went to church in the morning, had to wake up early cos my sis is playing cello for a sunday school performance so she had to go for the practice early.. i can never comprehend how she can lug that 10 kg case + cello around. its like a freaking weapon! or carrying another human being. she's strong.

during service, i suddenly remembered i had CG, but i didnt bring my study material, so had to go home to get it after lunch. 

lunch was at beauty world plaza. tried this new store "Ling's" very cheap $2.50 prawn noodles! pretty average, but since it was $2.50 i wont complain much. went home, took a nap and then had to get my stuff and went to church for CG meeting :)

looking for parking was KILLER. omg, cos tmr is like hari raya adilfitri, so like all the malays are out visiting, so the HDB carpark was full, and i had to drive around the area and wait for lot. found one eventually.. 

CG: took time to share and catch up, and came up with our CG goals :) it was really fun!

we then kinda decided to go for the deep sea scroll exhibition. Today was the last day!! >.< talk about waiting until last min. drove there lor! no ERP on sundays :) parked at raffles place, cos the whole place was cordoned off due to F1!

there was this stretch where i got to drive on the track, SO FUN man. :) like racing! hahaha.

it was really interesting, kinda open my eyes to how much the bible has gone through to make it into a small cute leather bound version thats currently residing in my bag. i kept trying to look for errors are discrepancies in the really old versions compared to what we have now, and it was amazingly accurate! how great is the Lord, that his word continues to transcend time, and remain the same all thru the years.

btw some history, the dead sea scrolls were carbon dated to 200 BC, means its around 300-500 years before the last discovery of biblical text. so this proves that the bible existed even earlier than that, and how accurate the transcribing of later texts were, since the content is the same! :)

i like the way the dead sea scrolls were discovered. they were discovered by a shepherd who was looking for his missing sheep, which had wandered into a cave along the dead sea. the cave looked dark so he decided to throw a rock into the cave to scare the sheep out. and in he threw the rock.. "SMASH!", sounded like something broke so he decided to go investigate, and he found clay jars with the scrolls inside! 

its so intriguing how God seems to always use shepherds and lost sheep.. like the scrolls weren't discovered by Indiana Jones or some major famous archaeologist, but someone so random, a responsible shepherd looking for his lost sheep :) kinda gave me something to think about. :)

<-- the tiniest bible! chained to a pulpit :) 1890

there's also this 15 kg KJV bible, that has really intricate designs as the headings, the cover pages, the first alphabet of each chapter.. :) oh the dead sea scrolls were actually just 4 minute fragments, cos the real scrolls are actually back in the Shrine of the Book. 

anw at the activity room we all went to print a nice page from the KJV version, most of us printed chapter 3 from ecclesiastes. the one about time :) really nice! and i found out that my parent's wedding verse is ecclesiastes 3:11 "He has made all things beautiful in his time". SO SWEET LA!  

anw the dead sea scroll discovery kinda reminded me about this japanese documentary i watched about this chinese farmer who made a major discovery in chinese history by finding the golden plate of empress wu zetian. (this plate is particularly valuable, cos it contained a major clue in wu zetian's personal life and her thoughts during her rule, cos her rule was a particularly mysterious one. ) anw apparently this farmer found it while throwing rocks down the mountain, competing with his friend who's rock goes faster or something like that. so funny! hahaha. anw, he was deeply troubled in his find because there were so many ppl coming to him to buy it from him, for LARGE unimaginable sums of money! he eventually donated the find to the national heritage board of china, who gave him a small token of their appreciation, which he gladly accepted, as he was very afraid of troubles that would follow should he accept so much money.

after the exhibition we went for dinner at raffles city, ate at streetscafe. :)

oh i want to try Osaka town! there's okonomiyaki there! :) 

-cheryl~*