Sketches of Life

When I read the news about Penang Chief Minister flew in Economy Class, in TheStar, I was like, “So what?” until I read a few other blogs that he is the First CM to fly Economy Class. Thank You so much for not wasting the tax payer money. I really hope that more will follow your footstep.

Even though I do not know him personally and met his wife face to face once, in an informal DAP meeting which I declined signing up as a member yet, somehow I know that they are humble people from they way they speak and carry themselves. It must be the Christ in them. As Christian, we should be the Salt and Light to the world. I hope and I pray that he and his wife will continue to be the Salt and Light in our country.

He was first spotted flying Economy Class by Ning Baizura and her manager. Read all about it here.

Where is the DAP membership form???

Sunday after Sunday going to church is just about fellowshipping with other mommies in the mother’s room. I hardly get to listen to the sermon. But last Sunday, I made an effort to listen as much as I could because my hubby was the preacher. He preached about How To Receive God’s Blessing. Wanna know how? Just click on the link.

I even video tape 7 minutes of his preaching but I can’t load it to my computer. So it is stuck in my digital camera.

This is only the 2nd time he preaches in the church that we are currently attending. Hope to see him up there more often.

At Tesco last night, hubby was greeted by a Malay couple, his customer. They spoke in Malay of course. Another Chinese couple was there and the husband took a second glance at me. His 2nd glance was not pleasing at all. It has the angry and disgusting (menyampah) look. I almost could read what was on his mind. I hope he did not curse me for going out with a “Malay” man.

That is the “problem” when others see us in the public. This is due to hubby’s Malay look and me with my very Chinese feature.
I wonder how many curses have been spoken unto me since I started going out with hubby. Thank God for the power of the blood of Jesus Christ, I am protected from all these curses.

We Are The Reason

As little children
We would dream of Christmas morn
Of all the gifts and toys
We knew we’d find
But we never realized
A baby born one blessed night
Gave us the greatest gift of our lives

We were the reason
That He gave His life
We were the reason
That He suffered and died
To a world that was lost
He gave all He could give
To show us the reason to live

As the years went by
We learned more about gifts
The giving of ourselves
And what that means
On a dark and cloudy day
A man hung crying in the rain
All because of love, all because of love

I’ve finally found the reason for living
It’s in giving every part of my heart to Him
In all that I do every word that I say
I’ll be giving my all just for Him, for Him

He is my reason to live

I would like to wish ALL my readers and fellow blogger friends a Blessed Christmas & A Most Blessed New Year.

I think this month I really need payday loan to help me pay my credit card bills if I still receive this few offers till end of this month. Besides spending on clothing that I bought for my children for Christmas and Chinese New Year, I still have my medical insurance to pay, kindergarten fees, a short holiday trip that I really long for and own Chinese New Year clothes.

Sorry folks, this year, no Christmas card or present from me. Over budget already. I can only afford to buy candies and chocolates for the children in church. Adults? Go buy your own chocolates and candies.

I am so glad to know that the missionaries that we are supporting are back here in Malaysia. It seems that they were called back home by the Malaysia’s Wycliffe Director from Kupang, Indonesia. The place that they have been serving for a few years, translating the Indonesia bible to the Kupang language. We are still in a blur on what made the Director called them back here. It seems that they won’t be going back there for the time being.

I wonder whether the sending church, the church that we attended before will continue to give them the financial support since they are not serving there. I hope the church will continue supporting them because it is not their choice to leave the place. At this time, it would be nice if I can get some cash advance to give to them to spend while they are here. I hope we will be able to meet them tonight for a decent dinner and catching up and hope that they are ready to tell us the whole story behind it.

This is my all time favorite worship song; Here I am to worship. Just take a look at the lyric. Aren’t they just beautiful and very meaningful too.

To those who are not Christian, Light of the world refers to Jesus.

I have embedded the video of the song in my First Love blog. Just click the link above.

Light of the world
You stepped down into darkness
Opened my eyes let me see
Beauty that made this heart adore You
Hope of a life spent with You

Here I am to worship
Here I am to bow down
Here I am to say that You’re my God
You’re altogether lovely
Altogether worthy
Altogether wonderful to me

King of all days
Oh so highly exalted
Glorious in Heaven above
Humbly You came to the earth You created
All for love’s sake became poor

I’ll never know how much it cost
To see my sin upon that cross

My hubby and I were thinking about getting a new car. Really, really thinking about a new car. The old junk that I am using has been giving hubby lots of work lately. And if ever I failed to use it for one day, I would have problem starting the engine. Also, if it rained heavily and the weather is really cold, I would also face the same problem. However, if I want to trade in the car, the old junk has no value. It’s really an old car.

If ever I buy a new car, what should I do with my old junk? One option is to Donate My Car. Yes, I can actually do that with CarAngel.com. They are looking for Car Donations from anybody, be it car dealers, car manufacturers, non-profit organizations, or even car owners like you and me. Every Car Donation will be used for their activities to help the youths. And they are in need of many cars to be effective in their programs. I would love to give but I am sure the old junk is not what they are asking. Instead of giving help to them, the old junk would bring more grieves to them.

So to all those good hearted generous people out there, please donate a car to help a worthy cause.

Very often we live our lives in a monotonous way, day in day out. And most of us would have let the day gone without any thoughts of what we have done. Have we done something extraordinary for the day? Or is there something that we could have done differently? Why did we do what we have done in those circumstances? What are our priorities in life?

Many questions can and should we ask of ourselves regularly. If not, then our lives would be nothing more than just mere living for living sake. David’s blog Memoirs of a Sojourner offers an insight of what could and should be done by most of us. He asked tough questions about life, questions that some of us would rather keep away. Being a Catholic in faith, his convictions and beliefs would naturally be based on the Bible. And that is the beauty of it, a life that is seeking to be Christ like. And he offers wonderful real life insights and analogies of Biblical teachings that are very practical.

We may have heard long boring sermons on the pulpit without much real life application to it and it can make us wonder whether our Christian faith is dull and difficult. To the contrary, Christian faith is the only faith that gives true freedom. And this is what David is showing in his journey of life as a Catholic, the total freedom found in Christ. Do visit his blog and you may find some questions that you yourself are asking. You might even find the answer to that question.

I read below story quite sometime ago. Today it came in my inbox again. So, I just wanna share to my readers that Jesus is not dead. He is alive and His is surely a miracle working God.

A Muslim man in Egypt killed his wife and then buried her with their infant baby and 8-year old daughter. The girls were buried alive! He then reported to the police that an uncle killed the kids. 15 days later, another family member died. When they went to bury him, they found the 2 little girls under the sand - ALIVE !

The country is outraged over the incident, and the man will be executed. The older girl was asked how she had survived. ‘A man wearing shinywhite clothes, with bleeding wounds in his hands, came every day to feed us. He woke up my mom so she could nurse my sister,’ she said.

She was interviewed on Egyptian national TV, by a veiled Muslim woman news anchor. She said on public TV, ‘This was none other than Jesus, because nobody else does things like this!’

Muslims believe Isa (Jesus) would do this, but ‘the wounds’ means He really was crucified, and it’s clear also that He is alive! BUT, it’s also clear that the child could not make up a story like this, AND there is no way these children could have survived without a true miracle.

Muslim leaders are going to have a hard time to figure out what to do with this, and the popularity of the Passion movie doesn’t help! With Egypt at the centre of the media and education in the Middle East, you can be sure this story will spread.

Christ is still turning the world upside down!
Please let this story be shared. The Lord says, ‘I will bless the person who puts his trust in me.’ Jeremiah17:7

BTW, I still have not watch Passion of the Christ! Can’t bear the idea of seeing Jesus persecuted and crucified on the cross. Sure cry one! hehe. Oh ya! Someone borrowed my VCD and never returned it back to me!!!

This pretty little girl left a comment in my blog, so I went to “investigate” who she is. As I looking around, my eyes caught hold of the Scripture Tag on her sidebar. It is so sweet and pretty. I want it for my blog too. So I click on it and I was brought to CWO website, Christian Women Online Ezine.

Their Scripture Tags are hard to resist and some are very cute. Make me wanna add another sidebar just for their Scripture Tags!

Hubby just informed me that church camp is postponed to September. It was supposed to be in July. Haiya…like that no family vacation until then. Second thought, good also lar…by then my son is able to walk steadily and I don’t really have to carry him around. My hands will be free to help other mother’s take care of their infant! I just like babies. But I do not want anymore for myself.

The Lord has spoken and I was rebuked. No more writing cari makan post on Sundays. Must set my priority right. He has given and He can also take it away from me. Was too carried away by the USD that I’m earning by just blogging. It drains me not only physically and mentally but spiritually too.

Forgive me Lord.