Media Fast

Due to my backsliding in my time of reading of the Bible and time spent with God... as a result of excessive TV watching and Internet surfing and MSN... I have decided to go on a media fast of TV, Internet and Games till the end of the year... phew... sounds like a long time, but it's really effectively 1 month...

Here's how my fasting went...

DAY 1: thank God for work... I don really need to think about TV... I got my work to think about... the Big Move has also come to our office... we are renovating the office so we gotta pack our stuff and move out for a while before comiing back... WOO HOO! BRAND NEW CUBICLES! HOW EXCITING! :)

But I was actually still on the Net chatting with Lindsay, my Shanghai buddy and sneaked a few award winning ads on the net during the session...

CONCLUSION: FAIL

DAY 2: Thank God for cell at night where we had a great time of sharing and Yeo and Julius received the gift of tongues! WOO HOO! Praise the Lord. Then they had this argument about whose tongues is REAL one... *duh...

By the time I got home after supper at Jalan Kayu, it was already 2am!

DAY 3: I woke up in the morning and there was this incredible urge to switch on my TV. It's always been my sat morning routine to switch on the TV to catch the sat morning cartoons... ARGH... almost died... must resist...

I think I was squirming in my bed for a while before I got up, prayed in tongues and read my Chronicles of Narnia... zzz... before going for cell group...

DAY 4: Sun morning was the toughest... I WANT MY SUN MORNING CARTOON!!! ROAR!! I squirmed around in my bed again. This time, I really, really almost died... and I had to get out of the house... argh... my only substitute for excitement is my Narnia book... but seriously, how much Narnia can you read in a day?

NARNIA! (my friend corrected my pronunciation this morning, think it's the way I said it; sounded like a hokkien swear word... oops)

so... I was hanging around Tampines Mall... and you know... I was... at the shop selling DVDs and I stood there transfixed at the little TV which was screening "War of the Worlds" which was just released... :P at least there was a moment of relief... :P

ARGH... ah... how right did Paul say I do not do what I wish and do what I do not wish!

So, anyway, I bought my HOLY Christian books about listening to God and the gifts of the Spirit and made my way home... that was when Ben called me.

I told him about how I was dying from my fast and he said,"He he he... I watching TV now le..."

Wa! With friends like this? Who needs enemies? *although he did say there were crap programs on TV then. *Sob, sob... I'm so touched... RAH! The damage has been done!!

Oh well, I did sneak a few peeks at the tube at night, after another round of Narnia... bleah...

But really, the programs were so boring I immediately switched it off and went to bed instead.

One thing, though I gotta thank God for, was I managed to spend more time with Him :) and had a longer conversation than I usually do. :)

oh... I'm so proud of myself.