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happy YOUTH SUNDAY everyone from WOW!!
(wowwers. hahahaha.)

Wheeee. Yesterday and today can be considered 2 of the best days in my life! Whoopee! :) They were SPECIAL days :) Haha. But come to think of it, they weren't really. But it's the people I hung out with these 2 days that made it all so wonderful!
Wanna know my FAVOURITEST PEOPLE ever?
I bet you can guess! :D

Went for Youth Ministry Training convention? seminar? yesterday at Faith Methodist Church, with ethel, fiona, peggy, jane, arnette, jeremy, daniel sia. Was great. Just that it was like 3 talks in 1 day with short breaks in between to eat. And I am not one whose attention can be held for so long so even during that 2nd one I was starting to yawn and stone. Bleargh. But I did manage to get the message! Haha. And took notes! But yeah, they were really good. Clear, informative, helpful.
Can't imagine going to Faith as my church instead of BPMC. I hope my parents don't go back, or at least, if they do (they're members of that church after all), please don't take me along!!

Thereafter we (fiona, peggy, jeremy, jane and I) made our way back to church for Youth Sunday full-dress rehearsal. And we almost got to eat taco-pachi!!! Aww man! Yumyum. So. Worship/music prac lasted for a good 4 hours, cause the music team consisted of about 5 WLs/AWLs + 3 guitarists + 1 drummer + 2 pianist/keyboardist =11 members! And it was in the sanctuary so the technical stuff was pretty hard to handle too! And it was difficult to get so many people to co-ordinate! And I only got to prac dance with the team ONCE, on stage. And I forgot quite a few steps in the front :P Hahaha. And after that we went back to worship/music prac once again, the closing song and one final run-through. And I gotta say, I was pretty drained but somehow music NEVER makes me tired and I still felt like singing and singing non-stop:) I was more tired from standing. Haha. And like shouting into the mike cause I couldn't hear myself (nor anyone but yvonne and daniel).

At 9pm! We left church! At last! Had dinner/supper at Al Azaar with fiona + peggy + jane. (I realise if you spell peggy wrongly, it may come out as piggy. Haha. Sorry, was annotating LOTF before this.) YUMMY! I love cheese and egg prata :D And milo dino (which I didn't drink. I just make it in ah ma's house! Like today!!) I was pretty stoned by then. Out of the house since 8am?! And when we finished earing it was past 10! Hahaha. I love going out late nights man.

Came home and WOOTS! My parents weren't back yet! Alone in the house! :) I felt quite awake after bathing so I planned to stay up annotating LOTF. But then. I started on a poem (cause my emotions got the better of me, as they always do at night/early morning). And konked out halfway through (yes, the half-written poem is in my cap notebook where I store all poems now. Hahaha.). Gave up, washed up, went to sleep. YAWNNNNNN.

And then came YOUTH SUNDAY! (oh btw, it turned out NO ONE stayed up for soccer cause everyone was so tired from the practice yesterday! Haha! And had to wake up early to reach church at 745am! So yeah!) And for the 5th or so time this week, I was SO sleepy when I got up. There's seriously something REALLY wrong with me this past week! From wednesday on every morning in school I was energy-less and sleepy and tired and grouchy and irritable and all things related to TIRED. Could fall asleep in physics lesson, even. Argh. And my eyes hurt badly every day from the yawning and tearing and rubbing. So it wasn't different yesterday, nor today. What has happened to my energy?!! Drained?! YIKES!! That can't be! NOO! Ok, back to this morning. I went to church with half-red and half-closed eyes, sinus, and a limp body (as though it'd collapse any moment!). And was telling peggy about how tired I was and all that. Blahblah. Haha. Even before service I hadn't awakened fully yet. Should have seen me. Haha. Ask fiona/charmaine. I was DEAD, like. really. dead. Could have konked out on the comfortable cushioned seat!

Oh and we held hands and said a prayer (as a dance team) before service! And it felt GOOD. Real good:) Like, the knowledge that God was behind all we had done, all the effort we had put in, all the practices, yay! We had made it to the DAY! And we were so so so so happy to be able to dance to glorify God on YOUTH SUNDAY :D

So like I said, I never get tired from music, rather, it makes me high. So I woke up a bit after worship in songs. Oh the sermon was by Reverend Mark DeVries (or Fries?! or what? :S) and he was just as funny as yesterday! Hahaha! I LOVED the story of that baseball guy. MAN, I almost could feel that humiliation and disappointment in oneself like that poor boy did. I mean, it's the same for basketball! Like, maybe a winning free throw. (oh and soccer too. Haha.)

Then. DANCE!!!!! And I got pretty freaked out and nervous. When he ended the sermon kinda abruptly and I realised it was time for offering and doxology and then...yes. Haha. Charmaine said I sounded high when I was reading the synopsis. Yeah, I think I did too, with my tone. Haha. Then they took kinda long to start the music and because I just ran off after the synopsis, plee thought, "huh? like that? then erh, where's the dance?!" HAHA, joke!
So yup! DANCE DANCE DANCE!! It went well, I think! Based on the comments from the so-many people after that! :) They said LAURA was good! Whee congrats laura! :) Yay. So happy and thankful to GOD and the TEAM! I mean, seriously. We went through pretty much, a LOT. From the week before celebration sunday (4 june) till now. Frustrations, irritance, desperation, panic, on-the-verge-of-giving-up moments, phonecalls, messages, practices, talks, prayers, tearing my hair out, crying, worrying...

And Reverend Mark DeVries (or fries or what) was shaking hands as we exited the hall, and when he saw me his eyes lit up and he took a big breath and was like, "You did an AWESOME job, dancing!" And then he lifted both hands in a high-5 position and slapped mine. And he went on to ask me if I'd choreographed it and that he has a "kind of sensitivity to this sorta thing" cause his daughter's a dance teacher! Aww man. SO COOL! Hahahahaha. He was really nice. And ENCOURAGING! I know I need that, a lot.
And wanna know something funny? Plee's mum said I was GRACEFUL. HAHAHAHAHA!! Joke of the century! We weren't even doing ballet. Hmm. But still, OOOOK. Graceful?! Let me think about that.
And yeah, LOADSa people came up to me and praised the dance and everything:)
BUT BUT!! I know that there was no audience but GOD when we were dancing, and so I'll lift it all up to Him alone. Really, thank God.

And that still wasn't the end of Youth Sunday! The whole WOW (almost) crowded in the youth room upstairs and I promise you, it was the NOISIEST I've ever heard the youth room be. You had to YELL to someone next to you to be heard. And we were yelling our voices hoarse! Haha! And april and eric (the other speakers for yest) came up to visit! And we talked to them and MAN, eric can just raise his hand and touch the ceiling like nothing. We all JUMP. Hah!! And he plays basketball!!! :D Played. But same lah. Haha. And he said I was SHY. Hahahaha. 2nd best entry in the 21st century joke book. I was thinking, ???!!!!!!
I TOLD you ang mors are REALLY FRIENDLY people!! They're naturally nice to anyone and everyone, including strangers! :)

1 thing I'd say about today?
WOW.
HAHAHA, get it get it? But yeah, it's true. It was a blast, and all went well despite all the little difficulties we faced in preparation yest and this morning. (including that main service guy who practically BIT us. Hahaha.) Oh did I mention yvonne's admirably patient? I'd have bao-zha-ed earlier if I were in her shoes.

WOOHOOOHOOOOO TO GOD BE THE PRAISE AND GLORY FOREVERMORE, AMEN! XD

(happy watching soccer tomorrow morning!! FRANCE! :) )

I. <3.> WOW.