3 days in Batam and i am a patriot when i return.

Youth Retreat was good.
Perhaps maybe my purpose of going there was to get some answers and some more new questions.
Overall it was........ good.
It was real cool to start to get to know the older people, more than the usual, standard 'hi and bye'-smiley routine.
I dont really have pictures because i didnt bring a cam, but the others did so i am depending on fb for all evidences that i went to batam and that i am not lying. (okay i sound like chris boone now)

Anyhows its already the 7th december 2009 everyone!!!
We are into the last month of the year already.
On hindsight, this year has been real tough.
In all aspects of life.
15 going on 16 in 2 more months time.
15 years 10 months on this beautiful planet, earth so far.
I sometimes wonder how my life has been so far.
Was it Good? Bad? Ugly?
Perhaps all three.
Because than again, this is life.
If you only experience the good, it isnt good enough as ironic or weird as that sounds.
Part of the beauty of life is the pain that we go through.
Inwardly and externally.
The Jadedness, the exhilaration, the sorrow, the ecstasy, the tears.
Perhaps the part that we hate the most about life is going to be the part we remember most.
The part that sharpens us and pushes us beyond our comfort zone and out of the boundaries that we have placed on ourselves. And maybe that will fortify us into the people we ultimately become.
Sigh.
I don't know...
But What i do know is that...
Good things have happened during this year too.
I met awesome people.
Like REAL awesome people that were cool enough to be friends with me.
Yeah funny right?
As goofy as i am there are real cool people who accepted me as i am and became friends with me.
People like... carissa, adelin, kimberley even?
Some of them i have never known before this year and some i just became better friends with them this year.
So even though it was a tough year this year,
I don't regret this year of my life.
I've read that life is like a story.
So 2009 wasnt a chapter i would have preferred to skip or tear out or try to burn.
But 2009 will be chapter i would, like with the rest of the other chapters of my life, like to revisit and reminiscence about.
So in short, I still thank God for this year even though you can say it was a disaster.
But than as we all know, after a storm always comes the calm.
The calm after the storm.
That rainbow.
The symbol of everlasting faithfulness and hope that God is. Was. And Will be.



Now, isnt that beautiful?