Amazing Taiwan .. 7th – 14th July

July 9, 2009 at 1:45 am · Filed under travel.leisure.food

We have Uniquely Singapore, Incredible India, and here is Amazing Taiwan! Touch Your Heart!

Day 1 (7th July):

Checked into RAINBOW HOTEL at 西门丁. Location is great though a little noisy BUT room is small. Ms Lim is extremely unhappy A place for the young and young at heart

Day 2 (8th July):

11AM. Woke up super late, or rather got out of bed very late.. had brunch – 红烧牛肉面 at this shop that claimed that they won 2nd prize last year. Yummy though I didn’t like the thick knife-shaved noodles.

12PM. Had my coffee fix at LATTE COFFEE. My! I was drinking my Hazelnut Latte from a big soup bowl lor! For a few minutes, I was actually wondering how to drink from it?????

1PM. Met my old friend (literally old lor that Boon was amused throughout), 李贤叔叔m and yes we talked about world matters like business, politics, religion, etc He is a very learned and knowledgeable man, & I do enjoyed talking with him. He is like 73 or 75 years old, friends always think it strange how I have such an old friend, & I actually spend time tlaking with him almost every year without fail. It has always been in SG, & this is the first time in TW.

But hor we had tim-sum & I was actually very full liao but so hard to decline an old man..

3PM. Shopped around and later met with Boon’s friend, LW. Brought us to 渔人码头 and 淡水, then to 石林.

Feet were sore & tired by the time we were back at 11-ish & I went to bed at2 after clearing the emails…

Day 3 (9th July):

730am. Pickup by Wen Ze & Wife. Off to 花莲on an empty but bloated stomach Hit road & make several small stops for photo taking, stretch & toilet break. The super windy mountain road was totally unexpected.. This is anindeed a prelude to my LC trip! As the road were good condition, so it was not too bad except that I did not have a gd sleep the night before, didn’t do my business, & didn’t have a food & coffee, so it was a little suffering..

10am. Beach

1030am. Hitting the windy road to Taroko National Park 太鲁阁

230pm. 燕子口

4pm. The “Danger” Trail

630pm. Finally checking into Azure Hotel at city center

720pm. Dinner

840pm. Night Market

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free & easy…

June 24, 2009 at 10:16 pm · Filed under life.spiritual.love, travel.leisure.food

cant believe it has been more than 3 weeks that I have been free & easy.. wonder what i really have been doing???

other than packing, & more packing, throwing & more throwing, i have not done much.. the “moment” of a new vision has not appear yet for sure..

will be off to Taipei & Hualien soon, and then to Kunming..

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Happy Birthday!

May 17, 2009 at 10:32 pm · Filed under family.friends

well well it is said that once you passed a certain age you forget how old you really are, & its true! you kinda need to pause for a moment & start counting!

today is just today.. in fact was unwell on the way back from church that i had to alight at a few stops before my stop cos i didn’t want to vomit in the bus! maybe ate too much yesterday cos that was the real celebration with the gals. Yes, its an all-gals affair..

16th May la Femme @ Relish

Place is kinda atas, & food is so-so; not very imnpressionable, but still nice to check out a new place & hang out with the la Femme. In fact, we prob need to set up a Club le Homme liao

16th May C&J @ PS Cafe, Palais Renaiasance

Another atas place, but being a “cafe” is more casual but price is kinda on the high side. A piece of cake is probably $14+++.

Its been awhile since the 3 of us met up so is kinda nice. As I am the youngest of the 3, C has to use her phone calculator to count how old she was when we first met! The 3 of us met together in 1995 right after I came from AU though I met C earlier in 1993 right before I leave for AU.

We are talking about a gals trip to Hokkaido (after spinning a few other places) in July! Let’s see if it happens.. The last gals trip was way back in 2001? in Club Med.

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New Life in Christ!

April 26, 2009 at 11:52 pm · Filed under family.friends, life.spiritual.love

I never thought I will bring someone to Christ… over the msn! PTL!

I just did with my colleague, D!

After being a believer for some 20+ years, my circle of influence is mostly believers friends, & for the non-believing friends are merely acquantainces. So there has been little oppty to share the Gospel..

In fact of late, I had wanted to reach out to A, whom I still do, though the road seemed tough (PERSEVERE)… D was kinda totally unexpected. Indeed His ways are higher than my ways, He works in wonders i can’t fathom!

Though D & I were quite close at work, we hardly talk about spiritual things. We had gone running together after work & even on Sunday! It is only abt, maybe 3 months ago (?), when our work place got worse, & his wife then had risk of being retrenched (since then was retrenched & also just found new work) that he started to ask me about God & all. And all over msn cos we msn quite abit.

So from Adam & Eve, to sin, to Good Friday & Easter, we discussed over msn. I invited him to church & he readily accepted even though his wife & dad disapprove. He even joined CG for the GF Amazing Race & easter service even though I was in Japan!

Just felt he is ready to accept Christ even though there are many things he do not know or understand.

Today he joined me at the special prayer service at 9am, & he actually reached church at 8:30! And complained how come I am so late! haha..

So i just take the oppty (at about 11pm) to ask him if he ready to accept Christ and led him to the sinners’ prayer.

1. God Loves You!

The Bible says, “God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life”

The problem is that . . .

2. All of us have done, said or thought things that are wrong. This is called sin, and our sins have separated us from God.

The Bible says “All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.” God is perfect and holy, and our sins separate us from God forever. The Bible says “The wages of sin is death.”

The good news is that, about 2,000 years ago,

3. God sent His only Son Jesus Christ to die for our sins.

Jesus is the Son of God. He lived a sinless life and then died on the cross to pay the penalty for our sins. “God demonstrates His own love for us in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us.”

Jesus rose from the dead and now He lives in heaven with God His Father. He offers us the gift of eternal life — of living forever with Him in heaven if we accept Him as our Lord and Savior. Jesus said “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except by Me.”

God reaches out in love to you and wants you to be His child. “As many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe on His name.” You can choose to ask Jesus Christ to forgive your sins and come in to your life as your Lord and Savior.

4. If you want to accept Christ as Savior and turn from your sins, you can ask Him to be your Savior and Lord by praying a prayer like this:

“Lord Jesus, I believe you are the Son of God. Thank you for dying on the cross for my sins. Please forgive my sins and give me the gift of eternal life. I ask you in to my life and heart to be my Lord and Savior. I want to serve you always.”

Did you pray this prayer?

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Gone berserk….

April 25, 2009 at 1:37 am · Filed under family.friends, life.spiritual.love, travel.leisure.food, work.money

…yes, moi have gone berserk ever since I am stressed up at work & kena the 30% paycut… by spending 30% more!

First I has a new look that cost a hefty $250+ I kinda joked at work the next day due to the 30% cut so my also got a 30% cut.

Then having only intended to spend $500 in Sakura Land, with absolutely no intention whatsoever to buy a Burberry Blue Label bag when I was only supposed to be buying one for A, here is the Y28,000 bag that I got for myself! I am absolutely clueless why I would buy a $450+ bag (my most expensive bag to-date that I buy for myself). Wonder when I would use it (it is still in the plastic).

And this is NOT the end of the story… take a look at what I purchased on the SQ flight back! I only ever buy model planes for G in the flight & never ever anything for myself!!! A Tommy Hilfiger watch (did I mention it is exclusive only on the SQ flight?) @ $100+ & a $100+ SK-II Eye Cream

Well.. even then this is NOT the end of the story…

The GUESS boutique was calling me in when I was in fact in a hurry to get into the train station earlier.. & this luggage set @ $ 350+ was simply beckoning me in to bring them home! Though it is black-based but the print is so nice, so unique, so different! I don’t know when is my next travel.. B who happen to be around was trying to stop me from the crazy act, while A has earlier over the phone told me that I hard ever (!!) buy anything fancy for myself, so it is ok (does it sound like those white/black, good/bad voices??)

I don’t know what is going to happen when my credit bill comes in.. and D who was sending me with my newly acquired luggage thinks I am absolutely mad, and instead of a pay cut I must have had a 30% increment!!! haha…

I greatly think that the person who made all these purchases was not me.. there must be some impersonatorof some sort.. hm…

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Protected: time for a break..

April 1, 2009 at 10:58 pm · Filed under life.spiritual.love, work.money

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Babysitting..

February 19, 2009 at 10:51 pm · Filed under family.friends

.. and it is very tiring..

tiring as all 3 wants your attention, all 3 wants to hold your hands on the street (I have only a pair), everyone wants to sleep next to you (i only have 2 sides of me, minus the front/back!).

most of all, tiring in the nite as i hardly slept. i tink i am too conscious of their presence, worried they may woke up in alarm in an unfamiliar environment, or wants to go pj, … being a lite sleeper, i actually became extra lite even! the moment one of them open their eyes, i actually could sensed it & opened mine as well! so i believe i muz be on high alert

kids really exhaust you.. there were moments when they got on my nerves & I gave them eahc a thrashing, esp when they were quarrelsome with one another, & believe me, it happened several times a day!

but it was fun spending 3 days with them..

Sun: choz shopping @ Cocoa Trees

Mon: Picnic @ … Pipit! + Swimming

Tue: Library + Ikea

Wed: Grooming time for gals (hair cut + manicure!) + Shopping @ Taka

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It’s the Little Things in Life…

February 10, 2009 at 5:45 pm · Filed under life.spiritual.love

… that make up for purposeful living. So says the wise man in Proverbs 24:30-34

“I went past the field of the sluggard, past the vineyard of the man who lacks judgment; thorns had come up everywhere, the ground was covered with weeds, and the stone wall was in ruin.

I applied my heart to what I observed and learned a lesson from what I saw:

A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest – and poverty will come on you like a bandit and scarcity like an armed man.”

Lessons from the vineyard owner:

1. The vineyard, once fruitful is now barren, was not in ruins overnight. It was prolonged neglect to care & till the land that led to the dilapidated condition.

- when we neglect to take care of the condition of our hearts & spiritual growth, we will end up in ruins.

2. The “little by little” include our procrastination, slothfulness, complacency in our spritual disciplines (oh, how guilty I am for all of them!), and over time adds up to much and lead to our destruction.

- when we are intentional in the “little things” in our lives that are crucial in our spiritual growth, we will experience slow but sure, significant growth & progress over time.

These “little things” include:

1. setting aside time to spend with the Lord every day (which i have not kept to)

2. having a reading plan for the Bible (which i have but waiting for me to execute DAILY!, not as & when)

3. joining a cell group/small group Bible study (which I am MIA)

Besides Spiritual Health, Physical Health also make a difference!

Start with something manageable and stay at it. PROCRASTINATE no further!

A year from now, based on the little things we do or neglect to do today, what would we wake up to find?

Will it be our growth & fruitfulness because we have chosen to be intentional in the little things to cultivate the soil in our hearts, or would it be the ruined vineyards we have become?

What will i find?

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