Fate or Faith??

The plan today was to meet Faith and Rachelle for church for the fourth service. Somehow the best laid plans somehow went awry when Rachelle did not go to her own church and subsequently did not go blading either. So a new plan was brewed...

Rachelle had lunch at home and I came to pick her up after at around 3 pm. We then set off for church...

Meanwhile... Faith was on her way to SUNTEC....

In the end I managed to find a parking lot near enough to The Rock side. Actually it was nearer to the McDonalds! But we managed to get there in time and Faith joined us soon after. As it was still early, we went for a drink at the Kopitiam opposite the Rock. I had an iced milo and the ladies shared a bottle of mineral water.

After having quenched our thirst and willed away the time, it was time to rejoin the queue. We joined the queue for first time visitors although technically only Rachelle was the only one amongst the 3 of us attending for the first time.

Pastor Joshua was preaching today and I would say he gave a rather good account of himself today. His preaching today kinda explained the ease in which we got in. Normally the queue is longer when Pastor Prince is around. But I at the same time felt kinda cheated as I had wanted Rachelle to hear Pastor Prince's message first hand, but there will always be another time...

After service we went to Kenny Rogers for dinner. I had a 1/4 Chicken meal complete with soup and drinks. The ladies had an assortment of side dishes.
After dinner,Rachelle and I shopped around while Faith went off to do some stuff (what I do not know) . She later rejoined us (or rather we went to look for her) just outside the Tiny Toons Shop. We then walked with the intention of shopping further, but Faith decided then perhaps it would be 'nicer' if we caught a movie instead. So we trudged back to the cinema but the next movie up was the Aviator which none of us was especially keen to watch. So Plan B was to go for drinks at Harry's@The Esplanade. We drove over instead of walking from Suntec to the Esplanade. Parked at B2, where we then walked up to the main hall from the car park.

Along the way we stumbled upon this quaint little shop, Cool Bear Workshop, selling made to order teddy bears.

This charming shop offers a new concept whereby everyone, particularly children and teenagers, can have fun creating their own teddy bears, while also learning to be responsible for the bear's cleanliness, safety and attire. Simply follow a step-by-step process and in a few minutes you will have produced your very own teddy bear!

Everyone goes through an interactive process of creating a 'life' (teddy bear and friends), with every step of the bear-creating process designed to instill appreciation for life and life values. Bear makers also get to choose a wide variety of clothing and accessories for the new born bear. Cool Bear Workshop also offers many personalised gifts, including having your voice recorded in a voice and sound recorder as well as designing messages and/or graphics for your teddy bear's T-shirt.

The ladies were particularly enamoured by the concept particularly Faith. I myself think it may make for a good gift idea someday. Just as we were leaving we ran into Noel and Paula. I made the formal introductions. The gals think Paula is real sexy and I concur. It also got to the question of Noel is really my ypunger bro and how come we look so different. Noel looks older than I for the record. Hahaaa.. A real study in contrasts...

We then went down to Harry's as Noel and Paula went to Marina looking for birds nest. For the first round of drinks I had a Tequila Sunrise, Faith had a ...err...some blue drink...think it was a martini...or is that the second round?
Rachelle had a ...a....err...I am hopeless at this! For the second round Faith had a martini with some lychee/longan thingies inside and Rachelle had err..something very similar to what she had the first time round. Think it is called a court drink or something. After a bit Faith had to go off,so Rachelle and I took the cue to leave as well.

Sent Rachelle home.

Went home.

Messaged my two acquaintances telling them what a good time I had.

I am glad to have met Faith. Now I have 'kaki' to go church every Sunday. Yippie! She had been wanting to go to church regularly and had no one to go with..until now. Furthermore we also agreed to go blading together if time permits. Double yippie!!She is a real nice and down-to-earth girl. Glad to have made a new friend today. Rachelle seems mighty pleased with herself too. *chortle*