Lack of Update

There has been a few people saying, since I come back to London, I have not been updating my blog like I used to be, especially last 2 months, almost every few days! True ... it's because while having holiday back home (also to Aust, Thailand, S'pore) I had the chance to see new things, meet new friends (and old friends), eat all sort of food :D Not saying that London is boring - but when you are back to work, it has been quite routine!

Nevertheless, there have been several events/activities I joined through out these 3 weeks! Btw, I am lack of photos these days because it's either I forgot to bring my camera or I am lazy to take!

I attended worshipcentral on 19 May at Holy Trinity Brompton. It's a seminar for worship team organized by Tim Hughes and Al-Gordon. It's held once every 2 months, and something I look forward to attend every time. Not because there's Tim Hughes, but because of God's presence! It's a whole Saturday event, which 2 session of praise and worship with teaching and 2 workshops, focusing on skill, theology and life application. Will be attending the next one on 17 July! Checkout the site http://www.worshipcentral.org.uk You can go there n listen to some of the new songs and download the chord chart!

Then the following weekend, it was much more interesting. We had our service on Saturday at a new venue, a Swiss church near Covent Garden! Frankly, the location is central, but the assessiblity was terrible! There were no parking allow up until 6.30pm around the area. I did the logistic and it was really unconvenient to look for parking! In the end, I parked the van 20 mins walk from the church. Not only that, the church was built for silent worship (organ and hymm), so with out full worship team (drum, bass, electric guitar, keyboard plus guitar), the sound was horrible! :P That's why, we suggested, if we ever use the venue again, we'll only have a guitar or/and keyboard. AFter the service, suppose to go for the £5 per dish Korean restaurant but it was a long wait for 1 hour, so we decided to go Chinese. Talking about this Korean restaurant, Jacey, Anita and I discovered this 2 weeks ago, and since then, we have visited this restaurant for many many times.

The next day was Pentecost Sunday - and all over the world, churches were gathering to have Global Day of Prayer. In London, it was held at Upton Park (West Ham Utd stadium). We planned to get there by 2pm to join the worship ... but because people were habitually late, plus sudden signal failure or District Line, plus raining ... we were there only at 3.30pm. Missed quite a bit .. but regardless of these, God is really awesome in the midst! Christians of different denominations came to worship and pray! After the event, we jst had dinner at Chop Chop. Here's a video promotion of the GDOP!

The next day was a May Bank holiday! I dunno why May Bank holiday... not celebrating any occassion either. But good to have holiday! Some of us have planned to visit Thorpe Park, a theme park. The weather was really really bad ... it rained whole day! We did not really enjoy ourselves because we did not get to sit on the most thrilling rides .... we ended up feeding the 2p coin machine games. Candy amazingly got herself 2 big soft toys from the crane machine! We were really disappointed when we decided to head home, saying we will not visit this park again, ever! The park gave us a surprise, all of us were given free ticket to come back again! Naturally, you need to do that, because of the rain, most rides were close! haha ... so in probably 2-3 weeks time, i'm going to Thorpe park again!

Last night (Thursday), there was free screening of Swan Lake, a famous ballet performance at Trafalgar Sq in the evening. Met up with Jacey and Kenny to go to Korean restaurant again (yes, the £5 a dish during the trial period). After dinner, met up with Wei Kee and her friend, Joel! Really a nice guy - and will invite him to church!

The ballet is about a prince fall in love with a swan-turn-human-during-daylight-girl who was under the curse of evil spirit. Upon returning to palace, the queen forces the prince to choose one girl to marry - and the evil spirit brought upon her daughter disguise as the swan-turn-human-during-daylight-girl and con the prince to marry her. The prince only found out later he was cheated n rushed to the lake to look for the real swan-turn-human-during-daylight-girl. In the end, the prince and the swan-turn-human-during-daylight-girl sacrifice their life and destroyed the evil spirit. What is interesting is, all these were presented in ballet! I was so clueless in the first 30 minutes, but later found myself enjoying it tremendously. But, i don't think i'll spend £40 to buy a ticket to see the ballet or opera. I rather go football! :D

There are some photos uploaded at http://picasaweb.google.com/EldosThen