I started of with an extremely memorable New Year. On the first day of the year my 103y.o. grannie felt sick and was in and out of the hospital. Subsequently she was called home by the Lord on 26 January. I thank God for the full life that she had lived. She was such a humble person and I have so much to learn from her.
There are so many things I am thankful for in 2008.
1. God – I am still a child of God and He is still real to me. I am still alive.
2. Family – No one has a perfect family and neither do I. But I still thank God for being part of my family unit.
3. Work – This year marks the 10th year I had been with the company and I am glad that I still find my job a challenge.
4. Friends – For all my friends who have been standing by me through thick and thin; to meet up or in contact through emails with long lost friends; and for newly acquired friends.
5. Relatives – To meet up again with many of them at the beginning of the year.
6. Leisure
a. Holiday – to be able to go to Kuala Lumpur twice this year during Good Friday/Easter and Christmas periods for a short and relaxing trip with heaps of shopping and good food thrown in. And a big thank you to my great host.
b. Music – to be able to listen to The UK South Norfolk Youth Symphonic Band and The Kian Kok Middle School Concert Band.
c. Blog – to be able to continue blogging as a form of release for me and for your continuous support in reading it.
d. Facebook – to be able to meet up with new friends, old friends and not so old friends and esp. my most favourite high school teacher.
A Blessed New Year 2009 to everyone! Once again like last year, I like to emphasise to you to spend more time with God, it is worth doing it more than anything else in this world…
As the year is drawing to a close and a new year is dawning, I have two friends who have to make painful decisions in their life.
1. Mr. A found out that his wife has been cheating and lying to him. Although they have several kids, he is contemplating of divorcing her. Is he making the right decision? In situation like this, if you were in his shoes, would you give the wife a second chance?
As for me, if there are no kids involve, then I would not have any hesitation whatsoever to get out of the marriage. Afterall why stay in a marriage if your spouse has committed wrong against you? But of course it is easier said than done.
Since there are kids involve, then I have to think carefully because there are more lives involve than mine and I cannot be selfish. But would I stay in a marriage for the sake of the children?
Talking about not being selfish, I have a lot of friends who are staying in their marriage for the sake of being married eventhough they admit to me they wish they did not take this step in the first place.
2. Mr. B found out that his fiancée went back to her ex-boyfriend. End of story.
In this case, I would just get on with my life and glad that it happened now and not after getting married.
L to R: Sophia Tsen, Lily Tan, Deborah Tai, Spinxie, Choo Siow Chin, Winifred Lam, Matthew Heron & Tim Heron
All of us have not met together as a group for dinner for a long time. It is befitting we meet together before the year ended as Choo was here on the way back from KL to Tawau. Lily is back from KL until the following night. The Herons are back in KK from KL.
This was the first time I patronised this restaurant in City Mall. Previously when the restaurant was in Kingfisher I went there twice.
As Sophia pointed out since we ate the same thing ie. Sushi Tempura Bento, the food tasted great but there was a lot of MSG in it. (I still felt dehydrated when I woke up the next morning). In fact everyone liked the food each had ordered. We had good fellowship, food and laughter. Matt was the entertainer the whole night through. He is such a cute and lovely kid.
It is good to catch up with all of you eventhough it was only for a few hours. I always thank God for all of you for being part of my life.
Tracy and I went to Jusco Arena Food Court at 1U for breakfast.
We chose the shop Penang Noodle and Lam Mee. Both of us ordered ‘Pan Mee’ Soup.
The toilet inside this food court is very clean. I did not smell any bad smell at all. I was impressed. i found hanging at the door an inspection report which meant that this toilet is being inspected at least once a day.
We went to the section where I did not manage to take photos of the Christmas decorations on Christmas Day.
I bought some gifts at a small stall selling accessories and some stickers for the kids at the RM5 shop.
I saw packs of asparagus for sale and bought a pack for RM3 at Jusco Supermarket.
We went into a gift shop and found Christmas decorations sold at rock bottom prices. A box of one dozen of red and gold ornaments supposed to cost RM29.90 per box. I bought three boxes at <>
I bought some pork jerky for mum before having lunch at Just Thai Restaurant.
We were not that particularly hungry and therefore I ordered two appetisers only.
Then it was time to go back to Tracy’s place to do the final packing.
We arrived at Sentral at 3.50p.m. and the next Skybus was scheduled to leave for LCCT at 4p.m. but it did not leave until 4.15p.m.
I was a bit apprehensive on the way to LCCT and prayed earnestly to God that I will arrive on time to check-in. When I arrived at the check-in counter, there were no other passengers checking in. The two checked-in bags totalled up to 15.4kg. (When I left KK, the luggages totalled up to 5.4kg). So I bought a total of 12kg.
After checking in I looked at the clock on the wall. The time showed 5.30p.m. I was early by 5 mins. The counter will close at 5.35p.m. Thank God I made it. Otherwise I would have to buy a new ticket for a later flight.
I quickly went to McDonald’s to queue up to buy a burger. I did not have enough time to consume and therefore brought it up the plane with me. I bought a packet of Hershey’s chocolate at the confectionery shop and proceeded to the departure lounge. As I was queuing up, there was a Malay family who jumped queue simply because they know the officer stationed at the entrance.
I went straight to the loo and found toilet paper in the toilet again. Previously there was no toilet paper in any of the toilets in the airport, be it in JB, KK or KL.
An announcement came through the PA system for boarding but it did not happen until about fifteen mins later. I did not queue up until people started to leave the terminal building.
Just like when the plane arrived at LCCT on Christmas Eve, I did not have to walk far to board the plane. Since I do not wear a watch, it felt like taking forever for the rest of the passengers to board the plane as well as for the airport staff to put in all the checked in luggages onto the plane. I could view this being done as I was seated near the right wing part of the plane.
A while later an announcement came through the PA system inside the plane asking two people to identify themselves to the airport staff. These two persons happened to sit next to me and I was wondering what was going on. When the airport staff came to talk to them, they were informed to get off the plane because the man is an Air Asia staff and they were ordered to take the later flight at 9p.m. The woman enquired about their checked in luggages and were told that they did not have to worry. The airport staff will search and take the luggages out from the plane for them.
After these two persons left, more people boarded the plane. A mother and daughter came to sit next to me. The daughter who was having fever complained of being cold the whole journey. And she was only wearing a short white skirt and did not have any jacket with her. She asked the air hostess for a blanket but Air Asia does not provide it.
I felt like trying the Pak Nasser’s Nasi Lemak eventhough I still had the burger in my bag. It tasted ok for food being consumed up in the air but does not look anything like the one shown in the picture. Haha
The flight was delayed by 20mins in arriving in KKIA - Terminal 2.
Before I left for KL, my sis-in-law told me to bring the car keys with me. They were going to a dinner when I arrived back in KK and therefore could not fetch me from the airport. She will park the car at the airport before going to the dinner. Therefore I had to drive myself home.
Thank God that eventhough at one stage during the flight, the turbulence lasted for half an hour but I did not have a headache. I was able to drive myself home safely.
Once again Tracy thanks for everything including the ‘Zentel’ gift. Haha
Tracy and I arrived on time at Bethel Christian Centre for the 9.30a.m.
Rev. Canon Dr. Lakshman preached the sermon on the Faithfulness of God.
We had a bit of refreshment after the service. Then Tracy drove to some apartments nearby to see the surrounding and how the apartments look like. On the previous when I was trying on pants at one of the boutiques, she struck up a conversation with a lady from Pahang called May. May told Tracy where she lives.
I wanted to try the Vietnamese shop/restaurant called Hoa which is situated opposite Puteri Mart but it was closed.
We ended up going to Nice to Eat Food Centre. There are quite vast selections of food available at this food court.
I had ‘har meehoon’ (prawn noodles) while Tracy only had ‘tau fu fa’ and a drink. The soup was very tasty but the prawns were nothing to shout about.
After lunch, we went to the Curve. There was major traffic congestion on the way to the Curve and Tracy ended parking at Cineleisure and walked over to the Curve.
The first shoplot we passed by was Dragon-I and I could see that they have the same spotlights inside the restaurant like the ones in 1U.
We spent almost an hour taking photos and looking at the Christmas decorations.
We went to Daiso and I bought some things for the kids. This outlet occupied four shoplots.
We had dinner at Little Penang Café at 5p..m. When we went inside, there were no customers. The customers who arrived earlier than us preferred to dine al-fresco.
Our food took fifteen minutes to arrive eventhough there were not many customers.
Tracy and I both ordered ‘char keow teow’. The only difference was mine was spicy and hers was not. Her food arrived first but it lacked ‘wok hei’. Mine tasted better. Besides having prawns and clams, this was the first time I tasted crab meat.
We waited for half an hour after dinner before ordering dessert of ‘ice kacang’. There was nothing special about it.
After dinner we walked over to the Ikano Power Centre.
The ground floor where the Christmas decorations are situated was full of small round pieces of foam everywhere. While I was taking some photos a few kids came near me and after that my shoes were littered with the small pieces of foam and I had a hard time in getting rid of them.
We went to Ikea. There were so many things to look at but it’s too bad that I cannot buy and bring them back. I only bought something small but heavy and breakable as a gift for someone.
At Cold Storage, I found a pack of four persimmons which weighed almost weighed almost a kg. Jeff had promised to get some for mum but he forgot so I had to do it. I also bought a pack of Paradise Assorted Biscuits as ordered by mum. I would prefer the Arnott’s brand but there was none.
We rushed back to Sunway Pyramid for me to exchange a chain I bought the previous night and it broke while I was trying to wear before we left for church in the morning. Even after exchanging to a new one, I have qualm of wearing the chain.
I packed my things to see how heavy my bags were and discovered that I could still buy another four kgs if I chose to carry the breakable gift, persimmons and biscuits by hand. These stuffs totalled up to 2 kgs.
We had jelly given by Tracy’s neighbour on Christmas Eve for dessert.
P/S. Jeff requested through sms on 8 January 2009 for me to amend a factual mistake (if possible). He didn't FORGET to buy persimmon. He had to ABANDON the idea when someone (ie. Spinxie) was unwell at 1U! (on Christmas night).
I believe life itself is a gift from God and in having a relationship with Him.
I am on this earth for a purpose. I do not seek to change the world but to touch the world of one more person if I could, as long as there is breath in me; and to be a blessing to others.
A food lover who totally agrees with the chinese saying 'to be able to eat is prosperity'.
For the Lord God is a sun and shield; the Lord bestows favour and honour; no good thing does He withhold from those whose walk is blameless. Psalm 84:11
