Lately Elysia has been walking home with a neighbour. Her  name is Annie. Annie’s parents were born in Shanghai China, but migrated here over 10 years ago. Annie was born here. She has been in our house a number of times. We have also brought her to Theresa’s uncle’s house in Blackburn. She is so quiet that if she speaks more than one sentence on her own, I’d go out and buy a lottery ticket straight away. I guess her parents are glad she has someone to walk home with, as before this she was staying behind in after-hours care, until her dad picked her up after work. She didn’t enjoy that but I guess her parents didn’t like the idea of her walking home alone. Maybe they knew something we don’t. If so, we have again enjoyed God’s favour on us without us knowing it, having allowed kiddo to walk home by herself all these months. We like the idea too, as it is often better to have company than to be alone. I just hope Elysia doesn’t drown her with her constant yakking…

Elysia is one of 6 kids selected to participate in a World Vision Global Leadership conference early June. Or something like that. Anyway, she seems pleased about this. We are too, and hope she just enjoy this without letting it go to her head.

Late yesterday afternoon the power supply in the office suddenly went off. I being the only one used to such incidents (well trained by TNB in Malaysia) reacted the least. Within seconds we discovered the cause of the problem – an SUV crashed into a power pole just outside the office. My boss looked out his window and saw someone lying on the nature strip and yelled out for someone to call the ambulance/police. Someone did and a few of us rushed out to help. There were 2 young men, the driver looked about 19 or 20 years old at best, the other was obviously still a school kid. It had been raining and the pole was at a sharp bend. Still, the airbags probably saved them from more serious injuries. A fire engine showed up within minutes, and examined the damage to the pole, which had tilted some 10-15 deg. A few minutes later an ambulance showed up. The kids didn’t look like they were seriously injured. Their mom happened to drive past the scene and stopped to attend to them, so things were more or less okay, notwithstanding the extensive damage to the SUV (an XTrail). What it meant for us was that the last work hour was wasted, and the last piece of work done was also wasted as there were no UPS to back up the computers. I guess the upside of TNB frequent glitches meant KL office mostly had UPS. I guess the bigger companies or offices here would also have them, but a suburban practice can and should rely on good public utility services without having to spend on contingencies like UPS. Anyway, went home early last night, and cooked a wonderful noodle soup for dinner…