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read between the lines
sweet sunday i am feeling very satisfied and a bit high right now.am currently sitting in a cozy lounge-like, chocolate-coloured dinery surrounded by pillows and trees (a christmas tree and a plastic one next to it), having just polished off a caramel-filled white chocolate, a strawberry puree-filled white chocolate, belgian chocolate mocha, spaghetti bolognani (almost identical to bolognese), a a coffee-essence chocolate and hot white chocolate. and yes, i am using their free wi-fi service. heavenly (which is apt, considering this joint is called theobroma, which means 'food of the gods', according to the writing on the wall). and it's sunday, too. hahaha. just came from a cozy service too at DUMC, and who's to know, the place was filled with visitors from the island where i work. the sermon was on suffering, which is not at all associated with coziness, but i was sitting amongst people from a familiar place, looking at the familiar scene of a packed auditorium, listening to the familiar sound of reassurance resonating from a wise old pastor's speech, so that made it cozy. this mall i'm in also feels very familiar, since the majority of its tenants seem to have been transplanted from back in sg (something which i haven't encountered here before), so i'm feeling strangely at home in this new place. but in this case familiarity does not breed contempt because the most crucial difference here is, all my stress triggers are left behind. nice. food for thought (pun intended) to chew on from the sermon (another point of familiarity: the pastor bears the same name as dan the man, haha =p) included: -praise is a reflection of our attitude towards God in life -90% of the time, the outcome of a situation depends on our response (no idea about the validity of the percentage, but i agree that this is true the majority of the time) in the unoriginal words of tom hansen from 500 days of summer, "i'm famished." =D |
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