Sick for 2 weeks...

Been sick since the last day of CNY 2016  and it's been two weeks! Sigh!!!

Drinking my 3rd bottle of cough mixture...

👼🏻 " I pray for God's healing powers to heal my cough, throat and flu. In Jesus mighty name I pray. Amen!"

Hope I be ok soon because I really want to bake the green tea cookies. The dough is still in the freezer. Thank God! This dough is freezable but best I bake them within a months time.

2016 ~ Resolutions or Realization?

Yeah it's 2016.

In the blink of an eye , I realized another year has passed and it's already the new year...

Happy New Year ! 

To anyone who reads this blog ~ doubt since I don't really update much nor promote it heehee...

Instead of having resolutions for the new year, it's more of a realization for me.

Realization~

~ of the day of getting our ( panda and me) place draws really near 😍

~ of the day getting our new place = $$$$$ required for Reno & Wedding 😱

~ of my new out of comfort zone job = bad & good. Because I get to push myself harder and learn new things, look at the same thing from a different perspective 🤔 & to re-look myself of the goals that I had not set and why.

~ of the procrastination and self-denial in life that I have to change else the world will change and I am left behind.

BUT, still I will Thank God for all He has provided. His plans for me in 2016 ~ no matter what comes, I pray for the courage to accept and join Him in His works. 

“The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance.”

2 Peter 3:9 NASB

After a full circle, you are back to the starting point

It's been awhile that I wrote here.

No words can describe the feelings now. After drifting for more than 5 years, only hoping that somehow to be recognize the hard work, finally realizes that one has been drifting in circles and the true reality is, the surroundings tells you, you come back to the starting point again. 

Positively, it's a new starting point. You can make it work in a new start. But it is not a fresh new start.

The feeling of abandonment is deeply carved into the mind and soul, in the most helpless way. Nothing can change the outcome. The finale. The end.

Yet it is comforting that this passage come into my mind :

“The Lord will deliver them to you, and you must do to them all that I have commanded you. Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or terrified because of them, for the Lord your God goes with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you.””

Deuteronomy 31:5-6 NIV

Whatever outcome happens, i surrender all to God for He is my shepherd, my guide in this wildness.

“For the Lamb at the center of the throne will be their shepherd; ‘he will lead them to springs of living water.’ ‘And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.’ ””

Revelation 7:17 NIV

Shepherd of my soul, I give You full control, 

Wherever You may lead, I willl follow.

I have made the choice, to listen for Your voice, 

Wherever You may lead, I will go.

Be it in a quiet pasture, or by a gentle stream,

The Shepherd of my soul is by my side.

Should I face a nightly mountain, 

Or a valley dark and deep.

The Shepherd of my soul will be my guide.

By Marty Nystrom

Bible Verse: Trusting God...

Let the morning bring me word of your unfailing love, for I have put my trust in you. Show me the way I should go, for to you I entrust my life. Rescue me from my enemies, Lord, for I hide myself in you. Teach me to do your will, for you are my God; may your good Spirit lead me on level ground. For your name’s sake, Lord, preserve my life; in your righteousness, bring me out of trouble. In your unfailing love, silence my enemies; destroy all my foes, for I am your servant. (Psalm 143:8-12 NIV)

Amen! 

Freshly Brewed Coffee!

Freshly grinded and brewed coffee is the best! 

Good morning Everyone!

4 coffee spoons to grind.

Over filter, pour hot water ( once boiled, wait for about 1mins for the temp to drop a little ) , pour to the jar level 5 cups.

I used Hario Coffee Jar who has a marker that easily to gauged.

Smell heavenly!

Bible Verses ~ Reflection

A person may think their own ways are right, but the Lord weighs the heart. To do what is right and just is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice. (Proverbs 21:2-3 NIV)

Today's verse made me think. Serving may be sacrifice in my point of view to the Lord on my time , effort and at times my sleep. However, this verse made me think ... Think. That, when i do it , 

Do I grumble ?  - Yes

Am I late? - Yes

Do I struggle to wake up ? Yes

At times even struggling to find excuses not to go... 

I know that Lord doesn't need my little sacrifice. That He doesn't need me to do anything for Him.

Things that I do and words at times I said are not right, not just. I can only pray for God to forgive me and set my ways and lead me to the path of righteousness.

Let these two verses be constantly pondering in my heart and mind in everything that I do.

In Jesus Name I pray, 

Amen.

Journey Back Home was Long.... Really

Never felt the journey back home via train then bus was long even though many people told me that I am living in a "mountain area" where the bird don't lay eggs and dog don't shit place - chinese proverbs.

Yesterday I finally felt it. Was feeling feverish on my way home from Toa Payaoh CC after a baking class ( took half day leave for that and thought it was quite worth it since I realized the mistakes I made on my buns)

Truly, Really, Honestly, my home is was really darn far away.
But Thank GOD, I made it back, shivering yet body flushing hot, back to my little room.

Feeling emotionally drained and thankful that all has ended.

Into my fat body, I had the cough mixture, fever medicine, flu medicine, vitamin C 1000mg and lozenges that cost me 11 bucks for 2 slab of rapid action, sugar free herbal lozenges that tasted like really really HERBAL.

Today is public holiday so I am staying at home to sleep in !

Of course, and pen my thoughts in my blog which was not really forsaken.

Telling myself to post more here. 

Have the heart but No strength. 

Stay healthy, my friends.

Enclosed the final product of what I attended yesterday, very yummy wo!

The Post that was Supposed to Be posted after 8 days...

OK, I was supposed to post something after 8 Days from my last post....
However, after talking to my "Panda" , I decided not to post till now...

So what's happened after 8 Days?

I finally bought myself an iPad! 

Yes, I know. One would think " Hey, what's the big deal?!" 

But if you personally knows me, you would know that I have been procrastinating for the past 4 years in getting the iPad, simply because it is a piece of very expensive IT equipment and to today's pricing, more expensive that some branded Ultra slim laptop.

Anyway , I bought it ! Finally ! Haha and guess what? My first thing I did was to load Farmville 2 on iPad 😜

After the initial load of craziness on games, I start to load my others stuff like Blog Spot, Facebook, Pinterest, Holy Bible texans realized that surfing and blogging is now in " another dimension", everything is bigger. Much bigger.

No regrets really though I am going to feel the actual pain when my credit card bill comes.

Till then...Ta Ta

Counting Down

8 days more ....

Counting down !

Heehee

Thoughts... Not actions

My brain is willing but My Heart and Soul are weak....

Wanted to do some cooking / baking but super super lazy.

Sigh. Slept whole day.

Thank God my schedule to start baking twice a month is not this week.

Just thinking about it ....

"cold sweat "

SIM to Nano SIM?

Cutting SIM cards are really really difficult task. It's not the actual work but it's in the mindset - Takes a huge amount of courage to do so.

See the golden bits still stuck to the frame? That's my first unsuccessful attempt.

I did it! Heehee .

Using a dual sim puncher which I borrowed from my friend - Thank You!

I did my first punched on an unwanted One2Free micro SIM card to nano SIM which was a mistake! I was devastated but yet happy that I didn't do the actual SIM else "die" lah.

After analyzing the SIM card made me realized that Europe SIM card are slightly in a different position then the Asian ones. So with much courage again, I cut my Digi Card and Voila! It worked! 

Tested on my phone and I still get a signal ( I paid for one year for the line to be on so it havnt expire yet heehee)

Then I proceed with the actual thing and after SIM - Micro SIM , I had to file the edges because it was a little skewed edges then I proceed to cut to nano SIM and it was really a lot of hard work - because I was really really scared. I dig and poke and align. And after many many tries, I was pretty sure , I did the punch.

Yeah!! THANK GOD! I did it! All is ok...

How to check? See the remains to find any gold stuff still stick on the remains frame? I checked - nope.

Final Test - testing on my phone and after waiting a couple minutes - yup! It's working.

This is the SIM card puncher.  You can purchase in Taobao or EBay.

Ok, I now can proceed buying my tablet!

Next post ...

Sudden Thoughts:

With so many cookbooks and attended so many baking lessons, one would think that I should have tried most of the recipes, right?

WRONG!

So how do I rectify it?

My Thoughts:

Impulsively Resolution 2014 ~
Bake 1 x week.  = 4 weeks in 1 month

Hm, perhaps a little too adventurous, right?

Let's start with April Target ~ 2 Bakes (min.)

1 Recipe = Big Bake ~ Cake / Pie

1 Recipe = Small Bake ~ Cookies/Macaroons/Choux Pastry/Madeline

Additional = Jelly/ Agar Agar/

Best Time = Saturday Mornings

Month April

5th April = Baking Class

12th April = What am I doing?

17th/18th ~ Serving in Choir for Good Friday

19th April = My body probably tells My Brain : Don't want to bake 
But I bought 2 bags of Easter Eggs...
-> Orange Cupcakes/ Mini Oreo Cheesecakes with Easter Eggs Deco OR
-> Swiss Roll

20th April ~ Easter Sunday!

26th April =  What am I doing?

Post updates whether I make it or not in this blog.
Posting pictures of bakes @ the http://conallegro.wordpress.com/ blog

Pray for GOD's Strength and Perseverance

XOXO

Soul & Recipe

 Totally Agree!

11th Day of Lunar New Year 2014

OMG.... Last post I did was in 2012!
Time flies..

2013 ~ I had went to a couple more places.
London was my favourite place, yeah only 3 days!

Hope to post some back log pictures soon.

Meanwhile, today is 11th day of the Lunar New Year Celebrations...

Kyoto City ~ good place for relax!

Last Day in Kyoto before going back to Tokyo for a day and then leaving JAPAN for Singapore....

Feeling too relax to go back to the "real world" yet one must face reality...

KYOTO~ I WILL BE BACK!!
我会回来的！
☆*:.｡. o(≧▽≦)o .｡.:*☆

My New Toy!

Decided to finally purchase the camera which I was pondering since last IT show. Finally bought it at the PC show....

Now, the only problem is how to use besides the iAuto mode
♪───Ｏ（≧∇≦）Ｏ────♪

Stars Bouquet *******

Girlfriend gave me during last X'mas...
Forgot to post it till today while doing house cleaning @~@

Super talented! Love the bouquet.
Thanks Wendy >v<

Yup! It is raining @ OG Private Sale

The queue is huge and since it's raining, makes it even worse ....

Officially sick- Sniffles

Ok, I am officially sick today!
MC... Caught a cold.
This is when you don't change seat on the bus when you found out the person sitting besides you is sniffing ...

Pray tat I won't lose my voice!

Was at the clinic and heard this song which I went forward to enquire. Found out that it is from the Women's Worship II Cd front Integrity music 1998 release. Pretty decent and soothing worship music....

Worthy, You are Worthy
King of Kings, Lord of Lords
I worship You

Amen and Good night!

Hello 2012 - eh ya it is Feb!

Yeah! Keep telling myself to blog more and play iPhone games less in 2011 but that's not really working as one can see based on the dates that I blog both here and in Con Amour blog.

I even switched and created a new blog at Wordpress but alas, the truth still remains that I don't blog.

Habit is somewhat form when you do certain things constantly for at least a couple weeks and it will form second natural skin. - I hope!

So, when I found that there is a free app that belongs to Blogspot finally on iTunes, I quickly download it. Yeah, looks like this app is created in Sept 2011 but I only found this 'treasure' today.

Anyway... Hope more to come.
Just need to think what to put for this and what to put for Con Amour ?

....... Still thinking @v@
Meanwhile , this is now officially updated as on 28 Feb 2012 ( tomorrow is leap yr of 29th )

Ta Ta for now >•<