Thank you from the bottom of my heart

All i can say is... thank you. :)


View as the sun rose, approaching Auckland... isnt He wonderful.

Paul and i outside Promenade Hotel, KK. We got upgraded to the Presidential Suite!! :D

After a long arduous 3 day journey, i could have kissed the cement runway of Dunedin airport if not for the fact that i was feeling nauseaus and *extremely* ill in the stomach.

My room is clean. :) Thank you everyone for helping me settle in. I dont know how i would have gotten over being homesick, familysick and especially sistersick if it werent for you guys. My flatties Ben, Kevin, Nadia and family Paul. Alice, Ruth, Chewy, Jessica, Gina, Josh, Lye Funn, Eunice, Krystal.. just to name a few. I realise that i'm missing a lot of names. Thank you all so much. Thank you God for such amazing people.

Two questions:

1. Do you want this to work?

2. Do you think this could work?

Thank you Alice.

Forever footprints

Sunset view from home.

Sandy!! Eggieeeeeeeee! She's otherwise known as our egg-sucker (pardon the language but it's true!!)

Some of my girls...

I've had a great 2 months and one week home. It's been interesting with my first trip just me and my sister to Kuching, seeing the little ones from last year big boys and girls now, the littlies from this year and a blonde dog who loves eggs. Man, she is one dog who's gotta watch her cholesterol!! Enjoying and savouring Dad and Mum's cooking i.e. meaning that i have not cooked for the entire time that i've been home. Hope my first dish back is edible. :P

Well, as Daniel would say "Time flies.. i didnt even see it fly past me!" Temporary farewell to Cheekins and baby Daniel, Mum and Dad. I'll be seeing you guys again during my graduation! Woohoo... of course... passing... :P I miss you guys already.

unit 24, Railway Station Apartments... here i come!!

“I will answer your prayers…I have set a time.” Isaiah 49:8 CEV

=)

I've been back for exactly 2 months since leaving Dunedin and exactly one week to go before touching down in Dunedin again.

If love grows, then i can definitely say heat grows... on you. Frankly speaking, i'd never thought that i'd actually become quite comfortable with the it but basking in the comfort and routine of home for almost 2 months, hey... it grew on me. Well i think it's growing on me. :P Standing by the kitchen window, over the sink, doing my milk-and-Kelloggs-cornflakes stained bowl this morning, i found myself thinking, "Hey, this isnt too bad." o.O

You wont believe the number of random ideas and memories that cross my mind lately. I wont say it's the most pleasant thing, being one-sentenced and just plain random! I do look forwards to the routine in Dunedin again, with my new flatties ;) and Uni resuming...

It's gonna be a great year this year! Taking walks to the Gardens and you'll find me dancin' in the moonlight...

Sorry.. it's another random post...

The best medicine

For the first time in a while, i laughed until i couldnt breathe and my stomach sore.

random thoughts...

I think the New Year mood is dissipating... slowly... gradually. Pineapple and lantern home decorations are being packed away again. It's that time of the year where all the lights and hoohas dim.

Madam Sim is taking the littlies class after i leave. Actually, she's going to start taking the class next week and i'll just assist. Encik Mustafa's Daniel has joined the class. He's been real good. Didnt cry at all. There's quite a bit to catch up on, after all, he's 1 month behind. But he knows A, B and C. And that's half the work accomplished cos we've just learnt A, B, C, D, E and O. Sometimes, when the littlies are bent over, concentrating on the curves and straights of repetitively writing alphabets...a....a.....a....a, i think of myself and where they are. From Mum, Sesame Street and my kindy teacher, Miss Jeanie getting the ball rolling with ABCs to where things are now. How when i look at them, see them struggle with their round 'a's and that straight bit at the end, i wish i could hold their hand and guide them through every letter. When i first started, i amused myself with the thought that i'd be able to teach 2 at once. Since if left-handed Carey sat on the left, and right-handed Iffah sat on the right, i'd be able to hold two hands at one time. But i guess it's about standing up and being independent. One step at a time. One alphabet at a time.

How she'd tuck my hair behind my ear, making sure that she pronounces every - single - word perfectly with the rounding of her mouth, just to whisper "May I go to the toilet please?"

Mum said that i have to tell the children that i'm leaving soon. That they'd be 'prepared'? I dont like this part. And to promise them that i'd see them again at the end of the year. But will i come back this year? *sigh* Lord, i trust You'll show me the way, when the time comes. After graduation, job searching, "where will i be", what happens after that... where do i go, what do i do? I do hope that i can come home, even if it's for a little while. Then we can do a bit of shopping in Sg! Woohooo..... But that's all quite far away. Hmm.. not really, actually. It'll be knocking at the doorstep before you can say Fiddlesticks.

This is the first holiday that i've been able to play a bit more of my part spiritually. I pray that this will keep up in Dunedin. To be grateful...

Eccl 5:20 "He seldom reflects on the days of his life, because God keeps him occupied with gladness of heart."

Thank you God that my stomach is still intact. After one whole day of a sore tummy. Nature's Tea... here i come!

I find myself climbing into bed wide awake, but it's already late. I toss and i turn. Pull the duvet over my head. I close my eyes tightly. Turn onto my side, onto my back, onto my stomach. Bury my head in my pillow. I cant sleep and i dont know what's exactly on my mind. It's a mumble jumble of random things. Random thoughts...

It's already February..1/12 of 2006 has flown by

Grade 1 kids... my... havent they grown!

We've spent the first 2 days of Chinese New Year at my maternal grandparents' place. Gong Xi Mong En (?) Man, being there is all about food, food and more food. Everywhere you turn, someone offers you food. I found myself stuffed... now to lose that weight. hmph. But that was fun. I would spend the entire day just serving drinks and refilling food containers, but would still find myself poofed by mid afternoon and my physical self screaming for an afternoon nap. And boy, some nap! 2 hour naps? Most of the guests that come over speak Melanau, one of the native dialects of Malaysia. Catch no ball.

Now we're back in Mukah. Cousins, nieces, nephews, students. It's been nice to have people over and to spend time as 'pieces' of families. That's what happens when you come from a large family with Dad having 7 siblings. On Mum's side, things are kinda dry cos Uncle George stayed back in Thailand this year. Woohoo... but cute nieces and nephews.

So for all those that, unfortunately, have to be spending new year away from home, here are my warmest (Malaysian warmth some more!) wishes for a great new year... because you are all in my wish-we-could-be-together-for-CNY wishlist. :) God bless....


Dalat home. Memories printed on every plank of wood. When we were little, us 3 monkeys used to climb in and out of this bedroom window, onto the banister, climb in again, lock the bedroom door, climb out again... with Grandma chasing us from behind with a rotan. We've never been caught. *childish grin of triumph*