12:19 AM
Anyway, I've moved to HERE.
Marcus
8:11 PM
Henry and I wandered around Botanical gardens the whole morning yesterday.
Scouting on possible activities around the place.
A bit of progress here, and there.
But need more brain juice to think =.=
Well, it rained.
Gosh.
A sharp contrast from yesterday haha.
It's quite hard for me to say it, I'm really unsure about the reactions, but then there isn't much a choice isn't it?
It's better to just say it than letting dribble of information spread around like gossips.
I'm very glad that I can put my trust into both of them.
I feel... relieved?
Thanks man, for sharing the load.
I do hope that we can work something out before it's too late.
Marcus
8:36 PM
-,- phew, long days before that...
I think I can forget about posting about last week's Sunday.
I'm not typing out a freakin autobiography here.
Anyway, I can already see SOT already transforming Ron.
After just a week, he became so much different.
Right, and on Saturday, went to the park beside JP to help out with the Children's Church Easter egg hunt event.
Then it ended up being the guys helping with the chairs and the ladies planting the eggs all over the park. -.-
Figures.
Cool plastic eggs with prize redemption coupons inside.
The colour made the entire park look like something out of the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory movie.
Eggs glued to plants, playground obstacles...
A gigantic egg hunt obstacle course.
Then we defended the eggs from random park goers under the sizzling sun...
Least tiring part, but it made my skin sizzle.
If the eggs were real, they would had been hard boiled already.
After a bit of intro, and a swarm of kids formed behind the starting line.
When the horn sounded, it looked like an epic battle out of the Lord of the Rings.
The swarm descended upon the eggs, leaving none behind.
What was first a battlefield sprinkled with colours was stripped bare into nothing more than the plant life who were glad that the swarm were not locusts but leetle kids.
It was an awesome sight.
Speechless.
Then, strikeforce came on stage to drum up the atmosphere.
Saw Ron and Damian there.
Pretty good.
They should have turned off the microphone, haha, the drummers are looouud. :p
Then went for service, it was really something.
I have to agree with Ron, it's the most powerful yet.
Until Easter haha.
Well, regarding the current issue that is literally orbiting me....
I really hope that this whole thing can be stabilized.
It isn't something I expect to experience in church. =.=
But, well, I suppose since I'm somehow dragged into it, I should do the best I can do.
But really, there is only so much that I can do.
Seems like this.... circumstance actually has faith and science colliding in real life.
Ron and Henry, you get what I mean right?
Okay.
On the bright side...
Hmm, I guess I learnt something that day.
Looking sun burnt (totally red and all) and tired at the end of the day really gives people the impression that you are drunk.
Marcus
11:56 PM
Remind self to post abt the loooong sunday when I'm awake.
Marcus
10:55 PM
Totally knocked out until late on Saturday.
Superbly tired.
Weekdays were quite a challenge with the understaffing =.=
Really ridiculous...
Oh well, nothing that can be done about that at the moment...
Hmm, interesting message today on the macro level, unlike the usual that centres upon us.
I suppose it's not always us us us us us all the time.
The bigger picture for all of us.
Anyway.
We ate dinner at this place in bugis, I tried the curry noodles thingy.
Awesome.
Not that spicy, but the curry IS rich.
Then somehow some of the other guys ended up on a weird sort of conversation flow that ended up with what I heard as some argument about Chinamen.
However I soon found out that I totally misheard it and I realized that the conversation was weirder.
Marcus
10:22 PM
Went for the Men United men's meeting last Friday.
Haha, the queue looks like NS enlistment day before the haircut.
And with no women around... hmm...
Started with a competition with a bunch of buff guys competing on who can tear the most shirts off their bodies.
Eh...
Yeah macho and all, but personally I think it is more suited to pander as fan service for women.
Except that the whole place was filled with guys...
Oh, and the most muscular guy is the one that ironically has the most difficulty tearing the clothes off.
Clothes too tight to the rippling muscles eh.
Nvm.
Then came some kind of ironman pushup+situp+burpee challenge between another group of guys.
Then came a plywood breaking challenge.
That one got Pastor Phil so pumped up that he had a go with it too.
Yeah man, haha.
Hmm, I suppose the absence of women meant that there was certain liberty in what can be said.
I dunno, women might get offended?
Who am I to say anyway.
Anyway, nothing degradatory was said, maybe certain uncomfortable truths hehe...
But yes, we MEN must be strong and stay united.
Taking the lead and setting the example.
3/4 of suicides of young people in Australia are men.
It's very simple, but still we have and must not hide our problems inside of us.
Even if society have trends like: "men should be strong", "boys should not cry",
it is ironically the cause of weakness.
There are certain things to be learnt from the double X chromosomers, such as sharing of problems.
Great word.
Anyway, something funny.
After all the inspiration, we exited the place to a huge manly jam at the reception area.
It was raining (A medium drizzle, not like lightning and gales...).
You got to be kidding me...
Apparently most had not enough courage pumped up to suffer the rainy night.
Marcus
9:27 PM
Yesterday, I tried a new tactic =)
Since I'm always hungry and tired (and later full and bloated) in the evening, I decided that it's rather dumb to jog at that time.
So...
I slept at 9pm, and woke at 4am and did all that.
Pretty energetically successfuly I think.
Considering the fact that I had to be at camp early for DS and that it ended rather late in the evening...
I didn't really get that tired.
Okay...
Hopefully I can get by it...
Marcus
7:03 PM
I was sick the entire weekend...
Figured that I spent more than 50% of the entire 2 days in bed.
Completely knocked out.
Went svc on Sunday...
Then knocked out again...
Wow, at least the sleep was the best yet.
Hehe, a fresh Monday because of my hibernation.
Quick recovery hehe.
A pity my weekend is quite smashed.
Marcus
6:48 PM
Had Dinner with Mister Tay at Marina Square Swedsens.
What are the odds of us being in the same area at the same time?
Kinda crowded for a Thursday.
Might be because of the fashion show nearby.
I don't know why but I felt that it's like meeting an old friend from across raging seas, scorching deserts and treacherous mountaintops.
I know Singapore is kinda small, but it seems like that sometimes.
People can be so near and yet so far.
Aren't we all too caught up with everything?
Moving on and on, getting on and on.
A pity it's hard to find time.
I observed that I have more time with schooling people than working people.
Was that little meeting between 2 working individuals a sign of things to come?
Perhaps so.
The beginning of another phase in life.
Of many things that we wish they last, they can only last if we all put in effort and place it in the pinnacle of our priorities.
I suppose for most of us, we do not have a reason to really meet up anymore.
What more to make time?
Can we bear to make the effort?
And sometimes, that isn't the case.
Marcus
6:29 PM
I'll continue from Thursday.
Zoe conference at riverwalk.
Ok...
I hope I still remember.
The dance crash course that some of us technically gate crashed into... hehe.
Oh well, it was fun.
And of course that incident that I probably wouldn't explain.
Seriously, I can be patient and close one eye, but I have been quite exasperated lately.
Don't cross the line, don't cross the line.
DON'T cross the BLOODY line...
It's unfortunate.
I appreciate you trying to mediate it Ron.
I think I've gotten over that now.
Who can understand what I can never tell?
Nobody else.
So it's unfortunate.
I do wish you can understand exactly why I lashed out like that.
But I can't cause you to.
Marcus
7:01 PM
Yay ORD loh, for the other pple that is...
Nevertheless, it's been an exhausting week.
I just wanna rest or something.
At least I'm on leave tmr.
We sort of celebrated Adam's birthday yesterday :)
Though we didn't exactly manage to play L4D together, it has been a nice night around Clementi.
I was kinda surprised that he happened to be free, I guess he can't be busy 24/7 hehe.
MMmmm Mmmmm We ate at Mos burger, I resisted Ronaldo tearing apart that juicy chunk of chicken.
Just when I thought I got pass the worst, Henry lost control and ended up with more chicken.
But nvm, I resisted!
I hope there'll be more contact opportunities.
Or is this the beginning of the end?
The beginning of everyone moving on to their own lives, and their own circles and worlds?
Marcus