Kenneth:
Greetings. Umm, what shall I say? I'll blog about myself again.
Okay, first(I think there's not going to be any "Second"), my Birthday. It was on 26 August. (now I checking my spiritual journal) All these years, my birthday hadn't been anything extravagant. But I think this year's one is kind of meaningful. It was a nice day. In the morning my mother gave me a card. It said "Sweet & endearing, we love the way you've grown- You're BEAUTIFUL in our eyes". After that I began reflecting. I "sensed" myself- in a way that I couldn't when I was in Sec 2. I had a personality. And God had a huge part to play in "creating" it.
Upon reaching reaching school, Zi Wei (my classmate) said happy birthday to me- I was somewhat shocked. We didn't really talk much and from several weeks ago from his gestures I thought he had something against me.
I also started hymning softly to myself the song "At the feet of Jesus" (and posted a video on the song here days later). I felt amazingly good, almost like I had just went for altar call and got myself cleansed up, lest having a normal quiet time (this was during the 1st period of school- "Student Development" my teacher was just talking (chinese) and many people half-asleep in class I think).
While I was discussing about Project Work (PW) during PW period my class suddenly sang "happy birthday" to me. Well this is normal for my class- or my school, but its like a different culture from my Secondary school. Although it can be odd at times, like you "pai sa" or don't know how to react, it still gives some kind of... ummm like bonding, friendship....rather than no one says anything...
Oh yeah and I felt what I usually felt for the past few weeks. I've not "shined" the passion or love I have for Jesus in my class, not even spread the Gospel much. Neither have the Christians in my class done anything much to be the salt and light (maybe they didnt even do anything except not being "evil people") although my JC is a Christian one. I also didn't open up that much. August had been a rather good month. I was "in shape" and not overwhelmed by work or sianness or other troubles. Yet I didn't do anything. I want to be "A man of God". Haha. I must step out of my comfort zone. I wanted to talk to the class- infront of the class. Actually its not primarily about God. From the day before June holidays I wanted to say something. Its about my fear. Fear of being rejected and detested. A big aim I have in JC was about developing my character, opening up, maturing in Christ. Aiya nvm shall stop writing about this here.
I still have more to write but I think I'll write tomorrow. About teachers day and the weekend.
I need to get 4 people to join my PW group in "Dining in the Dark" on this Friday 5 September at 12.30pm at Singapore Association of the Visually Handicapped (somewhere in toa payoh). Its $28 per person. Its a lunch of fish n chips as the main meal- I think its like a restaurant. The description from the website goes,
"Dining in the Dark is a programme to promote awareness of vision loss to the public. It aims to give participations the experience of how a visually handicapped person copes with the simple task of having a meal.
You will enter a totally dark room escorted by our experience visually handicapped servers. Apart from eating your meal, you will be encouraged to pour yourself a drink from a water container. The experience will heighten your sense of touch, smell and hearing to compensate the repressed vision."
I'm doing this for PW. I'm inviting you all to come. You may like the experience. Sms me or something if youre interested. Thanks.
Signing off
Kenneth