Sunday, November 13

Ciao For Now Joáo

Just got back from the airport. Right now, Joáo's on his plane to Paris, en route to Brussels to see his parents before heading back to London. Back to school buddy! Joáo's been in Singapore for the past 10 weeks for attachment with a local advertising agency, while doing his studies in London. He's been spending the past few Saturdays at ARPC, and it's been a real pleasure showing him around and getting to know him, even if it was for just a short time. The guy's adventurous with his food man! Kway chap, durian, everything! Hopefully you'll be back soon man! Or maybe if we're in need of accomodation in London in future...Heh heh heh.

The Boys' Brigade Swimathon took place at Toa Payoh Swimming Complex today. Don't know if they broke the record, trying to get the most number of people swimming 50m laps continuosly for 12 hours. We took the 7-9pm slot before heading down to the airport to send Joáo off. Nice surprise to see Monica and some of the SMU Eurythmix ppl, the dancers. Also especially pleasant to see the Si Ling BGB kids! Daniel Ong, Boon Tat, Jason, Pearlyn, Sandra, Yichelle, great to see them again.=)

The year's coming to a close. Really fast eh? Had the last BB Parade for the year at Nanyang Pri. The kids were entertaining as usual. =) I was supposed to be doing the games for them, but prior to the scheduled games, we showed the kids a cartoon on Joseph (no not the technicolour dreamcoat version, the biblical version). They were really captivated by it, so was I! Think I shall rent it from Video Ezy one day. FOR ONCE, they were actually QUIET and had their attention glued to the screen! Amazing! So when it was time for the games, I just asked if they would rather watch the movie. They decided they would rather watch the cartoon than play games in the end. Haha. Those monkeys!!!

Last PUNJ meeting for the year today. Edmund and Chew Chern are leaving for theological studies next year. Elliot's leaving come December. Pam and Roger are taking over next year. The possibility of moving to a new building on the cards for the church. I think there's gonna be some major changes in store for next year. We'll just wait and see.

Probably means a different meeting time for PUNJ, and hopefully more time for fellowship, which is serverely lacking right now. Had a very meaningful talk with Elliot just now, about the direction in which PUNJ is heading, and how it's really great that there's so much emphasis on learning the Word, which is really lacking in a lot of churches. But when it comes to fellowship, I hardly know a lot of people in PUNJ. It's always the usual people, and often I don't get to hang out with the rest of the guys, mainly because some of us scoot off to Saturday 5pm service, or some of us just go home after meetings. Hopefully they'll change the timing of PUNJ back to the Friday night days (well although I wasn't around then). That would give us so much opportunity to just chill out and get to know each other better.

I thank God for such great friends. They help me put things into perspective. It's so easy to become narrow minded and put too much emphasis on school (while uni is important, it isn't everything).

Love and fight. I miss you. =)