Here is a short note before the end of 2008.
On the first day of Christmas, it was Christmas Day Mass, play with the children and luncheon at my relatives before retiring home for the evening.
On the second day of Christmas, also known as Boxing Day, it was at my old schoolmate’s house where those of my clique who are back home gathered for an afternoon and an evening worth of chatting and catching up. Basically, it was girl talk. Presents wise, I got some really interesting things, like a copy of an Anime OST CD, a special piece of cleaning cloth from Japan, a spectacles holder in a shape of a dog, a handphone holder in a shape of a tofu, etc… Thank you girls for your highly interesting gifts. I will definitely make good use of them once I start working. Imagine my desk… 
On the third day of Christmas, it was steamboat lunch at Enx’s where out of the usual eight, only six turned up. Anyway, it was a highly amusing lunch where we nearly gave up using the little portable stove for the steamboat as we could not get it to work initially. Until good old Luke got it working. Yay!!! And lunch was served. Thanks to Enx for hosting Christmas steamboat lunch (we finally got that steamboat lunch we had been talking about since your birthday in April… -.-”). Thanks to WX and Luke for turning up (hee!) and helping to solve the mystery of that bloody portable gas stove. Thanks to Juls for those lovely tiny cookies (can bake some more??? OISHII-NE!). Thanks to Char for giving me something from my original Christmas Wishlist (love you! but don’t know when I’ll use it). And thanks be to God for providing such wonderful people, food and company even though, for most of the time the word akin to ‘vomiting’ kept on coming up through one ass’ mouth. -.-”
So, that was mainly it for my Christmas week.
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I have much to be thankful for this year as God have given me so many interesting and wonderful experiences, even though, yes, some might had been painful and embarressing. I am thankful for the people I have met and worked with. I am thankful for my academic results that I had passed and well. I am thankful for the travels I had done this year, namely to Malacca and to parts of China where I had learned quite a bit of myself and my surroundings. It was through these travels that I had learned to be thankful and grateful to God for making me born in this country where water, greenery, cleanliness, and a safe and corrupt-free society are the country’s top priorities. I have so much to be thankful for that I do not know where to start and end properly. So much to thank the Almighty Creator for. So much that I do not think I will ever stop thanking Him. So much that this lifetime is not enough.
And I hear Him calling me… He calls me to repay His kindness by being kind to others. “And whoever does it to the least of my brothers, does it to Me.” Basically, Pay It Forward. Little by little is all it takes to build a mountain. It may all sound cliched but it is a simple truth of how we all should live as sons and daughters of God. “Do to others what you want others to do to you.” However, we must always remember that “If someone slaps you on the right cheek, offer him the left”. I know that it is hard to do but we must remember that it is when Jesus is carrying us on his shoulders.
And so, to all out there, I wish you a New Year filled with Joy, Peace, Hope and, most importantly, Love. “Love one another as I have loved you.” “And I say to you, the greatest commandant is to love your neighbour as you love yourself.”
P.S.: I am typing this in the dark, with only the light from my laptop, hence, it is not a good idea to take out my Bible and give the correct quotations.
Anyway, I had a really interesting and educational time during those two weeks there.
