yap choi choi choi

Yesterday's (or if you wanna be technical about it, the day before yesterday's) FT was a very enriching time for me, mainly cos of the message.

What Ms Gracia said about being serious about (evangelism + missions =) our mission struck me in a way, cos even though i may be involved in MEET, perhaps unconciously i may have been treating it as the fulfillment of my Christian outreach quota, and also feeling very bogged down by all the stuff that has to be done for MEET. Think that somehow i may have unconciously looked upon the stuff to be done as just plain that, stuff to be done. Thank God for the timely reminder of the larger purpose behind all these things, and a clearer picture of the bigger scheme of things.

Of course, it also felt rather surreal to hear her speak in the VCF context rather than the ACJC/choir context that i am so familiar with. Was half expecting her to whip out a tuning fork and give pitch...

Today (or yesterday, if you'd like) i practically spent the whole day (apart from two hours of lecture) in arts canteen green tables again... Dunno why i have a sudden affinity for that place even though it can get sooooo very hot... Furthermore i feel that i can be more productive in the library 6th floor, which i unconventionally have been giving the miss as of late, primarily cos i am too lazy to move there once i've plopped myself there in the morning. This certainly explains why i've been eating way too much lately, am way to near the food source... Well come friday, i shall immediately station myself in the library to avoid nua-ing in the canteen.

Stayed back for a while after dinner (btw, what a novel idea - a few people sharing dishes from the dong dong store - more variety at same price) to do a bit of work. Ming Jie's laptop was playing a couple of those old songs that remind me how old i am (even though i never heard of many of them until recently). There was one cantonese ballad by Zhang Guorong that i remember my brother playing endlessly many many years ago, i think i was still in sec one then. Now when i hear it it sounds nice, but then, i was highly irritated and amused by one particular line where he goes "yap choi choi choi", and does so many many times throughout the song [i believe the song's called "choi" (mandarin: zhui1) - which explains the abundance of "chois" in the lyrics]. Then there were three English songs, John Lennon's "Imagine" (love the tune though can't make sense of the lyrics), Peabo Bryson's "If Ever You're In My Arms Again" (today's pop just pales in comparison), and Patty Smyth & Don Henley's "Sometimes Love Just Ain't Enough" (ditto). If i am not wrong, all three can probably be heard on Gold 90.5FM nowsaday. Boy am i getting old...