I'm Like A Bird, I Can Fly Away...

Its been a pretty packed weekend. I'm actually more or less all zonked out now... and I have a pretty fun week to look forward to as well, so I guess I dun have anything abt myself to complain for now...

Saturday was a pretty light day. Went down to Henry's CF class since my own was cancelled. Had a pretty good time just sitting down with Elim, William, Gabriel... etc. Was nice to see also how Henry led his class... and feel a little ashamed at how little preparations I seem to put into my own. Hehz...

After that, was the PCk Musical. Honestly, it was nothing impressive. A tad of pride at the idea that this is a local production, (and full of the local flavour it had indeed...) and the fact that tho they weren't magnificent in any way at least they didn't screw up or suck... and more or less it was a pretty fun evening. I enjoyed myself!! Would have felt cheated if I was forced to cough up the 100 bucks to catch it, but since it was all FOC... Hehz...

Today was an absolute nightmare... We have abt 14 people altogether who are either getting baptized or confirmed, so there was supposed to be a live telecast of the main sanctuary where all the action was taking place. But only when it was about to start did we realise that NONE of the AVA people were around, so there was no setup of the system!! No live telecast!!! By the time we managed to rectify the situation (which involved me running up and down the church to look for the caretaker, an AVA member of the main sanctuary, and also Jackie who holds my key to the cupboard...), the baptism was over oredi. Only the confirmation and infant baptism left... Such a bummer...

Then I realised that of all days, Eng Kiat chose to come down today with Angelina. My cousin, who received Christ without my knowing. Well, he seemed to not have minded the chaos as much, so at least for that I could be thankful. Am really glad to see him come down to church, esp since he's doing this only to persuade Angelina to start attending church again...

Then at the Ai Yan, I realised that Yuanming is back again!!!! Was really really glad to have a chance to catch up with him once again. Never really did manage to have a good chat with him since I broke up with Grace, and always thought it was a pity. We used to have our time of sharing, and I did enjoy his company. So after more than 2 yrs, I was glad that we could do some catching up. He even attended cell group!

Which brings us to my next trauma of the day... we had someone visiting from Guangzhou who attended our cell today, who doesn't understand a word of english. So Weiqi had to lead the session in chinese!!! Absolute diasaster man... Its always very very wierd when you have to translate and lead an english material in chinese... and the fact that it was Weiqi doing it only made it all the more harder... hehz... she was trying so hard to do a verbatim translation, and it all came out so wrong...

Sigh.

We had our customary jogging session at Serene's place after that, and Gabriel joined us!!! Hee hee... He's always been a really really great encouragement to me, with his honesty in relating, and his earnestness in everything he does. So am pretty glad that he's now slowly entering into the "clique", and getting to spend more time with us. Hehz...

We stayed back to watch "Iron Ladies", a really really disgusting show abt Thai transvestites who won the National Tournament in volleyball. Its apparently based on a true story. Serene was saying how so many of these people claim that its built into their genes and they can't help it... and I couldn' help thinking abt how many men guilty of infidelity also claim that its all in their blood... and how they can't help it. Funny how little wives seem to be able to buy into that story, but when some women wanna be lesbians, they all stand by these claims.

Sigh.

We all seem to be so good at deceiving ourselves sometimes. I think of two quotes that Ravi Zacharias usually gives... how "We have educated ourselves into imbecility", and how "there is now nothing so vulgar left in human existence, that we cannot fly in some professor from somewhere to justify it."

This upcoming week I'll be meeting Gerald, another long lost friend who suddenly popped back into my life. Also Simon's finally coming home after half a yr in the States... Fri I'll be off to Tanjong Puteri with the church oredi. Whoo hoo!!!!!