Ice Cream Cone Day/Vanilla Ice Cream Day/Violet Festival (Ohio)/Bagelfest (Illinois)/Private Eye Day
2003-07-23 @ 4:24 p.m.

Today was yet another mundane day in the humdrum existence I call a life. I woke up in the morning, brushed my teeth, ate a banana sandwich, and was sorting through the MP3s I downloaded overnight. Then I went for my last practice before SYF. It wasn't so bad at first, that is until after we performed for the teachers. Then Mr Toh was like drilling us on pitch, and it was so boring and damn irritating, I'm sure a lot of people felt that way too. Just think, in less than a day, it'll all be over! We sneaked a peek at the other choirs on our day, and we figured that we'd probably get a Gold. I'm betting that for tomorrow, RGS, MGS, RI and PLMGS will get Gold. Supposedly, 11 Golds were awarded on the first two days of the competition alone. Is it just me, or is this year's SYF of awfully low standards? Thank God, it all ends tomorrow!

I had just finished with the Delerium MP3s, when I realised that I deleted an MP3 which was supposed to have replaced one with recording artifacts. Thank goodness, I've managed to find another user with a file of higher quality! I still haven't found time to go and buy another pack of CD-Rs, which is quite annoying because it's getting boring listening to Aphelion all the time, and I want to burn the complete Delerium CDs which I have, especially Chimera. Maybe I'll get my mum to buy it tomorrow when she sends my sister to her piano lesson, but she'll only get back after I've left the SYF Finals concert anyway. Oh well, I guess I'll stop here, I need to finish Physics revision worksheets.

Someone asked me a very interesting question today. I'm a Christian, so he asked me, "Are you happy that so-and-so has become a Christian?" I kept quiet, because I really couldn't answer yes. That was really un-Christlike behaviour, I know, but I just couldn't find it in me to feel happy for that person. How do you think of someone as a brother-in-Christ, when you've despised him ever since you met him? Part of me knows I ought to be happy for him, it's one more soul saved after all, especially since my friend says this guy seems like he needs some sort of direction in his life and God can give him that. Part of me just thinks it's a sham, because his belief doesn't show in his actions and attitudes towards others. Not that I'm a saint, but at least I try, anyone who knows me can testify to that. I don't know, it's a lot easier to continue despising someone, until he's really proven himself to have changed...