Smooth seas don't make a skillful sailor.

How true, we need to sometimes go through storms in life, and train ourselves up to be tough sailors who can brave through stormy seas without having to sink 'cause the One who owns the seas is in the boat.

Help me navigate through life and all of its stormy seas. Be my Navigator, Lord.

How fast a week just breezed by eh? It's another Friday. Good to know. Got the pay cheque today and I'm a happy man. Tonight, it'll be a tag team at cg. haha. S k y e's sharing the Word while I'm doing the worship. It's all good. All's good I tell ya.

Meanwhile, food in Singapore has blastorama-ed me to the seven seas. Man, the chilli crab, drunken prawns, scallops, yu tiao stuffed with cuttlefish meat! Mann.. East Coast rocks my socks all the way to the weat coast I tell ya (cornball, I know). And the spicy wonton noodles was as lovely as ever. The Kuishin-Bo served the best salmon and tuna sashimi as well as the butter dory teppanyaki. Oooh. Kuishin Bo is 'jin jia Ho' lahh (hokkien for very good) haha. And the lunch meeting at Bugis Junction, we had the pasta from Sketches (recommended by Skye). I had the Feeling Prawny pasta, which had these tiger prawns sauteed in the most amazing combination of fresh herbs, garlic and olive oil sauce. It made the tummy feel very happy indeed. A late night supper at Project Shop Cafe in a renovated old bungalow was a very good experience, the decor, the ambience, the music was great! And for the first time, I had the best pecan pie in the world. For those who don't know what is it, please do yourself a favour and try one, one day. The mix of fresh roasted pecans with the soft, chocolatey brownie-llike pie, with the tastiest crust made it a good experience.

Oh man...

Just imagine...

I feel blissful. And utterly satisfied. Thanks S k y e dear for an awesome trip, and her friend Joyce for cruising us around in her zippity car. It was all in all a good experience. It was nice of Skye's folks to house me for 2.5 days too. Terima kasih banyak-banyak.

It's Friday, and you know it's funny, but you feel all these people's sign-in names on YM or MSN Messenger or what-not, nicks like "Fridayyyyy! :)", "It's Friday again!" or "Don't you love Fridays?" or "Yayy! Fridayyy!". You know, one look and you know Fridays got lotsa love. You gotta spread the luv to the other days you know what I mean? You gotta feel for Monday. Sometimes you see people's nicks mocking poor ol Monday. Maybe, just maybe, Friday is a lil more insecure and you know, needs a lil more assuring, more luv from the peoples.

Let's see. Thinking aloud here. Speaking of which, I read a sign that once said "Think aloud, Thinking allowed." Clever? Hmm.. ok lah.. It's been used and used over and over again. Quite tired of these wordjigglyfiddlymumbojumbo. But then again, there are some people who think it's cool. Well, more power to you.

I read the news somewhere, someone bought the number plate TAN for RM 200,000. Believe it! It was on the news, somewhere. The story is that Terrenganu was rolling out their TAN series. So, someone thought "Hey wouldn't it be great if I bought the number plate and 1. everyone will think i'm some big shot 2. everyone will know I have loads of cash (that translates to "come, please rob me.") and 3. everyone will know I'm a Tan or my wife is a Tan. I was thinking aloud here ('cause thinking's allowed here... LOL!) that if I want people to know I'm a Tan, I would drive my Kancil, Proton, Merc or whatever you're driving, buy an A1 mounting board from the nearest art shop, get some huge fat marker and write "TAN". Once you're done, stick that monster on your car. Everyone will know you're a Tan. Problem solved. You save yourself RM 199,995.50. What you do with the rest of the moolah, go buy something for yourself, like a house maybe?

OK, you see how easy it is when you have your own blog and you just drift away from the topic. My purpose of writing is to put plans for the next 5 days onto the blog while thinking aloud *stifled laughter* So, here goes:

Saturday - Sleeeeep in, thank you, 'cause its been a long, hectic, 2 meetings a day week. Rest, relax and take the big green bus down to Singapura. Makan stop #1: Some true blue spicy singaporean wanton noodles.

Sunday - City Harvest!!! Listen to da bomb of a Ps Kong Hee speak. Lunch at some swanky western place that looks like it serves good pasta. mmm.. bring it on please! Evening shall be makan stop #2: seafood dinner at some swanky place @ east coast.

Monday - Stuff our mouths with more food day! On to makan stop #3: Kushin Bo Japanese Buffet. Bring on the sushis, sashimis, teppanyakis, tempuras, eels, prawns, fish, paper steamboat, fresh cut salmon on! Thank you. And dinner with Skye's folks. Niceee.. .

Tuesday - Have makan stop #4 and then on to the train back to Malaysia, truly Asia. Niceee..

So, that's about it folks. It's on to the 5 day holiday in about 3.5 hours time. So, tick, tock goes the clock. Thank you very much God. You're the best and You know it! :D

Cheers, folks!

Looking at my Microsoft Outlook, this week is packed like no other, as I'm writing this, I'm waiting to be on my way to another meeting at 2.30pm. Thanks to Douglas Copeland, now I shall describe my week like this. Meeting, meeting, meeting, meeting, meeting, meeting, meeting, meeting, meeting, meeting, meeting, meeting, meeting, meeting, meeting, meeting, meeting, meeting, meeting, meeting, meeting, meeting, meeting, meeting, meeting, meeting, meeting, meeting, meeting, meeting, meeting, meeting, meeting, meeting, meeting, meeting, meeting, meeting, meeting, meeting, meeting, meeting, meeting, meeting, meeting, meeting, meeting, meeting, meeting, meeting, meeting, meeting, meeting, meeting, meeting, meeting, meeting, meeting, meeting, meeting, meeting, meeting, meeting, meeting, meeting, meeting, meeting, meeting, meeting, meeting, meeting, meeting, meeting, meeting, meeting, meeting, meeting, meeting, meeting, meeting, meeting, meeting, meeting, meeting, meeting, meeting, meeting, meeting, meeting, meeting.

It's hazy hazy days here in Malaysia. As one radio DJ puts it, haze is actually very romantic, 'cause it doesn't show you everything, it's hazyyy. Another random blogger puts it haze is good, 'cause you can tell your boss you came late for work 'cause you woke up and you thought it was still 7am. And another said London's got their fog, Kuala Lumpur's got our haze. For some weird reason, I can imagine Michael Buble writing "A Hazy Day in KL Town". Here it goes:

"A hazy day in KL Town
Had me low and had me down
I (barely) viewed the morning with alarm
The Muzium Negara had lost its charm
How long, I wondered, could this haze last?
But the age of miracles hadn't passed,
For, suddenly, I (barely) saw you there
And through hazy KL Town
The sun couldn't shine anywhere."
- inspired from Michael Buble.

It's a long Friday. The day started with a weekly meeting at 7.30am. Now I'm at work. And it will end with a Cyberjaya meeting at about 8pm tonight. Thank God for weekends. I'm looking forward to the public holiday on the 10th and from the 21st till 25th this month (where I will be in Singapore). Let's see, can't wait to go Kushin Bo, have some spicy wanton noodles and bak chor mee, and also soak in some City Harvest action. It's all good, folks.

Psalm 23:1-3 'The LORD is my shepherd, I shall not be in want. He makes me lie down in green pastures, he leads me beside quiet waters, he restores my soul. He guides me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake.'(NIV)

Compare the words of the Bible's Psalm 23, with those of Psalm 23 Revised Yuppie Version. It goes like this: 'I am my own shepherd, I shall not want / I lead myself down the road to personal success / I restore my soul through positive thinking / I guide myself in the paths of materialism for my own name's sake / Even tho' I walk through the valley of the shadow of duty / I will fear no evil / My Visa and American Express they comfort me / I prepare a table of leisure before me in the presence of my responsibilities / I anoint my head with gel / My cup of Chateau Yaldara 1967 overflows / Surely "I Did It My Way" shall haunt me all the days of my life / And I shall dwell in the house of loneliness cut off from God forever.' That kind of sums up the way many people live in our post-modern age...

From the Daily Recharge today.