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. 

God's Supernatural Help

Today, God made a miracle for me, solving my problems which had caused insomnia to me last night. 

I just came back from a long holiday and was given the 2016 timetable. I was given 5 classes of English, 1 Year One Physical Education (PE), 1 Year Two Physical Education, 1 Year Two Visual Art and 1 Year One Music. 

Headache No.1: 

PE is a new subject for me so I need to search for the yearly scheme of work and then typing out the lesson plans. I need to search from outside the school as I need the set in Malay language. 

Headache No.2:

Music is also a new subject for me to teach in the school. Not only that, it is also run in mandarin, a language I am not fluent of. Teaching it also requires me to find the yearly scheme of work and daily lesson plans all by myself as I need the sets in Malay language and all my other colleagues are using the ones in mandarin. 

I really felt stressed out. So I was in my insomnia stage that night. I felt overwhelmed. I told God about it. If I am not mistaken, I think I asked Him for help without specifying what God should do. I really believed that I can go through it with God'd mercy and grace. 

So the next morning, I went to school in the morning for Year One orientation. My afternoon supervisor later told me that she has removed the music lesson from my timetable. How relieved I was snd I knew it was God. 

Later, I went for the PE meeting. There, they required me to write the lesson plans in mandarin. So a kind colleague offered me her well typed PE lesson plan which is in mandarin. 

Uh!!! What a relief ! Now, not only that I don't need to teach music, I also do not need to write both the Year One and Year Two PE lesson plans! She will tell me what to teach each week. All I need is the manpower (which I have) to carry out the lessons weekly. 

I am truly blessed! It's like having a faith exercise in God. 

God, you are truly amazing. Thank you so much. 

Yosef's 7 soon

Yosef will soon turn seven end of this year. As a mother whose birthday falls in the long term school holiday every year, I understand the feeling of envious of my friends celebrating their birthdays with our classmates in school. That is why I'd normally celebrate Yosef's birthday for him twice every year, once with his friends before the school term ends and once on the actual day. 

This year, I did it on the Children's Day in his school so that to minimise the trouble his class teacher might have. Thank God I got his teacher's permission to do so on that day. 

So the preparation was really trilled but tiring. The theme of the birthday party was 'Science'. I was able to squeeze the creativity juice out of me to do the decorations. 

I made a anti-gravity Florence flask chocolate cake for him. It was my maid who helped me baked the cake. However, the cake didn't taste good but it sure looked great. 

Anti-gravity Florence Flask cake

Besides the main cake, I baked some other cupcakes too. I made some Braint Cupcakes and some Elixir Cupcakes. They are mostly decorated with simple slightly tinted buttercream. The elixirs were made in fondant. I placed the cupcakes in the paper cupcake stands which I bought from Mr DIY. 

Brainy Cupcakes

Elixir Cupcakes

Because it was a Science theme party, I also made some tadpoles in jellies and eyeball jellies. I soaked some basil seeds to let them become gelatinous. I then put them into the cooked jelly mixture before the jellies cured. The jelly mixtures was then pour into their respective glass chicken essence bottles which I salvaged all these while. Unfortunately, I didn't take a closeup photo of it. 

As for the eyeballs, they were made of jelly too. I used the sphere shape ice cube tray to make them. I tinted a little jelly with blue dye and poured just a little into the cavities. As soon as they cured a little I carefully placed a small piece of chocolate chip in the middle and then I poured in the milk jelly mixture to fill in the cavities fully. Let them cured in the fridge. 

I also bought some gummy worms for the table. A magnifying glass was out as a decorative item next to the gummies.

Next was the Chromosome Pasta to ease the kids' hungry tummy. 

To tie the things together, I placed two Pom Poms next to the main cake. The Pom Poms successfully gave a pop of colour. And they were put one one each side of the cake just to get a symmetry look. 

As for the back drop, I simply folded a piece of plastic (same as the table runner) into half and used some sticky tape to hang it up. I also printed out some letters on triangular shaped paper and hung them up just like it in the photo. 

Besides the dessert table, I also prepared some photo props for the kids to take photos. The kids were happy. 

I am thankful that everything went well and my son was super happy too. Well at least, when he looks back next time, he will have some memory of celebrating his birthday with his friends in the school and with the grace of God, his mother was the one who made the things happened for him. 

I love you, my son! 

School Holiday

We were having a school holiday and Kevin had already taken off during this period. We thought that we won't be going back to hometown as granny had passed away. 

Well, we went back anyway as we really had nothing else to do at home. Yeah, we went back. 

The air in in Penang is better than the one in Klang Valley (Klang Valley's experiencing haze from Sumatra). 

Taking kids back often is good to remind them about our roots, where we come from. It's also a great way for them to learn paying respect to our eldest and do ending time with them.