just 2 days.... 2 cab drivers

don't think i've blogged this much in a week...

guess, it's all the late dinners working their charm n the caffeine of course that' re keeping me up... i mean it's 2.45am??!! i'm suppose to be in bed =(

so let's recap friday and saturday....

hmm... had lunch with Fanny, Lynn n Grace (ex-colleagues from EDB) at Sun Japanese Dining @ Chijmes... we used to all meet for our weekly fellowship ladies lunch (and Sun is a place we go quite often for "good" lunches) ... really missed the bunch of them... good time of sharing and rejoicing and encouraging one another in the faith. interesting group of ladies, one's married, one's gonna get married, one's dating someone and of coz... there's mua... still single... =) talk about having perspective on love / marriage around the table...

then had rehearsal at night.... n the most qiao thing happened when i was heading out of the building with couple of dance mates (jia n peisi) enroute to boulevard @ e red dot building. we were going to drop by to say hi to another dance mate (lay teng) with her bunch of frens (no, i cannot remember their names)... too tired to stay but had promised will go over and say hi... then... on our way there, i was like, wait a minute, who're those 2 jokers walking past the entrance of TAPAC (telok ayer performing arts centre.... where ODT is... arts building that's in urgent need for upgrading....) turns out that Terence n Aldric had just finished hanging out @ red dot and was walking off to their next destination... it's kind of cool to bump into them... or is it.... STALKERS? (n for the record mr. ma... i had first claim to that statement!!!!!)

after a real brief hi/bye to LayTeng's friend (which technically was more a .... "u must all come n support our performance" pitch and frantic giving out of brochures) jia, si, me and terence ended up sharing a cab home...

now, for the first cab driver was this uncle.... well, first off, i felt kind of sheepish coz i know some cab uncles don't like multiple stops and well, we are making the max # of stops allowable in Sgp... 4... he was quite patient and even volunteered to correct my comment on availability of durian... (don't ask, it's quite random how that came up) in any case, at some point of the journey, we started a conversation about how many hours we sleep each night and uncle sleeps only like 3-4 hrs daily.

he said, "well, i eat something after i go home, then read newspaper then read my book, and then i go to bed about 3-4am"
I said, "maybe if u don't read before u go to bed then you can have more sleep, it's healthier"
he said, " no, the book is very important, it's the bible"
i was like, "AMEN!! uncle!!"

haha... turns out God is calling him back to church... while one who seems to walk close to the LOrd he hasn't been attending church for about 2 yrs now. but God is calling him back to the Tamil church that he used to attend... n the amazing thing is... he's CHINESE... only one in the entire church... but he knows he feels the presence of GOd strongest there. n he shared about how his wife is a believer now and how her life has transformed from one who used to go partying and their marriage was very strained just 3 yrs ago is now mended and better after she came to know the Lord. the thing that encouraged me the most was when he shared that during the difficult times... he never stopped his wife from doing what she wanted to do... he just fervently prayed for her salvation and just look what the Lord had done in her life... it's so amazing... prayer can truly move mountains if we apply our God given faith!! =) i felt so alive when i arrived home... hope that Jia (only other person left in the cab by then) caught some of that fire and will rekindle /fire up her passion for the LOrd.

8am start for workshop on Saturday... yeah, i know, it's too early.... hailed a cab and then met cab driver #2 (so sorry, really didn't remember their names) we were just having normal conversation during the journey but at one point, i asked him what is his religion... coz he stands out from other cab drivers in that he wasn't the complaining sort... the sort that actually knew contentment and had good thing to say about Singapore n singaporeans.... believe me, if u take cabs, n u talk to cab drivers.... u will know what i mean by the more "typical" cab driver... neways, realised that he wasn't a believer but his wife is n quite a strong in the faith.... squeezed in whatever testimony i could... but he really blessed me when i was alighting... he said... "GOd Bless U".... i mean, i can totally like see the seed that the wife planted growing right there... it's so amazing... God really gave me a good start for the day... esp when He knows i am not terribly thrilled to have to work on a saturday morning.....

then it was dance rehearsal and then my movie date with Cyn Yi... which i can use one word to describe... it was BRILLIANT... the company was, the movie was, the dinner was (korean outlet @ le meridien good court) n the fellowship/sharing of course... of coz... i still totally forgot the I love SAmsoon korean drama serial to pass to cyn yi for lynn... but apart from that... we had an awesome time... now, to fix up the haircut appt for the both of us....

one last word about the movie... it was surprisingly good. believe me, when i saw the title The Devil Wears Prada.. i was like... i am not particularly motivated to go watch a materialistic movie... but this one had depth. acting was good, issues were real, it's set in new york (can;t wait for my US trip), i like the ending, i identified with the characters... aaarrrr.... worth every single cent of it...

i am REALLY getting very cheong hei~~~!

nao