Moving day again!

On Monday we moved to our "permanent home" (well, 3 months, which feels permanent after staying for 3 days at the hotel and 17 days at the Fuller Guest House). It is very nice and Lucas was of course very excited to be someplace new again! Our apartment is fully furnished and even has a DVD player, stereo system and around 500 cable TV channels. There is a TV set in each room, microwave and dishwasher, all of which we don't even have in our apartment in KL!

You may be wondering what one would do with 500 TV channels - after all, even channel surfing 5 seconds through each channel would already take more than an hour and a half! Well, this is what I learnt yesterday just by surfing channel no.900-950 (music channels) - I now know that:

- Franz Shubert was born on January 31, 1797 in Vienna
- 288 million CDs were sold in the US in 1990
- A popular early synthesizer was the Moog, named after it's inventor Robert Moog- Contralto is the term given to a female singer with the lowest voice range

All this while listening to the related genre of music!

On the project, our team is growing - we are now 3 strong (welcome Emily!) and in a couple of weeks we will have a fourth member. Dan brought a French press today and we had some incredibly strong coffee. We also attended the weekly chapel session at World Vision, and it was a better experience than I had anticipated. There was a lot of humour, including this joke, and there was also a very moving service for a member of WV who had passed away last week. I found it very touching that there would be a eulogy performed at the workplace for a departed colleague. The eulogy itself was very well delivered, and the key message was that the most important inscription on a tombstone is not the date of birth or the date of death, but the dash in between - for it is in that dash that the person's time on earth and all the moments of his/her life are captured.

The other key point I took away was that wherever in the world you live, you can make a difference in others lives, and you don't need microwaves, dishwashers and 500 TV channels to do so!

Lucas has certainly been making a difference in our lives, and we hardly remember what things were like before he came along. He turned 8 months old yesterday (sometimes it feels like 8 years!) and I am quite sure he will be walking before we know it. He is developing his character steadily - he is very curious and determined, and he loves apples but will not eat peaches. He hates bedtime because he thinks we are doing exciting things when he's asleep (haha - if only he knew!) and he has the willpower to keep himself awake until we fall asleep first! He is also very friendly to strangers and knows how to show off to them, so no one believes what a little rascal he actually is...and amazingly, I wouldn't want him to be any different (I just wish I was able to survive on less sleep and keep up with him)!