What an awesome CNY! I had the greatest time ever laughing, chatting and pigging out. Reunion dinner was so ironic. Its the Year of the Pig and this year, we had no Siew Yoke on the table. Weird, but thats the price to pay for spending CNY in KL. Yup, this is my very first KL CNY in my 22 years. Thank GoD for the wisdom because I definitely wouldn't have enjoyed the 7 hour trip back to Ipoh (Normally it only takes 2 hrs). This is mind-boggling because our Transport minister has actually banned all heavy vehicles from the highways from last Friday onwards. The only reason is there are more yuppies working in KL and they're getting richer and everybody wants to own that cute Myvi or that hot Satria Neo and everybody wants to be able to show off in their kampungs when they get back. The plus point this year is that there are less accidents. Praise God!

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Hey Jay ah, i can only think of one weird thing at the moment. Sorry la but this is it.

I've eaten rabbit shit before. Don't ask me how it tastes like.

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Sorry to all. Have been quite free and busy at the same time so maybe I won't morph into a potato just yet. Since the Johor floods have receded, I've been joining some of my church members in assisting a couple of families in Pagoh to get back on their feet. I've already gone twice and am looking forward to more trips.

Basically, the potato gets up at 5.30 am on a saturday, brushes her teeth, washes face and jumps straight into a car. She then sleeps for an hour and a half till the car stops at the Ayer Keroh Jejantas Restaurant. Time for breakfast and time for getting to know the other potatoes who have made the trip. Then, everybody drives on to the house which is smack right in the middle of a rubber plantation.

The first time I went, it was very disturbing, simply because all of us turned into instant ARSONISTS. There was too much mud-laden rubbish and there was no choice but to BURN
everything everywhere. I felt like crying because I'm doing nothing to stop the very thing I've spent my whole life lecturing my family about. Sigh... I won't be surprised if haze lands on Johor next.

Anyway, the second time I went which was 2 days ago, the place looked so much cleaner! Maybe open burning in certain conditions is necessary. This time, we planted flowers and repainted the house which was really fun despite the fact that I worked with an absolute perfectionist. Most of the time, my job was to hold his paint can while he scaled to the top of the house making sure every square millimeter is covered smoothly with peach paint. Even when everybody was already taking the group picture and heading to the cars, I was still there holding peach paint.

The other thing I forgot to mention about this relief operation is the food, not the lack of it which is surprising but the abundance of it. I'm not surprised if we spent half the time in Johor eating and yacking. Nasi lemak, chicken rice, tapioca, sambal tumis, sambal prawns, asam fish, fried chicken, sup kambing, mandarin oranges by the boxes and rice, rice, rice. Good thing it didn't get in the way of our mission ha ha. Now that I look back and reflect, it doesn't seem like a disaster area anymore but a giant kenduri that fell out of the sky.

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The phone rings and on the other line, I hear my sister's voice. After spending close to a month in Bintulu national service camp, I honestly expected to her to ask me how I am and tell me she really misses me. Instead she screams, "Is it true that Siti Nurhaliza broke up with Datuk K??!!?" What on earth.... Maybe National service is working after all. Prior to NS, she would never have taken so much interest in all this kind of gossip so I guess she must be really mixing well with the people. There has been a lot of criticisms about implementing NS, that its too late to foster unity and that it doesn't work bla bla bla. Well, at least our country recognizes the need to strengthen racial ties and are actually doing something about it. Some things have to start somewhere....

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