Our maize project is over! With a very rough start to our morning. Haha.

Firstly, I couldn't find a parking space, and I was praying and praying that God would give me a space because I was becoming very late for the meeting. We were meeting early to practice before our presentation in the afternoon. I almost wanted to park illegally but decided against it because there was a van parked nearby that had the words "Car Park Maintenance" on it. And I also almost wanted to drive off and just pay for parking but something made me stay where I was and wait. And God is really so cool, He brought me to wait just beside this car whose owner suddenly appeared to drive off and voila! I got a space. Thank God.

Then I met Xiaoyin in the lab and we started practising a bit while waiting for Manavi, but we waited til she was 45min late and there was no response from her cell after our repeated texting. So I decided to call her and I woke her up. Haha. She rushed down and had some really valuable last minute input into the slides! So we spent quite a bit of time adding information and editing our slides, that we had only an hour left before our presentation officially starts.

We decided to go for a quick lunch break and practice the whole presentation together after lunch. When we started walking towards the canteen from S1A, my shoe started growing an alligator mouth. At first I thought I could just deal with it later and walk a bit more carefully to prevent it from becoming worse but the alligator mouth turned into what felt like a thick heavy slab of ham stuck to the bottom of my foot. I kept tripping over it because it was flapping all over the place and I couldn't just tear it out because there was a heel that kept one end stuck down. I didn't have a rubber band that I could use to tie the sole down so I tried using some plasters to tape it down but it didn't work. Then I tried dragging my feet on the down and "sliding" my foot so that the sole wouldn't flap but it just caused one of the soles to break in half because of the friction. Manavi suggested I walked barefoot the rest of the way because the shoes were just giving so much trouble.

To cut the long story short, Xiaoyin ran ahead to the coop to help me buy some super glue while Manavi and I did a slow walk (with my flappy shoes on) to the canteen so that I could find a seat. Xiaoyin came back with the super glue and my shoes were fixed but now we had no more time to practice.

We finished our quick lunch and rushed to the presentation venue, but we went to the wrong block and for a moment we forgot which block we were supposed to go to. By the time we got to the right place, we only had time to load our presentation into the computer and wait for our turn. Then we started prepping ourselves and saying "Oh everything is going to be fine, we will just wing it." I was controlling my breathing and telling myself to  be calm, and Manavi started saying "we are going to kick ass!!"

Then we started noticing that we were the only group in green :) and we were quite excited about how we should have worn more leaf-y accessories and Manavi said we could have started with a mini hula dance and go "Aloha!" Haha. It calmed our nerves and in the end, through the rushing, I think our presentation turned out well.

And at the end of the day, we could even pose for our Aloha! photo together and be glad we made it through this miniproject. Yes, the weeks spent on our maize plants were tedious and the preparation for the presentation was hectic, but with groupmates like mine, I can look back and say it was also enjoyable.

I had an a-maize-ing time :) corny.

A few days ago I received a thoughtful message written by Dawn.
Yesterday I received beautiful message from God, delivered by Bob.
Today I received ai-xin chocolates from Seah :)
And Shaoxun also bought me many ai-xin meals...
Today, God also blessed me with no rain as I searched for pitcher plants in Kent Ridge.
I feel the love~

These look like God's own little paint pots... It may look a little rough around the edges, but the pitcher fulfils its purpose and keeps people in awe of the God that created it.

Wonderful, so wonderful is Your unfailing love
Your cross has spoken mercy over me