Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. - Hebrews 11:1 ♥
Thursday, 27 August 2009 11:43 pm
Yesterday, school was a breath of fresh air for the first time since the new semester began. You know how sometimes in life you've good and bad days? Well, yesterday was one of the best days i've had so far. it broke the spell of lousy days. It started with the much dreaded Cinema Studies tutorial. For the past 2 weeks i've been wondering if i've made a bad decision because i couldn't quite seem to find my bearings in class. everyone's like from comm. studies and i couldn't really tune into a frequency of thought similar to theirs so everything my tutorial mates shared sounded like greek to me. because i felt very much like an odd-ball coming from some far-flung continent of study such as chemistry. Like, what is a CHEMISTRY student doing in a Cinema studies class?? so for 2 weeks i carried this self-imposed stigma. it didn't help that we are studying silent films now which, if i may add, are absolutely mind-deteriorating things because they do not stimulate any mental activity. But yesterday's tutorial sort of made me see the much needed light and i sort of found my footing after treading in unfamiliar waters for a while. i hope i don't lose this footing in the days to come. we watched snippets from Johnnie To's Breaking News and Wong Kar Wai's In the Mood for Love to study the techniques of long shot and jump cut. i actually understood everything that was discussed so now i feel less intimidated and insecure. stepping out of your comfort zone is not the most comfortable feeling. DUH.
Lunch was a non-exciting meal of vegetarian food sans mock meat, of course. I have nothing against vegetarian food except the mock meat concept. Why do they want to disguise veggie as meat when the nature of their product is non-meat? You're vegetarian so just SELL VEGETABLES AS THEY ARE. not vegetabled char siew.
Ensuite was the most intellectually stimulating class I've had for a long time. Media in America. For some unfathomable reason (which i suspect is purely psychological) it turned out to be entirely different from the lecture i attended of the same course 2 sems back which left me in a state of confusion and made me promptly drop the course that very night. Maybe it's the lecture theatre, maybe the lecturer taught in a totally different way, maybe it's because my friends are here now. whatever it is, the course and i clicked in ways that surpassed my (biasedly influenced to be low based on previous bad impression) expectations. We watched an immensely moving video called Dying to Tell the Story. It's about a photojournalist named Dan Eldon who literally gave his life to tell of the plight of the people in the war-torn country of Somalia through his lenses. There's just something about the intensity of the passion of journalists like him and something about the core of their very being that resonates through our hearts and minds in ways that we sometimes cannot even begin to find the words to explain. It's incredibly revelational to know that God made people like Dan Eldon.
to end off this really great day, i didn't for a second feel sleepy in 311 which is a significant breakthrough because i've been struggling to fight it for some time now. it's proof that my prayers have been answered. Thank God for being God. after that, steph and i hanged out with the cbc freshies and the phrase "heart to heart" is now lodged in my mind. they are truly a great bunch of people to be around. they're very real and it's not so easy to find people like them these days.if i were in harry potter, it'd be like drinking a vial of Felix Felicis.
IT's GOING TO BE ANOTHER MEGA WEEKEND this sat and sun! Heart Of God Church's 10th anniversary from 5-8pm then Pastor How's birthday celebration from 8.15 till dunno when. i so look forward to the WONDERBOYS performing Nobody But You HAHAHA i wonder whether Pastor will laugh or be immensely worried or both. :P on sunday we're having Dr. Phil Pringle come preach! his name always makes me think of pringles potato chips. i'm really excited! now to think of what to wear...
Lunch was a non-exciting meal of vegetarian food sans mock meat, of course. I have nothing against vegetarian food except the mock meat concept. Why do they want to disguise veggie as meat when the nature of their product is non-meat? You're vegetarian so just SELL VEGETABLES AS THEY ARE. not vegetabled char siew.
Ensuite was the most intellectually stimulating class I've had for a long time. Media in America. For some unfathomable reason (which i suspect is purely psychological) it turned out to be entirely different from the lecture i attended of the same course 2 sems back which left me in a state of confusion and made me promptly drop the course that very night. Maybe it's the lecture theatre, maybe the lecturer taught in a totally different way, maybe it's because my friends are here now. whatever it is, the course and i clicked in ways that surpassed my (biasedly influenced to be low based on previous bad impression) expectations. We watched an immensely moving video called Dying to Tell the Story. It's about a photojournalist named Dan Eldon who literally gave his life to tell of the plight of the people in the war-torn country of Somalia through his lenses. There's just something about the intensity of the passion of journalists like him and something about the core of their very being that resonates through our hearts and minds in ways that we sometimes cannot even begin to find the words to explain. It's incredibly revelational to know that God made people like Dan Eldon.
to end off this really great day, i didn't for a second feel sleepy in 311 which is a significant breakthrough because i've been struggling to fight it for some time now. it's proof that my prayers have been answered. Thank God for being God. after that, steph and i hanged out with the cbc freshies and the phrase "heart to heart" is now lodged in my mind. they are truly a great bunch of people to be around. they're very real and it's not so easy to find people like them these days.if i were in harry potter, it'd be like drinking a vial of Felix Felicis.
IT's GOING TO BE ANOTHER MEGA WEEKEND this sat and sun! Heart Of God Church's 10th anniversary from 5-8pm then Pastor How's birthday celebration from 8.15 till dunno when. i so look forward to the WONDERBOYS performing Nobody But You HAHAHA i wonder whether Pastor will laugh or be immensely worried or both. :P on sunday we're having Dr. Phil Pringle come preach! his name always makes me think of pringles potato chips. i'm really excited! now to think of what to wear...
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