Time Lapse Part III

Today is 19 Oct. It's 19 days to the final exams, with 4 days deduction for the Political Science take-home exam. I have a total of 4 final papers over 11 days. But i'm looking forward to the end of it too - my long summer break back home in Singapore.

The econs test went bad - what can I expect, I studied 40 minute before it - and passed! Less work to worry about in the week, and experiencing a lot of inertia to getting started revising for the exams. Maybe I'm getting complacent or I just don't realize what's in store for me. Tonight is the time to sit down and really plan out my revision (was originally Saturday night, but I ended up at Jon's for dinner).

Looking forward to the Nikon moments after that too, when I can further my photographic interest and skill, and really turn this into a hobby. Have yet to find fellow photographers, hopefully Nikon users to share ideas, equipment, lenses and enjoy photography with. So far I've found that Michelle Leong (also a law student) has a growing interest, plus she might be taking over her dad's Nikon D300.

Michelle with her D70

In fact just last weekend we traded gear for a week, so she could enjoy using my D90 and 35mm lens, and I could try using something different. Didn't like the D70 though, the viewfinder was pretty small and her screen was the size of my thumb. Furthermore her camera's a pretty old model and doesn't shoot like the D90 does. Taught me to appreciate (not that I don't already do) how good a camera the D90 is.

Service yesterday was much better than the usual. A very wonderful sermon delivered by Pastor Lai Ling. She opened the service with healing for some who the Spirit guided her to pray for, for things like insomnia, ear infection, etc. Someone had ringing of the ears, but I thought to myself that it was probably due to the praise and worship (heh heh).

Her message was titled 'Diligently Godly', part of the 1 Timothy series. The part that I took most was about being whole-hearted. 1Tim4:16 "..give yourself wholly...". Ps86:11 asks God for an undivided heart. So the question we need to ask ourselves often, if not every day, is "Are there areas that I have not surrendered unto God?" I know the areas I haven't surrendered. And I'm trying; a complete surrender is an easy life to live but not an easy thing to achieve, and when you finally do, the outcome is a real reward.

More issues about the PnW, plastic flowers once again, which I shall not elaborate on but basically, I'm getting to understand it more and more as the situation continues and I feel a stronger urge to make the change; beginning with the plank in my eye, then the worshippers around me, then the cell group, eventually the church (if it happens that quickly and I'm around long enough).