KLIA

Sent parents to KLIA this morning for a trip to Perth. Visit my elder sister and the family.

After checking-in the luggage, we headed for McD breakfast. They took the chicken porridge while I had pancakes. It's kinda heavy for me. And it reminded me with the huge layered pancakes with fruits in Wellington... yummy...

Sunday

Seems like another Sunday.

Min Chee suddenly decided to come and sit with me. She said, she has not sat with me before in Sunday which I don't think so. Anyway, I felt great despite her 3-8-ness (craziness). A friend who came and wanted to sit with me... wow... Honoured... Not sure about you, but, I can easily be touched by small gesture of ppl. :)

The singing started and it was still normal. Till the Sermon by Pastor Sally. God is watching. 1King 19:1-18.

Elijah ran when Jezebel wanted to kill him. He was tired and canme to a broom tree where he prayed that God to take his life. Then, he lay down and fell asleep. Then, an angle came told him to get up and eat and lay down again. And 2nd time, the angel came and told him to eat and drink. Strengthen by the food, he traveled 40 days and 40 nights until he reached Hored, the mountain of God. Then, he went into a cave and spent the night.....

What struck me? At times, I prayed the same thing. I asked God to take my life as I have had enough. I don't want to struggle and suffer any more. Well, must be glad that God didn't answer those prayers as I have had not done enough for Him.

Our spiritual struggles:
1. Danger of looking at the circumstances. Learn to focus on God again. Faith is the greatest of all, not fear. We just need to be still.

2. Danger of self-pity.

3. Danger of feeling indispensable. This leads to pride and start blaming and focusing on problems.

Spiritual restoration:
1. Refreshed. Rest physically and spiritually. We must rest and only God will strenghten us. Sleep. The body is the temple of God which I need to take care of. (Mom kept on pointing at me and so was Min Chee, till Pastor noticed and kinda told me to rest)... Yes, I heard it loud and clear. Will do. Will try to sleep more. How can one sleep if one is not that tired? hmm.......

2. Rediscover God. Get out of the caves (offense, despair/ discourage/ isolated, comfort). Remove the noise and focus on God and hear God.

3. Reassignment - serve others. Jesus was here to serve us and not to be served.

4. Relationship - start connecting

Wow.... What a powerful message.... Later in the evening, as I read the Chinese paper, Sunday edition, the same message, 1 King 19. Elijah was running and struggling and wanted God to take his life. A lot of times, we are too harsh on ourselves, we failed and couldn't stand up and not allowing us to find rest instead finding all ways to sort ourselves out. We forgot the broom tree behind us. We forgot that God is there watching over us and only He will strengthen us.

Oh.. Lord, I am weak and only Your grace is sufficient for me. Teach me to find rest in You. Teach me to slow down and lean on You. Tech me to be humble. Teach me Your ways, Lord. And knowing that You will see me through all seasons. All glory unto You!!!!

Packed Saturday

Was supposed to go to Bukit Panorama this weekend. It got cancelled as some friends have some ad-hoc company event that need to attend to. It was such a great disappointment for me. I have been waiting for this weekend for so long..... Well, life is full of surprises. I shall asked some other friends who would like to go with me. Or, maybe I go by myself? ;)

So, since that was not happening. I told Eunice and Uncle Pang to review Church account's on Saturday instead of Sunday.

I told Fong to contact Min Chee if she would like to go 'crazy' with us to Jusco after the church thingy. Well, Min Chee suggested to go to Ostrich farm instead... uh?!!!! errhh..... In this kind of hot weather, well.... I think Jusco is better...

We visited a Ngonga restaurant in Terminal 2 for our lunch. Min Chee and Matthew with their nephew were there much earlier when both Fong and I arrived at 2+pm. We left church at about 2pm. Yeap... Both of us wanted to finish as much as possible as next week will be the audit week.

Fong had the Ngonga Fried noodle and I had Asam Laksa. It was spicy hot and I had cendol too. hahah.... :D

What's next? Min Chee and Matthew went home while both Fong and I went to Jusco. I spent quite a lot, ~ RM300, within 2 hours. :O On some books.... Reminded comment from my elder sister whenever we go shopping, keep that girl out from bookstore. She will and can get stuck for hours and she will be spending her money on those books... hahaha..... Quite true to some extend. Or, I can sit in there and read..... Then, I don't have to buy. wahahah..... lol... Where I learn this? From Wellington lar... ;P

Was in Jusco till about 6-ish pm as Fong had a dinner in S2.

So, I was out the house since about 10am till evening. And I can sense that the complain is coming "Is this your hotel or house?" kinda thing....

hmm..... Afterall, it was quite a good Saturday though packed. Enjoyed the time with friends. Friends whom one can be loud at yet understand, friends whom one can just be yourself. So comfortable. No need to wear mask, who cares about the lady-like... Just relax and chill....

Thanks to Fong and Min Chee.... :) It meant a lot for me as the 'ruined' plan and horrible Friday I had was terrible.. Love and hugs....

Rain

It's exciting to see rain pouring down especially weather been so hot... It cools down the earth and lifted me up... :)

Eve of Valentine's Day

Unusual and unexpected things do happened....

It's 'Black Friday' actually and it's also eve of Valentine's Day. My office provided florist service this year. Ppl could pre-ordered the flowers and picked them up at a certain time on Friday.

And my boss got a stalk of flower. Was teasing him that given by a secret admirer.. (Actually, I roughly knew where it came from)...


In the evening, he gave me the pink rose. Being I have been working too much... hahah... That's so nice of him.... My CTO gave me flower... :D

It's quite funny that one who don't appreciate flower and encourage ppl to give flower received one..... Ya.. I know.. a lot of ppl said, I am so materialistic... Well, I think, I am just being practical and rational. Don't u reckon??? What about you?

oh..... Went out for dinner with a friend as well..... hahah... Not as you thought....

Melting

Weather has been so hot since the start of Chinese New year and I have been melting.... so pengsan......

The picture above taken by sticking my hand outside the window for awhile before I get melted....

CNY Lunch

An arranged CNY lunch. We wanted to 捞生。It's my first one for this CNY. Apparently, one can only find this tradition/ food in Malaysia & Singapore. It just sympolise many many good things in the coming year. haha.. It's fun.. We did it in English and saying good things/ wishes in the coming years.

Yupe. A nice lunch though some of us gotta rush back to office for meetings. :(

立春

立春 simply means the 1st day of Spring. I read from a blog that the gravity on this day is so strong that the egg will stand. I have been reminding myself to try it on this day. Though I am renting outside (where to get an egg), well, simply borrowed from landlady.

However, I have totally forgotten about it due to the heavy schedule. Sooooooooo sad.... :(

Well, please read on my friend's blog to find out. It works... And I hope I can remember it next year..

http://wjlivelife.wordpress.com/2009/02/07/%E7%AB%8B%E6%98%A5%E4%B8%8E%E9%B8%A1%E8%9B%8B%E7%9A%84%E4%B8%8D%E8%A7%A3%E4%B9%8B%E8%B0%9C/

Invitation to a home cook dinner

Sherine invited us (Michelle's family, Kj's family and I) over for a Chinese New Year dinner. Her sisters cooked really nice food. It's nothing fancy, but really nice.

We chatted and did some catching up. It was a nice dinner.

Ya... We should do more of this. I am not familiar with nice and cosy places in KL where one can really chat with friends. But, I do know about NZ. And normally, the dinner was really long. Not so much of the food.. but, the atmosphere. Sometimes, we went to friend's place and just hang around.

arh.. I remember, did that quite some years back with friends in S'ban too. Food, talked, board games, food, drinks... and more talked.... haha... And now.... no more... Why?? I don't know....

Early start

Went to walk at lake garden at about 6.15am with dad after fetching sister to bus station. Gosh.. It's really early though not pitch dark. Some lights were switched on. We also saw some early birds. We walked 2 big rounds and headed for breakfast at about 7.30am. Not many shops were opened and we regreted having breakfast. Should have had cereal at home... aiks..

But, the early morning thing really gave me a lot more time in the morning to do other things....

Longan

It's finally bearing fruit again for the 2nd time, after a long time. Dad cut a branch down with fruits. It's not as big as previous, but, still as sweet. This year, the birds were fighting to eat the fruit with us..

Ya.. friends who has visited my house know I live in an 'orchard'.. hahah... Really bless with fruits...... :)

年糕

Decided to fry some peanut, grind them and eat with nian-gao, the sticky thing. This is a type of dessert only available in Chinese New Year. It's very tedious to make the nian-gao. One will need to take at least a day to make it. The traditional one will need 12 - 15 hours to steam it. Gosh....

I only learn to eat it with peanut recently. You can eat it with grind coconut as well. Since I was young, I only eat it pure, ie, steam and take a chopstick and eat like that. Or mom will deep fry it with sweet potato. Of couse it has to be sliced.

My aunt in Melaka can make very nice one. Not sure if she is making this year as she is getting old and no strength to make as well... :( Maybe I should learn....

Tung Lung for CNY

Mom make so many tung-lung (lanterns) from ang pau (red packets) this year. Learnt from her shoes beading friends.. pengsan... Finally, she had 3 for our home. Others she gave away as gifts to church friends.

Nail Arts

Went for pedicure and medicure. haha... This is just for fun only. Did this by my niece (I am younger than her) and we have not met for years until I met with my cousin recently.

I was there for about 3 years. Gosh.. so long.. pengsan... But, it is very difficult to work after that.. aiks..

I still like the black base.... I used to have a black based with dragon fly, then, with flowers (stickers) and now, again drawn...

Technology Townhall

1st time Technology Townhall meeting in 2009. Communicate on achievement of 2008, Challenges and Focus in 2009. Only 1 hour. I think about 500 ppl turned out.

Took me few days to prepare slides with the help from TMT. I was more anxious than the TMT.. haha...

Well, I hope it's a good start for 2009 though it's a challenging year.

Not just me..

Saw KKW had his hair cut too. Super short. I was actually quite tense that day and I saw his head which actually lifted me up a little. It's quite nice to touch.. quite prickly, nice to touch..

oh.. btw, he doesn't look nice this at all.. He is always smiling.. trying to be cool only.. hahaha...

Packed Saturday

This Saturday was packed with events.

I went to dentist (no appointment make as it was full, and I just walked in). There were already so many ppl when I got there 10 minutes to 9am. I waited for about 30 minutes and I was called. I was suspecting my top left wisdom tooth was giving me problem as I knew it was not growing normally, it was facing my cheek. When I visited the dentist in Nov'08, it was still alright. Recent weeks, it was painful even when I yawn, I still can eat and chew, just can't open my mouth big. So.... Anyway, I told the dentist about it. He was asking me questions and checking. Finally, he asked, do you want to take it out? Without any doubt, I said, yes. He said, ya, better to take it out. Next, I was sent for x-ray. And the process of extracting begun. And it was extracting. The tooth was bigger than I thought. I took it home. ha... yeah... Extracted the tooth while it's still in good condition (1st time)... I didn't bleed as much as I thought it would be. And it wasn't as painful as I thought it would be. Then, maybe was the medication. I prayed that it will not be as bad when the medication gone. And praised God it didn't. I was still able to talk like normal, only not able to eat. So, I was on diet. Does it also mean that I am 25% less wise now????? :(


Then, went to Giant with mom for some CNY preparation (after extracted my tooth). We didn't buy much...

And I had to go to Mantin to meet up with Pastor Sanusi (pastoring for Orang Asli (orang asli = natives)). What about my lunch? I had cereal. And drank it with straw. ha... Ya... Cos, I extracted my tooth, remember?? I passed him some used clothes and blessed him a bit financially. I used to involve in Orang Asli ministry, teaching them Bahasa Malaysia and English and everytime I felt so blessed after came back from Orang Asli settlement.

Dinner? We had dinner outside. Gosh.. It's really challenging for me to eat. Ya.. I ate a lot of bean curd. haha... And I literally swallow the food. The nerves affected other teeth which were painful a bit.

Well, I thank God for today. For all that happened today.

Working @ KLCC

It was just another normal working day where I had so much to do. Was rushing some works in the morning. And it was 1++pm where I haven't had lunch. Sherine hasn't had hers too. Since Karim was having offsite meeting in the meeting, I asked if he could fetch us out and back for a quick lunch. Well, he was in a rush and no hope.

In fact, he suggested us to follow him to KL where we can have lunch and work offsite. Surprisingly, Sherine agreed and started to pack. I was shocked. And well, since there's no meeting in the afternoon and I think I could afford to do that. And we started to pack and go KL with Karim. Ya.. This was crazy.

I had lunch with Sherine while Karim went to his meeting. Then, we went to Starbucks to work. It's really work. Just change of environment. Comments?? hmm... I think I prefer to work in office. Why? The air-cond and it's more comfortable. hehe....

Karim supposed to finish his meeting at about 5.30pm and I was not done with my work. So, I told Sherine to text him not to hurry. Walk really slowly if possible. Then, he rang at 6-ish pm that he just done with meeting. By the time he met up with us, we were still working. Aiks... what were we doing? Not fully utilising the chance to work outside. We shouldn't have gone shopping, right? But, well, there were so much to do and no time for shop.

We went for dinner. Yummy dinner. But, the late lunch was not fully digested. So, I had little only.

Hey.. it's a totally different experience. It was a surprised, impromtu thing. Don't get a wrong picture that this is the way we work in my organization. Sometimes, I like this. Someone just drag/ 'kidnap' me for something not harmful... (Reminded me of my Wellington-Auckland-Wellington weekend getaway thingy....)

Side line: KLCC was decorated for Chinese New Year. Nice.... Yeah.. Time flies....

Missionette Sponsor Get Together

Was informed by Aunty Irene last week in church that there's a sponsor meeting on next Saturday (today) at her house at 2pm. hmm.... I was thinking, meeting in the afternoon. I wanna rest wor.. Furthermore, my only show that I watch on TV is screening at 4pm wor.

hehe.. actually, I struggled to go or not lar.. (confession is good for the soul..). And I decided to go. I was at Aunty Irene's house at about 2.15pm and I was the 1st one. Oh.. No.. This is bad. I thought I was late. Mana tahu, then, I was told, actually start at 3pm. Come early to catch-up with each other. Alamak.. pengsan.. 3pm means 3.30pm lar..

So, waited, talked. Then, slowly they came. Then, was told that Aunty Lim is making asam laksa for us. Wow.... She came at about 3.20pm. Then, we ate. Sooooooo yummy.. It's spicy for me, but, so nice... I had 2 bowls though I was full. Couldn't resist lar... Then, Kim came with 'hamp-chin-peng' (chinese doughnut?).... Also, so nice.. I didn't try cos I was so full already. Not to mention the jelly make by Cornelia. yumm.... Everything was so nice...

So, our meeting started at 4.20pm. We discussed what we wanna do for Missionett. It's going to be the last year for Missionette to give way for Children Cell. So, it will end in June. It's so sad as we have good bonding with the girls and they are opening themselves up in the class and share and make good friends. Well, if Children Cell is better, we shall support that.

Meeting ends at about 5.30pm. Then, eat again. Fellowship again. This is Malaysian - eat and eat and fellowship and fellowship. Now, we had Aunty Irene steamed her nian-gao (one of the sweet sticky thing normally eat/ have it in Chinese New Year). She sliced them in small pieces, steamed, and put with some shreded coconut. It's really nice..

I felt so blessed. One will never regret serving God. Cos, God always bless us back with more. And His blessings comes in all different forms and can surely surprise us. So, please continue to serve. Press-on though there are times we need encouragement too.

For me, I don't think I am continuing with Children Cell leading. I really want to do something else this year and I am exploring... Stay tune and if things work-out... :)

NE Target Setting

Part of the target setting was also to align the Sectional targets within the Department.

Was invited to join the session with NE. It was encouraging to see all to be engaged and challenging/ commenting each others' target for better.

Well, somehow I need to split myself into half today. Was in the workshop in the morning. Then, rushed back to office to meet-up with Biz Manager (Telenor), and back to the workshop again. Gosh..... It was challenging, getting a car park was challenging. I was begging the guard since I was only back to office for 1 hour.

It was a tiring and fruitful day.

NE: Thanks for inviting and really glad to see you guys were so involved. The process itself was great!!