- Singapore can feel pretty suburban, despite being a global city. Maybe it's just the area I work and live, but I find comfort in the suburban-ness
- I should always bring a packet of tissues with me, since restaurants don't offer them as standard protocol
- Food and drinks are sweet by default. If you want things less sweet, make sure to ask for it (ie: "kopi o kosong" for black coffee)
- HMCC_SGP didn't feel much different than HMCC_AA, despite being a fraction of the size
- The people were a lot more open than I expected; I'm excited to get to know them!
- Despite my prior impression of Asian females, girls in our church here play sports! I'm especially excited to get to know some of the sisters who play basketball and/or rockclimb :)
- I'm really happy to be here. More than I ever felt
delirious (adj): marked by uncontrollable excitement or emotion; ecstatic; filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy (1 peter 1:8); me I don't think I had a personal relationship with God until 2 weeks ago. There have been a lot of formative moments and experiences in the past 6 years of me considering the existence of a higher-being, 3 yrs of being a Christian, 1 year of living by faith, 6 months of serving on church leadership, 1 month of dire circumstances, each of which have been challenged and supported by specific instances in my life.* But it's only been 2 weeks of finding pure joy, satisfaction, and freedom in Christ (alone). Though it's been 6 years since I first stepped into a church building and 3 years since I accepted Christ, I was always afraid to admit that I didn't know what grace, freedom, repentance, or Jesus meant--in terms other than the ones I had heard or read--it was always a theory and never a reality in my own life. After years of doing chur
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