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After all the cog psych mugging, bio psych presentation preparations... Surprisingly still am a week ahead of preparations for my school work... Really cannot believe how everything just fell into place. With a great group mate for the presentation, with a sudden relief of stress with just entrusting the cognitive psych test into God's hands, and timely reminders not to rely on self but on God. Everything just went right despite of my own pride and sinfulness. In mid week and till just yesterday... Felt drained as a result of studying and feeling not being able to absorb much of anything. But no worries, its been resolved. Because I know that I've put in my best effort, and God can do amazing things when you trust Him for providence. Also feel that in Gihon there's a strong and pure desire to find God amidst the chaos of the world. People are actively asking questions, helping each other with the problems in their lives, and showing each other what true Christian living is ...

Feeling a bit under the weather, but thank God for a strong immune system. The runny nose started just yesterday... But besides that no fever and cough unlike my bro. So in today's lessons, pretty much had to disrupt class by blowing my nose a couple of times. I think I'll be alright. =D Today's jap tutorial we played blow wind blow, jap style. Which shows how adept my command of Japanese is now. The tutorial was a blast, and we were all scampering around like little school kids haha. "Megane o kaketeiru hito!" and I'd have to go running to get a spot to sit haha. I'm really glad I've come this far in learning a third language, and I guess after this I should work on my fourth (sign language), which I've neglected since I've begun uni. Lastly, have started on Kimi Ni Todoke... After the first episode I can tell that this specific anime will mean a lot to me. In the main character I already see myself in the past, in all my timidness and being l...

Utter respect. For the strength, integrity and resilience of the Japanese people even in the midst of all the happenings. For manga and anime followers like me it was expected for all of it to be put on halt... But the fact that manga and anime continue to be churned out by the hardworking authors, animators and publishers are a true testament to the resilience of the Japanese. I'll never look at them in the same light again. Went for my Japanese Studies lecture and heard about the family situation of the lecturer's family, with some of his wife's relatives still missing, and others safe and sound. Could really hear the pain in his voice. And in some of my friends too. I may not understand the situation full well, but my support and prayers are with all of them, its the least I could do for such a great people. On personal matters... Cognitive Psych paper is going well, just one para left and biblio to do. Just concerned that there's not enough content to explain the co...

One of the little things I've learnt on the way is to just thank God for every single part of my life... Thinking about the situation in Tokyo and about the people. Japan is my favourite country after all. What a difficult time it must be. I think it'll be a nice thing to ask my japanese tutors about their families and assure them in this time of need. The Japanese equivalent of the word earthquake can be romanized as Jishin... Which when translated can also mean self confidence. Well its random... But its something that I've been thinking about lately, especially since the time I did the bio psych presentation. Sometimes I lack it, even when I know that God made me in a marvelous way. Just like what Pastor William said... I might've been ashamed of the gospel by refusing to acknowledge my own immense capacity, which led to my lack of self confidence in presentations. Something to reflect about today. Besides that... The semester feels like its ending soon with all the ...

Well I'm now in Bio Psychology lecture learning about wakefulness and sleep. Quite an apt topic for the moment, if you know what I mean. Also got back the scores for the bio psych test: 41/50, which is really good! Thank God for that. For this week its considerably relaxed... All the things to settle are almost done, for example worship for saturday, the tutorial preparations for this week and things like that... Increasingly having nothing to do at nights during weekdays in terms of uni and church stuff... Which means a lot of time for leisure! And also I can start gearing up in terms of submissions due soon. Went for a concert with Sherine by Albert Tiu, a well known Singaporean pianist. The title of the concert was Chopin without Chopin, which consists of songs based on variation of music composed by Chopin. Thoroughly enjoyable, with imba playing in a truly professional style. The mental images conjured in my head whilst the songs were playing were really phenomenal. And now I ...

It was a pretty tough day, just thanking God that the presentation is over and done with... Looking back it wasn't so wise to worry that much about it, cos it was rather informal and done in a rather relaxed environment. So for next month's presentation just gotta tone down and relax when it comes to the time. One thing I wish I could've done better was to rely on God for peace, and not take so many things into my own hands. But He's brought me through. And so the Romans training has ended, all in good time for the rest of the semester. Next week it seems like my schedule will be more free, which is a good thing! Now Wednesdays after 4pm I'll be free! And there's no lecture from 4-6 on monday so another good thing out of next week. Just one more jap test tomorrow and mid terms will be done with. After that have 4 more submissions and 2 more tests to go for the rest of the semester! And 4 more final exams of course. Next 2 submissions: Cognitive Psych Term Paper,...