paktoh

KC and I have attended at least 3 marriage courses and read numerous books on healthy marriage etc etc. Every guru of marriage says the same thing...take time off to date once a week. Well, we tried but after a while we get so overwhelmed by our busy life that we forget about it.

Today was another attempt after being inspired by a fellow colleague who goes with her hubby on his big bike to places like Genting, Melaka, PD for breakfast every Saturday morning.

Eating is not so good....too much food will make me rounder. So KC decided we should paktoh ala USM days. I packed my Bible and the lent meditations and we set off to CityPark.

When we were in USM, we would meet once a week to date armed with the book which we intended to study together. We did quite many book studies from The Lord's Prayer to marriage. We explored places all over Penang and even reached Bukit Mertajam. I remembered two places clearly; the Christian cemetary at Youth Park and a Jewish cemetary somewhere in town. I like the Jewish cemetary.

Today's effort was really good. So much better than going to restaurants to eat and bore each other with small talks. Being in CityPark by the lake and watching the fishes and tortoises swimming around helped me to relax. Reading the Bible and doing the lent meditation together was really like the old days and enabled us to focus better. We made quite a few decisions and shook hands to a partnership in our service in church (KC thinks I should partner him in that area of service).

We have made an appointment to meet here again next month. Weekly is definitely impossible...this is a good start for the year anyway.