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It was a rainy Sunday in the east of this small little island. The rain was really heavy and it rained from the late morning till the evening time.

“What a complete wash-out of a beautiful Sunday”, I thought to myself at 11.45am .  

Today could have been a day full of activities for me, as I had planned to go out for a swim, meet my friends for coffee and than a dinner with family and maybe to catch a show.  However, it was not meant to be.

I don’t normally like raining days, as at times I felt trapped by it and it immobilised me from doing the things i want to do, especially when i was about to go out or when I’m outside wanting to go home or going to another places.

I only liked it when I’m about to go to sleep or taking a nap, a raining weather always help to cultivate the sleepiness.

Therefore, without surprise I began to feel sleepy and I slept my half Sunday away.

Upon waking up, I was mad about myself as I could have spent the sleeping time to do something else, like work that still waiting for me to accomplish, calls that I supposed to make, tasks that I supposed to do and many more things……. I was really mad  but suddenly, another thought strikes me, and it was saying…

 ”Cool it! Jones!!! relax, no need to be angry, just ask yourself when was the last time you get to enjoy an afternoon nap and allow yourself to wake up naturally….was it just yesterday? a few week ago or was it a few months ago?” and the answer was it might be more than 6 months ago.

I can’t really remember when  was the last time I had a good “lazy” Sunday afternoon nap and it really does seem like a long long time ago.

Regardless, it just make me felt that like I deserved this nap.

Not long after I woke up, I noticed that my family members had also slept through the afternoon too and my mum, my sister and bro, soon woke up one after another and the time was about 5.30pm.

Interestingly, when we were all up and went sitting down on the sofa, we were  looking and smiling at each other, that feeling was like so warm and it was like, “oh man, this is a good Sunday”

At this moment, I also realised that, it been a long long time since the family had a real good chance of sitting down as a family infront of the TV set after waking up in our nature state, in a sunday evening.

Soon , my mum asked if we were hungry and we said ”Yes” and she started cooking, next thing we knew, we were eating dinner together, watching “Shrek the Third” on TV, followed by NEWS and “超级星光大道6″ together.

Nothing much was said during the process, but it was a really warm and cosy evening and it’s like “WOW” it’s a feeling that I had not have experienced for a long long time.

It might sounds normal Sunday for many of you out there, but for me, this Sunday had been a priceless moment for me.  Maybe, my guess is that I might have been doing so much things and running everywhere for the past few months that I had forget that a Sunday like this is just what I really want for now.    

And of course a moment like this,  has also sparked me to start blogging down my thoughts again. (after 8 months) so, Welcome back, my friends. 

Oh boy!!! Am I Happy??? You BET!!! I’m a Happy Boy/Man!!!!  Wahahaha!!! 

I had been toying with the idea of getting an iPod Touch since my last iPod Shuffle went “swimming” in the washing machine last year.

YES!!, IT (iPod Shuffle) “drowned” after just spending less than 6 months with me.  

And believe it or not, that Shuffle was my 1st ever mp3 player in my life!!!

Before that, I had a Sony radio receiver that is still workable till today. I had it with me since my army dayz, however, it started to give me problems for the past 2 years, like it would auto shut down, auto reset and deleting all the preset radio channel by itself. It was really irritating  for me to keep on re-setting the channel again and again and because of that ,I had stopped using it since last year.

I’m a guy who enjoys listening to music when I’m on my way to work or travelling to places, so when my Shuffle gave up on me, I felt weird when I got nothing to listen to.  And that’s why I want to get another mp3 player after my receiver and Shuffle had given me their best.

And for the past few months I had been actively looking for a player that I like and that the reason why I ended up with the iPod Touch….. But why iPod Touch and not any other brand or player??? Well, I guess because I’m a guy and I can be a sucker for technology too and my mind was set on iPod Touch was largely due to a video clip that I saw while looking at the features of different players.

So after watching the clip, the rest was history………….  

Gesh!! oh boy, once again, is been at least 2 weeks since my last post. Very bad Very bad…. but still, I not going to condemned myself for the lack of post again. That’s because if I go on again, I will sound like a broken record..”singing—–”see I missed the quota again, lack of discipline lack of commitment, blah blah blah”…”

Guess I had enough of that already, blogging is surely and just not my top priority and I guess right now my top priority is still work….  followed by my family(at least for the month of Jan and Feb as my Dad is back for holiday)

I had been really busy since the Chinese New Year till now, starting from the reunion dinner to new year visiting to organising my annual TPSS gathering, and then followed by camp and more camps. and in fact for the last 3 Saturday I have been working as well!! Not that I’m complaining, I just amazed at how I managed to survive thorough all this work and activities.

This few weeks has been rewarding, in terms of families time, it was great, with Dad around, there were more family dinner time together then before, and it was always full of fun and laughter and in terms for work, it was fulfilling too, even though, I didn’t lead any program for the month of Feb, I was still involved as a facilitator which offers more first hand experience and contact with the participants and once again I glad I was able to make some else’s day when they were assigned to my group. Be it, is a he or she, adults, youth or children, I believed they had gained certain life learning values from the training we provided, and I glad that I was part of their growing and development process. 

Another reason for despite the business, it was still time well spent. I’m happy that I’m able to be around to do what I like to do which was to put a smile to whoever that had crossed my path and for the past few weeks and I believed I had done that successfully and happily.

So smile, my friend, it is always nice to see a smiling face than any other facials express. I hoped your past weeks were as meaningful and smily bright as mine too.