i woke up 8:30 a.m. today to catch the 9:42 train bound for sone.  i’ll be seeing a dear friend who’ll kindly teach me how to bake a chocolate cake. 

i reached the station and there was she, aya-san, meeting me at the station.  i was so glad to see her.  we head to her place and then proceeded to what i was there for- chocolate cake baking.  she’s got a really nice and clean place.  i had fun measuring the ingredients, mixing them while chatting with her. 

we’re talking about her life and mine.  we’re having a good time.  actually, this is the first time that we get to really chat.  at the church, we just say hi’s and hello’s and that’s it.  i find her really nice as our conversation goes. 

a Christian really does have a light heart.  i mean, that’s how i see her.  she finds joy in everything she does.  and she doesn’t feel bad about all the bad things that come her way.  she has that faith.  and in a way, i am envious for i know i don’t have that much faith as she does.  she handles conversation really well, like she doesn’t have a problem at all.  mind you, she is sick.  her liver is not doing well.  but she is so positive.  i love her.  the way that she is.  she plays the guitar and the piano for GOD.  she paints and creates solid portrait of jesus dying on the cross to save us.  by profession, she is an english teacher.  but her classroom is like a music room and a restaurant at the same time.  she serves meals to her students.  how amazing that is!

after more than an hour, our cake was ready.  i was so excited to see how it goes and how it tastes.  hmnn… yappari oishii.  she took a box and placed 4 of what we made inside it for me to take home.  sore ha ii ne..

she said a prayer for me before i left and it moved me to tears.  she said the words, the exact words i have in my heart.

i learned everything i wanted to learn about chocolate cake today.  and something far beyond that.  how lovely!

Posted: February 17th, 2007 under Passion, Religion, Serious Talk.
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Feb 14, 2007 (Wed) 

today started out just fine. well, my stomach was aching a bit when i woke up but that is just a bit.  i took my jacket and wore my shoes.  off i went jogging for 20 minutes.  stomach check. ops!  aching still.  but only a bit.  rush to work.  read and replied tons of emails to greet friends and loved ones happy vday. 

stomach check.  worse.  then came lunch time.  i didn’t have the appetite to eat what i put inside my lunch box and so i grabbed my po-chi biscuits (cheese flavor) and sip my cold coffee.  that’s it.  that’s lunch.

stomach check.  getting even worse.  dear friend was checking to see if we could go on a group dinner date as we agreed.  i kinda didn’t know what to answer.  dear daddy called up for business-related things.  and then, he asked how i was doing. told him my stomach’s aching but i still could handle.  perhaps, i will need to see the doctor the next day, i told him.  and so, we agreed.

stomach check 2:45 pm.  not getting any better still.  stomach already bulging.  i got to really see the doctor before i end up dragging myself again to get to my place.  and so, i told daddy.

at 3:00pm, i was out of the office again.  it was raining real hard but i didn’t care.  i rushed to see daddy.

“aren’t you pregnant?”  came daddy’s question.

funny.  really funny. 

off we went to see the doctor.  the doctor suspected of it as something caused by a virus.   i insisted it’s not for i knew the type of pain was something beyond that in comparison to the symptoms of that stomachache caused by the virus.  poor me.  the doctor just didn’t mind me.  he said i would need an x-ray of my tummy, which i think means, i need an ultrasound.  but he said it’s so expensive and that he would first want me to try out his wild guess.  darn.  and so, he issued a list of medicines.  we went to the drug store to purchase my meds and off i went to my pad while daddy went to his’.

at 4:30pm i am down on my bed. 

what a lonely valentine’s day!  (i wasn’t even able to distribute the chocolates we bought for the men in the office.)

Posted: February 17th, 2007 under Health, Serious Talk.
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