Friends

Besides God, I must also thank the brothers and sisters who were there, bringing joy to me, letting me forget all the worries everytime we were together. Sorry to some that I did not let my problems known to you all, but even if I had wanted to share, I would have forgotten, because I am just too happy when I am with you all and would have forgotten what worries and troubles I had. Of course, I thank God for brothers that prayed for me and last but not least, thanks be to God!

Went to Teo Heng KTV Music Centre for K session few weeks back, the "highest" K session I had ever had. We went totally crazy and even out of mind when singing some really stupid songs like "爱无赦”，"Jam Jam Bo", "Girlfriend", "Umbrella" and "Barbie Girl", oh yes and we had audiences staring at us, amused, from outside the room, coz we were literally dancing crazily on the sofa! "Go Go Brother, Go Go Sister~~~", "Jam Jam Bo~~~" Ahaha...




Mei Feng 和 Kai En 的深情演唱。。。




Go Go Brother, Go Go Sister~~~





Wai Yee's birthday!

Went to Xiaoling's house to celebrate Wai Yee's birthday. Xiaoling's mum cooked for all of us, thanks! Had a good time chit chatting and lots of laughter. Hope Wai Yee likes the present.


The beautiful chocolate birthday cake.


野人 with her weapon!!! Gonna use it to burn my hair!!! Faster siam!



HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!


1. Make a wish


2. Blow candles


3. Pose with the cake before gulping the whole cake down your stomach


野人在吃大便，the chocolate balls on the cake in a sorry state after landing in 野人's hands

Was flipping through the Bible and God spoke to me again.

He said, "If you listen carefully to the voice of the LORD your God and do what is right in his eyes, if you pay attention to his commands and keep all his decrees, I will not bring on you any of the diseases I brought on the Egyptians, for I am he LORD who heals you." Exodus 15:26

耶和华有说： “如果你留意听耶和华你 神的声音，行他眼里看伪正的事，侧耳听他的戒命。遵守他的一切律例；这样，我绝不把加在埃及人身上的一切疾病加在你们的身上，因为我是医治你的耶和华。” 出埃及记 15：26

Thank God!

I hope you all can watch through the whole MV, because it touched me and I hope it touches you too. The God who delivered the hebrews out of Egypt is the God we believe in. If he did not forsake the Hebrews and brought them out of suffering, he too will bring us out of our sufferings. He does not break his promises. I was suddenly overwhelmed with emotions when I watched this, I think God has really spoken to me through reminding me the story of Exodus. Let us not be like the Jews, after all He has done for them, they rejected His son, Jesus and nailed him to the cross. Let us forever follow in the way of our heavenly Father.

Sufferings are Here to Build Us Up

The ride this few months has been a bumpy one. However, what I saw was how God has his way of using sufferings to build us to be stronger persons. During this period of difficulty, God talked to me through Rev. Stephen Tong’s sermons on Joseph. God let terrible things happen to Joseph but it was to build him up, and Joseph set a great example of how we should react during sufferings. Joseph stood by the words of God even if that meant trouble for him. I admit that I am a paranoid and someone that runs away from problems. But God let me witness that he will not forsake and will lead his children through storms. Recently Uncle Kim Hao’s sharing gave me a lot of strength; I see the peace and confidence that God has given him even in times of trouble. Just in a few months time, my father and I were diagnosed with problems with our body; luckily it was not something serious. I was down, really down, now I look back to see how silly I was. I didn’t wait patiently for God, but panic on my own. And then my father had to do this operation which kind of failed on the first go. I had to stay at home to take care of him even if we both have always not been on good terms. All that unwillingness just swelled up in me. But God wanted me to obey. He wants me to learn the lesson of love not only just inside CYYAM but also at home. Now God has led my father to an earlier operation to be done in Mount E on the coming Monday (please do pray for him). Its very ex, but at least we now know what the underlying problem is. And yes, we learnt to stop going to Changi Hospital next time, its just terrible, the doctors and everything…

I saw God’s hand bringing us through, even though sometimes we lack faith in God, I saw myself changing after all this ordeal. I am getting rid of some habits that does not pleases God and I am sure this is one of the reasons why God allowed the ordeal to happen. Please continue to pray for my family, it’s quite taxing financial wise because of all these. Pray that I will continue to let God mould me into a better person.

And yes. My results are out. MP got a B and passed my internship also. GPA 2.8. Good bye to Poly life. So fast... Maybe will write a post on my reflection on Poly life, but not now. Too emo to write now. Haha... Thank God for the results though.

Its Gotta be Food Again!!!

Ok, its me, the food critic again. Its not that I have nothing to do, but I just love food! Haha…

Soup Spoon

Went to the famous Soup Spoon Restaurant for the first time in my life with brothers and sisters. A doubt about the Soup Spoon has always been in my mind, the doubt is whether a meal eaten in the Soup Spoon can really fill your stomach? Coz its just soup! You know? But then I WAS WRONG, the soup in soup spoon is amazingly filling and the size of the bowl is not small man!!! The bowl of soup is usually sold in a set. The set includes a drink and a sandwich and guess how much it costs??? JUST $11 and they will stuff your stomach to the fullest. That’s cheaper then Ajisen Ramen Restaurant lor! I ordered a bowl of mushroom soup, a smoked salmon sandwich and a glass of cold iced lemon tea. The mushroom soup is super gravy like and before I could finish, my stomach was already full and I left it to continue with my sandwich, after the sandwich my stomach was already near explosion. The soup is super rich with mushroom; just a bit plain in taste for my choice, the sandwich is super delicious. Other soup choices out there were, Pumpkin soup, Tokyo Chicken Soup, Clam Chowder and Beef Soup. Thumbs up for Soup Spoon, now I know why they are so successful in business.


Mushroom soup

Smoked salmon sandwich

This is the whole set.

Food Rating: 4.5/5

Ho Kee Pau Restaurant

This restaurant is near Aljunied MRT station, it sells all kinds of Dim Sum and is famous for their Pau, went with my mum on the day I went to register for SAT. We ordered 牛腩面，虾饺and韭菜饺, not bad, the food portion for the dim sum is acceptable, the牛腩面 is not bad too, just that I would prefer they use more 肥厚的牛腩，all the 肉inside my bowl 瘦瘦的. Overall, not bad lar.


牛腩面

虾饺和韭菜饺

Food Rating: 3.5/5

Inle Restaurant

Me, Gloria and Yan Heng went to this Myanmar Restaurant one Sunday before going to Stephen Tong’s sermon. At first I was a bit doubtful of whether would I like the food there, coz its Myanmar cuisine. But it turns out not too bad, though not a restaurant that I will go in on my own will. We ordered this deep fried cucumber or something like that. Not bad. For my main course, I ordered this pork with shrimp paste, gosh, and its super salty!!! Have to eat it with rice and drink a lot a lot of water, if not kena kidney problem. Quite a special experience, first time eating Myanmar food.

Deep fried cucumber

Pork with shrimp paste

Food rating: 2.5/5

奇迹的 Popiah 和 Unknown Auntie 的米粉

We had a small event on Valentine’s Day. The activities included making Popiah and watching a Korean variety show which features Super Junior prepared by Xiao Ling and gang. Haiz… Super Junior (Sorry, I don’t like boy bands. Haha…) The DIY Popiah is fun to make sia. We added fillings of what we like on our own will. Wai Yee is the most creative, go add 米粉 inside the Popiah and let Mei Feng eat. Later she even put Ferrero Rocher into the Popiah and eat it herself, gosh… I CAN’T imagine the TASTE. (Wai Yee we know we have to try out new things, but some things put together sure not nice de is common sense. AHAHAHA… Like who would put da bian and food together? AHAHAHA… Just kidding, don’t be offended ar. AHAHAHA…) The Popiah taste quite ok, the 米粉 is very nice leh, but Mei Feng don’t like, I like the strong sesame flavor it has. But nonetheless, had a great time and great night. We are celebrating love you know, but not the BGR kind of love, but love inside the fellowship. Haha…


Ingredients for popiah

米粉

DIY Popiah

哇！Mei Feng, the 野人！啊哈哈。。。"We want food!, we want food!"
Wai Yee also joined in the 野人党！
Food rating: 2.5/5
Victor’s Kitchen



Before I even go to this place for dinner, I had already known this small tiny restaurant through a food variety show shown on TV. It is famous for its Dim Sum and most importantly the steamed carrot cake served with self made XO sauce. The owner/main chef of this restaurant is a Hong Konger who set up a small shop over here to make authentic Hong Kong Dim Sums. However, I didn’t note down the location of the restaurant. But 天注定我要吃这店的东西, haha… Yan Heng brought us there before a Stephen Tong sermon on Sunday. Now I know the location, it’s a Sunshine Plaza near Sim Lim Square. The dim sums were nice, very Hong Kong style. Of course, we ordered the signature dish, the steamed carrot cake, really nice and soft with plenty of carrot slices, just that the 腊味 and dried scallop is pitifully few. The carrot cake is best eaten with the XO sauce. Go try out. Highly recommended.

Food rating: 4/5


Last two weeks, I joined Xiaoling, Wai Yee, Shu Mei, Kai En, Wei En, Vinc and family, Pei En, Wei Hong, Yan Heng for steamboat (Haha… I sacrificed Stephen Tong’s sermon for that, ops…) Had a great fellowship. Had a super loud and crazy laugh when Yan Heng poured everything into the steamboat making the soup nearly overflow. Haha… Anyway, got self control this time also, I didn’t literally stuff my stomach until bursting point. The food taste ok, coz I too engrossed in all the laughing and chit chatting. And yay, my first photo with baby leah, isn’t she cute??????


Went window shopping afterwards and wore this stupid hairband in one of the shops. Haha... Do I look like M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E???

Food rating: 3/5

The first time I saw this photo, I laughed until like crazy, thanks har, Wai Yee, your creativity brought us many laughter! Haha…

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Sermon Application

上个礼拜在唐崇荣的讲道上，学到一些东西。唐牧师给了一个蛮好笑的比喻。非信徒们常常说：“基督徒的神很霸道，说什么不信他就得下地狱，信他才能上天堂，我就偏偏不信，你能拿我怎样?!” 唐牧师说他会如此回答：

空气说：“你吸我，就不会死，你不吸我，就会死！”

人就说：“你这么霸道，我就偏偏不吸！看你能怎样！”

空气就说“我不会怎样，因该是看你会怎样才对。。。”

哈哈。。。的确很好笑，但是如果你想想后面的意义，你会感慨吧。其实救恩就和空气一样，是神赐的恩典来的，不是害我们的东西，但人不领情，觉得神很凶，硬要逼人信他，其实人跟神斗气又何苦呢？到头来，吃亏的不是神，是你啊。人就是那么幼稚，我们还没信神之前可能也是这样吧。我自己很惭愧，我不是个很积极传福音的人，我怕的也就是在面对这些以上所描诉的这类人时，因该如何回答，但我要开始学习，我的责任是要传，他信不信是圣灵的工作。

唐牧师也提到其实神给我们很多基本恩典，比如说好人会得到阳光，坏人也会，其中一个基本恩典就是人的良知，但是末日越近，神就会慢慢收回这些基本恩典，所以我们今天看到地球的气候变化，是神在慢慢收回这些基本恩典。更靠近我们生活的而又能目睹的就是人的良知在慢慢消失，以前，在房里做的事，现在可以搬出大庭广众做，暴力，色情，奸诈好像是理所当然的人性，价值观慢慢在变，你们应该看到吧。。。从讲道上，我学到的是，在这时代中，我更要在神的话语里面站立得稳，不会让这些世界觉得理所当然的事而被动摇。求神指引前路。

Chinese New Year and Food

今年的农历新年过得很特别，因为奉华姨特地从香港过来陪我们一家人过新年！往年的农历新年都过得有点枯燥乏味，第一，我们在这里没亲戚，第二，这里的新年气氛远远比不上别的华人地区。所以谢谢你阿姨！谢谢你肯过来陪我们！

松發日夜市肉骨茶

We went to this restaurant on the first day of my aunt’s arrival; it is located right opposite of Central Shopping Mall. We ordered a bowl of 肉骨茶 for everyone, pig trotters, pig intestines, 凤抓 and a plate of vegetables. The肉骨茶 is the very typical Singaporean style of肉骨茶, heavily seasoned with pepper and garlic. I personally prefer the Malaysian style of肉骨茶which is more 重in 药材味. Anyway, the肉骨茶 here taste like any of the肉骨茶 in Singapore. The portion of food given is quite generous and the price is quite reasonably

Food rating: 3/5

Long Beach Restaurant

We had our reunion dinner at Long Beach restaurant, Long Beach has always been famous for their seafood and since it has been a long time since the last time I went there, I was looking forward to the sumptuous meal waiting for me on that day. Long Beach restaurant recently just went through a big renovation, there is no more mood lighting, the restaurant now is really bright and the setting and ambience have totally changed.

捞鱼生, the dish is quite beautiful, haha… But maybe it’s the sauce they put, the dish turns out to be pretty sour, not exactly my liking, though I still like the crispy crispy chips (What are they called? I don’t know.)

捞个风山水起！！！

Deep fried fish, this dish is nice, I like it, the fish is fresh and tender and the soya sauce is really fragrant, the fish is good to eat it with a bowl of rice.

脆皮鸭，我本人觉得比较像雷劈鸭多一点，这道菜弄得有点失败，整只鸭炸得太过头了，鸭肉硬得不得了，吃完一块鸭肉，嘴巴已经累得不得了。

像不像雷劈鸭？

杂菜煲，this dish is not bad, the gravy is really tasty plus there is 金针菇inside, I love 金针菇 that’s why. Haha…

姜葱蟹, this dish is the 主角, it is quite ok, the crab meat is fresh and tender but what I personally feel is that the chef 炒得不够入味, just mediocre standard…

Dessert, Vanilla ice-cream, just your normal ice-cream, but what is interesting is its presentation, below your bowl of desert is a transparent bowl filled with reddish water and dry ice, the effect makes the desert looks really appetizing, though I didn’t finish the whole thing, I was full already! Haha…

The food didn’t really reached my expectation of what it should be, given its famous name, it should have been better. But anyway, really enjoyed the reunion dinner with my family and aunt! That’s more important.

Food rating: 3.5/5

自家萝卜糕

Hehe… 自家的萝卜糕又怎会不好吃呢？哈哈。。。我们自在除夕那一天一起做的，已经很久没弄萝卜糕了，多亏阿姨来了，要不然，我们怎会大费周章的去做呢？哈哈。。。We are lazy bums. 哈哈。。。 这次的萝卜糕呢，其实有几个败笔，第一，太软，第二，料不够多，平时啊，除了香菇和腊肠，我们还会放虾米和干貝，但我爸爸就是懒惰，只放了香菇跟腊肠，第三，我们砌的萝卜丝太粗了，我砌的很细，我妈和阿姨偏偏砌得粗粗的，哈哈。。。我本人是喜欢吃细的萝卜丝。虽然如此，但是还是很好吃！Wai Yee 和 Xiaoling 你们说呢？哈哈。。。 （因为她们两位上来我家拜年，有品尝到我家的萝卜糕）以下是制作萝卜糕的过程，但你们单看是瞧不出我们制做萝卜糕的recipe的，啊哈哈。。。开玩笑的啦，我自己也是隐隐约约的知道而已，要我做，我看也不会太成功。哈哈。。。

砌萝卜咯！

Step 1: 砌萝卜

Step 2: 炒配料

Step 3: 搅粉，做糕

Step 4: 把炒好的萝卜丝和配料放进刚刚搅好的粉

Step 5: 然后蒸一到两个小时

Food rating: 4/5

美食街

除夕夜我和我妈和阿姨到了 Bugis 和牛车水逛了逛，太多人了，但之后我还是去 join Xiaoling, Wai Yee, Mei Feng, Shu Mei , Jiaxin, Shu Qin 和 Likuan 去人挤人, 倒数。哈哈。。。很久没去那么拥挤的地方了。去meet 她们之前，我和我妈和阿姨到了牛车水的美食街吃晚餐，我们叫了fried oyster, cai tao gui 和 chao guo tiao. Fried oyster 和 cai tao gui 还真的不错，chao guo tiao 就真的很 mediocre.

Food rating: 3/5

晚餐后，我就去 meet Xiaoling, Wai Yee, Mei Feng, Shu Mei , Jiaxin, Shu Qin 和 Likuan, 和他们逛逛夜市，去人挤人，Mei Feng 是最厉害的，还硬硬挤去买果冻给大家吃，哈哈。。。谢啦。只听到小贩在那儿喊“很笨很笨，八毛钱！！！”Huh? 说什么啊你？？？大家明明就是听到他在喊这句。。。Uncle 回家练练你的中文发音吧！我猜他因该是在说“果冻，果冻八毛钱！！！”Anyway, 我们有看到放鞭炮的情景，哇！真是热闹！没倒数，太多人了, we lost track of time le, 听到炮竹声才知新年已到。很开心，谢谢大家let me join in the fun!

好多人啊！！！

人挤人~~~

新年快乐！

彩灯装饰，that’s Winnie the Pool.

My aunt’s friend came over to Singapore to join her, so before they came, we went to check-in for them at the hotel, the hotel is those really small ones, can consider as motel also lar, what’s so interesting about this hotel is that the LIFT!!! This is how the lift looks like:

Super old style of lift right!!! Victorian style!!! Those metal gates!!! Oh my. Quite scary and exciting at the same time during my first ride in it, coz really got the ghostly kind of feel, plus that hotel is those small small ones and the landing at each level is very Victorian style also, dim dim dull dull type, ok stop, I am letting my imagination run wild, the rooms are ok, but the beds are too soft, too springy… I wonder how I can sleep well in this hotel.

Allson Hotel Restaurant

After the check-in, we went to Allson Hotel which is next to it only and had lunch. I ordered a medium raw lamb chop but it came as a fully cooked one, never listen properly sia… Nevermind, coz its very delicious! Haha… Maybe I was hungry? Or may it was the gravy? Just find it delicious. Haha… And yes, the orange juice is super fresh!

Food rating: 3.75/5

在此谢谢阿姨来陪我们过年！以后有机会的话，再来哦！