Life goes on...

*LISTENING TO:*
Song: Fighting to Survive
Artist: Building 429
Album: Rise
Quote: "‘Cause I, I’m fighting to survive. Can’t you see it in my eyes? Please don’t push me anymore. But I, I’m still fighting to believe that there is hope for me. Somewhere beneath the very least of these."
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And so goes another week...

Had my first exam on Thursday... and I think it went ok... wasn't overly difficult and not worth too much so I'm not too worried about it.

Parentals left for Toronto for the weekend to visit my grandma, so house all to myself. Some good alone time, study time, thinking time, and rare movie time... heheh. Lotsa coffee shop studying... pleasantly joined by Bonnie on Saturday at Zavida and then took a little time off in the afternoon to play ball with Merlin, Blaise, and Sarah at the nearby court. Still quite rusty... but twas a light game so luckily, didn't end up sore afterwards like the last time. Heheh. :P

Sunday at Celebration, had a candle-lit Easter Service. It was a concept I kinda wanted to pull off for a while now and with the help of a number of Celebration members, it kinda materialized into reality, which was cool. Lotsa candles (and fire extinguishers) were set up, Phos Hilaron candle-lighting opening, simple intimate worship music (me on piano) interspersed with prayer and scripture, Joel speaking, communion, and special music with Nichole Nordeman's "Why" by Serena. I thought it turned out to be a very delightful evening of intimate worship and reflection... I tried my best to plan it out as thoroughly as possible and as early as possible to make sure everything goes smooth (and, of course, I'm a bit of an organizational freak when it comes to events and worship, heheh)... I wanted it to be a special evening where people could connect with God and focus on the magnitude of Christ's death and resurrection with the least amount of distractions... I hope I accomplished some of that and God definitely blessed the evening since everything came together quite nicely at the end. There were some hitches, of course (stupid chord that I fugged up :P), but I wasn't even concerned about that... twas an evening solely for His glory. Oh, and a very pleasant surprise was that Frank, Bonnie, and Steph came to Celebration that evening. Meant a lot to me to have their support and twas cool 'cause old OCASF'er Jon Nip, who I haven't seen in a looong time, showed up too! After service, we all went for dinner at Moxie's (and a very nice one, I might add) and twas lotsa fun. Is there no limit to Jon's stomach?? Heheh. Haven't laughed that much in a while. :)

And on the personal front... I reluctantly had to shut the door on that hope for good... after all the drama the past couple of weeks, I believe the issue has reached its end, concluding somewhat anti-climatically I guess... of course, being me and with my track record, I'm never the benefactor and will be the one sitting on the curb, as usual... but despite how hard it was, I'm glad God has given me peace about it and I'm sure that although I can't see it yet, He had a greater purpose for everything that happened... I'm really glad that God used this situation to allow us all to trust in Him more and cast aside our own inhibitions... I think it's brought us all closer to Him and to each other, which is all by God's grace. I'm sure there will be days when things won't be as peaceful and I'll struggle with it... but knowing God's at work, He's in control of it all, and He knows me better than I know myself... that's reassuring enough. And I'll have fond memories that'll probably stay with me for a very long time. *sigh* ... and the search continues...

Final exams upon me again, thankfully some of the last I'll ever take. Very little motivation to hard-core study but trying my best anyways... still haven't heard back from my potential internship position... grrr.... my summer is soooo in the air right now because of the uncertainty of this stupid internship. I really want to go on the missions trip to Shanxi but again, it'll depend on if I'll be working. Alrighty, two exams on Thursday then two more after that... time to get studying. :P

Oh, for a laugh, check out my friend Merlin's blog for Southpark pics of the major players at Celebration. Heheh, try to find me if you can. :)