{"id":123,"date":"2012-12-28T13:50:26","date_gmt":"2012-12-28T05:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fdelix.org\/lnhs79\/?p=123"},"modified":"2022-01-13T15:33:59","modified_gmt":"2022-01-13T07:33:59","slug":"a-red-letter-day-morning-potpourri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fdelix.org\/lnhs79\/memories\/a-red-letter-day-morning-potpourri\/","title":{"rendered":"A Red-Letter Day Morning Potpourri"},"content":{"rendered":"

All set and ready for the big day. Not an ordinary day but a celebration of the 14th<\/sup> year of being together as husband and wife. A red-letter day indeed! I woke up at a time my alarm fed my head\u00a0by tweets and\u00a0chirps in a rainforest smartly generated by a smart phone. Okay it was 5:30 am, the time set when my kids were supposed to be awake for school preparation. But the day, 28th<\/sup> Dec 2012, it\u2019s in the middle of their holiday break in school and it would be a good three or four hours for the teenaged girls to stay\u00a0rested on the bed with blankets all over caused by 8 deg C temperature. On stepping on the\u00a0floor\u00a0from bed I saw an A4\u00a0paper, I knew right away it would be from the little one. Yeah, a greeting complete with sketches and the\u00a0coined words coming from\u00a0happy face, Annie the\u00a0 movie, a verse in the Bible and Rosary,\u00a0 forming the words “Happy Anniversary”. Dear God, thanks for these kids, we love them however “makulit” they would have become at times.<\/p>\n

I went to the living room\u00a0clasping the little\u00a02013 Diary with the cover of St. Pedro\u00a0Calungsod, sitting on the sofa and flipping through its pages I came across the prayers section, one of which was about\u00a0giving the day to the Lord. I meditated and said the prayer,\u00a0offering this wonderful day all to God.\u00a0\u00a0I\u00a0had 2 good hours to prepare before going down to catch my favourite 7:45 bus. I\u00a0did some cleaning-up of tiny messes brought by our late to bed caused by mix-up of activities the day before. I\u00a0brewed my\u00a0coffee, not of the machine served but through the good old traditional single coffee filter cup with scorching water dripped over to fill my porcelain cup placed underneath the filter. \"K51\"The aroma took every space of the kitchen and this brought me to full consciousness. Oh wait,\u00a0I saw some cups and saucers left unwashed overnight and felt the urge of liquidating them. The adrenalin\u00a0rush pushed\u00a0me to pick up every dirt found and finally came out of the kitchen feeling victorious. Not realizing how much work was done, I took a peek on the wall clock above the main door and it was 7:05 am already, you mean I did the chores for almost two hours?\u00a0I was scrambling to get to the toilet and made a hasty bath to be able to collect a copy of HK Standard on my way to the bus stop.<\/p>\n

Everything was set and lo, I planted a sweet goodbye kiss to my dear wife’s forehead who was\u00a0half conscious and greeted me \u201cHappy Anniversary\u201d. As I walked down with my hair still wet and feeling the cool breeze sweeping my face, I\u00a0saw from afar buses coming to halt. I had my newspaper clipped with my left arm when I recalled what I planned the night before that I would be\u00a0taking the new route the KMB\u00a0had introduced in the area about a 15-minute\u00a0journey from home. Oh, okey, K51\u00a0bus will bring me there, and behold, the bus that I usually take had\u00a0come, the 252B, \"252b\"I had a little panicking inside me confused whether to get the new journey or stick to the old monotonous ride. Hmm.. after a while, my senses brought my feet at the doorstep of K51 bus.
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\n<\/em>The K51\u00a0is one of the fedder buses of LRT serving the sorrounding areas of Tuen Mun and in this case it goes as far as the Correctional Services in what it is now called\u00a0Tuen Mun Bus-Bus Interchange or TM-BBI.\u00a0I took the ride and swiped my Octopus card and to my dismay I\u00a0had -$1.20 cents left,\u00a0I can feel\u00a0my face\u00a0turning red and the air-conditioning system didn’t help abate the warm gas\u00a0my skin was exuding. OK, stay calm I told myself, I checked my wallet, nothing, not even a 10$ bill, I took my coin purse, it’s a bit heavy. I started counting and down to the last 10 cents, I only had $9.60 in all. The journey from the TM-BBI to my workplace would cost me about $15.00 and where would I be taking the difference from. There is no 7\/11, no bank, as this place is newly developed, not even as a commercial area but a bus interchange. The bus was on the last\u00a0minute of the journey, I was expecting that it would stop to where I would be taking the second leg to my work, again another heatwave came to my head when I realized that K51 and 252B are from two different companies and their bus stations differ and nothing<\/p>\n

To be continued..<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

All set and ready for the big day. Not an ordinary day but a celebration of the 14th year of being together as husband and wife. A red-letter day indeed! I woke up at a time my alarm fed my head\u00a0by tweets and\u00a0chirps in a rainforest smartly generated by a smart phone. Okay it was 5:30 am, the time set when my kids were supposed to be awake for school preparation. But the day, 28th Dec 2012, it\u2019s in the middle of their holiday break in school and it would be a good three or four hours for the teenaged girls to stay\u00a0rested on the bed with blankets all over caused by 8 deg C temperature. On stepping on the\u00a0floor\u00a0from bed I saw an A4\u00a0paper, I knew right away it would be from the little one. Yeah, a greeting complete with sketches and the\u00a0coined words coming from\u00a0happy face, Annie the\u00a0 movie, a verse in the Bible and Rosary,\u00a0 forming the words “Happy Anniversary”. Dear God, thanks for these kids, we love them however “makulit” they would have become at times. I went to the living room\u00a0clasping the little\u00a02013 Diary with the cover of St. Pedro\u00a0Calungsod, sitting on the sofa and flipping through its pages I came across the prayers section, one of which was about\u00a0giving the day to the Lord. I meditated and said the prayer,\u00a0offering this wonderful day all to God.\u00a0\u00a0I\u00a0had 2 good hours to prepare before going down to catch my favourite 7:45 bus. I\u00a0did some cleaning-up of tiny messes brought by our late to bed caused by mix-up of activities the day before. I\u00a0brewed my\u00a0coffee, not of the machine served but through the good old traditional single coffee filter cup with scorching water dripped over to fill my porcelain cup placed underneath the filter. The aroma took every space of the kitchen and this brought me to full consciousness. Oh wait,\u00a0I saw some cups and saucers left unwashed overnight and felt the urge of liquidating them. The adrenalin\u00a0rush pushed\u00a0me to pick up every dirt found and finally came out of the kitchen feeling victorious. Not realizing how much work was done, I took a peek on the wall clock above the main door and it was 7:05 am already, you mean I did the chores for almost two hours?\u00a0I was scrambling to get to the toilet and made a hasty bath to be able to collect a copy of HK Standard on my way to the bus stop. Everything was set and lo, I planted a sweet goodbye kiss to my dear wife’s forehead who was\u00a0half conscious and greeted me \u201cHappy Anniversary\u201d. As I walked down with my hair still wet and feeling the cool breeze sweeping my face, I\u00a0saw from afar buses coming to halt. I had my newspaper clipped with my left arm when I recalled what I planned the night before that I would be\u00a0taking the new route the KMB\u00a0had introduced in the area about a 15-minute\u00a0journey from home. Oh, okey, K51\u00a0bus will bring me there, and behold, the bus that I usually take had\u00a0come, the 252B, I had a little panicking inside me confused whether to get the new journey or stick to the old monotonous ride. Hmm.. after a while, my senses brought my feet at the doorstep of K51 bus. The K51\u00a0is one of the fedder buses of LRT serving the sorrounding areas of Tuen Mun and in this case it goes as far as the Correctional Services in what it is now called\u00a0Tuen Mun Bus-Bus Interchange or TM-BBI.\u00a0I took the ride and swiped my Octopus card and to my dismay I\u00a0had -$1.20 cents left,\u00a0I can feel\u00a0my face\u00a0turning red and the air-conditioning system didn’t help abate the warm gas\u00a0my skin was exuding. OK, stay calm I told myself, I checked my wallet, nothing, not even a 10$ bill, I took my coin purse, it’s a bit heavy. I started counting and down to the last 10 cents, I only had $9.60 in all. The journey from the TM-BBI to my workplace would cost me about $15.00 and where would I be taking the difference from. There is no 7\/11, no bank, as this place is newly developed, not even as a commercial area but a bus interchange. The bus was on the last\u00a0minute of the journey, I was expecting that it would stop to where I would be taking the second leg to my work, again another heatwave came to my head when I realized that K51 and 252B are from two different companies and their bus stations differ and nothing To be continued..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fdelix.org\/lnhs79\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fdelix.org\/lnhs79\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fdelix.org\/lnhs79\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fdelix.org\/lnhs79\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fdelix.org\/lnhs79\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fdelix.org\/lnhs79\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124,"href":"http:\/\/fdelix.org\/lnhs79\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions\/124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fdelix.org\/lnhs79\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fdelix.org\/lnhs79\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fdelix.org\/lnhs79\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}