Okay. Before I start doing anything, I promised Marcus a few weeks back that I'll blog. So here I am! Blogging. I wonder why I don't have much inspiration these few weeks. Hmm. Maybe cos I'm just consumed by the other things that need to be done.

Yes. I've been pretty busy. Emailing back and forth still. For all the accomodation. And making phone calls to discuss issues etc. But I thank God for this week of rest as I prepare myself for the mission trip starting this Saturday. Pray for safety and protection against harm and danger k? :)

The past few days have been good. Had a good session of K with my friends! Really awesome! Though missed a few people like Yichen and Jue Xuan! Especially JX. Not just our photographer, but the hype of our clique and I wanted to catch up and chat with her too. Oh well. But still, it was nice just being with my other friends and singing together. Wow. Wanting can do harmonising really well! And QY is really funny when he's high on singing. Never seen him like that before! Lol. And another funny thing is that we end up singing alot of English songs instead of Chinese songs. Really. I would dare say that out of the many songs we sing within 4 hours, there are only about 5 songs that are chinese. The rest are English ones. Lol.

I met up with my flatmates too. Hui Min and Ken and Owen. It was nice meeting them finally. Couldn't recognise Hui Min and Ken until they came forward to greet me. Ha. And had a really good and long and nice chat with Ken, just sitting at the steps at City Hall stn. 1 hour. Just sitting there and getting to know him better :) Talked about his recent vietnam trip too! We had lunch together as a group thereafter and discussed about the apartment and the items to buy over. I'm glad we all can clique relatively well so far.

Except for the shopping part. Ken and I were very sporting. He would enter the girls shop tgt with me and linger a while there, and I would enter the guys shop when he's shopping for his clothes. It was nice shopping with him too. But Hui Min seems bored and left both shops quickly. Hmm. I wonder if I would hold her up next time when we go shopping together. She says she does more online shopping. I guess that explains why. But, I'll certainly miss shopping with Wanting and Bethia whom I met later that evening!

Yeah. Had a good time of shopping and dinner too! Cheap and good dinner! =) Good lobang right? :) So shopped for quite a fair bit and surprisingly, I was the first one to surrender and say "tired". Haha. But well, it was a good ladies night-out! Miss ya Bethia! =)

[communication]

Changing topic, this one has been stuck in my head for quite a while now. I was just looking at the various communication means present now. Phone call, video call, msn, sms, fb and skype. It brought to my mind how little I call people to chat now and rely heavily on sms. Fb is 2nd and email is 3rd. And I really miss those days when I would chat non-stop on the phone.

My favourite phone partner is Yi Xian. And it's no wonder he was very nostalgic at my bday party, recalling the good old days. Yeah. We would talk on the phone non-stop just about everything and that's how we became the best of friends. Khalis too. That was after we graduate from our sec school.

Sigh. Now, talking on the phone is really not easy. For some people, like Wanting, we can chat on the phone easily but just that we don't call often. While for others, it's really just talking business. Or still others, just a bit hard to get them to chat comfortably with me on the phone. There seems to be this apprehension or fear. I don't know. All I can say is that I miss talking on the phone and miss this form of easy & clear communication.

I wonder if the advance in technology is doing us good. It seems to stifle our communication and inter-personal skills. With sms or email or fb, it's easy to mis-interpret the other party's tone, feelings and thoughts. It becomes like talking to a cyber-someone that when we really meet face-to-face, we are stumped for words. Haha. I was discussing this with Marcus and he was telling me that there are good and bad to all forms of communication. Perhaps, then, there isn't a one best means of communication, but which is the most relevant one. But still, I can't help thinking that phone calls are better than sms. Haha.

[recall]

I was reading the previous entries on my blog. And I read the one where I wrote some reflections and words of encouragement that I've received. And I really feel ashamed that I've forgotten them and that I haven't been writing much about it recently. And not thinking about it. Boy. I'm so distracted. I really gotta concentrate and keep my focus on Him! Come on, Sharon. You can do this!