time i've been in VJ, sending people my way, either to test me or to affirm my faith and encourage me to persevere. 'thou shalt not be unequally yoked' a verse i often struggle with.. God's soverignty always triumphs in the end.. although i still haven't learnt my lesson and i often stray from the path he laid out before me..
Maybe there's a plan, one i still can't see!
Church retreat was great fun and a great learning experience too! From disobeying parent's instructions not to swim in the sea to watching a snippet of shindler's list to jamming the night away, to roti prata and heart to heart talk, to pool and charades.. I really hope i'll be able to go this year.. i never cried and laughed so much in such a short period of time before.. oh i remember johann crashed through the table.. heh heh and Carolyn loves lamb fats... o.O
Youth camp again, jamming the night away, walking around and drinking coffee, betting who would succumb to the Z monster first.. taking retarded photos, mostly of Johann climbing everything he could see.. and the Narnia wardrobe.. got to know a Elaine, Eugene and Barney a lil more.. although i still can't play badminton with my wrist in this condition.. Suddenly i'm begining to catch a glimpse of what God might just have in store for NewLife and Hosana in the future.. i do suppose one day we will be the ones running the church.. co-wokers in the gospel.
Choir has been.. interesting. If i hadn't met POWER then i think it'd be a drag..
I never really appreciated that which my peers call evaluations anyways.. prob cos they'd be evaluating me for all i know.. it's a pity I couldn't get along.. but no matter, Italy was great fun with the dysfunctional family although there isn't much of it left now.. Many have inquired about whether there's anything going on between me and shihui but there really ins't unless they were refering to a sweet and lasting friendship that arose from her picking a name which came across to her as a put-off. Haha! Talk about serendipity.. Come to think of it, all my greatest friends in choir are either born a year before or after me. Why am i caught in the middle? I remember first seeing rayrin at italy.. i was buying gelato with the dysfunctional family near the lake and then the dunman high procession walked past and donut screamed when she saw her boyboy. Haha!! Then came the seniors' farwell and silence to proceed. All of a sudden rr draged down the whole Power clan to come have dinner on my birthday and they made me eat two huge slices of ice-cream cake (just before Pattaya...) Pattaya! The highlight of my choral experience in 2007.. yet it wasn't on stage that i felt most at home.. it was in that tiny room at 3am in the morning when we were muching on donuts and singing the most ridiculous things ever that i came to realise that there was, a bunch of people in the choir that i could relate to afterall. And from then on, it was happening all the way. Monday blues were replaced by the eager anticipation to meet up and crap in the choir room with this nonsensical bunch. I'll miss them very much.. but i guess although a flower inevitably blooms and dies.. the seeds that it so carefully protects and nutures will persevere and stand the test of time and weather. Until the time is right again for it to shed it's outer layer and reveal the beautiful young bud that would once again carry on the life which her parent had given her. Until then, we will meet again. Someday.
Coming to VJ has made me a different person in the way I relate to people, especially since i never got much of a chance to experience fully the social spectrum coming from an all boy's school.. i never thought that some girls might want to be sent home although they don't say so.. and that it was possible to go out one-on-one and not call it a date.. it's quite odd that i'll be spending the next two years of my life in an all boys institution once again.. there goes my goal of getting married by 17 huh. And my bro already has 9 kids..
WEll it's been a short year, half of it stolen away by books and notes. The poor trees.. i'm so sorry. I have no idea wat 2008 brings. As i step into this terra incognita, i can only pray and trust that everything will work out for the glory of His name.
"For i know the plans i have for you, decalres the Lord. Plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you a hope and a future."
1/01/2008 08:10:00 PM
Just a Dream. [[Tidus]]
