Managed to finish off my work and as planned started my journey home. Now this was the usual break up of the cost involved.1. Auto to the bus-stop: Rs. 52. Bus to Chennai: Rs. 463. Auto home: Rs. 40-50So that’s about 100 bucks. But I ended spending much lesser.1. I stepped into an auto to get to the bus stop. Midway he got another customer who wanted to load some luggage and the customer’s friend offered to drop me off at the station on his bike as there would be a short delay otherwise. Cost incurred: Nil!2. For some vague reason, the bus ticket cost me just Rs. 41. Not that it’s like saving a million bucks, but hey…. you’ll…

After getting off the bus, I dropped into the bank ATM to withdraw cash. I had enough in my wallet, but then New Year at home – you never know what you’re gonna spend on. I waited 5 minutes in the queue, stepped into the ATM and stylishly swiped my card and punched the touch-screen confidently…. till an error popped up – wrong PIN!! Oops, my fuddled up mind had the digits right but the order was wrong. After the 3rd error I gave up and walked home. Anyway I was kinda lucky. This ATM is a swipe and punch machine – the card is not retained by the machine. So I can try again tomorrow after jogging my memory…

I spent Christmas being on call. Sounds bad right! Somehow it wasnt bad at all.Firstly it wasn’t busy at all and I had plenty of rest! Rounds were fast and we even had time to have a small Christmas meeting in front of our Emergency Department.Second, no patient died. I felt thankful about it. It would have made me feel terrible if any child had become very sick and died, but I was spared the agony.Thirdly I had great food! My colleague Jolly brought some food from home cooked by her mother for lunch and I gulped it down hungrily in my room. The custard was amazing.And for dinner all of us on call in the ChildHealth department ordered food…

I’ve literally been hooked to internet radio stations this month!I’ve searched for and discovered lotsa radio stations.So now I’m listening to more up-to-date music.Been discovering a lotta new stations – air1, Youthfire, Cleft in the Rock, Faithrock, acaza, crossrhythms, branchFM, Christianrock and a few more ones I’ve forgotten.Any more suggestions?

Yesterday I wasnt all that unlucky, but today… oopsI got up early and decided to take the bus, but by the time I stepped out of the shower I felt too lazy to do that. The rains seemed not too bad and I finally decided to ride my bike to work. Wrong decision!! I soon realised that the rains were heavier than I expected and the wtare soaked through my jerkins. I reached cold, wet and shivering… but safe.On the brighter side, the traffic wasn’t much and the roads were not water-logged or un-ridable. I’ll just be optimistic and say that it could’ve been worse!! I could’ve been stranded on some water-logged street, or met with an accident , or…

As Daniel uncle wanted to meet us once more before we left, we all gathered at the Darling Residency Hotel basement. It was awesome. We had a time of spontaneous worship that was so intimate and meaningful. After a round of introductions we had a very powerful message by Daniel uncle. How can I not mention the dinner which was excellent. What followed next was the best part of the evening. We had a time of prayer where each member of the worship team was prayed for by someone. It was amazing.The whole worship team felt blessed and more united and together!You can view the photos here!Thank God for such times that are so precious!

I really don’t know how it started but I ended up making a brave attempt to clean my room. Anybody who has seen my room will know that it is quite a daunting task. I’d cleaned up my desk a few days ago and it was clutter-free. I pulled out a couple of books and started studying. After some time I realised the floor below the desk was full of dust and started sweeping it. Then one thing led to another and soon I was sweeping the whole room. I realised that there was piles of dust and dirt under the bed and so went ahead and pulled out the stuff from there and sweeping it clean. A bolt of…

We’ve been having heavy rains intermittently for the past few days. I have to take an 8 km ride on my bike to work this week and I had been lucky to be dry the last few days – the rain always paused when I had to travel!Today I wasnt that lucky! There was a slight drizzle when i started off and I did get a little wet. However my jerkins and helmet were enough and I reached with my pants a little wet… but that too quickly dried.Thankful that the rains didnt break loose!!

Every few days I send an encouraging verse and a thought by SMS to some friends and a few others who have requested it as a part of The addicted2jesus SMS text messaging service is here – join and receive encouraging thoughts and verses on your mobile phone!Depending on technology sometimes has it’s downside as I discovered today. I typed in the thought (“If you were arrested today for being a Christian, would there be enough evidence to convict you?”) and the verse (Job 13.15). Then I hit the send to many option and chose the names from the phonebook on my mobile and hit send for each number.Easy .. duh!! No way.Normally I hit a few problems, but it’s…

Daniel uncle was the preacher today and the theme throughout the service was Worship. Finny led the praise session.We started off full of energy and towards the end… poof… the power went off. The problem again was a blown fuse! Although we were reduced to some ‘acoustic’ worship without the words being projected – it was still full of energy!!We fixed the fuse before the sermon and the rest of service was power-ful! Literally and otherwise.We finished with ‘Blessed Be The Lord’ and it was amazing : a powerful time of worship- just one song and man!! was it good!!