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"Be Bowled Over By The Love Of Christ!" - AMKYF

Many a time, I questioned my free thinker status. Why wasn't I a buddhist or a christian by birth? The only reason I can think of is that I'm given the divine choice to choose. I guess I'll stay put for the time being.

Embracing a religion has its advantages. You gain friends from different facets of the community. Take Jane for example, besides us, college friends[commonly termed school friends], she has a wider scope of church friends whom she has close relationships with (I assume). All these weekly gatherings and outings once a while makes you feel you're not alone in the world. Guess that's what they're driving at. I had a fun day bowling with the usual bunch[WELL... not really] - Kelv, Slim, Val, Mountain Goat and of course Jane, though she didn't play much. She would make a very nice hostess for any function.

Before the bowling session started, a song session was held in which we sang an untitled song (The Joy That I Had??) which I assumed was an original composition. The message it basically wanted to get through was that everything comes from self within, that the world owes you nothing and the world can't take anything away from you. Meaningful indeed, though the song lasted only a couple minutes with countless loops.

For the newcomers [henceforth, those who aren't in the Youth Fellowship], we were given a survey form to fill up and a self-made momento, a wooden photo frame. For mine, the illustration showed a shoal of fishes swimming. That seem really normal to me till Jane pointed out the meaning. It was, in a way, inspirational, that the fishes swam to the left while the norm usually swam to the right, signifying the daringness to change. That really made me look at the illustration in a totally different way.

The bowling portion was insignificant[apart from me topping the rest of the bunch in the first game... only]. Jane had to leave at six. We continued till six thirty and sneaked off before the prize giving ceremony. It was really evil of us to leave just like that, especially so as an announcement was made to ask people not to leave just when we were stepping out of the bowling centre. *SO EVIL*.

We boarded the mass rapid transit. Destination - Orchard, to eventually gobble down a Burger King's Mushroom Swiss Meal. Goatie had to leave a stop earlier in Newton, the reason being that he had another meeting back in the hostel. We circulated two speculations - that it was real and we wished he had a fun time with... hehehe and secondly, that he was just trying to evade the meal. Guess we'd sort of neglected him... I guess I'd done my best to talk to him... In fact, I guess I'm the one who talked to him the most!

Though it's just a small group outing, it's a really memorable one. Guess it'll go in as one of my most memorable days in 1999. Thanks Jane, Kelv, Slim, Val and Goatie. =)

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