Tuesday, September 19, 2006
A memorable taxi ride
Oh man, i started today with a very horrible experience. oops, i should say yesterday cos it should be tuesday morning when i finish writing this post. I was supposed to be at LT8 at 10am sharp for my jap mid-term test, because there's a listening section at the front(around 30 marks) and no latecomers are allowed to enter until after the listening section ends. I studied till quite late the night before so in the morning, my mum gave me money to take cab so i can sleep longer (how sweet is tat). Normally, i would take only half an hour to reach sch by cab, so i left home at 9.15am. I thought i should have more than enough time to reach sch on time, but no!!!! I din realise tat it's drizzling and some car had to break down in the middle of the ECP on this particular monday morning. My God!!! There was a traffic jam and after half an hour i was still somewhere in kallang area, trapped in a taxi in the middle of an expressway with no alternative way to sch. Suddenly my heart sank, i've told yufen and bowen about how i felt tat this semester everything went so smoothly for me....like getting all my tutorial slots, my forensic sci module.....etc. Maybe i am paranoid but i felt something really bad is coming and God is giving me more blessings at the start of the sem so i won't complain so much when disaster comes. A terrifying question came to my mind, is this the disaster tat i was worrying about? studied so hard for jap and end up dumping my marks becos i din realise tat there might be a jam in the morning.
I prayed really hard to God, not to let this cruel thing happen to me. I had a hard time trying to convince myself tat God is a loving father and he will not 'plan' a disaster for me. But i realised tat sometimes he wants us to learn lessons thru' our experiences, maybe he wants me to plan my time more carefully. When the cab stopped at the busstop before the comp centre busstop, i raced all the way to LT 8, my goodness this LT is so freaking far. My legs were wobbling as i ran, i'm really in a panic. This jap module is quite competitive and i cant afford to lose marks just because of a stupid mistake. I put in so much effort and i dun feel like S/U ing it. I have more passion in this module than any of my life sci core mods, maybe if its core mod test i wont even care so much.
Okay here comes the good part, time to praise the Lord!! Really thank God, my strict lecturer had to go Tokyo for conference so my kind tutor conducted the test and she waited for the latecomers like me. The test started 7 mins late(i'm 3 mins late).
Therefore the moral of the story, when u r going for test or exams dun ever take a cab on a rainy morning, unless u've set aside time for traffic jam :p Jus kidding, hehe. Actually what i've learnt is tat God is a good and loving Father who wants to bless us with many things, and we should look forward to many blessings to come. It's wrong of me to think tat the blessings would run out and mishaps would come but if problems or setbacks do arise God might have a purpose for it. To help us learn and growth.
Eugene
