RICE rally
Sunday, August 24, 2008
I went to RICE rally yesterday with my cousins Lisa and Ben, and my brother. It was pretty fun, and especially cool how I had good seats near the front xD Ben's friends are so nice; they gave up they seats for Lisa, Laurence and I! hehehe Well, it was where Ben's yg Reef were sitting...and I got pegged by them lol =D
The Mexican wave with our mobile phones was cool :) and the beach ball thing was funny cos it hit my brother's head at one point lolol... I briefly saw Vicky, Irvin, Shell, Angela, Sarah and Spaz before the rally actually started and I had to make my way back to my seat in the dark T_T
Yeah, it was funny and entertaining =D Spaz went up to represent her youth group and Sarah (the macfields Sarah) was up there too!
Mark Driscoll gave us a really long preach about what Jesus had to go through for us and showed us a video of how painful the crucifixion was for Jesus. It was really gory packed and pretty gross to watch..
I guess the purpose of showing us the vid was for us to understand how much Jesus suffered, in order to save us all.
Ryan (from yg) was singing up there too! [the one in red] AND Ben's bestie Brian.
There has never been a time where i've known so many people performing/presenting on stage in a public function before XD
Nam and Dewey were up there too, and we got a zoomed in shot of Dewey's eye LOL .. other things were presented but I cant remember now...
Afterwards, I met up with Nick and we went to the Rice lounge. I met David's brother who looks a lot like him "what can you say, we're brothers" hahah
Anyways, I didn't pray to surrender my life to Jesus and become a Christian when Mark said the prayer so I was questioned by Andrew, Rebecca, Ben and Dewey. I actually felt kinda interrogated by them, even though it was probably unintentional..
They didn't ask Lisa cos she was eating jelly beans. I should've done that.
So what happened was that they kept pressing on why I didn't surrender myself etcetc. Dewey then asked 'What are you waiting for?' and that question really got to me, because to be honest, I don't even know what I'm waiting for - it just hasn't happened for me. A while ago, Ben attempted to describe to me his experience of knowing, the moment when he was 'saved' ... and though I wasn't expecting it to happen to me tonight, I was still hoping to see something extraordinary. But to be truly honest, even taking away all the barriers between me and surrendering my life to Jesus and devoting myself completely to God (including my mum not wanting it), seeing it at this point, I don't think I will commit.
But I will still go to yg, and maybe I'll be convinced one day. Maybe one day. Anything can happen, right? Doubt it though .
Then I went to the Expo to my yg Access and then to Ben's yg Reef and briefly met up with Vicky and we saw Alvinn as well ahahaha. I want the Access flag!
It was pretty late when we headed home...and I'm not use to sitting at the back of a van anymore since my old van was sold a few years ago, so I got carsick/dizzy. My uncle took us home, and also took Maggie and B. Diep home too. I was really tired and hungry; I think we stopped at subway but I was almost dead from tiredness. When my brother and I got home, I made instant noodles and then went to sleep.
Okay, so I'll admit- there was one particular moment that really stuck to me and i'll probably be thinking about it for a while. A group of actors performed a skit on stage about how God created life and how God's own creation rejected him and got further away from him with all those nasty things that ruin you (drugs, money, greed, vanity, etc). Anyway, the person is eventually driven to suicide consideration and just before it happens, God saves them. I can't really retell the performance that well lol, but when I watched it, I really felt something. I don't know... I guess I was really touched. I cried so much after it hahahha LOLS.
The performance probably has a much deeper meaning that I dont really understand, but yeahh. Maybe I'll understand it one day. lol im kinda probably not making much sense to the people who are reading this but yeah, I just wanted to write it down somewhere.
I really liked the song they used too. It was a Lifehouse song (recognise their voices hahahha). I think it's called 'Everything'.
Overall, I'm glad Ben took me to this event :)
Labels: city, food, friends, tired
Last ass tomorrow
Thursday, July 31, 2008
Stressed with Art and Truongs today...I was doing art last night, so I didnt have time to do truongs hw...thankfully Joanne is here, because without her, I wouldnt have been able to do (more like copying xD) truongs hw that quickly hehe
Maths competition today- it was HARD, and I started guessing after question 8; that went for two periods...
THEN period 3, we had MATHS arrrghh, so much maths in one day ! English was just listening to more speechies :) so relieved that I did my speech already, unlike SOMEONE who STILL didnt do their speech yet!! hint: he starts with a t and ends with hang.
I finished my art sculpture today ^^ it looks like a pile of junk glued together.
There was some stupid fight going on at the bottom of the stairs, and spectators started from the circle at the bottom of the stairs, leading up the stairs and along the balcony bridge thing WTH.
Met up with Macfielders today, and HELEN and DAVINA weren't there =.= so i couldnt sponsor her for MS ...i later found out from Emily what happened :S ..Louis bought a NEW school scarf today, which I have to admit, looks way better than my tattered old one, but i still love mine more ;)
At Truongs today, we got our test results for differentiation back...yay, i did fine ;) and he didnt pick on me today as well :) Sophie needed to talk to Truong after class so my mum was gonna come later than usual...SORRY Tu for giving you the WRONG book! -_-
And staying up late to do art~
Artartartart~~~~~~~~~~~
Labels: friends, maths, sleepy, stress, tired, tutor
Headaches are horrible
Saturday, July 26, 2008
Too much english in one day plus my lack of sleep over the week =.= I almost fell asleep in chem tutor today and i just re-watched my related text again to find more techniques... my eyes are gonna shrink!
Why do we get so many assignments all due in the same small clump of time?! WHY can't it be SPREADED out?! Well, sometimes it's good so we get it over and done with, but arrgghh I don't want to do any assignments now or ever.
The prospect of this is depressing, and I'll be having almost sleepless nights until all assessments are done, due to my lack of organisational skills... and what also added oil to the fire is that my tutor chem teacher said in his comment on my dot points that I scanned his giving work and resubmitted it.
Like seriously, WHUT!?! I only scanned 2 diagrams from his worksheets on each module, but the rest and written part is in my own work! ARGGHH so annoyed at this. Even though I'm not the only one with that comment, it irritates me that he would think that!
Assignments are lame; Printers are dumb; Headaches are gay; English is gayer; Public speaking sucks; tutor is tiring; tutoring teachers expect too much and I feel stupid right now because I cant hack it.
Its not even year 12 yet, and I still haven't change my bad habits of waking up late; showering late; staying up late; leaving assignments to the last minute; doing whatever I feel like at home, bleehh...i made myself a timetable, which I never ever stick to! its like there's no order to the pattern of my daily non-existent routine ~.~
*sigh I really gotta get my organizational act together soon.
And I still have that headache..
P.S. Thank you for all your help Katherine!
Labels: chemistry, english, tired
