Double Rainbows

I was labelled by a colleague who is based at the project site as alien. He said since we hardly talk about anything in the couple of years he joined the company, he thought that I am strange. Haha But today we managed to talk for about half an hour and that was a breakthrough. Glad I am no longer labelled as an alien.

I was too lazy to go out of the office to search for food and therefore had this delivered for lunch. I was hungry and so it tasted delicious.

Worked until 5p.m. and went to Giant Kolombong DiGi shop to reload my mobile phone.

Came home and rested for a while before going out for briskwalking. On my second round, I saw this beautiful double rainbows.

I did not feel like coming home to get my digital camera to take the shot but I could not resist.

This evening’s rainbows would have to be the most beautiful rainbows I had seen in my entire life. The colours – red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet were so prominent.

Once again the photos taken do not do justice to the real thing.

Life Group at Chews' Residence

I wanted to leave work at 4.30p.m. so that I can rest before life group but could not. Left at 6.15p.m.

I had a snooze before going to the Chews’ residence. I was late and the life group was just about to start.

I only found out tonight Mr. Quek can play the guitar. He led worship and word time.

We are studying Psalm 23 and altogether there are seven studies in the book. We had a good time sharing about our different life experiences. I always feel refreshed and encouraged after life group.

Shelley cooked the following for us for supper. The noodles are homemade. Even for someone like me who rarely eats supper, I had to try. Yums!

She also boiled herbal tea called H1N1. Traders would do anything to make bucks.

Good News

After a week of bad news, it is time for some good news.

Going to get increment this month. Yes!

The Disease

Found out today another friend is suffering from cancer. She was about to retire to enjoy life but is having a relapse. Doctor diagnosed her to be at the 4th stage. :(

You Never Know

Be a link in someone's life. You may not see the result straight away. But one day a surprise may await you and you can rejoice with the hosts above.

Joyful to hear the good news today.

Goodness Gracious Me

The electricity supply stopped coming at 4a.m. I woke up instantly while some people can just sleep through the two hours ordeal.

I went downstairs and looked at the fuse box. One of the switches was pointing downwards and therefore I tried to make it to go upwards but to no avail. I waited another 15mins and tried again. Once again I failed.

Due to the lack of air, I could not sleep. When mum and Aunty Alice woke up around 6a.m., Aunty Alice managed to make the switch went up again.

After that I went back to dreamland and woke up at 8.20a.m. but with throbbing migraine.

After washing up, I finally cooked the Jumbo size Mi Goreng. It tasted yummy but the portion was not as big as I would have thought.

As much as I hope to be in Canaanland Celebration, I had to abandon the idea. I was simply not fit to drive and did not want to take the risk. I informed my team as well as those that needed to be informed.

All throughout the day, I slept on and off. I did not leave the house.

By dinnertime, mum was asking how I could have survived with just a pack of noodles in my stomach the whole day.

One thing I am always thankful for is that my stomach can eat a lot and it can also live without food for hours, though it is unhealthy to do so.

Time Waits for No One

… and in this case me.

I had known a friend through work for over ten years and she retired last year. During all that time, she always told me she had migraine. I have the same thing but not as bad as hers. We had only seen each other once but we chatted a lot on the phone. Sometimes friendship does not have to happen face to face but to take time in caring for the other person.

One year when I was mass sms sending mother’s day greetings to some of my close friends, I accidentally included her as well. After that, I had to send her another one to apologise because she did not have any children.

After she stopped work, I found out she had cancer through other people. She never told me, maybe to spare me from being sad. Sometimes I would still call her up. Whenever I wanted to have a meal with her, she would decline.

Once again during Mother’s Day this year, I thought of her. Maybe because of the blooper I made few years ago. I meant to call her two months ago but did not get to do it.

Last month I thought of her again and even a fortnight ago I thought of her but did not call her.

Today when I was talking to her ex colleague, I almost forgot to enquire about her again. And when I remembered, I thought I heard wrongly her ex colleague’s reply. She said she had passed away a fortnight ago.

After putting down the phone, I was in shock. And I feel sad because I did not get to say goodbye or pay the last respect.

My heart is aching :(

Steamboat Dinner at Four Seasons

Our distant relatives would be going home to Macau tomorrow on the 7.15a.m. flight, after being in Sandakan for the past couple of days.

Therefore tonight we went for steamboat dinner at Four Seasons, Kompleks Asia City.

During the daytime, this restaurant offers dim sum and nighttime steamboat. I ate the dim sum before and tonight was the first time I tried the steamboat.

The choices available in this restaurant are as follows.

1. Cooking - share or individual. We opted for the latter.

2. Soup - chicken, tomyam, pork rib or herbal. I chose pork rib.

3. Buffet style (as in eat all you can) or order by plates. We chose buffet style.

Since we opted for buffet style, everyone can choose whatever he or she wanted to eat.

Among some of the food I chose were as follows.

I sat next to Uncle Hon. He also cooked for me. I hardly walked to the buffet table the whole night. I could not eat much since we did not start eating until 8p.m., way past my dinner time.

But we still ate the most on our table as shown by the trays in front of us.

We chit-chatted until about 10.0p.m. before going home.

Uncle Hon kept on inviting us to visit them in Macau.

Happy Birthday

Today is Jeff's birthday.

Red Eyes

I did not realise I woke up with red eyes as I was too engrossed with my online scrabble game and managed to make a bingo word.

I only realised when I looked at the mirror as I was about to start brushing my teeth. I quickly had the ‘business’ done.

I prayed that God would heal me instantly. Went back to lie on the bed for 5 minutes after putting on some eye drops.

When I looked into the mirror again, the eyes had improved. By the time I finished shower, my eyes were clear once again. PTL for healing me.