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Today's the first day of the new block. Was only from 9 to 12pm :D
Was feeling quite sick still. And i'm running a slight temperature now (again!) :(

Supposed to meet hweeshan at compasspoint after sch today but she couldn't make it in the end.
so...headed for lunch with jacq, grace, esther and hajar :D after that esther and hajar left first. grace and jacq waited with me to pass the CTI shirt to Alicia, then we headed to Wheelock Place to service our laptops. Some of the rest joined us later.
I accompanied Grace to citibank. and while waiting for the rest to sms us where they were, we did some window shopping :) Grace joined the rest later on while i went to meet Richmond and Justin at Heeren's.

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Matthew 18:15
"Moreover if your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault between you and him alone. If he hears you, you have gained your brother."

Many people apply this verse differently than the intended way. When a person is hurt, they normally confront the other person with a spirit of anger and revenge. But they have misunderstood the reason Jesus instructed us to go to one another. It is not for condemnation but reconciliation. HE doesn't want us to tell our fellow brother/sister how rotten he/she has been to us. We are to repair that breach that prevents the restoration of the relationship.

This is the way that God uses to restore us to Himself. Though we have sinned against God, He "demonstrated His own love towards us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us" (Romans 5:8) Are we willing to lay down our self-protection and die to pride in order to be restored the one who has offended us? God reached out to us before we asked for forgiveness. Jesus decided to forgive us before we even acknowledge our ofense.

*Extracted from John Bevere's "The Bait of Satan".

One block is over :) :) :)

Yay! the block is over!! Just submitted Interface Design at 12pm and Video Fundamentals at 510.
Now is 5:22pm. Know what?? We ran all the way from Engine's printshop to Design General Office.
Late by ten minutes. But well, i'm happy we've submitted! I feel so much free-er now :D:D:D

Everyone's so tired. next block starts this Monday! :S
No more offs for mondays. :(

And i'm still sick. Have not recovered since Sunday night. :S
Have the weekend to recharge, then start the new block on Monday!
The thot of it makes me feel so tired. Another two modules:
Professional Communication for Design [PComD]
Project2!!! :S (this module will stretch for the next 2 blocks)

time to rest

I'm sick. The flu bug is everywhere again
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Maybe i should just rest and do my work tomorrow....
Tuesday is submission for interface design :(

.HAPPY day.

Today's a long long day.
7:30am: Took a cab with Justin to pick Nico up, then to East Coast, to continue with our filming
8:00am: Reached ECP, Justin, Nico and I were the earliest, then Jacq and Azmi came along, with our breakfast from Mac's (thanks!) And then, Grace came too :D
10:30am: Left for Tampines
11:30am: Finished filming all missing scenes!
12 :10 till 1:10pm: lunch!
Then headed down to Cityhall :D

Was so so glad we managed to complete our filming! We were all afraid initially, because we had to shoot all the missing scenes, and that would mean going to various venues. Also, since Justin (the other one :P) is in Perth, we might have problems finding another black car to shoot that scene. Thankfully, there was this man who was just sitting at the back of his car (most importantly, it was black!), so Grace and I approached him and he agreed to help us out in that short scene :D We ended our filming at East Coast much earlier than expected, then headed down to Tampines to film another few scenes. We headed to Nico's house and showed auntie Charlene the film we took. Then headed to Century Square for lunch :D (auntie Charlene drove us there, it was really kind of her :D)

Because everything went on smoothly, i managed to reach St Andrew's Cathedral on time for CTI's concert. It was GREAT. 300 over students came (and that is only for the East area, there's still North, West and others.) The theme was about FREEDOM. Remember my previous entry on what do you think freedom means?

What TRUE FREEDOM should mean (and what it means to me as well):

Firstly, there is the dilemma
Having Rules isn't necessarily a bad thing. Yet, freedom is also a virtue.
While Rules protect us, freedom gives us room to express ourselves.
However, when we set rules selfishly, we gain at the expense of others.
Such rules harm people more than protect them.
Similarly, when we want freedom selfishly we get our way without consideration for others and what's right or wrong.

So what's the real problem?
The problem actually lies neither in rules nor in freedom.
It lies with our SELFISHNESS.
This selfishness sets us up to face the intense anger of God.
It sets up a moral trap. (clear so far? :D)
a moral trap means we need help....

The Solution...
We need help from a perfect and powerful person.
Jesus is the only perfect and powerful person who can set man FREE from this moral trap.
** Firstly, the anger of God was on Him when He died on the cross for us.
** Secondly, we can be set free from selfishness.

This is the Freedom we need - true freedom to do what is right.

Had a really tiring day, better rest early tonight and looking forward to church tomorrow :D

Busy Busy...

So tired! Been having headache this week.
Came home from school only at about 10pm.
Our group managed to start editing the film for video fundamentals :D
We all had instant noodles for dinner haha....
Been feeling so tired, haven't been able to really concentrate on Interface Design.

Things to do:
~ Collate chords for music prac, send to team
~ Video Fundamentals: edit video, source for music
~ Interface Design: finalise layout, start doing in photoshop

Wednesday: Meet video group at 12pm; stay back after 6pm??
Thursday: Music prac (change to next week?)
Friday: ...
Saturday: Filming in the morning; CTI concert!! Then to Grace's house to continue video work.


Ok....i should go sleep! Just trying to organise my thots :D

Pictures!

the crew and our STAR-Nicolette!

the notebook and box of crayons nico carries everywhere she goes :)

video assignment - I LOVE green :)

Title of our video assignment: I HEART green.

Nicolette - our star!
Thanks Justin and Keith for being our drivers for the film :D

Thank God for the rain in the morning, the afternoon sun wasn't as hot as it should be in the afternoon. I went for area meeting at EH in the morning before meeting the rest at ECP.

Nicolette was great. We managed to shoot quite a number of scenes. Tomorrow gotta continue filming a few more scenes which we missed out. Hope it won't tire her out :D

Will post some pictures of the film in making soon! :D

Shall sleep now; church tmr! :D

Carpenter's Tools International!

Catch them live in Singapore! :D
Anyone interested? You can leave a comment :)
You can also visit their blog at www.carpenterstools.blogspot.com

What is freedom to you???

Had Romans trail at Emmanuel House this morning.
That was the very first question we were asked...
How will you answer?
Some of the answers that the sec sch students gave were:
* freedom is to do whatever we want
* there is no restrictions and limitations
* dismissal from school (haha!!)
* doing things that benefit me

Is this truly freedom?