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Just shifted some of my uni stuff into my top cabinet, which will sort of be my archive for this uni experience. Gonna sell some of the textbooks soon... Finally at the brink of finishing off Dragon Ball Z, just 16 eps left. To commemorate that, I have up a new mix of songs in the mixpod, filled with some songs I find exceptionally outstanding musically. One to note would be Chrno Crusade's Tsubasa Wa Pleasure Line, which comes with outstanding visual animation to boot. Included are the classical pieces introduced in the previous post. Really proud of Gihon's attitude for the captain's ball tournament yesterday. I felt they really embodied everything that we'd learnt over the past year in cell. In this way, we were definitely champions in our own right. The way they behaved was sporting, encouraging, loving and most of all God centred. Well done! =D Seeing them putting all this into practice made me content as a cell leader. Looking forward to more years with them. Whic...

Just finished my jap test, and I'm pretty confident of what I did today. Just around 5 hours to the last paper before I'm free... In 7 hours my very first set of uni exams would be done! Not too sure what to do whilst on break. Haven't gotten any concrete plans down, except watch anime. The break will probably start off a little rough, with the cough and sore throat that I don't know how I got yesterday. We'll just see how it goes! Planning a little bit for next sem... But with the declaration of major only available after the module pre-allocation exercise its very likely that I'll need to bid for my modules instead of getting them cheaply, but oh wells thats alright. I think I'm looking a little too forward here so I should just relax about it. For piano stuff, Raindrop is pretty much done with, except for glitches here and there. So here comes more piano stuff, with Beethoven's woO 40: a variation on a theme and duet with piano and violin, and Chopin...

Amazing stuff... Results for social work are finally back. B- for reflections, 63 for MCQ and a whopping 82 for my portfolio which comprises 25% of the marks. Given my writing style was expecting less. But I guess having the heart is what really matters. Exams start tmr, and I must say I'm not in the least bit nervous. And the great thing is that I see how what I'm learning has taken shape in my life to impact others. Social work, psych and a little bit of history are helping in my ministry, and jap is definitely helping in terms of friendships and hobbies. And I also see how the things that have happened in the past are helping me today, being a CGL has definitely helped in the approach of using social work concepts, and my past as a maths student and science student is helping immensely with psych and stats. The past was bright, and the future too is bright. What a wonderful life and ministry. =D Looks like I'm at the peak of optimism this week. Exams here I come!

God! Let me praise You By taking an active role in my corner of Your Creation, And my filling the area in which I live with Your light, warmth, love and happiness. God! Let me praise You By brightening the lives of those around me, And encouraging them with such words as "I love you," "Thanks," and "I forgive you." God! Let me praise You By sharing with others everything You've given me, And being the first in a group to offer A smile, hug, condolence, and helping hand. God! Let me praise You By fighting back gloom when it surrounds me, And not being contagious whenever I'm feeling Discouraged, upset, lonely and disappointed. God! Let me praise You By turning to You at every moment of every day, And acknowledging Your love for me with My words, actions, thoughts, and prayers. Taken from Rick Christian's Devotions for Students. =D

Today marks one year since I've ORDed, and its a reminder of the things that I've had to go through in the 12 months for me to arrive here, where I am in uni, just 2 weeks away (9 days to be exact) from exams. The journey's been pretty straight, rough at times, but still God has guided me through. SERVE was a brand new experience, becoming a BS and worship leader and uni certainly has been good. I've matured a lot since then, especially in my spiritual walk and my independence. Happy ORD anniversary! All my lessons have been wrapping up, and I feel considerably better since the irritable mood on tuesday. As the trials come they don't seem so big anymore because there's a way bigger God with me. So, next week's study break... I'll do exactly what its name says, study, then have a break, then study, then have a break. The exams aren't really whats forefront in my mind, but thats just me I guess. There are a lot more important things to think about and ...

Considerably irritated by the fact that I've not been getting important emails because people are still sending stuff to my old account... Its not as if I hadn't told people to switch my email address... As a result I'm not too sure what I have to do with regards to a lot of my ministry work for this month, and I'm absolutely not going to accept giving God shoddy work because of a lack of information. So SEND ME THOSE EMAILS!!! Gah. To soccermugger@gmail.com in case any of you still don't know. Besides that, the next 3 days will be pretty difficult in terms of nerves. Wednesday there's a jap essay presentation in lecture, Thursday is Jap oral test and Friday is Jap speech in tutorial. 3 occasions having to speak publicly and be judged on it, all in a row. Preparing for worship on top of that, and also coordinating cell when nothing has been firmed up yet... On the 20th is church leaders meeting, 15 or 16th is YE leaders meeting... Adding these things makes it a ...

And so I've collected both my essays that I've submitted, and I must say I'm pretty glad at the results I've gotten, given my not so good writing style, and being a science student by nature. My content is usually pretty good, but the writing style lets me down. Essays are just not my forte, so I've still got to improve, but I've gotten B for my psych essay, and B+ for my history essay, which I'm totally satisfied with. Feeling blessed at the moment... I've been through a couple of "final tutorials" for the semester already, most notably Social Work, Psychology and History. Must say that it ended on a good note, and I've contributed pretty well to the discussions. Overall this semester, I believe I've done my best and God knows. Final jap and stats tutorials are on friday next week. Don't know how many times I've said this, but I feel totally enveloped by God in His love and blessings. This sem has been great. Praise God! =D So ...

Happy birthday to my blog! Its its 6th birthday! In psych lecture now, today's topic is abnormal psychology, so we're leaning about certain medical conditions like mania, schizophrenia, depression etc etc. With Kah Kay and her friend Eileen! Hello hello! Happy birthday to Ben's blog! It feels weird to be blogging from someone else's blog. But yeah, haven't been blogging since A level. Really missed it. Lecture starting. Gtg byes! :) - Eileen 2nd time posting. xD kk here... the psych lecture is reallyyyyyyyyyyyy psychooooooooo~. im sooo tired alr. bet ben is also as tired as me... =/ the lecturer seems to be quite a fun (handsome since he is an angmoh? i cant see clearly.. )person... but im obviously not paying attention right.. xD ben is coughing badly. this post sld remind him to rest more and maybe take cough med. xD okok~ typing too much. returning back to ben. :) Haha leftover phlegm from the haze. And its been a long day. Anyways thats all for today, beginning ...