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40 days of purpose kick-off...
and shout-outs!!

HAPPY EASTER EVERYONE!! :D Go forth! Spread the good news! Bring people to Christ!

Yo! I'm in a super good mood now! Hahahaha. Feeling happy cause...
1. Kweky's helping me compile the group component for geog pt!
2. I've got no homework left! I already had none left since yest morn!
3. I've got no tests this week!
4. There're gonna be 2 free maths on monday and tuesday! YEAH MAN! I can take that time to think of more assumptions and considerations.

:)

The kick-off today was rather fun. (take note of the rather.) The sermon by Rick Warren was really really good. He has the ability to speak with total clarity and persuasion at the same time. And his message was so deep, yet he communicated it in such a simple and comprehensible manner. That's great man:) (I sound like rubrics for oral or something!) I admit I don't get impacted by sermons easily, and chances of that are rare, so this one was super good! :) I think it was mainly the last part, about evangelism. His story about his father's last words were very touching. And the song!! Man! It was so nice!!

Worship in songs went...ok. The harmonising actually worked!! Haha. It sounded much much better than 5 girls singing the same tune all together. I think we should have split the songs into parts and then different singers/worship leaders sing at different times instead, though. All the songs were fast and about celebrating cause Jesus is alive, since it's Easter Sunday. Ha. I wasn't even supposed to be assistant-leading this time; my name's not on the roster. But ah well, yvonne called me. And I enjoyed it, as always(: Love it so much, I didn't even realise I've been leading/assistant-leading for 3 weeks consec! Hahaha.

Had lunch at church after that. Met new people!! Woohoo! Fun! :D Xin ting, sophia, qi ying, min feng, nicholas (he's already in WOW. I didn't even know! Haha.) Eve and I joined in extra-ly for the small groups leaders' briefing since we were waiting for ethel.

You know, up to now I still haven't found a definition for worship. Ever since last year JAN's SOUL training, till this morn when he talked about bringing pleasure to God by WORSHIP, I still cannot define it!
"It's to vast," said eve. Haha.

I had about 3 1/2 hours of sleep this morning. Woke up so early!! 630! Goodness. Haha I'm really really sorry nata and olly, but eh, no choice. Heh. And I fell asleep in ahma's house in the end. Heh. Guess it was cause I didn't sleep a lot on fri night either so it couldn't make up for the loss of sleep yest. Aah well! But that means I can stay up tonight! Woohoo:) Figure why I'm so high and happy now. Yay! Haha.

And woohoo for last night's phonecall with dawn! With THREE people eavesdropping. Ahahahaha. Amusing man, we had countless interruptions on both sides. Well, mostly mine:P She reminded me that there WAS something special that happened last week! :) On wednesday for CLE, we were learning the KP model and the last one was about "encouraging the heart". So ms pang gave us cards to write encouraging/thanking/appreciating notes to anyone in the class. And it reminded me once again that small actions make BIG differences!! Really man. I was really touched by this note an anon classmate gave me (sorry but I don't know everyone well enough to recognise handwritings.) :

Cheryl, you encouraged me a lot. Remember that time after running 1.6km? Thank you. Come on! (jia you)

It was so so nice to hear that!!! Haha. And I don't even remember what I did to anyone after running the 4 rounds during PE. Heh. But THANK YOU to the person who wrote that to me!! It was super encouraging!! :)
And these are shoutouts to all those people whom I didn't have time to write to! As well as non-classmates (cause we were only supposed to write to classmates.) Plus I ran out of cards! Hahaha.
Disclaimer: there're many people on my list, so if you get bored you may just wanna skip the whole of this part. Hahaha:)

charmaine
Girl! I know you don't come online often so you may never see this. Hahaha. I've written lots of such notes to you already. It's real great having you as a DG-mate and friend from p6 until now! Hard to think that you came into church so much later than all of us, since we've become such close friends. Love your friendly and casual and LAME personality, someone whom I can talk to on the phone for as long as 2 hours without running out of things to talk about (it's amazing yah, since we only see each other once a week?!). You're really easy to crap and laugh with, and being in the worship team with you is exciting too! It's like a journey in ministry together, since we both started together within a few months of joining WOW in sec 1, serving with our musical abilities. Thanks for the few nights of staying up like on xmas'04 and church camp'05! I treasure our friendship loads :)

fiona
Hahahaha. The moment I think of you I think of laughter and hyper-ness and nonsense and crap and smiles and laughter and more laughter :) I love talking to you, cause your nature just makes me wanna be high; it's really pretty hard not to smile with you around! You naturally know how to cheer people up and make them laugh. Thanks heaps for all those times you encouraged and comforted me when I was depressed/disheartened/frustrated!! And I love going high with you and laughing over either nothing at all or everything in the world. Thanks for every single little gift like sweets and balloons and even a pacifier(!! hahaha!)! Thanks especially for all the phonecalls, long or short the same, and I do remember that time you stayed up until 230 just to talk even though you were dead tired. THANK YOU! You've been doing superb as a DG leader and even though you keep saying you're doubtful and all, I have faith in you:) Thank you :D (I can't believe our friendship has grown this much when we just got to know each other like, last november!!)

eveee
Cousin! Your personality is just great! Real fun to hang out with you and do random stuff, like sitting in ahma's house talking about nothing, or shopping in cold storage so many times. Hahaha. Your endless encouragement to me for worship motivated me greatly to never stop trying (persevere!! :P) and keep aiming higher. It's very nice to see how much you're maturing in your spiritual growth! It's clearly reflected in your speech, actions and how you blog as well. And I'm glad you're enjoying serving in the usher and worship team so much:) All the years of being cousins with you were thoroughly enjoyable. I think we'd die laughing if we were to go review our experiences together since 1993. HAHA XD You wore frilly lacy dresses! And so did I, I think. Hahaha. And those times with dalton too! Haha. Well. Keep that passion for God burning brighter and brighter each day as you live to glorify Him! Love ya much, cousin!

dawn
accountability partner!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Woohoooo! Man, that's such a long name. We should make up a nicer, shorter, sweeter, simpler name. Haha. Know I've repeated this many times, but I always look forward to the phonecalls on saturday nights, no kidding! It's like a small break from the tiring and long week, as a follow-up to the BIG break we're getting on sunday. (I think our timing for calling is really nice, haha:) ) It's nice that being acc. partners with you has made me know you so much better, cause really, we were never that close friends right? We can talk for so long without really running outa things to say too! And few people stay up talking to me till so late, so THANK YOU too! I love discussing issues and whatever controversial topics with you, cause it's nice to gain insights and opinions from someone else and either come to a conclusion or make me think further! And telling you how my week was is like a verbal diary. It's cool :) ahaha. Thanks for all the prayers together, for caring so much about me, planning minor missions together, for simply being a really sweet and wonderful friend to have. :)

chanyi
Hyper deranged bimbo monkey! I've got a song to dedicate to you!! I've got heaven on the inside of me. Peace and joy, God has set me free... HAHAhahaha! Hey girl (hey boy), thanks for sharing bible verses and just saying kind words to push me on whenever I'm discouraged. Your great desire to draw closer to God has encouraged me to do the same in my spiritual life as well! I loved having you as a DG-mate, one who would always question and doubt what was taught. It served to get me thinking and asking and trying to answer questions myself too, which was like a supplement to every DG lesson we had! It's nice debating isn't it:) (just that at times we reach no conclusion...just end up in more confusion.) Your eccentricity (? what's the noun?) is cute and makes me laugh all the time! Haha. And when you're all high and acting bimbo (or maybe yours needs no acting...) it just cracks me up. *fall down laughing so hard I can't end off my paragraph*

olly
Rolly polly olly! Thanks truckloads and bucketfulls for coming to church with nata and natalie and me today! Really appreciate it, esp. since you're staying at the other end of S'pore... Talking about evangelism and Christianity and God at the foodcourt last night was really fun and insightful:) I love all the times I can talk and discuss things to do with Christianity, church, songs (Christian LYRICS. Hahaha.) together with you. You've really played a big part in my growth as a Christian too, even though I bet you don't realise it! Cause hearing stuff from someone not from our church offers different perspectives and all, and it's really nice to think about. And thank you so much for being so encouraging to me throughout both basketball seasons last year and this year when we played together. Even though we may be rivals at times, ultimately we're both part of the team on court and you set aside all the competiveness between us to work with me instead of against me. And during zonals, thanks loads for reminding me that misery is an option. Indeed. It really really touched me and cheered me up:) Jiayou! We'll work towards that common goal in bball! B div'07 :) Go for it. No regrets!

Man, I've been blogging for really long. TIRING sia! I shall continue this another day. Haha.
On hold.
Night!