God be with you till we meet again

Well, it's time for me to go and serve my Lord and consecrate 2 years of my time to Him. I'll be away from the internet and all other forms of modern day communication.

The only way to contact me is by writing to me. I shall depart on the 28th of March to Provo, Utah for missionary training where my letters can be received for 3 weeks.. till approximately late April.

My address then will be:

Elder Trent Lai

California Oakland/San Francisco Mission

Provo Missionary Training Center

2005 N 900 E

Provo, UT 84604

United States.

If you do write to me, I will definitely write back!

Thereafter, I'll be posted to the area I was called to, in the California Oakland/San Francisco Mission. Why there? I do not exactly know but all I know is that there are people waiting for me to teach them the word of God and it's my responsibility to find them. All letters and parcels (if you do intend to send anything :p) can be sent to this address at:

Elder Trent Lai

California Oakland/San Francisco Mission

4945 Lincoln Way

Oakland CA 94602

United States

Thanks everyone for being there for me before I left and making time to converse with me/wish me all the best/meet up. Deeply appreciate it and I shall be praying for all of you on this island or wherever you are or will be.

God be with you till we meet again.

She sells shishas by the seashore

Haji lane's teens who comfortably play cards and smoke shishas don't realise the effect of the activity on their lungs. A friend of mine who smokes told me there's less kick in shishas than in cigarettes. Funny how shishas give less of a high feeling and harms the body more - a strange inverse relationship here.

According to BBC, "measuring carbon monoxide in exhaled breath showed a normal non-smoker's level to be three parts CO per million parts of air (ppm) (less than 1% of blood not working properly), a light smoker to have 10-20 ppm (2-4% of blood not working properly), and a heavy smoker 30-40 ppm (5-7%). The study found shisha smokers had 40-70 ppm of CO in their breath - affecting 8-12% of their blood."

So people, clear your misconceptions.

Asobi Seksu

I can't believe I missed this band last year in November when they performed in Zouk. Dream pop gives that airy fairy floaty feel; not surprising given its genre name.