keep believing

If you have time to lean, you have time to clean.

I’ve quit Gossip Girl.

A heathen philosopher once asked a Christian, ‘Where is God’? The Christian answered, ‘Let me first ask you, Where is He not?’
- Aaron Arrowsmith

Money, money

1 SGD is now 8,250 IDR.
I should start converting to Rupiah before I spend my Singapore Dollar, again. Like how I used to a few years back. $2 budget meal is on again.

G.ossip girl

I only watch tv series online when I have exams. It was a season of How I Met Your M.other last semester, and it’s G.ossip Girl, longer, bitchier, and less funny, this semester. Let’s see if I can finish the entire season when my exams end. I’m only at the fourth episode.

Pomegranate

I used to have this small lump thingy that looked like pomegranate seeds on my right fourth finger. I have no idea what it was, I even had to imagegoogled “tumour on finger” and “blister” and the likes, to identify it, but thank God nothing came as close as the picture above. It stayed there almost for the whole semester. I finally decided to use antiseptic cream and keep it wrapped, and it went off yesterday, leaving a hole on my finger. Do you know pomegranate juice can prevent cancer?

I realised lately that I have not been praying much, despite being continuously reminded the importance of prayer. Most of my prayers these days are either requested, obligatory, or a part of so called routine. I think I have been sabotaging my prayer life. I need to learn how to pray again.

And I’m so glad that despite my limited brain capacity, I still have enough memory to miss things in the past. And smile about them.

Like how I miss this place.

(Taken by Erwin)

:)

The battle of prayer is against two things in the earthlies: wandering thoughts, and lack of intimacy with God’s character as revealed in His word. Neither can be cured at once, but they can be cured by discipline. – Oswald Chambers

I finally gave in to webcasts yesterday, and my first paper is three days away. Thank God I only have three papers this time, and they are quite spaced out with at least three days in between. I have no idea what I was doing the whole semester, I have so many webcasts debt to pay now.

I’m running out of time, and I don’t mean for the exams. So here’s the plan. My last paper is on the third, I’ll need to pack and move out and entrust my stuff to dear friends and sisters, meet important people, attend Kairos Integration Day, and prepare for the Medan trip. Fly to Medan on seventh morning, and stay there for eight days. Fly to Jakarta, stay til early January: home sweet home, fanie’s, NREC! And finally fly back to Singapore to settle the unsettled and get ready for Zurich. And we’ll be off to Zurich before February comes. I’m pretty sure there’ll be some kinks here and there, due to my carelessness and forgettability, but hopefully nothing major that will turn the plan upside down.

This sounds really familiar. I think it repeats every end of semester. Rush, rush.

Back to webcasts.
(Webcasts make me do a lot of other things online. Like creating a facebook account for my sister, and this blog entry.)

Charlie Brown: Next year I’m going to be a changed person.
Lucy: That’s a laugh, Charlie Brown.
CB: I mean it! I’m going to be strong and firm!
Lucy: Forget it… you’ll always be wishy-washy! (she leaves)
CB: Why can’t I change just a little bit? (shouts) I’ll be wishy one day and washy the next!

Linus: My teacher …understands me!
Lucy: Either she’s a genius or she’s new on the job.

Lucy: You think being average is enough, don’t you? Well it isn’t! What shape would the world be in today if everyone settled for being average?
Linus: What shape is the world in today?

Violet: What are you two standing here looking so worried about?
CB: We’re afraid of the future!
Violet: Are you worried about anything in particular?
CB: Oh, no. We’re worried about everything!
Linus: Yes, our worrying is very broadminded!

CB: Everything seems hopeless… I’m completely depressed.
Lucy: Go home. And eat a jelly-bread sandwich folded over. Five cents please. (CB leaves. Lucy puts her feet up.) There are some cures you don’t learn in medical school.

Linus: I love mankind! It’s people I can’t stand!

CB: Dogs are really kind of peculiar… all they ever think about is eating… I call it a lack of depth.
Snoopy: I prefer to think of it as singleness of purpose!

Lucy: Í’ve never known anyone who could forget things with such clockwork regularity!
Linus: I guess I’m just mechanically minded!

Lucy: Overpopulation is a real problem! You should be worried about it! Some night you’re going to go to bed and when you get up the next morning there’ll be no place for you to stand.
Linus: Why should I worry? I’ll just go back to bed.

CB: What if everyone was like you? What if we all ran away from our problems? Huh? What then? What if everyone in the whole world suddenly decided to run away from his problems?
Linus: Well, at least we’ll all be running in the same direction!

Lucy: Look at those stupid bugs! They don’t have the slightest idea as to what is going on in this world.
CB: What is going on in this world?
Lucy: I don’t have the slightest idea!

Very very pretty birthday cupcakes,

Ikea meatballs and chicken wings,

And sleeping studying in the Central Library.

Disclaimer: it’s boring.

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.. it’s nice to know there are people who would be sincerely praying for my salvation, earnestly sharing the gospel to me, and persistently bugging me to go for gospel rallies and such, to bring me to know Christ.

For a last minute person whose project groupmates are just as last minute, this critical week with all the deadlines and presentations is supposed to be stressful and exhausting. I was dreading this last week of the semester to come, and now not even halfway through the week, I already feel burnt out (though still hopeful). I just feel like scratching the table with my fingers and scream out: I don’t want to do this anymoreee…

But things are actually going better than expected (though I did kinda screw up my German test today). I really should not complain. Anyway it’s me who put myself in this situation, oh when will I learn my lesson!

One presentation tomorrow, and I will be left with just three modules to worry about. By the end of this week, I should be able to start catching up on webcasts and tutorials, and mugging for finals.

The semester is going to end in less than a month time. And I’m twenty plus three now. Too fast!

(Linus walks past, dragging his blanket. Snoopy puts a paw on it.)
Linus : Get that paw off my blanket, you stupid dog or be prepared to suffer the consequences! (Snoopy obeys.)
Snoopy: My life is full of unsuffered consequences…