Singapore! Day 2

Monday, 18 January 2010 : First Day of School

Got up at around 0700 hours. Left for the Jurong COC Building after breakfast. Aunty Moi Chee fetched us there in her car.  We reached the building at around 0815 and was greeted by the low voice of Bro. Eddy Ee when we rang the bell to the building. We then heaved our luggage up two flights of stairs to the 3^rd floor where the Fourseas Bible Collage was situated. There we met Uncle Peter Chin (love his accent) the dean of academics of Fourseas and his wife, Aunty Pooi Fun, the librarian. Uncle Peter gave is usual, “I’m so glad that you decided to use your free time a useful way for the Lord” and stuff like that, which he would be stressing on a lot during our stay in Singapore. Or as I call it, Trying to brainwash us to become full time preachers speeches.

Suddenly we heard footsteps coming up the stairs, and after a while, there stood before us, the (suspected) nerd, Ernest Lau Sze Ngee. Or so we thought…. For as we found out later, Ernest was in fact a pro Dota and L4D player! Yeah!! No man can be a nerd if he plays Dota and L4D! Awesome!

After that we headed for our very first class which was on the The New Testemant Church, by Bro. Eddy. Basically we had 7 classes :  Monday, Wednesday, and Friday we had courses on The New Testament Church, A Preacher and His Work, Church History, and 1 Corinthians. Tuesdays and Thursdays, The Gosple According to John, Christian Evidences and The Book of Hebrews.  Excluding us there were already 6 other students in Fourseas, Ernest(part-time student), Paul & Hope(full time students from China), Hai and Phuk(Full-time students from Vietnam) and aunty Molly from Kuantan. More on them in Alvin’s Blog

So we started our 1^st class of The NT Church. Err… basically it was Bro. Eddy with a low voice droning on about the New Covenant. Okay… at least it is only for an hour… Otherwise I think I would be half dead by the end of the class….. After that we had chapel, and on Mondays everybody had to recite a memory verse that they memorized. Lucky for me, my mom had already made memorize plenty of verses when I was a kid, so all I had to do was flip through my Bible and look for coloured verses. After chapel was Bro. Peter’s class. Bro. Peter’s classes was probably the most interesting classes of all the other classes. They way he presented his lessons and the visuals can keep anyone glued to his words. Well, he DID graduate from Memphis School of Preaching, so he ought to be better than the rest…

After his class was over, we dismissed for lunch. Conveniently there was a food court behind the building so we headed over there for lunch. As we were about to exit the building, we met Bro. Goh Leong Chuan was also heading out for lunch. Well when he said, “Come lets go for lunch together” only one thing was going through my mind, “FREE FOOD!!! YEAH!” I sound so cruel right now. So he treated us to the local chicken rice, which was by any means or ways NOT COMPARABLE AT ALL TO MALACCAN FOOD! Seriously, If you’re a Singaporean and you’re reading this, you have no idea what your missing. Cause (Ernest has probably heard this a million times since we got there), MALACCAN FOOD ROCKS!!

{Evil smirk}

After having lunch which was quite filling we proceeded to our next class, 1 Corinthians by Bro. David Chew which in the days to come, would be more popularly known as the Cloister of Trials. Reason? Because Bro. David talks to himself most of the time, making it hard for us to hear what he says and thus sets the mood of sleepiness. And the thing is its after lunch and we’re all full. Imagine this, you’re full, it’s a hot afternoon and you in a nice air conditioned room, the next thing you know, you’re nodding. His class seriously tests your will to stay awake and alert. My mind wanders around 75% of his class. The 1^st ten minutes are ok, but after that…. “Did he say something? What’s he talking about?”

{Sighs}

Well after His class, school was dismissed, so we were free to do what we wanted. We then found out that Sis. Meow Ching, Eliza’s mom had passed on to be with our Lord, so we decided to follow Ernest to pay our respects. Took the SUPER EFFICIENT MRT from Lakeside to Braddle where the wake was. At the wake we met up with Jon Yang, Lucas, Isaac, Benjamin, Justin, Bernice and Yin Yin who were all super surprised to see us in Singapore. Well after having a jolly good time chatting with them, we left for dinner at one of the stores nearby. And guess what? FREE FOOD AGAIN!! This time is was Jon Yang. Dang It! Life is good! Well during dinner we found out that some of the LAP youths were bikers so we shared our tales of perilous mountain biking with death hazards and ended up being called crazy by them. 

{tone of disgust}Gah! Road Bikers! XD

We left back to the college after dinner. Oh we were staying at the college dorms which was in the Jurong COC building itself. Reached at about 2100 something, and after stealing wireless connections and using the internet, we slept.  

Thus was the evening and the morning of the second day. And Jonah saw that it was good.