last friday, i finally played basketball. brings back memories. however, i felt really sad cause i know that they cannot be re-lived again.
that saturday, i stayed home? i am not quite sure... brother returned from padang. sick.
on sunday morning/dawn, i woke up and i secretly drove our family's odyssey on the streets that's-not-so-busy-on 6-o'clock-in-the-morning. it was great! i am looking forward to the next one. it sure is an affirmation that i can drive such complicated machine. i used to think that i can never do it. hence it was a great accomplishment for me. which i hope with more practice, my confidence will be boosted further.
wanted to attend city harvest service at 10am last sunday. but because other members of my family were late, i had no choice but to attend bethany service. actually i prefer city harvest more than bethany. well, there are benefits for each church. like bethany, i can brush up my bahasa and get to spend time with my family. whereas in city harvest, my heart is touched more and my faith boosted a great deal. so i'm not that strong-headed about the church that i want to go. at least i go to at least one service and be renewed in my mind and spirit again, right? anyway, hopefully tomorrow i can attend the evening service.
then for the past three days or so, i was away. not in town. i flew from singapore to kl then to padang. it was supposed to just be a transit to kl but due to some sort of a mess-up, both mum and i were left stranded in kl airport. we had to wait so long and mum was grumpy. i tried to cheer her up by making her play cards with me. hehe. we also get a chance to eat McD and the waffles with ice cream while we waited. it was a very long wait we were bored. even the queue to buy the tickets were messy and frustrating. people were cutting in the queue which brought up a commotion later. at the same time, it was entertaining to watch them argue. this is not me being saddistic, but come on...i waited so long in the airport and it is boring without any drama happening. but of course, arguments are never a happy thing. it should be avoided by people taking more considerate and appropriate actions having to cohabit with one another, right?
anyway, so the story is that we had to stay overnight in kl. so either to sleep at the airport. or at some hotel somewhere. mum told me that luckily there's two of us and not one. who knows what can happen if we had to find a hotel on our own??? it could lead to something scary. i knew of a robbery before few years back that involved my uncle while we're shopping at klcc. anything is possible at the airport too right? thank God for sending us both. anyway in the process of everything, we met nice people who helped us find hotels and transportation which of course sounded right for us (although the taxi to the hotel was sort of dodgy, it was a van not at all like a taxi but the driver was pleasantly friendly). well, all we can do is try to keep safe and keep our guards high up throughout the night and lots of prayers... the next morning, we took a shuttle bus to the airport. and gosh was i sleepy.
what can i say about Padang? the last time i saw it was from the news reporting the 7.6 earthquake. that affected almost all of my family members cause that's where most of us were born. so basically it's our home. and the last thing we want Padang to be is destroyed. and the pictures and videos from those tv news really pictured a very destroyed Padang. not only were there lots of buildings collapsed and people dying, lots of survivors and residents moved away to safer places. hence what i saw just few days back was a cold and empty Padang city. it's so sad to see. even in my house, there were more cockroaches and ants crawling in my parent's bathroom. i had to double-check each time i wanna step into it. mum said it may be that the ground below is no longer that solid rock of earth but ocean water from the coast. lots of researchers were saying that Mentawai island is shifting, slowly sinking into the ocean. when i heard such things said, i can only pray and nothing more.
eventually, i believe everyone is left to their own beliefs and faiths at the end of the day. whether you believe it or not, no one can prove it to be right or wrong. it's a matter of how big is your faith. oh and talking about faith, i was told that today in m'sia the muslims were fighting against the chinese regarding Islam and Christianity. really...real mature you guys. does your God teach you to kill? to murder? to judge a book by its cover? i hope not. cause if that's the case, i can only pray for your judgment day. maybe only then you will realise and oops, it's too late. where is the love that God taught us? where is the forgiveness in all of the fighting? i'm really sick and tired of hearing about wars and fights between us people of one world, one Father. world peace is still a long long way to go.
so despite the tumbled buildings and cracks along the streets, i ate lots of really nice food. first there's the Harum Manis early in the morning. then Ci Elok with ako, kotio, parents and office people. tuayi came that evening and dad brought us to the new tee-box Karaoke bar for dinner. he got us the vip room and it was amazing. the room was president-suite and it made my voice beautiful (even if it is already sweet in the first place). we ate their nasi gorenng that was awesome. thumbs-up for the place and food! i think it's a great place for birthday parties and just to hang out. after which we visited kucik's house. then the next day, i had lontong which dad bought. for lunch we ate at Nasi Kapau. i didn't get to eat the ayam goreng that i wanted. i almost could feel myself tearing up the moment the lady gave me the wrong dish. but mum just told me to eat it. i was like *^#$&#*T@&T$#@$Y#U$Y#@$Y! anyway~ at night, dad and i ate at the new Apollo place with ako, kotio and kukong. the ikan pete belado was awesome! ako gave us some bapao to bring to singapore. i love bapao! hehe. this morning, we had to rush to the airport because we woke up late. mum didn't hear the alarm and i only woke up because tuayi did. it was kinda a natural alarm for me. lol oh and i also got a chance to play with my dog. well not really. but i did give it a bath and fed bones to it. but dad snatched them away cause he might get choked by them he said. poor binto. he was in his sitting position every time i said sit, after i gave him the bones. he was a good dog after all.
at the airport, mum and i bought nail polish. brown and pink. we had our meal at Marry Browns. the fried chickens were good! then i bought myself some bear gummies to chew on.
we arrived in sing at 4pm. cab-ed home. really nice to see my siblings again. they weren't exactly excited to see us. they're playing computer games in fact. sigh. why are they like that???
til here for now.
xoxo,
thegirlwhoisfeelinganumbonrightleg
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