In what must surely be a poor decision in terms of time management, I’m going to try for an update before hurrying upstairs to get my Math homework completed.
Last week started pretty horribly but ended well. For those of who have been praying for me, you will want to know that God provided a few great deliverances this past week. Things are starting to look up.Speaking of looking up, when was the last time you looked at the sky?
Having moved into the boarding school this year, I occasionally get a quick glance at the morning sky from my window, just before I rush out of my room. But on mornings, when I’m less hurried, as I part the curtains and open the windows, I look beyond the crimson track and the lush green pitch, and see a glorious wonder. At that magical moment of the morning, I often marvel at the wonderful palette of colors that the rising sun brings.
Painters use palettes upon on which they lay and mix colors, each palette and the combinations of colors it holds is unique to each occasion art is made. In the same way, each morning sky is unique. The clouds are never the same, neither is the color of the sky. One on occasion, as the glowing celestial body rises up among the towering residents of Dover Road, I see gentle hues of pink and orange on the canvas that we call the sky. On the next morning, I see the a splendor of gold amidst the cerulean sky. And some times, when I look in the other direction, I can see the moon silently disappearing and while sun takes its place.
The heavens do declare His glory. Take some time, and look at wonder of creation. Imagine the infinity that space holds and the distance of the stars from us. The universe is indeed amazing, God must be great. In moments such as these, I want to be an astronaut or an astrophysicist or a Natural Geographic journalist.
I have noticed that I’m changing, and it not for the better either. I’m sorry all of you who have met the stupid me. Time to change back. God please help me.
On a another note, the theatre arts class had a photo shoot today for the up coming production Love/Retreat. Will post photos soon. Do come for the play!
I really do have a lot on my mind, but not much heart to post it here.
JP is now connected to the world wide web in room 859 on 119 Dover Road. You can now expect to see me more frequently on MSN.
Mmm.. Its best not to be half asleep when learning about indefinite integrals (what a nice alliteration, I’d never spotted that before) or ionic equilibria. So I shall end here.
This week there were 3 school days, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, most of which was spent helping out in the Year 5 Orientation: ACS-ploration. On Tuesday night I moved into 119 Dover Road, the ACS Boarding House, into Hall 8- William F. Oldham. I’m living in a four person room, with Xun Liang and this Year 4 Indian scholar named Vinay, the other space is still not filled yet. Apparently, the boarding school doesn’t have internet access in the living quarters, which explains my absence from MSN and blogging. My roommates and I are thinking of sharing a router equipped with M1 wireless broadband to circumvent the authorities that prevent us from staying connected.
Well, on wednesday morning, I woke up early and headed down to the track to start the morning with a run, before heading over to school foyer to help welcome the new batch of year 5s. The new batch of Year 5s sure are a fun bunch, they were pretty responsive and got hyped up by the end of the ACS-ploration.
Jessica and I were assigned to OG 6. Awesome bunch of people! It was my pleasure serving all of you. Hai yan. Jie Yi. Yiping. Pam. Bao Cheng. Ally. Eka. Shuan. Caleb. Joshua. Jason. Stevanus. Adriel. Daniel. Prasad. John. Wen Hao. Clifton. Marc. Zhong En. Daryl. Chote. Alistair. Amir. We had a bunch of fun I assure you . Today at lunch they gave Jess and I personalized souvenirs! I’m really appreciative of them. 
There’s so much to write about, in summary: Ice Breakers. Dry games. Mass Dance. ACS-iting Race. Dirty-dirty Telematch. Cheering. Closing Dinner. Ok I could have been more descriptive, but honestly it wouldn’t do the experience justice. Will post more photos at a later date.
Oh and along the ACS-iting Race (Thursday), I had somehow or other sprained my left ankle, the injury got aggravated during training that evening. So on the next day, during the tele-match, I had to play the part of the OGL waiting at the end point, my duty was to hug every group mate that over came the nauseating tasks of tele-match. These tasks included spinning in circles, duck walking, and hopping while incorporating buckets of ice, soapy water, milk, flour, macaroni into the race. After all of OG 6 had completed the course, they had to run across the field to carry me back to the finish line. Not long after that, they decided to honor me by dunking me in the soap/mud sliding thing. Thanks, I was mostly clean before that. 
Haha. Fun.
Also, God was very real to me this week, mmm, again the incident is too long to write about. But he had impressed upon me the verse Matthew 6:33: “But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.” . Indeed, He blessed me greatly, taught me to have faith. I shall trust Him, now and forever more.
