Monday, July 31, 2006
250 CranesThank God that finally now I have the chance to sit down and blog about the past one week. It's really amazing when I looked back cause there's so many things that I thought I'm incapable of seems to work out pretty well in the end. With God's grace and mercy, I'm able to accomplished so many things.
One of those things that I mentioned above is folding cranes. I've never expect myself to have the kind of patience and persverence that one has to devote, cause without those quality, I believe that it's not possible to even sit down for a hour simply folding the cranes. I've experience it on the first day when I started folding the cranes. While folding the Tenth cranes, I almost gave up because I refused to accept that I should spend so much of my precious time just folding e paper. I thought that I should do something much more pratical such as studying, practicing my violin etc.
Things started to change when I found out that Disong who is also folding the cranes for XJ's birthday present, have not even started. At that point of time, I'm motivated however in e wrong way. It was short term cause when I reached the 20th cranes, I'm totally back to square once again. I went to sleep.
The next day, I got to pay the consequences. I had a long day in school, not mentioning softball training, tonnes of homework and the impulse to do many other things made me felt tremendously tired. I was completely drained. Thank god that there some voices, messages that keep me going, I managed to came out of that adversity and finished my task.
The Next 3-4 days, almost the same thing happened. I grumble as I fold, cause when everyone is asleep, I still got to stay focus to complete my work. Folding Cranes not only Require determination, perseverence but also a thick skin. Literally and figuratively cause when my parents and brothers walk pass my room, they would give some "nice" comment about folding cranes. Hai. I'm like a object of scorn for e past week can. However, those comment for instance "How can you finish by sunday? 250 cranes leh!" by my y.bro made me even more zealous. HaHa.. Actually some of the comments were pretty funny.
(Fast-forward to saturday)
All thanks to disong, we managed to get a couple of tickets to the National day preview. It was awesome man! Min, Hongwei and I chiong straight to kallang after the worship prac rehearsal and throughout the whole journey, out adrenaline were pumping on and off cause we can get high even seeing someone wearing red! haha. Thank god that we managed to get some good seats that allow us to view the whole performance pretty well although it's quite sad that we could only veiw the performers backside.haha. On the other hand, I think that our seats were first class for watching the fireworks considering that it is not too high up where people got to hold umbrella or too low down which will be blocked the people on top.
The fireworks was the peak of the whole event and we got really lunatic.Haha. We were super duple high man. haha. Screaming and shouting was our forte and we ensure that enjoy ourselves by doing it. we tattoo ourselves and I love the part where all the people stood up together with their hands raising up with e flag and start singing all the songs that bind and bring all Singaporean, every races together.
This is just like how our hard work pays off when all our cranes meet. I'm really glad that I managed to keep my promise and I'm proud to say that I did my part!
On sunday, we celebrated XJ's birthday at seletar reservoir. It was really cool to see a car boot full of cranes, as all our hard work were presented to him. Got quite disappointed cause he had already knew what we're up to. Nontheless, it's still great to give him the present that cost all of our time and effort.
Playing a violin duet with disong was a really good experience cause I think that it sounds damn cool and good taking into account that the piece was rather easy. hehe. Hope that we can practice hard and give our all to our lord!
That evening, We went to town for a haircut as well as having dinner with Xianjie. Firstly, XJ suggested that we would go to orchard food court to have our dinner. unfortunately, the food court was under renovation. We had no choice and so we walked to one of the Japenese noodle house. Guess what? It was closed. What a rotten luck man. And so, we decided to take 111 from orchard to Potong pasir. Once again, our karma were damn rotten that we landed up in Douby Ghaut instead. Stunned man! We totally stone for a few seconds before we were struck back to reality. This type of things never ever happen to me before. What a big joke man. Thank god that the food at potong pasir was good.
Looking back, I think that my week is pretty interesting. hehe.
What does the lord require of you?
To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your god.
Micah 6:8
posted @ 10:27 PM
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