New Friend

I was tired after the Maulud celebration at Hougang Stadium last sunday. Never slept the whole day, busy preparing 12000 packets of briyani rice for the 12000 crowd expected to come to the stadium and last minute check to all things to do list before the project itself.

Alhamdulillah, yes, slightly more than 11000 turn up that day to join us in the maulud celebration. All donations that day will be equally divided to En-Naeem Mosque and An-Nur Mosque. Alhamdulillah, we got $21,000. I've decided to make a move first before the programme ends, because i need to fetch my new friend at the hotel at 2.30pm.

Who is this new friend of mine... she's 18, a german, and her name is Mirja (pronounce as MayYa). She was on a learning programme for one year where she had to stay out of her country in another country for a year. So, she decided to stay in Shah Alam, Malaysia. She's been in the country for 10months now, before she decides to visit Singapore since its just a few hours train ride away. She's a tall girl, probably 2-3cm taller than me, natural green eyes, blonde, funny and jovial, and guess what, she even talked to me in Singlish..... hahahahha, not all the time of coz, she picked a few lines while staying in Shah Alam.

So, i pick her up, bring her around Singapore, went to see the Merlion, took a cable car ride to Sentosa, visited the "Images of Singapore" and took a cable car ride back before sending her to Golden Mile where her bus depart for KL at 6.30pm.

Even though i did not sleep at all that day, its surprising to see that i managed to stay awake and drove her around without feeling sleepy or anything. Well, probably i'm excited about meeting my first foreign friend. Thanks Mirja for being my friend, hope you enjoyed your stay here in Singapore, please do come again.