An Update Finally

I realized that I haven't been blogging for quite some time. It wasn't because that nothing happened and it was more of a case of me being lazy. Anyway I will do an update for myself.

I've attended 2 Thai lessons at the CC already. I can say that I know a little bit more Thai as compared to before attending the classes. School so far is still manageable; I still manage to find the time to make a trip across the causeway yesterday. LOL....

Before writing about the JB trip, I must bring up something amazing which happened last Sunday. I had a primary school gathering.

Yes...

That's right...

PRIMARY SCHOOL GATHERING!!!

Shaun (yeah the MRF one) is in the same marketing class as me now and he was the one who informed me about the gathering. The turnout was good; one-sixth or 7 of the Holy Innocents' Primary 6A1 '97 turned up. There were classmates whom I haven't seen for TEN freaking years.

It was kind of awkward at first because most of us hadn't seen one another for like so long already. However the ice was broken when they all started to talk about the things that happened in primary school. (I wasn't really involved because I can't recall most of the things that they were talking about.) Their memories were truly amazing; Cheryl could even remember the register numbers!!!

Anyway it seemed that everybody present that day are all doing quite well; the girls are either graduating or working already and the guys aren't doing not too bad either. One of my old classmates Terry is an A*Star Graduate Scholar; she will be studying for her PhD at Imperial College soon.

6A1 '97 - 10 years after...
From left: Yimin, Terry, Cheryl, Me, Shaun, Reynard and Yihong

It was great catching up with them and hopefully the next gathering won't be 10 years from now.

Wednesday was my free day but instead of catching up with my work, I chose to spend it across the Causeway with the Tebrau brothers and Lewis.

Under the influence of the rest, I got an Astroboy shirt at 39rm which I felt was quite value-for-money. I also got to find out the cost of making contact lens there so perhaps I will make a new pair next trip there.

We caught a movie as usual. Initially we thought the ticket should be 6rm but yesterday was the public holiday's eve. (Today is public holiday because the Muslims begin fasting.) I prefer Rouge Assassin but the rest wanted to watch Evan Almighty.

The movie did live up to the reviews: it wasn't nearly as good as the 1st instalment and Bruce Almighty was not too good to start with. Many of the jokes fall flat but there was this conversation which God brought up:

"Let me ask you something. If someone prays for patience, you think God gives them patience? Or does he give them the opportunity to be patient?"

"If he prayed for courage, does God give him courage, or does he give him opportunities to be courageous?'

"If someone prayed for the family to be closer, do you think God zaps them with warm fuzzy feelings, or does he give them opportunities to love each other?"

It was indeed a point to ponder.

As usual we ended up with eating 4 meals: Lunch at Secret Recipe (So-so... ate the Brownie Ice-cream again), satay at Komtar (kambing very tender... bagus...), one teppanyaki set shared among 4 people at Food Junction (not very nice; eating for the thrill of eating) and last but not least seafood dinner at Tebrau again.

This time round we didn't order a lot: Veg + crayfish + stingray + frogs' legs. The total cost inclusive of rice and drinks was 109rm which was pretty reasonable. We managed to reach Woodlands checkpoint by 9.15pm and I got home at 10.20pm very much knackered out.

So we managed to do it again: yet another safe trip to the dangerous cowboy town of JB.