Today's Happenings

During Canaanland Celebration, Ivy Voon led P&W. Andrew Tai played the guitar and was one of the back-up singers. Alice Hiew was on the piano while Terrence Lim was on drums. Kenny Lim and Elizabeth Chung were the back-up singers as well. Kenny was also the facilitator. Rev. Lee preached on the topic ‘Preparation for the Nativity’ based on the life of Mary.

After Canaanland Celebration, those who are going to sing carols this coming Friday and Saturday had their rehearsals. I did not join since I would not be around during those days.

I drove to Karamunsing Complex. Was trying to search for a parking bay at the open carpark but cars were already parked in the middle of the carpark and there were four cars ahead of me. I reversed at the dead end and left the carpark.

As I turned into the road leading to the SESB building, I saw that there were some cars parked at the open carpark while two men were using the machine to top up premix on the same carpark. I quickly parked the car.

Went to have lunch at Nice Café on the First Floor. Yonks ago after Sunday worship, we Young Adults liked to frequent this place. Now we do not do that anymore since we attend different celebrations.

I ordered the Dry ‘Pan Mee.’

I could not wait to dig into it when it was put on the table. But unfortunately I was disappointed cos the taste was not like those I had previously. Plainly speaking, the whole thing did not have much taste. Due to the need to fill up my tummy, I finished the whole thing though.

After lunch, I went to the hair saloon. Unfortunately there were so many people and the hairdresser Maggie told me to come back another day.

I told her if she cannot serve me today, then I would go elsewhere cos next weekend I would not be around and the Friday after that it would be Christmas already. She took down my mobile phone number and said she will call when some customers had been attended to.

I dropped by Salvation bookstore and was glad I did. I met some good friends from Sandakan there. They were asking mum where was I when they saw her in church this morning. (Sometimes we may be delayed by circumstances but we can look at the bright side of thing).

I stayed in the bookstore for over an hour and bought some books. Since I did not want to carry the books around, I put them in the car.

After walking for one and a half hours, my hairdresser still did not call me and therefore I went to the saloon again. Some customers had left and therefore I could find a chair to sit.

I have lots of white hair esp. at the back and therefore besides perming the back, I also had my hair coloured. The whole process include treatment took three hours and I had a book to keep me occupied. I was the last customer to leave.

When I reached the carpark, I saw the barrier had come down by the entrance. There was no way I could drive out. But thank God the barrier on the floor at the exit could be removed. It was quite heavy but I was desperate and so I removed it. After I left, there was still another car left in the carpark.

Scrabble

I scored 86 points for the last word GIDDIEST. This is the second time I could use all my tiles for the last word.

But I still lost this game by 12 points cos my cousin’s first word FAIRGOERS scored 98 points ie. exactly a difference of 12 points between our bingo word.

So close and yet so far.

Getting There

Today I worked 14 hours. Thank God for the strength.

I am trying to beat my own deadlines so that I do not have to worry about my work when I go on leave next week.

I thought I would not be able to finish tonight but I did, so tomorrow I can relax.

I still have to do some amendments when I go back to work on Monday but that is only for something minor. At least I had done the bulk of the work.

Scrabble

Tonight I scored the highest score ever I think in my history of playing this game.

The word WAITERS with the letter S touching on the triple word score totalling 101 points.

Lunch at Fukurou Japanese Restaurant

Received the following text message from the restaurant two days ago.

Fukurou Japanese Restaurant Year End Promotion! (03 - 23 Dec 09) Member - 30% off, Non Member – 10% off (on all items). Pls contact us at 088-254778 for any reservation.

After Canaanland Celebration, I asked Monica Leong whether she was free to join me and she said she was.

Since both of us ordered Set Meal, we were allowed to choose one side dish each FOC.

Monica ordered Grilled Salmon Set Meal.

I ordered Sashimi Set Meal.

The Sashimi were very fresh but I would not order this set if there was not discount available.

The Japanese rice were fluffy and very appetizing as well.

This time round the FOC dessert was different in colour as compared to the one we had before this.

Canaanland Celebration

Today our guest speaker was Ps. Timothy Wong, who just came back from Kryzystan. And he brought his fiancée with him.

The kids and adults alike had fun during Sunday School, thanks to Shelley Chew’s ever increasing creativity.

When I saw Pei Yun’s t-shirt, I could not resist not taking a photo of her.

Backyard

Sleep

Lately I have been sleeping quite late, usually between 11p.m. to midnight and sometimes even later than that.

Tonight I thought I would sleep early for once in months on a weeknight ie. before 11p.m. so that I would be fresh in the morning as I have a full day ahead of me eventhough it is Saturday.

(Earlier on the week, I saw some tents being put up on the playground in front of the house. I was wondering what they were for)

I could not believe that at exactly 11p.m. music started to blare from a PA system and a Malay song not only came through the PA system but a man and a woman were singing duet. They were singing karaoke at the park for the first in my life living in this housing estate.

Shucks. There goes my intention of sleeping early. I ended up sleeping around 12.30p.m. which was later than my usual hour. *Sigh*

Sunset

Happy Birthday Barnabas

Barnabas turned 13 today.

He and his family left for Upperstar Pepper & Grill at Lintas earlier cos I did not leave work until after 6p.m. and we were supposed to leave the house at 6.30p.m. CTY fetched mum, Aunty Alice and I.

There were no parking bays outside the restaurant, which is directly opposite E-Siong Coffee Shop (the new building facing Heritage Plaza where part of the carpark was) and therefore we alighted in front of the building before CTY searched for one.

The restaurant was so noisy and busy with people everywhere. It sounded like a fish market instead of a restaurant.

Altogether there were 15 of us including the birthday boy, separated into 3 tables. Some of them were already eating when we had not even ordered our food.

At first mum wanted to order Chicken Chop and so when the waiter came to take our order, I told him one Chicken Chop and one Lamb Chop for me. Before CTY ordered, mum changed her mind and wanted to have the same thing as me. And CTY ordered Chicken Chop. I wanted to make sure the waiter did not make any mistake and therefore told him to repeat our orders which were 2 Lamb Chops and 1 Chicken Chop.

Some of them finished eating before our food arrived. While we were waiting, some people who had just arrived were standing behind tables that they reckoned the people were going to pay the bill soon.

CTY’s Chicken Chops arrived and he finished his before mum and mine arrived. I saw another plate of Chicken Chop on the table where my bro-in-law was sitting. He had gone out for a while. After a while, the plate of Chicken Chop was not there anymore and was replaced by a plate of pasta. I did not think any further about that.

The people at the next table were sitting so close to us until we can see what they were doing and eating. I heard the guy next to mum telling the waiter to quickly get a soup spoon for him cos the soup was placed in front of him for quite a while already. So I offered my soup spoon to him since I was not using it but he declined. The lady in front of him scolded him for talking so loud until I could hear him. He should not be blamed since there was only less than half a feet of space between tables.

When our food came, the rest had finished eating and they were waiting for us. The Lamb Chops were not smelly, very soft but the serving was insufficient for me. I was still hungry when I finished eating.

When the time came to pay for the bill, my brother tried to reconcile each person with the food he or she had eaten. When he told the waiter that they had charged one dish more ie. the Chicken Chop that was sitting idling there for some time, he did not budge and said that once an order was inside the system, they could not take it out from the bill anymore. What a load of hogwash! Some more he told us that we had to prove that the dish was taken back to the kitchen. I did not see who was the person who took it back so I cannot say anything.