Happy Valentine's Day!

You don't need to be in relationship with a guy or gal to celebrate Valentine's Day. Everyone and anyone also can celebrate Happy Valentine's Day!

Blessed Valentine's Day to you! I want to dedicate this sweet video for you all:-
Say It Again by Marie Digby

Coffee Talk, Hawker Wok in Ipoh! :-D

Talking about Fiona Xie in Coffee Talk, Hawker Wok from Asian Food Channel (AFC)? Hehe... No, I am not! Wondering what am I trying to say about Coffee Talk, Hawker Wok here?

Last Sunday, my best friends from my previous Cambodia Youth Mission Trip came down to Ipoh to have farewell gathering / reunion and makan trip for Sara who is leaving to Australia for study soon.

She is Sara!

Ipoh is well known for its foods, so I took all of them around Ipoh and chak chak and chak (*chak means eat in hokkien) until they surrender! Haha... Do you know, we are just like the 8TV Ho Chak crews or Media Corps Coffee Talk, Hawker Wok crews... Haha... Because we eat non-stop and we took picture of every foods that we ate -Just like promoting the foods in Ipoh-

Ok, let's get started... First stop! Restaurant Fok Heng; which near my house. We had some little foods here plus the famouse drink here -Red Bean Blender with ice- After that, we took a break at home and we played Mah Jong! "Sik Wu" hahaha...

Then, Second stop! We went to Restaurant Wong Sam; which is also near my place.

We had Lou Sang here with Salmon Fish... Yummy! Then, we had Tau Foo with Ginkgo, Wong Nga Pak vegetable and Wat Tan Hor Mix...

Lou Sang with Salmon fish! =P Yummy!

After Lou Sang, we straight away head to Ipoh famous food -Taugeh Ayam (bean sprout & chicken)... Ta! Ta!... Here's the Third Stop! of the day; Ong Kee Restaurant for Taugeh Ayam, Meat Balls and Ipoh Hor Fun.


I guess we only had like 30 minutes of break -more or less- before we headed to our Fourth Stop! which is few shops away from Ong Kee Restaurant; we went to Tuck Kee Restaurant for Chicken Feet and Octopus! Yummy.... =P


After our fourth stop, finally we stopped here and continued eating the next day! =P So, we went back home and played Mah Jong and Clue -board game-

The next morning, we continued with our makan; our Fifth Stop! we went to Ming Court Restaurant for Hong Kong Dim Sum -sorry no picture of dim sum because we were too hungry and just focus on the foods only... Hehe-

After Dim Sum, we went to Ipoh Old Town which is our Sixth Stop! for Caramel Custard, Sotong Kankung and Satay! Yummy! =P

Caramel Custard!

Sotong Kankung!Satay!Hey, and of course cannot miss out Ipoh famous Old Town White Coffee

After eating so much, we took a break; so we went for sightseeing and photography. So we went to Ipoh City Hall and Ipoh Railway Station.

The garden outside Ipoh Railway Station!

(from the left: Carol Yap, Jon Lim, Mike Chang and Jamie Lee) Posing in front of the Ipoh City Hall

After sightseeing and photography, everyone were tired and thirsty, so went for our Seventh Stop! Funny Mountain -the stall name- for Ipoh famous Tau Foo Fah (Soya Bean Curd), Soya Bean milk and Glass Jelly Drink to clench our thirst.

Carol Yap with her Tau Foo Fah (Soya Bean Curd)

Slightly grey is Soya Bean Milk mix with Glass Jelly Drink, the white one is Soya Bean Milk and the black one is Glass Jelly Drink.

After drinking, we went for shopping; to get some Ipoh famous biscuits and foods like Ipoh salted chicken. After shopping, we went to a place to get Siew Yuk, unfortunately we were late because it was sold out. The Siew Yuk here is very nice -maybe next time ya- =)

Then, we went home for house blessing. All my friends prayed for my house and my family -Thank you everyone! Appreciate it very much!- After house blessing, we continued with Mah Jong! After that, they all went back to Kuala Lumpur -around evening!-

The End!

I'm Driving Again! YEAH!!!

Last time, I had an accident where the car that I drove hit another car... Therefore, I was traumatized!

Recently, I need to fetch my cousin sister and my auntie to hospital to visit my uncle. There are no other driver at home beside than me, so I need to drive! At first, I was really worried. Then, every time before I drive, I prayed to God. Praise God for the peace and confidence to drive again! And I had a great time of driving around Taiping! =)

I'm Back... From Bitterness To Sweetness

Drinking 'teh tarik' as I watching the time past and looking forward to a new year; as the minutes turned into hour, a year is gone and a new one is here. Enjoying my 'teh tarik' and looking at fireworks far far away... I never imagined that this was the way I welcomed the New Year 2009.

My 2008 was an unstable year and I didn't set any resolution for 2009 because I was affected by year 2008! But I still thank God for everything; as I reflected on 2008, there were lots of blessing from God. And I don't want to plan any specific resolution for 2009; I just want this year to be the year of family bonding and I want to trust God for a better year of 2009.

Here i go with my...
Bitterness number 1
Early this year -January- my friend broke up with my brother. They supposed to get marry soon but they relationship just didn't work out and finally they broke up! I was affected; very much as if like my own break up -painful, angry, sad and disappointed-

Sweetness number 1
But God is good; every bad circumstances that created by man, God use it for good! Through this incident, my relationship with my brother are closer! Then, I learned about the difference between advising and encouraging -be there to listen as an encouragement to someone and do not be there to advise by telling people what to do- And finally through this incident, I learned that God will never create suffering!

Bitterness number 2
This year started with bitterness... =( This year Chinese New Year was very different to me; more quiet and I didn't feel any excitement of it... Sigh...

Sweetness number 2
Anyway, I had great time of reunion with my cousins, relatives and friends even though it was quiet! Guess what, I spent some quality time with my dad. I had great fellowship with him! It was so cool... He taught me a lesson about family bonding and he told me he is learning from his mistakes. I practiced forgiveness and loving heart towards my dad by loving him more and allow him to make mistakes and give chances for him to learn from his mistakes. And I learned all these from Jesus! Praise the Lord!

Sweetness number 3
Today, my uncle was blessed by God that his operation to remove one part of his colon was successful -anyway my uncle diagnosed with colon cancer- I was really worried at first but then God really filled my heart with His everlasting peace. I don't why I always felt positive about my uncle's condition. I think this is what I called FAITH!

Just now, as I was browsing through the photos of the greeting cards that I made last year and it really inspired me to do it again this year and I got the theme for this year collection, I will call it: Sweets and Cakes! Why? Haha... The reason is simply because everyone love dessert and dessert is sweet. So I pray that my greeting cards will bless people by bringing sweetness to them! ;-P Yummy! Hehe...

Actually, to be bitter or to be sweet; it is up to us to make the choices... Remember that God never create suffering and bitterness! So, why bitter when we can choose to be happy! And Jesus is our everlasting and unfailing HOPE; there is always hope when there is Jesus in us!

Wishing you all a Blessed Sweet Sweet Year Ahead! God bless! =)