Wednesday, January 14, 2009

A few days back in Singapore...

Keeping a blog is hard work. I've been wanting to make a post for the last 2 or 3 days now. I find that I can only write when no one is around me, kinda hard when your living in a 3-bedroom apartment with 8 people living in it at the moment. Furthermore, someones always on the computer.

I got back to Singapore from KL on Friday afternoon. Its been nearly a week since then.
I was really keen on getting back to Singo by Friday night cos I wanted to visit the cellgroup/bible study that most of my old friends used to go to. I got there and was pleasantly surprised to see Juni there. Juni is supposed to be in London doing his masters and I (and himself too) never knew that he was coming back to Singo in his holidays. Against his better judgement, he decided to check the prices for airfares to SG and kinda ended up making an impulse decision to come back for a week. It was definitely cool to see him again.

After cell group, we went to a nearby place for drinks. We had an interesting discussion about whether Christians should expect healing when they pray for it, a viewpoint that is very much taught at my church in SG. Despite the fact that the leaders preach and support the idea of expecting physical healing when you pray for it, I'm glad that quite a few people, if not the majority, did not actually think it was real. And I'm glad not just because this is coincidentally the stance take, more importantly, I strongly believe that its the stance that the Bible endorses. My view can be stuffed if the Bible says otherwise.

I fell pretty badly sick on Sunday morning. I kinda knew the fever was coming on Friday as I returned from KL but it really hit me on Sunday morning. I was really looking forward to going to church but when I woke up, my whole body was sore. The air-conditioning was on, but I had woken up in the middle of the night to put long pants and a fleece jumper on AND I was using a sleeping bag as a blanket too. I don't think I've felt that crap before. I spent the morning sleeping. And then in the afternoon, I went through some Chinese with my 10 year old cousin, and then we played foosball and computer games.

I found out at 10 pm that night that a bunch of my friends were hanging out at a friends house to watch a soccer game. I'd grown up with these five guys at church and we've spent a huge amount of time playing frisbee/soccer, munchkin, and computer games together. I knew I probably should have stayed at home and slept. But I went out anyway. Two of the guys were leaving for Taiwan and London the next morning. It was my last chance to hang before they left.

Even though it was only 3-4 hours, it was pretty awesome to be hanging out. Only a few months ago, all 6 of us were in a different part of the world: Taipei, London, U.S., far western China, Sydney and Melbourne. Was good to see them all again.