Sunday, August 07, 2005
thought its time to have a little update..
last week my auntie, as in my father's brother's wife, passed away due to cancer.. sets me thinking about life and stuff u noe.. seems life is really short on earth and i am really convinced that we are just passing tourists here, and thats why i think death is not the end.. there must be something beyond that and the bible affirms that by saying that by believing and trusting in jesus, we can have eternal life.. a perfect life after death, in heaven, a true utopia which humans have tried so hard but failed to create on earth.. and i am glad for my aunt, bcos she has received christ in her life and thru him, received the promise of eternal life.. thru her family, i really see a model christian family, united in adversity and holding on to god's promise and believing that the separation is only temporary..
today i feel really happy.. cos my dad went to church for the first time in his life.. it's my late aunt's church so the congregation is sort of praying for the family today so my uncle asked my family to go down. so me, my dad and my sis went.. end up we were the only relatives who went.. and it was actually a normal sunday service la, just that the pastor prayed for my uncle's family.. so not bad la, initially wanted to ask my dad to go to sunday's friendship service at arpc, i guess this isnt a bad alternative.. but the whole service was in teochew, luckily there was mandarin interpreter for the sermon.. i was staring at the bible most of the time for the rest of the service, only catching bits and pieces of the teochew service.. then when we bow our heads in prayer, i would only know the prayer has ended when they said "amen" haha.. it is quite a traditional church, and most of the people who attended the teochew service were old folks.. quite different from arpc haha.. but most impt thing is that we believe in the same god.. anyway after the service the reverend came to talk to my dad about religion and stuff.. think this is the first time my dad has been exposed to the gospel.. i really hope he continues to go, doesnt matter which church.. in fact during one of the prayers which i could not understand anyway, i prayed for God to change his heart and make him accept Christ as his saviour.. i asked him whether he is going to go next week, he half jokingly said he will since there is free breakfast and tea after service.. i will be praying hard.. but in any case it's a good start!
yesterday i went to marina south for the national day carnival concert.. it was a blast!! wu yue tian rocks man! one of the best concerts i have attended.. and it's free too.. i am going for the countdown tmr! to watch FIR and live fireworks!
but tmr is monday.. ot day.. it is going to be another dreadful day in the ot with daniel tan.. guess what time i stayed till last thursday in ot?? u wont believe it.. we stayed till freaking 11.30 pm!! total of 14 hours in ot.. and it's only one operation.. it is not that my consultant is incompetent or anything, it is just that he has his way of doing things and he swears by his own methods.. tmr there are 4 ops, i hope everything will go smoothly and i will be out by 5pm..
i'll worship You, my God; 8:40 PM