Searching for "Ephrem"

2008....Happy New Year dear Eph

2008-01-01T21:24:00.000Z

Eph.....am sure your Christmas was meaningful, special & beautiful.

mine was....except that I should not have spent it in a Muslim country...where azan was booming when it should have been praises & joyous singing to the Lord Jesus.

wonder how it wuld be, if we were to celebrate Christmas together?
would there be lots of cooking & eating?
would there be lots of joy & sharing of laughter?
would there be lots of love?
would there be peace, harmony & happiness amongst family members?
would there be a silent & joyous grateful thanksgiving in rememberance of our Lord Jesus' birth & what Christmas truly means?
on the other side, what would our feelings of each other be?
platonic friendship?
close acquaintance?
close long-lost-now-found friends?
or more than those mentioned?
(would there be a chance for our lips to meet & linger on, during the countdown?)

Am very sure your 2007 was filled with memorable moments, sweet memories & happy milestones, matured perspectives, conquered challenges, fulfilled goals & achieved ambitions.

wherever you are now, at this moment in time, I wish you a very Happy 2008.
May this year bring you great joy, lots of love,& happiness, successes in all that you undertake, victories in all your aims, goals & ambitions.
May this year also bring you closer in your walk with the Lord, to know Him more personally & intimately.

Happy New Year, dear.
May the Lord Jesus bless you richly & abundantly this year & all the years to come!AMEN!

My temper...

2007-12-18T20:45:00.000Z

Hi Eph...
it's been a while, eh?

I blew my top today.....I was fuming... and burst out...kicked the door...threw out the luggage that was the cause of the blowup
1 thing I hate, is being nagged at
I truly detest that. truly hate being nagged & anyone who's a nag
and worse, if that someone happens to be a male, instead of female

why?!
how is it that a guy can be such a nag??! is really beyond me....
funnily, the day didn't start off bad...it was only after dinner & when the nagging started....oh!

anyway...

looking at the date of my last post, I realized it's has beena logn while since I lasted posted...
doesn't mean you're not in my mind though...just didn't have the time (was in the midst of preparation for a mega impt paper) and when that was over, I was busy...rejoicing! watching kdrama marathon....and plainly enjoying the Lord...

it was a great time of celebration...now, I'm in the midst of clearing up my room, getting ready for expansion & increases...I need to extend the place of my tents....

It's always somewhat mentally overwhelming but this is the ONE very thing that I need to eliminate out of the way in order to somewhat mentally progress onward & keep progressing forward...so I need to grit my teeth & push on, no matter how mentally overwhelming it might be...this is the final time I'm going plod through the rut & therafter, no more. It will be victory form here onwards.
God promised that He'll never leave nor forsake me. His Grace is more than sufficient for me to meet all my needs for the day. Praise Jesus. AMEN!

Food, food, FOOD

2007-11-09T19:54:00.000Z

Eph dear...
heard that there's this great Nyonya stall at p.Tikus mkt..
selling all great kinds of Nyonya dishes, including nasi ulam
you bring me there can?

and also, this again, great kerabu mee siam by an old uncle..
we track him down & makan this can?
can?!
I really, really want to go to the P.Tikus market....
been long time...
have heard so much about it
beh tahan oredi...

ok?
set.

:-)

Where are you, Ephrem?

2007-11-04T19:09:00.000Z

Where are you?
I needed you so much, today
so much

I needed a hug
all I had was tears
non stop flowing down my cheeks

dunno why, today (& abit of yest) my eyes seemed like resevoir of tears...
the tears just flowed
I wept alot
where are you?!
I need you here...

Yesterday, I thought of you lots...

2007-10-21T19:10:00.000+01:00

If you noticed I haven't been posting...Not that I don't want to
just that am in the midst of a very mega impt exams preparation
and I just, just CAN'T AFFORD TO SCREW up this time
just bear with me till post exams, ok?
No posts doesnt mean you haven't been in my thots :-)
just not extendedly...

Today...

2007-09-26T23:18:00.000+01:00

I thought alot today
about things, about how I've lived, all these yrs in UK
things that I've done and not done
things should have done but didnt
I thought about Life; in general, in specifics esp to me
my thoughts were alot calmer today than yesterday's

and came to some conclusions
because today, God made His revelations

B&B...discouraged..

2007-09-26T03:40:00.000+01:00

Discouraged. Have you ever felt discouraged?

So disheartened, downcasted and somewhat dejected so much so that everything seems gloomy, dull and grey?
Have you?

I reckon with your level of intelligence, your positivism, your cheerfulness, that even if you ever felt down, you'll never be out; whenever you were downcasted, you'd easily lift yourself up
you'd go kick some balls, play some games, rock your head to some banging of drums and all would be fine and fine to face life again
well, at least you seem the sort to me

*sigh* wish I'm like that - positive, able to lift myself up easily and face life head on again after a fall
but the problem is, it's not 'a' fall...there were so many.......
how, like that?

B&B. hmmm.....God alone knows how badly b&b I am
how badly I need His healing Hands to touch & heal
to lift me up from all the bruises, struggles & battles
did I tell you I'm crushed?

today, I teared so much
I felt so bad towards my dad, felt I've let him down so much and so badly
no, not felt; I have
a billion apologies to him ain't enough to relate how badly I felt, for letting him down
for failing him, time & again
for failing myself....
for failing
how do I make amends?

and like I said in my previous post, everything is so overwhelming

so overwhelming

I really don't know where to look even,

where to start looking

don't know where & how to start

am I making sense?

Today....is Today, Your day?

2007-09-23T19:36:00.000+01:00

Is it?

Is today, your special day?

Happy B'day Ephrem..........
Have a grand celebration..

彭羚 Cass Phang - Still Love You Most 仍然是最愛你

2007-09-05T03:00:00.000+01:00

YouTube - 彭羚 Cass Phang - Still Love You Most 仍然是最愛你

"...I've loved you when I first met you
no matter whom you love in your heart..."
I still only love you...and you alone

Exasperated, frustrated, anxious...disappointed...exasperated!!!

2007-09-04T04:11:00.000+01:00

you know how sometimes you wish you'd could pick up the phone and call the person that you want to speak to so much?

but am not sure if you'd know or could relate to the exasperation and gradual frustration, when there's no number to call?!

the fastest search engine couldn't find me your details
Google couldn't bring up the right 'Ephrem'...and I thought Google's the most reliable and accurate search engine available in the WWW?
what on earth?!!
They should have their share price thoroughly revalued!

the amount of time spent googling you, your details (not that I have many to begin with), the place where we met...*sigh*, could have me covered several chapters of Financial Analysis; the desperate attempts all met with miserable disappointments, the searches all returned the most remotest link to you...*sigh*

in desperate moments like this, I simply wished it's easier
I deeply wished you'd leave more cyber footprints, so that Google could sniff you out...

in the multiple times that I thought about how we would to meet, when our paths were to intertwine again...

I racked my mind scouring the ways, methods, strategies or even meticulously planned 'coincidences' just so I could "bump" into you again....

should I get my aunt to ask my Nan in BM to ask of Lawrence's mum's whereabout?
then get Lawrence's whereabouts...(somewhere in HK, last I heard
then after a looooonnnnnngggg chat, side-tracking everything else, and then,ease into the 'just happen' to ask about you? your whereabouts....what you've doing all these years? ask about how you've doing?...*argh*

it's so mega exasperating
*ARGH*

when I logged in to pen this post, there was a whole lot of points which I had wanted to expand into proses, but the proses just can't seem to form & flow...

well, in short, I had really wanted to call you
to send you texts...
....or just pick the phone, dial your number ....to hear your deeply comforting voice
to ask you how was your day(did you miss me?)
to let you know what I'm feeling right now...
(a bit lost?...in a daze over...?.....not really sure of the direction I shld take....my next steps...)

there are so, so many Qs I wanted to ask..
well, actually....more than anything I just needed to hear your voice tonight
your soothing voice.......
just so I could ......oh well...I don't know...my mind's in a mini whirlpool...

good night dear
xxx

ps: I'll try to be more composed in my trains of thought and put in more effort in trying to articulate the thoughts into comprehensible proses...

I miss you......will we meet again?

2007-09-03T22:02:00.001+01:00

Ephrem dear

This song sings exactly what my heart has been silently asking all this while...'will we meet again?'

'do I exist in your eyes?'

'do you still remember me?'

after all these years...I can't let go...I have no logical reasons why I miss you so very much.....

does love need a logical reason to justify its existence?

I miss you.....Ephrem dear

Sarang hae yo Ephrem

Shall we talk a walk?

2007-09-02T22:55:00.000+01:00

31st Aug 2007...our nation's 50th Merdeka; what were you doing? and the usual Q, where were you? Were you....alone? Was someone else with you?
Did you have your fave Nasi Kandar? and your kopi kao?
Don't ask how I know your fave's=N.Kandar...I just know

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1st Sept
I received 2 sets of news - 50:50, was relieved and in some tiny ways, abit happy in the first 1/2 of the day; but came evening, my mood gradually swung towards the low end of the pendulum...I've been trying for a long time to adopt and apply the 'half-full' mentality instead of the chronic 'half-empty' view of things but I reckon the positive reads helped but a tiny fraction.

Went groceries shopping,on the way home decided to take the bus instead of the usual DLR as wanted to stop for curry (UK Indian style) not your usual Penang mamak's style. The meal was most disappointing.Period. You'd have shown your expression of dissatisfaction but not utter any words of it. No, you wouldn't express your dissatisfaction verbally...

As I was about to cross the road to head home, I deeply wished it was you who was carrying my groceries...you would have said "hold my hand" before we cross....I'd say "don't ever let go"

You'd lead me safely to your car, deposit the groceries in the boot, I'd say "shall we talk a walk?"
(for I wanted to hold your hand..again....for a slightly longer time)

"Sure" you'd smile

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Did you know.....

....my heart was crushed today, when I received the news in the post?
Sadly, the numbness only settled in later and I numbly realized it only in the evening...tears flowed as I told the Lord that.

I thought I would be immuned to pain of such news, after all the years of 'similar torture' but the pain the news brought, still somehow managed to sharply pierce through my tender heart

I was swamped by thousands of emotions at the same time
My mind was exhausted since my last slumber 48hours ago
A gazillion trails of thoughts zoomed through my mind at the same time, although some at varying speeds; some sped thru at the speed of light that I tried to grasp hold but managed only a fleeting glimpse, while some trivial others,at a lingering glance

There was no focused direction of the thoughts; I allowed them to wander through and took delight at things going off tangent...I had some silent questins for the Lord, I still do.....
but I guess it's His perogative to answer or remain silent

Somehow, I kept wondering...
there's so much to think about, to think of.....to wonder

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When I started this journal, I had some hopes of us meeting again

Ephrem....
...somehow,today....as things happened, as some things dawned to me, the chances seemed slim and slimmer??

or, should I say, the hopes somehow, grew dimmer?
the chances, as I calculated again, in a more feasible frame of mind, seemed smaller?

In a more 'negative' frame of mind, do things truly look bleaker? I really wanna get rid of this gloomy goggles thatI've been wearing for so long..
Do numbers lie?

I have a list....actually, a long list, of miracles that I desperately need to happen...
God, are You reading? are You listening?
Where are You, Lord?
My heart is so crushed, do You know?
It hurts, Lord..it really does
I'm not immuned to pain

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Min Roo Na Moo

2007-09-01T01:32:00.001+01:00

Here's the song...

This song makes me think of you...alot

2007-09-01T01:25:00.001+01:00

the rhythm...the 'floating beat' transports me to a world where only thoughts of you fill the entire space...Is it too early to say this?..sarangae Ephrem..

I don't know the lyrics but it's the drama of which this is it's OST, is a very sad if not depressing one. Listen for the melancholic rhythm, not for any sad meaning...

After 22 years..........why did your name pop up again?

2007-08-29T23:14:00.000+01:00

Why now?

I thought: If not now, then when?

If I don't start punching the keyboard now, it'll just get deferred and the procrastination will keep getting the better of me...

At least there'll be a start...and I can keep a journal that chronicles all that happened, and happening, a secret corner where I can 'think of you aloud' and pour out my all my thoughts, random raves, rants and ruminations - which, you certainly will be a big part of.

And, to that, in an impromtu click of the mouse, I find myself here..punching the keys away...

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The date : 25 July2007....

I truly wondered why, of all days, your name popped up in my brain, today...why today?
God must have His reasons...

I thought about you long...and hard......real hard, for a very long time..

in fact you would to fill my entire mind, entire days for the next 10days....

I did nothing at all....except sitting here at my study desk, just allowing the train of thoughts of you to flow freely...
....filling in the gaps...asking the 'whys'...'hows'.....but most of all, 'where are you now?'.....
....and how have life treated you all these years? these long 22 years...since the day we met in B.Mertajam......and if you are happy now...

22 years ago....

It was so brief. It was so short and quick. You appeared, with that rugged chiselled chin and cleanly shaven face of yours, grinning widely as we were introduced by Lawrence.

(also wondering, whatever happened to him and where exactly is he now...? Last I heard from my aunt, he married a HK gal ...residing in plush penthouse in Victoria Harbour now, probably..)

I vividly remembered uttering to myself, "how unique this name, Ephrem, is" as you introduced yourself, adding the explanation to the meaning of your special name.

I thought I remembered much, but in actuality I can't recall all that I wanted to, but I do remember the kiss you planted on my cheek.
You promised you'll see me again, before I left for Johore.

Don't know why you didn't turn up "that afternoon" when we were supposed to meet before I leave the next day. Why? Tell me...

I supposed you had a football game? Or your gf (?) held on tightly to you?

I never knew the reason/s...I didn't ask then as I thought i didn't mean much if not anything, to you...but kept wondering I did...

All that I have after 22years, is the special, unique ringing of your name in my mind and your hometown.
I truly have not the foggiest idea how am I going to hunt you down....*sigh*

but I pray..our paths will cross again, some day...one day...

From the 25 July to pretty much the entire month of August, you invaded and occupied most of my mind, my thoughts, my every breathing moments - so much so, I had to tear myself away from sitting idly down & allowing those thoughts to flow.

I had to get up and start living again. I just had to. It was as if the past 10 or odd days were like....vegetating in a zombie world...

If you must know, I literally spent the 10days or more, allowing my entire thoughts to be fully occupied by you - just you. Period. How scary is that? Very.

I never knew I could allow myself to literally idle and "rot" like this.

But I had to get up and start living again. I need to let the micronism breathe and do something useful and live life.