Day of Prayer

Today, George Bush announced this day as a day of prayer for the hurricane victims and situation. It was held in a church in Washington. Other churches around US also had their own day of prayer. Many people who attended the prayer service all mentioned in the news that they were moved and it was a touching service.


Today, also marks "Hurricane Ivan" anniversary. Exactly one year ago, Hurricane Ivan hit gulf coast and caused damages about US$25 billion. Heard this hurricane hit my apartment and caused damage as well. It was more Mobile and Florida area that was hit. However, Hurricane Katrina is worse..causing more than US$28 billion worth of damage. The news even mentioned that a lot of houses in New Orleans are unsalvageable. Sigh..


Today, me and CT went out for dinner. I told CT that I did not have any vegetables left to cook...and I guess it was also an excuse to go out to eat as I miss outside food. Hehe... We went to TGIF Restaurant for dinner. I ordered a Jack Daniels Flat Iron Steak with fries, while CT ordered grilled chicken breasts with spices and sauce...which was very nice. The service was not as good as compared to other restaurants as it was slow and there were too many people so much so that the waitress looked kind of distracted.

After dinner, we went to Walmart to shop for the hurricane victims. Last week in church, we picked up this grocery list to buy for the victims and pack it into a pail which we can buy all stuff from Walmart. It was a long list, consisting of canned food stuff, baby powder,wipes,peanut butter, dish towels, first aid stuff, toiletries etc...and a bible..

I tell you...it was T.O.U.G.H!! Getting the stuff in a huge huge supermarket made me dizzy..I told CT that my eyes were aching from trying to find the stuff..but as we were striking off the list one by one after picking it up from the shelf, it was so rewarding..and satisfying..The tough part was because we needed to get the exact brand and weight of the item..so, it was quite straining on the eye to find it.

After one hour plus of shopping finally, we went home so happy and excited to pass the stuff to the hurricane victims.

We reached home at 930pm and packed everything in the pail and wrote a short message in the bible to whoever who receives this pail of goodies...I felt very happy.

Then, we watched our VCDs and boy, it was late before we slept..it was 12 plus am already..yawn..

What a day!