Blessed 2010

Our family kickstart the new year with a reunion lunch held Pullman Hotel. Mom wanted to try out the new hotel and check out the food. It was a good hearty lunch. We were struggling to eat all the 9 courses but alas we failed. The noodles had to be doggy bagged !!!What surprised me most during the lunch was how my hubby managed to drink the strong ginger tea. For someone who hates ginger and glares at me when I cook with ginger...he shocked me by drinking two bowls of ginger tea when the rest of us were struggling to down it. I love ginger but the tea was just too strong for me. He says the tea reminds him of Penang.

At Pullman's Nu Er Hong Restaurant

In retrospect , this new year has been pretty quiet and laid back for us. Went to a few open houses and visited a few relatives. Even the sound of fire crackers and the fireworks were comparatively less than previous years.

At Goh's house. Philip's friend is always encouraging Jordan to take up cricket. He asked Jordan to try out the gear to entice him to join cricket. However, he did warn that cricket is a boring game!!!!


Our hope for this new year is that we may all prosper in health and in all that we do. Starting this new year, Philip is taking lead of 1 cell group. Our previous cell group has grown to 10 families with kids outnumbering the adults. For conducive growth , there was no choice but to split. It was an amicable split and now with a group size of 5 families we are heading into a year which we believe will draw us closer to our Maker. I on the other hand, have taken heed of the Lord's call to serve in the Youth ministry which I find most daunting at best. Both Philip and myself have our plate full this year. We need God's wisdom & strength to carry out His work .It is our desire to see His name glorified and the lives of the people we lead impacted by the love and transforming power of God.

The Long & Short Of It

I was attending dinner with some friends last night and we started comparing notes on our eyesight. It seems that the few of us are exhibiting signs of long-sightedness and desperately trying to deny it but alas ...”how does one hide long sightedness?”

Maria has never worn specs and she finds herself adjusting the distance of any reading material infront of her so that she can focus well. It's a matter of trial and error on her part. I, on the other hand is having a combination of short & long sightedness. Though my optometrist did say that the long sightedness is very mild...yet I find reading small prints on labels quite a challenge. I have to remove my specs & voila … I can read!!!! Ling is the funniest!!! She wears contacts and has major problems reading anything... even her sms. I can take off my specs and read whatever small prints and have them on again in a jiffy but she can't dig our her lenses on the spot and put them back either. So she is in a dilemma. So how does she read??? She places whatever reading material at arm's length and tries to focus like mad... or she gets someone to read for her.

So with all these ways of trying to focus.... we can't really hide our age anymore. Ling was saying that at the way we carry on everyone will know we passed 40 . When we were young and we saw people taking off their glasses to read or reading books/mags at arm's length.... we call them “old”. Guess what ? Now we fall into that category which we previously labeled.

As we sit at the dinner last night laughing our heads off, I can certainly say that 40 ++ is really not that old. They say “Life begins at 40” so we have a good stretch ahead to run. Yes... indeed...run and not be weary. The long & short of it is to age beautifully & gracefully.