Hey! Welcome back to my blog. Just yesterday, I became quite free from academic stuff at roughly 4pm, Singapore time! Woots. 1 sem is over, and i am half way through Poly Life. I don't know whether to be happy or sad, but one thing I can say (which i always say on my blog), Time Passes Uber Fast!!!
Anyways, i had a great time yesterday cos i went out with Nicole and Marilyn, my two besties in Secondary school and had a fun time catching up at Hans, Thomson Plaza. Also had Ritz apple struddle for desert. So it was a great end to my semester. :)
Another great end to my semester was to know that God was with me, helping along the way throughout, and I have survived a very BUSy Sem with his Grace. Thank you Jesus!
Today, i spent my mornings just lazing around, enjoying the simple things in life, crawling out late from bed, taking my time to bite into my breakfast, catching up on the news etc. After lunch, spent some time praying, and reading the bible and hearing the Fuel (http://www.theedge.org,sg/) . Haha. Then spent the rest of my afternoon printing out Calenders, trying to plan my Holdiay! This hol will be quite a busy one, but i know it will be a great! :)
Just thought I will write out a newspaper reflection on one of the articles i read today. (haha, doesn't newspaper reflection sound so familiar to secondary school life?). I found it really interesting, and for those who wanna read up on it, it can be found on Life page C8, 19th August 2008.
The article is named "What comes after gold?", and it talks about Gold winners in the olypics reaching their "ultimate" goal in life, sacrificing and giving it all that they have got, their childhood, other dreams, love, family time, and then feeling a sense of loss because all that they were living for is over. Just to quote an example,
"New york - Decathlete Bruce Jenner (above) crossed the finish line in the 1,500m final in the 1976 Montreal Olympics, arms flying above his head, knowing he had won the gold, and that he had set a world record. He just did not know what he was doing for dinner.
'I had no plans, nothing,' said Jenner in a telephone interview last Saturday.
A friend lent him the use of a luxury suite in Montreal that night with sweeping views of the city where he had just been immortalised.
"So there I was in this amazing suite... and I'm looking around and the place had a grand piano, and i thought, maybe i should learn to play the piano. I mean, I was extremely satisfied but also devastated by the finality of it all.' "
According to Dr Ungerlied, many olympians having serious problems post-Olypics as "this was the only life they knew and it was inconceivable to do anything else". He wrote in his study that was published in 1997.
Over the past few days, I kindda admired the mdal winners at the olympics, taking to note the amount of hard work they had put in to get to where they were, and wondering whetehr I could be in their position if I was given the right opportunity. (maybe the next Michale Phelps. haha) . But after reading this article, I realised that the few seconds of glory and the circluar piece made up of goal was still not the best thing to sacrifice your "whole life" for. This brought me to the bible verse:
1 Corinthians 9: 24 - 26
24. Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize?
Run in such a way as to get the prize.
25. Everyone who competes in the games goes into strict training.
They do it to get a crown that will not last; but we do it to get a crown that will last forever.
26. Therefore I do not run like a man running aimlessly;
I do not fight like a man beating the air.
I guess this verse just says it all.
Well, one thing is for sure, tht this race (the christian race) that we are running for has a prize that will lasts forever. Don't give up all my brothers and sisters in christ. We will def not be disappointed when we reach the finish line togeter!
limmy, out.
eStHer
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