VirtuaLife

6am. The mobile alarm rings. I sit up to turn it off, or at least try to. Instead, I swipe the mobile off the windowsill and it crashes to the floor, losing its battery.

Off to a good start! /sarcasm

After forgetting my (formal) shoes, leaving my wallet in the car (at work), forgetting my formal shirt (after work), going to the wrong graduation venue, and leaving the wallet in the car again... not to mention almost missing the city ferry stop because I fell asleep on the Citycat. I wonder if anything is going to go my way today. It seems like a morning of prayerful joy is not going to influence the rest of the day.

I meet up with Karl from NZ in the city, who is en route to Sydney to tag Sue Lynn whereupon both will be off to Tokyo (lucky bums...) and had a pretty involving chat - so much to catch up on! Nice bloke, that one. Then there is the half an hour just trying to choose the right vitamins (where's Vitamin when I want her? *grumble grumble*) almost two hours spent on err flowers and other decorative apparel and an extended browse in a section involving lots of... balls. I realise that I don't like shopping, really. I'd rather be stuck at work. But... its who and what I"m shopping for that makes the experience enjoyable. As such, time passes quickly.

Time passed, and I caught the bus back to the girlies' house. Failed an attempted surprise attack on a river-gazing tortoise. Spent 1+ hour waging war on MSN until in my fickleness I decided to tag along with the B-bunch up to Cootha - after all it was peak hour traffic and there was no way I was driving home at that time. So up we go, with a nauseating smell of chlorine-infused deep sea chicken... or was it sea-fried chicken? Hard to tell - nose was playing up. Gah. I could also smell jade blossoms from a previous permitted encounter with turtles.

Almost get kicked from our table by a waiter who I think decided to be nice to us coz we were asian and the girls were all smileyfaced - hows that for favourable discrimination? The chikas were in constant hysterics over small cockroaches, shadows and squeaky noises. On my behalf, I seemed to be in the business of digging quite a few holes... was just too slow for the sheer amount of wit on display. B was in beyond-top form, caught me totally off guard as I anticipated a more... sedate version... after a long day at the waterzoo. Even the ex-homies were uncharacteristically bubbly, or so I thought. 'God!' I screamed to myself silently, 'Slow them down! Cannot keep up!'

After many suppressed laughs (we did not want to destroy the romance of the place) we finally tailed it down to some place in the southside for soy milk bubbles... is that what it was? Some kind of solid soy milk dessert... and I got laughed at again coz I ordered froot with mine, which I totally DON'T understand especially when the bowl next to me looked like some kind of primordial goo with the viscosity to match. Hmpfff!

Add to that a great game of corners in the car (I won), a humorously disjointed wordgame (which nobody won but I will nominate that Lena lost ^^) a completely and unashamedly malfunctioning neuron, unintended references to getting nekkid, frequent miscommunications, topic discussions on nightingales, sheep and perverts, and just a bunch of utterly different and completely crazy peeps who were willing to laugh at anything, including themselves...

... And God really does change a day around.

And now I'm spent. Cheeks are aching from grinning like an idiot, tummy hurting from a combination of oil, original chicken and vegetable stuff, and brain hurting from being convincingly stomped on by at least two pairs of razor-tipped heels. And yes, it will be another night I get to marvel at His amazing blessings by the people and circumstances He chooses to grace my life with.

Love YOU peeps. God is showing me much more, but that shall wait till later :)

In Faith, Hope and love!