Wedding Invitation

I received this wedding invitation after Canaanland Celebration.

This scanned photo of the outside of the wedding invitation did not do justice to the real thing.

This has to be one of the nicest wedding invitation cards I had received and it smells fabulous as well.

The wedding is going to be held on the 20^th February 2010, the seventh day of CNY.

This will be the third wedding banquet I would be attending in the month of February.

If one of my friends did not have her wedding in Sarawak, then it would be four in a row.

Curiosity Didn't Kill this Cat

A couple of days ago I asked one of my colleagues about FY who came to our office yonks ago but did not come anymore. FY and his dad own some companies and my colleague’s friend is working for this father and son.

I was just curious how he looks like now cos most of the men I know would usually put on weight as they get older.

As I was browsing through the Live Feed in FB, suddenly I saw two of my friends had added FY as their friends. So I gotta see how he looks like now. And yes he has put on weight.

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.

Dinner at La Manila Cafe

I came home from work around 4p.m. and managed to rest for 1.5hours before getting up to get ready to go out.

I drove to outside Chiu Thai Seng Supermarket and Sophia was already waiting for me. I thought I was late. She was early.

Sophia showed me her results when I entered her car. Congrats my friend for the great results.

We stopped by her house for her to take a quick shower and change to a new set of clothes.

Then Sophia went to fetch Lily and Sophia requested Lily to drive since she herself was too mentally exhausted after her class at UMS.

Lily parked the car at Api-Api Centre and we walked over to Centrepoint to meet Choo. Then we walked over to Warisan Square. In between the choice of local, Korean, Chinese and Japanese food, Choo chose local. Off we went to La Manila Café.

Tom Yum Fried Rice

‘Asam Laksa’

Prawn ‘Keow Teow’

Penang ‘Char Keow Teow’

Four Colour Roll

Ham and Hotdog Roll

Sophia had to add ‘sambal’ into her Fried Rice while I had to add the same thing into my Prawn ‘Keow Teow’ to make our meal tastier. Lily did not like her ‘Asam Laksa’ and therefore did not finish her noodles. Choo’s Penang ‘Char Keow Teow’ was ok.

The two types of rolls were ok as well.

We adjourned to Suria Sabah to have a look at the Times Book Fair.

Lunch

The Coming Glory

Tonight after work I came home and had a quick dinner. I wanted to rest but I did not have enough time to do so. I asked God for the strength to enable me to go out, drive carefully, alert during the session and to have journey mercy.

Since I did not take a quick nap, I decided to go out ten minutes earlier than I had planned. And thanked God I made the right decision cos by the time I reached outside my housing estate, there was no electricity supply all the way to Tuaran Road. A Toyota Landcruiser in front of me was doing a 40km/hr. I thought the car in front of the Landcruiser was directly in front of this car but it was not. I could not overtake cos there were a lot of cars coming from the other lane. (This morning a Toyota Landcruiser was doing the same speed as well. *sigh*)

I saw another Toyota Landcruiser waiting at the traffic light to cross over to Lintas Road, I quickly acclerated so that I could go behind this car and when the driver crossed over, I could follow behind.

I parked the car outside Chiu Thai Seng Supermarket for Sophia to fetch me before fetching Lily Tan and Deborah Tai as well. We were all attending the following event.

When we arrived at Skyline SIB main sanctuary, there were no seats for us to sit together. In fact there were still a lot of spaces where they could have put extra chairs for people to sit.

We were ushered into a small room where there were seats for us to sit down, with a double screen showing what was going on at the main sanctuary.

The Worship Leader was a young man who played the guitar at the same time. All the back-up singers were ladies.

This was the second time I heard Dr. Joe Ozawa shared the Word of God. Previously he came was long time ago. I thought he looked darker and he had a beard then.

He has become more humourous than before. He spoke in English while Ps. Steven Choon translated into Mandarin. In between his sharing, there were times for prayer with the person sitting next to us. He shared on a lot of stuff but the conclusion is as follows.

1. Prayer is from the Spirit and not from the soul.

2. Intercession is not safe. Life is not safe.

3. Covering is not by magic words. Covering comes by holy living. Even then …

4. There is no guarantee of anything, except that Jesus is Lord!

5. Humility and love are the main ingredients of successful prayer.

6. Anyone who prays for others is an intercessor. They stand in the gap on behalf of others.

7. Everyone is called to pray, not just a few special people.

The night ended at about 10.30p.m.

Dinner at Home

Free for Dinner?

AC called and invited me to join him and his colleagues for Western food tonight.

Once again I declined his offer but this time I did have a valid reason.

I told him to tell me how does the food taste like after he had tried it.

Dessert at Yen Ai

Choo and I shared the Hot Red Bean Soup. It was just nice for me, not too sweet.

Sophia loved the ‘ABC’. She finally found a shop in KK that passed her test for this dessert.

(Three days ago when AC came to the office with his colleague, he invited me for dinner tonight. But I declined his offer citing busyness as my excuse).

After our dessert time as I was leaving ‘Yen Ai’ ahead of Choo and Sophia, I thought I heard someone called out my name. But I ignored it but the person called out even louder. I had to turn around to see who was calling me.

I could not believe it when I saw AC sitting around a table with some other men. I wished the ground could swallow me up at that time.

I had to walk over and say hello. AC introduced me to his big boss and colleagues. Thank God he did not embarrass me in front of them.

Dinner at Bintulu Korean Restaurant

Choo Siow Chin arrived in KK from Tawau yesterday and she is staying at her friend's house in Tg. Aru.

Tonight Choo, Sophia and I went to Bintulu Korean Restaurant for dinner. The restaurant is situated directly opposite Nagasaki Japanese Restaurant at Lintas Plaza.

This was my first time to eat at this restaurant.

In order to get to where Choo and Sophia were sitting, I had to take off my shoes. Later I saw the Korean boss using a stick to pick up the shoes on the floor onto the shoes rack.

Choo and Sophia had already ordered before I arrived and they were waiting for me to dig into the following appetisers.

Just like in the past when I was in Down Under, I did not like to eat ‘Kim Chi’. My tastebud still has not changed. I still do not like to eat it. The rest of the appetisers tasted ok.

Korean Rice Cake

Seaweed Soup

Seaweed Soup

Sophia chose not to grill the pork on our table, otherwise our clothes and bodies would smell of cooking smell. The cook did it for us inside the kitchen. Though some of the pork slices were quite fat, I did not feel turn off when eating them.

The pork slices were marinated really well. The way of eating is exactly the same as the Cantonese version of ‘Sang Choy Bao’. Using a piece of lettuce, the pork slice is put in the middle with a dash of ‘Nam Yue’ as the sauce on top.

By the time we were through with dinner, the area where we sat was filled with customers.

Thank you Choo for dinner.

Sophia suggested we adjourned to ‘Yen Ai’ for dessert.