I seriously have to start planning my timetable and choosing the correct electives. The thought of having to do the fastest finger thing scares me. What if I don't get the electives I want? Or worse still, I get an elective but I'm the only one among my friends who got it?!

You wouldn't believe it if I told u I walked all the way from Orchard to Lau Pa Sat, that will be about four and a half mrt stations long. Well done, if the net wasn't bluffing me, that would be about 5.5km. Past PS, Bugis, City Hall, Clarke Quay, Boat Quay, CBD all the way down to the food centre. Who told you reconnaissance was fun? :) Well, the best that came out of it was shaper legs and sweaty necks.

Life's been good. I did things that I like, did other things that I didn't really like, but I realise there's so much more to life than what I thought for the past 19 years. I used to think all I needed to do was to make some good friends, attend some good school and score good grades, participate in some activities here and there, until recently it dawned upon me that my perception of life is so narrow and ill-defined.

The world out there is really big, just that I don't see those things daily to experience the impact. All sorts of people exist with their own stories to tell. I choose to be ignorant and apathetic to what's happening around, but I cannot deny the fact that things do happen. And there must be something bigger out there for me, other than to study, play, get married and die.

After all that has occurred for the past month or so, I realise also there are many things of this world that I cannot fathom. Frankly speaking, I was born into a Christian family so it naturally spared me the arduous process of searching aimlesly before arriving at the final good thing. But then I figured out, at some point of time in everyone's life the question of existence would surface. Like who created the earth, who created me and where will I go after I die. Such philosophical questions that run across my mind occasionally remind me not to take my faith lightly or treat it as a joke. Because when you look far enough, such chim questions become real and make you stop dead in your tracks.

The good things about being in a family of Christians? You walk less "wrong" paths. But it doesn't mean that if you weren't born into a Christian family you're a gone case. Cos I believe experiences of faith-searching and conversion are far more convincing and precious, through such processes we only grow stronger and more assured of what we believe in.

And because I believe, I trust His plans are good. Because I have faith in Him, I do not hang on tightly to things of the world. Letting go is never easy, but only when you learn to let go, you see more of what He can do in your life. Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and more things shall be added unto you.