I Remember the Time…

Inspired by David’s blog.

1. When he saved me from a sicko-man during SS2 Christmas Carnival *gallant knight in shining armour :P*.
2. When he bought me lunch after knighting episode, as a belated birthday pressie.
3. When we had so much fun being with God’s people and enjoying His creation on our group hiking and caving trips.
4. When we would share our hearts on YM using cute little emoticons to express how we felt *blink blink*.
5. When we had our first phone conversation and chatted from 11pm till 6am.
6. When he openly shares his vision, past, shortcomings, and insecurities.
7. When he pops over unexpectedly, he engages me in conversation before surprising me that he’s actually waiting downstairs.
8. On our first date he said, “I’m giving my heart to you, handle it with care…”.
9. When he stuck an apology note on a huge piece of paper to his car’s window below my apartment block, standing there waiting with a bouquet of roses in his hands *imagine my embarassment*.
10. When he asked me to join him for a walk at the streets of Damansara Perdana and it lasted till 5am cause I was uncomfortable having him up in my home.
11. When we worshiped, prayed, just chatted about everything and anything whilst on our walks.
12. When I was holidaying with family in Genting and he popped up suddenly with a friend.
13. When he prayed over my family during Chinese New Year visitation.
14. When we exercised together in gym.
15. When we hiked up Gasing and Kiara hill with friends.
16. When he would accompany me after working late at night to exercise at Kiara, cause work was stressing me out so much.
17. When he ‘unshamingly’ in front of snickering individuals passed me a filled-up-with-water new water bottle when he knew I’d be thirsty after psalming.
18. When he presented me with a bottle of Ridsect when I had trouble sleeping caused by mozzies buzzing around.
19. When he would pick up the guitar and we would worship together.
20. When we went for a midnight swim and we sang Disney cartoon songs in harmony *thank God there were no complaints from neighbours*.
21. When he would SMS prayers and greetings early in the morning...
22. When he would SMS or call me to wish me good night.
23. When he left a bouquet of sunflowers, my favourite MAGNUM, and a little gift at my doorstep when I wasn’t ready to spend Valentines with him.
24. When I was stressed and having trouble with sleeping in China and he surprised me with phone calls.
25. When we teleconferenced, he would speak into the mic whilst not receiving any vocal response, cause mine was broken.
26. When he picked me up from the airport all dressed up in the cuffed shirt and cuffs that I gave him.
27. When he hid a Braun wallet in the bottom of my car seat, after my Braun wallet was pick-pocketed in China.
28. When I was wondering why his shower was taking so long, and I found out that he was washing the toilet for me.
29. When he cleaned and tidied my house as I was going to have some people over for dinner.
30. When he planned a romantic trip to Port Dickson for us.
31. When he brought me to a place in Port Dickson and revealed he would like to have the wedding reception there with me.
32. When we did Purpose Driven Life by Rick Warren together.
33. When he showed up at my home and surprised me with spaghetti for dinner.
34. On a day when I felt fat and he said, “I cannot believe God would give me someone who’s beautiful on the outside and on the inside…” *blush*
35. When he turned up at my office suddenly, presenting me with lunch when he knew I was too busy to eat anything.
36. When he sings me sweet, love songs.
37. When we trespassed into Avillion during church camp, and started worshipping lying on the white sands of the beach.
38. When he loved and played with the children during our Orang Asli trip.
39. When I was afraid something bad would happen when he heroically flung safety rope over a raging river when a hiking trip didn’t go as expected.
40. When he would naturally break into a prayer whenever we were happy, angry or sad.
41. When he would pray for the needs of those whom didn’t like him.
42. When he will never let me go off when I was upset.
43. When he drove all the way to my home at 12am+ fearing for my safety, cause he couldn’t get me on my mobile.
44. When he is ‘man’ enough to say, “I’m sorry, I was wrong” in front of the presence of many.
45. When he worshipped God with all his might, playing bass on stage, just trusting in Him when my ex returned to church.
46. When he trusted and left me be during the times when I needed to care for my ex.
47. When he said he would wait until I was ready to love again.
48. … when he DID wait and helped me sort things through even though I pushed him away again and again.
49. When he proved to me that shopping with another person (him) is a lot of fun. I like to shop alone.
50. When he picked my first tube dress for me to wear.
51. When he planned, flew himself over, whilst lugging a whole lot of snorkeling gear for us to Pulau Sibu.
52. When he slipped his ring on my finger and made me promise to bring it home to him when I had to be away.
53. When he took care of my car whenever I was away at work, returning it fully fueled and manually washed.
54. Ensuring my home was tidy and clean whenever I returned from my trips.
55. When he spends time with my friends, colleagues and family.
56. When he had a tear in his left eye when I said “Yes”.
57. When he planned for chocolate fondue and said, “I intend to continue to pursue you even though you’re now my girlfriend”.
58. When we took his dogs out for a run.
59. When we bathed his dogs together.
60. When we did menial chores together, like washing the car, just being with God and with each other.
61. When he happily join in my current and ex LF activities, getting to know the other members.
62. When he offered to help move house for his ex, putting aside any personal discomfort cause he knew it was important for me.
63. When he would lovingly stroke and comb my tangled-up hair.
64. When he bought me a new comb when he noticed mine was getting old.
65. Ahahhaha… the same goes for tooth paste, biscuits at work and other everyday grocery items. He takes note of everyday products that I need.
66. When he takes note and imitates my little grunts or expressions.
67. When I would return to my home, and find that he had popped by after work and tidied my mess left in the morning.
68. When he set up my fish tank and picked out the little mollies with me.
69. When he insisted me joining his family up to Genting to test-drive his car.
70. When he would support me physically and in prayer regards to my ministry with children, the same that I would support him with his band.

Sigh… I could go on and on… 70 points does not do justice to the blessings I have received. Last night, I was hit with 2 surprises. Surprise No 1… I went to get my car after work and found it in this condition:

After a temporary fix to the car, I went home to surprise number 2:

Stuck on my shoe cabinet was a note saying, “There’s something in the freezer”. And in the freezer was a MAGNUM *smiles widely*. He popped over after a busy day at work, just so that I could get a nice little MAGNUM surprise when I got back from work. Sighhh… yupz, yesterday night marks our one-month anniversary. Another “I remember the time…” point to add to the list :D

The Stock Market illustrated ...

Just a little forwarded mail from my ex-boss... is there a lesson to be learnt here?

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Once upon a time in a village, a man appeared and announced to the villagers that he would buy monkeys for RM10. The villagers seeing that there were many monkeys around, went out to the forest and started catching them.

The man bought thousands at RM10 and as supply started to diminish, the villagers stopped their effort. He further announced that he would now buy at RM20. This renewed the efforts of the villagers and they started catching monkeys again. Soon the supply diminished even further and people started going back to their farms.

The offer rate increased to RM25 and the supply of monkeys became so little that it was an effort to even see a monkey let alone catch it.

The man now announced that he would buy monkeys at RM50! However, since he had to go to the city on some business, his assistant would now buy on behalf of him.

In the absence of the man, the assistant told the villagers. "Look at all these monkeys in the big cage that the man has collected. I will sell them to you at RM35 and when the man returns from the city , you can sell it to him for RM50."

The villagers squeezed up with all their savings to buy the monkeys.

Then they never saw the man nor his assistant, only monkeys everywhere!!!!

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Hahahaha!!! Was just thinking about my moo-lah stuck with some JSPC shares. Much talk about it going up, but it never does >:( Sigh... just gonna give it another half a year, cut my losses and pay off some of my housing loan with whatever $$$ that's able to be recovered :P