THE SWEET SURPRISES THAT ARRIVED THE DAY BEFORE EID

One of the things that I missed the most during this month of Ramadhan was the act of kindness among friends. I used to get cookies, cakes and various other things a few days before Eid. However, due to the COVID-19 outbreak, movements had been restricted hence we could no longer carry out things we loved to do in the recent past.

Good deeds shall never be stopped though and today a Secret Recipe's chocolate cake was sent to my house by a Grab motorcycle rider.

I was already over the moon but my excitement had not yet ended. A few minutes after that. another Grab driver stopped by and handed over to me a Baskin Robbin's polystyrene container which housed two tubs of ice cream.

I guess I the best thing I could do is to thank my Chinese friends/ex-colleagues of SMK Taman Universiti for their kind thoughts and I pray may God repay their kindness. *tears of joy*

The literally sweet surprises have brought a ray of happiness and tomorrow, all these would be shared with others as well.

"Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy;
they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."
~ Marcel Proust ~

A HI-TEA GATHERING AT THISTLE HOTEL, JOHOR BAHRU

"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.

They are the charming gardeners that make our souls blossom."

~ Marcel Proust ~

26th September 2014 ~ Some friends from my former school, SMK Taman Universiti, decided to throw a hi-tea gathering at Thistle Hotel, Johor Bahru, for me. I had actually told them many times before that it was not necessary to do this but they insisted which left me with no choice. 

Some came with their kids, two ladies came with their husbands, and three happily retired friends were also there to join in the fun.

the early birds and the prayer reciter

I have not even opened all the presents given to me in school a month ago and I was given more. I really did not know how to express my appreciation for all the things that they had done for me.

The food was good but the best of all things was to be surrounded by people who were once and still are my dear friends whom I will never forget. THANK YOU SO MUCH for everything and hopefully this will not be the last gathering where we will see each other, to share the joy and laughter, and to gossip a bit. Only God may repay all your kindness. *tears*

"So long as the memory of certain beloved

friends lives in my heart,

I shall say that life is good."

~ Hellen Keller ~