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On another 100km amazing race challenge…
Getting to Sungai Buloh turned out to be the first obstacle with a broken bridge… Then it’s heaving and lifting and pushing all the pots, plants, soil and more stuff! Add a tropical thunderstorm into the mix and that’s how you look haggard and exhausted on Monday…
And I thought the luffa season was ending and it was about time to uproot and till the earth for the next planting season!
What a crazy week that passed. A Tuesday holiday didn’t work out I think because you end up getting two Mondays! Now that it’s Friday and the weekend is here, I think it’s time to panik a bit becoz there’s lots of packing and cleaning up to do, but yet, there’s not much time and Chinese New Year is almost here — just one more weekend after this to get everything ready!
As I ponder God’s goodness in 2005, I look forward with faith, hope and love for 2006. The pages of 2005 were so blessed by so many new and old people that I’ll be hard pressed to list them here… Thanks guys, gals, berries, twins, tams, JW, SW, BK, and especially to \*\*drumroll\*\* 1 like no 1, delicious driver, sweeter than honey, Magnificent, Understanding, Natural, Lovely, Exquisite, Nifty, Graceful.
As we close the chapter in this book of life, we open a new chapter. The pages are all blank, and what we write in there is entirely up to us.
HAPPY NEW YEAR 2006… WOOF! WOOF! (hey, who let the dogs out?)
Love is patient. Love is kind. It does not envy. It does not boast. It is not proud. It is not rude. It is not self-seeking. It is not easily angered. It keeps no record of wrong doing. It does not delight in evil, but rejoices in the truth. It always protects, trusts, hopes, perseveres. 
~ Corinthians 13:4-7
We love because he first loved us. 
~ 1 John 4:19
2thousand5 is probably one of the most amazing years that has gone by. I’ll miss a great friend but I’m happy for him because “Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me. In my Father’s house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am. You know the way to the place where I am going.” (John 14:1-4).
At the threshold of the new year, in the middle of the journey of our life, remember that it’s not the destination that matters, nor how fast or slow we travel, nor who we are with at a particular moment, but it is the journey that matters most and how we make of that journey. How many lives have we enriched by sharing ourselves with them, giving them a shoulder to cry on, an ear to hear their darkest fears and hotest angers, sung them the song of the heart when they’ve lost all will to continue on, and most of all, given them your love.
And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
~ 1 Corinthians 13:13
Personally, 2thousand5 has been the watershed year of my life. Giving up the ghosts of the past, releasing them to God has been the greatest thing that I’ve done. The past that binds us, shackles us and prevent us from moving on; from living life.
As they say, the best things in life aren’t things and how blessed I feel right now is hard to put into words. Sometimes, in our shortsightedness, our wants and prayers seem unanswered but know that God who loves us more than we know, has something better in store… trust me on this one.
HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!
HAPPY HAPPY NEW YEAR DARLING!
For I love you more than words can say;
From sunrise until twilight’s last rays;
I will be thinking of you my dear;
Tho’ we don’t meet ev’ry day of the year.
© 2005 Eugene Khoo
Don’t Panik, 2005 in pictures…
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