3th August 2010

FOP and 21st anniversary weekend was awesome! Great Presence of God in SIS. Was serving on sat and sun. For the 21st anniversary only, Pst Kong's MP3 USB sermon (Cultural Mandate & Sermons on the Mount) were was at a great bargain...only $21. That's a whopping 90% discount!!! But there were only 50 copies available and each person is only allowed to get 1 copy. Some in my team managed to get theirs. I was kan-chionging for them. Hahaha. Anyways, the USB were SOLD OUT really quickly. Of course la! So cheap! Attributes ministry members, like myself, didn't have to fight with the congregation. We had a batch reserved for us (also limited copies) but will only get it 2 weeks later. Have already ordered and paid for it. :)

Tonight at 2359 is the ultimate dateline of our last batch of SOT assignments - 5 book reviews and 10 sermons. I completed and emailed mine at around 2++am this morning. I literally chiong all of them after last thurs' exam. Phew! Finally all done! Left with exams. Lots of people are still chionging through them. 3++ more hrs to go...Jia you Jia you Jia you!!!!

We're currently doing "Theology" in class. "Theology" is "chimi-logy". Really chim sia. All the big big words. But it's quite interesting. We'll be having another exam this thurs and will be covering 3 books (Fivefold ministry 1, Fivefold ministry 2 and Sermon on the Mount). According to what Pst Kim Hock said, we'll be having another 2 more exams after this thurs paper. Looks like there is at least 1 exam for the next few weeks. Only 3 and a 1/2 more weeks to go in SOT. :) and :( Time really flies man when you are having fun. Our dear Indonesian friends will also be returning back to their hometown soon. :( Will miss them. :( Will surely miss these 6 months spent in SOT. Treasuring every moment left of it. SOT graduation dinner will be on the 20th. Planning for the next gathering on the 25th with team 25.

Came home after SOT class today to work on stocks. Yet to study for the exam. Should start soon. But having a slight headache now. Maybe didn't have enough sleep? Slept at 2++ after I finished chionging the assignments. Woke up at 6++ as our team is on PA duty this whole week and have got to clock-in by 8am latest.What we do for PA duty? Scan students cards, serve as greeters & ushers, running of errands. Was assigned to scan student cards with Chunshan & Anita. Scanning is fun! But not so fun when the crowd comes at around 8.30am. Quite stressful as we are practically racing against the clock. Those who clock in after 8.45am are late. Every 30mins of lateness accumulated, the person have got to fulfill another 4hrs of additional ministry hours on top of the ministry practicum requirements of 4hrs a week. Every min of lateness count. Yesterday we nearly caused a lot of people to be late as the system was not cooperating with us & we were not familiar with the system. The last person in the queue clocked in at 8.49am (that's 4mins late when in fact he wasn't late at all but caught up in the queue :( ). Felt so bad sia. Some of the students scolded us for it. :( But those on duty b4 understand & were very patient. We already did our best. Thank God the SOT staff adjusted yesterday's clock-in time to 8.50am latest instead of 8.45am. Today's scanning was much much better. More used to the system & also the system was more cooperative. We even laid hands on the scanners and the laptop b4 we started scanning. Haha. The power of laying on of hands. Tomorrow it'll even better. Shall lay hands on the scanners and laptops again. :) By friday, we'll be experts. LOL!