Lab.

Just like the few Saturdays before today, I am sitting inside the FYP lab, working on my paper and my final year project. The problem with these school work is that you should never take a prolonged rest away from the workstation because once you do so, you find that it’s very difficult to try to work on them again when you return. So that’s what I am facing right now – I can’t seem to be able to continue working on it. But anyway I have already thought about what I want to achieve in today’s work, and since I’ve more or less done that, I think I’m fine (alright perhaps I’m giving excuses to myself again).

Went to my second ever Sunday service at Shatin Baptist Church earlier and to be honest, I was looking forward to the service since last week. Had a fruitful time listening to the message from Pastor Chu, and I think I enjoyed the service very much. Now I think I’ll need to continue establishing my faith. While Shatin (where the church is) and Lam Tin (where I live) seem quite far on the map, it didn’t really take me long to travel between the two places – I got out from home at about 8.20 this morning and by 9 I was in Shatin already. Guess that gives me more motivation to keep going!

The speech contest is going to happen on Friday and as things stand, the distribution of the tickets is fairly satisfactory. Of course I can never be too satisfied at that alone because the number of tickets given out may not necessarily mean that same number of audience would turn up, but I guess I’ll be over the moon if 70% of that number were to turn up on Friday! In the meanwhile I’ll continue to pray to Lord for him to watch over me and all my colleagues who are organizing the competition, and also to the participants who are going to compete for the top prizes. May Lord let them know that the meaning of the contest is not for competition, but for them to get to build friendships, as well as to learn from one another. Winning the $3000 top prize sure is great, but if they could use the opportunity to be able to learn more about speaking in front of a (big) crowd, then it’s worth all the while for us to be organziing the contest.

A slightly more selfish thought though – hopefully the winners of both streams will be from HKBU and we’ll finally walk away with the overall championship! It would be nice to be able to finally see our University’s name on the trophy!