Saturday, October 10, 2009
(Hahaha it hasn't really been THAT long since I last blogged!! :DD)
The last few days have been a whirl of happiness. Monday all through to Saturday, in fact.. Just seeing the new hair, chatting over ice cream, walking around boring shopping centres together.. These little things are really enough to induce tremendous joy. I can't really explain the ecstacy, but that doesn't take away the reality of the emotion.
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Somehow, after I got home today, I realised just how terrible my prayer life has been.
Random things that made me happy this week:
1. Finishing the GEM2507 presentation (and we did it well too!!) within 2 hours
2. Completing the GEM2507 report 5 days before it was due
3. Seeing your newly cut hair
4. Taking 151 together
5. Realising that I'm learning quite a bit from Bible classes
6. Our chat over udders ice cream
7. Saying goodbye at the mrt station
8. Seeing a client for the first time.. It wasn't half bad!
9. Being able to run almost everyday this week!
10. Seeing Des and Nico again!
11. Having fun playing and singing together with Nico, Shims, Abel, Nic Khoo, and Matt!
12. Cooking beef stew for Jelly so she'll pass me on my surveymonkey evaluation form hahahaha
13. Receiving your calls first thing in the morning
14. Chatting until our bedtime
15. Seeing Daddy again after so many days
16. Watching TV and having dinner with my family
17. Spending Saturday with you
18. Being able to listen to you talk so passionately about literature, and realising that it's not really that alien to me after all
19. Listening to praise and worship songs all afternoon
20. My improving sugar levels
...countdown to wkend: 0 days
Monday, October 05, 2009
Torn between the twoI had a great evening tonight! Spent a good 3 hours or so in the company of Fifi, Jo, and Stef.. We enjoyed Amici's good food and stayed on for a fantastic chat in the comfortable setting. So many interesting things came up during the conversation - we spoke of silence, communication patterns, CSS and the current exco, Arts, rumours, MBTI, random CG members, relationship contracts, and the like.. It always, always feels wonderful to be in the presence of God-loving people, especially in times of spiritual dryness or backsliding for one reason or another. I also came to appreciate what I've been blessed with even more.. There never seems to be a cap.
The concern about allowing the world to determine our value also came up strongly, and we all offered our points of view. From the material I've been reading and the values I'm taught, I know how liberation is supposed to come about. Ironically, just after I finished typing out a 4-page excerpt on
'being in the world but not of the world' for these three awesome friends, I went on to check my email and found an incredible opportunity awaiting me. And in order to secure it, I am to write a short essay on several things, including:
"What do you consider your most significant accomplishment? Why?"
It brought me back to reality in an instant. The fact still remains that I live in this world, and the fact remains that we are all brought up in such a way which renders us so susceptible to allowing our successes to become our identity. The truth that being in a position of authority (which is directly related to one's successes) would allow one to love more and do more for others remains..
...countdown to wkend: 5 days
