Thank God for grace and favor.
It’s been a long week of exams and stuff.
Friday after exams, I enjoyed spending time with my classmates for lunch.
In the evening, i went back to school to meet Mei Xuan and Debbie to go help out at Chingay. I reached there and we were allocated to be in our teams. I was in team 3, so i didn’t know anyone there. The waiting time was super long, we reached the esplanade area and waited at the tentage for about 4 hours before we proceeded to the carpark to help out as “hospitality ushers”. Haha it felt more like being traffic police.
Helped out for about 1-2 hours then we had our breaks, I loved the performances! They had cool stuff like people cooking food on woks pushed around in trolleys. There were kids and adults dancing gangnam style, the kids danced much better cause they were really cute and were dancing so freely while the adults were more reserved in their movements.
The highlight was the fireworks at the end of the performances, accompanied by man-made snow effects. It was really very pretty! Made Singapore look like it was really snowing for the first time. Shanu, a new friend i made at Chingay, were like kids trying to catch the fatter-sized snow. The sight was really pretty. Made me think of how Singaporean’s level of faith, always making the impossible possible with their creativity and not limiting themselves, they actually were able to create “snow” in sunny Singapore. 🙂
Saturday, I had to bring the kids to church, thank God it was really a smooth one. The service was good and I believe that the kids were touched by the presence of the holy spirit. I prayed for some of them, and was really happy cause i loved the feeling when i knew in my hearts that as i prayed for them, I could feet the peace and love. That these kids are lifted up in God’s hands and that his protection was upon them. It just felt good praying for the little ones. 🙂
After serving, I headed off to help out at Chingay again. It was much more fun then the previous day cause we changed our roles from being at the carpark ushering, to standing at the gate where we got to usher the VVIPs to their seats. It was really cool cause as i escorted them, we had to walk a distance and cut across the middle section where the sea of people were sitting faced. So part of the attention the VVIPs got felt like it was on us also cause we were walking together with them. hehe. The guest-of-honour was President Tony Tan, but unfortunately, I didn’t get to see him cause he used another special gate to enter.
After ushering them in, we got our breaks again. This time was cooler cause Shanu and I sat below the audiences, beside the road, so it was like so cool to sit there cause we were so close to the performers. All in all, it was really fun. 🙂
On my way back home, I took from marina bay and slept on the train til… Kranji. I woke up, and got down the train. I thought i could not get back home already, cause situation was I didn’t have money to cab, my phone left 3% so i couldn’t call anyone, it was 1 am so obviously no bus.. my heart cried.. Thankfully, with that 3% my mum called me and the phone call managed to last. She asked to to cab home and she would come down to pay for me. So i hurriedly took a cab. When i got up the cab, the cab uncle was super nice to me and he seems to discern quite well. He said that i must be sleeping and wearing earphones so i couldn’t wake up and all, then i was like how he knows. He said stuff that actually made sense. He asked if my dad was sleeping at home, and i think he knew smth was wrong so he said or ur father died? I didn’t want to explain much to a perfect nice stranger so i said “yea he sleeping at home”. He was really nice and gave me discount by not adding the extra midnight charge. He said he’ll give me the change first, so he handed be $4 meaning he was expecting my mum would bring $10. Which she really did. haha I find that the cab ride was an interesting one.. Thankfully, i made it home that night.
Somehow I felt that God was with me all this time and that made me happy, really. 🙂
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