3 more hours

Well I thought I'd just write what I've done since I've arrived in Singapore, seeing that I have loads of time on my hands before I board my connecting flight home. I arrived into Singapore Changi Airport at 2135. Walked slowly to the transfer counter to make sure my luggage has been transferred to my morning flight which is in an hour!

Good thing Singapore Airport has a couple of interesting things to do besides food. I watched about 1 1/2 movies at the movie lounge. I slept more than watched. After those movies I decided to see if the transit hotel had a room, but no such luck, oh well! Then I got a phone call from mum, wishing me a Merry Christmas after having a church service. Nice!

Well I still want to sleep so I walked around looking for this spot mum & dad was telling me about. I actually walked all the way to Terminal 1. Crap! Anyhoo, looked around a bit, nothing interesting so I headed back to Terminal 2. Walking, walking . . . ohhh, wondering a little area called 'The Oasis'. Ah this is the place my parents were telling me about. So I slept on pretty comfortable reclined chairs! Yes! Reclined. hehehe. Excellent!

After a couple of hours sleep . . . nap! *grinz* I got up to wash up - brush my teeth, wash my face. Then settled in front of a TV watching a cartoon about mice. Plus I think I'm getting pretty good with doing Sudoku puzzles. Alright I think I'll head to my boarding gate now. See you all back home really soon. *wink*

flying home

It's so weird to be away from my whole family during Christmas time. If I was with my family now, I'd be cuddling everyone saying Happy Christmas eve! Then mum & I would go to the kitchen decide if we're going to bake more cookies or start preparing for dinner. Yummy! I'm thinking turkey stuffed with mum's delicious nut & bread crumbs covered in sweet, sweet honey, hummm . . . the leg of ham sliced not too thick but not too thin either and I'd go for the awesome blast of flavour from the Chicken & Mango salad. ohhhh . . . that's the life.

And today I woke up, excited because all that isn't too far away. Sure I'm not going to have Christmas Eve dinner with my family but I'll be there in about 24 hours & can still have all that yummy food - hahaha leftovers. *grinz* Sure I'll be having an airplane Christmas Eve dinner, but I had an awesome time with people I love yesterday, my frenz, hanging out with each other playing Mahjong, PS2 - Winning Eleven and of course eating, yummm. Thanks you all! Have a geat Christmas lunch tomorrow.

Well wishing you all a blessed Christmas & an amazing New Year ahead! May God bless you & your family as we remember His love & sacrifice for us on that Cross, 2000 odd years ago. And as you enter a brand new year of excitement, challanges & fulfilments, continue to walk in His love & grace.

Have a BLESSED CHRISTMAS all
& a HAPPY 2006!

beautiful

Plans are good
Life is great
Living is amazing
&
My God is an awesome God

Even before the sunrises You have already known my plans. So all I can do is commit them into Your trustworthy hands.

Even as the sun blazes above me, and though my hand cannot keep me shaded, I know Your love has already engulfed me. So I will embrace that of which You have given to me.

Even as the sunsets, I know that I am save in Your arms. For I will wake up to a brand new day. For you Lord, I am found.

I may be lost & overwhelmed by the things around me
But as I stand here with you, Jesus
I am found indeed

beat de rush...

For me beating the rush takes on a new & profound perspective. This has to do with me still being here in Australia while the rest of my family are back home. A 'Wat de . . .' moment! Even my frenz here are in disbelief that I am still here. Hahaha! Oh well, you gotta do, what you gotta do, I guess.

So why I say beating the rush takes on a new & profound perspective for me is; imagine trying to get a reference, a money order, an official result transcript, a person to witness your signature, certify your documents, buy an Express post envelope before the shops close & to post all this before everything 6 pm. Well I did all that today!

I got up at 10am this morning, to check if I got a reply regarding a reference. A good tick on the list of things to do. But the thing was it was to be mailed to me today which meant I'd receive the mail either on Monday or Tuesday.

So nevermind, I decided to go to uni to pick up my result transcript ($10). That didn't take long . . . phew! So after that since the post office was close by I got my money order, envelopes, flags/tabs & stamps ($73.20).

Then I called a lawyer friend to see if he'd be available to witness a declaration I had to sign. Another good tick to the list. Praise God he was able to see me today!

So after all that I got home again & I don't know why I didn't do this before. But I called the School of Physio to actually cancelled my appointment to see my Deputy Head & I found out that the letter was still at the school. So I asked to pick it up, mind you this is already 4.10pm. And I was given half an hour to get from St Kilda Road to uni with the peak hour traffic building up. Hahaha! Once again thank God, I made it in time with 2 minutes to spare. *grinz*

So now I can called my mum to tell her I've gotten all the documents I needed & that I can post it off. But my aunt said I should express post it! Which means I had to go to a Post office to buy the envelope ($5). Ok can do if it closes at 5.30pm which, my aunt said it did. So to the Post office close to where I lived, on arriving there I discovered that it closes at 5 pm. *CRAP!!* I'm 6 minutes late. Ok nevermind, wait for a customer to exit . . . ah slip in NOW. Oh, I only need to buy an Express post envelope, please *pitiful look on my face* It worked! Hallelujah.

Now I can relax a little bit. But not totally, I still have to go back home get the rest of my documents so that I can certify them at the Police station. That didn't take too long only about 15 minutes. Good stuff! Time to arrange everything & place it into the Express post envelope. Now the post bags gets emptied at 6 pm every weekday. And by now it's already 5.45pm. *Shoot, can I make it to the yellow postal bins?*

Rushed out of the house again to the car! And wouldn't you know it, I made it with time to spare. Seriously, this is a God-given day & a rather expensive day especially when I didn't intend to spend at all. Hehehe!

All in all, it's been a pretty busy day. However I still got to do a few other things in between: like wash up & get dress :p*, order my work uniform (called & faxed), buy a Christmas present, just to name a few!

What a day!

alone or lonely

A couple of days back my parents, my bro & family frenz when back home after visiting Melbourne for my graduation plus other stuff too. Today my aunt & cousin went to Brunei for a holiday. Now there isn't anyone at home or anybodies I can call & talk weird family talk or just plain be annoyed by or annoy :P **boo hoo hoo**

It's great to have time alone but where is the line that says you are now entering the lonely zone. Hummm . . . a moment to ponder! Is it when we start saying or singing . . .

Lonely, I am so lonely
I have nobody
All on my own
. . .

It's all very subjective, really. Oh well it shouldn't be to quiet, another of our family friend is coming over later today & will be staying at the house for a couple of days. Hooray! She's really a great person to get to know . . . ok I odd to go sleepy byes now!

excitement @ Smoken Joe's

The other day when I was sending my family & family frenz to the airport for the midnite flight back home. We decided to have dinner at Smoken Joe's, because my brother heard it's good or something like that. Hehehe!

So we got to the place & sat down at the table, got our menus. Ordered our drinks & then after a little while longer we ordered our mains. I decided to have their T-Bone Steak, medium to rare served with salad & chips topped with mushroom sauce . . . hummm! **mouth washing** Mum got the Salt & Pepper Calamari, Aunty Agnes & her sis, Steph shared a Pumpkin Rositto, my bro & Uncle Peter got the Chicken Burger & my dad ordered the Chicken Creaser Salad.

While we waited for our meals, we tried our hand on they quiz, which was on the blackboard. The quiz involves forming a 4 or more letters word out of 9 letters & the ultimate aim was to figure out the 9 letter word.

These where the letters & each word had to include the letter M!

E N T
I M A
E R T

Then suddenly a girl on the table directly in front of our table dropped on the floor & started to go into an epileptic seizure. I didn't know what happened, until everyone on my table looked down on the floor, then I stood up & saw the girl twitching & jerking from side to side. Standing there for a while, my whole family told me to help her.

So I walked quickly to her & asked the staff if they had some to prevent her from biting her tongue . . . I was lost for words here. Had no idea what to call that object, which my brother told me later on the way to the car that it was called tongue depressors. But I finally said a wooden spoon or something, which was as good as anything.

So while waiting for something wooden & one of the staff to call the ambulance, got her in to the recovery position and assured her & her boyfriend.

Then a hand full of popsicle sticks came but she had stopped convulsing, so I just checked if she was still breathing & conscious. Phew! She was, so we waited for the ambos to come along keeping her companied. When they arrived, she was able to stand up & sit on a chair close by. I was totally relieved that the ambos could take over.

So I returned to my seat & dinner was ready. Hehehe . . . found out that they holded our meals cause they didn't know whether to bring it out or not. But ya, it's all good, one of the staff even came up to me to thank me . . . while I was trying to operate on my cow. Hehehe!

Who knew my first aid skills who come in handy in a restuarant. Well thank God everything when well. He was the One in total control of the situation for sure. Pray that the girl is fine & recovering as well as her boyfriend.

surf's up

On Sunday, 11 of us when to Anglesea Beach to catch some waves. An early morning wake up with breakfast at McD in Geelong. Arriving at the beach to check out the waves we concluded that the waves weren't as good but its better than nothing! Hooray!

So we all got our rented surf boards & wet suits except me. Hahahaha! No regrets but I must say the water was pretty cold. Finding our spot on the beach we headed off to the surf. A number of them had surfed before (like Eng Hui, Nelson) for many of us it was our first or second time on the waves. But all in all we picked up the standard surfing skill relatively easy. Some of us could stand on our boards which I must say is an awesome feeling. Woo hoo!

There was a couple of times I was too far forward on the board & with a decent wave under me. I reckon I did a half pike in the air, that was fun too. Hahahaha! But initially I was freaked, making me figure out now to get that happy median.

All in all I enjoyed my day out at the beach, got to play soccer & watch some of the boys play soccer against 3 Aussies. Some getting a nice tan, others piling on the sun screen like a centimetre thick coming out of it whiter (hahaha), others got 'black' & blue? you know who you are! The point is we had fun . . .

Everybody go surfing . . .
Surfing USA
(this tune is still stuck in my head!)

expensive paper

I am officially a qualified Physiotherapist. *hooray!* I recieved a rather expensive piece of paper on stage with the rest of my coursemates & others in Vet Science & Dental Science. *oh so happy* Overall the ceremony took 2hours & I was bored but thank goodness I was sitting next to a pretty good friend. We discussed about different things; the so-called painting on the wall, names in the booklet, played a short game of 'I spy with my little eye...' & other things to help pass the time a little quicker & easier.

After about an hour we finally got to stand up & get up on to the stage to receive our certificate, stating that we have been duly awarded the degree of Bachelor of Physiotherapy. Hahaha! Grinning from ear to ear, I was - on & off the stage. I'm glad to have finally gotten thru the past 4 years truly praise & thank God for it is by His grace that I am able to receive that expensive piece of paper which has my name & qualification. *Oh wat a feeling . . .*

Now I also want to thank those who came to celebrate my graduation by taking pictures with me, early yesterday morning. Know it was rather difficult to wake up at that particular hour. *grinz* Thanks!

You are GOoD

Today is the day my brother arrives into Melbourne . . .

Saw how his shoulder was, seems to be pain inhibited but he doesn't know what structure he actually injuried! *frown* But ko I am pretty sure you'll be fine in a couple of weeks, just don't be silly.

Today is the day that my exam results are out in the open . . .

It's all good! I will be graduating this coming Saturday! **wink** Was never stressed out.

Today is the day I actually realize how good doctors have it . . .

They can charge an unbelievable price for a 30 minute consultant, recommend a few other test & then say can't do much about it, have to live with it. *wat de!*

Yesterday was the day, Today is the day, Tomorrow will be the day . . .

Definitely EVERYDAY will be the day that our Lord God & Saviour will be with us. Focus your thoughts & actions on him as you go about your daily lives, on His mercy & grace. For He is our Healer, our Peace, our Provider & much much more in any situation.