If all went to plan, I was suppose to have log this entry from the land down under because originally I was suppose to fly down on the 2nd of Feb and probably be spending CNY with Heng Ian by now. But I'm right here in my parent's house logging what would be my really last entry in Malaysia. I doubt I'll have time to log another entry before the 11th of Feb.
Chinese New Year this time round should seem more significant since I am going to move down under and not sure whether I'll have another CNY with my family next year, but things seems to be normal as maybe the thought of me flying down this Friday hasn't really sunk in yet or maybe it's like I'm going for a long holiday. I guess the 1 year plus I was in Brisbane helped me to be so calm this time round. Yup, last few weeks have been emo because I was sad to leave, now that I've more or less gotten over the emo moments, I'm kind of excited to go, maybe after 2 weeks in Adelaide the home sickness will strike. I'm very touched at the amount of people who's given me farewell gifts, taken me out for lunch, dinner, supper, tea, wrote me very encouraging emails, smsed me, called me, indeed I didn'tknow that I had so many friends. I really want to thank those who took me out for makan, bought me gifts and all and I want to apologise to those who wanted to take me out but I could not allocate the time. Indeed, sincerely from the bottom of my heart I am so touched by all your generous heart. I know some of you actually spend beyond your means for me and I really feel bad but thankful for such great friends. There's just too many to name out. Some of you are people whom I've not talk to much for the last 2 years and it so warms my heart that you want to take me out.
Over the last few months, I've been asking myself if I've actually influenced anybody, made any impact in anybody's life over the last few years in ministry and to a point I felt so depress that I thought I didn't impact anybody or achieved anything at all but after all those encouraging notes and emails and all, I so thank God for the answers. Thank you all for the encouragement. I now leave Malaysia knowing I've done something positive. I might be excited to go now, but I am still going to miss the great friends I have in KL.
Anyway, the purpose of this entry was to talk about my CNY and I don't know how I branched out so far. We had our CNY eve dinner in this place called Magic Wok in DJ and man this blood sucking chinese making money people actually have 3 dinner slots; 6pm, 7:30pm and 9pm and they tell you in advance you have 1 1/2 hours to eat like it or not. You should see the "in-between" time slots, it's 10x worse than in between 1st and 2nd service. Worse is they try and make more money out of you by turning off the aircond, how cheap can chinese people get man!!! Only good thing to come out of my family's time slot was every table had a chick... eye surfing man!!
Went to a few grand aunts place for visitation today. 2 of my grand aunts have memory problems they keep asking the same question over and over and over again in the span of 5 minutes. They'll keep asking you "are you working yet??" and I think they asked my that like 6 times in 1/2 hour. Well, it's not too bad because they also keep asking "Have I given you an ang pow yet?" and they asked me that uncountless times, I think 6-7 times and each time I answered "No!!", so yup 7 ang pows from the same grand aunts... now that's what I call quick money making scheme. Visit a forgetful 88 year old grand aunt during Chinese New Year.
Chinese new year has been quite relaxing this year, spend majority of the 1st day sleeping and there's no one to visit the whole of tomorrow. Guess I should go back to my packing for Aussieland. My begs are overweight by 20 KGs, study bibles sure takes up a lot of weight man. Anyway, here's a picture of my family from this year's family reunion
The above picture was me trying to make my family take a band photo didn't turned out quite as expected, but my dad can actually pose... so I think that's where I get my poserammaness from.
Anyway, just to let you all know that I was kidding about taking the ang pows 7 times, couldn't get myself to cheat a 88 year old lady. No I didn't take the ang pows 7 times from the same person although the thought crossed my head so many times.
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