GOOD FRIDAY

T'was a great friday =)

My Spanish teacher forgot that our Composition writing was today.
It'll be on Monday instead, giving us more time for prep =D

Jap civ paper on the Nanjing Massacre was due today.
Or so I thought, but it's actually due next Friday instead!
A safer mistake to make, than the reverse of it.
Hooray! no last minute rush next week.

Gau Lu invited us over to his place in IHouse (International House) for dinner and he cooked a delectable feast of chickenrice-rice (the yellow-coloured rice), curry chicken and potatoes, pakchoi, pork chops, BBQ wings, beef with onions, brinjal with chicken fillet and strawberries with Hershey's chocolate for dessert =D

(clockwise) Pakchoi, pork chops, beef with onions, brinjal
with chicken fillet, strawberries chocolate fondue, curry chicken
(Missing) Rice, BBQ chicken, and BnJ's Half Baked ice-cream.

Chef GauLu and assistant chef Wei Jiao with the raw ingredients.

Delicious, I say.

Thank you for the nice gesture, and I'm sorry I had to leave so quick!

As a result of the rush, I forgot to take a picture of myself, Sharon and YuQing. Kudos to gL's friend who mailed over the curry chicken powder and the chicken rice packet-seasoning all the way from the tiny red dot on the map, Singapore.

We started eating at around 7.10pm.
Gobbled down my food as quickly as I could in 13 minutes,
and was out the door by 7.23pm.
Dashed madly past 2 blocks to meet Wendy.
We headed down another one block to attend the Good Friday service in Grace Covenant Church (GCC).

My first Good Friday service.
At one point, whilst our heads were bowed and the band was playing, Pastor Young played the scene of Jesus being whipped and nailed to the cross from the Passion of the Christ.

As I painfully watched the nails pierce through the flesh and blood and the merciless whipping, the realization of Christ dying on the cross hit me.
Hard.

Because Christ was forsaken, I was forgiven.

The realization must have hit everyone else,

becauseall around the room, tears started to fall too.

My God, why would you shed Your blood,

So pure and undefiled.

Why would You make someone like me,

Your chosen precious child.

Heads bowed and knees bent in prayer.

sinned.
forgiven.
repented.
renewed.

A clearer picture of the LT-church at the end of the serive.

No time for mourning and tears now though,
Because with death comes the resurrection
and with forgiveness comes new life! =)
Also, easter or no easter,
with tertiary education come papers to write, sigh.

In Christ alone, I place my trust.
And find my glory in the power of the cross.
In every victory, let it be said of me.
My source of strength, my source of hope,
Is Christ alone.