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Tuesday, December 5

if you're wondering how on earth i am able to blog, the truth is, i'm back.

yes, team rgs osl cambodia 2006 is back in singapore.
for maybe not such a great but very important reason; i do not wish to elaborate.

aj's fine and kicking in typical aj style. just give her your prayers for now and don't creat further disturbances. praise the lord.

i want to thank my team -
all the effort put in, the communication problems, the uncertainty, and now the unexpected; i think has made us even more closer to each other. especially after what happened, the bond between us definitely exists, and that bond is very special, something that even the osl india team would probably not experience in the same way.

i'm a week earlier back from cambodia, but i doubt the amount of learning is any much less. what we could have learnt in 2 weeks, we learnt in 1; i think within that 1 day we took away much more than what we would have in 2 weeks.

i can't say osl changed me, but i'm definitely different - emotionally, mentally, and spiritually. i don't want to forget this experience, because that would mean forgetting lessons that i take for granted here. but something definitely clicked inside, i don't know yet whether the difference i feel in my heart will show itself outwardly to others, but i know there's something different, i'm still finding out what it is.

i'm not going to pour out my heart and soul here, because i know what i've learnt - time can never take it away from me if it's meant for me to remember.

it's strange the moment i step back into singapore, i feel like i'm in another dimension. the high rise, the technology, the food, it's a bit surreal, just like how it felt when i first stepped into cambodia. but 1 week there, it felt so natural. it's amazing how two places/ cultures/ groups of people on the same earth can be so different from each other. but in the end, home is where the heart is, and heart is my family.

i'm just grateful this trip brought me closer to God, and i thank the people who helped me to do that. what happened was unfortunate, but God meant it to happen.

i want to thank meakea, mr sineng, mr kosal, mr sarim, the meakea kids, the botomsoriya kids and the cambodians for making my first time there so enjoyable.

as a wise man, mr tan, said, "learning is easy in difficult situations, the challenge is to continue learning in comfortable situations."

random fact/ of all times to fall ill this year, i just had to fall ill on the 2nd day of osl. i just felt like puking initially, but then found out that i had 37.8 deg fever. yeah i know you're thinking 37.8 deg only no biggie, but my baseline temp is 36.7+ and when i get a fever i'm always rendered useless; i feel horrid even if it's a slight one. and it didn't help i couldn't ingest anything and constantly felt like vommiting which was made 100 times worse when the bus shook.

`wordsofthecynical
12:40 am

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