It has been a long time since I have the chance to write something on this blog. Many things had happened. I have learnt a lot and hopefully grown as well.

Olympic torch relay
I find it utterly ridiculous to find the runners taking the torch which is suppose to represent peace and good will for the coming Olympics games being made a scapegoat for politics. Poor athletes who will be participating in the Olympics torch relay. What will their family members will think about them. They were like protecting the torch with their lives like the chinese wheelchair bound athlete. Why have the relay when it is no longer representing the message of peace and goodwill. It is like having Christmas party when the attendees were quarrelling and were unhappy amongst those coming to the party. I am not siding any party nor am I saying who is right or wrong. Just disappointed with what ever is happening with the relay run.

University exam
This will be the first time my older daughter is taking an important university exam. I did not know how to react: whether to feel that whatever marks she will be getting will be satisfactory or shall I pray for better results. I think she is capable ot getting better grades but the preparation for her G3 trip to Thailand is taking too much of her attention and time. Hope things will be better after the trip and that she could pay more attentiion to the books and complete the five years university study without any hicups.

High Risk Students:
I had the opportunity to speak to a couple of students from the school we are attached. It is interesting to note that both the student were genuinely happy and motivated to finish the course of their school work and more. I am excited that we are finally making some head way in reaching the people where we are planted. I hope we will have several families that we are in contact and that we will be able to have an impact in their lives. Who know? There might be famous singers or professionals rising out from the students who the world say they are not to value. My plan is to raise a team of church members to do visitation amongst

I am really glad that we are finally doing some work amongst the students. It is my hope to see us touching lives of those who have for four or five years put at our doorstep for us to mould their lives.
Until the next blog…

Dear friends at my blog

Well it finally came to past that we eventually managed to climb to the top of Mt. Kinabalu on Wed 4th July 2007. It came after nearly 6 months from the day after our failed attempt in early February 2007.

On that trip, one of our members had a very bad cramped thigh. He turned around and decided to call it a day. With time not on our side and our determination diminishing, the rest of our team decided to go back with him.

For our 2nd hike, only those who had done a fair share of the training were allowed to join the team. Altogether we would have been training for almost 8 months since the  beginning of the lst trip. We have seen a few wild life including the clouded moniter lizard, the sun Skink, the squirrel, many monkeys and birds. The fellowship with the fellow colleagues had been very sweet.

About the 2nd hike, I almost did not make it as I had a bad knee pain just on the first day of the trip. The pain came suddenly on that Monday morning. It was an the old injury on my right knee. I hobbled around wondering if I could make it to the summit. In fact I even entertained the thought that I would remain in the Parks HQ to have a time of  etreat while the other two team-mates go ahead with their climb. But I was glad that I persisted and finally went with some intermediate goals in my mind. My aim was to target first for Laying -Layang (4 km). If I could reach there, I would then aim for Laban Rata ( the launch point for the summit). If I was still alright, then I would climb to the summit. I believe this to be a good plan to encourage myself to press on. Inspite of the knee pain, I pressed on against all odds and reached the summit on 4th July  Wednesday). What glorious day when I saw the sunrise on this bright beautiful day.

So much about the climb. A few lessons remain: first, at 51, I am encouraged that I can still do arduous climb. My mindset has been changed and I think I can do whatever I put my heart to do.The second lesson is to have a plan. I was planning to do 6 difficult things in the next 10 years. I made the list on my 50th birthday. I am glad that I can now put a check on the first of the 6 things. I have also planned to have a few check points for the intermediate goals.

Finally, our team and I have decided to keep up with our physical fitness and who knows sometime in 2008, we may attempt something else or we may start a movement for the motivated among our colleagues.

Three cheers for the three musketeers! Glory to God!

Hello world! I am really glad that my interest in blogging is revived by my friend blogpastor. I have now migrated from Xanga to wordpress. Hopefully the new blog site will be more interesting for my readers.