Encounter, Ministry, Service, Celgrp, Fellowship, Assignment

oookay, this is prob e longest title..AND..it might be e longest entry! haha.

ENCOUNTER

i shall start with what happened to me on e train yesterday (sat) while goin for svc. basically i was on e train and at JE stn, there was this old lady. she stood afar off from where i was seated. naturally 2 things would come into my mind:

1. the people standing near her shld let her seat.
2. if i were to stand up, walk to her and give up my seat, 2 things can happen:

a. Itll be so paiseh cus e train was rather crowded.
b. what if i stand up and someone else sit on my seat instead?

then i sat there with the earphones in my ear cus i was listening to planetshakers. then God whispered: andrew, let her sit.

then i thought: aiya, dun wan la..she so far away, God, a bit paiseh..

then God spoke louder this time: Just let her sit..

"so embarrassing..not that i dun wanna let her sit, its just that..u know?"

and before i could tell God any further..He shut my CDplayer! hahaha! OMG! it was full battery, it just went off. immediately i knew, okay, cannot play play anymore..ok ok, u win, u win..

and i stood up..haha..and i was so happy after that i smiled to myself..lol. not only was e lady happy, i kinda felt God saying: Haiyo, you ah..must shut off ur CDplayer then u listen isit? haha! but it was kinda funny..what an encounter lol. God is good..haha..=/

MINISTRY/SERVICE

slept for 3hrs last night..woke up at 6am today..showered, got ready to serve. before i left my house..did ONE dry run for the songs for cg (which was after svc in e afternoon). haha i messed up e recording BIG TIME!

it was my first official recording duty..and i was tense! haha. whats worse than a first-time experience going wrong? is the fact that i did it alone! LOL. more or less alone..cus the guys who were supposed to look after me, one of em were doing e board, e other was on e comms.

well, basically we had a lack of manpower and my partner had to go somewhere else. so service started and my fingers were tense. im staring at 2 large panels of recording set equipments. to cut the long story short, the praise n worship only started recording AFTER the first song :S and the interpreter sermon CD started recording 5minutes after ps kong went up..lol..T_T

pressed wrong buttons, recording didnt start for one of e discs/started late..etc.

what else could go wrong? lol..forgetting to switch to new track and not paying enough attention to the volume levels..cus when e input exceeds or 'peaks', the sound will be distorted/cracky.

and towards e end of e service, when during e last praise song, i checked e CD..1min remaining. oh no..i asked them shld i change e CD? they said no need. thank God..when all was done..the CD was left with 4-5 seconds! haha..phew..*sweat.

then worse thing is..the interpreter CD suddenly popped out during e last praise song (almost end of service!) and the display put: DISC ERROR!

whoa! i almost fainted! haha. but thank God..really..what an adventure..haha. i was stressed, lol..but i was excited haha. SEVEN equipments im looking at..lol..and doing it for e first time..ALONE! haha. eventually thank God for elvin and shuxia..haha..

before svc, samuel gave me a 10min 'briefing' on how to do recording and basically all the recording knowledge was LUMPED into that 10min, into my brain! haha. and its not everything yet..i have yet to understand the pre-service procedures and post-service procedures..checking of mascot sets, paperwork, admin, burning, etc.

all in all, service was great today! =) presence of God was awesome XD i left immediately after service cus i had cg after that. wanna thank my bro for brining my guitar down, he went for make up cg btw..so yea..

CELGRP

today's cg meeting is probably the BEST cgm i have EVER had in a LOOONG TIME! Adam wanted a short 'happy-happy' cg meeting. but God NEVER does things your way..haha..He does it His way, and BETTER :pp yeah! haha..

well, i did a short quick dry run with adam and we prayed before cg. haha..its probably the SHORTEST time ive practised for a cg meeting LOL. once before leaving house..once before cgm started haha.

the 8-bit song was confusing haha..i started playing the wrong tempo..then adam restarted..then 2nd time, e ppl clapped wrongly..haha then adam restart again! LOL..so funny! so UNGLAM can? hahahaha..but i love it..we learn to laugh and learn from our own mistakes..haha.

my cg is unglam, but i love em! haha <3 now =")">CG OUTING/FELLOWSHIP

haha..while we were walking to e bus-stop at holland-V to go to PS for our movie, we had the "Mah-JuJa" incident LOL. haiyo..haha u serve the nation leh..oops LOL :pp. and when thad was saying a lame joke..then all of a sudden we LITERALLY heard a crow...hahahaha! so funny la.

hai..pohchoo and her toy..LOL. *crow sound..

reaching PS, me, pam, PC, adam, thad, thomas, elaine and timo..we met up with elaine's cousin caixia/kaixia haha i cant spell, pam's bro jeremy and liz and joyce. and we watched Harry. PC's version is Harry carrying a pot..LAME LA! How do you get Harry Potter? Just ask Thomas to carry a pot..hahaha.

i remembered something about the Happy Potter SMS incident also..haha. show was not bad. after e movie we chilled at the basement of Cathay. man..kaya toast with butter, half-boiled egg with soya sauce, iced mango drink and the crispy chicken from the (i think it is) taiwan little snacks stall or something..cant rem e name..

yummy! haha. had a cheap 90cents apple aloe vera too..haha. mebbe like adam and thomas, we shld try chilling somewhere with our 'mega' cup noodles..lol. its their childhood, so..i wanna experience it too :D haha.

its been soooo long since we really had, like adam said, a PROPER cg outing. haha. man i miss Jurong west days..when every week after service we could hangout somewhere, in church or in town from afternoon till night :)

because we now saturday svc and ppl are serving, and its late..its kinda hard to really have good quality time..and u know my love language is QT and WOA haha. we shld get out on sundays more often..have a proper meal with everyone, not just a few..go walk walk..and chillout someplace..joke around, chat around and be unglam haha..

ASSIGNMENT

this is e only thing that stresses me out..lol. imagine 2 people..doing this assignment which is as good as my final year project (which is normally 20 weeks). divided among us, each person do 10 weeks workload, squeezed within 2 weeks! man. its so unrealistic la..

i admit i couldnt finish..its just too many..but we tried our best. we are 'handicapped' lol..ppl had 4-5 people we only had 2. its considered quite okay for me, i guess. well, gotta finish report..submit before 9am today..

i just wanna pass this module and im happy already :S no more repeating =/ my head is spinning now..feels like im floating in circles..tink i better rest more x_x but i cant seem to finish everything..arrgh!