Dinner at Upperstar Pepper & Grill

Jason and Shirley Kerschner came back with their son Riordan from Bathurst, N.S.W., Down Under more than a week ago.

Yeoh Chuan Shuan, a mutual friend of ours orgarnised a get together to have dinner with Jas and Shirl to catch up with them.

I arrived at Upperstar after 7p.m. The first thing Janny Soon told me as soon as I arrived was that Jas and Shirl did not bring their son out with them. I could not hold back my disappointment and exclaimed in quite a loud voice. Some customers looked my way when I uttered that.

Shirl explained that if they were to bring Riordan out, they would not be able to enjoy themselves and have to constantly keep an eye of him. They left him at her sister’s place.

Andrew Tai, Rebecca Poong and Isaac arrived after me. When we sat down, we could smell cigarettes smoke. Andrew asked one of the waiters how come they allowed customers to smoke in an air-conditioned room. The waiter told him that they do allow customers to do that.

Chuan Shuan & her husband Edward Lok and Janny and her husband Samuel Poong started eating even before the rest of us ordered our food. And they finished eating their food even before our drinks arrived. Deborah Tai arrived just as we were about to order our food.

Chuan Shuan, Rebecca Poong and I had the following.

Salmon when baked is usually fishy. The portion was quite big and served with Carbonara sauce. The fries and mashed potatoes were already cold.

Sophia Tsen arrived while we were chatting with Jas and Shirl. The kids were running around.

Someone who was sitting next to us was smoking and therefore we decided to leave the restaurant after paying the bill. We went outside Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf to take group photos. The kids were so happy and running around.

We sat down outside Coffee Bean and chatted.

Andrew & family and I went to Consfood to buy some food before going home.

Lunch

Had this for lunch ie. Singapore Style Fried Mee Hoon. Tasted quite good. First time I ordered this from the nearby shop.

Life Group

Bonuslink was 22x at Parkson Grand, 1 Borneo for only today. Some Life Group members went there before Life Group and were stuck in traffic congestion for about an hour when coming back. At least one was late for more than an hour.

And therefore Life Group started late at Jerry & Doreen Ho's place. Shelley Chew led P&W while her husband Chew Chong Bin led the Word. The more we spend time together, the more we share our life, our joys and sorrows. I enjoy it.

The following was served for supper. Doreen made the sandwiches. The rest were made by Mr. or Mrs. $. I was being good. I did not have any and was the first one to leave.

Durian

Used to love this but not anymore.

Afternoon Tea

One of my insurance agent treated me to two of these. Something savoury. It tasted like sardine. I gave one to one of my colleagues. She could not figure out what it was.

Morning Tea

A client instructed his employee to deliver the following to my office since we helped him to finish something urgent.


I prefer the chicken pie as compared to the curry puffs. I do not think I can eat this everyday. Had one each for morning tea and one puff for afternoon tea.

Dinner at Home

Aunty Alice told me during dinner the maid called up this morning to tell mum she would only be back at 6p.m. tonight. Mum told her if she came back at that time, then she cannot have dinner.

So she reluctantly came back by 5p.m. which meant she was out for a total of 48 hours. If I am the one who gives her the pay at the end of this month, I would deduct one day of wages.

Today thieves broke into the neighbour's house, the one who likes to rear dogs, from behind. Kinda scary because it happened during daytime. The thieves must have observed very carefully. I think they must be staying or working around here.

Talap

Another one of my favourite fruit: talap.

This does not look good but tasted ok.

We had two of these today.

Absentmindness

I did not know that there would be lunch fellowship after Canaanland Celebration today. I was glad I had just enough money to pay the caterer.

Tonight I wanted to open the locked drawer in my room to check how much $ left in the Canaanland account but the key was missing from where I usually hide it. I panicked and turned some of the things upside down but still could not find it. I prayed and I still could not find it.

I had an idea and used the key of another drawer to try to open it. It worked after I forcefully opened it. Kinda scary come to think of it because that means anyone can just open it.

I shifted the things in the locked drawer to the one with the key and vice-versa.

As I was about to finish shifting suddenly I saw the missing key on top of my bed. That means the key had been there for one whole week. I opened the drawer to get out my driver’s licence on my return from KL a week ago. Thank God the maid did not see the key and therefore nothing is missing from the drawer.

Talking about the maid, she went out for her day off yesterday. I saw her walking out to the bus stop on my way home from work around 5.15p.m. When she saw either me or the car, she felt like ducking. I smelled something fishy.

Anyway tonight when she did not come out for dinner, I asked mum and Aunty Alice what had happened. They said she was only coming back tomorrow morning at 10a.m. Her grandmother or grandfather passed away and these Timorese are having a gathering.

Ok I do not mean to be disrespectful of the deceased. For goodness sake, the deceased is not even in this country for crying out loud and these people are gathering for like 40 hours. I wonder if this is really in their culture. It is like they are doing this every few months ie. someone close to them is bound to die every few months and they would have a gathering.

Canaanland Celebration

I missed church for two weeks in a row and some people mentioned that they have not seen me for a long time.

Ps. Steven Choon was the guest speaker. The topic was The Final Calling.

What do you consider to be the most important thing in life? How would I face God?

When people touch 50, they think more about eternity. Not that Ps. Steven is 50 yet.

Ecc. 12:13 Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter. Fear God and keep His commandments. For this is man’s all.

Ecclesiastes was written by the wisest man. He experienced everything in life but life to him was empty.

Love God with all our heart, mind, soul, strength. We know about this but we need to go into application.

Matthew 7:21-23

Exodus 20:20 God gave the 10 commandments.

Fear brought about a desire and motivation for holy living.

God wants to give us the fear of God so that we may not sin.

Result of Fear of God

1. Fear of God - Live a holy life

Rise up in holiness.

To fear – ‘yare’ connotes ‘standing in awe’. This is not simple fear, but reverence whereby an individual recognizes the power and position of the individual reveres and renders Him proper respect. In this sense, the word may imply submission to a proper ethical relationship to God (Vine’s Expository Dictionary)

Walk close with God. Many a time we struggle. Holiness is the application of the fear of God.

‘Be holy because I am holy’. Our responsibility, make effort.

The fear of God is not a punishment.

Prov. 1:7 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.

2. Fear of God – Bring out our best for God

Genesis 22:12

Abraham gave of his best to God. God demand our best (Mat. 25:14-30). The fear of God constrains us to do our best at all time.

When we give to God, we give our best, not something we also do not want.

Eph. 1:3

Let the love of God excites us.

Matt. 25:14-30 5, 2 and 1 talent

1 talent – wicked and lazy servant

God has different standard for different people. God looks for our way perform to the best.

3. Fear of God – Serve Him

Deut. 5:29, 6:13

The fear of God is founded on relationship, so our service is also founded on relationship.

We serve God because we love God.

4. Fear of God – Obedience

Deut. 10:12-13

It is doing what God said. Deut. 28:1-14

Obedience involves hearing correctly.

Deut. 28:15-68 Curses 4 times more than blessing

To obey God is to hear God correctly.

How to hear God?

i. Read God’s Word

Devotion determines destiny. Do not underestimate it.

(Was on duty in between and therefore missed the sermon)

5. Fear of God – Stand for the Truth

Exo. 18:21

To stand for truth is to hate evil and falsehood.

Love and stand for the truth.

Dinner at Kaze Japanese House

Yesterday Lily Tan texted me to inform me she is back from KL for a few days.

Tonight the three dining buddies ie. Lily, Sophia Tsen and Spinxie went out for dinner at Kaze Japanese House at Damai Point.

Lily had already eaten and therefore only ordered a plate of sushi.

Sophia and I eyed on the same thing.

Our food took quite a long time to arrive.

The udon did not pass the test.

The sushis were tasty, filled with msg.

The jelly was FOC.


We left the restaurant after 10p.m. and went to Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf to chat until 11p.m.

Lunch

Had this for lunch. I made sure I ordered only prawns and not seafood.

Happy 2nd Birthday

This blog turns two today.

Just like a year ago, once again thank you for all your patronage. Yours truly truly appreciates it.

Blogging has been slow since I was organising Canaanland retreat as well as started reading books at night.

Also uploading photos at night have been pain in the rear. It takes forever to do that. Sometimes in the course of one night, I could receive so many bad requests and could not upload any.

I also make it a policy of mine to only blog when I am at home. I do not do it at work. I only go into Facebook at work.

Talking about Facebook, so many of my friends cannot access FB at work anymore because it has been banned altogether.

Jayden Ho's 4th Birthday

Two days ago Jerry Ho texted to invite me to his eldest son 4th Birthday at KFC Plaza Juta from 5-7p.m. today. A couple of hours later, I texted him back to say I would be there.

This evening I left the office at 6.15p.m. after taking the following shots.

When I arrived at KFC, the kids were playing musical chairs. Almost all the adults had finished eating and they were watching the kids playing. The youths were doing some puzzles. There were plenty of laughters.

Kids nowadays are so lucky with all these commercialised parties be it the birthday boy/girl or those that have been invited.

I had two chicken wings and one drumstick, wedges, fries and coleslaw with a strawberry flavour drink.

Before I finished my dinner, Jayden cut his cake and I saw he was stunned when the chicken came out to greet him.

This birthday boy loves fire engines. He can give lectures on the thing. I am not joking.

We left the place at 7.20p.m. as I was still eating after 7p.m.

I went to Servay Hypermarket and shopped for an hour before going home.

Dinner at Home

Milo and Asparagus

Usually when I drink Milo at work, I put the cup in between the scanner on the left and the LCD screen & keyboard on the right of my desk.

I must be having Monday blues on a Wednesday today. I spilled half a cup of Milo and did not manage to salvage any. So the desk, keyboard, scanner, phone & documents were wet and smelling Milo all over. Yicks. I had to clean up the mess and wasted some precious time.

But I ended the day with having one of my favourite veges ie. asparagus. Yippee.