Penang trip

Penang trip was great I would say though quite tiring. Most of it brought upon myself as I refused to sleep even my eyes kept closing on me during the two nights over there. The journey to Penang in the bus was fantabulous. Too bad no pictures taken for that. Sat at the last few rows in the bus with my super crazy Ah-Yi(s) and her children. While everyone was deep and soundly sleeping, we had junk food all the way up Penang and we even played Poker cards in the dark. Guess we were the noisiest lot in the whole bus.

Reached Penang around 10pm plus. I must admit the bus ride was really tiring coz my butt and back was crying out in pain by the time i got up from my seat. Then by the time I hit the pillow was 1.30am.
Next morning had to wake up around 5am as my cousin(the bride) and I have to go to the bridal house for make up and hair-do. I was so terrified when I saw myself in a bloated figure and panda-ish eyes in the mirror. I'M SUPPOSED TO BE THE BRIDESMAID!and I'm so not prepared physically.
The make-up didn't really look good on me. Don't know who to blame...either the make-up artist is not professional enough or I simply don't look good. My brows my eyebrows! They are partially gone! coz the makeup artist shaved it off....Sigh....it's over it's over...But NO! it's not over....I still have the bad memories when i look back at the pictures.

Don't have the pics with me yet...will load it asap.

The church was nicely decorated with flowers and others (lack of vocabulary to describe). Hope to get married one day in a church like that. Ancient church yet blended well with modern decor.

Night time came and we were all elegantly dressed up for the dinner. I spent almost an hour wearing make up for myself. Sigh...poor make-up skills. We were extremely late as we spent almost an hour plus looking for the restaurant. Still can't imagine we can get lost in a tiny island such as Penang. Not so tiny anymore come to think of it. On top of that, not much help was rendered by the host to reach the place as well. My stomach was growling like crazy and I really wanted to just get down the bus to reach for the hawker stalls for my o-jian.

Anyway, dinner was not that great and I ended up in a mamak at 1 am near the hotel where we put up. And what else happened after mamak? Snooze land? Of course not!

Went back to my cousins' room and started watching them gamble again. It was really fun just observing them and laughing with them. And the best part was squeezing 6 people in a room with only one queen size bed.

Sunday morning...

woke up really early as we were pushing off for KL already. Went to Penang town for breakfast. And of all things we had Dim Sum for breakfast in Penang. It was not really fantastic (of course not lah...not a specialty of Penang mah!)

Reached KL around 9 pm....and back to snoozeland..........

into the 18th day

The following lines are commonly found in the conversations Sheena has been having since her school holidays have started.

A: so you're on holidays now....must be really stress-free la?

Me: (errr....well if you think handling music students for a performance is stress-free, i've no words to say)

B: so what have you been up to since the holidays started?

Me: (good question....don't wanna be reminded of my state of 'doing-nothingness', but actually i've been pretty busy come to think of it....18 minus 4 for church camp, minus 3 days of shopping for gowns, minus 1 movie day, minus 1 for wedding dinner, minus 5 more days of work, minus 1 for youth meeting, hmm so still quite productive considering i'd only had 3 full days of staying home relaxing)

People...don't get me wrong...I don't mean i hate answering these questions but life has still been busy for me as there are different things popping up each and everyday. Well, one thing I really enjoy is sleep. I've been trying to catch up with my sleep and naps. haha....the fun thing is getting up at an hour that you(or your body) desire. hehe...(I know a lot of u truly envies me) too bad...~~bleh~~

Why is it that the grass is always greener on the other side? Is it really true? Is it always nicer to step on a greener patch of grass? These thoughts have been running in my mind for these past few days. It seems that what others have is always better and much better than mine. Why is it ever so unfair that they, they, they can have this this this and that, and not me? While all these thoughts were playing in my mind, God again had a way of speaking to me. Yesterday's sermon was on 'Covetousness' and how timely it is during this point of time. And what i'm feeling right now really contradicts with my blog page:Godliness with contentment is great gain. I really have to ask God to search my hearts....to see what are the 'treasured possessions' in my life. Have they replaced God's place in my heart? Sigh....I'm guilty. These are deep deep issues that have been plaguing my heart all this while. I really need to deal with it. Looks like this holidays will be a time of umm......hummm.........(if you didn't already know what that means, it means meditating) hahaha....