we had a mini-care group outing yesterday! met hannah,huien,kz for a FOOD session at tanjong pagar. we met 'bread pitt' there!! haha. and we were once again reminded of the power of any piece of processed wood to 'book' a seat.
we ordered hainanese chicken rice, fish porridge, beef brisket noodles, oh-jian, goreng pisang, sugarcane juice, soya bean milk with chinchow. poor kz queued the longest for the fish porridge while we sat there taking photos of the food. everyone looking at us must have been wondering what we were doing sitting there for 20min with all the food on the table and not eating it. when kz finally arrived with the porridge, we took a group photo! on huien's camera and digged in!! :) after that we moved to another end of the hawker centre and got hum chee pang. we even got to fry our own hum chee pangs, much to the amusement of the other customers. 'you two can't even hold the chopsticks properly!' yes. that's right. well, the HUGE chopsticks amplified the wrong way we were holding it! otherwise i could have flipped those flour blobs easily. haha after that we sat around and talked a bit more and then huien actually wanted to get more food! i forgot whether it was kz or huien who first wanted to get the soya bean icecream from mr bean. for me i would rather eat the famous pancake (mun chin kuey) because there were other mr bean stalls i can buy the icecream from next time. however, one glance at the pancake started my stomach protesting so i had to concede defeat. no more food! huien wanted to order a green bean one and all 4 of us share, but the last one was sold before we could buy it. so huien and kz returned to plan A and went for their soya bean icecream. but that stall doesn't sell icecream, so huien went for rotiprata instead!! therefore, the last (wo)man standing, or rather, eating, was huien, our co-caregrp leader, who suggests to have our nxt theme verse be "Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." 1Th 5:21. haha blame it all on the rain that confined us to the place of good food with some not very sane people. haha.
after that i met bh and gang to go charmaine's birthday after that. but of course, after much getting lost and getting them annoyed at me. i don't think i will EVER know my way around singapore. especially when i don't mind getting lost. it's a chance to discover things! ok anyway, we then looked for a present for charmaine. they wanted to give her a hello kitty bag at first (i know i know. but it's actually not as hideous as it sounds. it's black and the hello kitty is not that obvious) but we think its quality is not worth the price, so we wanted to get perfume, but i thought it would be too great a risk of getting something she doesn't like (and smell is one of the strongest trigger of memory so it better be good and significant). we ended up buying something from body shop. then we took a bus to cck where we met sanjay before reaching her place at ard 7.30. her ntu friends were there already. they actually helped her to decorate and plan games and buy the cake too as part of her birthday present. when we reached they were playing charades. rather fun and funny but nothing can ever bit the kz-weiyong telepathy! haha. mark, freddy and yuman were there already. i was rather surprised to see mark cos i thought he'd be back in msia already. found out freddy's going to study in london next semester! interesting. and yuman hasn't changed at all. hmm actually almost everyone hasn't really changed. yq turned up later and the first thing he did was to distractedly walk up to the front (where his gang was sitting) and was dragged to act out a charade. he's back in canoeing. some things nv change eh? and i realise it's quite hard to find people as blur/blurrer than me and maybe that's why i enjoy their company. hahas. i thought dian would go but she didn't turn up in the end.
it ended surprisingly early but i was soo tired i don't know why.
the masks, the shields.
it is queer.
i still can't figure it out, but i can only hope and trust.
just don't let me hurt anybody, don't let me have my own way.
Take my voice, and let me sing
always, only, for my King.
I will sing unto the LORD as long as I live: I will sing praise to my God while I have my being. My meditation of him shall be sweet: I will be glad in the LORD. -Psa104:33-44
as long as he gives me the voice, i will sing with all my heart, soul and mind. thankful for the ability. a sacrifice of praise.
ain't no rock gonna sing His praises.
i lift my voice to glorify His Holy Name.
ain't no tree gonna raise its branches.
i lift my hands to glorify His Holy Name.
can the dead praise Him? i will sing while there is breath in me.