Breaking free

Waiting for this moment
This getaway
Where I will be free
To be as I please
No one watching my back

Soon I will be in your arms
And for that brief moment
Be that part I've lost
Reawakened within
By the pleasures you give

We have grown apart
Yet fond memories of you remain
Let's make more this time
Just you and me
Loneliness, I've missed you so.

Bhahahahahahahahaha!

Treasures of the past

Without a clock hanged up, time become.....lost.
Was almost late for fellowship on Saturday.
And it completely slipped my mind to meet up with some old mates for dinner and movie yesterday.....until they called like one and a half hour before the show. Hahaha!
Then, God decided to be funny with me...I was stuck on the bridge for like 40minutes!!! And then I got a tad lost weaving through town to get to Gurney. Thank God the show was delayed for quite a bit....and we didn't miss any parts! But it was good. Indy is still hilarious and gross in all the old ways. I know I screamed and laughed really hard a few times. And I think I kicked a stranger's knee in the midst of all that. Oops...


I found a box of her clothes on Saturday.
Clothes that had stood the test of time.
Colors still vibrant.
Nothing disintegrating at the breath of air and touch of hand.
I believe that it hasn't been opened since the I moved from KL.
That would make it......15 years, I think.
Yeah, I'm actually only two thirds Penangite.

They couldn't imagine when I was young that I could grow up to be her size.
So a lot of her clothes were given away.
If she was here, I probably wouldn't be her size anyway. Go figure....

There was a couple of sarongs I have no use for and some really really old fashion clothes.
We couldn't imagine how she could have fit into a skirt with a waist size a third of the bottom of the skirt. Haha!

Three of the blouses I kept were a good fit.
With the softness of being worn and washed before.
Perfect...
One of them a favorite....according to them.


If I were to get myself worked up, I would say they were hers and the last of hers therefore they should be kept....no matter how useless they are now.
But I wasn't worked up......so I let them go.
Hopefully someone somewhere can make better use of them.
Or turn them into rags. I don't think I want to know. *shudders*
Someone's treasure may be someone else's rubbish.

I just wished there had been more of her.......

Quote of the day

"The word nerd is at a lost for words."

Cute Cook wins!
Wee!!!!

New gizmo

Featuring the latest babies in the house!! Our Panasonic Lumix FS3.
My is Blinky and Bee's is..................nameless. Hmph.

Teehehe!!!

Actually, this is my 2nd largest investment I've forked out since I started working.

The first was my handphone. After using Nokia 3310 for so long....I got myself a Sony Ericsson clamshell in May last year. At least for my handphone I had a solid reason that Nokia 3310 was old and extinct already. But for this.......I consider it an impulse. Reckless? Maybe.

I saw an ad on the way to work saying that a digital camera fair is at Gurney going on. So I told Bee and San. And we ended up going there thinking we can see different brands and just have fun looking. Lamely, the only promotion booth was Panasonic. The week before, San said it was Fuji (which was how she came about her Fuji F40fd)....so I guess the camera brands were taking turns. We just looked and played abit with the few models there and was going to walk away when the Panasonic sales person came back from his dinner. And we got reeled in to an hour and a half of explanation, bargaining, and color decision-making by yours truly!

I discover that, comparing Blinky (a camera) with my handphone (which doesn't have a name because I forgot to name it when I bought it!) this isn't a need. More like a want.
What more when I have butterfingers and I have the shakiest hands when it comes to taking pictures. Once, a cousin said my hands looked like I was on Estacy while I was taking pictures at his wedding ceremony. Talk about an F for Fail.
So I really question why would I want a digital camera.

Of course the fact that Bee wanted one (she has wanted a Lumix camera for years!!) was a motivation that the price will drop further if I got it as well. Benefiting both of us. That said we got it for RM726 (cash) from the original RM799. :D
It came with a 2gb memory card, mini tripod, lcd protector and a neckstrap. Money wise I would say it was really worth it!

Plus, this Panasonic Lumix FS3 with 8.1-megapixel has iA (intelligent Auto) function. It is able to determine what sort of picture you are taking whether it's a macro shot, people shot or scenery shot and then adjust itself for you.
I think what I like most about Blinky is its shake detector. There a mode where you can see how much of the picture shaking is done by your hands or by the object/surrounding you are pointing at. This is the sort of thing that makes you go....'That can help train my hands better!' and sorta adds to the pros of owning a new digital camera. Anti shake technology is after all also getting better.

A bonus to Bee (and San too!) is that now I don't have a solid reason to always bug her to bring her camera along every time we go on a food trip. Hahahahaha!

Here's some pictures of the actual cameras.






We got to choose from Black, Pink and Silver. So guess which one is mine? I'm not saying but here's a hint: Her name sorta rhymes with her color. Haha! Go figure!

It's hard forking out money like that......but once you've decided on it there's just no turning back. And all I can do is hope really really hard that I won't spoil it soon.
So cheers to my hopefully-will-improve photo-taking skills!!

Now that I've announce I burnt a big hole in my pocket...who wants to give me some $$?

Moving Day 2

The storm has passed.

Now to pick up the remnants.

Got our new fridge and washing machine the last hour before I came back last night.
Man, I really hope my dad didn't BREAK that foot long Lindt chocolate bar moving it over!!!!
I dare not ask.
He says he has lost 2 kilos. I wonder if I lost any. Hopefully he doesn't try to get his weight back by consuming my chocolates. No matter how technically he bought the Hersheys and Tolberones from Langkawi and therefore is his.
He had chocolates for dinner on Saturday night, can you believe it??? Thank God it was the nutty bars that I declared his.
If I start adopting that I'll be.....like father, like daughter. Muahaha!!! (I know la how that line should end! Don't remind me.)

Highlights of the weekend:

I saw a smile from him.
A moment imprinted in my head.
While I was on the verge of tantrums many times.
My dad smiled his way through the storm.
Maybe it's the bananas he consume like 5 of them everyday.

I'm smugly proud that relatives on both sides of the family are attracted to my green room.

Hahahaha!

A little irking

I discovered that half of the Disney Princesses kissed before they got married.

Talk about influence on the young.
Call me a dreamer but I believe that belong on the altar.
Haha, no wonder I'm stuck where I am.

Dream...dream dream dream.....

Moving Day 1

IT has begun.

The piano went out the door with a horrible bang.
I tried my best not to react too dramatically, like a snob....
but it was a real stab to my heart.
Although it's only worth RM350 to the people who collects old pianos and scrap them, a piano is still a piano intact.
Thank God I have no idea how they moved the piano down the lorry and into the new house.
Dad's motto was 'I'm not going to look' and that was exactly what he did.


One more weekend and hopefully we are done for good.

Mark 10:29-30 (New King James Version)

29 So Jesus answered and said, “Assuredly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands, for My sake and the gospel’s, 30 who shall not receive a hundredfold now in this time—houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions—and in the age to come, eternal life.

A poem

My life flows on in endless song;
Above earth’s lamentation
I hear the sweet though far off hymn
That hails a new creation:
Through all the tumult and the strife
I hear the music ringing;
It finds an echo in my soul—
How can I keep from singing?

What though my joys and comforts die?
The Lord my Savior liveth;
What though the darkness gather round!
Songs in the night He giveth:
No storm can shake my inmost calm
While to that refuge clinging;
Since Christ is Lord of Heav’n and earth,
How can I keep from singing?

I lift mine eyes; the cloud grows thin;
I see the blue above it;
And day by day this pathway smoothes
Since first I learned to love it:
The peace of Christ makes fresh my heart,
A fountain ever springing:
All things are mine since I am His—
How can I keep from singing?

I can't remember where I found this. I know I didn't write it. Hahahaha!!
But it brought a warmth to my heart to read it again.
To remember that I am being loved.
And the assurance of my future in Him.
Certainly puts things into a positive perspective.
How can I keep from playing?

Chocolate, chocolate and more chocolate

I can't keep a secret.
Not one like this.
On Thursday,

I got a foot long bar of Lindt chocolate!!!
Thanks, Ling Yin!
Haha!
Tactful avoidance of the question whether you were back or not was hard!
I think by now you are back in Singapore again, so I can say it. =P
All the best this final paper!!!

Jeremiah 29:11-13
"For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart."

On fluids all day was hard.
On Friday night,
There was a mini gathering of old schoolmates, to sorta celebrate the birthdays of 2 girls in May.

there was chocolate cake, sweeter than any I've tasted before.
And I got a huge size! (I couldn't finish...)
Hehehehehe!!!

Saturday, after an early carload to the new house, there was breakfast with Jen.
Made up for that and the chocolate cake the rest of the day.
In the afternoon went to find Ee Shiuan and my loved ones. Waited for like half an hour for them to have their bath. I was mortified to find them with lice crawling out of them due to some medicine put after their bath. Not the human, I mean. The dogs. So have to cut short my love therapy. Just the touch of fur and wet nose can do wonders though.
Thank God, she, the human, didn't buy me donuts! Because....

Last night,

my cousin back from her short trip to KL, got me donuts!!!
Hehehehehehehe!
Thanks, Bee!!!
Alien (the triple play of chocolate donut from Big Apple),
is awesome!!!!!

Kakakakaka, I had a good long weekend with all that chocolate despite being very tired almost everyday from all the carrying stuff downstairs of old to upstairs of new.

Thought of the day,

"How the heck do you accept a compliment,
when the compliment actually belongs fully to God?"



I hate it when that happens.