a dash of nutmag!

Haven’t you walked about the supermarket these days, seen those pink-red pomegranates, then felt like giving them a try? Isn’t there the whole craze over pomegranates nowadays? Pomegranate juice, yoghurt, yakult, salads.. everything..

It squirts and stains when you try to separate the pulpy seeds from the pith! Thank goodness I had an apron.. like some kitchen ah ma like that.. Oh but I must say that a single pomegranate has enough pulps to fill more than a chinese rice bowl! Quite cool.. But there’s so many of them to separate and there are many ‘compartments’ of piths you need to dig out!

Oh the worst part is: Each pulpy things has an inedible seed in them.. Can you imagine spitting every seed out?? And there’s like how many to finish up? For someone like me who eats loads of fruits, how in the world do u enjoy that! Sigh.. The really really nice, deep, rosy red colour cannot make up for that man!  

Haha.. did it once; never again in the near future.. It’s a real mess to prepare, and eat.. I’d rather buy the bottle of juice! Cheaper somemore eh! One pomegranate which is a pain to seed AND to eat costs you $2; a bottle of juice is like $1! Which is the better deal man! Hah! (:

Moral of the story, don’t try to join in the pomegranate craze. Serious! I still have one more in the fridge I’m too lazy to cut open..

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Anyway, I’m so glad, it’s done! Yesterday, being the loner (!hah, kidding), no, I did not hang out partying with my class or something! Haha. Instead I spent a good, quiet two solid hours at Toastbox@PS after lunch with them! It’s really cool, I was just writing down stuff, thinking, reading and somehow, it’s so amazing how things are put into perspective at the end of everything, how as much as I thought RJC was a BIG mistake, it was so perfectly timed! Honestly! I can’t be more grateful than I am now. I was just listing down the things that I was thankful for the past 2 years, and boy, it was so long I had to stop!  I am so pleased and at peace with whatever that’s behind and also before me to come in terms of ministry! And it’s a new season, of change, I feel. And I’m so assured that just as He has made ways for me that I never understood, He will make a way.

One thing I’m just so grateful for is my form teacher (yea, sounds so sobby and cliche right?) but thank God she’s an MGSian, ex-ACJ staff, ex-Wesleyan, basically so many things in common that are so close to my heart. And these are things I can seriously talk to her about, and that makes me feel more at home in a foreign land like RJ! (: So thank God! And definitely, for Class Cell, it has doubled in size the past 2 years, quite a number have grown to know more abt Christ because of it. No matter how xian we were of it, like tired of leading BS or attending, it still happened. Just shows how God’s power at work cannot be underestimated. (:

Ps 16
 5 LORD, you have assigned me my portion and my cup;
       you have made my lot secure.

 6 The boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places;
       surely I have a delightful inheritance.

 7 I will praise the LORD, who counsels me;
       even at night my heart instructs me.

 8 I have set the LORD always before me.
       Because he is at my right hand,
       I will not be shaken.

Oh so anyway, then I went to YWCA after Toastbox to say Hi to THE studying place haha.. Then ok I did my CRAZIEST-thing-of-the-year. Ok, once a year is fine. Hah.. Thanks Glenda and Jolyn for being my witnesses. -.0

Really had a lengthy and meaningful dinner-cum-walk with Xin. Provoked much thought. Then when I got home, PEOPLE, LISTEN and stop suaning me can. I GOT FACEBOOK! -.0 

I’ve been surviving really well on a coffee fast! (: Thank God.. Never would I have imagined, and what an ironic period to go on a fast!

Yep! Really, nobody really really absolutely needs coffee to make sure you can study well! Haha I’ve been on this fast for almost two weeks now, and I honestly feel so much better physcial and more reliant on God! Previously, it got to a point where I drank too much a day I started to dread the taste of it, yet somewhat needed to drink it anyway.. Then, at night, I can just pop some drowsy pill to fall asleep.. Then I’d feel jittery.. Thank goodness I came to my senses.. Haha.. oh wells! Now, that’s a good example of bad eating habits..

I must say though, it’s not been the easiest thing to do! Falling asleep ever so often, sometimes trying to pray when that happens, but end up falling asleep on my book anyway! It’s much better now though! ", 

But that also means, tomorrow, being my last paper, will be my break fast day! Haha.. (Now, shouldn’t I settle for some really really good well-deserved coffee tmr? Haha!) 

How hard it is to proclaim that..

Just that morning, I was sharing at class cell, how we should really see and know that He keeps His promise. Eph 1:17-18. Yet, I was the one who was the most affected by the paper.. Right after Econs, I wondered why didn’t I study Geog or something?

But then, I guess it really is still true, He has promised good..  (:

17 Though the fig tree does not bud
       and there are no grapes on the vines,
       though the olive crop fails
       and the fields produce no food,
       though there are no sheep in the pen
       and no cattle in the stalls,

 18 yet I will rejoice in the LORD,
       I will be joyful in God my Savior. ~ Hab 3

 On the side, what distracted me from all these discouraging thoughts of Econs, I managed to go out to IMM with my Mom for dinner immediately after my paper.. Thank goodness finally bought a new mattress for myself!!!!!! finally..  And it’s only because i spotted the King Koil 50% discount sign at IMM haha… :S sigh.. life.. Hah.. Just for your information, I’ve been sleeping on a terrible mattress, really terrible, believe me, for more than a year.. (correction: it’s many years old but got worse) with one of the springs which poked out of the mattress(!) and cut me several times. Yet no one did anything about it.. Tell you ah, mattresses are mighty expensive can! :S Goodbye to backaches and neckaches man.. Actually, now thinking of it, the sleepness nights I usually have could be cos of this! hmm.. but thank God, for a new mattress!

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