Monday, January 14, 2008
Continued birthday celebrations! Part 2- Night time
for the activities that happened in the morning and afternoon. the post is below tis post.[God is really faithful to grow me, even on my birthday. haha thanks!]
i went home to prepare for the family dinner and also meeting a few of the tp grads and grads to go out. i slept awhile while waiting for my brother to come back so we can go out for dinner tgt. but he was rather late cos they were planning for me and star's birthday. thank God for you guys for putting alot of efforts into planning it!(they took more than 3hours for the planning and even more hours for the preparation!) but i was quite frustrated and abit upset since that wud mean tht i would be even later to meet the people. cos meeting at clarke mrt station 8.30pm. my family dinner supposed to start at 7.30pm. so cfm wud be late. but my bro came home at around 8pm+(oh i din noe they were planning me and star's birthday til my brother told me so). so i calculated and i most likely 9pm+ then can start leaving tampines haha. so i jus asked him with abit of frustration to why he was late, and then he explained. tho i understood, but still i felt abit upset to why he din manage to come home earlier for the family dinner which i think its the 1st in years that we are going out to eat dinner as a family casually. and also i was going to be later thanks to him being late.we went for our family dinner, i had a really great time. i enjoy having dinners like that and i was super touched when my dad initiated to bring our family out for dinner jus for my birthday(we don't even have this for normal days and for maybe years!)i went off after that the dinner at around 9.30pm lidat i think.i knew that what i felt wasnt rite and God reminded me bout being forgiving. what i learnt while i was at church office. 3 Steps to forgiving -1)Identify the problem/main trigger that caused the problem -2)Identify with the person about the problem. -3)you forgiveso i went thru the steps that i learnt. and at the 2nd step i was like ok, im ready to forgive! bt thn my brother shud still come home earlier!(with still abit of bitterness in it) and God poked me bout it and reminded what forgiveness realli is.Forgiveness is about-Settling our heart with God, settling the bitterness and cancelling the "debt"[wad we think they've done wrong to us] people owe us.-Focusing that we are not forgiving just because for the sake of it, but because of what God has done for us and His command to do it onto others as well!so God's final questions to me. dare i ever say to God that i have NEVER been late for any meetings / shepherdings that were also important? my answer was, no. did God still forgive me? yes.so do i still think im in the place to not forgive people bout being late? no!
with that i was set free from even that little bit of bitterness! praise God!and when i got onto the bus for my house to the station, my new believer messaged me and asked me about the time to meet at small mac for service!!! i was super happy!! cos he hasnt been able to come for services due to several reasons. weeeeeeee!and throughout my whole trip to clarke, was moments of enjoyable time alone with God. i did my QT on the MRT, woahhh damn cool haha. tho i hesitated for quite awhile after being prompted by God to do so. super shiokkk! haha!i reached clarke, thanks for the directions! tho i kinda gt abit lost in getting out of the building haha cos there were alot of entrances! thank God i managed to get out and survive lol! i managed to find the others as well!(there was around 9 of us there) so we walked around to find a place to settle down in, almost every place we went to was full haha. so we walked from clarke to the boat quay cos there was a place that was recommended(i forgot who recommended it haha) bt the place was full as well! haha! so we decided to jus go esplanade in the end.[part of the reason is cos there is air-con der! some of them were realli crazy haha singing and disturbing each other in the crowd hahaha.at esplanade we wanted to go in this place, Harry's bar. but it was full house as well. so we searched for other places to slack and enjoy in. like chocs and some other places in esplanade. then we gathered and discussed wer we wanted to go. after quite sometime we decided ok, go makansutra i think. when we walked down, star went in Harry's to ask again if der were space since makansutra is no longer in the air-con zone and is alot noisier than Harry's so cant talk. and praise God! there was enough space for all of us! and so went in haha. ok to clarify it, onli me star ordered drinks with a little alcohol inside it.[its realli just very little haha. not much difference with the normal drinks(fruit cocktails etc) ] we played murderer haha! was realli fun! and thanks peeps! for the book you all got me. realli like the book and i wanted a book to read as well![i realised i actualli enjoy reading books while travelling alone! at least i noe im not wasting time away haha!] we stayed der for awhile and went out.we took some pictures before we left esplanade. cos we decided to hang arnd for awhile more, so we decided to go to an area by the riverside.gock had chocolate cigarettes(chocolates that looked like cigarettes) so we played arnd with it by taking pictures haha.
trying to act cool?
random photo haha!
spastic photo! we decided to point the spastic one. haha
and this.. a super distorted story of a wedding.we went to 7-eleven to get some food and drinks before we settle down at the riverside. we walked quite abit hha. on the way to the river, they asked me to think of an anime/cartoon character to affirm winstar and celebrate his birthday cos his birthday is approaching in arnd.. hmm less than 24hrs. so when we reached turns out they had things to say for both me and star. veri interesting cartoon characters and descriptions they have haha. i had some weird characters. the weirdest was superman with hands crossed[like ultraman] haha=x and the most popular choice was garfield. argh. haha and yiqin is said to be oddi[duno hw its spelled. its the dog that always kena bully by garfield de haha].they prayed for us and 1 of our birthday wishes. thanks alot! realli appreciate the affirmations!=) we took the nightbus home after that. it was quite late haha.i reached home at around 4am+. we still had troubles with finding the video with the family feel cos we don't have any idea of which movies or videos we can find family-feel in it. we thought of a few ideas on the bus bt we don't know wer the family-feel scenes wer. movies/cartoons like "la pi xiao xin", simpsons and rugrats. i know i cant sleep til i find the videos because i don't think i wud get up in the time to search for the videos haha. so i just prayed that God wud help me in finding the videos, i watched 2 "la pi xiao xin" videos in vain since there werent any scenes with family-feel in it! then i browsed thru the pages and finalli found one episode that has family-feel in it! PRAISE GOD!! i had my fill of sleep after that!
aloy; 2:06 AM
