My life would suck without you!

Thank God for guiding me through a busy saturday last week :) was quite stressed up coz I had to meet 2 Ct students at noon, then play the keyboard for service - something which i haven't done in such a long long time, and finally to run the KangLi-youth games. I thank God, the sermon was a comprehensive, well thought, and exciting lesson of faith and God's promises. I was really spiritually filled. Thank God for His teachings :) Then came Yi Xin's testimony which was super encouraging.

This week: Tuesday to Friday at Teen Games Soccer at East Coast.

haha... I'm not planning much for the BJ trip. For one, I really dun feel like planning; And I dun really have anything specifically that I look forward to in BJ. I mean, I know I will surely go to the Great Wall, that tiananmen parliament place, the watercube and birdnest, but even these places don't really generate that much excitement in me. shopping? not me. eating? probably. most probably i'll be excited to try peking duck! haaha. But I love this unhurried state of ignorance. No rush to settle accomodation, no rush to fix up the itinerary. I'm just gonna open my eyes really wide, suck in the culture which i've always thought is largely similar to Singapore's but know that its very different, and be transformed. I want to know why my friends who've been to China ends up loving that place. And its not the same love as in going to one place and miss it when u come back. Like I love the Eiffel Tower and the Pyramids, I miss them, but I don't feel like they have anything more to offer the next time I visit them. The difference is feeling connected to the place, and getting the sense that there is much more to get out of China that is misunderstood by others, or unkindly interpreted, and so that generates the love.

Oh ya. Thank God for my parents who got me a laptop. So I'll bring it to bj, find a cozy corner at starbucks, and give updates. I'm not sure if I can openly read the bible there. will I get arrested? hmm..

I'm totally drawn into this song - My life would suck without you - Kelly Clarkson. Saw her performing on American Idol last week. Its another one of those emo angsty branded songs. But it rocks, coz not only youths will sing it. everyone can.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heTjFdMui68&feature=related
vin