Times Book Fair at Suria Sabah

Lily parked behind Gaya Centre and we walked over to Suria Sabah. There were quite a lot of people at the Book Fair. I saw one of my colleagues with his brother but he did not see me.

I also saw Sophia’s ex-colleague and course mate Theresa Tan. I walked up to her to introduce myself.

There were so many books available for sale until I felt lost at first.

Then when I came across the 3 for RM20 section, I found the following.

I bought these first two books cos of the author. When I was in high school, I had to study a book called ‘Rebecca’ by the same author.

As for this third book, I am always curious about what did happen to the anthrax case so I will get my answer after reading the book.

Choo left us while we still browsing the books to go to Tong Hing Supermarket. We joined her and there were so many delicious food but too expensive to buy.

Lily sent Choo back to Tg. Aru before we stopped by her place so that she can go home and Sophia alighted me to get the car.

When I arrived home, I could not sleep until about 2a.m. This was supposed to happen the night before but it happened tonight so that I could get enough sleep for work this morning.

New Things

1. New digital camera – Office boy helped me buy the Canon PowerShot A480 digital camera for RM390 after trading in the Nikon Coolpix L3. Yeah I have a new toy to play with.

2. Driver’s license renewal – Office boy had to go to the post office to renew the road tax for one of the company’s car. Therefore one of my colleagues and I requested him to renew our driver’s licence at the same time. Mine would only be expiring 2nd November while my colleague's expired two days ago.

3. When I arrived home after work just now, Aunty Alice asked whether I can smell 'it'. I asked her, 'Don't tell me mum cooked my all time favourite food?'. She wanted to know how I know. Well ... In fact mum did not cook it for about a year already I think.

This does look particularly appetising but it is my favourite food. Prawn dough before becoming prawn crackers. YUMMY!

4. Monica Leong works as the librarian at Institut Sinaran. She recommended me to read books by author Jeffrey Archer when we were window shopping at Popular Bookstore, City Mall recently.

I asked whether she could help me to borrow from her library. Yesterday she passed me the following book and tonight I will be starting to read it.

You Are What You Think

Had a good time chit-chatting with Jacelyn Chung on the way home eventhough I was so tired. I wanted to rest but I could not.

Arrived home around 4p.m. Wanted to sleep but only managed to rest.

Instead I started to read one of the books I bought at the retreat: ‘You Are What You Think’.

Upon arriving at page 40 which part of it says

“To see potential realized – step out on the positive side. Whatever that binds, constraints, restricts, limits you or whatever that creates anxiety for you, shift it aside. This is the time to know your distinctiveness and move in your strength.

Today, adopt a new mindset that says, “I am going to focus not on the limitations of the past but on the possibilities of the future!” This you will discover is a great antidote to unnecessary anxiety in life.”

The above two paragraphs sort of summed up my life thus far. I have allowed fear to bind me for so long and I thank God that through serving Him, He has enable me to overcome my fear and come out victoriously.

Today’s Happenings

The Muslim New Year would be dawning soon after a month of fasting by the Muslims, in fact in four days’ time if according to the calendar and not moon sighting,

The bosses have not informed me whether salary for this month would be given out before the festive season or after that. Meanwhile, the office boy had already received $ after obtaining some company loan. How is he going to pay them back when he still owes $ to the company before this loan and myself personally? Really beats me. The other Malay staff that is based in UMS site had already obtained this month salary at the beginning of this week.

Work went smoothly today and none of the bosses came in. I had finished what the boss told me to do. The rain came down before knocked off time so I decided not to do OT at work today. (Good time to sleep!) I brought some work home and am planning to do them tomorrow afternoon or night.

There was a small bowl of leftover noodles when I came home so I did not have to cook. But my stomach was still hungry. I finished the leftover of Yeo’s Kurma Chicken which I had last Sunday for breakfast. Had the chicken with a piece of bread.

(Last Sunday was the first time I had this Kurma Chicken. It was simply too mild for me. No kick at all. The one mum cooked tasted much better. I will not buy it again.)

Had less than three hours of nap before dinner. Cannot remember when was the last time I had an afternoon nap on a Saturday. I felt energised when I woke up. Really needed that to recuperate after all the hard work I had done this week.

After washing up the dishes for dinner, I cooked the Japanese rice to make sushi tonight. I did not want to have bread with Curry Chicken or noodles again for breakfast tomorrow. I want to have sushi.

With PRC on the news lately re. milk base products, I only checked tonight where the seaweed I bought came from and it was PRC.

As I was using the seaweed, tonight was the first time the seaweed broke and I did not end up having a whole solid roll for three rolls in a row. I think this disaster was probably because I was too generous in putting too much rice while it was too hot and therefore had negative result for the first time. Anyway I will never buy this PRC seaweed from Servay Hypermarket anymore. I will still stick to the Japanese made ones from Recipe House.

I had some of the sushi for supper and as I was switching off the light for the dining table, I saw some books belong to Chloe. I decided to check them out and saw this book. I have started reading it while eating the sushi.

I used to love to read books especially from Enid Blyton when I was young. And maybe because of all the reading I had done, my spelling has always been good.

I remember especially when I was in Primary Three and my class teacher was Mrs. Catherine Khoo. She was the only teacher who is Chinese who wore ‘sarong’ to work each day. At the end of that year, I topped the class in my spelling exam.

Like me, the boss was educated in Down Under while the lady boss was educated in USA. Sometimes when it comes to spelling we have differing opinions on how to spell. Down Under uses mainly British English. And because Microsoft Word from USA has spelling check in their program, sometimes the boss and I do not agree with the spelling they used.