Wish Upon A Star(bucks)...

Green , red, and some brown.... yup it’s here, It’s the Starbuck’s Christmas all over again.

This is not an advertisement for them but every time this coffee chain rolls out their Christmas theme
beverages and souvenirs, it never fails to capture my attention.

I love the colours,  those whimsical cartoons and that tinge of magical atmosphere they created.

Not much of a coffee drinker myself but will almost certainly obliged with a toffee nut latte or two with wifey when the mood gets sufficiently stirred... not shaken.

This Song In My Heart

Yesterday morning, during service, we worship with this timeless song . The words are beautiful , and so is the music... I was even singing it on my way to work this morning.




Love of My life

With my eyes I long to see Your smile

With my ears I long to hear Your voice

With all my heart I long to feel You

With all my soul I long to seek You



Please let me find the way to Your dwelling place

I long to hide in the shadows of Your wings

To find my rest as I dwell in Your peace

To live forever in the beauty of Your grace



Draw me close to You

Close by Your side

I want to hold You tight

Close to my mind

Come take me to the place

Where You could be found



I want to praise You Lord all of my life

I want to let You know from the depths of my heart

You’ll be forever Lord, the love of my life

A Morning @ Central Fire Station and A Nite Out @ MBS

Last Saturday, I brought Mick out for an excursion to the Central Fire Station at Hill Street. It was an event organised by SGS in conjunction with Safe September.

We reached there at about 845am and the drizzle does little to dampen the excitement of the attendees especially the kids. An officer guided us throughout the 1 hour tour of the station and Mick gets to experience spraying water from the Red Rhino, sitting inside the fire engines and ambulance, trying out the water hose and learning more about fire safety .

He looks like he quite enjoyed the excursion and I am glad I managed to spend some quality time with him on a nice morning.

We had McDonalds breakfast before heading home ( they were not serving lunch menu yet at 11am) . Bought a fillet meal for little Mick while I had the big breakfast set. He also got a free hot wheels vehicle despite not getting the happy meal set ( thanks to the Mac Auntie). Bought a Big Breakfast back for wifey too ;o)
Afternoon was spent vacuuming/moping the floor after a short nap and at night, decided to visit Marina Bay Sands Shoppes. Took a bus to Raffles Place before taking an MRT to Marina South and then changing to bayfront (rather troublesome) before we can reach the place.

my  lovely wifey ;o)

MBS is a very nice place I feel. Classy, romantic and plenty of space to walk and admire the night view of the Singapore skyline. Pity the lack of breeze on that night but I must say that I thoroughly enjoyed being there with darling.

I hope to try some of the restaurants there next time we visit as we only ate at the food court on Saturday ( we shared a bowl of spicy la-mian and a plate of chilli oil wanton and a prawn paste chicken.) Chendol was very weak though...

We ended the night taking some pictures at the machine and it turned out pretty good. Nice souvenir to cap a fantastic night out with darling.

Daddy's 60th Birthday

Last Saturday, we celebrated daddy’s 60th Birthday in advance at Happy Joy Restaurant

J&S bought shou tao , and we ordered fish maw soup, peking duck, steam fish , broccoli, tofu with mushroom, ee fu noodles and yam paste with gingko nut. The food was ok but i find it a tad pricey ($240 plus , maybve its because of the fish maw soup and steam fish)

The staffs there were polite and attentive to our needs even though we were served spoilt coconut in our dessert (which they later changed for us) , it did not spoil our evening.

Daddy, blessed birthday! May the joy of the Lord always be your strength!

Surrender to Receive Real Freedom

Recently, I read a news report about a fugitive in Singapore who surrendered himself after 21 years on the run for killing a man in a robbery gone wrong in 1989. 

The reason for his surrender was that he  wanted to move on with life, legally marry his long-time girlfriend and be a role model to his son. Even though his son wanted him to surrender after he turns 50 and will be legally spared of any caning, he refused. He is willing to be punished accordingly for his crimes so that he can serve his sentence and be reunited with his love ones after that. 

This example reminds me again that all of us have also committed crimes. Our sins are against God ( for jealousy, lust, lying, pride etc....) but instead of choosing to surrender to God, we choose to run away and we choose to cover up and we choose to continue our wayward behaviour. The result is that we live a life that is not what God intended us to live. 

Through his repentance, the fugitive has reminded us of a valuable and powerful lesson. 

Only by surrendering (to God) will we have real freedom 

Long Weekend

Last week, I enjoyed a much welcomed “long weekend” courtesy of Hari Raya.


On Saturday afternoon, we took the opportunity to visit J&S at their Hougang home and they hosted us by bringing us for cycling at Punggol Park nearby. It was a fun session even though I covered extra miles to look for Yilong, even riding in the rain. Punggol Park is a nice scenic place which I don’t mind visiting again. (And having dinner there)

For dinner J&S brought us to Kangkar Mall to have Tze Char. We had their speciality Thai style fish head curry, salted egg yolk fried prawns, sambal kangkong, black pepper deer meat and a mix toufu. Maybe I am hungry after the cycling but the food taste really delicious then. After dinner, we bought some durian back to eat, they turned out to be rather good quality!

Back home, I straightaway wash up and plomp myself in front of my new TV to catch the BPL season opener, it was a disastrous game for both Liverpool (lost 0-3 against WBA) as well as Norwich (0-5 against Fulham). Wifey was helping Matt and Mick with their birthday surprise for Deb. Really appreciate that. Wifey and the kids decorated the living room with drawing, balloons and banners and I joined them after they have finished everything, in time to join in the surprise for Deb, it was some good fun indeed, even though everyone was a wee bit tired already and wifey hand hurting from tying the balloons.

Sunday’s dinner was at Han’s as Deb wants someplace simple (after what happened in the afternoon) to make a simple dinner a bit more special, we got a nice cake for her... at least she is smiling already.

Monday was a rather lazy day for me, after lunch at the market, we watched some holiday movie on TV (Me, You and Ours followed by Beyond Loch Ness) I fell asleep on the sofa while darling was doodling on our Taiwan journal. When I woke up, she showed me a super cute Big Head Soldier and Mc Rabbit picture which she drew... awesome!

Dinner was at wifey’s parents home, after which I drove over to Vivo City to get some dehumidifier from Daiso, Wifey got her hair curlers at SaSa and then some lemon and aluminium trays at giant for her upcoming cheesecake making. Oh wifey saw a packet of Sng Bao so we also got that childhood food.

We ended the night with a meal at McDonalds at Harbourfront to satisfy my craving. I ordered a McNuggets EVM to share and a cheeseburger for myself. We enjoyed the food as we sat on the big comfortable chair and chatted. Thank God for the time spend with my love ones...

Oktober in August

Last Friday, after our marriage essentials session ended at Nexus, we (with Mike, Deb, Nick and Diane) decided to go over to Dempsey to get a drink and some food. Ended up at Oktober and we had sausages, wings, fried mushrooms and calamari to go with some nice cold beer. The live band even sang "I Could Sing of Your Love Forever" surprising all of us there.

7 Wonders

Buffalo Wings

Fried Mushrooms

Our barrel of beer

Nick & Diane

Mike & Deb

Darling & me