More guests

My house is beginning to feel like the old days (about 10-11 years back) when we always had guests staying in our house. Its really amazing. People from all over the world. Today, we have a couple staying with us. They come from America, and they work with World Outreach International, the missions organization my dad works with. Last week, we had a friend from Kuching come by and stayed with us while on a shopping spree (which brings me to amazement at how women can shop for days and not go tired, but its something like I play football for days anyway) Before that, there was a missionary couple from North America (not sure whether US or Canada) who stayed with us. They've been close family friends for maybe 15 years already, since I was really small (before St. Faith even existed!). Next week, we have a guy coming from the Philippines to stay here for a week. Wow. Renovations have started on our house in SS2 and we've got the approval of the municipal council which we obtained yesterday. Praise God! The red-tape (which Badawi plans to get rid of, at least some of it) made us wait for a pretty long time and my dad had to always call them up and push them to do the work. Anyway, praise God that we've got the approval and all the work on the house can be done. Hoping to move in by end of the year, during my mid-term break. I've got my own room too, so that's gonna be exciting. And its bigger than the one I have now, so there's more space for doing stuff. While in Iraq, more bombings occured, a memorial football match was played in honour of Marc-Vivien Foe, the Cameroonian footballer who suddenly died during an African Confederations Cup in June. A great player with Lyon, Lens, Manchester City and with his national team, Cameroon, he has won two African Nations' Cup titles, French Championships, played in two World Cups and has 65 national caps. The memorial match, featuring stars like Thierry Henry, Nicolas Anelka, Samuel Eto'o and Robert Pires with the proceeds going for charity, was a grand event. It goes to show that where in the midst of scandals and problems that football associations face worldwide as well as the degrading nature of football and hooliganism, topped off with drug abuse, violent players and match-fixing, there remains a great deal of hope that professional football has not lost all its sense of sportsmanship. As for me, I'm off to "hit the sack".