:: trip update 21st Oct ::

yay i'm back.. first 'chop' on my passport since i renewed it.

haha i didn't know what to do/prepare for Sunday School till Sat night itself. and sunday morning i just grabbed my crafts toolbox and materials right before i left! haha.. oh my.

Thank God my dad was going to work at about the same time and it stopped raining so he could give me a lift. To Potong Pasir at least. Met Persis and confirmed our tickets. Then i learnt that we could buy tickets from church Chinese Cong office, at a lower price! hmmm... haiz.

took Falcon 5 (sianzzzz... haa) to TBK - Tanjung Balai Karimun as the youngsters here call it - and i had to pay tax upon arrival for transporting a scanner. :( the guy at the customs asked for S$10, but no receipt was given. heh! i gave him a 50,000Rp and he let me go.

went to confirm return tickets. Phei Phei arrived and took us to church. We had some time before Sunday School starts so we went to buy materials from the shops nearby. For Sunday School Persis and I led worship (last min arrangement haha), then Persis did word and I did Art & Craft. Message was taken from John 4:43-54, about the timeliness of a miracle Jesus performed. So for A&C we used felt cloth to cut out shapes of a clock, and glue beads on.
*Reminder to myself: Huiyi requested me to help her get a craft toolbox like mine next time i go in.

After Sunday School we had lunch nearby church. i love the soup there :P~~~

had time to slack before service started.. so we sat around to chat. Got the youths' Yahoo messenger ids. haha.. they're into it these days.

during service i was touched by the worship songs.. There was a part where Paul knelt down and cried painfully.. that broke my heart. And i'm already a very hard-hearted person. Can you imagine how much more broken Jesus' heart is?

Asun-gu preached. I understood probably 75% of the sermon. It was taken from Ephesians 4:17. vs 18 mentioned "the ignorance that is in them due to the hardening of their hearts". I felt that this verse jumps out to me. Have I gone back to my old self? A new self can't fit into old clothes. As I pondered about this while Asun-gu preached, I thought of an analogy: an old corn cob with its old leaves: it decides to shed its old leaves --> it becomes a new corn --> it puts on new leaves. Sometimes we feel like we're struggling, we feel uncomfortable being Christians and doing the things we do because we're new corns, still in old leaves. They just don't go well together. To stop struggling and be comfortable we have to DECIDE to shed the old leaves and put on new ones. Because that's the way we ought to be.

prayed for the pple after service. Auntie Liqing very funny, asked me to massage her back. haha.. she fell down after climbing on her roof to save her grandson from bees. We met her grandson on our way back from lunch, the bee-bites were ALL over his body and look so terrible everyone would crinch at the sight.

Then we took the ferry back to Singapore. had dinner at Thai Express. Though i love the green curry there i couldn't finish it. I think i can't take spicy food anymore. awww.. worried that i might not be able to sleep the whole night due to indigestion but thank God I managed to.

today i added the youths in Yahoo Messenger. finally managed to chat with Frenky!!! added him in friendster some more. aiyo i'm so vain! lol.