Yup i feel fine, albeit a littly dreary-eyed after staying up for the whole night last night during popiah @ the movies and only sleeping at around elevenish this morning (which is incidentally just around my usual wake-up time nowadays) (if you don't count the many times i nearly dozed off on the bus ride back home, despite standing up the whole way...) all the way to around sevenish in the evening just now, the sleep heavily interrupted by many smses and phonecalls that came my way (which i surprisingly was in a shallow enough of a sleep (opposite of deep sleep?) to actually hear and be awaken by... Of course, i think i must have initially made little sense to the people who called me cos i was still more or less half asleep at the time...
Anyway, as i already have said, last night was popiah @ the movies, the first corporate arts cf event of the new academic year [which btw cements my status as no-longer-a-year-one, but in my heart not-yet-a-year-two(much like that ridiculous Britney Spears song, which, much to my disappointment, i heard was co-written by Dido, of all people -how could she write such cheap drivel?)]. In short, things may not have gone entirely according to how we may have wanted them to, but thank God for His reminder to us to really pray and seek His favour and will to be done in everything, no matter what may be happening...
Well, in spite of everything, i do believe that there was a good time of fellowship and getting to know one another better, and new people as well... Nice to see many non-arts people there too... I also thank God for the lessons that He has thought us through this whole event...
The staying-up-all-night part, i suppose, was just waiting to happen, i mean, these kind of events often inevitably climax in some kind of all-nighter... This time, i spent it talking with people, going for supper at my old haunt (ok, not quite lah - actually i've never been to that coffeeshop before, although it was all of 5 minutes or so away from my old house at St. Paul's...), and then fulfilling the 'movies' component of the popiah @ the movies (actually, i realise i never fulfilled the 'popiah' component - the closest i came to doing that last night was eating lots of lettuce leaves stuffed with cucumber, peanuts, and lots of chilli - never have been one to wrap popiah) by watching the latter half of 'Any Given Sunday' which surprisingly featured a great deal - at least ten i think - of actors whose names/faces who i am familiar with (which means they must be pretty established) as well as a totally gross-out dislodged-eyeball scene, and then 'The Usual Suspects', which despite all the good stuff i've heard about it, i failed to really catch the full gist of what was going on (maybe i was too sleepy). Yinbing did, however recognise that the doctor in the show was played by a much younger looking version of the same actress who is the now-dead Mrs Huber in 'Desparate Housewives'...
One thing that troubled me, however about both movies, is the sheer amount of vulgarity in them... Is it really necessary at all? No wonder such over-colourful language is all-too-common nowadays, cos it's so easy to end up being influenced by them and subsequently adding such unchoice words to one's vocabulary (i myself admittedly did that a looooooong time ago too in school and in the army - but by God's grace that chapter is long gone =) All the more urgency, i feel, to pray against the bondage to things of the world, and the need to ask for His strength to be a positive influence to others, rather than be influenced by the world. We are, after all, called to be in this world, but not of it (John 15:19).
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