Monday, January 15, 2007

::the 1st week::

the weather in vancouver over the past few days has been crazily freezing. but what is making adjustment to life back in vancouver harder, is the absence of my dear friends gil, david, jo & hp. a couple of days ago, when i went to the good ol' #4126 to look for matt, my heart sank when i no longer saw the familiar rows of fruit/milk cartons being stacked against the window pane. gil and david's rooms were lighted but they were now occupied by strangers. no one answered the doorbell too. and i left with an overwhelming sense of emptiness and sadness. gone also were the daily shouts from 2 doors down, for me to go over for dinner/chat/sleeping queens/chinesecheckers/csi/gym. and the list goes on.

yesterday was the first time i had to go to church myself. there was no more any 920am "come-out" call. thank God i managed to get hiroko and saori to accompany me at the last minute:) it felt so good going back to university chapel. i was greeted with many warm hugs and greetings from all my friends there! the service was good and God really spoke to me through the message. i was greatly encouraged and comforted.

on a lighter note, some updates!!

::dinner with my dear girls at my place::
the next day after i arrived in vancouver, the girls had dinner at my place!

me back at my kitchen cooking. how much i miss the comfort of just waiting for daddy's superb cooking at home!!

we cooked laksa-flavoured chicken fried rice with the mix that karen brought from singapore! despite how sleepy and jetlagged karen, saori and i were, the dish turned out quite well:) it was quite funny how i forgot to cook the chicken before frying the fried rice; karen accidentally threw away the garlic into the bin while she was peeling it; and both saori and karen were looking high and low for the oyster sauce before i pointed out to them that it was actually right in front of them! haha. yes we were that tired.

dinner finally done! it was a simple meal but we had lots of fun catching up and finding out a couple of scandals!! haha. (for more info, do refer to karen's blog! ;) )

the desserts for the night - brought all the way from singapore!! hiroko and saori loved them too:)

what would i do without them?:)

much thanks to hiroko, who got these souvenirs from new york for karen and i:)

::trip to metrotown::
after church yesterday, i went to metrotown with hiroko and saori:) too bad karen couldnt join us because she had to complete her readings! i was so surprised at how many sales there were at metrotown! it was absolutely crazy!! i exercised alot alot alot of self-discipline so i only bought a cad$5 top from dynamite - my favourit-est boutique in metrotown:) haha. it was a thoroughly tiring but enjoyable day of shopping and fellowship-ing with the girls!!

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