ANNOUNCEMENT - SONGS OF WORSHIP SUB-BLOG HAS BEEN SET UP

Ha it seems that all the youtubes of songs are getting abit irritating for viewers. Cos they'd have to scroll a long time before they get to the next post!

SO I'VE MOVED ALL THE SONGS TO A NEW SUB-BLOG AT: SONGS OF WORSHIP
SO IF YOU WANT TO LISTEN TO THOSE SONGS, PLEASE CLICK "SONGS OF WORSHIP" LINK ON THE SIDEBAR!

THATS ALL FOLKS!

Encouraged

In my boredom amid those Tetralogy of Fallot and incomprehensible short forms of my notes, i browsed youtube and came across this video. About a Muslim who converted to Christianity. Hmmm was very touched and encouraged by his testimony. Nope, not trying to spark any controversy on my homepage but yups, just wanna share this video. I am reminded once again of His love. How great His love is.

Not everyone will have such a striking and supernatural testimony. Everyone has different experiences. But once again I am reminded of the magnitude of His Love. I think that's the main thing about Christianity - Love.

Many has thought that if God is really loving, then everyone would be in heaven. And if it isn't then the love is limited... Well, that's not true. The classic example is satan. God is all-loving, wants everyone to be in heaven with Him. Yet, it really depends on the individual whether he / she wants to be with God. Satan didn't want. He wanted to be his own god. God's love was rejected. So likewise for us, you can only be in heaven if you choose to. You choose to be in His Love or rejecting His Love. God didn't create hell, yet when you reject heaven and God, there is no other place for you to be in, except a place which lacks heaven, devoid of God. And in this place, since it is devoid of God's presence, nothing can be sustained, there is death.

well, yups... here's the video, hope whoever watches it will be as blessed as i am!

Part 1


Part 2


:P

Interesting Day, but seriously...

I need to study! Ha well yups, after wasting the whole day, i guess i must do better tomorrow. Went for rehearsals in the morning, had lunch, then rushed back to NTUC-ing and prepare dinner... cos ...

MY BROTHER's BIRTHDAY.

Ha sorry dudes who wanted to eat this, I can only cook one big meal like once during these 2 weeks... so ha just providing some Photographs. Just treat it as if u've eaten them la!

Ha making dinner from simple ingredients.. Guess i can only do that! Me not so atas (ie high class)! Really marvelled when i saw the 2 brothers on newspaper last time - they had their own professional kitchen at home and they cook for others using the most exotic (and of course, expensive) ingredients. Eg They know how to prepare foie gras! Oh man haha think i'd never reach that standard. But yups, simple pleasures from simple things! Me just a simple man! ha

Drink - Sparkling lemon grass white grape juice. my own concoction! ha used lemon grass as straw!


Salad - Usual salad veg + hawthorn dressing (ha its those mix in water drink) + almond bits + apricot bits - sweet and tasty. Healthier than that mayonnaise or thousand island (eat already must run on thousand islands!)

Starter - haha no photos cos i forgot all about it until i started eating the crab. But yeah its steamed egg (like Jap chawanmushi - er my spelling wrong) mixed w tofu, mushroom and jin1 zhen1 (canto thingy i guess)

Main course - watercress and rice

Main course - Grilled pork ribs! (ha i love it! so nice! Esp after u add some herbs... and it tastes so sweet, slightly sour and slightly spicy.... hahahaha shhh the marinade is trade secret... ha just some random mix from whatever condiments i can find at home)


Main course - CHILLI CRAB

Without the sauce
(ha note that the leg numbers aren't quite in proportion compared to the shell that's cos the person sold us ALL THREE CRABS with only ONE PINCER EACH!!!! They deliberately cut it off! Wert... And we only realised it when we got home. So my dad went to ask about it (actually to complain la haha), but was retorted with the comment: for those crabs with TWO PINCERS it is sold at 20+/kg compared to the current 10+/kg. We were like !?!?!?! So i guess they sell the pincer off to the restaurants who'd make things like crab meat sharksfin... But still, having a "Yang Guo" crabby sounds crappy cos it simply means a few days ago they cut the pincer off and so its not the freshest crab!)
BUT OH WELLS, it turned out that the crab was absolutely fantastic... the meat was succulent and really alot... compared to the past crabs i made, which were smaller, more difficult to eat the crab and abit more "fen3 fen3" ie powdery. Only gripe: one of us didn't get to eat the pincer! NO PINCER GRIP!!!

With the sauce / gravy, whichever u like to call it. (photo not well taken though!)


Finally, the dessert. ha no, not at all sinful.. very light and healthy! All made of fruits! Konnyaku jelly w orange sorbet and grapes and strawberry!


So the whole spread looks something like this:

So healthy rite... the meal doesn't look too oily or fatty. (other than the cholesterol in crab but i made it up with the salad, watercress and fruitty dessert!)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY BROTHER! MUHAHAHA! Think he enjoyed the meal. Well, he better have enjoyed it, or else.... ... ...

TIME TO MUG! oops... its wednesday already! :(

爬得越高，摔的越重!

第一次这么深切地感受到，你做的每一个决定，都能影响许多人。
看起来非常平凡、不起眼的一件事，都能带来严重的后果。
每一件事都须深思熟虑，一不小心便会犯下弥天大错。
以前总以为自己是不怕跌倒，跌倒后能很快站起来。
但原来不是。
又或许人越大，越怕跌倒。
就像那老人家，一跌就会卧病在床，久久不愈。
爬得越高，摔的越重；越大越是摔地重。
我，还在学习如何不怕跌倒，如何很快的再站起来。
毅力不到，而不是一蹶不振。

Cats. ha

I can't help but post this: CUTE! Am reminded of BZ & LLL! muhahaha!

You think only you can doze off...


The ferreting kitty...


The video's too long... but Kitty Wipes is here


Heh

Musings

Random post, referring to myriad of things that happened. So pardon for the jump in thoughts… Each paragraph is but one point of reflection ha. Might/might not have links with the other paragraphs!

I realised its only when its post call do I really sit down and reflect. It is only now do I "pen" it down.

Today, I regretted my own thoughts, my own actions. Its not that I did something outrageous, but it is censured by my own conscience. Rather, the Lord. I realised, while this may not often happen, but there exists a substantial number of people, who are difficult, for a reason. However, we often are just put off by these "difficult" moments, these little snippets of inconveniences which throw us out of our routine that we fail to notice the reasons. I am guilty of that, and for that matter, when I realised the impact of it, it was too late. Had I realised, had I took a moment to think with my heart, I would not have done things like this. I would not have labelled them "difficult" in my heart. I would not have the "if you do not want anything, of course there is nothing I can do and what do you still expect from us".

I so wanted to pray for her, but under those circumstances, I could only mutter something below my breath. I mean when all eyes are scrutinising what you are doing, and any major action that you undertake will potentially bring you down, though it is done out of kindness or concern in your heart. It is not with the subject that you will be helping, but rather the onlookers that are difficult to pacify. You know that who you're reaching out will be appreciative of your efforts, but you do not reach out that hand for fear of the numerous pairs of eyes looking at you. Yes, I do agree this is nothing new. It is an age old argument - tongues will wag. Yet, I am always torn between this "reaching out" and "behaving properly as the society deems appropriate". I know what the society deems correct is never the gold standard. Yet like the turtle, I find it really tough too climb out of that shell. Lord, I need strength to break that shell and crawl out of the comfort zone... Torn between professionalism and what you think is right.

If only I talked to them, things might have been different. I could feel the Holy Spirit nudging me to do something, especially when the words "Rosh Hashana " and " Yom Kippur (day of atonement)" sprung out suddenly. I had the "familiarity" advantage, but I froze in my steps for fear. I should be more afraid that I'm not listening to Him than fitting into the world, but inadvertently, the reverse happened. And my, those words reminded me of my devotion which has dissolved in the face of daily life, how resolutions which I made faded so easily. Aargh! Am disgusted with myself.

Handling the inevitable. I guess one of the reasons I labelled them difficult was that I could not come to terms with this idea they put forth. Probably it was due to my training, or it can be that I could not stand their contradictory statements. Perhaps in situations like this it is always tough to be consistent in your thinking. They were torn between what they wanted and what they felt was best for their loved one. But they've shown me how one handles the big D that haunts everyone. Yes, I know I have victory over that big D, yet when others face it, I do not know how to handle it. I can only leave the big D into His hands. At least, this was not the idea of "comfort measures" that I had. And for a moment I fully experienced what is meant by watching helplessly. It stings most terribly not because you have exhausted your means, but rather you have yet to exhaust your means yet your hands are like tied and you can't do anything.

It seems, as one ages, our outlook towards life change. I am really not sure how she would have wanted things to happen. I keep on getting the feeling that the family were putting their ideas onto her, who was helpless and nearly unarousable. But well, I can’t change their minds. Perhaps this weird feeling it’s just a way that I use to “vent” – as almost all who’re on my list are palliative because the family or person involved chose it.
To cure sometimes, to relieve often, to comfort always. But my idea of comfort has been whacked upside down. Perhaps I’ve not really truly encountered these situations outside the textbook so when I’m faced with it, I need a bit more time for adjustment. Once again, textbook comes alive.

By right the week had been a relaxing week. Non-taxing. Am really not sure why I’m having all these musings.

The mouth. I prayed for Him to reveal the spiritual roots to the affliction. I realized that the mouth is a dangerous tool. And I’ve been using it very much in the wrong way most of the time. Well, at least I didn’t want to blog about this but cannot remember the original context in which I put down the point “the mouth”. So I’m blogging more on the affliction than anything.

This then brings me to the point that I do not seem to write in detail the day’s events. Like a diary. I know if I do not write down in detail events, I will forget the context which I write all these reflections (on my blog). Yet, this is still a public domain, how can I not spare the details? Yet, I am too lazy to re-write them on a so called diary. One of the reasons why blogging has been much more successful that keeping a diary: I prefer typing to writing anytime. (Ha, I cannot imagine if I did not learn to type when I was younger) It is times like this that I can only lament the lost of great details of my liife.

I am back to the "I need time for myself" feeling. So I headed down for my own share of comfort measures today but no didn't get that perfect fix that I wanted. It was still a relaxing afternoon. Ha simple pleasures in life... Felt a little rejuvenated after everything. Classic examplf of the fact that TV does not give you rest. It is spending time with yourself and doing things you truly enjoy that gives you the rest. But well, I am really not sure why I can still be glued to that box all the time. Probably an escape mechanism.

All in all I hope I don't regret that so called sacrifice I've made. Both are once in a lifetime things. Well but then again, many things happen only for that one transient time.

Oh my, its back to that newsbreaking thing again. Still cannot bear to bring myself to break the news. Pray more about it.

Have more to write, but times up! :P brb