Yesterday American World No. 1 Serena Williams won her 12th Grand Slam 6-4, 3-6, 6-2 against Belgian Justine Henin (on wildcard), who is on the come back trail after on leave for 20 months.
Tonight Swiss World No. 1 Roger Federer outclassed World No. 5 Scot Andy
The win for Federer is even sweeter this time round – winning as a married man and father of twin girls. Well done FedEx!
Today is my eldest brother’s birthday and we went out for dinner as a family. In our family the birthday person is the one who treats the rest a meal during his/her birthday.
We went in two cars and they had already ordered when we arrived.
Chicken Katsudon
Baked Beef Rice
One good thing though was the fact that dinner was over and done with within just over an hour and I took the short cut to go home.
After Canaanland Celebration, I drove to Karamunsing. There was no parking bay available at the open car park next to the SESB building. I drove out again and did not even bother to go inside or near the SESB building. I parked illegally outside the SESB open car park. A lot of cars were already parked there and as soon as I parked, another car parked in front of me and there was no space anymore to accommodate another car.
Since Sophia and Monica did not arrive at RCH yet, I went to my hairdresser and enquired whether she was free to do my hair after lunch. She agreed to and off I went to Bata shoes shop. I did not find anything I like. When I came out from the shop, I saw one of my colleagues with his 2y.o. daughter. He instructed her to kiss my hand and she took my right hand to kiss it. She was so cute. I should have taken a photo of her.
When I went into RCH again, Sophia had arrived. We found the place to be stuffy and decided to change to another table. I went to order and pay for my food first. After I paid, I realised that the table near the door was cooler with wind coming in through the open door. We moved to that table.
I had Steamed Chicken Rice with 100+.
Sophia had Roasted Chicken Rice with ‘Teh Tarik’.
Monica did not join us in the end.
We chatted until after 3p.m. and went our separate ways. I went to do my hair while Sophia went to Signature to buy stationery.
While the hairdresser’s male employee was colouring my hair, I went ‘fishing’. I took out my mobile phone to play the game ‘Big 2’ to keep myself awake. After colouring, while washing my hair, the same guy told me I could have another nap at the chair by the wash basin since after washing my hair, he was going to do treatment to my hair there and then. I think I managed to rest for about 25 mins.
I was glad to be able to leave the hairdresser’s within less than 2 hours of being there.
Upon having a shower after arriving home, I took a nap.
Ivy Voon led P&W. Andrew was on the guitar. Alice Hiew - keyboard. Terence Lim - drums. Elizabeth Chung - back-up singer. Kenny Lim - Facilitator.
Today we had Rev. Dr. Simon Wong, the General Secretary of Malaysia Bible Society as the speaker.
He shared on how important in reading the Word of God. We should be reading, studying, memorising, meditating and applying the Word of God.
He told a story of how a church leader should be doing all of the above but one particular person did not do it. One day he had a dream and dreamt that when he opened his Bible, all he could see were blank pages. Then he really showed us a Bible with blank pages between the covers.
He then challenged us while we have the opportunity, to turn back to the Word of God and not wait until the blank pages appear and then even with regret, it would be too late.
When we do not stand on the Word of God, we will be walking on sinking sand.
The Word of God is important because it is our compass, it changes our life, it is our spiritual food. We need it to be a victorious person.
God can change a person, not because of the person’s ability/philosophy but because there is power in the Word of God.
We need to be set free from all bondages. The truth will set us free.
Lastly he exhorted us to make an effort to read the Word of God and apply them in our life, to spread the Word of God by sharing it as well as sharing our testimony.
Usually on Sunday mornings, I would cook myself either a packet of instant noodles or one/two dry noodles for brekky before attending Canaanland Celebration.
This morning after I had washed my clothes, I went to the backyard which is also where the wet kitchen is. As I was hanging out my clothes, I heard noises coming from the coconut tree. At first I thought maybe one of the in-house security guards is plucking the coconuts from the tree. They are allowed to do that.
But on closer look, I saw a mouse on top one of the coconuts. When I went near the tree, the noises ceased. When I went away, the noises came back again.
As I was cooking the ‘Har Mee’ (compliment from buying a pack of half a dozen of ‘Mi Goreng’), mossies started to attack me. it has been months I did not get attack by them and here they having a field day again.
That is why if I am to take up gardening, I have to think twice cos in the span of 1.5 minutes, I already had three mossies bites. Moreover if I wear clothes to cover up myself to do gardening, I would faint under the hot weather.
Thank you Lord for the good news today.
Also credit card debts had all been cleared.
Feeling super duper great so already gave mum $ for this month. Caught her by surprise.
The latest completed game played with my cousin.
I started the game with the word urinate 64 points
My 3rd word was jam 47 points
My 4th word was envision 65 points
My 5th word was execs 46 points
My 7th word was woke (triple word score) 48 points
My 9th word was adzing (triple word score) 81 points
My 12th word was fane 31 points
I thought I could finally hit 500 points. But it was not to be.
Still it is a personal best of 467 points.
Once again thank you Lord.
Some people just cannot take no for an answer.
They have wanted to see the boss for something unrelated to our field but I told them I would inform them when the boss is freer. Maybe they think that I did not inform the boss of their intention.
They have been calling and asking not only once but twice so far.
We are so busy that my own meeting with the boss has been delayed so far for about a week due to the fact that I have to finish my work and he has to do likewise.
Last week I was accused of losing a document. But the fact was the person did not even pass the thing to me. I can remember this one very clearly.
Today the person found the document and not even an apology was given.
Courtesy and good manners are becoming things of the past as we become more and more sophisticated in this world.
Exactly 24 hours ago my Aunty Linda called from Tg. Malim. I used to stay with her and her family for two years when I was working for her husband.
Before she went to Down Under early last month, she texted me to inform me about her trip and since she asked me how I was, I shared with her what I should do in one of my situations. Actually I already know what I should do but I just want her opinion.
She said she was going to reply but since it was already the eve of her trip, she did not get a chance to do that and therefore she called instead.
She told me her opinion, which is the same thing that I wanna do. Now is having the guts to spill out what is in my heart all these years and some people are not going to like what I am going to say.
Well too bad for them. I have to be selfish sometimes since some people can just take me for granted all these years and if they could, for the rest of my life.
Tonight after I finished dinner, mum asked me whether I am still coughing.
I told her I am still coughing once a while. But eating the pineapple almost the whole of last week esp. having two big slices late last Friday night did the trick.
She said I am totally absurd, too ‘wai sek’ (like to eat too much). Haha
Today everyone in Down Under is celebrating Australia Day.
One of my friends from KK who lives in
Well I wish I could cos Down Under was my second home. I lived there for more than a decade.
Come to think of it, I do have something to celebrate this day and I have the Lord Almighty to thank. Thank you Lord.
Two days ago I was praying that I would get paid this week for the claim that I made about a fortnight ago.
Last month I paid my ING insurance payment using my SCB credit card and the amount is due at the latest by this Sunday. Since I started using credit card, I have been clearing all my credit card debts at the end of each month. I have never paid interest yet and am not about to start to do that now.
But the problem is I do not have enough cash to clear all the credit card debts. And I would only get my pay cheque at the beginning of next month, which means I would have to pay credit card interest.
That would be a complete irony. On one hand I am investing into insurance but on the other hand I would be charged high interest for my credit card debts. It is not meant to be like this. I do not want to be in this kind of situation.
This morning I was exhilarated when someone delivered my claim. I banked in the cheque today. Hopefully the cheque would clear either tomorrow or Thursday and I can withdraw the balance of the cash that I do not have enough of on Friday and then clear my credit card debts.
My prayer was answered today. Indeed He’s never too early and He’s never too late. He's just on time. PTL!
Tonight we had steamboat at home again using the rice cooker. I ate for 1.5 hours and almost finished everything except maybe about fifteen pieces of pork and beef slices.
I had more than one dozen of dumplings and reserved another half a dozen for lunch tomorrow with Fried Rice.
Tonight we also experienced with something new. We ate the food with wasabi. Thumbs up. Yummy!
I bought two of these Chicken Pies last night at San Francisco Coffee,
Tonight I had half of this before dinner. Yes we all agreed that this tasted better than the one we had exactly a week ago from The Hut Fork and Spoon. The ones available from The Hut is bigger but this is cheaper and we can buy two for the amount I paid for at The Hut.
Today there was lunch fellowship after Canaanland Celebration. I had eaten one round but I did not have time for the second round since all the Ministry Leaders had to meet up for a short meeting.
After our meeting, Monica Leong and I met Sophia at Upperstar Damai.
I let Sophia ordered first while I waited for Monica to arrive.
The Lamb Chops with Mushroom Sauce was slightly overcooked. Sophia did not want to have French Fries with the Chops and therefore the chef gave her more Coleslaw.
Monica did not finish her Curry Chicken Rice cos it was too spicy for her. She took away and brought home so that she can dilute them to have for dinner tonight.
I finished The Baked Seafood Pasta.
We chit-chatted until about 3.30p.m. and I went to Consfood to buy Banana Cake for Aunty Alice and Turkey Ham for our daily sandwiches.
I dropped by Servay Hypermarket and bought some things before coming home.
