Monday, July 4, 2011

Above All - Michael W. Smith

Another song that touched me today...

He's the Lord Above All.... above all... things


Verse 1:
Above all powers
Above all kings
Above all nature
And all created things
Above all wisdom
And all the ways of man
You were here
Before the world began

Verse 2:
Above all kingdoms
Above all thrones
Above all wonders
The world has ever known
Above all wealth
And treasures of the earth
There's no way to measure
What You're worth

Chorus:
Crucified
Laid behind the stone
You lived to die
Rejected and alone
Like a rose
Trampled on the ground
You took the fall
And thought of me
Above all

Loving the Lord evermore

It is because of the Lord's love, I am able to love.
It is because of the Lord's strength, I am able to wash two rounds of laundries and bake another round of muffins.
It is because of the Lord's wisdom, I am able to understand better the reason of Him calling us for His greater purpose on earth.

It is because of the Lord, I am who I am today.
And for the Lord's in my life, I have a future that's filled with hope, love, joy, peace and purpose.

Loving the Lord evermore, for He loves me more than I can ever imagine.

Love You, the Lord in my life.
Praise be Your name, Almighty God!


Wednesday, June 29, 2011

God is our shelter

Another nice cloudly morning. Thank you Lord for such a good weather that refreshes.

This gloomy sky color always put me in deep thoughts.

The rain started to pour heavily. Students in the school right next to us running from the field to get themselves covered. Lord, thank you for being our Shelter in protection. In times of trouble and circumstances, we have the privilege to run after Your arm for shelter. There is no need of running everywhere trying to see where to go... We just have to call upon Your name. In Your presence is where we find rest.

Thank you our Father in Heaven, who loves us so much! Thank you for Your rain that reminds of Your goodness. Give You praise, Almighty God...

Monday, June 27, 2011

A raining morning...

Thank u Father, for a lovely morning... The rain wash away our tiredness and burden of the days that had passed. Now we can have a fresh new start!

Hubby was joking if only he could just sleep in or stay home with the breeze and coziness. But we know, God has mission for us everyday... To care, bless, work hard, and glorify His name in our workplace- mission field.

I dragged myself out of bed though I was given the opportunity to- I have only noon class today and hubby could handle breakfast himself today. It was really tempting to just continue cuddle under the blanket and continue my dreams. I know, if I do I would have just wasted another great morning. So, I made myself out of bed.

Hubby was just going to start his breakfast. I joined in. Sipping the green tea he had poured for me and enjoy the lovely morning under the heavy down pour. It is lovely enough to just chilling... Thank God I was able to share this cozy morning with him before he head out.

Now that I am up, I can continue the photobook project that I started some days ago. Couldn't find any photobook software that fits the size, I'm doing it from scratch using publisher. Just like how I designed all our wedding materials before our wedding.

Praise God for the ability and patient to find backgrounds and start with blank pages. I'd completed 3 pages with hubby last night, 47 more pages to go. : ) it's gonna be challenging! God is good... Thank you Lord for a fresh start for a brand new week!!

Friday, June 24, 2011

Do not be proud

As I was ironing... The Lord says, "do not be proud, as I will Surely humble you; but when you humble yourself, I will make you proud. " Some words that was said was very disturbing to me, I could not put myself right. Feeling disgusted... By d immaturity. I love them deeply but hate d attitude sometimes. But I have to lift it high into God's hand, then I will be set free from it.

Lord, help me to forgive... For they do not know what they are doing n saying. May Your wisdom be poured into them that they may see Your kingdom beyond their pride. May Your holy spirit convict them of their words, n may them see what You see n love as You love. Amen!!

Modern Christian Housewife: Homemade Natural Cough Syrup

Found this from Modern Christian Housewife and feel that it's something really good to at least keep in mind for emergency use...

Modern Christian Housewife: Homemade Natural Cough Syrup: "My family came down with nasty colds last week, hence my lack of posting. I prefer all natural remedies over store bought medicines whenever..."

Wednesday, June 22, 2011

you can only choose to be one

Revelation 3:15-16 "I know all the things you do, that you are neither hot or cold. I wish that you were one or another! But since you are like lukewarm water, I will spit you out of my mouth!" I'd chose to be Hot for Jesus n always keep to His teaching. I will follow Him... Not what the world says. I don't wanna be spat out n end up in hell. Thus, I have to walk my life carefully... Thank you Lord for Your strong words... I will keep this in my heart...

Monday, May 9, 2011

Day 1 in Phuket

Woke up late today. We'd decided to really enjoy our holiday by not watching the clock and rushing our time. It's a getaway trip... We shld be out of our routine.

Took our time in lazying n getting ready. Then we walk out to the Kamala Road for brunch... Last night while one of the owner of the hotel- Terry picked us up from the airport. He mentioned a nice Bakery Cafe nearby. So we walked there to try out their food.

The price is more at the tourist side I would say. Also almost the same as KL's cafe's pricing. They have quite some variety but I picked Thai Fried Rice with Tuna [80baht], hubby picked Bacon Salad [80 baht], too for the reason of budgeting. As for beverage we ordered Ice Latte (for me) and hot Espresso (for hubby). Cost at 50 baht and 40 baht respectively. As we took the photos on digital camera only so can only upload the photos while we get back to Malaysia.

We could not walk long around the town after brunch due to my carelessness of not bringing my sun shade that caused headache becos of d bright sun n heat. While walking back to hotel, we dropped by Tesco Lotus Express to check out their local products. Most of their goods are same as ours, but they have porky products we can't get in Tesco. Bought some pork floss back for breakfast, guava, two bottles of Apple flavour soda water to rejuvenate the dehydration.

Chilled back in the room, but there's no water supply as there's piping problem as well as wifi service is down. Terry came over to apologise and explain that these issue happened quite often but they will get things fixed real fast. Well, we booked a budget hotel/inn and paying at a low price... How much more could we ask for when the hotel upgraded our room without any request, and the fact that we basically have the whole hotel to ourselves due to the low season month in Phuket?

Not long after the Internet problem, the electricity was cut off totally too. Terry informed that there's problem with the main cable on the road. Seems like the entire cable was broken. I am not surprised because I heard some sound on the pole as we walked out this morning/noon.

We were sort of stucked in the room not knowing what to do. We can't go out because I have no shade and was having headache; and, the room is stuffy. Hubby offered to walk out to the main road and get me a shade, how sweet is he. I praise God for a loving and caring hubby who always put me before himself. I'm happy with it!! It's a lovely gift from my lovely hubby.

The sky turned dark and I heard the wind blowing. I prayed real hard for the Lord to hold the rain until hubby is back so he would not be wet. Whenever the wind blows, I stopped my reading and pray. God answered my prayer, though the sky was dark and the winds was blowing, hubby got back d.r.y. :)

The rain came later, heavily. As though God was trying to wash away the heat and cool our day down. It was amazing sitting in the balcony enjoying the breeze in the time when we were out of electricity. God is simply awesome, He used the nature to bless us in situations. Soon after the rain stopped, the heat start to rise and next thing we know- the electric supply is back, so as the water and wifi... How amazing! God plans everything in such an amazing order. Who could do all these other than our Soverign God? Praise Him for He is almighty!!

Saturday, May 7, 2011

Forever Reign - Hillsong

Hallelujah to a God who's Forever Reigned.

... my heart will sing.. no other name, Jesus... Jesus...


I'd converted the video into mp4 so it can be downloaded and save in iPhone/iPod/iPad. Enjoy~


Verse:
 You are good, You are good
When there's nothing good in me
You are love, You are love
On display for all to see
You are light, You are light
When the darkness closes in
You are hope, You are hope
You have covered all my sin

You are peace, You are peace
When my fear is crippling
You are true, You are true
Even in my wandering
You are joy, You are joy
You're the reason that I sing
You are life, You are life,
In You death has lost it's sting

Chorus:

 Oh, I'm running to your arms,
I'm running to arms
The riches of your love
Will always be enough
Nothing compares to Your embrace
Light of the world forever reign

Verse:

 You are more, You are more
Than my words will ever say
You are Lord, You are Lord
All creation will proclaim
You are here, You are here
In your presence I'm made whole
You are God, You are God
Of all else I'm letting go

Chorus:

 Oh, I'm running to your arms
I'm running to arms
The riches of your love
Will always be enough
Nothing compares to Your embrace
Light of the world forever reign

Bridge:

 My heart will sing
no other name
Jesus, Jesus

Chorus:

 Oh, I'm running to your arms
I'm running to arms
The riches of your love
Will always be enough
Nothing compares to Your embrace
Light of the world forever reign

Thursday, April 28, 2011

He's a God who provides - Part II

In the earlier post- Busy and Mentally Torturing April, I talked about the Phuket air ticket that I'd booked last year during the promotion for this coming May at the end of the earlier post.  I was saying that we don't have any extra to even book for a night to stay as well as expenses.

Hubby just skype me about his April's paycheck where another part of his bonus was included and now we have few hundreds extra, and the best news is... that means..... WE CAN GO PHUKET FOR HOLIDAY!!!!

The feeling is really awesome... from knowing it is IMPOSSIBLE  for us to take a vacation after all these months and NOW... it is definitely POSSIBLE to go!!!



I can't express the happiness enough in words... but it is only God's awesome power could bless us!



We are planning not to spend more than half of the bonus and keep the other half for any emergency (since we dont have savings at all).  AND, need not have to doubt... the 10% of the bonus will be back to God's kingdom!!!



= )


Thank you JESUS!



p/s: and now we are seeing the RAINBOW after the storm... Praise the Lord!!!







AND my heart go... "shalalalala.... shalala in the morning.... Oooooh~~~~"

Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Hunting for a Dust Prevention Net for window

I am not sure if there's such thing exist, but our home need a Dust Net (similar to mosquito net) for our room windows.  As mentioned in the earlier post...

I didn't even include sweeping and mopping cos we really don't do that frequently.  Not that I love seeing dirt around the house, but because our apartment are right next to a plaza when there are more than 20 air-condition blowing to our side.  No matter how hard I sweep, it will last the max is two days... and the dust will pill up again.
Our unit is always dusty even we just open the room's windows before we sleep.

I cleaned the floor yesterday, the dust is accumulated as though the room's been emptied for more than three months.  So, I think we need a dust protection if there's any...

I tried googled but found nothing that's close to what I say.  If you are reading this and know anything about it please do leave me a comment, we will be very thankful.


Now I will continue to google solution for it...

p/s: I'd rearranged our furniture a little to ease the process of sweeping, now I am happy with the arrangement so as hubby.  =)

Our room - move in one of the bed side lamps from living hall. Now both side has lamps
Chair for hubby to sit while he's wearing socks (moved from living hall).

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

His plan

Thanks to Pei Yin... a verse that I need for today.

For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Jeremiah 29:11

Busy and mentally torturing April

Month of April... is been busy.


My calendars are packed and full... physically I am stretched, so as spiritually and mentally.


Some how I am reminded that work is another issue that could easily pull Christian away from God.  So very easy...

Came back from rehearsals, I am normally tired and lazy of doing anything else in the home.  Laundry piled up, dishes piled up so as ironing.  I didn't even include sweeping and mopping cos we really don't do that frequently.  Not that I love seeing dirt around the house, but because our apartment are right next to a plaza when there are more than 20 air-condition blowing to our side.  No matter how hard I sweep, it will last the max is two days... and the dust will pill up again.

I still bake here and there... but, I do feel that the whole routine is messed up. Whenever there's rehearsals and shows added in my teaching schedule it will be another session to arrange the slots to accommodate both.  Not complaining, but... at times I just feel like physically I am not as fit as I used to be on top of my easily-fall-sick condition.

Some days I traveled 30km (or more for just one way) to the rehearsal in Port Klang and 15km straight head to teach in Petaling Jaya then another 25km back home; some days we had venue rehearsals from 10pm and end like 12.30am and for sure I will wake up early to prepare breakfast before hubby goes to work; some days I had show ended late and the next morning have to wake up real early for another appointment or teaching and etc.  Hubby insisted to company me when he is off work and thus, he's been sleeping little and waking up in a sleepyhead in the morning for almost two weeks.  Praise God for an understanding and supportive husband, and the fact that we are both not really sick... yet.

I am so occupied with these things and when I have time, I would lay in the sofa and turn to my favourite shows- NCIS, CSI(s), Castle, Bones, So you think you can dance and etc.  I've been neglecting my garden and now almost all plants are dying, and yet I am still neglecting it.  I don't even water them, thinking since God would send rain... why should I bother to 'shower' them?

Sigh... upside down...



However, I need the extra income.. in fact, we need it.  Still, we could not really cover the bills and expenses we have to clear every month.  I have been wondering... why?

I (we) have got bills to clear still, but after paying all... we will be left with nothing even just for our daily expenses.  I am not certain what we have left in the bank could cover everything we still have to pay or not.  It's torturing mentally and spiritually to even think about going through this cycle again... and again.

Hubby is been saying, "keep praying... and ask God for provision".  There's nothing else we can do, we have done our best trying to save on our expenses... save on food, grocery, and don't use credit card for other things beside petrol... unless we are really desperate.  But still....

I don't know how and what to do anymore... It seems hopeless and helpless...

So I surrender, Lord! You settle these, ok?


Prayer:   I pray that after this storming April, we will be able to see the rainbow when sunlight shine through us.. we will be able to see our future path clearly by then!

Rainbow - God's blessing
Sunlight - Jesus



p/s: I'd booked air ticket to Phuket on May last year... seems like we will not have any extra to even book hotel for even a night.  Guess most likely we will have to abandon the air ticket and stick around at home.  Unless God perform His miracle and somehow we will have money to go... or, well.. maybe it's just best to stay home and not spending any cents.

Thursday, March 31, 2011

Recipe: Crepe

Thanks to my Chef friend, Tan Kew Lim who provided this recipe. 


Ingredients:
100gm Sifted Flour
25gm Fine Sugar
2pcs Whole Egg
1pc Egg Yolk
250gm Milk
5gm Butter
Additional butter for pan greasing

Steps:
Combine and mix all ingredients and stir until well blend
Use a non stick flying pan and turn on low heat
Swirl butter around to coat the entire surface of oil greased frying pan -- to make a very thin layer of crepe
Remove from pan -- leave aside and keep repeating.....



This is the basic ingredients and steps to make a crepe. I have yet to try... but would love to turn it into Mille CrepeMille Crepe simply means a thousands crepes that are stacked together.  Obviously we can't stack a thousands but there would be at least a 20 layers based on personal preference.  I will post it up when I have successfully made one. ^^

You are my strength - Hillsong United

The song of my day today:-

When I need strength to carry on every single day, You are my LORD and strength.  This song reminds me of God's faithfulness and renew my strength!


You are my strength
Strength like no other
Strength like no other
Reaches to me

You are my hope
Hope like no other
Hope like no other
Reaches to me

In the fullness of Your grace
In the power of Your Name
You lift me up
You lift me up

Unfailing love
Stronger than mountains
Deeper than oceans
Reaches to me

Your love O Lord
Reaches to the heavens
Your faithfulness
Reaches to the skies

Whom shall you turn to when you are down

Many times, people would fail you.
Many times, things are not as good what you want it to be.
Many times, you tend to feel upset when things go wrong.
Many times, you feel that you are left behind.
Some times, you feel that there's no one around you.
And you feel that no one would really care what's happening around you.

People seems to care for those whom they care only.
People seems to focus only on material things.
People tends to talk about the most 'in' thing that's happening.

WHY do we put our hope and courage on human being?
Human being has limited power, limited love, limited care, limited strength and limited wisdom.  We can only love so much, care so much, and know so much...

How much can they care where they have their own problems to care about?
How much can they love you where many of them have problem loving themselves or even their spouse?
How much can they help you where there are tons of things for them to do?
How much can they comfort you where they are not even feeling good on their own?
How much can we expect?


In the bible, God has clearly spoken about these issue many times - that we should only put our hope and expectation in God.  As He created the heaven and earth, and human being. 


Psalm 33:4-20
v4. God's word is true, and everything He does is right.
v5. He loves what is right and fair; the LORD's love fills the earth.
v6. The sky was made at the LORD's command (Genesis 1:6-8) [Day 2].  By the breath from His mouth, He made all the stars (Genesis 1:16) [Day 4].
v7. He gathered the water of the sea into a heap.  He made the great ocean stay in its place (Genesis 1:9) [Day 3].
v8. All the earth should worship the LORD; the whole world should fear Him.
v9. He spoke, and it happened.  He commanded, and it appeared (Genesis 1:1-31).
v10. The LORD upsets the plans of nations; He ruins all their plans.
v11. But the LORD's plans will stand forever; His ideas will last from now on.
v12. Happy is the nation whose God is the LORD, the people He chose for His very own.
v13. The LORD looks down from heaven and sees every person.
v14. From His throne He watches all who live on earth.
v15. He made their hearts and understands everything they do.
v16. No king is saved by his great army.  No warrior escapes by his great strength.
v17. Horses can't bring victory' they can't save by their strength.
v18. But the LORD looks after those who fear Him, those who put their hope in His love.
v19. He saves them from death and spares their lives in times of hunger.
v20. So our hope is in the LORD.  He is our help, our shield to protect us.
v21. We rejoice in Him, because we trust His holy name.
So why do we still looking around and finding friends who could encourage us?  Our main source of hope, love, joy and peace comes from the LORD.  The maker of heaven and earth.

So, be courageous... knowing that no matter what, when and how, we still have JESUS with us.  He's living in our hearts so we are never alone.

Look to JESUS (first)... and don't find hope and expect comfort from man as we are all the same, imperfect.  You surely can talk to your friends, BUT, do not put expectation on them in giving up to your expectation. There's only so much we human can do, but GOD could do ALL things!

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

He's a God who provides

Just few days ago, we were talking about the Promotion Air Ticket we'd booked and paid (last year) to go Phuket this coming May.  We were joking that we might have to let go of the ticket as we do not have any extra budget to spend for accommodation, food and etc.  Every months seems to be so tight for us.  We can't afford to go anywhere and spend on anything out of our list.


Yesterday night we went over to in-law's house for dinner.  Mother-in-law passed me some Thai Bahts that was leftover from their Bangkok trip that took place last week.  I took it over... there were a 1000 Baht note and a 900 note.  All together 1900 Baht.  It's about RM190 after conversion.

My heart was filled with thanksgiving... though it might not cover all that we have to spend in Phuket but it surely ease our burden a little with that help.  Thanks to my Mother-in-law who has a generous heart to bless us.  Not only this but in many other ways in different sizes and methods.


Praise be the Lord, whom has placed me in this New Family where I am blessed, love, taken care of and accepted.  Praise be the Lord, who always bless us in times of need... Praise be the Lord, who's our provider.   Praise be the Lord, simply being our Lord.

May the Lord bless my in-laws as they bless us in many areas.  May them be blessed more abundantly, far more than what we can imagine.  And I pray that they will also get to taste of the goodness of our God one day... by themselves.  May our God bless them!!!

The Miracle of the day!

While chatting on skype with hubby awhile go, he told me that we have to make a time amendment on his air ticket for his business trip.  For the amendment, we will have to pay RM100 for the Flight Change and on top of that, have to pay for the extra as the required time slot if RM60 more expensive than the pre-booked one.

It was totally a bad news for us... We are running short on budget, his immediate superior blamed him for not double confirmed on the time before booking the ticket so we have to bear any extra payment in order to correct the mistake.  Well, I was not feeling good about this.  To be honest, she was the one gave us the wrong timing.  All we did was following whatever info she has given and now when things turn bad she's turning around and pointing fingers at my hubby (us).  Worst still, we have to bear the consequences though not out mistake at all! 

Hubby was upset, he was feeling quite good about it.  So as me.  I released my negative point-of-view over this situation and suddenly Holy Spirit reminded me that things happened for a reason and God might has a plan that we could never think of.

So I posted "Lord, only YOU could change the not-so-good-news into a Good News.. Please perform Your wonderful miracle now... Or, simply just change our feelings and thought will do!!! Please.... :'(" on FB.  Also, told hubby to "let's commit this to God and let Him handle yah"...  


Next I went back to the Air Asia page... it says page expired.  So I re-do the whole process again.  Click on 'Manage my booking', 'Edit' the Itinerary, ', 'Change/upgrade the time', and... When the Time Selection page came out... I saw the price of the time (to change to) has reduced to the same as the earlier ticket.  I was overjoyed!!! Was praying that God will somehow reduce the price to the same so we will not have to pay extra for it.  And... YES He did!!!!! Just for a few seconds and God changed the price... What a wonderful God He is!!!!


I have not told hubby for this yet, because I wanna write down this overjoyed happiness before I show it to him.  ^^ 




Praise God!! We only have to pay for Flight Change service for RM 100 plus the insurance for RM 21 (RM 121) and that's all rather than RM 100+RM 60+RM 21 = RM 181.  Though RM60 might not be a pain for many people, but for us.. it could simply keep us for another week or more.  Praise God!!!!


My eyes filled with tears and I could not express how much I am feeling... the appreciation for God to come and help us in the situation.  He had just overturned my entire mind and thoughts... from anger, feeling unfair and stressed to Thankfulness, Peace and a Huge HUG from Him.




Thank you JESUS... for being so REAL.  Thank you, for loving us... Thank you, for accepting us for who we are as imperfect child.  T.H.A.N.K Y.O.U!




p/s: Hubby went to talk to the superior after informing me and she's agreed to bear half of the RM100 as she's also responsible for it.

There's another blessing from God that we received last night, check out He's a God who provides

Monday, March 28, 2011

Need a brand new strength for a brand new week

It's another Monday, a brand new start of a week.


Hubby has gone to work after breakfast...


Did my devotion of the day - Beauty (is shined through by the beauty of the inner spirit man), put in the piled up laundry for wash as hubby told me that he is running out of socks before he left the house... done washing the dishes and cleaned up the table... Yet, I notice that my brain is still snoring at this moment even when I am typing.


We have been sleeping late for the past three nights.


Friday night - Went Church for special meeting and went to Tesco straight at about 10pm to get the ingredients needed for the baking. (p/s: one of my friends requested two cheesecake for her parents to taste on her wedding ceremony day itself.  She told me on the Thursday evening and I got to get things done and bring over on the Sunday morning, which I don't have time to go out on the night itself.)  We spent almost a 1.5 hours in Tesco.  After unpacking things and stuffs, it was already late.



Saturday - morning we both worked.  Back home and lunch at about 3pm.  I though I could get things started right away but there were few ingredients needed but was left out.  Hubby offered to help me run around in getting things without even complaining a single word.  Praise God for such a lovely sweet hubby who's always there to help and support me in all things.  Ding Dong here and there and I started my baking late.  And, having the spirit of rushing things did not help in the baking at all.  I was lack of patient.  And both cakes did not turn out well.  All the ingredients were sort of wasted. In the end of the day, we had TV dinner and also end up sleeping late.



Sunday - I have to wake up at 6am in order to pick up another friend and reach the wedding ceremony destination by 7.30am.  Hubby insisting of waking up with me as a return favor of me waking up and making breakfast for him everyday.  Both were tired and kinda exhausted but as there were tasks in mind it keeps our mind occupied from thinking of sleep.  Surely, we prayed and asked God for His strength to go through and need not have to ask.. He always answer prayers. ^^

So I went on the girl's program and hubby went to Church.  After lunch bla bla, we were thinking of taking a short nap.  However, the night's event keep our minds awake.  We end up watching TV instead of resting.  And we were teasing each other about wanting to take a rest yet, turn the TV on and keep our minds busy. Sigh, it's really quite sinful to watch TV programs non stop like there's no tomorrow.  If only we were this determined when we are reading bible.  (Lord, please forgive us...)

As time goes by, we went to the wedding dinner at the restaurant near our place and helped out.  It was quite a busy night for me to run in and out making sure things are alright... every one got a seat... none of the seat are wasted... guests don't sit on the wrong table... etc.

Lastly, we came back late.  The dish came out slightly late... and we were grabbed by the 'brother' group.  They wanted to take revenge for what they were asked to eat in the morning.  Obviously these guys were drunk.  Or to say quite badly drunk.  Thus, I don't blame them.  So it was quite a difficult situation that we wanted to leave but the 'badly drunk' guy keep forcing me and hubby to drink and we were also thinking of what's the right word to say and how to 'leave in peace'...  The moment me and hubby got in the car, we were praising God that we were finally out of the place safely. LOL... what an eventful night we had!!!




That's all the happening of our weekend and again both of us feels like there's never enough of weekend for us to rest.  But God knows, He granted us the time to rest.  But we used it for other purposes instead of either reading His words, doing devotion or just having quality time together.  TV seems to be so addictive to us and I always have so much to do on the Internet.  Both were not bad mediums, just that it was not used for the right reason and timing.  So it comes back to us, whom do not know how to manage our time properly but asking God for more hours in a day and more days in the weekend.  I guess we will still complain and being sleepy every morning if we have more time in a day/week.
In conclusion, it's our time management and self-discipline issue.  So, we shall make a change in this... It sure will be hard, but when God comes and interfere.. it gets easy!! Praise God for He is powerful and mighty!  So here we come a brand new week.. for us to have a brand new start by the strength of God!!!

p/s: 'Brothers' - are called Heng Dai (in Cantonese) that simple means a group of best male friends who will accompany the Groom to 'pick-up' the BrideIt is also called the Entourage Team.  In Chinese culture, the entourage team will come with the Groom to the Bride's house.  Before the Sisters (same meaning as Brothers but applies only to Female friends) could open the door and let them in, some games and punishments (as preference) will be done.  Purpose serves as reminding the husband to treasure the wife in their marriage as he has went through trials before she agrees (again) to marry him.

Saturday, March 26, 2011

the Same thing I (we) go through every morning

Every single morning, we always struggles through few things...

  1. To wake up - it's like we have thousand reasons to stay in bed.  Alarm was set to 7.20am and when the time we finally dragged ourselves out we will see the 8.00am on the clock next to our bed.
  2. Doing what we have to do - Hubby will wash up, get dressed, groomed himself where I normally head to kitchen straight away.  Boil water, heat up the cold milk on the microwave, and make whatever breakfast we are eating that day.
  3. Pushing hubby to eat faster - my hubby eats slow.  Thus, I am always the one keeping watch of the time and rushing him not to stone while eating. : ) Some times he's just dwell too much in the morning breeze and forget about the fact that he has to drive out to work.  We too, always play little jokes in the morning to sort of like wake ourselves up from the sleepy head.  Yet, it's limited to short time due to the fact that "Dear, are you watching your time?", "Do you have to go already?", "Better don't take too long to eat yeah, scare you might be late..." and etc.
  4. Saying goodbye to each other - watching him wear his socks, shoes and grab the car keys; then I will send him to the door and say goodbye with each other with hugs and kisses.  I always wish we could have more time together and enjoy every single morning together rather than me alone in the empty house when he goes to work. 
I guess we will never have enough time for each other.   Love every single moment when we are around each other.  Some times, it could be time where we sit down and watch a TV show together.  There might not be conversation all the time, yet... knowing the fact that we are beside each other and the presence itself speak a thousand words. : )

And we always come back to... thanking God for putting us together and granting us love, joy and peace in the home.  Without Jesus in the centre of our marriage, things will not be as easy as it seems and it will not be completed too.  So, we praise God for every single morning we have together though it could be real short.

He is awesome!

Friday, March 25, 2011

... still will praise Him and love Him

Awaken followed by runny nose and sneezing isn't really a good start for a day.  I thought it is just a small matter and trying not to focus too much on it.

However, that doesn't stop everything by not bothering it.

I thought of God's goodness.. and believe that He is with me and will heal me as I have a class in the afternoon.  Also, there's some cleaning up needed to be done in the house; which I have not yet done it all.

Sometimes I do afraid to see the house-chores dropping on and suffocating me.  I guess it is normal... for every single housewife out there who's pouring out their heart to take care of their household and family members.  I do solute them for their sacrifices as well as their hard work in making sure everything is well taken care of.

Though I am not home all the time due to teaching classes, I can understand the struggles that a housewife face in her every day life.  Now that I am not a mother yet, things are still quite easy to handle.  I can afford to be lazy at times, relaxing and watching TV to kill the time.  And cook whenever I feel like cooking, eat out as I am lazy to cook.  These could be seen as a blessing as well as a comfort zone to do things base on my feeling and mood.

I know, things will definitely change when there's another new member added to the family.  We are quite excited about it.  But, will we be able to handle it? Now I start to wonder... ^^

The past few months, we were hoping and praying so hard for God to bless us with a baby.  We were so overwhelmed by the hope and were blinded by the fact that financially... we can't even afford to spare any money for anyone.  We have been living our lives on our pay checks for months ever since we got married.  Many times we struggle and wonder how could we pay off all the bills where we only have that much?

Few days ago, as I was settling all the bills and paying off all the liability.  I noticed why God has been holding the blessing for these while.  God will not give us something that we can not handle.  That's His character.  I come to realise that He's waiting for us to learn how to manage the fund that He's giving us... before granting us a baby that will add up to the expenditure.

What an amazing God He is... He knows every single details of us.. and we always believe that His timing is the best timing.  Though we are excited and could not wait to see the baby that He's giving us.. we still praise Him for putting our lives together as husband and wife.  That is already a BIG blessing that He's given us.

Life is challenging.. yet God is always with us in our everyday life. 

If we'd never knew God.. all the above mentioned will definitely be considered as a miserable life and will filled us with bitterness seeing others living without those struggles.

BUT, we have been chosen to be His children.  Therefore, we are filled with His joy and love! Life is different when God is in it.  We will not stop praising Him and love Him... for He is a good God!!

Praise be the Lord, Hallelujah!! ^^

Monday, March 21, 2011

Something's wrong today

Feeling lazy... tired... and not in the mood of doing anything.


Sigh~ I don't even know if this is the Monday Blue or what...cos I only teach 3 hrs today and back to home.  There's laundry waiting to be kept and iron, floor to be swept, dishes to be cleaned and etc...

But none of these are on my list right now.  Even typing on the keyboard feels burdensome to me...


What's wrong?

My guess, the lazy bugs had ate up all the cells and Im left with empty shelf with no mood in doing anything.


Sigh... I need strength from God.. badly!

Saturday, March 19, 2011

the God of Almighty!

Oh Dear Jesus, I praise You for the shake You have done is us.  It's not by might, not by power; but by the spirit of God... who's working in us.


Every single things that I though it's impossible... is changing NOW...

All glory to Your name, as we shout the name of Jesus!!!



No words will be enough to give You praise and honor. You are powerful, almighty, awesome and faithful to every single one of us.  You sent Your ppl, to bring Your glory to start the revival in us... how could I stop praising Your wonderful name?  Thank you for being a God of all possible and a God that's beyond our imagination and expectation.

Thank You for the work You have started in us... and now I am committing my life into Your hand, and waiting on Your direction in doing more for Your kingdom.

Use me Lord, O God... to be Your vessel... Your tools.. and Your instrument that bring Love, Joy, Peace as well as Your glory and light into lives and souls.  Make me an impact, Lord! Make me who You intended me to be.

I praise You!! Almighty God!!!


Hallelujah~~!!



All glory, all power, all honor... belong to JESUS!!!

Friday, March 18, 2011

I need You more - Bethel Church

In our everyday lives, we need Jesus.  Yet, many times we are so used to handling things by our own strength we tend to forget who's the One who should rely on.  This song beautifully reminds me that I need Jesus in every single area of my life.  Praise God for the beautiful song He has inspired the composer and the vocal.

I have been playing this song over and over again throughout the entire day just to soak in His presence in reminding myself that I need Him more and more everyday.  I pray that you will feel Him too...

I Need You More

(Chorus:)
I need You more, more than yesterday
I need You Lord, more than words can say
I need You more, than ever before
I need You Lord
I need You Lord

(Repeat)

(Verse:)
More than the air I breathe
More than the song I sing
More than the next heartbeat
More than anything
And Lord, as time goes by, I will be by your side
Cause I never want to go back to my old life.

Chorus
Verse
Chorus

Right here in Your presence is where I belong
This old broken heart has finally found a home
And I'll never be alone…Chorus…
I need you more…'cause I never want to go back



Thursday, March 17, 2011

My prayer today


Lord, use me today... to do Your mighty work!!!  I wanna be stretched so that I can go another level with You in Your glory, Lord!!!

I thank You for the love that You have for both me and hubby.  The blessings that You have been giving us can not be described in words.  Hallelujah for You are an Awesome God, Almighty King above all kings and Your faithfulness that none can be compared!

Thank You, for this lovely day! Praise You, Jesus!!!

Friday, March 11, 2011

Eva S. Recipe: Sweet Corn Chicken Pot Pie Soup

I needed something fast and easy to prepare as it was kinda last minute that we decided to eat home.  So here are the things that I could find around the house and praise God for the idea of putting things together.  Here comes the picture and instruction:-

  • Knorr Sweet Corn Chicken Soup - One pack
  • Sweet Corn in can - One
  • Diced Chicken Breast Meat  (optional)
  • Corn Starch (optional - if you like your soup likely thicker)
  • Button Mushroom - 5 to 6 up to own preference.  Sliced.
  • Celery Leaves - For decoration on top of the soup.

Knorr Sweet Corn Chicken Soup pack
Follow the instruction behind the Knorr pack and put the mixture in the pot/pan.  I added another can of Sweet Corn because I wanted the soup to have more corns.  In order to make the soup much more complete I added sliced button mushroom together with some diced chicken breast meat, then stir them well till boil with medium fire.  As I like it thick, I added in corn starch towards the end with low fire and stir till it gets to the thickness I want.  This portion is sufficient to make for four person.



When the soup is almost done. Leave it a side to cool down for 5-10 minutes.  You don't have to cook the soup till it's fully done as you still have to put it into the oven together with the puff pastry.  Now you can scoop in the soup into your favourite sauce mug provided it is not wider than your puff pastry.



Mine is about 9cm in diameter.


This puff pastry I bought from Tesco cost @ RM3.60 for 10 slices which is really a good price I would say.  Take out how many pieces you need and thaw for awhile.  If you are really in a hurry you can even just put them on the mug straight from the freezer.  I did it once and it still turn out good.  All you need is a slightly longer time in the baking process.


I roll it slightly so it will give more room to fit right on the mug.



Press the side on the mug so they will stick on nicely while it's baking.




Now it's all ready to bake.  I love this sauce pan that I bought from Tesco.  It costs about RM6.90 with a plate.  Pretty lovely to me.  Put in the preheated 200 degree oven for about 10 minutes or until the pastry turns golden brown.


This is the end result of the Sweet Corn Chicken Pot Pie Soup.  Easy and really yummy to taste.  The pastry goes really well and in fact, enhance the taste of the soup when you eat them together.  My hubby was pretty impressed to the presentation as well as the taste.  Give it a try!!!

It is quite filling when the pastry goes together with the thick soup, so you can just make it alone to serve for dessert or... if it's purpose is to serve for lunch, you can try serving together with Pork Vege Mixed Pasta.  I did... and it was a perfect lunch for me and hubby. ^^



Recipe: Tiramisu

Special thanks to one of my friend, Tan Kew Lim for providing this Tiramisu Recipe.  I have not tried it yet but well, it worth sharing to whoever wants to learn how to make Tiramisu.  Enjoy~~~



 
3 egg yolks
1/4 cup white sugar
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 1/8 cups mascarpone cheese
24 ladyfingers
1 1/2 cups brewed coffee
1 tablespoon unsweetened cocoa powder

In a medium bowl, beat yolks with sugar and vanilla until smooth and light yellow. 

Fold mascarpone into yolk mixture. Set aside.
Dip ladyfingers briefly in coffee and arrange 12 of them in the bottom of an 8x8 inch dish. 

Spread half the mascarpone mixture over the ladyfingers. Repeat with remaining cookies and mascarpone. Cover and chill 1 hour. 
Sprinkle with cocoa just before serving.

What a wonderful Morning...

Praise God.. what a wonderful morning!  Though it's cozy, hazy and worst still it's drizzling.  Almost tempted to fall back asleep.  "Don't be lazy...", I told myself.

So I went out and check on my garden.  Water the plants and decided to give up on the sunflower, which until now (it's been weeks) still nothing.  Dug the soil, added some more soil and I shifted my overgrown Chrysanthemum into the rectangular vase.

Cut two beautiful stalks from each of the color and put it in a vase.  Now it's laying beautifully on our dining table.  How beautiful is God's creation!!
First I put in one.. but seems LONELY...

Now, two look LOVELY!!

I had decided to surprise a little girl that stays on the same floor as me, I chose one white & purple stalk and brought it over to their unit.  Rang the door bell, the mother came out with surprise to see the flower.  The little one held the flower in her hand, excited and happy.  I passed one stalk that's already fully grown to the mother so they could plant it in their garden (the front walk way), and she's really happy too.


Glory to God... that bless me with flowers.  And I could use His blessings to bless others!!  The best thing is, it makes me happy too.  This definitely has made our day~~


Hallelujah!!! What a wonderful morning!

Thursday, March 10, 2011

Eva S. Recipe: Fried Sambal Macaroni - Fusion Style

I always love mixing western style and Chinese dish together.  This afternoon I tried this simple and fast dish as hubby came back for lunch.


Ingredients:-

Chicken breast meat - diced
Boiled macaroni - some left over from previous meal
Onions - sliced
Mushrooms - stir fried (prepared earlier)


Cabbage - sliced



Sambal - any type of sambal as your preference
Salt - approx. 1/4 tsp

Sugar - approx. 1/4 tsp
 Tomato sauce - one tbsp



Cooking Time...

Heat the wok, and added Olive Oil






Put in sliced Onions with low fire, stir a little



Put in diced chicken breast meat and added some hot water so it will not stick to the wok, mix a little

Added in fried mushroom and stir for awhile

Put in Cabbage and stir

Added boiled Macaroni (straight from fridge) and mixed them well

Here comes the Sambal.

I added too Salt, Sugar and Tomato Sauce too and mix them well

This is how it will look like.  Nice reddish color.

Ready to be served.


Do not be afraid that it might turn out too spicy, salty or sweet as the Macaroni will blend them well together since it has no taste.  Test the taste on the macaroni, if you try just the sauce it will not be the accurate taste.

Pretty easy and really really yummy~~~


Be courageous and give it a try!! ^^



My little humble garden...

Few weeks ago, I started to be obsessed about having a tiny garden in front of my apartment unit.  It's main purpose was to brighten up the area as well as bringing some life to the lonely and quiet walk way.

So I bought two pots of flower that looks like the mixture of Daisy and Chrysanthemum. Spotted two different colors and got them home from some nursery near Aman Suria.


The Orangey@ RM8/pot

White-on-the-inside-and-Purple-on-the-outside @ RM8/pot

I personally love the white and purple one to the max.  It's really unique to me... Well, Im sure you can see this species in every nursery but.. I am just loving it and it's new to me! :P

I bought two Rectangular Plastic Vase and some soil for the purpose of planting sunflower.  Added in soil and seed and water it... waited and waited and waited for days... Eventually I gave up one vase and reposition some of the orange and white purple Daisy/Chrysanthemum in it.  Now it looks like this...

As a beginner gardener I admit that I do not have the good skill in planting them in a nice way.. but that's the best I can do... :D

After two days I thought it's kinda lonely to have just one empty vase (which until now the sunflower seeds aren't growing at all) and another with not-so-nicely-arranged vase I had decided to get some extra to beautify my garden (front yard/walk-way).


This time, I went to the nursery near my parent's house and found out the price is even cheaper.  So, I happily brought home four assorted pots of wild flowers (I have no idea what to call them) and another rectangular vase.

After some struggles I finally got it done and fixed...


so what do you call this? Assorted plants?
Four Pots @ RM13.50

The center once are always blooming, the side ones (like the one on the bottom right) flower will only last for a day.  Today it blooms and wilted tomorrow, so it will take turns to bloom one by one each day.  Cute!


  Both tiny white beside the orange lasted more days than the side ones but this morning I found one side totally wilted (as in the flower) so I chopped off its head (the flower stem) so it might be able to grow some new ones.

this tiny orange bloom right on the next day I reposition the plants (four pots into one vase). Lovely... it was the only one bloom on the very day.


on the 8th two orangey ones


Today is the turn for the pink and orange.


I wonder what is the next color tomorrow... pray that I will not abandon them after some time when I get bored of them.  Praise God for beautiful flowers to brighten up our lives!!!!


Eva S. Recipe: Tuna Cheese Sandwich 2 with photos

So, this morning we had Tuna Cheese Sandwich again to finish up the remaining bread, tuna and cucumber. As promise on the yesterday's post Tuna Cheese Sandwich I am putting up photos below.

Here are the photos, it's the same as how I did yesterday. The only different is I toasted the bread a little on both sides but yesterday was eating it fresh from breadmaker.


Slightly toast the bread with low fire on both sides, watch the timing or it will burn the bread

Spread butter on both sides and tuna mayo on one side.

Cucumbers one side, and cheese on the other... ^^

This is how it will look like when you put another side of bread on top.

Finally, I cut it into half so it's easier for hubby to handle them. :)


It is really easy to make and yummy to eat. Though we have this two days in a roll but hubby still loving it especially the cheese, tuna and cucumber do a good job in blending the whole taste together. Toasting the bread might take a little while, but I normally cut the cucumber or spread butter one the ready ones to save time. If you are afraid of taking too long you could always cut the cucumber in the night earlier and store them in the zipped freezer bag (keep it fresh in the fridge not the freezer). It does save time for me.

So, happy day and hope you will enjoy your breakfast like me and hubby do.


Cheers...

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