amazingly this blog has gotten a facelift!

yes I was sick and tired of the old look.. hopefully this one'll hold till drew (wonderful wonderful drew i owe you a good ol' treat once i get paid that is) frees himself of current commitments and manages to undertake creating a whole new template for me. till then, give me your comments on this page, i think i've spent about 12 hours on it. backbreaking (i tend to hunch over the com) thankless work. haha.

meanwhile. lots have happened, food for chewy rumination.
on monday night i went for aewf, though the sound wasn't as great as the year before's (or perhaps it might've had something to do with my seat rearrangement)the choice of songs this year were admittedly tougher. visually, at least. i envy the choir's expansion of repertoire, movement and instruments other than the human voice being incorporated into this year's programme. sigh.

ah well. t'was a pleasure to let the sounds wash over oneself yet again, and to realise with a bittersweet nostalgia how old we've all grown. my voice has deteriorated, i know.

thanks to aaron who drove me chris and jackie home that night. quite an exhilarating ride, and if you see this, sorry for giving you directions at the last minute and telling you to follow all the wrong cars. haha.

tuesday i had lunch with aaron jackie markypoo and leo. at coffee club raffles green.. rather poor service i might add. it seems as if the staff haven't yet learnt how to handle the rush hour traffic, and raffles place is THE most crowded place at lunch. sigh. if you ask me, two years back i'd never have imagined the time and place.. the entire setting and circumstances which've brought us all together, discussing stuff from where to park(!) and work.. everyone taking an enormously different turn from one another. cheers all, and thanks guys for keeping me company, even for such a short while.

today, vesak day. went for my first ever hillsongs experience at the rock auditorium suntec with drew. never having had (okay, once in secondary two) such a (pun intended) rocking worship session before, i guess it was a trifle hard to open myself, my heart. oh sure the mouth opens, haha, but i agree with darlene zschech (don't know if i spelt her name right) that often people get caught up with worshipping the worship. the heart is indeed challenged to stay focused on God throughout, and sometimes the music is distracting. sigh. i can't say i learnt much that i never knew before about worship, the seminar was more of an affirmation of things already known. but it was a good reminder of the whys and wherefores of worship and leading, and hopefully i'll put the reminder to good work.

lastly. relationships. 95% of everything this year that i've learnt so far just sums up what was in my heart all along, that i'm right in holding off things. i strongly encourage the remaining 5% to press on in Christ, to keep each other strongly grounded in the faith. give us hope, darlings, and then, just maybe we can help stop this dratted birth rate from plummeting further into the abyss. haha O_o.