Friday, September 29, 2006

Homeward bound

I took an AirAsia flight back to Seremban on Wednesday. Had my friend Jastin as company. He was going to KL for a week of solo holiday. Ours was the last flight of the day... cheap ticket ma, arrived almost midnight. Dad came to fetch from the LCCT airport.

Left early morning to KL the next day by train. Went to The School of Acts in KL to visit Jastin... actually it's an excuse to check out what the school is all about la. Jastin is an alumni of TSOA, he did a 6-month intensive course 6 years ago. Now he comes back to his alma mater to get some 'recharging' and 'refreshing' before going back to pastor a church.


The School of Acts is located in an apartment along Jalan Syed Putra. It's a small bible school, offering an intensive 6-month course covering various topics on Christianity, taught by local and overseas speakers. Despite its humble settings, the school attracts students from all over the world! At the moment, there are about 20 students. Jastin said there will be more at night, when the part-time students join in. That morning's session was by Pastor Eiji Mandai of Japan. He spoke wonderful English! He taught an encouraging lesson based on the story of David vs Goliath. After that, the students had song practice for their graduation which is about a month away.


We left in the afternoon. Jastin stayed at the Wisma Belia about 10 minutes walk away. He needed the afternoon to get some rest. I took the Monorail to go walk-walk in Bukit Bintang area and
Low Yat Plaza. Checked out the dSLR cameras (my next ahemm... camera upgrade, when got enough $$$) and IT stuffs, bought some ahemm VCDs and DVDs from Low Yat. Soaked an afternoon in the metropolitan lifestyle which I've lost touch with.

Went to Petaling Jaya later in the evening to meet up with my old coursemate Edwin. He and many others are in back in University Malaya for 2 weeks to attend Masters Programme lessons. Yes we're talking about future Surgeons, Physicians, Orthopaedic Surgeons, Anaesthetist, Opthalmologist (so difficult to spell la) here. They are the enviable ones who got through the red tapes and are now in first year Masters Programme. Well, it was only 4 years ago we left uni, people haven't changed much, though some have added a bit to their waistlines.

We went to Paramount Garden for a reunion dinner. Here are the guys, and girl.


We updated each other with the latest gossips and exchanged reminiscence of good old uni days. Had a wonderful 8-course dinner (or was it 7?), with a complete roast-duck included. Didn't have picture of the food though, coz I was busy eating. Hehehe.


Later at night, took a train back to Seremban. Was quite surprised to see the train rather full, considering that it was already 10.30 pm. Ah, people in the city finish work late.

Friday... lepak at home. Went to watch a movie... Miami Vice. Lousy movie, sooooo boring.


Will be going up to PJ again on Satur
day morning to attend LensaMalaysia's 1st anniversary celebration. Will be meeting up other online photographers there.

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hello - Always very entertaining to read your blog. Send my regards to your friend Jastin...bilang from an old friend from a long time ago..:-)..knew him from way back when (gosh he was soooo annoying back then!)and lost touch after a while, great to know he's a pastor now! On another note, just looking thru your collection of photographs in Keningau and came across a random shot u took - just happen to be my mom-in-law and sis-in-law sitting by the road side during Walk for Jesus (?). How's that for stroke of luck?

Anonymous said...

Hi Cindy, thanks for visiting this little blog. And I have no idea how you manage to find it. Well, I'll ask Jastin. About the random shot... hmmm well God works in amazing ways.

Anonymous said...

hi mike, well i am long time friend of didi (thewonghome)and a "veteran" SIB girl - if you can call it that...i checked out her links, leading to yours..its refreshing stumbling across a well written blog...so well done!

Anonymous said...

Jastin asked me to convey this...
"minta maaf tak dapat jumpa tiap kali balik Sabah. Sia sangat bangga, terharu kerana mengingati sia sampai skrang. Sia menghargai. Cindy, kirim salam dgn suami dan kamu kawan yang sangat baik. God bless. E mail sia, jeljastin@yahoo.com

Anonymous said...

thanks mike! and congratulations on the kacang..they really do look like peanuts don't they..and when they grow up, they just consume and change ur life forever..and drive u NUTS jugalah kadang-kadang!

Anonymous said...

btw, email address macam salah tu...it bounced bilang.

Anonymous said...

dia bilang salah bagi email. Yang betul :
jaljastin@yahoo.com
Cuba tengok.

Anonymous said...

thanks mate!