Sunday, September 24, 2006

Amen to that!

Okay....

Chapter 1.
Official Christian Fellowship. Ms Kwan. Meeting at hut.

This all started out, one day, when my English teacher, Ms Kwan told me that there was going to be a meeting at the hut in front of the photocopy shop. "What meeting?" was my responce. "*Christian Fellowship".
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*Our school was invited to All Saints' church to take part in a Bible quiz earlier this year. Teacher gathered a few of her Christian students and quickly trained us for the quiz. Our 'fellowship' then ended.
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I was really quite surprised at the time. So i told her i'd go.

3rd recess came quick. After a quick lunch, I grabbed Tamar(my friend) and we started running, as we were quite late because she had her forum meeting. When we got there, the hut was filled with lots of students and our chinese teacher?!?

I thought the meeting was cancelled and was a bit sad. When we were just about to leave, Audrey came up to us and said the meeting location was changed because there was a group of students getting ready for some chinese competition.

We followed her to the back door of the school. I was shocked to see a few familiar face and some fresh ones too.

Ms Kwan was talking about opening a Christian Fellowship in our school since all the other schools assumed we did have one already and was sending us all these invites to gatherings, competitions etc.

We all agreed and we became the core group! Ms Kwan then said meetings were to be held on Tuesday after school.


Chapter 2. Fellowship Gathering. KK High School. Rockin.

This happened before Chapter 1

Ms Kwan went to my seat and asked me if i would like to go to a gathering at KK High School on Saturday. She said the gathering was during lesson hours and that she'd apply official leave for me and the other people.

I agreed.

Saturday came quick. I packed a small bag with my Bible, my file, my pencilcase and my phone. The first 2 periods on Saturday are KHB and we went to the workshop to work on our wood projects. On our way back to class, **Cathy told me the time of meeting was changed to 9 am and wasnt 9.30 am anymore. So i said sure.
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**Cathy is Basel Church's Reverend Lee's daughter. More on her later.
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When i got back to class, i informed Tamar and Kevin about the change of time. We all grabbed our stuff and left the class. I left with an apple in my mouth. :)

The bell rang. Recess was over. We went to the staff room to look for Ms Kwan. She said the time was changed AGAIN to 9 am. But she said nevermind and asked us to go to the library to wait. We said we'd go.

Kevin said he 'left' his bottle at the canteen. Me and Tamar accompanied him to get it. When we got there, he said it was in his bag which was on his back. Since we were there, we got ourselves some stuff to eat. After we finished our food, we walked to Tshung Tsin hut and sat there for about 7 minutes.

Then we left for the staffroom. Ms Kwan was there and asked us to gather the Junior 2 students quickly. We gathered Audrey, Janice, Samantha, Krystal and some other girl(sorry) and ran for teacher's car. I was surprise to see Daryl, Max, Cathy, Samantha Liew, Lo Vun How and another girl(sorry) there. especially the first two mention, because they're the same year as we are.

We piled into the car. The Junior 3 and Seniors sat in Ms Kwan's car. We reached KKHS and found the lecture hall. We sang. We listened. It rocked!

Afterwards, Cathy asked me to go to Basel church Youth!


Chapter 3. Election. Room 402

Election Day!

After school, i packed my truckload of stuff and told Tamar to wait
in our class for me. THen i grabbed my bag and ran downstairs to Junior 3 ren to look for Cathy. I waited at the door as Cathy ran downstairs to pour away her cup of paint.

While she was down there, Ian(brother of Daryl) came up and asked me if i were going to election. I answered a firm yes and asked him if he were going. He said the same thing. "Who are you waiting for?" he said. "Cathy" was my answer. He then joked that i should be waiting for him. I laugh sarcastically.

Cathy came up and asked me to come into her class. I reluctantly went it. It was a jungle in there. There were people screaming messages to people right beside them. It was like good tv.

I suddenly remembered that Audrey wanted me to go to her class to look for her after school. I left Cathy and Ian talking and ran up one floor to the Junior 2 classes. I grabbed Tamar and stared running to class Xiao. While running, i heard music coming from class Ren. They were playing the guitar and singing to some songs.

When i reached class Xiao, i was happy to see that Audrey was still in her class. I grabbed her and, with Tamar and Audrey in my hands, i started to run down one floor to look for Ian and Cathy. But they werent there. Oh well. We started to walk to the CCA building as we were told to meet at room 402 in the CCA building.

We climbed up the miserable flights of stairs and surprisingly, reached the room. Everyone there was getting ready. Pushing tables around, etc. etc

We put our bags onto the table and suddenly, Cathy grabbed my arm and started running. She said she needed the bathroom. "Right, OK." was my responce.

After using the 'glorious' bathroom, we started our journey up the steps. AGAIN. Long story short, we met a few guys from CF on our way up and we raced them but went up and extra floor. LOL.

We went down the xtra floor with embarassment. We then entered the room, sat down annd kept quiet. The meeting was about to begin.


Chapter 4.
Election.

The election began. There were a few posts that were needed to be filled.

~ President
~ Vice-President
~ Treasurer
~ Secretary
~ Organiser
~ General Affairs
~ Prayer Coordinator
~ etc.

After we all prayed and sang, we began our election. These were the results:

~ President-Cathy
~ Vice-President-Max
~ Treasurer-Samantha
~ Secretary-Sharon
~ Organiser- Ian
~ General Affairs-Steffi
-Ronald
-Daryl
~ Prayer Coordinator-Vun How
~ Worship Coordinator- Addie


We ended our election in prayer.

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Lets just stop for now... hehe...

Stef.

Sunday, September 03, 2006

Rest In Peace, little Bubble.

On September the first, 8.30a.m. Bubble died.


Early morning, our maid came looking for my mom, saying that our dog doesnt seem right. Mom went downstairs to have a look. Bubble was lying there, only her eyes moving. The maid said she hadnt been eating much. I guess if i paid a little more attention to her i might have seen that.

Mom asked Ahad to bring Bubble to Doctor Skinner. He said Bubble had anemia, caused by a kind of tick. He said we were supposed to bring her for a jab every month. The guy in the pet shop hadnt told us about this. So we really didnt know.

The doctor put her on glucose because she was weak. He said he might be able to save her, that she had to go back everyday. But after a while, the doctor called mom. He said he was sorry and that Bubble had passed away.

My mom wrote me a letter and put it together with my rice that was supposed to be sent to me in school. When i went to the guard house. I was surprised that Ahad was there. He said my dog had died. I was so scared it had been Hazel. He passed me the letter. It turns out it was Bubble. I started crying so hard. Everyone wanted to know why i had been crying. I just couldnt say it. I still cant.

It feels so weird coming home and not seeing her by the front door. Tail wagging and barking at us. Now, its just an empty spot that i have to see everyday. As i was leaving that morning, I told her that i was gonna shower her when i got back from school that day. I didnt get the chance. Ahad buried her when i was at school. Didnt get to see her one last time.

I hope she's ok. With Jesus and all. I just miss her so much. Shadow has no one to play with anymore. Hazel has no little sister. I have no more licks on my face from her anymore. Everyday i pray for her. Hoping she forgives me. I miss you so much.
Goodbye, little friend.