Good Friday has just passed, and now, we're into Easter's Eve.
Good Friday is to commemorate the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.
As it so happens, today is also the day where I have finally managed to regain contact with the wider Internet Network, and also with the wider blogosphere.
This has to be the best thing that has happened.
Firstly, I am thankful that the Lord has allowed so many good things to have happened, such as:
Allowing me to be able to even have had to be able to appeal on the continuation of my course, and also for having been able to meet the dean of my polytechnic's Science department.
Given me the chance to be able to live in a place where we are able to freely proclaim our religious beliefs without fear of persercution.
Having also allowed me to join Campus Crusade in Christ, to help out in the Great Commission, and also to have given me this opportunity to be in fellowship with so many Christians in the Campus.
I also am thankful for having been able to start to attend the church services in WEFC. If only words could express how wonderful it feels to belong in a church.
As I think about all these wonderful things, perhaps I can also describe what had happened on this Good Friday that has just passed.
This morning, I woke up early so as to be able to attend the 10am service at WEFC. Having prepared most of my stuff beforehand, I just had to take the bus [961] to reach Woodlands. Upon reaching there, I took another bus [965] and got to WEFC.
We had Worship, and Holy Communion for Good Friday. Pastor Shern had us meditate upon the 7 Sayings from the Cross, in which he showed us how Jesus had been so loving, so obedient of His Father, Our God.
After worship, I met up with my CG, and chatted with them for a while. In the midst of this, I met up with my Aunt, who told me that she had recently heard about me owing some money to my friends. She told me that I should try to clear of whatever I my owe my friends ASAP, rather than waiting until I had gotten my other debts which others owed me.
After a while of chatting,We headed over to Causeway Point to have CG lunch. On the way to Causeway, I couldn't help but notice that one of my CG mates looked unwell. So, upon reaching Causeway's Food Court, I advised him that perhaps he should just go home after the outing to rest.
At the Food Court, I got some Korean Beef rice, and a cup of Iced Cappucino. Then, I settled down so that I could chat with my CGLs [CG Leaders] and CG mates. We had discussed about what we were going to do on Saturday, since we had no "official" activities.
I also took this opportunity to tell my CGLs about my discontinuation from my Course in SP, and also about my appeal applications and my interview with the Dean. [I'm not sure about their replies tho. Perhaps I couldn't really remember.]
As I had to meet the Crusaders at 1630 at Paya Lebar MRT, thus I had to leave Causeway and Woodlands early. Initially, my CG members had planned to go to the Cinema at Causeway to watch "Freedom Writers". As I had to go to the Crusade fellowship event, I couldn't join them. However, I feel that it wasn't really a pity, as I had gotten some good reviews regarding the show, and had read the synopsis of the show, so I felt I didn't have much to lose.
Thus, I headed on towards Paya Lebar MRT station. On the journey, I continued on with my crochet of the Skater Hat, and also contacted Khalis, [the Crusader that I think I had mentioned before] regarding details for the event. As I reached Paya Lebar, I was also almost done with the Hat.
The train had soon reached Paya Lebar, and as I passed the gantry, I saw Alex, Jason,Srini, Evangeline, together with one of the Freshmen. [ I'm so sorry I still cannot recall his name...]
I talked to them, and Evan. explained to me that they were still waiting for 3 more persons to arrive before leaving for Priscilla's house. [Priscilla is the staff from Crusade.]By that time, it was already 1641 when I reached Paya Lebar.
The first to arrive was Zheng Xiang, one of the Senior Crusaders. [He's currently serving in NS.]
The next person to arrive was a person that (interestingly) I had the greatest impression of.
After Zheng Xiang arrived, Evan. told me that she had just contacted Samuel, one of the Freshmen, and he was reaching Paya Lebar soon. So, we waited for him to come. She said he was a stop away, so when the next train left, we all just took notice of the people streaming down the escalators and through the gantry.
One thing that Evan. had mentioned to us before the train had arrived, was the fact that she had forgotten to ask Samuel what he was wearing. Thus, we had no idea as to how he would look like.
Just as I was glancing through the gantries, I just happened to see a youth who had a silver cross hanging down his necklace. On first sight, I had the instinctive feeling that he was the Freshmen that we were waiting for. Then, Evan tried to call Samuel's phone, but noticed that it was engaged. It was only when Alex asked the Youth whether he was Samuel, did I acutally get the confirmation that I was right.
The 3rd person to arrive, was Hai Kiat. He had just came from his Church, City Harvest. After Hai Kiat had arrived, we started on our way to Priscilla's home.
Upon arriving at Pris.' house, the first person we saw there was Wen Bing. [I also noticed the dog was running around behind her.] Priscilla then came to open the door through remote control. As we walked into her house, we noticed some people in her kitchen. So, I went over to get a better look. It turns out that Yong Jie was also there to help out in the preparations of the food for the fellowship that was happening. Khalis was there too, just as he had told me when I was talking over the phone with him.
After we had rested for a while, Jason had us each do a self introduction, before they then had played this game with one person's hands over another's. I didn't really join in the games as I had a stomach-ache, and had thus excused myself to go to the washroom.
When I came out of the washroom, I saw the Yong Jie, Khalis, and Wen Bing seemed to need help with their preparations. So I went over to see how I could help. Alex was also in the kitchen helping out. When I had seen them, they were cutting up the pizza for the Fellowship later.
Alex was like cutting the pieces into tiny tiny pieces, so Wen Bing and I were suggesting that he should cut the pizza into bigger chunks. After a while, I also noticed that alex was holding the knife with the blunt edge down, instead of the sharp edge down. I tried to explain to him, but he did not get what I meant instantly. It was only when he turned to go to wash the knife did he actually notice that he held it wrongly.
Priscilla's niece, Janice, was also running around the kitchen. As I was new to Pris' home, I had to ask Janice as to where things were put, so that I could better be able to get things done. I found out the location of the plates from Janice, then took the {tiny!} cut pieces of the 1st pizza onto the plate.
Priscilla had then taken out the 2nd pizza using mittens and put it on the cutting board. She said that it was hot. Wen Bing took it to mean that the pizza was hot, and used her [my goodness..] bare fingers [woah] to touch the HOT tray. She thus got one of her fingers burnt by the tray. I was there, so I quickly told her to put her finger under cold running water. Seeing what had happened to Wen Bing, Pris. took the tray away, then advised Wen Bing to take ice from the fridge. [I can only assume she didn't want to waste running water]. Thus, Wen Bing then took the ice out of the fridge, and put it directly on the wound. I felt what she did was a little silly, so told her that it might be better to use a towel to wrap around the ice, and use that to apply on the wound instead.
[My rationale behind that was that, as you hold the ice using bare hands, after a while, you would begin to feel some pain as the chill of the ice reaches your nerves and registers as pain. Therefore, my advice would have allowed there to be no DIRECT contact between the hand and the ice.
*Due to time contstraints, I can only write until here for now. I will continue on when I am more alert. Now, it's really getting late, and so I do appreciate some rest. Thanks. Good Night. (in this case would be 'Morning'. LOL)*
Nights ppl. God Bless.
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