Stretch Weekend

Weekend Funny Moment : Trying to spray someone with a can of frozen whipped cream
Craving : Freshly baked bread

Have you ever felt like the weekends have been stretched? Well this past weekend just felt like that. In fact last night at dinner I got a call from my mum asking me why I had been out the whole day without coming back. I can't say I blame her. I have been neglecting spending time with family abit...ok alot. Need to change that....now back to the topic at hand..yes it has been one of those weekends where there just seems so much to do.

Saturday started of pretty well with waking up at about 9 and just lounging around for most of the morning. Finally did my chore of mopping the house, which I had been neglecting like forever. I think my parents must have thought they should have bought a lottery ticket when I did that :D. After that, lunch.

Finally a chance to cook! As you can tell by this blog, I love cooking and baking. One of my favourite past times. Unfortunately, I rarely have the time to cook and bake. This past saturday however I had the chance to cook however. Nothing fancy, just cooking up some fried-baked rice using some leftovers. May not be much, but just chopping garlic and onions, cooking everything over the stove, spicing it all up, was enough to bring a smile to my face. Seriously, preparation of the food is more then half the fun for me. Especially when I have to improvise and come up with new recipies and ideas. It is really fun experimenting and even better when it all turns out. Didn't hurt that the rice turned out pretty ok too! Hehehe..can't wait for this thursday, when I get even more free time to cook! And now that I have Shalom's cooking books there's so much to try out. Yay!

YF was quite fun and interesting this week as we had a forum on relationships with parents. Nothing quite as fun as having your friend's parents up on stage to answer questions. You get to hear all sorts of interesting things about your friends. For example, how one sister is trifty while the other is spend trift or what age is it acceptable to date. However the award has to go to Mr.Y in his reponse to "how much pocket money should a child get"! hahahaha..I'm smiling and laughing now just thinking about it. On another note, the forum also made me alittle sad, because at the moment my parents won't ever appear on the stage in church for this kind of thing. Actually it is more of my dad I'm worried about, 'coz my mum is already a Christian. My dad however isn't and recently God has put it on my heart that this something that I really need to pray about and do something about. Somehow I just have the feeling that my dad is the kind of person that will take alot effort and prayer before he accepts Christ into his life, but once he has I just have this feeling that he will be a really strong Christian. I just really don't know how to reach him....so those of you out there, pray for us yeah?

Once again back to the weekend recap. After YF was dinner at Paris, for some of the staff who were involved with discipleship groups. It was actually quite nice to sit down and chat with one another over other matters besides the youth and just share a laugh or two. The food was good and the fellowship even more so. The training that followed was kept informal, yet was informative. We have been postoning it for sometime now, and hopefully now we will keep things moving along. After that I rushed off to sunway to meet up with some ol' uni mates lots of fun reminiscing too. So I guess Saturday was a long day of fun and fellowship which I really didn't mind.

Sunday however was a long day. And I think I had a minor spiritual battle that day, and by the grace of God I think I came up on top. The thing was I was feeling really lethargic that day. It was the kind of day when I wanted to do things for myself instead of for other people. So I got invited to a movie! Great! I was all set for a relaxing day of me time. But then transportation needs for the Copa IBA practice came in and the only other person I could count on for transport was watching the movie too. So I just knew it wasn't fair to ask him to get them. I struggled I tell you, I almost wanted to say "Forget it! you all find your own way!", but by the grace of God I didn't. Instead I decided to not to go for the movie and do the pick up run. Then to my surprise the movie was canceled and we all went to do something else that allowed me the time to do the transport run. I still was struggling though..and I was telling myself how thankless it was and all that....but that all changed as soon as I picked up my charges. God really showed me how wrong I was. I am so happy that I didn't just give up like that and actually made that decision to do the transport, because it isn't a thankless job. Making those youths happy is really all the thanks one could ask for.