Lent 2012

除你以外

除你以外，在天上我還能有誰？

除你以外，在地上我別無眷戀。

除你以外，有誰能擦乾我眼淚 ?

除你以外，有誰能帶給我安慰？

雖然我的肉體和我的心腸，漸漸的衰退，

但是神是我心裏的力量，是我的福份直到永遠。

Blessed Lent Season

what has happen before March~~

Is March 2011 d!!!! OK .. I promised myself to be a bit 'Hardworking' updating my blog.. cox m not doing it according to the track.hee hee.. My 'new year' always start at March..( as I noticed my previous blog ).. New Year always been  the busiest months especially on Chinese New Year.. Busy with son new time table, than busy for CNY.. when I used to everything it is March d... hee hee...I think my new year begins in March.. haa haa...

Ok.. This year New year was celebrated at Sandakan.. and it was a rushing trip.. Than School re open, Sunday school re open, Violin class, karate class... and Patrick Altar boy meeting.. so on so on... new home work, new co cum... brass band practice ( preparing for sport day and CNY at Gaya Street )... fuh...  Because of too much exposure to the Mr Sun.. my son jadi hitam manis... very tiring month to Patrick... huhuhuhu... 

This year CNY.. we are not going back to hubby hometown, we stay at my place ( huahahaha )..   initially, we want to celebrate our CNY eve and 1st day of CNY at Tenom ( my birth town ), we also want to celebrate the CNY mass at St Anthony Church Tenom.... however, after Patrick finished his Altar Boy meeting, he told me he will be on duty on CNY Mass at SHC .. at first he said he will not on duty and he already told  one of the older altar boy 'gor gor' ( big brother ) that he will not celebrate CNY in KK.. on the way home, he suddenly said 'I wish I can on duty on the CNY Mass... mmm... never mind la'.. this confession make me and his father felt sorry for him... then, we change our plan.. we decided to let him on duty.. and in other case my parent are excited of us going back to Tenom, cox we had talking about it ages ago.. they surely disappointed of our decision of not going back... so, to satisfied both side, we planned to go back to Tenom earlier... we went back on the 1st Feb, and come back to KK on the CNY eve ( 2nd Feb).. Mum have to cooked early or let say we celebrated an early CNY eve dinner ( duan yuan fan )... Mum has cooked 2 times the exactly same dish  for us and the exact nite.. huhuhuhuhu... 

Our journey to 10om started at 8 plus a.m., the road is clear cox less of heavy vehicle.. we travel through Tambunan road .. I like the feeling at Gunung Mas which is chilly .. we do stop for half an hour there, and Paul manage to take a nap soundly hee hee.... after the resting , we continue our journey.. we do not stop at Tambunan Nor Kenigau, cox Paul said we will stop by tomorrow when we return to KK.. and went straight to 10om .. I do not remember what time we reached there, but for sure it still early.... My Parent come to show the way, cox I do not remember which lane d... huhuhuhu..  My Father had stayed at 10om since his retirement, doing rubber tapping... and will come back to KK occasionally... my mum still working and will go to 10om only on weekend helping my father or kasih lepas rindu... hee hee... mum oso want to stayed at 10om after her retirement..  when we reach to my father hut ( actually its my grandparents house, but they renovate it to a small house, with electricity and water supply from the waterfall nearby ), we changed clothes  and Patrick keep asking his grandmother to teach him how to do rubber tapping.. Mum like the pegawai hutan, teaching us how, then we tried take turn.. hee hee... we went to the waterfall nearby.. the water was so cold... I went to the water in split second, cox I cannot stand the cool.. it felt like my heart stop pumping when am in the water... Paul and Patrick enjoyed  it very much... after the waterfall, mum bring us wondering the rubber plantation which belong to my uncle's.. and because of the slippery ground cox of the rain.. Paul kept slipping... pity him.. tidak biasa bah... hee hee... we went back to the house and bath... mum, busy preparing the dinner and I help a little ( washing hee hee yg lain tidak pandai... hee hee ) when the cooking is done, we gathered at the table and eat ( of course with Patrick guiding the before meal prayer ) .. my youngest uncle ( mum youngest Bro ) arrive earlier as us.. and he bring his fireworks.. and we enjoying viewing it though it still early for CNY...hee hee... we went to bed early, cox of the driving and kept falling down Paul slept early, Patrcik too... me try to sleep but often awakened, maybe because of new place, new bantal... haa haa... at 1 a.m. I heard mum busy in the kitchen, she was saying about preparing the yong tau fu at the nite before, so I assume she is starting on her yong tau fu then.. so I woke up and help her, my uncle too.. bising bah kami barangkali haa haa... end up mum doing it alone and me and uncle chit chatting... huhuhu.. mum finished around 4 am.. and asked us to take a nap,to gain energy... hee hee... at 6 am my father awake, so do my two precious.. m still malas mau bangun.. haa haa... we pack and went to 10om town for breakie.. cox is CNY eve there was student selling handmade flower to raise fund for their school... we bought to help.. went to Pasar.. many people selling CNY raw food, vege... than we, went to the 'Antenom musseum' situated near the Pasar.. my father bring us to the 'Stesen Janakuasa Hidro Tenom Pangi' to see the nice scenery... and we bid farewell cox we were going back to KK... 

On the way back, Paul saw a sign board 'Murut Cultural Centre', and suggested to go there.. and we wondering taking pictures, Paul was amazed with the Big trees that used as pillar, and saying how they manage to find that many.. hee hee.. we stop at Keningau for lunch, and bought things at Cosway keningau... Paul said he want to try to go home through Kimanis road.. and we did it, although there was a small incident happen... hee hee... arrived home.. taking rest.. than get ready to have 'Duan yuan fan' with bro in law n his family at City mall.. and we have' Poon Choi' a  traditional Hakka dish.. after the Dinner, we trio went to Tanjung Aru Perdana Park to see the dancing/singing fountain... that was our CNY eve...

  

On the 1st day of CNY,we woke up around 6 a.m., preparing to the church for CNY mass at 8 a.m. The altar boy asked to come early for final job arrangement.. and we were at church at half past 7... Drum beating was performs before the Mass begin, the Archbishop, Coadjutor and priests was sitting among  congregation to see this.. Then, they went back to the Chapel to begin the procession in to the church.. the Homily was talking about 'abortion' and repent.. New year means changing in our self and repent our sins, not by just talking it and not doing it...  a Chinese traditional way of worship God was performed..   then, blessing the 'kam' (mandarin orange), the bishops and priest distributing the 'kam' and they were receiving ang pau as well from the people.. A lion Dance performances was held at the Parish Hall... after Mass we went home, and waiting for our bro in law calls.. cox we are visiting them.. My husband have 3 brothers staying at Sabah.. because 3 of them marrying Sabahan's and staying here.. hee hee.. and 3 of them having different religion, but on the 1st CNY early morning, the 3 family have their own place to go for praying.. I guess we are the earliest to finish... and we went to the 3rd bro house ( he is the eldest here ) , giving ang pau to the niece and nephew.. chit chatting then.. we went home... that was our 1st CNY...

2nd day of CNY, we has decided to go to Kudat to stay over, but our bro in law was asking us to have a vegetarian dinner with our youngest bro in law ( he and family is vegetarian ).. then, we planned to go earlier so that we can return KK early too.. Having a breakfast at Tuaran, then we off to the road.. we were going to Tip of Borneo.. one of my friend Jane, mother in law was staying at Kudat... and every year this time she is going back to her MIL place, deep inside my heart m saying will I see her there.. and I am thinking of calling/sms her... but m afraid she is busy to visit relatives.. so I let it be.. when we arrived T o B.. I saw a familiar face, it was Jane husband Mr Chok.. and I saw Jane and the children... haa haa... what a surprise.. cox I just thought of her and here she is in front of me... after sight viewing.. Jane invite us to her MIL house nearby ( I think we passed it when we on the way to T o B ), before that we went for a drink at the resort of T o B treat of Mr Chok ( thanksss ) .. Jane MIL house is surrounded by a coconut trees.. they were doing coconut trees plantation.. we stayed a while than we went to Kudat Town for lunch... after the lunch we heading home, and stop by the roadway to buy local products ( peanuts etc ) .. and went home waiting for call for the dinner.. end up it was canceled... that was our 2nd CNY...

Our 3rd day of CNY was celebrated with Sylvia Voon.. after breakie and so on we went to her place at noon and bringing her out to Suria Sabah.. just for jalan2 and catch up.. the day after was Sunday, what a pity only 6 altar boys show up including Patrick and it was Archbishop Lee doing the Mass cox Coadjutor Wong was going back to hometown for CNY.. Patrick was asked to do the bell ringing during Eucharistic which excite him.. but mummy afraid of  he will done wrong not following others.. hee hee... Jesus is holding his hand I think ( and I always believe ) and he done it nicely... one of the parents said 'your son is very lucky, cox they only let form 1 altar boys to do the bell ringing..and he doing it very good.. hee hee..( m so proud :p).. but in reply I said he was lucky cox not enough altar boy bah ... hee hee..  that was our CNY holidays ... 

Pictures telling time.. :P

Mum teaching us how to tap..

Patrick and Paul enjoying the waterfall

Early Duan yuan fan prepared by my mum

In front of Antanom statue

at the Tenom hydro power station

Stesen Janakuasa Hidro Tenom Pangi

Murut Cultural Centre Tenom

Paul was amazed with the pillar

the 'Poon Choi' was look like this

Chinese New Year Mass at Sacred Heart Cathedral

Drum Beating

'kam' distributing

Patrick and Felenne

Kuan Yee, Booh Xin and Felenne

at Tip of Borneo where we bumped to Jane and her family

us

Patrick surrounding by girl.. young and old (Jane's MIL)

Sylvia and Valerie

unfinished 2010

I'm back with my unfinished 2010 :P:P:P Ok February will be end in few days time.. so many things happen.. Christmas, 2011 New year, Chinese New year, Chap Goh meh ... fuh.. lets start with the Christmas 2010.. Last Christmas, our good friend Ivy was not coming back for the celebration as we do gathered every year on Christmas... Patrick asked me.. 'when are we going to auntie Pui Yee house?', and I answered ' we will not going to auntie Pui Yee place this year, cox auntie Ivy is not coming back'... hee hee..and he replied 'aiyah'.. Our friend Kerk Mei was also asking, and planning to go for shopping for the present exchange.. as we do every year... because of auntie Ivy is not coming back, We also did not gathered huhuhuhu... We went to CMI bukit padang for the Christmas Eve Chinese Mass presided by Coadjutor Archbishop John Wong.. after the Mass we went to City Mall... On the Christmas Day, woke up early, went to SHC for Christmas Chinese Mass, we have Coadjutor Archbishop again.. and this is the second time Patrick served as altar boy.. after the Mass we went to Jalan2.. that was our Christmas...

Christmas Eve Mass at CMI 

 Christmas Day Mass.. Patrick 2nd time as Altar Boy

On the 27th Dec.. it was Archbishop John Lee 46 and Fr Cosmas Lee 34 Presbyteral ordination Anniversary.. The Chinese Community was organizing a Christmas Party and as well as the Anniversary celebration..

On the 30th Dec, we fly to Sandakan with AA early morning, then we boarded a bus to Lahad Datu to attend the Presbyteral ordination of Deacon David Geraman which was celebrated on the next day (31st December 2010) at St Dominic Church.. on the road, me and hubby was looking at the scenery outside... a lot of Palm tree which is for us is like wow banyaknya.. hee hee... when we came closer to Sukau, suddenly we heard a sound of stone throwing and the Bus windshield was cracking!!! the bus driver stopped the bus at the side of the road and calling for backup... huhuhuhu... we were transferred to a mini bus and it take us 5 hours to reach Lahad Datu.. the mini bus permit was only works at the area we stopped and unfortunately there was a JPJ checking so.. we have to wait until the JPJ checkpoint is remove... we stayed at Hotel Silam.. not bad.. and it is situated at the town, which is easy for us to go Jalan2 and cari makan... we ate seafood as dinner.. it was tasty and consider cheap... after Dinner we went back to the Hotel and going to bed early... hee hee... cos very tired of the 5 hours journey..

 Mum and Patrick at Lahad Datu Town

31st, woke up early... Patrick and my mum having breakfast at the Hotel ( free voucher ) me and hubby went to the town searching good breakie... and we found one.. taste good... after the breakfast, we are getting ready to go to church.. and we had called a taxi to take us there... after the Mass, we called a taxi again to bring us to the Hotel cox we are going back to Sandakan and fly back to KK the next day.. we not even going to the fellowship lunch.. huhuhuhuhu... we booked a bus seat, and guess what? is the same Bus which windshield was broken yesterday.. they fixed it.. cox they was booked by a Catholic woman League from Sandakan to the Celebration... the bus picked us up and bring us to the Church again ( hahahaha ) to pick the Woman League and Sister... Mum and Patrick went to the church again to find food hee hee ( although we have ate a proper meal before we boarded the bus ).. when everybody aboard , we were on the road again... this time with a smooth journey.. at Sandakan we were staying at Tyng Hotel which is far from Sandakan Town.. we planned to rent a car.. but due to the busy NEW Year countdown, the rented car was fully rented :P.. so we called for taxi again... and we went to Ocean King Seafood Restaurant for Dinner.. Tasty and Expensive... hee hee... after the dinner the same taxi came to pick us up.. and we told him ( the taxi driver ) our plan to visit Sepilok next morning... and he offered his self for bringing us to the place.. which is good... fare was set and we went back to the Hotel.. it was a tiring day, we not even have the mood to see the countdown in the TV nor at the outside of the Hotel.. I barely heard fireworks at the Midnight, and said Happy New year to my hubby.. and I doubted if he heard it... hee hee...Zzzzz...
1st Jan.. HAPPY 2011 NEW YEAR... we woke up early again... we went to the shop nearby for breakie.. after breakfast, we went back to the Hotel to pack, cox the taxi driver offer to pick the bags up, when he go to Sepilok to fetch us and direct to the Airport.. around 8 am, the Taxi Pakcik arrived.. and we go to Sepilok.. seeing orang utan been feed, slide show and a very expensive ice cream ( it was tourist price ).. and it still early for the Airport.. we ask the Pakcik driver if we have time to jln2 at town? and we were brought to Pu Ji Shi Temple, to Tanah Merah seafood Bah Kut Teh for lunch... and sightseeing of Sandakan Town.. huhuuhu than we off to the Airport..

it was a rushing journey.. and I do manage to take Pictures.. lets the pictures tell the rest yeah...

 This is the reason 

Congrats Fr.David

 Sepilok

 Orang utan been feed 

 orang Utan..

 Pu Ji Shi

 The Temple

 Sandakan Airport

The 1st Holy Communion

wohoo... Patrick 1st holy communion was done 1 month plus ago.. but I still want to share it here... let start with the after the confession... Patrick was asked to come to church for rehearsal 2 days before the actual day...  On the rehearsal day, there  was  full mass rehearsal.. from the procession, 1st reading, 2nd reading, and even gospel reading, collection and the offering.. which Patrick was one of the bearer.. he was doing the wine and water.. which me and his father so worried of.. ( cox b4 the teacher asked him to do the offertory only.. simple and easy ).. the father said that we do not want it happened... huhuhuhu... on the rehearsal so many incident happen... they have to do it twice all over again... On the actual day, the Mass was children Mass ,so all the things mentioned was done by the children...

On 14 November, we were asked to bring our kid to the chapel b4 6.15am.. me and Paul was asked to help to buy curry puff for the fellowship after the mass.. woke up at 5 am, wearing his white trouser white long sleeve... we go to Pasar Besar KK to pick the ordered curry puff and arrive church exactly 6.15am... at the chapel the boys was asked to wear red bow tie and Corsage, the girls to wear the veil and Corsage.. I saw others was helping their children... and my Patrick... eh... hilang...and heard somebody calling his name hoe ping! hoe ping!  and saw him was helped by his Sunday school teacher, the teacher is so patient with Patrick through the year in her class, and so fond of him... ei.. I do nothing ni, jealous jua la.. hee hee :P:P... then we take picture in front of the chapel and all the Parent were asked to go inside the church... Every Sunday, we used to sit at the left side of the church entrance, but this time we were asked to sit at the right side... cox the Boys is sitting at the right side and the girl at the left side... and all the family member asked to seat behind them... me and Paul was not used to the seat... macam org yg biasa pakai tangan kanan then kena suruh pakai tangan kiri ni.... hee hee... The Mass begin... everything going well... then the time of offering.. m still worried cox this time Patrick is bearing the real thing wine and water ( me n his father keep asked him to practice at home... using glasses... haa haa... takut pecah bah.. adui.... )... but he doing it steady and safe... fuh!.. ni mama betul2 x confident with his son Ooooo... then, is the receiving bread and wine time ( they asked to taste the bread and wine on the sunday class, cox last year, one of the kid nearly spit out the body of Christ cox not used to the taste of wine.. ).. we busy taking picture although we asked not to cox the church have their own cameraman/ woman... and Patrick turn.. he return to his place and pray... me and his father tahan2 lah air mata... finally our son receiving his 1st holy communion..( if you read my previous post , Patrick used to asked me what is the taste of the bread... and I asked him to wait until his turn... and here we are... ).. after the Mass end... all the children taking group picture with the Coadjutor Archbishop in front the altar.. then went to the Parish Hall for the Certificate giving and fellowship... all the 62 children was treated with KFC, and the parent was eating cake, sandwiches, curry puff... etc... all this was sponsored by the parents as well...

the certificate was presented by Coadjutor Archbishop... cake cutting ... etc...  in the middle of this Jane arrived to wish Patrick.. m so touched... thank you very much for the support!.. she was one of the reason Patrick going to the sunday school... at the end of the fellowship the head of Sunday School announced they need an altar boy... nah... pa lagi... c Patrick p la lapor diri... since last sunday (19/12/2010) 3 times sdh c Patrick bertugas... huuhuhuhu... tu cerita d lain hari la... hee hee... ok la.. lets the Pictures tell the rest yeah~~~

Patrick, Samuel and Ian

Patrick and Samuel

Procession into the church

Bow to the altar

to his seat

Homily

Offering

Offering

Receiving the Communion

Amen!

Praying after the communion

Group Photo ( taken by the Professional Photographer )

Patrick with Coadjutor Archbishop

Praying before meal

Patrick posing with his KFC treat

Cake cutting

Us with the Most Rev Coadjutor Archbishop John Wong

Patrick with Grand Parent

Patrick with Jane

 

Patrick With Grandmom