Day +1269 : Merry Christmas!

I am fine today.

I wish you a very happy and meaningful Christmas!

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Day +1268 : Congratulation! Raymond Lau

I am fine today.

Raymond Lau is my third sister’s (bone marrow donor) second son. He scored 8As in his PMR (Lower Secondary Assessment) exam.

He is not a book worm and spends quite a lot of time playing computer game. Seeing him spending too much time on computer, his father (my brother-in-law) blamed my sister for purchasing the computer for him. The endless complaints of my brother-in-law subjected my sister to great pressure as she knew that she would be the one to blame should Raymond failed to scored A for all subjects.

“The computer will be destroyed if Raymond failed to score 8As,” my sister said.

My sisters always worked very hard to please (巴结) their children during the year of exam so that they could concentrate more to study. For example, my eldest sister always purchased tons of junk food for her children, Min Hie and Min Huang, while they were preparing for SPM and STPM exam respectively. In the end, one scored 12As in her SPM exam and another one scored 3A1B in his STPM exam. After the exam, both of them gained a lot of weight “thanks” to the junk food.

“If I didn’t let him play computer game, he might end up with depression and scored poor result,” my third sister reasoned.

So please remember – never fight with your children during the year of exam. Give them what they want and they will give you what you want :-)

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Day +1267 : Another buffet steamboat dinner

I am fine today.

Today, we have dinner at Yuen Buffet Steamboat Restaurant again. This time is with a group of more than 50 church members.

This is a dinner to affirm the church members for their contribution to the church throughout the year and also their effort in making the year-end teen camp and children camp a success.

We hope that this affirmative event will drive them to contribute more in the year to come :-)

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Day +1266 : Sarawak Holiday - Foods (2)

I am fine today.

Some more food for you...

Pork cooked with red wine residuum.

Pek Tin (八珍) duck
Fried Mee Hoon - the kampong taste. We had this during new year only last time.
Mee Hoon cooked with preserved vegetable
Fried shark fin - false one using cellophane noodles as shark fin :-) But tasted good.
Snails

Herbal eggs
Fried chicken
Carrot cake
Fried Guang Bing with stuffed meat. I was too sick to eat this at that time :-( My wife said it was very nice.

Jelly for the drink

Pepper root - someone said that it is good for health

That's all for the food.

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Day +1265 : Sarawak Holiday - Foods (1)

I am fine today.

I would like to share with you some food that we had during the holiday.

The big headed prawns - RM30/kg. This is the river prawn commonly found in Sarawak. Very big.









Jellyfish - one of the important dishes while we were young because it was very cheap. Long time already didn't eat already.




Jelly moon cake






More food to come...

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Day +1264 : A baptism service

I am fine today.

Today, our church conducted a baptism service where we witnessed the most number of people getting baptized in a single service throughout the church history. There were 15 persons baptized into Christ Jesus, proclaiming that they are now His followers.

Each one of them was given 3 minutes to share their encountering with Jesus before the baptism. All of them were very happy and excited.

I was asked to prepare curry chicken for about 100 persons as lunch after the service. I purchased 6.5kg of chicken with 4kg of potatoes. My wife and I cooked the curry chicken at 11pm last night.

However, it was very unfortunate that by the time we had lunch at about 1:00pm, the curry chicken had already turned sour :-( Someone who ate the curry chicken commented that this curry chicken was a little bit special – with sour taste.

We recalled the dish immediately after discovering the problem but quite a lot had already eaten :-( By right, everyone should know that there is no sour curry chicken unless it turns bad.

A church member told us that normally the cooked food won’t last for 12 hours. Should we boiled it before, it won't turned sour. This is a lesson learned today.

Rev. Lau explained the meaning of baptism
Pastor Tan explaining the procedure of baptism
The first group of 8 who received baptism

The remaining 7 who received baptism
Preparation. The baptism pool is hidden under the stage - only revealed during baptism service.
A brother received baptism
Preparing curry chicken







Mee Hoon prepared by different members




Drink
See you next post :-)