Lunch incident

This afternoon, JW teased me by saying I got to sit by myself for lunch because Jonathan will sit with EK and he wants to sit with Aitee. It was a silly prank but I found it mean and hurtful. I told him it was done in bad taste, that it was mean and I was hurt and he quickly apologised over text. Upon some text exchanges, I will be getting a gourmet burger meal lunch apology out of him tmw. Haha! That makes me happy after all the unhappiness I felt today. Hopefully the burger does get delivered to the correct address.

Anyways, is this considered our first or second fight and make-up incident? Previously he said something that made me uncomfortable and I told him about it over text as well. He is quite speedy in apologising but the problem is that with close contact, we will probably have more opportunities for greater conflicts. These are definite red flags to watch out for. Better to keep a safe distance from him especially after his stint at EAST has ended - which is likely to be a natural course of events, Lord willing.

3rd Post

This is my third post for September. JW's last working day with EAST is this Friday, 17 Sep. But I think the last face to face meeting I will get to see him will be on Thursday, 16 Sep. Oh, 18 Sep is both Li Ping's 47th and Peace's 18th birthdays.  Well, last Saturday, 11 Sep was Imel's 47th birthday and I am glad she was happy with the bouquet I sent her. On Sunday, Sue, Imel and I had a fun get-together to have a belated celebration for Imel. I gifted Imel a scarf which I hope she liked too. 

Dom was sharing about how we used to write longer emails with more spiritual insight and depth in our Uni days. These days, hardly anyone write these long emails anymore. Well, until Grace mentioned that she just wrote one to her family. Lol. And Dom mentioned that Christine Thien writes them once in two years. I guess they are the rare ones. Most of us survive on WhatsApp text messages, FB, IG and Twitter to connect. At least, I do. 

Siow Yen and I have a pact to remind each other to sleep earlier when we can. So I just reminded her when I saw her on FB Messenger at 1am. Haha! She mentioned she'll go sleep soon after a shower. I promised I will do the same after a journal entry. Hopefully, I will get sleepy enough soon.

Binny sent a wedding pic from 18 years ago and this year, her youngest sister Karen is getting married to a guy from Shanghai. I do wish Karen a lifetime of marital happiness ahead! But most of all, I pray that she would know Jesus as her Lord and Saviour too - both she and her husband to be!

1st date with Elsa - 7 Sep

Tuesday, 7 Sep, and I had a lunch & movie date with Elsa, my elder goddaughter, our first date by ourselves. We had lunch at Secret Recipe at Plaza Sing. She had Nasi Goreng with Satay and Earl Grey tea with a packet of sugar. I had Grilled Chicken with Mushroom Sauce and White Coffee to go with it. The meal was about $40. The tix for the movie Sinkhole was about $17. The salted popcorn, two ice-lemon teas (one for Elsa and another for Illa) and my latte was about $16. The parking was $7. In all, the budget for our outing was roughly $80 but the memories for the day, priceless. Elsa introduced me to her favourite Sword Shop called Caesar. She showed me her current read called "Ten types of humans". I gave her a prayer journal and just simply enjoyed her company. 

I pray for Elsa to grow to be a God-fearing, God-loving lady who glorifies God in all her ways. In Jesus' name I pray, amen. Lord, give ST the wisdom to lead and guide her. I pray for Illa to grow well in the household together with ST and Elsa - may she continue to enjoy the favour and love of her mum and sister all the days of her life. 

September Holidays

The one week September Holidays has officially started for school age kids. Tomorrow I have a date with my elder goddaughter Elsa, to catch the Korean disaster movie "Sinkhole", picked by her. We will watch it at Plaza Sing at 1:50pm, a Tuesday afternoon, my day off. 

Today being a Monday, I normally have Advancement Meetings with Jon, Aitee, EK and Josh but as the past weekend was a MG Ministry Weekend - both Jon and EK were kept busy with their MGs. Jon decided to give our team (and himself) a break this morning. We will meet this Thursday instead.  Josh only has 11 more work days with EAST, his last day being 17 Sep. Counting down to his last official day - will miss him for sure. Pray that he stays contactable as an EAST Volunteer.  =)

Yesterday, I had a very lovely, encouraging and edifying afternoon at home with Lu & JF over chicken pies and prayers. It was JF's first visit to my home and he gifted me a box of yummy low sugar egg custard mooncakes. Lucy gifted me a beautiful cushion cover with the picture of two happy children and a hedgehog staring at some fishes in a Happy Kids Aquarium. We had conversations about resourcing our regional partners with teaching materials and what JF has been up to with the BSF Men's Chinese Bible Study School Programme. We also caught up with JF's recent health scare of an unexplained heart attack. It was just an engaging time of catching up. I enquired about Wen Tin's friend who knew sign language and wanted to teach. That was something Lu could have input in, so I was glad.

We ended our time praying for the different issues we had conversations over, and prayed for the different friends who could not join us that afternoon too. God has been faithful in keeping us close to Him. Pray that we will continue to keep faithfully walking with God.

End of August, we had a family birthday celebration for sis at Bishan - with Kor, Binny, Josh joining in the celebrations. Jie ordered a keto friendly Ondeh Ondeh birthday cake and a keto friendly chocolate cake. We also had take-outs from Belo, Amos' restaurant along Upper Thomson Road. On Jie's actual birthday on 2 Sep, she took mum out for lunch at Open Farm Community Farm & Restaurant, and at night, three of us went to The Majestic restaurant at Marina One, near the Marina Bay Financial Centre (MBFC) area.  

By the way, just two nights ago, I have sold away my Rainbow Vaccum Cleaner for $500. Mum was a little upset as she believes I have made a bad financial decision for selling it at such a low price. But it was taking up space and I was hardly using it - much like a white elephant - so I thought it might serve a better purpose in another household. That's that. In the first place, it was probably an impulse buy that I should not have bought. An expensive lesson learnt - I hope.