i'm off the jet plane

ok actually i am a little tired and a little sick (more on the latter later - hey - latter later - i like the ring of that - latter later latter later latter later - heehee its even more fun to type - ok enough nonsense) but i know that if i don't start recording stuff down now i'll soon forget it so here goes:

firstly, updates on the stuff that i thought that i would be missing since i was away:

Exam results:
Ok checked these online after coming back from the first English session that we had - before that was alternating between eagerly anticipating them (in hope of all As) and downright avoiding them (in fear of all B minuses or worse). Anyhoos, i was initially quite disappointed because after all the drama of the past sem - the unexpectedly high CA grades amidst the utter lack of time to even do these things, and then the whole severe mood swing right around exam time - i had somehow gotten the slight gut feeling that this sem's results would be the best yet - but instead they were the second worst (or for the optimist - third best). To make things even more unsettling - i got the lowest grade for the level one ss module (once again, this history major vows never to do another soci module ever again - and beat me with a stick if i stupidly even consider breaking this vow again), B+s for my three level 2s, and the highest grade for my level 3 hist. But after prayerfully considering all things, i realised that i still can be thankful that i'm still fairly safe in the desired range, and by most accounts my grades are actually quite okay... And i've also come to the conculsion that the more i desire better grades for my own personal gratification (which is what i feel was the case in this case), the less i'll be granted them...

American Idol: Oh well, Kat lost - but from what my mother told me - serves her right for singing the same old safe and boring stuff - if she sang more cool stuff like Black Horse and the Cherry Tree for her final repertoire then maybe she'd have done better? I donch know - and i'm a sore loser i guess so i won't bother to check out exactly what happened in the finals... In any case, i still cannot stand the other guy.

Singapore Idol: I seriously can't be bothered - even with the sisters who may be my distant relatives...

World Cup: Darn, thought i could escape this one - but world cup fever was just as bad there as it was here four years ago when i was subject to soccer-crazed bunk-mates and the like - think i dislike the sport more than i've ever before...

French Open: Quite cool huh - i correctly predicted the winners (Henin-Hardenne and Nadal) and my other favourites all reached at least the fourth round =) If i could be so accurate for soccer results (that is, if i cared), maybe i'd be a rich man now heh... Caught a glimpse of the fourth round results on Thai TV and later saw a picture on a newspaper of the winner and runner-up of the women's singles - and even though it was all in Thai (duh) at least i'm happy there wasn't an information blackout...

Ok apart from that there of course is a lot of stuff that happened with greater relation to the trip itself - which i wil probably talk about at a later date (or else you'll just have to wait for the presentation heh). Here are some little snippets first:

The trip saw my first time:
-eating guava [i hereby retract my previous claim that i do not eat all tropical fruits - rather, i do not eat most tropical fruits, save for stuff like rambutans, peeled guavas and fried (i.e. not fresh) bananas]
-riding a motorcycle (albeit only for two two-minute trips to the market and back, but still, a trip's a trip)
-being called 'handsome' by someone not of the cheek-pinching auntie variety (though the caller in question was instead of the male variety so i don't know whether to be flattered or to flee...)

Also the 'latter later' stuff:
I fell sick towards the end of the trip, and was fluctuating rapidly between mildly well and horribly delirious over the last three days. Some insisted that i must be homesick but i said no - how can i be homesick when i am often so sick of home? Well, today i was still sickish, but by the time we touched down, my bad throat was now barely noticeable, and the other ailments were all but gone - all this to such an extent that i was able to follow my parents to Sizzler to eat steak for dinner - and round it off with ice cream furthermore (this is all the more ironic considering how my last meal before falling sick was steak...) so in short, maybe i was subconsciously homesick after all...

Ok, i do want to elaborate much more, particularly on the ministry and how the Lord has really blessed me through the trip, but i shall leave that for another day - nitey...