It has been a long time since we have seen Mary Wong 13 years actually! Mary came to Chch to study at Lincoln University in 1992. She was invited to our Church by Ho Yeoh-liang who was then the Student President of OCF (Overseas Christian Fellowship) at Lincoln University and a member of our Church at the time. He is now a business man back in Singapore. Mary started coming to our Church and over time came to believe and put her faith in Jesus and was baptised in our Church in 1993. Mary was such a sweet young lady, and we loved her very much, and were very sad when she returned to Malaysia in 1995. That was a long time ago and we have not seen her since, so today was a special day, we were so glad to met her again and her husband and 2 1/2 year old daughter Celine and 9 month old son Collin. We chatted about the old days at CCC and about old friends. Mary is going to take us out tomorrow to find some Malaysian Laksa!!! Yum!
After returning to Malaysia Mary worked for a Telco training their staff, then got married, and now she owns and runs an after school, school, kind of like a “bu-shi baan”, but a bit different in that they are helping children reach their creative potential and develop their academic skills. Her husband owns a cell/hand phone business. They are active in their Church, and seem very happy here in K.L. Here is another pic of their family;
Mary may not want me to show you this, but she sent it to me a few years ago and I have had it on my computer ever since, so I share it with you today. Very cute huh!!! Still very cute!
We arrived in KL yesterday afternoon. The flight on Air Asia was was better than I expected. The plane, a brand new Airbus A300 was good. But for some strange reason Air Asia do not allocate you a seat number so the passengers were like a mob of wild animals fighting for the “best” seats. I didn’t really understand what the “best’ seats were, until we arrived in KL and had to join a l-o-n-g que to get through customs. (It took almost 1 hour!!!) So the “best” seats are at the ones right beside the door so you can get in the Customs line first. While sitting on the plane we heard a familiar voice. Loud, non-stop talking, and loud laughter…. who is that? I know! Sounds just like John Ngo! Same Malaysian Mandarin accent, same volume, same high speed talking… couldn’t be?!! And no it wasn’t, it was some middle aged Malaysian guy. Pity, ‘cos John could have shown us around KL and helped us do a bit of Real Estate Investment too!!! hahaah…
Checked out the food stalls last night…. wonderful!! (All the Malaysians back at CCC are wishing they were here too…. food, foood, food.)
First impressions of K.L. Malaysia; The thing that strikes me about this place is that it is REALLY, REALLY Multi-cultural! Far more multi-cultural than HK, Thailand, China, or Taiwan. There are heaps of whites, blacks, Arabs, Indians, Asians….. (what else is there???) Every kind of people you can imagine are right here in the center of KL. It is also very multi-lingual. Today is a public holiday; Deepavali, an Indian festival. (Wouldn’t it be great to be a Malaysian, you can have Chinese, Christian, Muslim, and Hindu holidays!!! …….. I wonder if Atheists have holidays? Maybe another good reason not to be an Atheist!!! Nothing to celebrate!)
We are going to rest a bit here in KL. Have a few old friends to catch up with, so will introduce them to you soon. Here in Starbucks Malaysia you can get all day broad-band with your coffee, not like HK… they only give you 20 minutes, and then you have to pay. Got a pre-paid SIM card this morning, can you believe it, only RM$8.50, including RM$5.00 air time. (RM$8.50 is only NZ$4.20, which is sooooo cheap! But the NZ$ is sinking fast….. so sad for us!!) It took about 4 and a half minutes to get the SIM card and get connected to the cell-phone network, cheap, efficient, and fast… wonderful!!
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