happy holidays

My holidays have unofficially officially started!! (It was supposed to start 3 weeks back but had unofficial studio days till my tutor left for his own vacation. Yay!!)

I was extremely stressed out on fri-sat, having been trying to make models on Friday, but for the life of me, couldn't get anything out that was worthy of a studio session. I was experimenting with the properties of materials - ok it's not so technical, but I had to find out which plastics could melt and which couldn't, which metals I could solder and which couldn't, etc etc. So it was all this experimenting and getting frustrated and ultimately NOT getting a 'dynamic' model out. BARF.

It was also very tiring for me - having really late nights / no sleep at all at least once a week for several weeks and my enthusiasm for design was running on near zero. Fortunately, E and H decided that they'd cook up a story to explain my non-presence for studio. *whew*

So N and I went out and enjoyed ourselves immensely on Sat night and the whole of Sunday. :) We went to TM to get a bunch of Christmas presents for his sunday-school kids and family, and I got to help him choose gifts and basically unwind. Wheeee~

Sunday was especially great - I was still feeling frazzled from the crazy school work and stress, and N was feeling crappy abt work and some other personal matters. In any case, we still went for church service.

I strained my hip a couple of days back - after rushing up a flight of stairs and it suddenly got injured and though the pain was periodic, but it was nagging and still painful nonetheless. N remarked about how I should just go upfront during service so that someone could pray for me whether or not my symptoms were prophesized. ( Ok I'm not doing a really good job at explaining this, but basically right after worship, some pastors would go upfront and say "whoever has a back / hip / shoulderache or some other maladies / I sense someone with a defeated spirit" that kind of thing, and people would go up front so that other pastors would pray for them).

The best thing was that a pastor prophesized for both of us, so we went up together. I got prayed for by this guy called Shaun / Shawn / Sean and he prayed for my hip. My hip felt warm and fuzzy during the prayer and after praying for abt 5 mins, he told me to test my hip out, since I wasn't sure that my hip was entirely healed. So I did a couple of rather extreme twists and turns and felt as if my hip joint had been oiled and as if nothing had happened at all! Praise the Lord for this miraculous healing! :D

I was so glad that God healed me, but I was still curious as to why I sustained that injury out of the blue. Shaun mentioned that these kind of physical inflictions may have no definite explanations and that some of them can only be defined within the spiritual realm. I knew that there was a cause for my injury and only realised it when N replied "It's because you were getting too stressed and allowed the evil spirits to get to you". It was then that it dawned on me that God was trying to get me to turn to Him and put everything in His hands and not get too flustered by stressful situations.

After the service, I still felt like that there were pains in my hip, but I quickly brushed them aside and continually told myself that "God has healed my hip. Back off you demons!" That carried on for the whole day and I'm glad to declare that there's no more pain left! :D

Besides the wonderful healing I received on Sunday, N's parents, N and I went for a dim sum lunch at AMK and did the usual grocery shopping at the supermarket. N went for a swim as I headed back home, and later met at TM - where I basically went mad. Hurhur. So anyway - my bag obsession was satisfied, N's Christmas obligations were met and it felt really good to just spend the entire day with a loved one. :)

Psst! I got a NLT bible from N as a Xmas gift~