Monday, August 23

It's been a while. Any updates?

Tekong Challenge concluded last wednesday. I didn't run in the end as I was the reserve. Goes to show what my place in the team is. Ha. But there are a lot more abled runners in the team than me. Esp the cadets. We got 2nd and 4th. A very controversial result cos' it turns out the route marshallers on the 28 km event pointed a few of our runners in the WRONG direction, leading to some of our runners to come back late. If they were pointed in the correct direction, we would have won, no doubt about it. However their argument was that we SHOULD have known the route anyway as runners. Yeah right. I'm sure you'll be clear headed enough to know where you're going while when crossing 28km of hilly and rugged terrain. Tekong's a maze! Oh well.

Ended up going Sentosa on Fri for AHM Team Cohesion. Bumped into Shu and Alex at CIne in the afternoon. Shu claims I didn't recognize Alex BUT I DID k...and I DID say Hi. So there.

Sat morning spent cycling. Popped over at Corinne's, much to her 'surprise'. PUNJ in the afternoon, and then I had a memorable dinner with Kez, Zeng Jia, and Eugene " the milkman" Nai. Twohill, Tianyou, and Elvin hapened to join us. It was really good to see them.

Sunday was spent at YZ. I set out slightly earlier as I cycled down to church. It's about 10km from Hillview to Queenstown. Managable. But that hilly stretch at Clementi Road is a killer! I took a group during the discusion. The topic was on Evangelism, and we were given an article. With no prep before hand, it was very convenient that my BS group happen to touch on this topic. So in my limited knowledge, I quoted the Great Commission, the last Chapter of Matthew, to the guys. Basically, it says that as a Christian, it's not good enough to just except Christ and come to church every Sunday. We have to be active and "make diciples of all nations". In other words, we gotta share the Word with our friends and loved ones. It's something a lot of Christians struggle with. Why? Fear of rejection. Fear of ridicule. Afraid that we're not worthy. Fear that we won't be able to answer questions satisfactory. All of which I experience. Hopefully, as time goes by, these worries will not be an issue.

Helped Mingbao with some filming at Ngee Ann Poly on Sunday night. I'm playing a small role, as a CISCO guard! HA HA! Elliot's the leading man! Weird, cos he has to speak some Chinese! Filming again on Tues night at Tanjong Pagar.

Monday. CJC came down to visit. So I went about accompanying the groups. My role was to assess how this new "S-cube Seminar" ,as they call it, works. Gotta give feedback to my Maam. Response has been good, as the JC peeps get to experience a bit of life in OCS. They got to see SAFTI, and witness close combat, pugil stick fighting, what combat rations tastes like, how to kill a quail for survival (which, you can imagine, made a few ladies squeamish), cadet accomodation, etc. Very fruitful. The only bad point is that the cadets don't have much of a take-away from this experience, apart from showing off what they learnt to the crowd. RJC coming this Wed.

Should be interesting.

posted by gabriel @ 9:27:00 PM