Today I woke up, looked at my watch and hp. It says 1030. I on my laptop. It says 1130. Confused. 1130?! I want to go church which starts at 11. Am I late? Well, I thought my com gone bonkers again. So I changed the com time. I alighted at central station, and looked at the central station clock. It says 1240pm! my watch and hp says 1140! I was like "WHAT! what's going on." nevertheless, i seems like im utterly late for church for 1.5+ hours. I wanted to go home. But then decided to pay the church a visit and maybe talk to the pastor. I did. And the service still had quite long to go, much to my surprised. I found out later, today had only 23 hours, officially. Summer time, means it becomes 1 hour faster. Then when summer ends, that day would have 25 hours. Kinda stupid really. To adjust your clock twice.
I walked in, everyone's seater. Pastor preaching. Then pastor stopped and said "Hey John! That's John, all the way from Singapore". He's the first pastor I know that do that. Usually, pastors would get kinda irritated by people walking in late, always saying that it disrupts the atmosphere and distracts people. Not this one.
After service, Pastor invited me to his house, with 2 more leaders. Amazing. I am struck by such hospitality. Although I felt that I need to plan for Italy trip, a little time with him would help I guess. Since I have not seen him for so long. We bought us pizzas. I have never seen such huge pizzas. It was really GOOD. ESP the chicken with cashew nuts one. Then we talked. His apartment is AMAZING! It is 8th floor, one of the highest floors in Oslo, and it overlooks the mountains and sea and sky. Omg. And its a huge apartment. I have never seen such a huge bathroom and bathtub in my life.
We had pizzas, and watched "walk the line", a true life story of Johnny Cash. IDK who he was. But I learnt, that if Elvis was number 1, he was number 2. He was a little older than Elvis prolly. But his life story was amazing. His marriage to June Carter, a fellow singer, was the best media news that ever occurred. This mad man, left his wife, and proposed to June, 40 times, before June accepted. I would debate whether this is acceptable though. However, besides his weird r/s life, it was a Great movie to understand about human fraility.
At night, pastor drove us back, and I learnt that near his house is a good & Cheap sushi restaurant.
Pastor has actually lived in Thailand for 8 years, and speaks fluent Thai. He was born in Japan and lived there till 4. He spoke fluent Japanese and then according to his parents, completely forgot all Japanese within 2 months of moving to Norway. He's Norwegian white man. He loves Asia, and all Asian food. And agrees that there's no food like Asian food. And he's been to Singapore Many times. Understand how fast and stress the society is. He said "Put a Norwegian student in Singapore, and he'll turn crazy. Norway is so slow, but people in Norway dont realise how slow their country. Most of them think that its very fast paced." Maria, a fellow Norwegian student, who intro me to the church, felt that Norway was fast. I think she'll die if she goes other ctys.
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