Our Father's Day 2016

Today is the actual Father's Day, 3rd Sunday in June. 

Breakfast was provided by the church as we celebrated Parents' Day today. 

Breakfast served at the church compound. 

Besides, Son 1 and Son 2 participated in a choral speaking item at church today. 

The kids had done well. Bravo! Glory to God the Father. 

I think the kids enjoyed their time on the stage. 

Keep up the good job, children. Do everything as to our LORD. Do your best. 

How We Celebrated Father's Day

Just an update on how we celebrated Father's Day yesterday, a day prior to the actual day. 

I baked a simple round banana cake for hubby. Recently, I intend to reduce the sugar and artificial colouring intake, thus a naked cake was the solution. 

Banana cake with sliced banana and fresh blue berries. 

I printed some mini pennants, stitched them together (my maid helped me in this) and hung them across the cake with the use of two satay sticks. I thought that was simple and sweet. 

As I put on the fruit, I didn't use any cream. I simply placed the fruit on the cake. That way, I could save up time for whipping the cream and some cash too, since my kids and hubby don't really appreciate it. Why waste effort on things they don't like, right? 

Apart from that, we also had a sumptuous meal at Dragon i restaurant. We enjoyed the meal very much. 

Last but not least,  I would like to thank God, my heavenly Father for His blessings on our family. Thank God for a supportive hubby and great dad in the family. 

Fathers' Day 2016

We celebrated Father's Day with the man in the house today instead of tomorrow to avoid the crowd. 

The man himself booked 6 pax at a Peranakan restaurant we had never been as a family. He wanted to give us a surprise. We drove all the way to Pasar Seni for this. 

As we entered the place, we were like "greeted" by two huge, almost as big as a human statues. I was uncomfortable with them, but I thought may be I should just ignore them and get a table away from them. Then Kev pointed to us another big statues right next to our table. 

Wow! Then only I noticed that the whole place was surrounded with human sized statues! We forced ourselves to sit down next to a huge pantinh of a human that looks like a traditional Chinese emporer. To us, the picture too was horrible. 

At this point of time, all of us were seated down reluctantly and cautiously, except our youngest son. He was so scared that he refused to come near the table at all. 

That was at this time that the man of the house finally took us all, leaving the place. He apologised, which I think was very kind of him as I didn't think that was his fault. He booked it out of good intention. I do appreciate that. 

Anyway, because it was a Puasa month, it was hard for us to find a place with lesser crowd. We went to Pavillion, KL but couldn't secure a parking lot. So we headed back to south, ioi City Mall, Putrajaya and had our delicious Fathers' Day dinner at our favourite restaurant - Dragon i. 

Glad that we left and ate st Dragon i. 

These were a few dishes we ordered that came first. I forgot taking photos of the dishes that came after these as we were busy eating. 

Avocado

I have been taking avocado for breakfast for a few months. I started taking it for its nutrients. It's packed with lots of nutrients. 

But after taking it for sometimes now, people around me compliment me that my big belly has shrunk down a lot and I have slimmed down too. I didn't know why. I thought I was too stressed over some issues. 

But one day, as I was lying down on the bed, I stumble upon an article about weight loss. Here is the link :

http://www.health.com/health/m/gallery/0,,20978353_5,00.html

Then it made sense to me about all the compliments from others. 

Here are some of the good bargains I got for avocados recently. 

About a month ago, I bought some avocados at only RM2.45 each. Those are from South Africa, bigger than the Aussie's. 

Then about 2 weeks ago, I got them at RM2.99 each ( They are quite biiig). Yes, from S. Africa too.

Today, I got them at RM1.99 each. These are from Australia, and smaller in size. However, a friend told me that Aus Avocados are creamier. 

Well, my son2 likes it for breakfast too. 

Paper Mache - Plate / Bowl

My kids are having a 2-week school holiday. The 1st was spent with their grandparents. Now, comes the 2nd week and our maid is away for a few days. 

My sons wanted to do something I was looking at Google - paper mache. So I decided to guide them doing a bowl each. I guess that's the simplest one. 

1) Select a bowl of choice. 

2) Strip / tear the newspaper. 

3) Wet the newspaper strip and place them one by one, on the back of the bowl.

4) After the whole back of bowl is covered with the wet newspaper strips, start gluing the remaining strips (dry ones) over the wet strips on the back of bowl with homemade glue (Homemade glue recipe). Glue as many layers as you like. The more layer the harder bowl you will get.

(We placed a tray underneath each bowl so that we don't mess the worktop) 

5) Dry bowls under hot sun. 

(We live in a very hot place and it took us about 2-3 hours to dry the paper mache completely) 

6) Remove the paper mache from the mould ( in this case, the bowl ). 

7) Discard also the then wet newspaper strips (now dry). 

8) Cut the edge of the paper mache bowl, then use some small pieces of newspaper to cover the edge to make it smooth. 

9) Dry it again. 

10) Paste one or two more layers of paper pieces of your choice on the paper mache, and in our case, coloured serviette. 

(I find that serviette is more forgiving) 

11) Dry the bowls. I dried them in my air conditioned room and by the time we woke up, the bowls are ready.

These are the bowls my sons have made. 

I hope you will try it for yourselves too. Thank you for reading till now. 

God bless every family. 

Dad's Passing

My dad passed away recently. My hubby took my children and I to pay the last respect to him. 

I didn't tell my children about it until we reached his home. There I saw my dad lying in the casket peacefully. 

It was quite sad as my sons didn't even know who my dad is. They kept asking who is that uncle. 

I saw my stepmom and two step brothers. We didn't talk. Thankfully my aunts and uncles were there too so they spoke with them. 

Like it or not, I left after two hours, proceeding to Penang to celebrate Mother's Day and mom's birthday. However, I finally spoke to my step mom, thanking her for taking care of my dad. 

On the final day, my brother and I came back to his place to send dad in his last journey. I saw my step brother stared at me. I think he might have somethings in his mind. Probably disappointed with me? I don't know. 

Will that be the last time I am meeting them? 

Full Gospel Tabernacle 35th Anniversary

It is my pleasure to be a part of this church. I may not be a prominent member, but I definitely love this church. 

Remember when I first came to this church, I was sceptical about being in this church ever since. 

When I first mo Lumpur, my husband (my boyfriend then) went back to Penang over the weekend. I really did not want to skip church and I called up Lay Chin to take me to hers. She having no car, asked for transport for me from a sister in Christ, Soo Lan, who is now a pastor. She fetched me to church and made friends with me. 

After filling in the communication card, they said that I can keep the pen. "A Church You Can Call Home" was written on it. I looked at it and told myself that it won't be true as I really don't plan to continue attending this church. 

But I really don't understand why and how I became regular in this church. 

When I say regular, I mean every week. Perhaps it was Soo Lan who actually helped me to continue with my walk here in this church. I even pulled my hubby into this church and we attended cell meetings very regularly. 

Without we knew it, we were already here for more than 13 years. Throughout all these years, I am blessed to be here in terms of support, biblical knowledge, spiritual walk and principles. In fact, when I look back now, I have grown in this church. I hope the growth is a good growth in God. In Him everything holds together. 

Yesterday as the church celebrated her 35th anniversary, I am blessed to watch the video about how the pioneers and other church members talking about her. 

Here is a short video clip I managed to take during the celebration. 

http://youtu.be/GBqoiibSOTY

May God bless our church 

Korean Digital Perm

Have been quite bored about my hair. So I decided to get a hair perm at HB hair saloon in Seri Serdang. 

During the perm. 

The stylist did a digital perm for me. I have read about this perm and it's nothing new. The perm is supposed to give a natural look, compared to cold perm which might cause frizz and looks stiff.

The front look. I find that the hair in the front is a little straight. Reason was that I asked him to comb this section. Hence straighter hair. 

The back- I like the curls that look very natural in layers, which add volume to my naturally thin hair. I didn't dye my hair. The colour comes from my previous hair dye. 

New Year 2016

Today is the first day in 2016. 

The most thing I am thankful for is that through God's mercy, my family and I managed to cross over to 2016. It is so good to be alive. 

However, I will never forget about my beloved paternal grandma who passed away on Malaysia's National day in 2015. In fact, both Kevin and I lost a grandma each this year as his paternal grandma also passed away a few months before my grandma's passing. 

I don't think Kevin's grandma accepted Christ but I strongly believe that my grandma accepted Jesus a week before she passed away. 

Anyway, this morning Kevin and I took our three sons and helper to church to attend the sunrise service in Full Gospel Tabernacle (FGT). 

I like attending the service very much, especially on the first day of the year. 

We had some tim sum for breakfast. 

The siew mai was nice. 

May God bless our family with good health, joy and blessings abundantly this year. 

This is also my hope that we will draw closer to God and will be able to set good example for our kids and guiding them in following God.