Last Day of 2006

I attended my cousin's wedding today. 31st Dec 2006. Wedding Lunch Banquet of Rudy & Shirley in JB at Hyatt Regency. Initially, I had planned to stay overnight in JB but as my brother and Binny needed a ride back to Singapore... I drove them back and now I'm spending the last one and a half hour of 2006 in Bishan, Singapore. Together with my mum and my dog, Happy.

I bought 7 magazines just now. Well, it's been a while and I thought why not? These are the mags that'll last me till the end of this year right through to the new year!!! :P Spent $28.80 in all. One of them even came with a floral hardcover weekly calendar diary. The floral design is in pastel pale pink against a light blue background. Very soothing colours to the eye.

Hmmm... maybe I can count 10 blessings as I end this year:
1. I thank God for my salvation.
2. I thank God for who He is to me - my everything, really.
3. I thank God for my loving family even though we bicker.
4. I thank God for allowing me to serve Him at EAST.
5. I thank God for new friends I've made and old friends I still cherish.
6. I thank God for the internet. =D
7. I thank God for giving me the ability to think, feel and type.
8. I thank God for time to reflect.
9. I thank God for the students I taught from July to Nov 06.
10. I thank God for a peaceful and contented heart and soul and mind.

Okies, I may be off to bed soon... may not stay up for the count down to the New Year but here's wishing all of you a Most Blessed 2007 Ahead!!! =)

Work

Did a fair amount of work today. Only 2 classes of evaluation forms left to create and print. They should be done by next Wednesday and all slotted in by 5 Jan 07 as scheduled. Pretty happy abt that. Progress on the summaries is still slow though... Hopefully I'll make more headway next week. No one's at home now except for Happy & me. Everyone else has gone to JB already. I'm sleepy... though it's still early... zzz...

Up but slow

There's internet connection in the office today! Hooray! It's up but it's slow... and the connection is not available at my desk, I'm typing this at the graphics pc. It's been a rainy day... drizzle, drizzle, drizzle... rain, rain, rain... let's hope it won't start to pour too heavily afterwards...

Today, only Justin and me are in the admin office. Peter's on leave till the new year begins and Julie took urgent leave today. Tomorrow, Julie & Justin will be in only before lunch. After that, it'll be me alone. I've still got a few more evaluation forms to create and some evaluation summaries to complete. Hopefully, all these can be done by next friday!!!

Yes, I'm looking forward to the coming long weekend though it'll be yet another busy one coz my cousin Shirley is getting married on 31st Dec 06, Sunday. I'll be going in to JB on Sat morning with my bro and Binny. We're hoping to drive in around 9am. Hope the traffic will be smooth flowing. Okies, me going off now... Fare thee well! :-)

Internet Downtime

Today, the internet was down for most part of the day. It was affected by the earthquake that hit the seabed of the Taiwanese waters or so it was said. The snapped fibre-optic cables that were buried in the seabed were what slowed down or stopped the virtual traffic of the internet superhighway! Funny though, the internet downtime kinda made me a lil more productive at work today! ;-P

Oh and dinner at Casey & Davina's home just now was simply superb! Will post the pics soon on my picture blogs! Too tired today... Glad that I still managed to squeeze in an entry today! =D

Boxing Day Today!

Hello all! So much for my effort to post an entry a day! Nevertheless, I have a good reason for the short break. I was in JB since Saturday and returned to S'pore on Monday. Basically, Christmas was spent there with my family! We had a feast and a whole host of relatives at the Christmas Eve's gathering at my parents' home in Taman Pelangi.

It is Boxing Day today! Hope it's still not to late to wish all my faithful readers (if there is still any left!!!) a Most Blessed Christmas! =)

Amos' Birthday!

Today is Amos' 32nd Birthday! Sent him an sms greeting ard 2am and he replied thus, "Thanks couz! :-) i've got a shoot tmw but I ain't wasting the day sleeping! Can't stop praising God for the mercies n marvels n marbles of life... we are older n wiser... no, u'r older n I'm wiser! hehe"

I couldn't let him off with the last statement by keeping quiet so my reply was this, "Hey, no matter what I'm still your Jie Jie, kiddo! Show some respect! Heh! I'll let u off just today cos it's your birthday! ;-)"

I'm glad that we're still keeping in touch and when we get together, there are still lots of things to talk about... I'm glad that he's also walking closely to the Lord, trusting God more and more each day. I pray that he'll continue to grow in Christ and enjoy his birthday today!!!

Night Out

I had a most exciting night out with Yaling & Gwen! We ate good food as always. This time it was at a restaurant in the new extension of the basement of Raffles City. Can't remember the name but the food was pretty yummy! Aside from that, the most exciting part of the evening was getting them to be slaves of my new found wrapping company!!! :P I must say that they did a fantastic job and I would highly recommend their services should anyone so require!!! Haha! :-D

Anyways, it is getting late and I should be in bed. Don't wanna get into the office too late tmw... Good night everyone! :-)

Post

I was quite excited about putting up at least a post a day when I first started this blog but now I realise it is quite an impossibilty... There will be days when I have no access to the internet, days when I'm in no mood to type, days when I just want to do a whole host of other things rather than blogging but... I shall still try to post an entry a day so long as I have internet access and my interest in blogging does not wane. ;-)

Christmas Cards

Some time in the beginning of December, I was wondering if I should send out any Christmas cards at all this year... when I received the very 1st card from Su Ming, I decided I should at least reply to those who send a card to me and so I went to buy 2 boxes. 1 box contains 16 cards. Today, I've used them all. All 32 cards gone and I still need more. Will go get 1 more box soon.

Birthday Post

It's an entry on my birthday. I'm posting from home as I'm taking MC... Down with flu... again. Need more rest. Throat feeling really painful and nose starting to block up. What a birthday! Then again, I've already had a celebration with my family yesterday by going to a Hakka restaurant for dinner and eating the chocolate cake from Lana Cake shop. :-)

I've also caught up with Velvet, my friend of 25 years since Primary 1, last friday. She gave me a birthday treat at this restaurant called Charcoal. It's kind of opposite Adelphi, near Funan and it used to be called Petals, run by SHATEC. The food was fair for the price she paid. Also, I've had 2 advanced birthday celebration at EAST. One was with the faculty and staff and the other was during the EAST retreat after the Christmas party with the students as well.

I've received 2 cards and 3 presents thus far. I like them all very much! A card was from EAST Staff & Faculty and the other was from my brother and binny. The 1st present was from Pauline and it was a really adorable teddy bear. The 2nd was from Binny, also in the shape of a teddy bear - a photo album with the face of a teddy! The 3rd was from my sis - a Jim Thompson cosmetic bag with its signature elephant prints! Lovely! :-D

A word

Haven't typed a single word on blogger since Sunday, 10 Dec. First, there was the three days two nights East Retreat called Connection at Watercity Resort in Malacca from 11-13 Dec. Following that was 2 days of blissful annual leave for me to do nothing. Idled around a bit. Caught the movie by Denzel Washington titled Deja Vu. Prepared for Pam's wedding where I had to coordinate the banquet tables deco and do a speech. Glad that everything basically went off without a hitch and the happily married couple will be off to Italy for their honeymoon soon! :-)

I'm exhausted. Wish for a long holiday... like a month long type. Or maybe 2 weeks but that's pure wishful thinking... will have to settle for the mini long weekends that are coming up over Christmas and New Year's day. Okies, will stop here. Gotta rest.