Christmas! The best time of the year. The only sad thing is that after that you realize the year is coming to an end.

Candle light service at BCCM KK. Never missed one since I last remember. :)

Praise Kids as always - puppets! :)

Frances, Max and Calvin having a great time singing Feliz Navidad! =)

Caleb enjoys taking pictures with pretty girls. ;)

Samuel and Paul. My sister is all grown up! :)

3 Lee families. It's nice to worship at the same place with your family.

Nothing much on Christmas Day aside from having to wake up early to accompany Cathy and Teresa.

It has been an awesome holiday. Just feel like posting some photos here. :)

Got involved with our church's production: Pins & Needles, for the first time. Nice experience. Got to know a few more people from church.

Amazing duet by Natalie and Colleen. Song written by Ryo. :)

The guys and girls of our 'mini orchestra'. :)

Flew straight home after that. Here's a huge chicken that mom prepared.

Awesome beef and fish noodles at my uncle's stall.

A night of board game with Vincent and Lisa. Ticket to Ride. :)

Emmanuel! Gave him a surprise at Old Town. He shaved his moustache for this occasion. By the way, Old Town prices in Kota Kinabalu are way higher than the ones in Kuala Lumpur.

Christmas post is coming up.

At school. Waiting for my student. Has the fond habit of being late. :(

State of the Arts KL is just a few days away. I'm really excited to go for the talks by Harith Iskandar and Paul Moss.

There goes my public holiday though. But it's all good. :)

Figured I've got time to kill while waiting for Silvia to finish her lessons.

Went bowling with Robin and Wen Sen. Last I recall bowling was in secondary school. My personal high just now was 90. Had 2 strikes. Hehe. Cosmic Bowl has this 3 games/RM10. Pretty good deal. Right arm and left thigh sore now.

Attributes is having a store-wide 20% discount. If I sang 'Negaraku' a futher 5%! Bought most of Max Lucado's books. Currently rereading one that I got in 2004. :)

Took this from Keith's status: Just done reading a book by Craig Groeschel. good read! I'm inspired by @sidmohede he reads 1 book a week! A leader is a reader.

Tonight we'll be going to Jaeson Ma's Only Love Music Rally. It's going to be good. Been hearing lots of good things about him. :)

And last but not least. Dad, happy birthday! :)

Enjoying the first day of my 'morning' holidays. Kindergarten that I teach in the mornings having a 3-week holiday.

Just finished watching The Lake House. Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock. Starting to have a thing for her. Haha. Silvia enjoyed the movie a lot. Thank God for happy endings. =)

Turned on itunes. Shuffle. Pop. Can't imagine I have 17.7 hours of that! Embarrassing.

Caimi. Adorable.

Souvenir I got from students that went to England. No points for guessing which I'll like more. ;)

Got to start exercising tomorrow morning. :)

Figured I could blog a bit before England plays against USA.

Finally I can post pictures of my trip to Singapore.

Notice the brown paper with black dots? Flies. Flying all over the hawker stall.

Supper from Bread Story. Doesn't taste as good as it looks.

Breakfast on the first day with Carrie.

After breakfast we were off to Bugis. Nice board games they sell in Singapore.

J. Co. yoghurt. :)

Wild Berry Skittles. :0

Was so bored while waiting for the girls. Filmed this waterfall kind of thing. All least that's what I think.

Orchard Road.

Guess many have taken photos with this.

But not this. Youth Olympic mascots.

Model wanna-be.

Suspicious person in MRT.

We were heading towards Singapore Night Safari. Doubt my iPhone could take pictures. But no flash photography was allowed anyways.

Score of the night: England 1 USA 1

It is done. My holidays. Singapore trip was amazing. Can't post up photos yet as iMac's still in the hospital. I somehow prefer to sync with iPhoto. :)

It has definitely been eventful. A whole 8 days!

Day 1 - A day of misses. Missed First Coach Bangsar at 2.30pm. Given another chance to catch it at Sg. Besi toll but got lost. Bought an even more expensive ticket from Causeway link at 4.00pm. Delayed at Johore Bahru custom where to bus left us with our luggage. After much panic and phone calls to main office, found the bus at Woodlands. Boarded another First Coach from Singapore custom to Novena. Reached Simei at 11pm.

Day 2 - Went Bugis and Orchard. Silvia and Carrie shopped til they dropped. Headed towards Night Safari at 6 something. Creatures of the Night show was simply amazing! The Mangrove Walk where the Fruit Bats were was the most exciting part for us. :) We ended our night with Ben & Jerry ice-cream. In the end we missed the MRT and took the cab back. :(

Day 3 - Whole day was spent at Universal Studios. Started off with bad news as Madagascar: A Crate Adventure is not opened yet, Battlestar Galactica has been closed for quite some time and Jurassic Park Rapids Adventure was closed down the day before. In the end I did manage to get my S$66's worth. And did I mention the HUGE pizza we had for lunch? Definitely need to post that photo some time soon. Our host, Pastor Chai and his wife from Moriah Bible-Presbyterian Church, was so kind to fetch us to our hostel. Was lost around Commonwealth/Queenstown area for a good 30 minutes before we found Queensbay Student Hostel. Ended the night with 14 frogs for supper with Carrie and her sister! :)

Day 4, Day 5 and Day 6 - Lots of queue-ing. Awesome speakers from around the world. Steve Munsey was my favorite. :)

Day 7 - Pixar Exhibition with Silvia, Wen Sen and Pek Ling. Had a fun time. A pity we missed out on Reinhard Bonnke's evangelistic meeting. :(

Day 8 - Last day in Singapore. A day of goodbyes. All good things must come to an end. Glad that we decided to go. Had a good, fruitful break.

Day 9 - Reached Kuala Lumpur in the morning. Plopped into bed when we reached home. Couldn't get myself to go to school at 10. Slept through the best part of the day. Went for Prince of Persia at night. Giving it a 4 out of 5. Loved the fairy-tale ending. =)

Almost 2am now. Time to recharge. Classes in the morning. 3 private students in the afternoon. Church Wide Prayer Meeting at night. Getting myself pumped-up both physically and spiritually! :)

Thursdays. My 1st 'weekend' of the week. :) That means I've got time to blog. Hehe.

It was Teacher's Day on Sunday. Received some lovely gifts from thoughtful students. :)

Blueberry cheesecake from the Ganes brothers.

A pink carnation from Kenneth.

Chocolates from Andy and Joshua.

It's moments like these that gives a teacher extra motivation. :) Open Day coming real soon. Here's Pearly Shells which will be performed by a group of children during Open Day. Sexy!

Went to watch Letters to Juliet last night. Totally not my kind of movie. Here's Silvia while we had 10 minutes to spare before the show. Woody and Buzz Lightyear! =)

Did light shopping. Finally found chocolate drinks with marshmallows.

Cool instant noodles where there's this awesome 'drainage system'.

Our favorite rice dumplings from Esquire Kitchen. A >.<>

And finally my new pet! Still very shy.

They've been fighting over the same shell. So here it is. All alone. Shell-less.

Getting ready for an exciting weekend ahead with includes CG outing with 6 person having their birthdays this month, 3 of them this week. Then there's Lea Salonga and hopefully another movie on Friday morning. NBA Eastern Conference Finals Game 3 and Champions League Final. Bringing my iMac and iPod Classic to repair with some last minute shopping for our Singapore trip. Not forgetting John Avanzini that's preaching over the weekend. And of course 3 piano-lessons-filled afternoons. All this in the next 36 hours. Manageable. Excel-able by God's grace! Cowabunga!

It has been horrendously hot recently. Ray has taken 5 baths today! Had a refreshing thunderstorm at night. Even more refreshing was the weekend sermons by Pastor Tan Seow How. It was mind-blowing for me. Getting me all hyped for Asia Conference next week! =) Talk about real fans!

Congratulations to China. Worthy winners of the Thomas Cup. Grateful I did not buy tickets to the finals as they swept 3-0 again.

Fortunately, I spent my afternoon at Sunway Pyramid 'shopping'. Initially we were supposed to find something around RM30 as we've got Parkson vouchers. They were selling South Africa World Cup briefs. But I opted for my trusted Pierre Cardin in the end. ;)

Passed by a pet shop and they were selling hermit crabs! They did inform customers not to buy out of impulsion but I thought I could provide it a decent home with my empty aquarium. Been wanting to have it as a pet. Been somehow I'm not very keen on giving names to them. If I had to, they'll be Jellybeans! :)

Then Silvia got me a new pair of Nike! Been so long since I last wore Nike shoes. Around 2 years? Haha.

Enjoying a cup of hot drink with another gift from Silvia. Billabong mug. Watching Celtics trash Magic. Sweet!

That should be it for the time being. Braced for my last week of work before my Singapore holiday! Hallelujah!