Happy new year everyone! it's year 2008 now. 1st January. It was quite cool to see "2008" on my HP date. ha. was telling le jing. well, ytday, received a v nice sms from charles. a word of thanks, encouragement and well-wishes! thanks pal! replied and said the same. it also set me thinking abt khalis and sent him one too. glad he received it. well, i guess 31st dec has taken on a new meaning for me. a time/day to reflect and think abt those frens who have been by yr side in that year and to take that time to say a word of thanks. i mean, can and should say it everyday and any other time. but for me, i believe i'll do so deliberately on 31st dec too.

so there was watchnight service. din expect so many ppl. almost the whole church! we re-arranged the chairs such that it becomes a ring/horseshoe. i lyk this kinda formation. reminds me jus how small yet cosy and warm my chr is. how friendly they all are and how much we really are a family. so there were games since it's not a formal svc. led my matthew. it was fun and intellectually challenging. thanks anyway. after that, worship and there was my section--reflection on month-month basis. i'm glad they lyk it and get to move arnd. le jing said it wasn't boring. and i'm so happy when someone says he/she hopes to go to myanmar mission trip inspired by aunty cas. haha.

worship was good to me too! it almost made me cry jus singing and looking at the words/lyrics. a good time of sharing. i did share as always but not as much. hearing wad aunty cas say was interesting: we [parents] are only stewards of the children God gave to us...and the only thing we [parents] can bring to heaven is our children. imagine going to heaven and not finding your children there. how devasted a scene that would be!

so after that, i arranged for transport for all the youths to go unc cla's house. thanks to him and aunty geak hong for opening up their house to us again and vacate their room for us to slp in. there are a total of 19-20 of us. a really BIG grp la. din expect it. then, sat in a circle, did a round of sharin on the milestone in our own 2007/thanksgiving. it was not bad. frm there i found out tat deb and nic are together again. nice. well, it wasn't too bad. but i dunno i spoilt everything and bore everyone out. making it too rigid?

well, played taboo for a few rounds and then countdown using the "countdown timer" on the tv prog. haha. hugging. well-wishes. then, we sat in small grps, some played Blistz, my grp was prank callin ppl to wish "happy new year" and others were jus chatting with jeremy and his parents. if only this happened from the beginning...

but v soon, many started to leave. batches by batches. and they leave really early. lyk 30 mins past midnight or even 1hour after that. sigh. then, there were only 4 of us left: le jing le ying deb and myself. hmm. jessie was there too. so we chose a korean movie to watch: the classic. it's a really nice show. not extremely touching. din cry tho some did. but the storyline was good! interesting. never seen before. after that, we watched Meet Joe Black. i watched halfway then went off to slp. nid to slp since there's a lunch gathering at my hse soon. glad nic came with his OCS hw though. but at least, get to tok to him a bit.

pulled myself outta bed this morning at 8 plus when i heard jeremy's cough. i was suddenly reminded that i'd better wake up early so i can have more time to tok to jeremy! catch up a bit. hear tales and wad he's been doing in OCS thus far. it's really tough to catch him when he's in camp. shared some on my side too. haha. all the first-times i have. so borrowed a Korean Drama series and Meet Joe Black to finish off the show. haha.

okay. that's all. gotta go already. guests are here! blog later perhaps..