GUILTY!

Are you guilty of this? I'm most guilty for the waking up and before sleeping one! Boyfriend always complains that when he wants a cuddle, there I was, playing with my phone. =x How about you?

Counting my blessings

Was eating my diet meal (consisting of lots of vege and some chicken breast) when my little grandmother sat beside me.

"Eh, no eat rice ar?"
"No, today eat chicken and vege"
"Why no eat rice?"
"Heee..don't want to eat rice."
"Eh, yesterday you cook that pork, very nice lo."
"Is it? You like it ar?"
"Ya...the taste just right. Sometimes when we buy outside not so nice one."
"Ya lo, this one we cook ourselves ma, so we can cook the way we want it lo."
"Ya, very nice. I eat that one only enough already."
"Like that I cook for you some more okay?"



I am going to count the little blessings every day. This is the 3rd time my grandmother praises my cooking with Thermomix.

First was Fried Bee Hoon.

Second was Sambal Dried Shrimp. My aunt told me that my grandmother keep saying it is nice.

Today she praised me of my Dark Soy Sauce Pork Belly (which really is Char Siew without garlic and shallots cause I was too lazy to marinate them the day before but she loves it !)

If you know my grandmother enough, you would know that she is a VERY (very is an understatement) fussy eater. So those who wonder can Thermomix cook what we cook daily and make it good? My answer is, it can cook EVEN BETTER! Cause it's not only tasty (approved by a fussy grandmother), it is HEALTHY with less oil and it is EXTREMELY EASY with no need of spring cleaning after cooking even after cooking Sambal Dried Shrimp which was IMPOSSIBLE before this.

Looks like I've got to cook more stuff for my grandmother with Thermomix so that she can have good meals every day. Besides, it requires little effort. Our little naughty grandmother sometimes refuse to eat cause the taste is not up to her liking. So it's a blessing for me to be able to cook for her and make sure she eats well. Motivated to cook even more!

Staying Positive

Taken last Sunday in the car in SP. Beautiful clouds. Came back to Penang after that to haze and rain.

At times like this, it's difficult to stay positive.

Especially when your close ones are not helping.

Lots of self-hating, self-loathing, frustration and anger.

And then I am reminded of what I told my students in Sunday School.

"Is our God BIG?"

"YES!"

"Is our God GREAT?"

"YES!"

"Is there anything our God can't do?"

"NO!"

"Can God help us with our problems?"
"YES!"

"What must we do when we face problems or difficulties?"

"PRAY! TALK TO GOD!"

Yet here I am, trying to do all things MYSELF, relying on my own human strength.

Of course God works in wonderful ways, ways we never imagine or even thought of.

He may not work the way we expect Him to work but His plans never to destroy us.

I can only do so much myself, but with Him, I know He will bring me to where He wants me to be.

Need to stop being a hypocrite. Telling my kids how wonderful God is and yet I myself struggle to understand this simple thing that God wants us to do.

Our God is a GREAT, BIG GOD who created all things wonderful. Just look at the clouds!

He who can create all wonderful and powerful things can help me.

And He who creates the sharks, the crocodiles, the beautiful clouds, sunset, sunrise,

all types of fish, birds, animals, the sea and the land, the ENTIRE UNIVERSE from NOTHING

is willing to walk alongside with me, guiding me. 

God who is willing to go BEFORE me and bring me with Him will never fail me.


ps: A good and very comforting article
http://www.relevantmagazine.com/life/5-lies-every-twentysomething-needs-stop-believing

Packing my bags again

Last weekend I was packing for my trip down to KL for training. Today, for a camp in SP.

This kind of carefree lifestyle is gonna end soon!

Part of me is happy cause it sucks to be so carefree when everyone else are busy. =P

Working hard till the very last minute.

All thanks to a very "good quality" audio that I have to transcribe and also 

Pretty Little Liars that managed to tempt me out of doing my work.

They did that while I was rushing for my Master's Thesis a while back.

Anyways, I'm done with Season 4 and now waiting for Season 4B

to start in October (I know right?SO LONG!!!)

Took me 5 minutes to pack and now I am back to my work. 

Need to get them done by 12pm so that I can relax a little before leaving for SP.

Life of a work from home girl. =P

Minion talk

Me: Whatever you say you want, I give okay?

Him: Got meh?

Me: YOU TELL ME WHAT YOU ASK I NEVER GIVE! HUR? TELL! *defensive*

Him: Urm...the Minions I say I want to buy from US you said NO!

Me: That's cause I want to buy for you! Remember I showed you last week? I bought for you okay?

Him: Really meh?

Me: *Act teary* YA LA! Don't believe me some more. *hide under pillow*

Him: Sorry la..you look at me and say you bought it again. *testing*

Me: *cringe* I bought it la! Don't believe suak! *defensive mode on*

Him: Ok la..ok la..sorry la..thank you baby.

Me: Oh shit, I hope they are still selling it! =P

Him: So that you can buy it after I leave right?

Me: Heee... You believed that I bought?

Him: Earlier yes..now no..

Travelling stories

Sometimes when I think about BKK, I will remember the time when Daniel and I almost missed our flight.

It was probably his first flight out of the country and my first without my family. So we were too relaxed about getting through the immigration.

We thought that boarding time=time we can go through immigration. 

So we sat outside waiting! When we line up to enter the immigration, the line was MAD LONG LA.

And they wanted to scan my bag twice. 

All these happening while they announce that it's a final call to board our plane. 

We were running like mad and the Bangkok airport then was super huge la. 

It was the nice one, not the budget one. And it felt like it was endless. 

So while we were running in the airport towards the gate and I dramatically asked Daniel to hop on the plane and leave me behind. 

I was really tired of running and I thought I slow him down. 

And I really meant it then.

So funny thinking about how drama we were.

Daniel was saying, "NO, YOU BETTER RUN. DON'T TALK NONSENSE!!!"

It's sweet that he didn't leave me behind and we actually managed to board the plane. Of course if you don't talk about all the guilt punishment he gave me after we managed to reach the gate, it's a happy ending. When we got to the gate, there were still people who have yet to board the plane! And I had enough time to drink some water and eat some motion sickness pill.

Our second trip on our own was Bali and if you don't already know, the boyfriend vomitted from Bali all the way back to Penang. 

And I spent the whole night looking for hot water for him and then when I got home, I vomitted too cause I masuk angin.
But he said I took good care of him. *smug*

Refueling

with word of God. Woke up at 8am today (and intend to do so from now on) to spend time with God and then do my work. It's true that those who work from home need 3-4 times more discipline than those who work in an office.

Listening to kids worship songs while doing my work. Not a bad thing to do. ^^ A little sleepy but decided not to take a nap since my lunch break was slightly longer (with television and short rest on the bed slotted in).

So now back to preparing for my class so that I can clear off the rest of the time for demo.

Felt more energized after reading the word of God. I need this refueling. Been letting myself wander in the desert without looking for God or too "busy" for God for wayyy too long. Time to get back to the one who gives me Living Water, unceasingly.

ps: These simple yet innocent worship songs refreshes me. I've got the love of Jesus in my heart. And I'm so happy!