Phew! What a week it has been. Sunday is almost up. I used to have calendars and time system planners with the week starting on a Sunday. I can’t remember why. I mean I was following the Time System programme. I purchased their most expensive leather binder and every accessory they had. I believed in the system so strongly, that I encouraged my circle of friends to use the system.

Before I got married, I encouraged my then girlfriend to then fiancé to now wife, to use the Time System by getting her a set, too.

And before long, this form of time management system became a thing of the past. At least for me. I was a techy guy and soon everything was on this gizmo called a smartphone. Fast forward to today, I have everything on my smartphone (hope it does not get too big for its “boots”?, as technology on phones are constantly evolving.

The company from what I gather on its website, is still doing well. It is a system worth following. Though I am not a Time System user now, I still implement many ideas from what I learnt when I used it for over 12 years.

Now, my week starts on a Monday. Has been for many years. It also means that I am in tune with schedules of other people.

Right now, this very moment, while working with this essay, I am eating one of those commercially made fruit cake slices, which is very (very!) dry, and below o.k. in taste; just eaten two Panadol and drinking a mug of ice cold milo. Fruit cake – not much of a choice since I bought it from a convenience store nearby. And I am hungry now, since dinner was light and eaten fairly early. And yes, eaten two Panadol (paracetamol tablets) – it is the local way, the Malaysian way of saying “just taken” when it comes to medicine.

So, the week has been pretty interesting. Jeannie, my wife; took a couple of days leave from work. We visited a couple of new places to eat. My good friend, Dick Black from South Carolina, U.S.A.; remarked that we seem to be eating out all the time. Good point. We are. I think it has to do with traffic jams too and from work. It takes a good chunk out of our day, each day. Which means we rather eat out and make our way back when the traffic presumably has eased up.

We welcomed the public holiday, Wesak (celebrated by people of the Buddhist faith); when we took a break from travelling through traffic jams. In the evening, I had an accident when I momentarily was airborne, while leaving a pharmacy in Taipan. I injured my knee and hands. Jeannie was with me at that time. She rushed me to the clinic to have my wounds treated.

Thank you family members, friends and readers for the hundreds of messages of concern and wishes for a speedy recovery. The wounds are healing nicely, though there is still some pain. I have been off my daily 10km walk. Waiting to get back on soon.

“Yes” that was what she said – she has announced that she is engaged to be married. Laura, our daughter; is very happy. We, the Batik Influencer, Jeannie; and I, the Hatted Writer; her parents; 😁, are very happy for her.

The weekend at Amcorp Shopping Mall was pretty exciting, quieter than most weekends. However, it did have its fair share of great moments. Jeannie met and introduced batik and her JEANNIE’S OWN Batik Cape creations to many people. Her batik capes are simply vibrant – for official, casual, anytime wear.

We met with a person working with a NGO for refugees. He talked to us about the refugee status in Malaysia and with neighbouring countries. Malaysia has been accommodating. There over 250,000 refugees here. They are still “stateless” – waiting (some for many years) to get some form of recognition. People are without jobs, children without school. They don’t have identification papers (lost when they left their home countries). To make things slightly easier, they are all born January 1st. The NGOs have been working at their best to help see to the needs of the refugees. We are sure to meet this person again as he hails from Klang. He went to the same school I did (he is many years my junior).

Now, that the week has past, which was the future before it started, which had multiple unplanned for events together with those that were planned, we take all the “+”s and bring it with us to the new week ahead. We will strive to put in more than just our best in the journey ahead of us and aim for happiness as the result of all that we have achieved.