GT #20171017-20180121 Pt 1
Man its been awhile ! Almost a quart of a year ! Can’t believe its been that long...
Well, a whole bunch of stuffs happened, both good and bad, as it is with the life of everyone else, here’s a sum of events..
For the rest of October and November, we been trying to pick up the ‘pieces’ and carry on with the bible study and Sunday meetings. The men, not much of a surprise, were dropping out, maybe because the 2 prettiest girls they’ve ever met had left :) Thank God for the 2 remaining men that were more genuine in their relationship with God, though bible study did not resume (yet) but they would at least be available to join us time to time on Sundays.
2 of the ladies were ok, things remained the same with them for the Wednesday meetings and bible studies. However, one of the ladies that we were hopeful for seldom joined us on Sundays...
We also took a road trip down to the beach during the Thanksgiving holidays. Most people had left and with sorts of activities, so what better time to take a break ourselves right ? Which brings me to a God Praise moment ! Our car survived the trip ! The white cockroach lasted the whole trip without any issues at all, thats 8+ hours on the road. Really wished we had been able to bring the girls back then. We were making plans to go, but I think the girls didn't want to risk it, didn’t want to make me go thru all that driving (not sure if they really thought that way tho, being considerate for me ? dunno la) and thought there wasn’t much to see anyways, which was pretty accurate... But my daughter loved playing on the sand, so that was more than enough for me :)
Towards the end of November, things got real hectic trying to find a new place to move to. Issues everywhere ! Settling the final bill for the current apartments, disputing the outrageous hospital charges for my daughter (they tried to bill me almost USD 1,500 for using the emergency room, and all we did was mostly wait. Just another incident to tell me that hospitals and doctors aren't about bringing healing and recovery, they’re only interested in your money....) Moving to a new mobile network provider and trying to keep the old number, making wrong payments and trying to work out refunds etc (THANK GOD it all went through) etc etc
December came, the new apartment got sorted out, finally, no thanks to bad admin staff who was rarely there.... Started moving stuff and cleaning out the old apartment before they suddenly throw even more extra charges on me... Then after a couple of days in the new apartment, I received a text and call from my brother back home. My grandma had passed away and returned to the Lord. After a day or two, praise God, leadership back home decided to allow and pay for me to fly back. I had to leave my wife and daughter tho, but we were already prepared for such scenario.
The days back home went by fast. Had some time to go looking for stuff to bring back to the US. Thursday night came, the church peeps came, including the girls, but as usual, they weren’t much for talking, to me at least haha :P Did like eulogies and challenged everyone to think about their lives and Christ :) haha. On Friday, coincidentally, my grandma’s date of cremation was my birthday, and I really thank the few that remembered and wished me. I had hoped that the one’s I spent the last 1 year with would have said something as well, it would have kinda felt like I’d mean more than just a casual acquaintance, but oh well, maybe they felt that it was weird being my grandma’s funeral, or maybe they just never remembered. Whatever the reason is, this is why we should always place our hope in Jesus, and not humans hahaha :) Nonetheless, I still love them very much, they are so dear to me (faster find a guy and get married la). Even as I am writing this post, I am already looking up and trying homemade kaya recipes, I had wanted to make some and give them next time when we all return home.
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