Got home at 3:30am from yesterdays DR activities and dropped into bed. Slept like a baby and woke up at 11am. Muahaha…Had many a strange dream, but nothing I would wanna blog about! Muahaha! I woke up with this suddent urge to cook “mexican chilli”, so I got dressed and went to Cold Storage in Sekyen 14 to buy the required ingredients:-

- 500gm Minced beef
- 1 can of Tomatoo Puree
- 1 can of Tomato Juice
- 1 Large Onion (diced)
- 1 Can of Baked beans
- 3 Tomatoes (Diced)

Dump them all into a pot and add spices, and boil. Yum….(Sorry no pics)

Then onwards to church, where I went for a class, and then visiting a friend in Assunta hospital. My buddy Jo Ying had to go through an operation cos of her appendix, so we dropped by to see how she was doing. Next, went walking at Bukit Kiara with Sarah!. I am soo proud of her, she finally got motivated enough to go!! Muahaha…We are going again tomorrow…Excersize is good!

Church tomorrow!!
Apparently……..

I have lost 6kgs!! I am now officially….drum roll please….85kg! I am still quite a fair bit off my target of 78kg’s, but I am slowly getting there. Can you guys see the difference? I know I can feel it cos, now my jeans are so loose that if I don’t use a belt, it falls off! Muahahaha. The Joy! The day actually has been quite hectic for me, with me scaning through tons of code, looking for a way to improve the way we deal with a specific solution. Headache!! Ouch!

6:00 Nick takes the advice off all his female friends, showers, shaves, brushed his teeth and tongue, was easy with the aftershave, and wore a comfortable, yet not too casual attire.

6:30 Nick receives an SMS from date saying she will be late. New time 7:30

6:45 Nick arrives in SS2, buys some mints so that his breath will be fresh. Also goes to a few bookshops in the area just to chill and waste time

7:15 Nick arrives as Swensons, asks for a table for 2, and patiently awaits the arrival of his date.

7:20 Nick has decided what to eat, a Ceasers Salad, so that we could share a dessert.

7:40 Date arrives, looking extremly pretty, though alittle pale. I ask her whats wrong. And …..She has FOOD POISIONING!!! Gasp!! Could my life be any less dramatic!! And then I say “Oh no! Why didn’t you just cancell, we could eat dinner another time, now your just gonna watch me eat.”. She inssisted that its okay, and that she will just have Ice lemon tea and hot water to take her meds. I then realized that she came even though she was sick! That’s gotta be a plus point. As she sits down she says “Have you lost weight?”. And I go, “Yes, I have :)”. Last I saw her was before CNY at church. I order my salad, she orders her drink, and I look through the photo’s of her recent trip to climb KK.

7:48 I receive a phonecall from one of my cell members needing a ride to church, so I spend a few minutes arranging the ride, then sharing to my date about the Joys of cell ministry and how much I love the youth church. Maybe I talked too much?

7:55 My food arrives, and I ask her “You sure you don’t want any of my salad?”. She says no, and I say “The whole point of having dinner together is to actually have dinner la!”. In hindsight, maybe I should have been nicer. I did show allot of concern over how she got her food poisioning and all that. Her pictures were actually very nice and I commented on how lovely she looked in them. Actually, I have taken quite a few pics of her in the past and thats how this whole dinner thing kinda started.

8:35 I finished my salad and we then conversation had gone to her work, what she does at the office and things of that sort. She asks for more warm water, and there are a few akward pauses.

8:40 She looks very cold, her hands grasping the glass of warm water, as if trying to get as much heat from it as possible. I then ask her “You wanna go?” , to which she replies “Yes, if you don’t mind”. Hmmm….I then tell her “This so doesn’t count as a dinner. We have another must eat again ok! Do you like indian food”. She says “Yeah, I love indian food”. And I go “We shall go eat Banana leave next time, I know a great place in Gasing”. And she goes “When I get better okay”.

8:45 After paying the bill, I walk her to her car, and she then drives me to mine. Its my last few minutes to make a good impression so I ask her about the stuff animal in her car, this green frog, who was really cute. “Its soo cute, whats it’s name?”. She goes “I haven’t named it yet.”, And I go “You so gonna name it, its the rules. The pig in my car is named babe, and my car is named after him. Your car does have a name right”. We laugh a little and she droppes me at my car. “See you tomorrow at church, hope you get better soon okay!!”

8:50 I reach home, the date has ended. Hmm…How did it go? When should I ask her out again? I am thinking 2 weeks from now, yeah. That should be about right. I am still not sure how it when, but I had fun. Hope she did too.

Yes, its the day of the infamous dinner. Plans have been made, venue has been set, time agreed apoun. What will this day be like I wonder? What will my future be? Oh, the tention is soo thick, you can cut it like a hot knife on butter! Am I making sence? I doubt it, I am just randomly typing the words and phrases that come out of my mouth, as I myself am a nervous reck. I shouldn’t be actually, I can talk to almost anybody, when I feel the mood to talk. Believe it or not, I am actually an introvert! All through my primary and high-school, I hardly ever exerted myself. It could be the fact that I come from a very small town, and I was living in the shadow of my Elder brother, who was always the best of everything, and I was always one step behind. Being the middle-child, thats usually the case, so I pretty much kept to myself. In university, something kinda changed, as I got saved, and I slowly began to break out of my shell. I do still revert to my mood of silence, where I just keep quiet and hardly say anything, but these days I need to talk more. Especailly since I am incharge of hospitality at youth church, and I have so many meetings at work where I have to present and anwser questions, and I am a cell leader. If I can talk to 12 year old girls, and 14 year old boys at SS2A secondary cell, I can talk to anybody! Its all a matter of making them feel they are just as important as anybody else. Having said all that, WHY am I nervous about tonight?? Its just a dinner Nick!! And I talk to her all the time at church, well, sorta. Breathe In, Breathe Out! More to come……

This is the best time to be in the City. For one, the traffic is gone. Yes this morning, there was no, I repeat, no traffic jam coming into work. The roads were just flowing like a river. I got into the office and wouldn’t you know it, had an Live problem to fix. If you think its not a busy day think again. With 80% of the office on leave, the 20% of us left behind need to do allot of work. There are so few of us in here. I had a phone call to Bangladesh I had to make, and a problem I had to fix.

At lunch time, HH and Me went to Lot 10. She wanted to change a CD she bought at Tower Records, and I just wanted to leave the office for a while. On the way back we saw this.

Yes. Its called a Lion Dance. I forget the cultural significance of it, but you see them everywhere during Chinese New Year. I uploaded more pic of them here.

More later.

[2:39pm] My boss just said this “Those of you who are still at work today - you can go off at 3pm PROVIDED there are no urgent production problems to resolve.” Now I am preparing to go Home. Just have to finish the production Issues :).

[3:29pm] Thats it for me. I am outta here. Happy CNY Guys