THANK YOUs

Thank you to all who remembered my birthday and sent me wishes via text messages and also Facebook. My birthday was a great one, though not a blast in the sense of the world. I was away for a spiritual retreat deep in the mountains with some teachers from our sister school of the complex and it was a wonderful experience to know them and to love them all (Fenny, Clare, Bian and Boo). The ladies are considered my new friends, while the men have been my friends since 2006. The bonding was awesome. Though there was no mobile reception there in the retreat center, it was totally alright for me.

The best experience was the individual blessing by the priest with the Blessed Sacrament. The moment Jesus was nearing to where I was sitting in the chapel, I was in awe of Him, totally. I wonder with amazement how could Jesus, the Son of God, came down on earth, and now, right in front of me, wanting to know me, love me, be with me, forever. The highlight was when the priest blessed me with the Blessed Sacrament, I was filled with bliss of being at the feet of my beloved Christ. That is "the moment".

I got home about 4 something in the afternoon, played with my neighbour's Snowy and Browny (the pups) and then dropped down to sleep until choir practice. After practice, I had a simple dinner at Upperstar while waiting for John, my friend, to meet me up. Yesh... the nearest to birthday cake was Coffee Bean's cheese cakes. LOL.

After All Saints' Day mass yesterday evening, we went to Sailors' Cafe in Grand Millenium. It was awesome, the food was great and the company was even better...

Jason and Jeremy had a number of dishes, ranging from soup of the day to meatballs of the size of a golf ball, salad, chicken wings. Fabian had NZ lamb shoulder while Tity had creamy pasta. I had fish and chips. The deco was lovely too; I like the black wall with chalk writings and photos from the places the owner visited in the past. Here are some photos taken there...

Jason's soup of the day

Bian's NZ lamb shoulder

My fish and chips

Tity's creamy spaghetti

Meatballs

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What a Day!

Monday barely started, yet I can feel the heaviness looming around me. My workplace environment doesn't help much in elevating my heaviness. In fact, the suffocating feeling I have probably generated at work -_-"

I just found out that half the teachers who had registered for the teachers retreat this weekend had pulled out. Out of 12, only 6 sort of confirmed to attend. This is a big hurdle for me. Nothing can be done, but I do feel disappointed how these teachers took things for granted that it is ok to pull out last minute. Perhaps having the organization to fully sponsor the retreat cost is a bad move because employees will not be committed to attending.

I hope the day will turn out better than now. There is still hope.

God, help me!!!!

Living with Christ Daily - Prayer by Blessed Pope John XXIII

What have I done for Christ?

Little, little or nothing.

What am I doing for Christ?

Something, but badly,

like a sluggard.

What should I do for Christ?

Everything, O Lord,

if you do but help me

with your holy grace.

God is all: I am nothing.

Let this do for today. Amen.

~ Blessed Pope John XXIII ~

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My New Baby

Yeah, that's what I have been fiddling all week long. I finally received my HP Mini on 24 September 2010 (Friday), after a long wait of almost a month, plus a few trips down to TM Point to track it. Thank God for the Pakej Jalur Lebar dengan Netbook Percuma (Broadband package with free netbook) from Streamyx, I finally gotten a new netbook to cover the duties of my faithful Dell Inspiron 4150. I still love my Inspiron, it's just that it is a big deal to get it started and running smoothly these days. Maybe tomorrow I'll have to run a movie on it to ensure it's still operating well. I have my memories stored in it... Inspiron had gone through a great deal with since I started off uni...

The netbook that I'm currently using is powered by an Intel Atom N475 on Windows 7 starter with 1GB of RAM and a HDD of 250GB. I sort of screwed up when I installed a couple of software causing it to get into the fits of not wanting to shut down. After a good consult from a colleague, I did system recovery and returned to its origin, before I installed any program. So far so good, thank God.

Haha. My colleague has a HP Mini 210 before I got mine, and when I finally got hold of mine, I thought that I too were having the same. Well, it's just illusion! I am a proud owner of a HP Mini 110-3004TU. However, due to the illusion during the previous weekend, it gotten me to buy a "laptop skin" to stick onto the cover, just to customize it. Not too bad, but I'd prefer it plain...

One fun thing I did this weekend is to install PPS.tv on the netbook, and now I can watch some drama series which I really like when I'm free. If you don't see me around too often, high chance I'm at home watching PPS.tv. LOL.

I'd give this netbook a 4/5 stars for now - mainly contributed by the matte screen which was the main criterion I had to get a notebook/netbook. I'm really glad this netbook comes with matte screen :)