Love your neighbour as yourself.

Too often, I tend to choose my "neighbour".
I ought to be that "neighbour" who always loves.

To our Hawaiian Princess:


Blessed 21st Birthday!


 

Timo and I had our 2nd Anniversary celebration at Modesto, Vivocity last night. Guess what, we had to pay only $5.17 for the entire meal. All thanks to a complimentary $50 voucher and a 25% discount on top of the entire bill. Thank God for that! Thus, he treated us to Haagen-Dazs ice-cream after that! My all-time evergreen favourite ice-cream. To me, it felt kind of a luxury to have Haagen-Dazs cuz' most of the time, I cannot get past my conscience of paying $8.50 for a waffle ice-cream! :)



My lasagna!


XXX Pizza


TIMOTHY!


my once-in-a-gazillion luxury treat


cookies and cream waffle topped with caramel flakes and peanuts


Gift exchange. Timothy's handmade scrapbook for me!


Close-up of scrapbook :)

Backstage work of the recipe found from recipezaar.com recommended by dearest Siyin!

That was my 2nd attempt in my life in baking a cake. The first cake resulted in a gooey mess of a brownie and this time, thank God, the cake somehow emerged from my oven!!! I was so encouraged...cuz' I am currently attempting to be the Proverbs 31 woman. :) 


Omega 3 eggs. ;P


The batter


My lemon cake! I acted smart and put three lemons instead of two for the fear of non-existent lemon taste. :) However, the cake became a little sour; thus, this cake is a true blue lemon cake! :) Thank God Timothy loved it. Even if he did not, I know he is far too gracious to say so. Hah!


Our 2nd Anniversary Photo. :)

Thank God for His grace in sustaining this relationship! :)

_______

Just for laughs


Ironic. 

Day by Day





Day by day and with each passing moment,
Strength I find to meet my trials here;
Trusting in my Father's wise bestowment,
I've no cause for worry or for fear,
He whose heart is kind beyond all measure
Gives unto each day which He deems best
Lovingly, its part of pain and pleasure,
Mingling toil with peace and rest.

Every day the Lord Himself is near me
With a special mercy for each hour
All my cares He fain would bear and cheer me
He whose name is Counselor and Pow'r
The protection of His child and treasure
Is a charge that on Himself He laid
As thy days thy strength shall be in measure
This the pledge to me he made.

Help me then in ev'ry tribulation
So to trust in Thy holy word
Help me Lord when toil and trouble meeting,
E'r to take as from a fathers hand
One by one, the days the moments fleeting
Till I reach the promised land.

Lina Sandell Berg 1832-1903

A great awakening and wakeup call.
Eternity in gnashings of hellfire.
It does sound scary.
What if you have already missed the promised land?
 

Leo Overcomes

This is a really adorable video on perseverance of Little Leo as he attempted to get his baby steps right to reach for his prize!

Leonidas Befriends a Black Pomeranian
 

"Who's scared of who?"

:)

Timo and I settled our dinner at one of the zhaopai stalls after my work today! The Ipoh Horfan which I ordered was especially appetising for me and my rising hunger completed the entire equation of a GREAT meal. ;) Timothy had a plate of Wonton Noodles and the vendors were really generous with their portions of wontons.

Let my pictures vouch for my words.


Hiang Ji at Toa Payoh Hub


Ipoh Horfan!!!


Wonton Mee...okay, just realised that i forgot the pictures of the wontons. Box myself.
 

 

Ever since I have started on my dosage of medicine, I find myself eating more!
Yay, I have gained weight I supposed! *pats my tummy.

I am so glad for that essential gain of weight cuz' everyone has been remarking that I am skinny. :( However, 2 things they do not understand and see is that I do eat normally like everyone else and I have light bones with little muscles (must work on that! ;) ) BUT I do not believe in food being the god of my belly. I live to eat and not eat to live.

Thank God for this weight gain though! I must seriously look into committing myself in some form of regular physical exercise once I am done away with this flu-cough virus thingy. :)

Speaking on food, Timothy has introduced me to this foodie blogger. ieatishootipost. Really dslr-ish pictures of food the blogger has there which makes the food look even more appetising.

The day we left Kaohsiung for Taipei



Lugging the heavy luggage.
You go Timo!


At the MRT


Leonidas diving into the pond!


Blooming in the flowers


Little Leo conquering his fear of dogs.
He always goes "wowo" when he sees a dog which was so endearing. ;)


The 48723492374th shot just to get the line of symmetry right.


Training for pri 1 nafa's test.
Go Leonidas!:)


Yea.
That was the prize which kept him going.
The expression on his face was especially precious when he reached the peak.
A small kid who really taught us young adults alot on perseverance.


Mr Handsome Leo.
 

My dearest wakeboarder babe is flying on the Boeing A380 tonight!
I think I am far more excited for her on her Europe adventure than she herself.
Thank God I got to meet her few hours back to capture this one final picture before she returns!


Farewell dear friend. :)
 

Taiwan, Part 4

Getting ourselves dirty- We get to clean the church with Sis Ouyang Meidi. It was a fulfilling and fun experience for me and it reminded me of Primary School days when there was one day of the term which the entire school will instruct the students to clean the classrooms.


All of us working hard and were rewarded with an appetising bowl of green bean soup at our break.


The spick-and-span windows!


Tada! Squeaky clean panels of windows.


We had to devise a media system for their church and our Mandarin skills were put into good use. The only challenge was to read and recognise traditional Chinese characters. Imagine the number of strokes the Traditional Chinese characters possess!


Hakka food cooked by one of the church brothers' family.
One of the home visits which Timothy, Leon and Dr Lehman went while Jac, godson and I spent some quality time tgt eating our beef noodles and shopping.:P


Handsome hor?


"Beverly Hills" in Taiwan


Dream City Mall.


At Cold Rock- an ice-cream cafe!
 Leonidas looking thoughful. "What ice-cream shall I eat?"


Sweet


This was back at Zuoying when Sis Dolly brought us to the best beef noodles in town! ;)


My first ever shui long bao. Superb! Think they are so much affordable there than Ding Tai Feng. :X


On the final Sunday when the Church people kindly brought us out to eat. It was quite a long drive to the above steamboat place and we were really touched by Yi Jing's (bottom right) sincerity. She specially borrowed her Dad's car so as to accommodate all 5 of us!



The signature look on my godson's face.


Sun Yat-Sen University


On the day of typhoon. We experienced a really mild typhoon during our stay there but we heard horror stories of people being swallowed up by the one-storey high waves!


On the final Sunday night when we went down to Pastor Keith Cullers' church in the rural area. This is a photo of Timothy at Timothy's which is a 5 minute drive from his church! :P


With Pastor Cullers and family. :)

Till then. Part 5!