Today, I had choir at America Room today but when I got there, Louis said that the door was not open yet so we waited around 5th floor and then Louis sorted out the new scores and gave them out when we were inside the room. Louis also ask us to share with a neighbor about one thing that God really blessed us with this week. After that, we did vocal warm-ups then went into learning of the new song called ‘Stand By Me’. I also managed to find a SATB version of the song on Youtube

Here it is :

After choir ended at 11.45 am, I went to the first floor to find my group but they were not here yet so I decided to buy a drink first. I called Sheldon and he said he was with his brother and some of the lower sec people at the MRT station. Waited and waited for some time until I saw Aloysius nearly walked pass me but I waved at him and then waited for the rest to come. It was 12.15 pm that they reached cuppage plaza and quickly went for service.

Dennis was the preacher for today’s sermon and the East people wished him a happy belated birthday. So today’s sermon was about Prayer and Planning. Once thing that really impacted me today was that ‘when we pray, God will work on the inside instead of the outside’. God will not change the circumstances but God will change us inside that we could go through the current situation with him.

After that, I went to have lunch with my group at Concorde hotel food court and only found 1 rectangular table and then had to squeeze because there were too many people from other groups were having their lunch too. Ordered Chicken Ban Mian and then went to sit down at the table to wait for the rest. Aloysius said grace then we tucked into the food. Then we slacked for a while then went to orchard central as Jeriel wanted to see DSLR cameras. So, I tagged along with the group and then they were browsing and testing out the products there while I was looking around. As time passed, they were enjoying their time and then Jeriel, Sheldon and I went to the toilet cause they wanted to pee and I need to top-up my bottle of water. Then, Joshua, Jeriel and Aloysius took some photos of something and we left orchard central. At the main door, there were a few people doing survey about Consumer spending at Orchard Central and headed back to Cuppage Plaza cause the East people are celebrating Dennis’s Belated Birthday.

It was fun as most of the ‘East’ people were there to celebrate Dennis Belated Birthday. There were people doing the decoration of the room.Then Yi Qin asked 8 guys and 8 ladies to volunteer to become ushers and I gladly volunteered to become one of them. We were place in position forming a line towards America room and then Yi Qin pretended to be Dennis just to have a trial run. We waited patiently for Dennis to arrive but before that Qian Jin saw us and asked us if he could help in anything. Pastor Shirley opened the door near the cargo lift and then saw us all standing in a line and was like kind of shocked. Dennis arrived blind-folded with Rui Zong and Yanyu supporting. The ushers inculding me which Yi Qin asked us to volunteer welcomed Dennis to America room and then sang Dennis a remixed birthday song and a birthday song. A video was shown to us people about the CL and UL affirming Dennis for the things that he’s done. Fiona, Bing Liang and Shirlene affirmed Dennis in the room and a song was dedicated to Dennis which was led by Florence.We prayed for Dennis’s three wishes and then it was photo taking time with Dennis. The first one was the Formal district photo with help from Yaoguo and then a fun shot with some of the guys helping to carrying Dennis. Then it was time to have groups photo with Dennis with East A , followed by East B/C and then the East D. We managed to take a formal group shot and a fun shot.

After that, went to Centerpoint Macdonald’s with some of the guys as they want to eat food but then I was not that hungry so I just bought two apple pies and sat down with Joshua, Sheldon and Aloysius and then talk while I was eating my apple pie. As Jeriel was bored, he asked Aloysius, Joshua and me if we would like to walk around centerpoint and we agreed but after Jeriel had his dinner cause we have eaten our dinner already. Walked into some shops only as Min Jie called Jeriel to ask us to go back to the Macdonald’s and we were going back, we saw Pastor Jeff. We reached Macdonald and then Alfonso from ED1 ask each of us if we wanted to play dota but since I don’t play dota so I said ‘no’. Hanged around with some of the guys from ED1 with Jeriel, Joshua, Aloysius(my group). Stayed till 9+ and then some of the ED1 people had something on. So we walked to the MRT station with Joshua, Aloysius and Jeriel and then went home.

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