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 Crepe.  Mille 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!

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

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 Bride.  It 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.

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!