blessed week

this has been a truly blessed week!

spent an enjoyable 5 days experiencing real school life at wonderful ACJC which happens to be a "missionary school" - it was definitely eye-opening to see how differently the teachers and students go about their daily lives and interact with each other when God was put at the centre of all their activities...

for one, the national athem every morning was sung in a "hymnal" style (no kidding! you can clearly hear "harmonisation" of the notes by the 10-member choir which led the anthem every morning - try to recall how Majullah Singapura sounded like during your own school days.. haha). then, staff meetings always start with prayer.. really strange cos i guess we always imagine meetings to be just "get-it-over-and-done-with" super secular, inevitable evils.. also, the helpfulness and rapport amongst the staff was just incredible and we had teachers coming up to us every day to say hi and to want to know about us (i know anyone could be cynical about this and say it was all "made-up" to impress us - believe me, i am quite perceptive and i really don't feel it)...in a dog-eat-dog world of backstabbing and office politics, this was Paradise...



and then, i also managed to pick up my new Canon G2 at a great price as well as a 256mb compact flash card yesterday at almost half the price i expected to pay.. watch the wonderful Turn Left Turn Right show on Thursday, and lastly, find a nice new home for my 128mb SmartMedia storage card (which i bought for my Olympus digicam which has since died) by giving it away to someone who really needed it but didn't have money to buy one..

nice fuzzy feelings... :)

school starts again next week.. grr.. assignments galore..