It’s not about you having big eyes or small eyes.
It’s not about your face shape—be it oval, round or square.
It’s not about you having a sharp nose or a flat nose.
It’s not about you having flawless skin or a pimpled face.
It’s not about your skin color, whether you’re dark or fair.
It’s not about your height, whether you’re tall or short.
It’s not about you being slim or plump.
And mind you, a lot of us believe what the world perceives as beautiful to be true. We think that pretty girls must have flawless skin, silky long hair, big eyes, perfect eyebrows, an oval face, a sharp nose, fair, tall, and slim.
No, a woman is beautiful when after the mishaps and past failures is able to still rest in God, trusting that she is in the wonderful hands of the God Almighty. As Stasi Eldredge in her book Your Captivating Heart put it, “A beautiful woman is one who is at rest.” She doesn’t compare herself with others as to who is better or prettier. She is at peace, because she knows that she is the Lord’s beloved daughter.
You are beautiful, because you are “fearfully and wonderfully made” (Psalm 139:14). No matter how you feel and no matter what others tell you, God says, “You are my precious daughter.”
- Edna Ho, http://ymiblogging.org/2012/04/what-m
Your Love never Fails - Jesus Culture
Verse 1:
Nothing can separate
Even if I ran away
Your love never fails
I know I still make mistakes
You have new mercies for me every day
Your love never fails
Chorus:
You stay the same through the ages
Your love never changes
There may be pain in the night but joy comes in the morning
And when the oceans rage
I don't have to be afraid
Because I know that you love me
your love never fails
Verse 2:
The wind is strong and the water's deep
But I am not alone in these open seas
Your love never fails
The chasm is far too wide
I never thought I'll reach the other side
But your love never fails
Bridge:
Because you make
All things work together for my good
- Music:Your Love never fails
Professor : You are a Christian, aren’t you, son ?
Student : Yes, sir.
Professor: So, you believe in GOD ?
Student : Absolutely, sir.
Professor : Is GOD good ?
Student : Sure.
Professor: Is GOD all powerful ?
Student : Yes.
Professor: My brother died of cancer even though he prayed to GOD to heal him. Most of us would attempt to help others who are ill. But GOD didn’t. How is this GOD good then? Hmm?
(Student was silent.)
Professor: You can’t answer, can you ? Let’s start again, young fella. Is GOD good?
Student : Yes.
Professor: Is satan good ?
Student : No.
Professor: Where does satan come from ?
Student : From … GOD …
Professor: That’s right. Tell me son, is there evil in this world?
Student : Yes.
Professor: Evil is everywhere, isn’t it ? And GOD did make everything. Correct?
Student : Yes.
Professor: So who created evil ?
(Student did not answer.)
Professor: Is there sickness? Immorality? Hatred? Ugliness? All these terrible things exist in the world, don’t they?
Student : Yes, sir.
Professor: So, who created them ?
(Student had no answer.)
Professor: Science says you have 5 Senses you use to identify and observe the world around you. Tell me, son, have you ever seen GOD?
Student : No, sir.
Professor: Tell us if you have ever heard your GOD?
Student : No , sir.
Professor: Have you ever felt your GOD, tasted your GOD, smelt your GOD? Have you ever had any sensory perception of GOD for that matter?
Student : No, sir. I’m afraid I haven’t.
Professor: Yet you still believe in Him?
Student : Yes.
Professor : According to Empirical, Testable, Demonstrable Protocol, Science says your GOD doesn’t exist. What do you say to that, son?
Student : Nothing. I only have my faith.
Professor: Yes, faith. And that is the problem Science has.
Student : Professor, is there such a thing as heat?
Professor: Yes.
Student : And is there such a thing as cold?
Professor: Yes.
Student : No, sir. There isn’t.
(The lecture theater became very quiet with this turn of events.)
Student : Sir, you can have lots of heat, even more heat, superheat, mega heat, white heat, a little heat or no heat. But we don’t have anything called cold. We can hit 458 degrees below zero which is no heat, but we can’t go any further after that. There is no such thing as cold. Cold is only a word we use to describe the absence of heat. We cannot measure cold. Heat is energy. Cold is not the opposite of heat, sir, just the absence of it.
(There was pin-drop silence in the lecture theater.)
Student : What about darkness, Professor? Is there such a thing as darkness?
Professor: Yes. What is night if there isn’t darkness?
Student : You’re wrong again, sir. Darkness is the absence of something. You can have low light, normal light, bright light, flashing light. But if you have no light constantly, you have nothing and its called darkness, isn’t it? In reality, darkness isn’t. If it is, well you would be able to make darkness darker, wouldn’t you?
Professor: So what is the point you are making, young man ?
Student : Sir, my point is your philosophical premise is flawed.
Professor: Flawed ? Can you explain how?
Student : Sir, you are working on the premise of duality. You argue there is life and then there is death, a good GOD and a bad GOD. You are viewing the concept of GOD as something finite, something we can measure. Sir, Science can’t even explain a thought. It uses electricity and magnetism, but has never seen, much less fully understood either one. To view death as the opposite of life is to be ignorant of the fact that death cannot exist as a substantive thing.
Death is not the opposite of life: just the absence of it. Now tell me, Professor, do you teach your students that they evolved from a monkey?
Professor: If you are referring to the natural evolutionary process, yes, of course, I do.
Student : Have you ever observed evolution with your own eyes, sir?
(The Professor shook his head with a smile, beginning to realize where the argument was going.)
Student : Since no one has ever observed the process of evolution at work and cannot even prove that this process is an on-going endeavor. Are you not teaching your opinion, sir? Are you not a scientist but a preacher?
(The class was in uproar.)
Student : Is there anyone in the class who has ever seen the Professor’s brain?
(The class broke out into laughter. )
Student : Is there anyone here who has ever heard the Professor’s brain, felt it, touched or smelt it? No one appears to have done so. So, according to the established Rules of Empirical, Stable, Demonstrable Protocol, Science says that you have no brain, sir. With all due respect, sir, how do we then trust your lectures, sir?
(The room was silent. The Professor stared at the student, his face unfathomable.)
Professor: I guess you’ll have to take them on faith, son.
Student : That is it sir … Exactly ! The link between man & GOD is FAITH. That is all that keeps things alive and moving.
By the way, that student was EINSTEIN.
哪人是否在茫茫人群中觉得最孤单呢?
So Singapore recently had this big hooha about cooking curry at home and there's been events all over about cooking curry (all kinds), despite us being overseas, we would still not be left out! Since I was going to be busy this weekend with ISD's harmony day and all, we agreed to have curry last weekend and jon cooked it all from scratched! Kai and I made sayur lodeh with the prima pack that his mom got while zy made prata and aq and wh made 'abc' soup. Here's a quick picture of jon's pretty awesome curry!
I made a couple of other stuff to test out if they were feasible for harmony day, including tau suan and muah chee. We've decided to scrap tau suan though cos its sooooo hard to keep it warm without having a water bath rather than over the stove and let it disintegrate. I've took a picture of it though. I've forgotten about pictures for the muah chee. Maybe I'll be able to get one on Saturday :) Here's a picture of my pig trotters in black vinegar, just a craving I had hehe.
Time to get back to work! :)
I took a picture of almost each dish cept the plate of cucumbers :( cos it was left in the kitchen, all forgotten only to be brought out after everyone was well tucked into their meals and I was too famished to be leaving for my camera. Sorry! Anyway, everything else was good enough :) So there was the all important sambal, the pieces of omelette, the deep fried chicken wings and fish, luncheon meat (which zy just had to cook in a deep pot of oil, ew!), the fried anchovies and peanuts, the sambal stir-fried long beans and lady's fingers (known as snake beans and okra respectively in Australia) and last but not least, the rice cooked with coconut milk! :)
- Mood:
excited
I had some craving for wantan mee the other day, so we decided to buy some charsiew and roast duck from the local roast shop to go with the egg noodles that we bought and made with our own seasonings. It was salty or spicy enough for me probably due to the overwhelming amount of noodles that we had. The package said for 2-4 persons. Isn't it weird? It's definitely too much for two of us! It sure did satisfy my craving though! :) The only reason we chose not to buy the wantan mee from the shop was because the taste was just different from the ones I'm used to. The ones here were too bland and had the strong taste of the colouring kind like you get when you eat the thick yellow noodles in Singapore. The steam from the boiled broccoli made the charsiew and duck look so blurred. Bleah.
Just take a look at the amazing waterfalls!
Here's a picture of it from across the trek.
The following picture was taken while on the trip home from Sydney after a short getaway break to spend some time on our assignment, without having to worry about cooking since we had much cheaper and better tasting asian food just across the street. That's the benefit of staying at Breakfree on George! :) It's lovely to be in a country with supposedly 4 seasons. Though I think summer and winter pretty much dominated.
A few shots around school as winter approaches and autumn moves along.
A shot from the window of my room, as daylight turns to night. I've always loved how sunrise and sunset create such lovely colours in the sky. Beauty of nature eh? The reflection of the overhead light just has to spoil this picture. Mankind effect on nature?
This is the ngoh hiang before it was fried. Somehow the beancurd skin that they have here in Canberra is super different from the ones we have back in Singapore, or at least i think so from the looks of how my sister's mother-in-law made it.
Here's a picture of it after being steamed since I had a recipe and a cousin telling me to steam first before frying.
Here's a shot of it after its fried.
Anyway, so now that the holidays are here for me and it's a while still before the girls and Tins are here to tour the east coast of Australia, I've decided to make some food from back home. Largely due to the air tickets being so expensive for me to fly back for a short two weeks to see the little ones and eat some better tasting food. So here begins the food expedition! :)
Here's a picture of tonight's dinner! Hopefully I'll be able to keep this coming for a while, the food pictures I mean. :)
This is a picture from my handphone. It's so much clearer as compared to my Olympus camera which supposedly has higher megapixels -.-
Oh and here's a little picture of the little girl whom I skyped with yesterday. She was so proud of herself when she attempted to stand up and such an attention seeker. She kept insisting on others clapping before she does her stand haha, so cute! :)