Haven't updated in a while and much has happened since the last time...

Well, two exams on my birthday wasn't as bad as I expected thanks to all the nice well wishes I got on my birthday :) I'm continually amazed at how important friends are in one's life.

After my exams, I was on an emotional rollercoaster, facing quite big stresses at work and also disappointments with my friends. I've come to really appreciate the fact that one cannot help everyone. So we need to prioritize. We need to see what is truly important and once we can manage that then can we help others...

And just within 4 days after my last exam, I was whisked off to Bangkok! Frankly, I didn't like the city at all. I'm not a huge shopping fan (but given how cheap the things were in Bangkok, you're allowed to go crazy once in a while) and food wasn't superb either. But the company was brilliant. Thanks to my sis who kept my sanity and the other three guys who kept me on the brink of insanity. haha. I think my tolerance for crap has seriously increased tenfold after enduring this trip with you guys.

And last night, I went to hear Corrinne May live. For those of you who don't know who she is, man, you don't know what you're missing! Her voice is enchanting and enthralling to say the least, and her personality I give her 110%. She was so nice to EVERYONE who stayed back to get her autograph. Waiting 2h in line is nothing compared to the personalized treatment she gave to everyone and her nice demeanor, even having met 1001 people before you and probably having heard the same things said to her each time.

Note: Tickets to her concert were soldout before the flyers of publicity ever came out. Anyone who wants to be educated on her songs, get her CD!!

Needless to say, I got a nicely autographed (Thanks to Abel) CD and this CD (Thanks to Mar Vin) will stay in my CD player for a long long time. I'm really looking forward to her next album (Next summer!!) she sang two songs that she newly wrote: On the Way and Five Loaves & Two Fishes. And this song 'In the bleak mid-winter'

What can I give him
Poor as I am
If I were a shelter
I would bring a lamb
If I were a wise man
I would do my part

What can I give him
Give my heart

The reason for Christmas has never been more salient. Some winter day over 2000 years ago, all of heaven kissed the face of the earth, a miracle of love, God became man.

"Why lies He in such mean estate
Where ox and ass are feeding?
Good Christians, fear, for sinners here
The silent Word is pleading
Nails, spear, shall pierce Him through
The cross be borne for me, for you
Hail, Hail the Word made flesh
The Babe, the Son of Mary"
--> What Child is This?