22:49.

She told us she saw heaven.

As she stepped into the church sanctuary, with just one foot in over the threshold, the old lady demonstrates then gestured excitedly, she saw the stage and everything else turn to gold and a cool wind blew at her and her physical aches were relieved just like that.

She's 74 years old, a plump old lady Jen and I met while prayer walking about the estate our company is located in. We were walking along one void deck, one of those with flats on the first floor too. It was also one of those "upgraded" estates (that's the term we use in Sg for old blocks which get overhauled with major renovation to pretty them up) so the lift - as in keeping with the old style - was not on the first floor, but a half floor away, or one stairs up, from the first floor.

Yeah, it's hard to describe but I digress.

Yes, the old aunty was lugging a heavy looking trolley (those metal-go-to-market types where you dump everything in) and we stopped to help her carry it up those stairs. Then, she lives on a level where the lift doesn't stop directly at so we helped her carry it up those stairs too.

She was asking us if we are evangelising and then said she has been a Christian for 10 years. Then, with great joy she shared about the vision she had.

She told us too about how her elder brother "bullies" her. They live together. She prays for him everyday, she says. And before we took our leave, we prayed for her and him.

Yes, in Mandarin.

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And I really wanted to write about an interesting interviewee I talked for two hours to yesterday night but am going to be prudent and not write about it until the story comes out. Yes, yes, I am paranoid but some other journo might read this and try to tackle it too.

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And just for a more detailed idea of my work scope now:

Sunday night - Attended N K F charity show, colleague who I attended the show with and myself filed a story that night for Mon's News pages. Left office at 1am, which was earlier than I expected

Monday - Filed TV review for Joey, made calls in the afternoon, met very interesting newsmaker in the evening until 8pm (for news story, not entertainment)

Tuesday - Short intw at 1130. Met interviewer at company's lobby. Called many people for feature on a new local programme, couldn't write it up because broadcaster did not get back in time (and i hv been chasing for a week now). Left work on time at 7pm and at home, watched a video for work purposes.

Wednesday - If the above comes through, file it. Would make calls and if I can't start writing that, then I'd start writing article on Garbage instead. Oh, and meeting at 11am.

Thursday - Write the local programme article or Garbage's, depending on which one got done on Wed.

Friday - File Garbage CD review. Do phoner with model we shot last week. Try to file the beautiful people weekly column for which this is for.

And next week, we will start again.

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And I miss you.