A Day At The Polls

*DISCLAIMER*
I've never exercised my rights before. Judge me or not, (and all this while, I had the privilege to meet some pretty vocal friends, but I never did get around to do it in the past) but irregardless I suppose things happened for a reason, and by the grace of God, I too get to do it finally this year.

Yes, I was a bit worried, since being on my maiden voyage this morning (probably affected the sleep pattern early this morning too) and read back and again about how to go about it, and yeah I went there alone, but made 2 friends, (and of course went back alone lol) and I've been thinking if I don't log this in; I'd probably let this post as un-published.

With half an eye on the other window about the on-going live feed of the counting at the moment (if that's what its' called) I shall make this quick, would probably miss a few bits but let's put up some pictures from an avid first-timer eh?

Speedy delivery for a freebie :)

Thank you, GRAB

OOTN omgosh

8:38pm, swung by the small bar beside the usual cafe I'm in and saw Pakatan leading 22-19. oo. Can't say the election fever didn't catch up on me.

Back to earlier today, jitters aside (i mean, what if my vote cast would be deemed spoilt?) I reached the school of dubious name (I remembered it was called another chinesey name when I used to live around there, the infamous school that caused major jams for the residential area) and to my relief I got the right school and the queue was amazingly long. Bumped into a guy with 2 kids who asked if of the school similarly to me, and I kinda gave him the #fakenews of not wearing slippers. He went back to the car (after asking his 2 boyos to stay there, I kinda stood there to watch over them without a word spoken of) and to my horror and realization of giving out the wrong info when I saw a couple leaving the compound with inked forefingers, and with sandals *gulp!
He was surprised to see me standing with his kids still; but I told him 'bang, i think i told you #fakenews bro' and we went our way.
Obviously the noob, I had trouble connecting to network to check on which 'saluran' I was on. The kind officer checked it out for me and was directed to the other end of the school.
Reaching there, I saw the malay brother at the same queue as me, with his 2 boys at the corner playing on a smartphone. And so we struck conversations one after another, and it was amazing too, if its not for this, I'd probably had the brilliant idea to not queue and go to Riana Green for breakfast or fill in some work or something.
Nik (the guy with 2 kids) works for Perodua, same like me, used to live around the area, got to know about his wife's adventure yesterday travelling back to Kedah, his 2 kids, but the thread that got on pretty long was about his success in shedding some massive weight; he is about 65kg now, 5 years ago he was 130kg! and with this we talked about diet and exercises (oh well, as you know not-so-Constant Reader, I don't exercise per se) and somehow we got to know Din the guy behind me.
By the 2nd hour leading up to the queue , we'd have touched about a few things of life, and somehow we teamed up as a gang to send one out to get water (and subsequent sneak out for a smoke) and I myself went for a sekolah-kebangsaan-Toilet-walk-down-memory-lane (oh, the smell and the mozzies!!!)
Nearing the third hour mark, I've managed to help Din to set up his finger ID and Facial ID on his phone (for I spied he was still unlocking with patterns, so i kepo-ed) and I managed to tell them about my not-so-unusual situation of not actually from there; and how last year being cash-strapped in Taiping I found out my registration would put me in PJ, and by the grace of God the doors were opened for me to be back here this year to be able to vote here this morning. Hallelujah!

In all fairness, all 3 of us didn't exchange numbers or soc-meds or a selfie; it was an amazing experience to know this 2 strangers (and the teamwork) we'd probably not meet each other (and if having a number would generally be swept in the loads of contacts, I suppose all of us have too many one-off chance encounters, or maybe just me) and it certainly made each of our time waiting in the queue much pleasant.

Went back to the room and knocked-out, (most of the friends are back in Taiping anyway), there are distant friends nearby, but it's a day to reflect on, rather than reach out i suppose. Initially I planned to leave the polling station and make a trip to FGT for a prayer intercession , but as I was done with lunch at 2:30pm, (and of course, probably a RM50 for travelling) I headed to the house and had my quiet time before dozing off.
And lo, I got up and put on the new shirt from Grab (i didn't dare to wear it this morning , another #fakenews) and I am here having a cuppa after food, and probably will move to the shop next door with the live telecast on the telly.

A Timely Update

Gah, I have weblog still.

Somehow it does your head in whenever you want to get back to one and record another piece of journal; the mother of all dragons writing blocks just basically pops it's head out and snipe you off and you are just staring at the screen and probably typed (and re-typed) a bajillion times rambling away while you are trying to figure out which should you share this.time.around.

Hello everyone 
oh yes.
I am alive, still busy and happy and amazed by what God has done.
I've recently (okay 2 months already) relocated back to the city, took upon a J.O.B. on a temporary basis but with the amount of work needed, I've scaled down my travelling back home to twice a week effective last week.
God has been GREAT in His provisions, peace, purpose, power and protection, and I know I am on the threshold of something good/great and just basically following where He is opening doors for me.

I had a wee bit of time today after so many consecutive days of 10am - 11pm's, and I got around to clear some of my clutters on this laptop, and had a productive coffee sesh + work from the cafe nearby (which I've stopped for 2 weeks or so of intensive here and theres in addition to waking up later than expected) and managed to make progress on the remaining pending graphics side-gig I have (Thank You Lord) , and finally got a temporary work-around to uploading the few audio recordings of church that I half-abandoned the plan for .... 4-5 months?

But I suppose the highlight of my day is this. I managed to discipline myself and follow my heart to just register (and purchased the tickets) for the KingdomCity Conference18 that's happening this October. I suppose it is a leap of faith indeed, seeming my position/and availability (if I am still with the co, hopefully) isn't all that guaranteed; but I believe in Him and in our prayers.
I am also looking forward to more signs on how I am going to accommodate Joshua when he is coming down for the conference, of course I'd love to put him up at the exact hotel itself , in which I suppose I could afford it.. I mean, I saw on Agoda it is going for RM350/night; rather than the usual rate of RM600) but I am keeping it wide-open, and somehow I got the prompt to message his wife and let her know my half-plans on the accommodation bit; and so we shall wait and pray about it :D

yikes, mozzies.
well, I reckon I didn't do half bad today eh?

I'll hopefully update in a while once back to the room.

https://kingdomcity.com/conference18/

Keeping the Faith

It has certainly been a great year for me.
From a standpoint of anyone; I am still the same unemployed jock and alarmingly close to wondering how on earth I could hole myself up in Taiping for another year. I couldn't have done it by myself, as I have to give glory to His name with His love for me as how I managed to live by faith and paying forward the love given to others.
I am amazed by Him in what He has made it possible to me in times of need and the constant protection and provisions.

To the uninitiated; I am pretty busy doing His works day in day out. Yes, secularly it does seem why am I wasting my time not making money like any other person, or building my own dreams by being in the rat race; but I am well-aware in my doing His good works coupled with sporadically (and blessed) given chances to do my multiple pipelines (although, to be honest, most of it are non-duplicables; but hey, i am grateful for the things and money coming my way )

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(update ~ late January)
As I am resuming this composition (since it has been stuck on my G.Keep for weeks) in a café nearby my rented room in Sect.14 PJ, I am on my first 6 days here (well, not counting the 2 separate consecutive work weeks being down here as Mr. MT Suitcase in hotels (and occasional motels) and it has been an adventure thus far.
Office is in KL city center, yet this week I've yet to touch the office but rather doing mobile offices in cafés wherever I wish (or afford anyway)
The Lord showed His way and guidance, evidently in how I get to the room as it is finely situated in between a good location between a LRT station (which is my main commute, coupled with GrabCar and OBike) and Lifeline Harvest Church (which has a night course that I felt-led to attend since last year) and additionally as I being the dumb-fool I am; found out there's another church that I would definitely want to visit; I am even nearer to this Kingdom City church.

I am looking forward for this (these few) season(s) working in KL and travelling back to Taiping indeed as I know have Him this time around and it will definitely be different, hallelujah!