REST IS MORE.

and so i took a break. 

i think you can tell. 

a physical one, a mental one and a cyber one. 

just a week shy from my return from the land of smiles - oh how i love that pretty place! i am getting ready to pack my bags again. 

h&m, here i come. 

the last i looked, i only have 80plus MB left in my phone. 

boo. i still remember my friend telling me that i would never use up the memory of my trusty phone. 

i can give you 101 reasons why i love my phone and 1 reason why i don't. 

here's some pics from my short but long getaway. 

what's not to love about my phone? (besides that 1 reason)

whether i should get a new one is the question. 

xoxo

psst. my 2nd roll of film from my BBF has been processed. tell you more in the next post. 

HEART COOKIES!

this picture marries two huge occasions, one, a custom, and the other a culture, yet both celebrations in their own right; perfectly. 

counting down to valentine's day and chinese new year in 5. 

it's a triple whammy for me, because it's also my daddy's special day. 

oh, did i mention that it is also a sunday and happy church day? 

it just keeps getting better. 

love is in the air. 

xoxo

HOLD ON TIGHT.

i am about to hit the sack. 

so much has happened over the last few days...mixed stuff.

just really wanna share this cause it really made my night.

hope it makes yours - day or night, wherever you are. 

xoxo

*hold on tight

THOSE LOVE SEEDS

it's funny how i've been to the club time and again but never noticed these seeds. 

it's kinda like doing the same thing over again but realizing that there's always more to discover each time you look.

it's cool that life is a mystery. 

you get to be a part of it as a new chapter begins. 

i think i wouldn't really want to read a book if i knew the ending already. 

watch life enfold, with me. 

xoxo

welcome to +65 (:

there are many things to love about hongkong. 

if you have time, i can tell you all about them. 

 let me count the ways (:

before i set foot in one of my favorite haunts in a month plus time, i was elated to discover this article in the papers this morning. 

- KFC launches their yummy egg tarts in singapore!

was i dreaming? 

i've wished/hoped/waited a long time for this. 

isn't is divine that i now only read the papers on weekends? 

God is so good to me (: 

within the hour, my mum brought some of these yummy things home for me! 

what a wonderful start to the weekend! 

p.s. you really should try them too.  

xoxo

ALL ABOUT I DO'S.

we were talking after work and a colleague asked where we'd like our weddings to be. 

one said church and another said hotel. 

i said "beach" in a heartbeat. 

that was before i saw this.

on second thoughts, a garden would cut it too (: 

happy friday!

enjoy. 

xoxo

A WALK IN THE PARK

i did it. 

i took time out to waste a little time today and i took a walk in the park.

also managed to make time for friends at a wake today and found out that their gramps was from the same church as my first. there's a service on tonight and i don't know if they will meet him tonight. 

i don't really know if i want them to. 

this world is way too small. 

4 more hours till my sis comes back with a HUGE stash of h&m, or so i heard. 

it's been an awesome sat so far. 

xoxo

NO TIME TO WASTE.

and so i grabbed my ipod and shuffled the songs. 

this song played out. a song i used to like and play on repeat mode the very moment i got hold of it. 

sometimes it is nice to waste time. 

you heard me right. 

to find time to do nothing. 

not all the time because it will lose its novelty. 

but once in awhile, it is necessary. 

to just sit by the beach and...

watch the birds feed on food leftover by beach rompers. 

watch the sweat fall off joggers passing by. 

count the number of tandem bikes wheezing past. 

watch wanna-be fishermen draw in their catch. 

watch little kids run scurry around, fly kites, walk their dogs. 

watch the clouds roll by. 

it's about time to make time to waste time

xoxo

"Chasing Cars"

Snow Patrol

We'll do it all

Everything

On our own

We don't need

Anything

Or anyone

If I lay here

If I just lay here

Would you lie with me and just forget the world?

I don't quite know

How to say

How I feel

Those three words

Are said too much

They're not enough

If I lay here

If I just lay here

Would you lie with me and just forget the world?

Forget what we're told

Before we get too old

Show me a garden that's bursting into life

Let's waste time

Chasing cars

Around our heads

I need your grace

To remind me

To find my own

If I lay here

If I just lay here

Would you lie with me and just forget the world?

Forget what we're told

Before we get too old

Show me a garden that's bursting into life

All that I am

All that I ever was

Is here in your perfect eyes, they're all I can see

I don't know where

Confused about how as well

Just know that these things will never change for us at all

If I lay here

If I just lay here

Would you lie with me and just forget the world? 

FIRST ROLL.

i sent my first roll of film to be washed today. 

QARAH moment for me cause she was a genius at removing the film and replacing it with a brand new roll.

will only get it in 3 working days though, and im leaving on Mon. 

oh well, guess i have to wait till i'm back to see what was captured. 

counting down to BKK :) 

xoxo 

MAX LUCADO

Christ in Me

by Max Lucado

Like Mary, you and I are indwelt by Christ.

Find that hard to believe? How much more did Mary? No one was more surprised by this miracle than she was. And no one more passive than she was. God did everything. Mary didn't volunteer to help. What did she have to offer? She offered no assistance.

And she offered no resistance. Instead she said, "Behold, the bond- slave of the Lord; may it be done to me according to your word" (Luke 1:38).

Unlike Mary, we tend to assist God, assuming our part is as important as his. Or we resist, thinking we are too bad or too busy. Yet when we assist or resist, we miss God's great grace. We miss out on the reason we were placed on earth-to be so pregnant with heaven's child that he lives through us. To be so full of him that we could say with Paul, "It is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me." (Gal. 2:20)

What would that be like? To have a child within is a miracle, but to have Christ within?

To have my voice, but him speaking.
My steps, but Christ leading.
My heart, but his love beating
in me, through me, with me.
What's it like to have Christ on the inside?

To tap his strength when mine expires
or feel the force of heaven's fires
raging, purging wrong desires.
Could Christ become my self entire?

So much him, so little me
That in my eyes it's him they see.
What's it like to a Mary be?
No longer I, but Christ in me.

From Next Door Savior
Copyright (Thomas Nelson, 2003) Max Lucado

IN LIFE & DEATH.

and so in 7 days i've encountered 2 births and 1 death and connected with good friends. 

tragedies & celebrations, are poles apart - yet somehow draw people closer together. 

- selah - 

and so in 7 hours i've encountered 2 lives before death was allowed to set in. 

i was reminded about why i am doing what i was doing. 

an email from a friend telling me how he envied what i was doing. because the work of my hands impacts lives. a text from a friend said the same thing the night before. 

it's funny/amazing how Daddy God always knows when i'm teetering over the edge. 

how he always sends something, someone to reach out and pull me back before i fall.

i rest easy, knowing that You're watching over me. 

keep watching, Daddy. 

keep watching. 

xoxo

LAST NOVEMBER.

it is unbelievably the last day of the eleventh month. 

time has passed by quickly. too quickly. 

christmas carols are in the air yet again.

new days = new beginnings. 

yet sometimes, for a moment, just a moment - you wish time would stand still. 

xoxo

SO MUCH TO SAY BUT JUST THIS FOR NOW

i am about to hit the sack after a long fulfilling rest day that i but i shall leave you with this before i zip off to lala land. it brought about a fresh new revelation of your love for me. His love for me. 

and tears to my eyes. 

"...i couldn't be more sure of my ground - the One, I've trusted in can take care of what He's trusted me to do right to the end." 2 Timothy 1:12 (MSG)

what a privilege to be able to call you "Abba God". 

so loved. blessed night & sweet dreams. 

xoxo

STARRY FRIDAY!

and so we went for dinner at one of my favorite places with the yummiest meatballs & chicken wings. 

ikea. 

even the sound of its name is like music to the ears. 

pretty new shoes.

ouch. 

even the sound of it is like caution to the ears. 

new stuff look good, smell good, taste good. 

but they don't always feel good, do they? 

well at least for a start. then it can only get better. 

oh, ever increasing glory. 

"The very steps we take come from God; otherwise how would we know where we're going?" Proverbs 20:24 (MSG)

i know where i'm going cause my going comes from Him.

xoxo