It's past 4 and I am still awake. I got home at about 4am after counting down with friends.
I was home with mum till 10pm before heading out to ECP to meet my friends to blade. Decided that it would be a quiet night (away from town) to usher the New Year.
The service road at ECP was jammed and I was surprised to see many others at ECP especially towards Fort Road. I met AS nearer to Macs and we bladed back towards Fort Road. It was about 11pm then and I decided to blade to the hawker centre. Once I was there, I called AS if she wanted some food and I was told to get Hokkien Mee.
After I had ordered the noodles, the stall lights were then switched off. Apparently, I was the last customer for the day. I jokingly told the stall-owner that he could pack up early to join in the Countdown. He laughed too.
CB and I reached Fort Road by 11.55pm and AS and friends were nowhere to be found because they were on the breakwater near to the canal. It was too dark to walk in and CB had no slippers to walk on the rough patch. Anyway, while we were deciding on the track, people started counting down and flares were let off from the boats. I missed seeing the flares that was let off. Anyway, CB decided to go off as he had to teach in the morning. I took off my blades and walked in alone.
AS and friends left the sparkling juice for me and we decided to play with some sparklers and enjoy the Hokkien Mee. It was great fun - takine pictures, eating "gourmet" food and drinks, chatting.
As for resolution, I guess I wanna shed some weight (so gotta start exercising) and hope that I would pass my exams that's to come in the next 2 years.
We finally left ECP at 3.45am and R (AS's friend) sent me off to Fort Road. The way he drove was dangerous enough. I understood his kind intentions but then it's dangerous driving. He was trying to chase the taxi-driver to ensure that I hopped onto the cab but then it nearly hit another car. Fortunately, the taxi turned into the petrol kiosk and I was able to alight and hop onto the cab there.
Countdown at ECP
A church friend sent me this message and I had decided to use it as a prayer here:
Numbers 6: 24-26:
24 - The LORD bless you and keep you;
25 - The LORD make his face shine upon you and be gracious to you;
26 - The LORD turn his face toward you and give you peace.
"Lord, this is the last day of an old year. I stand before you like a piling under a wharf that has gathered unsightly barnacles and debris. Lord, today, clean out my life and make me fit to walk into a new year, clean and unencumbered. Scrape from my heart the burdensome barnacles of all my botches and bungling. Strip from my life all the unbecoming garments of pride, arrogance and ego. As a gardener, O Lord, pull from my life today all that is unbecoming; all the weeks and months of worry; the roots of resistance; the burgeoning briers of bullheadedness and the vines of vexation.
Before the New Year arrives, disinfect the dirtiness of my deeds, destroy the detestable, destructive debris of my life, clear from my agenda all that is mundane, mediocre and moldy. Peel from my spirit, O Lord, all the layers of lewdness, lusting and lying. Scrub away, O God, all that is sullied, stained, septic and soiled.
Repaint today, O Lord, my faded walls; restore just now my voice; unstop my tongue to speak your praise; wash away the haze that I may see you lifted up. Remove from my life this day, Lord all that is small, rebellious, obstinate and unsurrendered to you.
Sweep out of my life all that is unimportant, unnecessary, unnatural and all that is ugly. Clear my mind of all thinking that is negative and unproductive. Breathe into me the fresh breath of your Spirit and rib me with the steel of your courage to face the New Year with a dogged determination to stand at the center of your will all the way through. Give me eyes to see beyond the physical, ears to hear beyond the audible, hands to touch hurting people, feet to speed to those in need, eyes to see those opportunities Lord that you see.
Lord, I pull the shade on an old year and raise the shade to a new one. Grant me wisdom to walk with you and NOT LOOK BACK EVER. Amen."
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