Thailand Team Reunite.

So, we met up last night at Ps Jonathan's house for some bonding time together. It's been weeks since we came back and oh how much we all missed that place, food, and the people. So, Pastor and his lovely wife, Lydia cooked up a storm to host us. Amazing Tomyam soup and non-spicy soup with Tesco roasted chicken of two flavors!

It's not the food or the coconut milkshake or Bella the puppy or the Digital Game that I won twice in a row (ahem for the first timer!) that we played together that made the night so fun.

It's the people that were there. It's the family that has welcomed up into their house and boy, we were so loud and noisy. I am missing the random laughter already.

Thank you again, Pastor Jonathan, Lydia, Joy, and Liz for all the hosting you gave to us! We all love you and your family! :) And I love your mini pillows, Liz! I actually "ordered" 10 pieces of her handmade mini pillows because they are so soft, cute, and loveable. I felt bad but she said she loves doing it! :) People, you want to buy pillows, you come to find me. She's only 11 years old but her pillows are TWO THUMBS UP! :)

And we did discuss next year's plan to Thailand already :)

Two Months Today.

Grandchildren are the crowning glory and ultimate delight of old age, and parents are the pride of their children.

(Proverbs seventeen verse six)

blessedtwomonthstorpuikia.

Cockroach Trap Testing.

It's quite a long story why I decided to give this a try. There has been few occasions where these little disgusting things are caught crawling in my room. What i don't understand is that I never eat in my room or even drink. I won't let anyone do it as well. So, why are they still found in my cozy place? Must be Koay. The reason I say it's him because there was a few times he ate in my room and leave half full cup with water in them on my table. And yes, cockroach is kinda attraced to water too. Or maybe not. Hmm.

Anyways, did some googling and this is what I found: (apparently they really like sweet stuff like honey..)

"Cockroaches are one of the oldest groups of insects, indicating how successful they have been in adapting to changes in their environments. One reason for this success may be related to diet--they are scavengers and will eat anything organic. They prefer food sources such as starches, sweets, grease and meat products, but other items may include cheese, beer, leather, glue, hair, starch in book bindings, flakes of dried skin or decaying organic matter (plant or animal)."

So yeah, till today I STILL DON'T KNOW WHERE THEY COME FROM AND WHY!?

I was so pissed with the whole situation till I almost went into tears okayy. It's too frustrating. Then, after I calmed down, I managed to thank God for the whole "situation"!

I remembered my sister used this at her in law's place before and theymanaged to catch the "queen" of it all. It's really huge! Not only one, a lot went into the trap actually. So, I thought I wanna try and catch them too. Beware: if you look closely, it's seriously disgusting!

Let's see how we did with it this time.

Yed, we only manage to get 4 small ones. And all that were from Koay's car. Nothing in my house. NOTHING. We caught a baby lizard when my dad put a part of a cupcake on it. DOWNS LA.

I know they are there but why they no like my trap! But ever since then, there is no more crawlies that I see. If you happen to come to my house, you might see all these red triangular boxes at some hidden places. Haha. I am determined to get the queen out. Arghh.

For now, I am gonna keep praying no more all weird crawlies in my room. It's so mentally disturbing okayy!

I is signing off now.

It All Just Sounds Like Oooooohh.

I don't know how can anyone not like this song or the one who created it. I'm putting it on repeat for like almost like ten times already in the office while sending emails out to ten thousand people! LOVE LOVE LOVE Boyce Avenue's voice. Super LOVE.

On another note, there is no "indirect" meassage/meaning to post this here. In case if anyone of you start wondering/thinking that I might be referring the meaning of the song to the ex or anyone at all. Nope, it's not. It's just because I really like this version and want to share it here :)

Like I say earlier, HOW CAN ANYONE NOT LIKE THIS SONG!? HOW?!

Fast.

So, today Kelly and I decided that we would go for training as went there we did. Much fun of course. Came home with aching muscles as expected. Jelly legs however is totally not expected. Blah.

Spent whole noon looking after Sha Lynn as her left eye got viral infected. Poor girl. 

Anyways, I had salad for lunch! That's like super super yay! And pretty delicious I must say. Myzi's Signature Salad.

And now, the tummy is twisting and turning and something's going on in there. Ahhh..

Oh oh! And as I was cleaning baby's bum bum after big output, another small fresh yellow-ish one came out right after. Haha. Hot and soft literally! And no, not disgusting at all :)

Blessed weekend guys :)

Sudden Salad.

My goodness.

I do not know what is wrong with me today! Just all of a sudden I'm craving for salad so badly. Ahhh. Too sudden already leh.

I even just googled recipes to do salad.. More specifically Thai Salads. But no.. Too many ingredients to have to make the dressing. Stress.

Then, I started looking at more western style and it makes the craving even worse. Maybe I should try having salad as one of the daily meals. Either lunch, dinner or supper. Don't know if I can survive also or not. It's about  time to lose those extra not wanted baggages. Hah.

So tempted to just go get salad from somewhere. HOW! This is too mean! Ahhhhh!

Hate it when craving of such thing comes all of a sudden. And I'm not even pregnant or something. Could not imagine when I did, all random cravings is gonna hit like tsunami. No kidding. Let's not go there. So anyways, blessed weekend everyone! Oh, maybe I shall have salad for lunch tomorrow. I could grill some breat meat and raw salmon with it. Oh how yums just thinking about it. How yums. No need dressing also sure nice alreadyy.

So good that it's Friday today!

Toods.

Green Is The New Black/Brown.

This is still considered alright because he didn't send the actual green treasure to my phone :)

Lost In Lost.

I realized that if I'm going to update my blog everyday, soon I'll run out of things to talk about already. Or I can start talking about my everyday life, like a day everyday is Sarah's shoe. Well, that will be a bore for sure. My life is not everyday happening kind. Though I tend to want to have plans every night. Then, I realized that the body needs more rest than the mind. So yeah.. no going out every night.

Speaking of body and resting, mom insisted that I start eating pig's liver if my blood pressure doesn't normalize and if I still feel like there's earthquake in my brain every 20 minutes or so. God, help me.

Just today I was talking to my dad about getting a house of my own soon and stuff like that. And then he said. "I only got my first bought apartment when I was 3*" And I was like, "Whattt?" Noo.. For sure I know God's gonna help me with this. For sure :) No house.. No a lot of things.. Hah.

On another note, I am finally going into Season 4 of Vampire Diaries. It was boring at first and then it got nice and now, it's starting to be boring again. The Walking Dead and Pretty Little Liars ftw! Next, I will be looking into Lost. I'm gonna try finish all the season. No dateline though. Try my best to enjoy the series. The last time I watched it was many many years ago and that also the first two episodes, I cabut already. Haha.

Other than all this usual thing on my daily life, I am missing that so much! *points to the photo*

Kanom Jeen. Truly a Thailand's delicacy. Delicious and literally fingers licking good! Their fried chicken also like extra yummy eh lo. No kidding. Ahh. I can still remember it being super juicy and super crunchy on the skin. Superr! *drools*

If I ever venture into business, any business at all, I would love to open a Thai Restaurant that serves real Thai food and charge people cheap cheap so that a lot of people would come. Penang people will not go for expensive Thai food. Never ehh. So many Thai food places in Penang that is nice and cheap okayy.

Now I'm super craving for some Tomyam action and keng som steamed fish and freid chicken. Ahhh. Such torture. Alright, 8 minutes to going home. Toods.

Mind, Be Blown.

An old man was going for a walk, when he noticed a little boy feeding a thin, shaggy looking dog with bits of bread. He went up to the boy and asked him why he was sharing his bread with the dogs.

The little boy answered, "Because they have nothing. No home, no family, and if I don’t feed them they will die." 

“But there are homeless dogs everywhere," the old man replied. “So your efforts don’t really make a difference” 

The little boy looked at the dog and stroked him. “But for this little dog, it makes all the difference in the world.”

Cameron Lyle, University of New Hampshire athlete, asked to choose between donating bone marrow to a total stranger with leukemia or competing in the championship he'd worked toward for 8 years.

He chose to end his athletic career to save a  28-year-old male cancer patient who doctors said had just six months to live. 

Female chimpanzee Dorothy died of heart failure. She was over 40 years old.

As she was being carried away, behind the fence together all the normally lively chimpanzees looked on in silence as their friend's lifeless body is wheeled away. Some even put their hands on the shoulders of one another.

Hop Hop.

I went searching for old blogs. Dead and rotting blogs. Found some really rotted ones and it kinda made my day. Looking back at those photos of how they looked like in the past. Past as in just few years ago. SO FUNNY.

Some started new blogs. Some just never came back blogging.

Just so funny how sometimes you get that feeling of wanting to start a blog, put some attempt to keeping it alive for few months probably one year and then poof! All no more blogging. So sad! Because I don't no blogs to read d.. Haha.

Please feel free to leave your blog address in the comment box below so that I can follow you back! I enjoy reading blogs like how I enjoy reading magazines or like how I enjoy eating spicy stuff.

Ahhh. I really miss eating Thai food. If I could, I would eat it everyday at least once. This is sad :(

Yay and Nay.

Rain on a Sunday?

Yay or nay?

Both for me. Today, I felt especially energized for some workout. And by workout I mean a few rounds of jogging around youth park and few rounds of captain ball. 

But it has to rain whole afternoon today. It just has to.

I slept through the noon anyways. So cold weather so nice to sleep in okay. So that's a yay for me.

Okay, maybe one more hour of nap will be good while waiting to go for dinnahh.

:)

Isaiah Forty verse Thirty-One.

"But those who wait upon the Lord get fresh strength. They spread their wings and soar like eagles. They run and don’t get tired, they walk and don’t lag behind"

Thailand Mission Trip.

If I can choose a few words to describe the one week long mission trip, it would be THE UNPREDICTABLE JOURNEY WITH GOD.

You must be wondering why UNPREDICTABLE. Though we knew the itinerary of this trip, everything kinda change when we got there. Most of the visits/plans were last minute being told to us, and it brings us to a whole new level of being flexible while doing God's work. It's a crazy ride with Him. It's a very refreshing crazy kind of ride.

From sharing our stories to feeding the poor with medicines and making sure the children swallow their de-worm pills, we all worked as a team for the glory of His Kingdom.

I have been to quite many of mission trips, but this one is one very different one. This is by far the most hardcore I've experienced. Actually, it's not that hardcore la. We stayed at a very nice place called Vineyard Orphanage. I'm not sure if that's the full name of the place. It's something like that. We stayed/ate/played with 24 kids in that huge blessed house. Then, we traveled around Chiang Rai to the mountain areas, to Laos where we ministered to the villagers, to Myanmar at one small church and Chiang Mai and Hat Yai.

All those travelling usually takes 4-6 hours daily for us to get to our destinations. It was tough as we all had to sit behind on a pick-up truck and mountain areas gave me quite bad of motion sickness. Probably because of my low blood pressure also, that's why I feel dizzy most of the time. 100 plus usually makes it feel better. Salt need to increase inside. Hah.

Other than all that, we get to taste the most amazing Thai food ever. Most of our main meals we had them with the village people and their local way of cooking them. Very simple yet very yummy. Not once was I craving for Penang/Western food at all throughout the entire trip. Told you I can live here forever. People there sumore so nice and polite. But not their driving attitudes la. Or manybe it's just their culture. If I were to be driving there, I would easily get offended with the way they honk at you. Haha.

I don't think words can be used to describe this trip. All of us had tears rolling down our cheeks. And all of us had that moment of missing the people there. All of us, seen the side of the Big Man that I believed we have never seen. A trip that I will forever remember, for sure.

Back After Nine Days.

Oh wow. I never realized that it has been nine days since I last post anything! We had internet at the place we were staying in Chiang Rai but then, koko's laptop cannot detect the connection so yeah. 

I'm not gonna post anything on the trip today as I must/will spend time with my precious girls first. 

Is it possible to feel jetlagged even if it was only 1 hour of time difference? Heh. 

It's quite nice that we came home last night to a new flat screen TV and Astro Beyond. Haha. Speaking of being blessed beyond measure. 

It's gonna take some time for me to get use to working mode again. Ahhh. No more annual leave this year. I shall not worry. I shall not be sad. I shall continue be glad :)

I is beginning to feel sleepy again though I is wake up at 10am this morning. 

Oh dear.. 

Spent the last eight days with the crazy bunch and now, not seeing their face in the morning kinda sucks. Ahhh. 

Till then. Stay tuned for tomorrow! :)