Good Friday:
Dad left for singapore. going to be a short trip, but he's going to visit grandad and his family since he's got a return ticket from last year. he'll be back on thursday morning.
tuesday:
first aid traning completed, i received my cert. im a first aider! getting paranoid over any possible accidents that may happen, and my imagination is working in a way that i'll be visualizing incidents happen in various places, and what i would do to help them etc. the case i dont want to come across EVER is amputation.
played badminton at night at the club. havent exercised in a long time but i think i did fine.
wednesday:
mum took us out for lunch cos it was the first day since good friday that it hadn't been raining. We went to a korean barbeque restaurant, and had mcdonalds soft serve cones, just like before we migrated. On the way home we talked about accidents that happened to my brother when he was young...funniest one was when he was behind me, hopping on stepping stones at this country club, and he fell into the pond beneath!
amanda sent me a message asking if i'd like a lift to bible study. I wasn't planning on going since dad's not around and mum didn't know her way there. Mum said I could go. She cut some birds of paradise from the bushes lining the front of our house for me to distribute to everyone. I was glad to go, hadn't talked to amanda for more than a week - didn't go to bible study the previous week because i came home early from school not feeling well, and she didnt attend the sunday service because she was at coff's harbour for a friend's 21st.
yesterday:
picked dad up from the airport: i spotted him once i entered the arrival hall. he arrived early and waiting for us. the whole family dropped me off at work (: shem announced that it was going to be a slow day. how did he know.... other staff there: jessica and joyce (malaysian girl who was in charge of the kitchen. studies at qut, majors in property. somewhat friendly, worked there for 2yrs, and knows chris quite well. shem got a little fedup when she couldn't cut the pumpkin.) chris came in later. i was surprised shem 'slipped out' without anyone noticing. again i believe he's a nice guy but you know...just bugs me a little. anyway, later in the day there were no customers at all. NO CUSTOMERS AT ALL! :( you know why i said i like this job so much? because business was good and it takes my mind off all other things. but when business is down, everyone is not in a top mood. we just stand around looking at each other. joyce asked me how old i was. she thought i was 15! she's 23. chris and jess are both 20 turning 21. im coming 18. sometimes i feel a little left out. turns out jess has been working there for just 5-6 wks. teresa said chris' been there from the start, which is i dont know how long...probably more than 2 years.
It only started getting a little busier around 2. hmmmmm....overall not satisfied with the day. am i a workaholic? haha.
got so many gifts from dad's family again. I can't say how grateful I am to them for everything. their care, concern, love. Sometimes i wonder what'll happen to me when they perish. morbid i know. but life's unpredictable like that, right?
today:
the whole family is swirled into another episode of "rebellious teenage boy upsets mum and she can't take it anymore" in our series of mid-teen crises. the result is affted appetites. great. can't explain how i feel right now.
people to pray for:
Ray - had spontaneous pneumorathax in the previous 1-2wks. pray that he's feeling fine, no pain, healing well.
Hansheng my cousin who had SP 2yrs (i think) ago, pray that he doesn't have another one, that's he's feeling well and in top condition to study. Pray that he's taking care of himself and feeling the love away from home (singapore) in montreal, canada.
my brother...you can guess about what already. pray that he will mature, wake up about his reponsibilities as a student, brother, son. be less hot-tempered and childish. after all he's 14. i wasn't this bad when i was 14. can i say i just don't understand guys anymore? he's giving our family the worst periods of time we've experienced.
and me. my jobs. taking on tutoring juniors starting this saturday. jobs to come (employed by my high school to tutor juniors). rest of the semester to come (havent done study this hols, caught up in other things) pray I can prioritise my life. what comes first?
i wish i'd cheer up. where's my optimistic side?
