Yep... just being a typeeecal M'sian - any occassion is a good occassion to eat and celebrate! So it was after countdown on Dec 31st 2008 ....still makan-ing. This time, it was a loooong overdue get-together pot-bless with some good old frens..nay, not frens, more than frens, becoz these few that i can count on my one hand are truly the ones closest to me in the big family of Christ that we all belong to . They are my 'sounding board' for wise counsel, they are my 'pillars' who support me in united prayer to God for they know the heaviest things upon my heart. They are the ones who lend me their ears and their shoulders. Closer than my cell-mates, these are the ones who love me enuf to tell me off when i need to be told off, who shut me up when i need to shut up. And that's more than friendship already... i m so blessed that God sends such people into my life!
We hv gone thru some 6/7 years of time together, joined together by a mutual passion to share the love of Christ to those who don't know Him. Somehow God pulled us together when we went thru a church training programme on evangelism; so i call them my EE (evangelism explosion) kaki. We graduated,and found ourselves working together. Every week end we would all gather with others as like-hearted and minded to visit the local hospitals to minister to sick, lonely, hurting, dying patients. I hv since branched off to do street work, but i thank God every day for these faithful servants who are still at it every Sat, and even now venturing further afield into private homes , to spread the message of God's great love to those in need. I count myself privileged to know these human angels.
So its always a pleasure to meet up for grand makan every now and then. This year, we have not been doing much of that, tho we see each other in church, talk regularly via phone, email , but hai ya, too caught up with this, that and the other to sit down for a proper meal together... until 2009 already rolled in! So we take it as a farewell to 2008 and a welcome to the new year... which is already 8 days old as of now! It was also timely to celebrate my 2 kids b-days, my son turning 15 and my no. 2 princess turning 19... actually i hv to confess i quite forgot about their b-days til my no. 1 reminded me ... bleh, this old mom, really got fuddy duddy brains lah!!
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Haha. Fuddy duddy. :P You're just getting forgetful la. Created a new blog btw. It's called www.su-lyn.blogspot.com. It's exclusively focused on politics and social issues. But I'll still update my personal blog la.
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