Beautiful weekend ending on a rainy note

My weekends keep getting better and better this Christmas season!

Spent Saturday morning painting 'One Way' signboards for the KCP.
I think this year's KCP is so much better, with lesson sessions with the kids.
The youth of GROW really made a great job entertaining them with the games and the mime show.....
Haha!
I missed lunch and there was so many nuggets left over that I gobbled some up.
Right after that....
Went to A. Amelia's house for their Christmas party cum Celebration of Hope project.
It was sooooooooooo good to see Yi Ling there.
And Mel and Legs came back from KL just that afternoon itself!
It sure was fun whacking Kong Kong's head after such a long time!
Hahahahaha!!!
Too bad Mi had to go back to Singapore so early and we just missed her by a few days!!! :(
And Chor Kong's MIA in UK....
Else ar.....
I really hope one day all of us will be able to gather for a 'family' photo. But so far the max we have gathered is 4 people each time. Always got people MIA.
*sigh*

BUT......
I now have a very good reason to go down KL again middle next year!!!
Mel and Legs getting married! Congratulations, Ama!! Kong Kong!!
(*okay enough...i'm suppose to keep that news low-profile)

Yippee for my trip!!! Hahahaha, sounds so selfish! But really....it's such good timing.
This year was February and July..., May would make it 9 months in between...good good timing to get another bag!!!
And I managed to secure a place to crash in KL for the next couple of years...... *wicked grin*
Hahahahahahaha!!!!

I love the warm fuzzy feeling I get when I meet up with old friends. Especially those that has been really a blessing to me. And at A. Amelia's.....it's just
*bliss*
Yeah, too bad I lose my appetite. I'm not sure it's from the happiness or the unnecessary worry of what happened this year will happen again flashed into my mind the moment the wedding date was announced....
I think I've made a promise that I might regret..... The problem is I can't remember the exact words I said when the promise was demanded of me. *sigh*
A lot of things can happen in the next 5 months however.....and besides I have alternative options this time around. So, someone please slap me out of my worry filled imaginative mind on what's going to happen and leave it to God!!! Pray pray....

Sunday morning, A. Joanna showed us her trip to Israel. It was really amazing that she had the opportunity to go to Israel. After all, in Malaysian passport it is written except Israel. And they built churches wherever events happened. Many of them had mosaic paintings on their walls, symbolizing the miracles or event that happened there. After service I grabbed her little kid and swing her round and round and round.
Hahahahaha!!!
I thank God she didn't cry and wanna find daddy! Instead she retaliate abit and wanna hit me back. Haha! Last time, squeezing her cute cheeks abit would have brought on an outburst, which scares the wits out of me! As if I tormented her!

Last night, was at Fort Cornwallis, catching the Celebration of Joy. It was interesting to watch the crows there gliding each time before they land because it was so close to the seaside the wind helped in their aerodynamics. Too bad it rained so heavy before I get to watch Antenna dance!!!! There was a good song where they integrated 'Joy to the World' with 'Joy! To the world', I thought that was really really cool.
Getting wet was nice in small quantities, but having my shoes flooded up and leaving black ink all over my feet is a no-no!! I especially hate it when people walking past me really near splash all that mud water INTO my shoes. That's the yuckiest!!! What more I had to wear sandals to the office this morning!

All the ink marks showing.
I am plagued by back ache this morning. Standing and sitting straight for long hours can do a lot of harm, to someone not used to it.
I'm in pain yet grinning.
Hahahahahaha! I'm obviously in so much pain delirious laughter occurs!

KCP Rehearsal

Heheheheheheeeeee!

I had a miracle night. No long lecture on 'driving back all the way to BM just for church...etc etc'

Heheheheheheeeeee!

I guess it's true, when you choose to honor God, honor your parents.....things can turn out smoothly. I keep telling people I was going to sneak into BM and sneak back out without my dad's knowledge, but the more I thought about it.... the more guilty I felt. It's not lying, but omission of the truth.....is a scandal of it's own. I figure this long lecture about church....won't be as bad as IF anything were to happen to me driving across the bridge so late at night coming back to Penang and being exposed at that point.

I thank God he was getting ready for work when I called to say I'm coming back. Haha, he didn't have time to say much and I just crushingly reminded him not to lock the door when he gets back after work. I thank God his car didn't see my car driving back. Haha, that has happened a few times and provoke a few unnecessary comments. I really really really thank God that he was all quiet when I got back at 11pm. Because by the time 10pm came in church, and we were still having rehearsal and gift packing my heart was growing colder and colder......in anticipation of the dreaded long lecture. The power of prayer can do wonders.

And I did laughed. Whole heartedly, belly out laughs.
We have the craziest kid's praise song to play!!! And I'm making alien spaceship sounds from the keyboard!!! It's a kid's party, so we CAN go crazy!!! I tell you some true colors are only seen this month of the year! Heheheheheheeeeee!
And thank God I didn't bite on my teeth. You know sometimes when you laugh too hard, you might accidentally close your mouth shut just a little too hard when trying to control your laughter.......

Waking up at 6am this morning, despite having bloodshot eyes right now, it was worth it for the night I had. The fellowship in preparation for Christmas.....Hahaha! Besides, I manage to go to my favorite breakfast van this morning, and they just on the lights at the same moment i stop my car in front of them. Ting! Like a fairy wand work!

Heheheheheheeeeee!

When pain can't help but be there.....

We eat!!!
Yea.....today my teeth starts to specifically hurt. Each of them caught up in the tightened wires.

So I went out for lunch. And drag some people with me. Minutes before lunch time I received an email saying how nice this 'Macedoin Dining' place is in Queensbay. So I just on-the-spur check it out. The name rhymes with 'Whack A Doink'. Which is just so attractive, rite. Haha! The set lunches are only at RM10.80, with main dishes like these;

Grilled Chicken with Potato Wedges and Coleslaw
This was mine. I cut it up like feeding a baby and fed the baby! The goal is to get the food into the mouth without touching any front teeth. Teehehe!

Fish and Chips with Potato Wedges and Coleslaw
Notice there's no extra chips though!

Grilled Fish with Saute Potato
Sauteed? I think the e needs a line above it. The orangee liquid taste a little orangey.

Chicken Chop with Potato Wedges and Coleslaw
Haha! This was the largest that came to our table and my colleague who ordered it is a small eater! So half the veggies and wedges was wasted.

Dental works are really....'No pain no gain' as much as I hate to use common phrases like that, I can't think of any to describe this now moment. It will go away....(*fingers crossed* please Lord don't let me laugh like nuts tonight!!! It will be such a torture on my teeth, Lord. Lovely Lord won't let me be tortured. Amen! :P)

All I can think of right now is......

I've finally got my full set of brackets put in today!

I had enough self control this morning to not drive into McD's drive-thru for a vanilla ice-cream. Or get my favorite 'jagung pau'.

My jaws are giving me head-throbbing pain. Panadol's not working. I wish I can separate out my whole mouth, jaw and all for just the next few working hours. Somebody give me a jab or something! Icky, icky pain!!! :(

I can't wait for KCP rehearsal tomorrow! If only I can be a hundred percent sure, I won't be this grumpy by then. (Dear Lord, please intervene by then!)

I've changed my blog colors again. Haha!

The end of Nodame Cantabile

I had such a nice weekend.

Finally finished Nodame Cantabile on Saturday and can get over my obsessions with their classical pieces and how well the characters play them.
Although I'm a tad dissappointed la....the 'on/off' romance of the main characters in the show kinda sealed at the end only by a HUG and alot of words BUT not 'love declaration's from the guy. Ish. Summore dare to deny in front of her parents!!! (Oops, sorry if I spoiled the show for ya, Lyin! You'll still help me find the music scores,rite?)
But that's how Japanese dramas are. They are not obvious, exaggerated love stories, just bittersweet, no yucky yucky (thank God!), warm scenes.
I've discovered that Beethoven Symphony No. 7 Piano version is way fantastic.
Play it slow and it sounds so sad, so pathetic....but speed it way up.........it becomes such an amazing, beautifully energetic piece. Now I want this music score also!!!!!!! It's so difficult to just play by ear because this piece was made for an orchestra so when its converted to piano there's alot of places where many fingers involved in a single shot.

*/edit at 1.03pm I found the music score!! Weeee!!!!!!!! Liszt converted some of Beethoven's symphonies into piano pieces. It's beautifully insane!!! Now to simplify it to 6 fingers version.... Haha!/*

On Sunday morning, we have the honor of having the Heartbeat Band from FGA KL and Ps. Cameron Bennett from YouthAlive as our guest speaker. Looking at the team from KL, makes me miss KL a teeny bit. Donuts *sigh*. And seeing a Roland keyboard wrapped and packed up into a hard casing much like lead guitars is way...........*sigh*. It was a good refreshing service though. God cleared a few things in my heart. It was also the last service for a family gonna move down to KL. I'm going to miss them. Their sense of humor can brighten up the gloomiest person, and more importantly they made me at ease. There are jokes that take a while to understand, but their's bring out belly-laughters on the spot.

I picked up lunch on my way back here. Thank God I did, because the bridge was all bottlenecked up at 2pm!!! So early for a jam to start!
There's just such pleasure biting into a piece of hot Cheezy Wedges held in one hand while driving with the other hand. And licking the cheesy sauce off my finger tips.......*bliss* I won't describe about starting a burger at the first traffic light, and continue biting while driving because all the other traffic lights are green after that! Some other time. Haha!
I believe that once you have mastered the art of eating a sundae ice-cream while driving, you can eat almost any other fast food in the car. Hehehehehe!!!

good music+altar call+food+sleep=NICE!!!!