In The Wilderness

Haven't been bloggin for quite some time. yes, guilty as charged. And as always, there's a checklist of events that i'm too lazy to list. but City Harvest's Emerge Youth Conference has come and gone! and i absolutely loved it.. it was so great to spend three days in the familiar and powerful presence of God. indeed, in Your presence, I am made whole.

Left for Bali on the 11th June. Rudy actually took the trouble to come back from Malaysia a day earlier on the 10th June! so i postponed my flight a day late (supposed to fly off on the 10th) so that i could meet him for a day and also so that i could attend my svc on friday night.

so yes, am typing away on this ugly, ancient piece of metal back home in Bali. how i miss my broadband, wireless connection in hall. The dialup connection here is simply ridiculous, and many times i had to restrain myself from banging my head into the monitor. he's sitting in front of me now looking smug, clearly oblivious to what damage it has done to my patience.

the webpages take so long to load, and one of its ill side-effects is that i cant see my tagboard everytime i go to my blog page. ack... operation timed out. y'know.

anyways, havent been up to much, other than packing and packing for the upcoming house-moving on the 18th. as a result, the luxury of going downtown to shop, check out new eateries and cafes is out of question. my mum, my only access to civilisation, is too pre-occupied for the moment to be my chauffeur. hee.

seriously, i cant wait to learn how to drive.

i guess this well-deserved break away from s'pore was just what i needed, afterall i hadn't come back for a year already. the only thing i disliked about being back is how restless and bored i tend to get at times, my only source of company being msn conversations and occasional smses to a few people. it is irritating talking to computer and handphone screens. you gotta figure out the moods and emotions of the person you're talking to.

just think, you can be feeling crappy but still force yourself to type lotsa smiley faces and make the other party assume that nothing's wrong. like this.

:) :) :)

you see its effects?

and when you say "hello", without exclamation marks or dot.dot.dot whatsoever, you're pretty much leaving it to the other party's imagination to guess what your real tone is.

it could be hello as in, "hello.. oh it's you again.. geez actually i dont really feel like talking to you now, but since you said hello first, now i have no choice."

or a hysterical hello as in, "hello!!!!!!! it's so nice to see you!!!"

or a nice, warm "hello, that's a nice surprise!"

or simply an expressionless greeting like, "oh.. hello."

you get what i mean?

so there you go... so essentially being left in an island with technology as my only reliance for contacts with my peers, life can get pretty exciting. it's all imagination at works from now on.

i've been eating very sensibly and healthily eversince arriving back home too.. want to get my health back in check before school starts.. it's sriously a pain to be feeling woozy almost all the time. went for a checkup a while back and found out i have low blood pressure. that explains all the headaches and lethargies. so upsetting.. to think that last time i was the one who never took MCs in my secondary school and JC days.

my camomile tea has been a hit with my folks and sibs. i try to drink a cup or two everynight. it's supposed to calm the body and rid stress, and these two nights i end up making tea for the whole family. add a teaspoon of honey per cup. it tasted wonderful. :)

will update again when things get a little more interesting.