Mr. Chang invited our whole family for dinner to Gaya Seafood Restaurant. His parents-in-law and sister-in-law came to Kota Kinabalu from Peninsula Malaysia since Thursday to attend a relative’s wedding banquet.
The menu was as follows.
1. Poached Prawns
2. Wet Buttered Crabs
3. Herbal Chicken
4. Stir Fried Fish with Ginger and Shallots
5. Two types of Shellfish – Elephant Trunk Clams and ‘Tung Fung Lo’
6. Veges
7. Garlic Rice
I did not eat a single prawn. The serving for the crabs were really large until there were leftover. The herbal chicken was very soft and tasty. The fish was very fresh. The shellfish were cooked to perfection – not too soft and not too hard.
I left work at 1.45p.m. and drove to Kyrugma House to attend the Usher Training given by a Singapore pastor, Ps. Lam Tien Keong. The training was attended by members from BCCM Likas and Canaanland Celebration.
He is such a humourous man. We all had a ball with all his antics and jokes. Nevertheless, we all I am sure had learnt something applicable for our ministry.
Eventhough the training was done in Mandarin, I could understand about 75% of what he was talking about.
Before some of us left at about 4.15p.m., we had some refreshments – fried meehoon and bun.
A car was blocking my car at the car park and thanks to Sharon Lai who managed to reverse it out for me. If I were to do it, I think I may have to take more than five minutes to do that.
When I login to Facebook this morning at work, I had a pleasant surprise. One of my favourite high school teachers had finally joined! I was so thrilled. I have been trying all kind of ways to be in contact with her and finally my persistence paid off.
After one of my colleagues came to the office, I drove to the main Post Office to collect a registered letter from Standard Chartered Bank.
The previous week the postman had tried to deliver the letter to my house twice but mum was at the backyard and did not hear the postman honking his motorbike.
I arrived at the post office slightly after 8a.m. and I was glad I did not try to drive in the car park at the post office. There were so many cars circling the car park and some cars were already double parking. I parked at Segama and walked over.
I had to give the person attending to me my Identity Card. He went inside the building to find my letter and I was happy to finally had the letter with the Standard Chartered Bank VISA Credit Card inside.
Sometimes if people do not collect their documents after a fortnight, the post office would send the documents back to the sender. They should give consideration for a longer period of time because sometimes people may be outstation or have gone overseas.
As I was driving out from my housing estate, I was glad that I managed to brake on time. There was a car in front of me doing 20km/h! I could not overtake since there were incoming cars on the next lane. When the car reached the main junction, I thought the driver was going to go straight but instead she made a half turn and went up the kerb. As we were outside the rice warehouse, I managed to overtake and saw that the driver is a lady who maybe in her forties. Thank God for His protection upon my life.
I arrived slightly late for Life Group at Mr. & Mrs. Chew Chong Bin’s house after doing some grocery shopping at Servay Hypermarket, Plaza Juta.
At Life Group tonight we were studying the life of Joseph, who despite of his early hardships in life after being sold by his brother, rose up to be a man of prominence in Egypt. There are so many things we can learn from his life.
I stayed and had supper, which I rarely do. We had homemade soup noodles (‘yee mien’) and drank ‘lo hon ko’ herbal tea.
I arrived home at almost 11p.m. and did not go to dreamland until after midnight.
I was glad that WYY agreed to meet AK and I for dinner at this restaurant.
I made a booking for a table for three during lunchtime. I told the person attending to me on the phone that I would be using the sushi voucher and therefore to give us a table next to the sushi train.
AK and I arrived at the restaurant first and started digging into the plates of sushi before WYY arrived. WYY does not eat sushi and therefore she had ‘Ten Don’ (deep fried shrimp bowl with garlic rice) from the a-la-carte menu and one plate of boxing chicken.
We had a good time of eating and catching up with each other. I lost count how many times the waitress filled up our hot green tea.
I asked WYY why she did not call either AK and I when she thought that she does not have a single friend in this world. I was glad she explained that it was not that she does not consider us as her friends. She was so stressed up that she forgot and she thinks that family members should be the one to help her and not friends. So I am glad I have not failed her as a friend.
AK and I had altogether a dozen plates of sushi. We did not order anything else from the a-la-carte menu.
We arrived at the restaurant before 6.30p.m. and left at almost 10.00p.m. – almost 3.5 hours of great fellowship and encouraging each other.
(The previous time we had such a get together was about three years ago at Penang Restaurant at the Waterfront Kota Kinabalu)
Before we went to Warisan Square, Alice Hiew drove home to get her seasonal pass for parking at this commercial development. Monica Leong and I were inside Sharon Lai’s car and she drove to Alice’s house to fetch her so that we can all go in one car.
Sharon and Monica each bought a pair of shoes from Charles & Keith.
When Alice and I were queuing up for the fitting room at Padini, a couple tried to jump queue. I thought they had a friend already trying on clothes inside the fitting room so I let them passed by us. But when someone came out from one of the rooms after trying on the clothes, the couple was about to walk into the room but I stopped them by saying, ‘Excuse me’. They had no choice but to wait for their turn.
Monica also bought a blouse at Padini. I found one black blouse, extremely comfortable but as I was about to queue up to pay, I saw the workmanship was not that fantastic as the threads were all sticking out and decided to give it a miss.
Alice found a pink blouse at one of the boutiques and is deciding on whether to buy or not. She could take her time since her workplace RHB is located at Warisan Square as well.
Alice treated us to McD’s vanilla flavour icecream cone. Thanks Alice.
The last place we went to was Factory Outlet Store (F.O.S). I bought four blouses, three really thin ones which are suitable to wear at home and one thicker one. And all for a total bargain price of RM24!!! Three for RM7 each and one for RM3. I cannot be the judge right now as I have not worn or washed the clothes. They are made in Cambodia. Sharon also bought two t-shirts.
This was the first time I went shopping wearing a pair of 2 inches high heels for more than three hours and thank God my feet were not painful.
Sharon drove Monica and I back to Kyrugma House to get our car before she drove Alice home.
Before going home, I stopped by Tong Hing Supermarket at Damai Plaza to buy ham and Recipe House to buy 2 packets of seaweed and a packet of sushi rice.
Next I went to Servay Hypermarket at Plaza Juta to get some crabmeat but found the ones they have for sale too expensive and ended up buying the crabmeat at Giant Kosan. Before I went to the check-out counter, I bumped into Michael Heng. He was in his sports gear, probably after exercise.
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
