So I took to the stage yesterday with my guitar, after two months of not leading worship ever. Not the longest break that I've had I think, but it definitely made me feel like it was all very unfamiliar. And gosh I realised how rusty I've become! Playing and singing and leading seems so daunting all of a sudden, and I really struggled to get my act together haha! But Gracehaven was great, it's always a blessing to be there.

Thoughts and prayers are with Japan as they weather through all the natural hazards. It wouldn't have meant as much to me if I hadn't met people from the Salvation Army corps in Japan previously. Their territory is quite small, but I remember being very inspired by their territorial commander Commissioner Makoto Yoshida when I was in Hong Kong. 

I've been kept really busy for most of March, had quite a bit of assignments and tests and whatever. Still surviving, but now that it's almost middle of March, I'm losing a bit of steam and motivation. Woke up this morning feeling like I really don't want to do anything, and it's really the wrong day to have this sort of depressive emo moods, because I have a 10% test today! But I kinda woke a little too late for it, and instead of studying last night I was knocked out cold on my bed for 12 hours straight. So I kinda took it as a sign that this mid-term test is not meant to be. And the worst of it all was I forgot that there was a practical submission today! Which was really stupid because I offered to do so but I didn't go school today, and it was a miracle my project mate was still in school, except that it was a late submission. UGHH I will work harder for this module for the rest of the assignments and for the final exam I don't like physical geography modules.

And just about the most interesting thing that happened this week was getting to see fruit flies twitching under a microscope! They anaesthetised it to sort of make them immobile so that we can examine them, and I have to say that the experience is really very surreal, because the fly was really hugely magnified and I can even see the individual hairs and it's red eyes and feelers and abdomen and all. It's like right in front of my face and I can reach out and touch it. And the worst part was there were a few which started wriggling their legs, which was just hugely amusing haha! Okay I think it was just fascinating to me because I've never taken any life sciences classes in my life before, and the opportunities to use the microscope during my primary and secondary school days were really once in a blue moon. So I started examining my pen, my phone, my paper under the microscope haha!

In other news, I'm going to Pulau Semakau tomorrow morning, and it's like my first Geography field trip with NUS. Funny thing is that even though I'm majoring in Geog, I hardly do anything Geog-ish with the department or with the Geog Society outside of the school curriculum. Semakau was because I missed the chance to go during JC days, and this was too good an offer to miss. And, I ordered the Shure Super 55 through Amazon! It was an absolutely don't-think-just-click purchase, because I really have no strong use for it except for its stunning looks. But we shall see, I'll vindicate a use for it when it arrives in the post.

I shouldn't let a bad day today affect my mood. Gaarfffgghhh.