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Lovely day today.. achieved many things =].

Woke up to Harder to Breathe by Maroon 5 because Nicole called me to say that they are done with their musical/performance.. Meaning I should get ready and be on my way to Myeongdong to meet them..

After an hour or so delaying things because I struck a brilliant deal with Alex for my car... I was on my way out... but without having breakfast... (bad move).

When I got to Myeongdong, I was extremely hungry... But I tanked it through the shopping. Bought Puma running shoes for $65 (30% off sale) and they are extremely lightweight and comfortable - awesome overall!!

It started raining quite heavily as well so we decided to maybe head to a cafe until it quietened down... so we went to a Dog Cafe... LOL. 










Frank the Pug



Slizzdog

This guy had too much to drink.. 

Chappy!

The Dog Cafe was rather interesting... The Iced Americano was good though! I'm glad that I am in Korea.. where Iced Long Black is a specialty (unlike most cafes in Sydney who haven't even heard of such an idea).
The place definitely smelt like dog.. but it was a clean dog smell.. the kind of smell you get post-dogwash. 

When we got home at about 4.30pm... we decided to just rest up before we went out for dinner + karaoke... so we went our separate ways.. and I had a chat with this good man Ed Cheng and whoever thought praying over Skype had the same encouraging effect as if he was next to me in real life!
It was a blessed conversation and I thank God daily for this faithful brother of mine.

Even if he had to Skype from his mobile phone.. He was there to talk and listen.

At 5.30pm... It was dinnertime at the cafeteria... Tonight's dinner was HUGE. Not a lot of people came though because most of them have already started heading out to their hometowns to celebrate Chuseok (Korean Thanksgiving). 

It was also my first (and only proper) meal for the whole day... My body doesn't like me very much now..

At around 7.50pm, we met up to go to dinner + karaoke.. and it was a good night! Clean, kinda sensible and energetic vibes were all around =]... Until Eero got way too drunk and actually went off at us afterwards over something quite.... weird.. haha..... Oh it's amazing how girls can have such a hold on us guys...


On a random note... On the way back to my room in the dorm.. I bumped into that disabled man that I first met on my first few days here in the dorm... He said hi to me and introduced me to his friends as "my good neighbour".. He also asked me a question that I definitely did not expect..

"Obed, are you a man of faith?"

"Yes I am... I am a man of faith."

"Awesome."



Thankful: A good start to the long weekend! Got a good deal for my running shoes and I can finally start to take better care of my physical body.... Also for technology and Skype conversations. We can be so far, yet so close. =].

Prayerful: A weekend of rest not only physically and mentally... but spiritually. A lot of spare time = a lot of opportunities to explore my faith.

Dangers: I've seen alcohol do bad things to friends that I once thought were admirable... With such a seemingly wavering perception of people, it makes me wonder how my actions and my words have also affected how people saw me... Especially if I was meant to be a man of faith.