NEW YEAR NEW TOY

Hubby just got a new toy for 2011. He has been manic about it. He has been yakking about it. Most times I don't know what he means. I just nod my head. It's not something up my alley.

Heather likes it too. So both of them are just busy snapping away at anything/anyone. Ya... you guessed right!!! He got himself a Nikon 3100. His new baby /girlfriend or whatever you callit!!!

Here are some shots they took which I like.

Happy Birthday to mom & Jordan. When you celebrate your b'day at Beccari, they give you a free cake and the waiters/waitresses will sing for you!!!
Family reunion dinner photos.

Pumpkin & Cupcake

CNY is always soo much fun

I won't tell you what these 2 very naughty boys are up to.

CNY is not complete without flowers. The scent of the lilies wafted through the entire house. I love it.

Masih muda

A night shot of the house


I foresee more photos in future and better ones even. Cool!!!

Gong Xi Fa Cai

It's the fourth day of Chinese New Year and it's still not too late for our family to wish everyone "Gong Xi Fa Cai".We are having great fun & thoroughly enjoying ourselves.

The kids are soo immerse in the whole celebration ..receiving angpows left & right and eating all the yummy cookies,cakes and titbits. CNY is a great time to catch up with friends and relatives.
Philip & I were just talking about how nice it was when we were kids and how we looked forward to CNY... the new clothes, firecrackers, angpows,yummy food, visitations etc.
We realised that in many places, these are no longer practised. CNY has become just another rather ordinary day. So we determined to try our best to keep the fun in the chinese new year celebration so that our kids will have something nice to look forward to each year.


To all our friends & relatives whom we were not able to visit this new year.... we just want to say .. there's always more Chinese New Years up ahead to get together.

A CHRISTMAS to REMEMBER

Christmas is always a time of great celebration in our family… which is why Carol always moans if she’s NOT home for Christmas. However…she made sure that we remember her by sending these beautiful flowers for mom and dad.


Christmas came really “late” this year. Nobody was allowed to open the presents until Alie came back. It tested Jordan’s patience to the limit. Many days after Christmas the presents sat quietly under the tree….. wondering why they were not opened !!!!

Finally on the very last day of Dec… when our patience were stretched to breaking point we opened the presents. There were squeals of delight n plenty of laughter. Our family were truly overwhelmed with the many wonderful gifts we received from family n friends.

I got a pair of sneakers from my darling husband. I think he is trying to tell me that I can start walking to work in 2011 !!! :- D. Imagine…. we have been married 16 yrs and he bought me a size 7 . I am wearing size 4 only. Ha ha!!!!

Christmas activities kept us all very busy. Hubby and Heather were invited to sing a duet in the Christmas cantata. Hubby felt odd singing as he says he is more a musician than a singer but he kindly obliged.
Jordan on the other hand became a Magi in the Christmas drama. He was very shy about acting on stage and he was relief when it was all over. I managed to take a shot of the Magi while he was in the hallway of the church.

Over the month of Dec, we attended many lunches and dinners with family and friends. We had ALL kinds of food. It was such a feast and thankfully I can still wear my pants. (If not … I should seriously contemplate on walking to work).
Cousin Annabelle took some lovely family photos during our family gathering. We had great laughs that nite watching the young and older elves performed. To see the awesome performance you need to ask hubby’s permission. :- )

A LOVELY HOLIDAY

How I wish the school hols will go on and on. . These few weeks of hols have been really relaxing and I thoroughly enjoyed myself. We didn’t go anywhere in particular as I didn’t take any leave. Most of the time, we just pottered around the house and tried to keep the kids occupied.

Heather picked up a new instrument and that made hubby really happy coz he has been trying to get her interested in cello for a long time. She finally showed real interest when her good friend had to sit for her cello exam and she was asked to be the accompanist.

Jordan on the other hand has been growing a lot. With all the good food over the Christmas he is blossoming. Thank God he is still not FAT as he has been active.
During the hols, we had more time on our hands so we went hunting for outdoor furniture for the patio. It was a relief to finally find one which is affordable and which we both liked. Sometimes we would have our lunch or tea at the patio and it’s especially nice when it is windy .
Hubby hasn’t baked any cakes yet. I thought he would but nothing materialized . It ended up with me making lemon cheesecake and trifle. I should be more adventurous but gosh the thought of cleaning up later makes me think twice about baking.
I thank God for a lovely holiday with family and friends. The hols turned out much better than expected. At the threshold of 2011, I wonder what the new year will bring. I trust God for the days ahead and choose to live each day to the fullest.

BLESSED NEW YEAR TO ALL.

Evil Triumphs When Good Men Do Nothing

I saw this phrase on one of the MJYFers T-shirt. (If I am not mistaken , it was Brandon's). I pondered about the phrase and the following came to mind :

When we see our friends do things that violate the school rules / laws of the nation do we do nothing ?

When we see our friends being blatantly disobedient to their parents do we do nothing ?

When we hear curse/swear words being uttered , do we do nothing ?

When we know that our friends are watching porn , do we do nothing ?

When we see our friends cheat , do we do nothing ?

When we know that our friends are drinking excessively or doing drugs , do we do nothing ?

When we know that our friends are getting too touchy & romantic with their boy/girlfriends , do we do nothing ?

When we see our friends displaying ungodly character , do we do nothing ?

When we see ourselves doing the above things , do we do nothing ?

When we do nothing … keep silent ….that's when evil spreads itself across the land. Sooner or later, it will affect the landscape of our lives.

The devil prowls around like a lion seeking whom it may devour. The devil wants to see Christians do nothing . The devil is afraid when we stand up and do something. As God's children , we must be brave and stand up to do something ; for He that is in us is greater than he that is in the world. So we must take courage that we can do all things through Christ who strengthens us.

My prayer for you is that you may have God's wisdom to rise up to do something. The Bible says in the last days we will see many who are lovers of themselves, lovers of money , arrogant , disobedient to parents, traitors,blasphemers.... and the list goes on. One of my desires, is to see our youths today , rising up and making a stand for Christ, not ashamed of Christ but being strong & steadfast , crushing the enemy's plans.

Together let us rise up, take the challenge and make a difference !

I wrote this article for the Youth newsletter to challenge them but I think we ourselves called to be ambassadors for Christ in the market place or in our homes also needs to act .Many opportunities will present itself in our lives and in each instance we have to choose what we are to do. When we act as God directs us to , we will be able to do great things for His kingdom.

My Fantastic Birthday :)

My friends coated me with birthday cake... choc moose on my hair & face !!! XD

My birthday this year was extraordinary.. :D Okay, it started off the nite before. I had a birthday dinner organised by Clarissa and Evelyn. :D Ate and ate and ate.. haha..and there was cake.. magnificent. :) Thank you everyone who went.. Clarissa, the 2 Evelyns Angelene, Ashley, Melody, Valerie, Sarah, Guinevere, Joan, Edward, Jon, not forgetting Sean. :)

In addition to this, A BIG THANK YOU, to whoever wished me happy b'day (especially at 12 am :D) and everyone (meaning EVERYONE !!!!) who gave me presents. FYI, I've already opened all the presents and I LOVE them..

THANK YOU so much for making my birthday the best one yet in my whole entire life. :D

Mom made me a lemon cheesecake. Her very 1st attempt and it turned out not bad at all.

Christmas Parade 2010

It's parade time again!! Since the state government had given the permit to the Methodist church to hold a parade , then by all means we should use this opportunity to share the gospel and the love of Christ to all.

The afternoon before the day of the parade, I was trying to snatch a couple minutes of nap after all the housework but I found that I couldn't sleep coz the thought “ Go get Christmas cards and write messages n scriptures inside to give away at the parade” kept bugging me. So I got up and called the Perkata Gallery and ordered Christmas cards for this very purpose. That very night, our family took some time out to prepare more than 50 Christmas cards by writing Christmas wishes or scripture verses inside to be given away. Hubby had to write all the ones in Chinese . Ha ha … we really made him work !!! Heather and I shared the load of writing in English. Hubby said next year, we will print instead !!

We found that during the parade, it was so much easier for the public to take a tract from us . They even thanked us and wished us “Merry Christmas”. I love it when we shouted out “Jesus loves you” and I felt really blessed when a kid on the street responded to me saying “ Jesus loves you too” !!! Amen to that.

That nite , those who went to the parade freely distributed gospel tracts, “Jesus loves you”balloons, Christmas cards and other goodies to those who came to watch the parade. Eventhough it rained half way through the parade, we had fun and it was GREAT to sing carols in the street.

Next year, we will prepare MORE tracts, little gifts and cards to be given away. God the GREATEST GIVER of all, gave His only begotten Son so that we could have eternal life with Him. So in the season of Advent let us also give. Our prayer is that may those who received the tracts, cards and gifts will turn their eyes upon Jesus, who is....... the reason for the season.

Blessed Christmas to all who read our blog.