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"Is it making things with our hands out of wood or stone, or paint, or canvas? Or is it making something we hope like truth out of words? Or is it making people laugh or weep in a way that cleanses their spirit?   I believe that if it is a thing that truly makes us glad then it is a good thing and it is our thing and it is the calling voice that we were made to answer with our lives." – Fredrick Beuchner

"Oh, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out ... knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with the breath of kindness, blow the rest away." –George Eliot

Last weekend was ahhh-mazing!  On Friday night we baked the above cauliflower, potato, pancetta, cheese pastry for dinner and watched I-can't-remember-what. On Saturday we woke late-but-not-too-late, and met a friend and had Prahan market's super delicious Mushroom burgers – really a favourite of mine – as well as mussels which is a rarity because I do not actually like eating mussels. Then we watched many episodes of How To Get Away With Murder. On Sunday we went to church, had a good discussion over lunch, shopped, found new glasses to replace my scratched up ones, and finished the rest of HTGAWM over a homecooked pasta dinner.  It doesn't sound like I did anything extraordinary over the weekend huh ? But it was amazing for me thanks to the much needed rest (and good time with the husband).  Sometimes we look to long holidays and theme parks and big parties for amazingness – sometimes we find them there and rightly so.  But also sometimes the...

Matthew 4:17 From 2000+ years ago, Jesus was already preaching, "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is near". Was he saying that the kingdom was near, therefore we should repent? Or was He saying that our repentance will bring the kingdom nearer? "Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is on heaven" is brought as repentance is chosen. Matthew 4:18-22 Jesus calls James and John to follow him and "immediately they left the boat and their father and followed him". We humans worry. We worry a lot. What if we do this, then what happens to that? What if we do that, then what happens to this? We feel the need to "bao-ge-liao" (take every single thing) sometimes. But seriously, who can? This passage specifically mentions James and John leaving their father (who was with them at that time). There is no mention of whether their father was a believer or well or anything. That means that that was not the point. The point was that Jesus call...

Ingredients 250ml coconut milk 5 eggs 230g sugar 7 pandan leaves Directions Blend pandan leaves for 10ml of essence. If dry, add very little water. Sieve, then press down with a spoon to get the essence. Heat pot of water – bring to a boil. Add the mixture of sugar and eggs to it. Mix nicely, then pour in coconut milk and leaf essence. Stir every 10 minutes so it hardens evenly. Do so for an hour until there's a good consistency. Let it cool. From... must be somewhere. Made it a few years back and wanted to document it.

E was helping out at a wedding so we had to be there early. With a sketchbook, pen, and phone, this happened.

I was reading the news and came across a few sad stories. One about a child who plotted to kill her parents, and another about teens who killed their friend because he was "so boring" – and stabbed him 120 times. Who does that? Why do they do that? And then I read a story about how people don't receive proper (mental) treatment when they need it, or they are not followed up on appropriately and this leads to negative consequences. It made me think. It made me think that we all need to have a sense that what we do really matters . The daily things we do might seem minor to us; things such as calling a patient, clearing away broken glass, not texting while driving etc. In actual fact, those very actions could mean so much to others. It could be the difference of a future and a life changed.