Lancome Skin Care

21 September 2007

I have been trying for many types of eye gel and eye cream. Instead of having any improvement, the dark circles, firmness and wrinkles are getting worst. Ai Lee recommended me the Lancome eye cream which she has been using for few months. Today is Isetan members’ day, with any purchase of Lancome products above RM380, there will be 8 pieces of gifts that worth RM450. In addition, there is a RM10 gift voucher for every RM100 purchase.

I bought a bottle of eye cream, a tube of UV protection cream and a bottle of toner which cost a total of RM425. Ai Lee bought 2 tubes of UV protection cream which cost RM380. We joined the bill and got 8 cash vouchers of RM10 each and two sets of gifts.

Back to office, which checking on the stock, I found that there was an extra bottle of eye cream in the bag. One of my colleagues said, “You are so lucky, you got another free bottle of eye cream”. I said, “No, I have to return the eye cream”. I planned to go back to Isetan at KLCC to return the Lancome eye cream to the sale girl. Ai Lee said she has to go over to Isetan again after work, so, I asked her to return the Lancome eye cream on my behalf. I took what are belonged to me and returned what does not belong to me.

Custard apples, inside the rice grain container

18 September 2007

Custard apple - a fruit that is usually round or oval, slightly pine cone-like, 6-10 cm diameter and weighing 100-230 g, with a scaly or lumpy skin. The fruit flesh is edible, white to light yellow, and resembles and tastes like custard. The seeds are scattered through the fruit flesh; they are blackish-brown, 12-18 mm long, and hard and shiny (Wikepedia encyclopedia)

Whenever I see any custard apple whether it is in the supermarket or at the garden, my memory will go back to the days when I was a little girl. I like to go my uncle’s house when I was small. My uncle with his family was staying in a wooden house with a big compound that planted with a lot of custard apples and other fruits like papaya and guava. They also reared chickens and ducklings. I remembered usually every visit, my uncle would sure go to the backyard to pluck some custard apples for us to bring home.

The custard apples were usually still very raw. My mom would put the creamy green custard apples into the rice grain container and covered them with the rice. When the custard apples ripe, they will turn soft. Every time when my mom opened the rice grain container and saw the custard apples have ripen, she would asked us to share custard apples among us. The custard apples with white flesh are juicy and there are a lot of seeds in between the flesh. Eating custard apples became part of my childhood’s memory.

During this mid-autumn mooncake festive season, my mom reminded us to buy my uncle some mooncakes and pameloes to thank him for taking care of us throughout these years. We must have a grateful heart.

Celebration of Mid-Autumn Moon Cake Festival

16 September 2007

There was no Chinese Service this morning. We were having our Mid-Autumn Evangelistic Celebration this evening. The celebration started with a buffet dinner at 6.00 pm at the Stream Cafe. There were a lot new comers. Yee Hui brought her mom, Lan Cher brought a mother with her daughter and V Jin brought............

The service started at 7.15 pm with a welcome speech by Bro. Stanley Kee. Followed by the action songs led by Ann and the team was the Karaoke of “Shanghai Beach”, “Loh Hon Pin, Loh Hon lau…………” and the Xin Jiang tambourine dance. Then was Lisa sharing the salvation message and altar called. There ware 13 new comers accepted The Lord as their personal saviour.

There was some more karaoke after the altar called. The children were playing lanterns and candles happily outside the sanctuary at the church compound. The last program was the lanterns dance danced by 14 sisters from age 12 to 80 years old. All the audiences were invited to the stage to join the dance after it has been dance for 1 round.

This time, I did not sing or dance on stage. I just helped around with the petty things like looking after the children, to help in the LCD projector and as a counsellor. The feedback from the new comers was positive and they enjoyed the program and food very much.