G called yesterday evening - when I was relaxing on the sofa, having woke up from a whole afternoon nap ... ! Spoke to your colleague P too, who called. Meeting G for lunch tomorrow at 12:15pm at Marriott - fingers-cross for me, bb. P said the post involves some travelling - including going to US for training. She also thought bb would be going to US in around Sept. ... sigh.

will let you know how it goes tomorrow. miss you much. ...

bb and mm took a short break at Singapore at the weekend just passed. It was fun. Very hot, but quite breezy and of course, we were smart to stay in shopping malls most of the times to enjoy the air-conditioning. : )

I'm told that the weather was awful locally whilst we were away. We were lucky.

We went to nearly all shopping malls that we could possibly get something for ourselves, but ended up getting nothing. The "Great Sale" was on, but we noticed that the stuff there were pretty old-fashioned and we haven't qutie got to that stage/age yet :P Ah yes, we bought food eg the very nice Pandan cake and mult-layer cake at the airport, and I bought 2 elephants from Jim Thompson.

We had wonderful food, from chicken rice, satay etc from hawker centres, to chilli crab at East Coast - yum yum! I was tempted to buy the chilli sauce and make chilli crab when I get back, but I stopped myself knowing that I may not get to that before the sauce expires ... ! :P

Met some of bb's mates - nice bunch.

Deadline fell on 1st day of our holiday - 7 June 2007 - Sigh.

These days, I'm learning to offer all my unhappiness and sufferings to the One Above and ask for His comfort. I did that yesterday too, and one of my best friend, CC, called last night! I was thrilled! I've been so unmotivated for the last several months/half year, so much so that there's a lot I wanted to tell her but just couldn't get round to writing emails to her. Then she called! I feel my prayers have been answered; although I also asked for help to be out of here asap, but I feel comforted. Bless her! : )

She's coming back in September, and she has invited me to join their group for skiing in France later this year. I'm tempted. But GBP and Euros are so expensive these days; I've had skiing lessons, but am afraid of heights and could really only stay in Green runs and some low or half-way of Blue runs ...

We are also planning to go to US next year to visit our mutual best friend. Yeah! :D

I forgot to keep a record of last month's deadline, but I feel it's coming in a week or two's time ...

been busy with a new probate case. Client was particularly naive - he is generally too late. He has been staying with his mother, keeping her company etc for the last few years, and when she passed away recently, he failed to take the necessary precaution against his relatives and "allowed" them to have raided the property and took away documents and jewlleries, when one of those documents could possibly be a will in his favour, which if that were the case, by now, should have been destroyed and would never see daylight. Sigh.

bb is back today, but I have Legion and deadline ... !

Well, I got 4 more lai see packets before the 15th of CNY - hee hee

It's been a while since I leave any trace here. Things have happened, of course, but I could not remember them all since I last wrote here without checking my diary and try to remember what happened then. The easier way is to say what happened recently, which to me, has been quite a bit.

My dad had a mild stroke and has been in hospital since beginning of November, and is still there. He's however out of town when that happened and his doctor has advised that he is not to be moved yet. My dad feels dizzy when trying to sit up and doctor said it's dangerous for him to be moved if he cannot even sit up in bed. So he cannot be transferred back here yet.

The worse news mum and us (his children) discovered his affair and apparently, he has a 10 year old son with this other lady! Considering it's my parent's Ruby anniversary (40 years) this year and my nephew will be 3 years old soon, the news is simply too hard to swallow, especially for mum. My brothers have been really good and I've just spent a long weekend away with her. I think she's better now but still, what's going to happen next? No one can tell.

Anyway, bb has been very good. I remember some time ago when I suspected my dad was having an affair, and was upset and cried, bb was always there. As always, she is there for me recently too, for which I'm grateful. We've known each other for so long, and we know each other's family pretty well that it saved me a lot of explanation and makes her understand the situation well. She's great!

It was amber rainstorm warning signal on the Tuesday evening just passed. Notwithstanding that, she kept her promise and stayed with me. I think she didn't do so to keep her promise; I think she knew I needed her and she made herself available to me. It rained so heavily and she had no umbrella that she got herself soaking wet from top to bottom, and her rucksack etc. Raining cats and dogs was an understatement. I felt I was so selfish, but I am truly grateful she came as I really needed her. I missed her a lot. We haven't had much time to ourselves recently, as the time we are available does not seem to coincide with the other's. I've been cutting back on Church duties. Hope I'll see her more often.

We'll be going away for a long weekend - yeah! The purpose of the trip is to visit my dad in the hospital so we probably would have to stay in town during our stay. Unfortunately, it's not a holiday for us, but for me, I get to spend time with bb. That itself is a blessing!

bb and I were talking about this, and it arrived! ha ha! in time for my pilgrimage trip!

A lot happened today:

1. Sam's admission

Yes, I did it! I moved Sam's admission to be a solicitor of the local courts. It's my first time. Got up early, got into the office first to collect the robe and took a taxi to the Court. I was there even before her and her boyfriend! ha ha ha!

I made a few amendments to the speech yesterday and she approved of it. I practised that speech a few times. I was a bit nervous and prayed before I left office that I won't mess things up for Sam!

It went ok, I think. There were only about 11 to be admitted. We started just after 9:30am and finished by around 10:30 am at the most. Then we had champagne at the Shangri-la and stayed there chatted until around 12 noon. bb called my mobile and we spoke in the interim. :) They booked a table for lunch at a very nice restaurant but I wasn't keen. I said I'll do some shopping - need to look for a departure gift for my secretary. And I went to my brother's office to return the robe to him (He borrowed it from his friend for me), stayed there a little while before I went to do a little shopping. Didn't buy anything at all. I think a Burberry wallet would be quite nice but it's slightly out of budget. So, I'm still considering it.

2. Shopping at the local convent garden

Tomorrow is Mother's Day. I thought about getting something for mum. Eventually, I opted for flowers. I don't think she receives bouquet often so I think that'll be rather nice. All female like flowers, right?

So I shopped at the local convent garden. I must have went round that market a few times as I spent some 2 hours there! I didn't have anything in mind and when I did, I couldn't get fresh and nice ones for my mum, and had to look for alternatives. I wasn't going to buy anything for Ms. Chu but then a thought came to my mind and thought it would be nice to get her some flowers too. So I did eventually. She's an elderly lady, having limited families afterall. Whatever happened, happened. I should open my heart and put it in the past. I felt happy for being able to put it behind and have a "big (or bigger) heart" . :)

3. Mass and class

Yes, then went to the Anticipated Mass and the post-baptism class. I deliberately went there early to join the others to say a Rosary before that mass. I thought I might be a little late so I walked pretty fast from the flower market to the church, but I got there just in time - hee hee!

I felt very good after the mass, as it's one of those I concentrated well. My mind and thoughts didn't wonder off too much. I like this week's Gospel. It has a lot of depth and I like this in particular: "Abide in me, and I in you." I feel so close to Him, especially when I received the Communion. It's so romantic!

The class was good too. Lot's of fun! The group is pretty nice and a few of us have a good sense of humour so we often have a good laugh ! :D

4. Wrapping papers and ribbons

After that, I looked for wrapping papers and ribbons. I needed to arrange the flowers into a nice (or at least, acceptable) bouquets for mum and Ms. Chu. I was late and a lot of the stationery shops on my way home were already closed. By the time I got everything and got home, it was already 11 pm. I had something to eat and then started the flower arrangements. No, I never learnt how to do it and I'm not artistic. When I was young and was attending school, my artistic works that needed to be handed in (as it was part of the curriculum) were finished most by my sister at my mum's request. My sister often couldn't understand why she had to pick up the pieces for me. You see, I usually left those artistic homeworks until the last minute and usually after the clock had struck 10:30pm or 11pm, I would have started a little bit of it but would be stuck, or started to sob, or something, then my mum would come to help. When either she had something else to do or when she too was stuck, she would ask my sister to help me out. She was young too and often she had to climb out of bed to help me! ha ha ha! Thinking back, it sounds so funny and a lot of memories come back to me. Only if my sister is here to share those memories with me now. But I should wish that she's now in heaven, be with our Father, enjoying peace and everlasting life. And I will see her again one day. I suppose I better be good from now on or I may not go to heaven to see her lah! :P

It took me 2 hours to finish wrapping two bouquets, which are not big at all ! By the time I finished, it was already 2am. I didn't realise it was so late, but I enjoyed doing it. :)

I didn't plan to visit my teacher tonight, but she called and asked for my help to delivery something urgent for her to Dominican of which she's a member. Besides, I obtained further information re the peaceful alarm and I wanted to get it settled and fixed before I go away next week. So I went to see her after work.

We talked about the alarm. She agreed, finally! I'll speak to that company and get it done asap.

Another lady member was there when I got there. We had a good conversation. That member was there when my teacher interviewed the part-time helper. We discussed it afterwards. That part-time helper sounded promising. I asked my teacher to ask her other student (who's going to pay for the service) to take a look and to deal with other matters for her, as a sign of respect at the very least. She agreed.

Just as I anticipated, my teacher is thinking of going back to CC full-time, 7 days a week. I tried to talk her out. She'll start part-time first. Let's see how she gets on.

Told my teacher that I'll be away next week. She asked where I'm going and with whom. I told her the destination and that I'll be going with "a friend". hee hee. Guess what she said? She said I don't look like someone who would get married! Oh no!

Just when I want to go yoga, it's often bad timing.

I've been trying very hard to remember what I did on Friday evening (It's now Sunday evening, 5th Feb 2006). Since I can't remember that, I'll cheat - look at my diary.

Ah yes, I had din din with my family. My parents have come back from their mini holiday. And I got my lai sees from them :)

I've sent the dolphins photos available on this site to a few of my friends: little gordon, uncle leather, sam and raf, and sf. The response are all complimentary. 3 if not all 4 of those photos were taken by bb.

sf said, "The photos are fabulous. Awesome!!!! Wowwwwwwwwwwwww!!!!!"

I'm very happy and very proud ! :D

I've called mum. Hopefully I can have din din with her. It's been a while since we have din din together and since I see her !

PS yeah, deadline today.

It fell on afternoon/evening of 17th Dec, the second day we were in Franz Josef after our heli-hike ...

It was disappointing and bb was saying "how inconvenient!" As it turned out, it was good as it's all cleared on the last evening we were in Rotorua and we shared a jacuzzi ...

Another example that humans are too foolish to understand God's plan!

I called the office yesterday and took a sick leave yesterday. No, didn't feel good at all. I told them I had a fever and flu. I felt feverish, had blocked nose, terrible headache, woke up middle of the night before suffering and wasn't able to get back to sleep.

I then went back to sleep until I got a call from a stupid client at around 9am. He asked how I was, and I told him I was ill off sick, obviously hinting that what's so urgent that he had to call on my mobile? Why did he not call the office?? It turned out that he wanted to know the opponent's address because he wanted to send the guy some flowers. Why? Because his opponent claimed he went into hospital for flu which had developed into pneumonia, and that was the afternoon before the day the hearing and the day that he had to file some documents with the Court. That's incredible! Too much coincident. But what do you do when your stupid client wants to send flowers to that guy, and in any event, your client is about a week late in sending those flowers if there's any truth in his opponent's illness.

I asked a secretary to call and tell him the address. Then I went back to sleep until about 1:30pm when mum's maid arrived. I had the chain on the door and all of a sudden, I heard someone trying to come in but the chain was in the way.

Then I thought that's pretty late. Got up and started a new Korean drama. Did nothing much.

Slept quite early last night (11:30-ish?) I woke up middle of the night again and was really suffering. Didn't sleep again until quite early this morning. Got up late and came in late this morning. Not the first and won't be last :P Feeling better now, although still have sore throat, runny nose, and feel tired.

I think it's also deadline today, which explains the illness. It means it might happen at the beginning of our trip in December 2005 ...

It started on Thursday, 27 October 2005, and continues ...

It's mm's deadline again today - so soon ??! And no wonder I've been feeling pain on my back and in my neck (although partly contributed to the "ma fan" boss !)

Deadline for this month was yesterday - and I was cramping badly, but the pain went away soon with her very warm hands and presence ... :)

I'm a very lucky person - have a nice family and her :)

It's today!

yes, it kind of happened last night, and formally today - sign.

this week, mm has been having cakes made by bb every morning. How very nice!

and as predicted, it's mm's deadline today.

it's mm's deadline today - just after bb reminded mm of it yesterday.

it was both bb and mm's deadline last Friday - what a coincidence! it's also very convenient!!