life's tough challenges- today's ACTUAL post. (dated today, POSTED today,WRITTEN today)

today i went out with gracey and our supposed cell leader, sam after church.it turned out somewhat better then i expected. we went to cityhall's sakae sushi (where my fickle-mindedNESS took over and i was pouring over which tempura dish to select...) to eat. after that i lusted after a kani chawanmushi and decided to order it through the computer ordering system thing. ended up it went haywire and i somehow ended up ordering $2.6k worth of sushi....ehem, well, grace and sam were practically shaking i can see....and i thought i was gonna wash the dishes. thank god it was nothing in the end.whew! dumb computer. earlier on in the day, i woke up to my handphone alarm at approximately 8.30am and continued to laze ard in bed (dreaming of him) until 9.20am...i woke up to rush to main service (cos today's combined service and it starts at 10am).ordered a cab in the midst of all my getting ready. turns out the dumb taxi company has dispatched 2 orders (which came from my condo, one order from me, another from some caucasian fellow) to the SAME cab. this got the poor cabby so confused...he wounded up driving to my block but telling me he was waiting for a 'Mr. dennis' though he was the one who called my house 5 mins ago asking my mom instructions for getting to my condo....took us ard 7 mins to clear up the dumb misunderstanding before he drove me off. On our way to church, i found out that he just started his carreer as a cabby just a few days ago and obviously, i can tell, by the way he kept turning wrongly and swerving here and there....at first, i was all ready to plug into my mp3 and just listen all the way through the cab ride, but apparently, this taxi driver was one of the main few who insisted on talking to me so i had no choice but to oblige. he told me all abt his life in the past, and how god has helped him and how hard it was for him in the past. Apparently, when i left my house today, i should've been prepared to be inspired by a cab driver. he told me that 4 years ago, he was in a very baaaaad fiancial status and his wife died and he was left all alone to his children and how he became like, literally dead. he was once a muslim before, and when this bad stuffs came to him, christians came to his aid,and saved him.there was 1 thing he did say that really stuck to me though...

driver: money isnt everything u know...i've learnt that through the hard way last time...and now i know.


and then we continued talking on someother stuffs that i cant remember...(sorry i've got STM...too much stuff to remember..).
continuetion


me: oh muslims and christians do actually have a little similar beliefs...its just that muslims acknowledge mohammed right?
driver: no why cant they see? that god had sacrificed the most for us!!!!??? muslims are terrorists! they can even kill for their religion u know...they brought down the sept 11 disaster! i was once a muslim and when 4 years ago when i was in alot of troubles, i was very dead, and no one helped me, but the christians! they came! they came and helped me and encouraged me!
driver: back then, i used to have really bad leg pains and i used to WALK to see god. now he has healed me (and he weeped)
me: oh...well...thats good news then... thats a miracle :) (i had no idea what else to say cos he was weeping...)

then, my stop came, and he gave me $2 off my fare and told me to keep it.i was rather touched though cos he didnt seem like a wealthy man to me at all (he told me that before he succumbed to being a taxi driver, he was a laundry collector at the island country club opposite my house...). plus, before giving me $2 off my fare, he already subtracted off another $2.50 off my fare cos he turned a wrong turn.....i was so touched i said i'd use the 2 bucks i saved to offer it as an offering to church service.
and then, all the way through combined service, when i was standing at the back watching grace do the visuals for service, during worship, i was thinking of how god healed that driver's leg and my disastrous troubles i've had so far in my life and how god will find a way for him and me....all this while i was holding back my tears.in fact, a few drips did roll down my cheeks then while i was singing, but thank goodness no one saw cos i came in 25 mins late into service and was sitting the backest of the back...behind gracey. thank goodness i recovered quickly too before anyone saw...what a great lesson i've learnt today!

fast forward to after church service....like i said i went out with gracey and sam our cell leader and went sakae....after that we proceeded on to walking all the way to dhoby gaut PS to watch a movie....since i had no dough i decided to play thick-skinned and forced sam to treat us all to the Narnia movie and i succeeded.... while waitin for our movie we walked ard PS for 2 and half hrs....actually wanted to go starbucks to put our feet up for a rest but since there were no seats and gracey and i kept going into shops, enjoying the GSS...we didnt have much time left. then gracey and i also treated sam back to a salty popcorn combo too as a thankyou when our show came...after 2 and a half hrs the show was over and we came out at 8.30pm. gracey and sam were both dead tired except me. in fact, i think i was really hyper it was obvious. ( i guess it must be the coke from the popcorn combo...). gracey and sam wanted to head home already but i forced them not to cos i wasnt ready to go home and continued to drag them all the way to takashimaya to eat MY dinner (they watched me eat)...all the shops there were closed except this rice stall...had to borrow 4 buckaroos from sam to pay for the dumb rice egg omellette dish... and then i further forced them ard orchard to search for a drink to buy and then finally head home...i accompanied them to the orchard mrt then walked back to lido where my parents picked me up.

overall interesting day i suppose. though just the mere though of my school 'frens' dampens my day. goodnight. i love u. miss u dear. muacks