reunion dinner

on monday, i had reunion dinner with my family! so early? yep. coz my elder sis and i realised that this chinese new year period most of my family members, except my sis and i, are flying to different parts of the world. 2 to aussie, 2 to msia and 1 to japan! haha... anyway, we went to this hotpot restaurant opened by terence cao, a local actor, at paradiz centre. had wanted to go to a better chinese restaurant coz is reunion dinner mah..but i guess, being the nice mum who doted on her daughters, she said she wants to try this instead coz chinese new year period go orchard for dinner will be v ex. yep, my sis n i were treating! ok, so since she insisted, we went there instead...

my 1st impression of the restaurant was only so-so. coz the decor wasnt v nice. it was ok. hm.. but guess wat, we saw the boss who is the actor there! and so my parents were quite excited..haha.. and when he came to take our orders personally and recommended the dishes, all my mum said was "ok"..haha.. i think she was star-struck..keke.. and anywayi think this guy is quite charismatic and quite good looking too..haha..especially with his deep dimples.. and i think all guys with deep dimples are rather charismatic and reali can "dian ren"...haha.. like the project superstar champ, daren. but of coz, this terence is much more good looking than that daren. anyway, some of the food was interesting too... coz is the hotpot is rather different frm others i have tried before. it originated from hongkong, so the style was rather special. too bad i din take any photos... and there are mini- "cha shao bao" and "ha gao" that was suppose to be part of the steamboat... not bad lah... all in all, i gave it mayb a 3 out of 5? ha...

anyway, the best part i like abt this hotpot is not the food but rather the interaction with my family which i think is rather personal... u see, the usual dinner we have when we are in chinese restaurants, we usually only ended up busy eating, or i will tok to my sis, not my parents most of the time. but somehow coz of this hotpot thingy, we got to tok as we waited for the food to be cooked. and i also did something which i never did for my parents ydae. wat did i do? well, i only picked some food for them onto their plates. and i did that for almost the whole night! hm.. i was quite surprise with myself coz when it comes to hotpot, usuali i will be the one eating while ppl will keep picking food for me coz i think is better to pick food for urself when eating lah... anyway, i thought this gesture warmed my parents' hearts which i was glad coz for quite some time, my relationship with my parents did not seem good, especially with my dad. he sort of stopped toking to me after i toked back to him one night. but guess wat, he just toked to me yesterday nite when i reached home! im so glad that happened! haha... and im gg to pray for them, for them to come to the saving knowledge of Christ. That day while driving to the hotpot place, i just suddenly had such a burden for my parents when i heard my dad toking abt the idolsand some deaths that happened. i felt such sadness flowed into me. and fear somehow gripped my heart as well. thoughts came to me. what if? what if my parents reali passed away without knowing the Lord?! how? i began praying in the car... i noe. i need to pray for them. when wenhui was toking abt raising the prayer altar in our lives and have we raised the prayer altar in our family during T&E, i knew i just have to do that.

yes! pray! God wun move unless we move!