When Waiting Fails

人生的八個不要等

8 Things in Life We ought not to wait for

一、不要等到想要得到愛時才學會付出

Don't wait until you want to receive love to learn how to give.

二、不要等到孤單時才想念起你的朋友 

Don't wait until you are lonely to start missing friends.

三、不要等到有了職位時才去努力工作
Don't wait until you have a job to start giving your best.

四、不要等到失敗時才記起他人的忠告
Don't wait until you fail to remember others advise.

五、不要等到生病時才意識到生命脆弱
Don't wait until you fall sick to realize that life is fragile.

六、不要等到分離時後悔沒有珍惜感情
Don't wait until parting to regret you never cherished a relationship.

七、不要等到別人指出才知道自己錯了
Don't wait until someone points it out to realize your faults.

八、不要等到腰纏萬貫才準備幫助窮人
Don't wait until you are richly loaded before being ready to help the poor and needy.

Master Level Lameness Unlocked

Cleaning my desk just then found myself this story. It was written by Barry, Yorkie, Kang Ernest, Rowas and I taking turns going around the table.

Just thought before binning it I should blog to historise the epic story and its witty yet lame authors. Actual story that night, if I recall correctly, had a lot more details and ended on Mr Kiasu. Not sure why on paper it's different? Maybe Barry the scribe wanted to protect his beloved friend's reputation hehe.

Anyways, enjoy this story if you have a minute or two to waste :)

We are on an island, on our dolphins, seals. We are Spiderman, Michaelangelo, GM, Mr Kiasu, Kickapoo and lucky the family pet. Spiderman gone to drop his cousins off at the pool. Meanwhile, Bubble tea monster appears and Spiderman drops white coloured cousins and everyone was full afterwards. Michaelangelo found a cave and starts painting and found the Batmobile. A secret passage leads to Batman's lair and Alfred serves anchovies. Then the real Batman comes out and kicks everyone out. A green goblin/alien suddenly comes out of Alfred and Michaelangelo says "Dad!!" Then everyone decides to clone themselves so they can be something else. All of a sudden a blizzard and Bear Grylls comes and lights a fire. He eats some bugs. Then Sensei the Rat comes and gets caught and roasted by Bear. Michaelangelo gets angry and fights Bear and kills him. Bear opens and everyone finds the hidden treasure.

｜EXIT｜............

2010 Holiday Planning "Begins"...

Like seriously!

Someone asked me today over email when I was flying; it suddenly hit home that in less than 3 weeks time I will be outta Perth!

*Followed by a brief moment of shock and panic*

You see, I'm yet to book accommodation for our stay in Hong Kong and Macau. Yet to finalise itineraries.

16 days and counting down, the great Hong Kong and Macau trip planning re-begins with prayer. Don't stress, don't fret... just pray, pray and pray!

 

Permanent love/hate relationship with self guided travel.
Love the freedom, hate the planning.
Hate the research, love the traveling!

Pineylakes photos set 1

Hot Hot HOT!!!

I changed my mind about liking Summer after three consecutive days of 40C-plus temperature. As the extreme heat wave hit Perth with great vengeance, I'm temporarily evicted out of both my rooms upstairs.

The advantage of living in a two-storey house is that the ground floor remains pleasantly cool as the upper floor turns into one gigantic concrete-heated sauna. With absolutely no desire whatsoever to leave an air conditioned house, I'm also a prisoner in my own home.

So for now, and the next few days at least, my bed is the carpeted floor and my pillow a couch cushion. Also instead of the usual Windows desktop (2nd floor), I'm learning and using a Mac (1st floor).

Yet being 'stuck' downstairs isn't a bad thing at all! Right next to me are my family going about their activities which I would not be a part of if I was upstairs. Cooking dinner with mom and dad as well as winning Steven's pocket money over Mahjong provided good distraction from this nasty heat...

THIS nasty heat makes me anticipate our going away in March to Taiwan and Hong Kong more! It'll be Spring then YAY!

Pineylakes Sensory Play Park (preview)

walked the D90 this afternoon at Winthrop's Pineylakes

more photos next time!

o crafty me...

next item on the list for an upcoming project!

Unexpected

Thank God for receiving this very meaningful gift today.

It's a crystal clear glass frame with
12 sheets of delicate transparent cards containing God's Word ♥

⺌⺌⺌

Grace

This morning, God put a song in my head.

by Carolyn Hamlin
ⓒ The Wilds Music

Lord, as I seek Your guidance for the day,
I find my thoughts unyielding;
confusions crowds my way.
But then when I bow to You,
the challenges You guide me through;
Your promises are ever new,
I claim them for today.

Your will cannot lead me where Your grace will not keep me.
Your hand will protect me.
I rest in Your care.
Your eyes will watch over me,
Your love will forgive me.
And when I am faltering,
I still will find You there.

♫

Jiu Cai He Zi

Tonight's dinner was marvelous!

A giant Chinese Chive Pocket [Jiu Cai He Zi 韭菜盒子] to satisfy a hungry belly. Some people also call it "Leek Box" which is more a direct translation from the Chinese name.

Never mind the name, it's the taste that packs a punch!

Thin crepe-like wrapping pan-fried to perfect crispness
+
Garlic chives with eggs and clear vermicelli filling
+
Spicy soy and vinegar sauce
=
Party in your mouth
‧★,:*:‧\(￣▽￣)/‧:*‧°★*

Size of my dinner in comparison to a KFC wet towel

Mom served dinner at 6:45pm... Regen meeting was 7 O'clock. I had just 10 minutes to devoured this beast (as well as 2 KFC wicked wings)!

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During the meeting Lilsy was doodling on a Ritz biscuit box,

when she went to the bathroom I took these photos:

(^o^)Wah~~(^0^)Ha~~(^○^)Ha~~!

Photo Sesh

This, the unofficial BPCWA photography club

lilsy
master tey
truc
yorkie
bro. mark
me

Missing in Action:

caleb
ah sern
terry

had our first ever excursion to Freo!



It started with afternoon coffee, boost and chippies at Terrezza
here master tey taught newbies (lilsy, truc + me) how to use our cameras

LIGHT METER
thanks Jason for teaching me this!

♦

Fremantle's beauty
(Via my little humble camera)

寧‧靜‧美的感動
抒解的心靈得到豐富的滋潤

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Jason taking a photo of Truc taking photo.




Big trees vs little Truc.










This photo refuses to be in the right orientation
thus after Nth uploading, I gave up.



After a meaningful afternoon of appreciating God's wonderous handiworks
Some of us headed to Old Shanghai for dinner before calling it a night.

Looking forward to the next outing!