Our flight was at 11:30pm and I had been having this awful migraine since the day before, so it was hard to get excited about traveling when what you wanted most was to get a nice sleep. So yeah, a rough start for me.
But thank God, after a long sleep in the plane, that nasty migraine disappeared!
12 hours later we touched down at Helsinki international airport. We waited 1.5 hours before changing flight to Amsterdam.
Technorati Tags: Europe, Helsinki, Travelling
.: September 23, 2012. Sunday :.
I skipped church service this morning which always the case whenever I need to work at Saturday midnight up until 6 AM Sunday morning. The timing of my work schedule seems to always clash with my ushering schedule, so this morning hubby went to church alone and I met him afterward for lunch. We had lunch with my cousin at Ichibanboshi, a new Japanese rest at Takashimaya (one of our faves).
The fun started after lunch. A second shopping spree for items to be brought for our Europe trip! Hubby went crazy for shoes, too cute ahhaha. I bought a moleskine sketchbook and a watercolor book, some new synthetic brushes, and gouache tube. Yeah, I'm planning to sketch in Europe, can hardly wait! Bought some pairs of tights as well and just about when we declared that the shopping was done, we passed a new store selling Japanese-style clothes. You guess, I walked in and ended up buying :p
No more shopping for months, promise :D
~ Bon Voyage! ~
(mixed with white gouache)
Piercing the Darkness, This Present Darkness, and The Prophet by Frank E. Peretti. I finished reading all those and I'm left with wanting more. His novels are the kind that give me a sweet aftertaste. Um you know the thing about a great novel, a literature-prize-worthy type of novels, they left you with a disturbed, somewhat gloomy feeling. Most of them. Ones, such as my favourites, Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns. Those are great novels no doubt, me a great fan of the author and I very much enjoyed the story and actually out hunting for them if I'm tired of those chicklits.
But, it is different with Frank E. Peretti's novels. I felt *oh, this will sound funny and cheesy* warm and peaceful, albeit you get almost the same story weight as from those other more serious novels. So it's somewhere in the middle. I like it.
I was first introduced to one of his works by our cell group friend, back in 2010. This Present Darkness. At first I was a bit sceptical, especially when I knew it was a Christian fiction novel. I mean, in my mind it was expected to be a lousy, corny novel. But in the end I decided to give it a try, maybe even read a few chapters. So I borrowed the book. And, I was glad I did. This Present Darkness (as well as its sequel, Piercing the Darkness) are definitely a page turner, about a spiritual warfare that in physical life is actually the hidden agenda or often the wrongdoings of social issues that people molds and covers to make it look good and even acceptable. A deception. So in his novels, he presented this and trying to get the reader to think and go back to the truth, what is wrong and what is right.
Definitely a soul stirring book. Frank E. Peretti is a Christian fiction writer and some of his books have been adapted to big screen as well. Now is one of my fave author based on the three novels I read. I'll be on the next book soon (The Oath).
