A long update.

Apologies to all for my disappearance. Times does fly and it has been quite a long time since I last wrote. It is a case of a willing spirit but a 'lazy' body. Anyway, lots of activities lately but it is pretty much routine stuff save for a few peculiar incidents. Some pleasant and some not so. It is amazing how much one can be affected by seemingly trivial stuff. I guess that is one reason God has chosen to allow me more time here on earth to work out my salvation. Living here in isolation has it's benefits in that a lot could be achieved if one so desires and wills it to be, alternatively one could also choose not to lift a finger and just sit back and watch the sun rise and set. I have my share of both and a lot does depend on discipline one self, forcing yourself to trudge on when all else tells you to give up. This spiritual journey is getting interesting as I see the day of the Lord's coming approaching. It does appear to me that many of the 'saints' are too preoccupied with the matters of the world, no, not in wanting to change the world but rather the little world they create for themselves, also giving into idle talk, drinking and merry making. The world and its' attractions have this disturbing ability to entice even the strongest of man. God's calling and ways becomes as foolishness. Seconds passes, minutes go, hours turn to days, months drift on to become years and soon we will be found wanting if we do not choose to live for Christ. One personal struggle I have is maintaining oil in my lamp, without oil I guess my light isn't alight let alone shining. There goes this one man professing to believe and follow Jesus, who purportedly profess to know the way to abundant living ended up just as lost and with no inkling what hit him. I think much of our preoccupation with the accumulation of material wealth stems from the void and insecurity we feel inside. This state of a empty human heart drives us to do what we do and may ultimately drive us all to extinction as we deplete the earth of its' limited resources to satisfy our every craving. Sorry if my thoughts seem muddled and fuzzy, it has been quite a long time since I last wrote and I am just writing whatever that is coming to my mind now as I type away on my more than 3yr old trusted Toshiba Portege A100 notebook. OK. Enough of the above, seriously if you reading my thought do take time to pause a moment and talk to God our father. Do ask for filling of oil without which our lights just goes out. If you have to ask, oil means the Holy Spirit
Here at the farm, the chicks are doing alright and we should be able to provide chickens for our customers by mid-December. Rainy days are here and it can pour the whole day without respite. As I write, it is still pouring out there. It is a good time to plant and we have planted some 'sarawak' pineapples. The nursery called this afternoon on the availability of durian sappling and we would be collecting tomorrow and hopefully plant then all in a day. God willing these efforts will pay off in a couple of years.
News on our faithful companions. Candy has learned how to open the cage so there's no way to lock her up ... till I get a lockset, Cookie is inside, Olive is big now and well behaved, playful just like the dad, Gordon is well, Daisy is as active as the terriers, Mac is smelly, Kimi is greedy, Reggie is as blur or enjoy life without any worries. Ranger is still fooling around. Lastly, our sweet Ginger may be a mother soon. Me? I'm pressing on.