Friday, December 23, 2016

Joke of the day - 2

Son: I wonder if a skunk ever sprayed by its own mom?

Mom: sure! When the kid skunk said to the mom skunk, mom can I please go out and play?

joke of the day - 1

I just found a way to cut onion without tears and tomatoes without messy.


Use a food processor to do the job.

LOL.

Weird English

Found some interesting way in expressions.

Pretty bad, so it's good or bad?

Positive punishment, what do you mean? A punishment is positive?

Negative reinforcement, reinforcement in a negative way?


Terribly good, tell me, do you feel terrible or good?

Monday, December 19, 2016

Joke of the day

If you go to the breakfast Buffet, make sure eat slower, so you can be full until lunch time, or / and eat longer, so you would be hungry until dinner time. Ha!

12-23-2016 worship songs

What's the reason to celebrate Christmas? Santa Claus? Getting gifts?
It’s all about you, Lord. It’s You!
是你-生命河靈糧堂(奔向愛我的神)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WgkX7p9ZaTo

The pass Saturday in the middle of night my right shoulder suffered great discomfort, it was like mix up with pain and soreness

I prayed hard to ask God to ease my afflict, pray God to take all the control of my body, every single of my bone, muscle, nerve, hair, skin, red blood cell, white blood cell, platelet,  respiratory system, digestive system, circulatory system, immune system, lymphatic system, thought, literally, all that I think of on to Him.

Second day, it seemed ok during the day, at night the discomfort came back, and even worse than the day before, both my shoulder were suffered. I feel like that I cannot even pray or move or anything, I curled my body and cry out to the Lord for mercy, for grace, for healing.
Plead to the Lord, all your needs, all the burdens. 呼求你憐憫-生命河靈糧堂(奔向愛我的神)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IyJcldJz754

God gives us His only Son, Jesus, and He died for our sins and rose on the third day.
His love and Holy Spirit never leaves us. 何西阿書 11:4 我用慈繩愛索牽引他們;我待他們如人放鬆牛的兩腮夾,把糧食放在他們面前 。I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love; and I was to them as they that take off the yoke from their jaws, and I laid meat before them.
【青草原詩歌】慈繩愛索(粵)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gDObqPr3tW4

Friday, December 16, 2016

Pound Cake

  • ·         INGREDIENTS
    3/4 cup unsalted butter, room temperature.
    2 cups all-purpose flour
    3/4 cup sugar
    4 large eggs

    DIRECTIONS
    Preheat oven to 350 degrees. 

    Using an electric mixer on high speed, beat butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition. With mixer on low, gradually add flour, beating just until combined.

    Bake until a toothpick inserted in center of cake comes out clean, about 1 hour. Let cool in pan 15 minutes. Invert onto a wire rack, and turn upright to cool completely.

joke of the day - 3

Mom: son, don't eat too much meat!
Son: but I love meat.
Mom: oh! Really! You love ME!? I love you too?

Son: OMG!

joke of the day - 2


Scene: dad is going to a birthday party for an elderly friend.

Son: can I please go with you?
Dad: no, you always talk too much and not polite.
Son: please dad. I promise behave this time, please.
Dad: alright! Let’s go.

Son is behave as he promised. Well! Almost, until, the last dish, Longevity Buns. (With red bean paste inside) 

Son: dad why do they serve hot butt?
Dad: hush! Now! That’s not nice!

Then the dad take one and split open it.

Dad: eek! There is (use your imagination) inside!

Hint: it's funny but disgusting too. Life is hard, just laugh out loud, will you!

joke of the day - 1

Husband and wife went to an art exhibition.

The wife have high myopia. So she look at each paintings very closely.

Suddenly, the wife scream, this is the ugliest painting I have ever seen!


The husband says, hush! You are not looking at a painting, you are looking at a mirror!

Tuesday, December 13, 2016

soft & strong

Hope that you don’t mind that I’m going to share something about the tissue paper.

Something that seems no big deal but surely very important in our daily lives.

You all notice that now the tissue paper, have at least three different types, soft, strong, or soft and strong, if you are the grocery shopper of the family.

When I ask my son, why and what’s the differences between those types, he always say that just a marketing tragedy, meaning, there’s no differences.

I totally not agree with that, soft ones are really soft, the strong ones are actually strong.

What I hesitate to buy is the soft and strong ones, finally I give a try. It is weird how something can soft and strong at the same time.

And it is truly soft and strong, get it, two layers, soft and strong for each layer of each piece.


Overall, I like it and I’m glad that I finally try it.

Monday, December 12, 2016

Give thanks

For some years I tried to appreciate some people with gift cards and then some of them, they give back a lot more of than I gave them.

Feeling really guilty about, wondering should I not to use this way to thank people.

I always know that I can give back those thanks with some other ways to other people as a thanks to the people that help me and my kids.

I don’t mean money or any other things that they help us of. Even just a warm welcome or praise on me or my kids that really will make me cry.

Yesterday, I did cried on the gift cards and cards that friend of us gave us.


Sorry! I have to wipe my tears again. The tears of joy and appreciations.

300

Cannot believe that I have almost drafts.


I owe myself that many unfinished blogs.

Tuesday, November 15, 2016

40 pounds banana


I bought one whole box of bananas, 40 pounds, for the fellowship thanksgiving dinner gathering.

Wonder how I get it home, 40 pounds, anyone?

At the store, I did ask for help from some handsome guy to lift it up onto the shopping cart.

And hoping that any workers will ask me, do I need help to transfer it into my car. No one kindly to ask me though.

So after checked out I transferred this 40 pounds giant into my car trunk effortlessly. I open the shopping cart which is near the push handle, feeling smart. Ha!

When I got home, of course I had my two strong helpers help me to get it inside the house, that’s wish all bananas will all ripe in time of our dinner gathering.


How much is the bananas, I got two different guesses from my kids, $20 and $12, both answers are pretty close, why? Because I have a $5 discount coupon, therefore, before the discount is almost $20 and after the discount is $14 something. Sweet!

Detoxification

Two ways to protect your health, try fulfill both, if not, for some medical reason then at least one of them.
開源節流 Open source and / or cut expenditure, don't know if this the right kind of thinking on this.

"Immune system disorders cause abnormally low activity or over activity of the immune system. In cases of immune system over activity, the body attacks and damages its own tissues (autoimmune diseases). Immune deficiency diseases decrease the body's ability to fight invaders, causing vulnerability to infections."


And the above is something I google from the web, I never known that the immune system can be overly active to attack one own body cells, until months ago I met a mom from Taiwan.

I wonder, just wonder, and if we can take those overly active cells or hormone or whatever from one's immune system to help people fight serve disease naturally. Or is there someone or some laboratory is doing it already.

Answer

If you ask the following question to someone. What's your plan?
And the answer is as such. Work, be miserable and then die.

Don’t know what will be your answer or your response to this answer.
Here is mind.

At that very moment, the air around me, my heart, my tongue suddenly frozen.
.
I was searching for some worship songs and sang along with them, all of the sudden, no words, no sounds came out of my mouth, none, cannot talk or sing.

Felt hopeless, worried, frustrating, desperate, questions came out of my mind, why, what, how, when and where is this kind of answer came up with?

Quickly I went in the room, pray and pray.
I want to cry but no tears.
I want to shut but no voice.
I want to get angry but no emotion.
I want to sing but no rhyme.
I want to move but no strength.

呼求你憐憫-生命河靈糧堂(奔向愛我的神)

Monday, November 14, 2016

Just a thought

Dear all,

A thought came into my mind. The other day I had a short conversation with pastor David about how maybe we should expand the English young adult fellowship into English adult fellowship in order to include more adults into this existed fellowship especially for those English speaking parents whom their kids always come to Friday youth fellowship.

I totally agree with him and feel really sorry about we are kind of let out some other English speaking brothers and sisters, not on purpose though, and we can actually do something now, yes, right now, right away.

Just my opinion that as long as there are 3 and up of people, then it can be a fellowship already. We don't have to wait until like what, 10 or 20 people to form a fellowship. I hope you do agree with me.

Since this coming Friday, our fellowship isn't going to have the regular meeting. I'm hoping that we can a first unofficial English adult fellowship meeting this coming Friday to hear their voices about this thought. We could invite English speaking parents and adults with or without either younger or older kids to join.

Please note that what I suggest here, is to form a new group, other than the young adult fellowship that we already have now. Also not have the limitation only to parents or married brothers and sisters.

And I truly don't want to pull out any brothers or sisters out of their own fellowship unless they moved by the Holy Spirit.

Please advise.

Monday, November 7, 2016

Prayer

Lord, I'm really tired, please be with me but try not bother me.


That’s the prayer that I had before I knock out to dreamland yesterday after church, the only thing I need is rest not dreams, not any.

Hosea, Psalm

Piper Disney Pixar 

https://vimeo.com/189901272
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36xvVH_TH_c

Lord's love never fail, yet discipline strictly.

Good thing is I'm not a prophet.
何西阿書 Hosea
It is primarily about his message—a holistic critique of Israel. Using powerful metaphorical language, Hosea attacks theology, morals, economy and politics. God is passionately concerned for both the responsibility of the individual as well as society to care for and to give justice to the poor. But the message he gives Hosea is not only one of drastic judgment, but also one of his astounding love, mercy and forgiveness. 
1. 一位信實的丈夫與一位不忠的妻子 -- 個人的感情(1-3)
2. 一個信實的主與一個不忠的以色列 -- 國家的寫照(4-14)

何西阿書 Hosea 11:4 我用慈繩愛索牽引他們,我待他們如人放鬆牛的兩腮夾板,把糧食放在他們面前。I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love; and I was to them as they that take off the yoke from their jaws, and I laid meat before them.


Hosea 14:2 Take with you words, and turn to the Lord; say unto Him, “Take away all iniquity and receive us graciously, so will we offer the calves of our lips.

聖經都是神向我們的說話,惟獨詩篇教我們怎樣向神說話。 Poetry and prayer.
The Psalms, like the mirror, show us the shape of our souls and the curve of our sin, realities deep within us, hidden and obscured, for which we need focus and names.

Book I (Psalms 1—41)
The five books of Moses are matched by the five books of David like two five-fingered hands clasping one another in greeting. 


1 Praying Our Inattention 專心
2 Praying Our Intimidation
3 Praying Our Trouble   Reach out to God for help.
4 Dealing with Anger     Anger is a emotion not a sin.
5 Relying on God           Instead of allowing our fear or anger to dominate our thinking, we need to focus on God.

詩篇 Psalm 2:3 說:「我們要掙開他們的捆綁,脫去他們的繩索!」“Let us break Their bonds asunder, and cast away Their cords from us.”

11-11-2016 worship songs

腓 立 比 書 3:7-11 

只 是 我 先 前 以 為 與 我 有 益 的 , 我 現 在 因 基 督 都 當 作 有 損 的 。 不 但 如 此 , 我 也 將 萬 事 當 作 有 損 的 , 因 我 以 認 識 我 主 基 督 耶 穌 為 至 寶 。 我 為 他 已 經 丟 棄 萬 事 , 看 作 糞 土 , 為 要 得 著 基 督 ;並 且 得 以 在 他 裡 面 , 不 是 有 自 己 因 律 法 而 得 的 義 , 乃 是 有 信 基 督 的 義 , 就 是 因 信 神 而 來 的 義 ,10 使 我 認 識 基 督 , 曉 得 他 復 活 的 大 能 , 並 且 曉 得 和 他 一 同 受 苦 , 效 法 他 的 死 ,11 或 者 我 也 得 以 從 死 裡 復 活 。

What is the most important thing in your life?

第十二屆聖詩頌唱會 05 認識你 Knowing You


He knows and loves us, no matter what. We sin, He forgive, we fall, and He raise us up.
抬起我的頭 I Will Lift My Head

Holy Spirit please come and fill us up, we live for You.
充滿我-生命河靈糧堂(奔向愛我的神) Fill me, Lord

Thursday, November 3, 2016

November

Feeling like to hide into a cave and hibernate. Kind of sensitive to cold, especially the early morning and late night.

Friday, October 28, 2016

Thursday, October 27, 2016

Steve Jobs

Just in time to finish one of the homework before I visit one of the senior friend tomorrow, in case he ask me, did I get to watch this speech?

Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Address (with intro by President John Hennessy)

In the speech, Job shared his 3 stories; connecting the dots, love and loss, death.

Drop out of school, one of the best decisions I ever made.
Publicly fired by the company, the best thing that could have ever happened to me.

Love what you do, don’t lose faith. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. And don’t settle.

Stay hungry, stay foolish.

Crisis can be a turning point, depends on how you react to it.

Stormy out

I know that you've heard this same kind of story thousands of times before; the conflict between mother and sons things.

Tuesday, don't know or I don’t want to remember exactly what happened; either I am not happy about his talking or the other way around or we just cannot agree with each other.

My son stormy out the house, out the gate, out into the dark, out my tears and cook dinner alone and wait for his coming back.

It’s probably 10 or 15 minutes cooking and waiting. What else that I can do at that moment, regretting, praying, and listening to the Christian song.

What if something happen? What if he really run away from me? All that kind of negative thoughts came to my mind.

Love not just your kid, but your neighbors, your brothers and sisters in Christ and also your enemy. How about that?

He is my own blood.


Parenting is a lifetime lesson, never graduate. They are our best teachers.

oh, no!

Feeling how come today my carry-on bag for work is so light today, I forget my 2 books at home; Bible and a leisure book that I can read whenever I feel like or have time for it.

Tuesday, October 25, 2016

Truth be told

I have to clear one thing ahead that, normally, I’m a good listener.

But if you found that our conversations whether it’s face to face or on the phone and my pausing or silent time is getting longer than before.

Then, is, either your words become bitter than before that I used to know you are or you have so many anger, complain or the like in the conversations or our opinions are divergent gradually.

Never leave a person or place with anger, solve it first.

It’s not right to try to push people to agree on something but if you decided to sign the paper and agree on it then don’t complain after or leave, that’s just not right either.

空中主曰學 和西阿書


I’m nearly half way of this series.

No doubt that people says, for the nonbelievers or the new believers, old testaments are kind of cruel and sometimes, hard to accept.

God’s love is a different kind of love.

He’ll use all sort of ways to wake His people up from sin.

Don’t wait until God walk out your life completely.

(26) 7:1-16   (27, 28) 8:1-13   (29, 30) 8:14   (31, 32) 9:1-9   (33) 9:8-9   (34, 35) 9:10-17

(36) 9:14-17   (37) 10:1-10   (38) 10:4-8   (39) 10:5-9  (40) 10:9-15   (41) 10:11-15   
(42) 10:13-15   (43, 44, 45) 11:1-4   (46, 47, 48) 11:5-11  (49) 11:12-12:6   (50, 51) 12:3-6
(52, 53, 54) 12:7-13   (55, 56, 57) 12:14-13:8   (58, 59, 60) 13:9-16   (61, 62, 63) 14:1-3
(64, 65, 66) 14:4-9

Love

Voddie Baucham - "Go Home and Love your Wife."


Love your neighbor, love your sister in Christ, or else love your enemy.

This should apply to all other relationships, the relationships that you cannot not just leave.

Suck it up and deal with it, brothers and sisters!

Monday, October 24, 2016

Joke of the day

One day I missed read Suki & Charlie as Sushi & Garlic.


Oh! Boy! I must be very hungry, I said to my sons.

Afraid

Don't be afraid to ask help from others, likewise, say no to someone's help, if you feel too much burden to accept or don't really want the help from certain people or in certain way.

People try to help, either they just enjoy to help out or they help you as a thank you for your helping to them before or they been gotten help from others, and this is a way to say thanks to whoever been supported in their lives.


Tell Your Heart To Beat Again (Lyrics) By: Danny Gokey


Chris Tomlin - Jesus (Lyrics And Chords)


Hillary Scott & The Scott Family - Thy Will

deacon

First time ever, attended our church’s Congregational Meeting.
Among the meeting there are the election for the chairman, vice chairman and secretary.

It took 3 times each for voting for the chairman and vice chairman of the church council, for it has to be at least over half the voting to win the position.

Right after the tiring voting, there came the election for secretary, don’t know if this is the right to call it. Anyway, the current chairman announced that all the elders, deacons, and including the coming year new ones can be the candidates for secretary.

That’s when, I was shock to hear my name been nominated, and it passed. It all happen too soon for me to react, are all of members know who I am or was they all too tired and eagerly to go home?

I have no clue, same as what am I needing to do as a secretary for the year 2017.

永青

The past Friday, I decided to visit my senior friends. It ended up I spend almost 5 hours there, using my four limited different language/dialogue, English, Mandarin, Taiwanese, Cantonese, we sang and prayed with them individually.

Most of them heard about the Lord, but not yet accept Him as their savior yet.

Again, I want to say, they only different between us and them is only they are older than us but not knowing less than us. A lot of time people would like to think, oh, you are old, and don't know anything, OK! That’s terrible.

It’s interesting to knowing people from different backgrounds, always, there are so many precious memories, stories even some jokes to share with me about them.

The following is some sharing from one of the senior resident, Tom
1). first sharing about this John Teshan American pianist and composer of pop music, as well as a radio host and television presenter. 

And I asked Tom, is John Tesh a Christian? I don't know why I asked him this question then. What surprised me is, Tom answered, John is not a Christian, but he do sing some Christian songs, and if I become a Christian, it'll because of him. So I thought that I should find at least one Christian song that John Tesh sings from YouTube. So I can share this song with Tom when I meet him next time.

Draw Me Close To You • Worship at Red Rocks • John Tesh

2). A must listened speech that Tom strongly recommended to me. A speech form Steve Jobs, the co-founded Apple Computers. I sort of remember that I heard this speech before. And he especially emphasize, there are 3 main point on job's speech, I need to do some homework and get back to him next time, oh, no, it's this coming Friday.

Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Address (with intro by President John Hennessy)


3). 2 of the useful information that Tom ask me have to check it out. Another homework. Ted talk
https://m.youtube.com/user/TEDtalksDirector


Beatbox brilliance | Tom Thum | TEDxSydney


Here are the lyrics that I prepare to share with them next time.

奇異恩典
奇異恩典,何等甘甜,我罪已得赦免;
前我失喪,今被尋回,瞎眼今得看見。

浩大恩典,使我敬畏,使我心得安慰;

初信之時即蒙恩惠,真是何等寶貴。

經過許多危險網羅,飽受人間苦楚,

此恩領我平安渡過,他日歸回天府。

將來在天安居萬年,恩光如日普照,

好像最初蒙恩景況,讚美永不減少。


Draw Me Close To You

Draw me close to You
Never let me go
I lay it all down again
To hear You say that I'm Your friend
You are my desire
And no one else will do
'Cause nothing else can take Your place
To feel the warmth of Your embrace
Help me find a way
Bring me back to You

You're all I want
You're all I've ever needed
You're all I want
Help me know You are near
You're all I want
You're all I've ever needed
You're all I want

Thursday, October 20, 2016

pork belly

還行!但這也縮太大了!
Tastes good, but the meat always shrink so much after cook.

Marinate the whole piece of pork belly in the mixture of brown sugar, soy sauce, water, and Oliver oil in the pot that you are planning to cook for at least 6 hours prior cooking.

My next project is, plain boiled pork with mashed garlic in soy sauce (蒜泥白肉).

Tuesday, October 18, 2016

It's your choice

Having happy friends can make you happy
But having lots of friends won't - unless they're happy
By David Cameron, Harvard Medical School

Yes, you are the decision maker. Happiness Is Contagious, yet, it’s a chain reaction, meaning, even, it’s your friend’s friend, will still affect you.

Try to get along with friends with positive emotions or personalities, hopeful, energetic, healthy, and optimistic as possible.

And try not to be with someone always complaining, sorrow, regretting and so on.

Constantly with sick people, you'll get it eventually.


But what about the friends who need your supports and companionship. Then get help from professional, work with them, never be alone to face it, especially, if you are not strong enough to conquer the situation.