Now I'm at home doing FYP research, and finally caught sized of one of those humongous rats Mable mentioned, that are too smart enough to avoid getting caught in traps. Oh well, at least the one I saw was crawling out of, not into the house.
Room balloting is on-going now. I'm most likely getting back the room I had last year, with Tirza, although she can't ballot yet. That means I get to avoid all the hassle of moving. Just need to tidy and clean up my room to get ready for a new year ahead. My last year in RH and in NUS.
As I have mentioned in Facebook, thanks to Wes' desire to visit NUS, I do wish that I could bring my friends and family over to have a visit there too. Apart from all the stress and price hikes in accommodation (and now school fees too), NUS is a lovely place to study in because of its facilities and wonderful scenery. I always think that the person(s) who designed the university had in mind one that was beautiful, because there's so many very beautiful places in NUS! One of them is RH I suppose (because Mummy and Daddy said it was), but I've been there so long that I'm actually immune to its beauty, except during daybreak when the sun just comes out, and it looks so quiet and serene. But I'm sure all places in Singapore will look like that during day break, except bus stations and MRT stations which are starting to be crowded by that time. Another of those places is the lane from the Central Library crossing to SOC and Biz. There's a sort of park next to it, its very wide, very green with benches in the middle. It's just an open space that doesn't leave one's mind connected to studying at all! Even muggers avoid that place :) And there's this very high stairways from YIH going all the way up to Engineering, that has a sort of bridge-like thing with lots of trees growing at the side, which is the nicest to me, when it rains. The Faculty of Arts has such a place too :)
NUS is a beautiful place, and even if I have a horrible CAP I'm happy to have studied there!
I went to our Youth Fellowship meeting yesterday, and what blessed me most was Uncle Barry's 10 Declarations for Youth that he drafted himself. The declarations were good and covered all areas that should be covered as far as I could see. But it was not the quality of the declaration that I was impressed about, rather, it was his concern over the youth in our church. Although most of the kids in MIF (the Intermediate Fellowship) were still young (primary school or early secondary school), the things that he challenged them to do after the prayer meeting did not send the message that they were still young and hence, have the license to take their time and go slow; but he challenged them like adults. That's what they need to grow up in the right direction, I feel, and their leaders should see that.
There was this last line in the Declaration that said: 我们活着是要荣神益人(Our purpose of living is to glorify God, and bless/serve others). Indeed if we look at things in this light, many things that are big, seem much smaller - and you get so much assurance that if we put God first in the things we do, He'll take care of all the worries. But there's one thing we must guard - our heart which is therein springs all the issues of life. A heart that puts God first in everything we do, that protects itself against sin, that is ready and desires to worship and cleanses and purifies itself before it does.
