Thursday, August 22, 2013

flying on friday! and Isc is the pilot!

Tuesday, August 20, 2013

I watched 4 seasons of vampire diaries for the past week! :p

also, looking back, i do enjoy doing pilates.

a few thoughts came to me today.. He spoke to me about starting anew again. stop looking at the past, leave it behind. look forward and start anew. look around me at what i have, and decide what i want to put into this new life. have thankfulness, and new excitement.

well i guess i do want to have more exercise and deliberate healthy eating. also some community service. Thankful to hv Isc with me and all he is. Thankful for my friends who kept in touch. thankful for a place to stay and my job and its hours. hopefully we will settle down in church.

i also want to say only positive things. refrain from negativity. when i was in charge of a project, i was constantly evaluating and reevaluating the project and how to do it better etc.. unfortunately it made my reflex action to try to fix things and made me more critical. i dont want to be like that.. wat a stressful way to live. to keep turning things over in the mind and pick at it.. i pray for more thankfulness and being present, less detachment.

new beginnings. approach with a clean slate. hopefully will cut down on screen time.. sigh. too much screen time. makes me feel like a usb thing plugged into the computer..


Sunday, August 18, 2013


reading this book http://www.gfa.org/resource/detail/living-light-eternity/

'We find no committee meetings in the book of Acts. We
find long hours of prayer, fasting and waiting on God to move.'

i like blogging because its more private than fb.

our 5th wedding anniversary yesterday and we went to tomato street for dinner. apparently it was the wood anniversary so Isc gave me a wooden bracelet. He also surprised me w flowers and the beautifully wrapped up gift.



enjoyed picking berries here! so far i hv picked strawberries, raspberries and blackberries. just picked blackberries yest, they were the easiest to pick! easy to spot when ripe, big, black and juicy. they fill up the bucket really fast. :) they are so pretty looking.




Saturday, August 17, 2013

I like the sounds of sprinklers going off at night..
I also like the sight of sprinklers watering the fields.


Thursday, August 15, 2013

Your purpose in life is to be with God. Just be with Him.

Just as you cannot have faith without deeds, as you are with Him, the serving will follow. But the focus is not on the serving, the focus is being with God.


something to remember on pms days.

Practice grace.
Only God can meet my needs. Give purpose to my life.

Monday, August 05, 2013

some random thoughts.

I still want to do missions. but dont envision longterm in the near future.. maybe in the further future?

contemplating doing something related to prisons..

went to Houston, visited the museum of natural science, saw a lot of dinosaurs for the first time. real dinosaur bones! how cool is that. also we went to NASA and touched a moonrock 3.2 billion years old! and we went to the Alamo! got to see my uncle and aunt's home, v lovely home they have. didnt know my uncle was so handy, he placed all the stone flooring in the backyard himself! we ate: vietnamese food, texan bbq, greek, chinese, malaysian food, tex-mex, and bison. V cosmopolitan place Houston is, even more than sg.

North Idaho is pretty in its way too. wide open spaces, rivers, lakes. chipmunks and hummingbirds frequent the outside of the house along with plenty of forests. the occasional deer crossing the road. i saw 2 wild bunnies in the backyard (which is actually acres and acres of forest). how cute is that. its calming to be near nature.

contemplating short-term trips. maybe our house will be ready next year.. that would be nice. should we get a second hand car? but then saving $1000+ a month by not having a car is v attractive. still remember gng to plaza sing and having no parking , exiting and having to pay for entering the carpark. not so fun that.

Wonder if it is do-able to take 3 mths off a yr.. that could also be work 3 mths take 1 mth off.. but the finishing up and starting agn may b too disruptive.. something to think abt. working on and on without a good long break to contemplate is not the way to go if we can manage something different. makes me feel numb and robotic.

hope to get tog with WX and hang out with her regularly in her 3 yrs here. also want to do some basic rock climbing regularly.. CY had a whole saga last mth that had me worried abt her.. but sounds like things are coming along with her dad changing his mind to accept her bf , with his burn injury and everything.. prayerfully commit her into Your hands.. Isaac flying on monday.. pray for his safety..