Truly blessed

I know I've always been using the word blessed and I lack creativity, but there is no way else I can describe all that I've received this year. By God's grace, I've been water baptised, holy spirit baptised, I found J2, found a friend at work, learnt to love my mother more, learnt to love others more, loving my neighbour as myself.

Never have I found it easier to talk to a person the first time I met her. I often thought that I was imagining it and that we'd actually run out of topics to talk about that things would turn awkward with empty heavy silences some day but there was none of those at all. I was initially to broach sensitive topics, only to realize that I had nothing to worry about at all because we felt the same way about the same issues. I was just amazed to no end at how similar we were in our thinking and mindset. It's funny how I thought of her first when I saw something that I knew she'd like. How we laughed when we both thought of each other first. The length of time we've known each other may not be long but I'm sure that there'll be more to come. Thank you Liza(:

 For favourite cake of mine that I knew you'd like.

Cafe hopping days (IV)

Part four of my cafe hopping days! And this time it's Symmetry cafe with Steph! Symmetry is quite a popular cafe, I tried calling in advance to make a reservation for seats on a Saturday and was told that they were fully booked. But we decided that we'd just walk in and hope to get seats, although we had alternatives haha! We've planned in advance like that cos we have so many cafes to try.
They've got quite a sophisticated reservation system where you can just enter your number and group size, and then they'll call you when they've got seats for you, so we decided to wait it out since they had seats for people waiting outside. It wasn't quite a long wait, I must say.

I guess if you opt for bar seats the wait might be shorter since not many people would be keen on those (not us, anyway, haha)

I loved the quaint and mismatched decor. There is beauty in mismatched furniture and appliances, but sadly that doesn't apply to dressing up. Sometimes when I find that my clothes are matched weirdly I'd feel ill at ease the entire day and can't wait to go home. Okay digressing, on to what we ordered.

We really wanted to try their all day breakfast but we got tempted by their other items. And as you know, two of us don't want to eat too much, so we gave the breakfast a miss. We love truffle fries so we couldn't pass this up.
It came in a really huge bucket! Tasted really nice, and there was a side dip of truffle mayo (I'm guessing cos I didn't use that dip much). I seldom eat fries anymore because of the fact that it's unhealthy, unless it's truffle fries. Double standard much, haha!

And next up, another of our favourites, waffles! It came topped with whipped cream so we swept it off. I realize we do that for everything we order that has cream on top. Steph commented that it's not four whole quarters of waffle but more like three and a half. I loved the waffles, it was crispy on the outside, and topped with the ice cream, it was just awesome.

We saw people at other tables ordering their all day breakfast sets which looked so nice too, but we had no more stomach for that so it'll have to wait for the next time we're there.

Instagrammed it, one or two months back.

Lesson learnt

No one is perfect, lean not on man but on God, for man will fail but God never fails.

This is a fact that I've heard for some time now. My pastor always says that he will fail us, but God will never fail.

Somehow this fact hit me really hard this week. Because I had unknowingly put a lot of faith/trust in this sister of mine, and I just got very disappointed in her, although I wasn't in any position to judge anything. I was just reminded of this fact that people will definitely fail us, even though they may try very hard not to. Even for me, as much as I do not wish to fail n others' eyes, I will fail. Not even a 'might fail', but a 'will fail'.

Simply because we are not perfect.

I've neglected this space for some time, and today I'm back here to share about being touched by the Holy Spirit. All along, I always thought that it was the lyrics of the praise and worship songs that touch me, but last week, I found myself tearing even when I didn't know the lyrics. Thank you Jesus. For all the constant reminders that my worth is in nothing else but You, not what I look like, not what I achieve or even what I do. To keep trusting You for Romans 8:28 says that in all things God works for the good of those who love Him.

Not because of who I am, but because of what You've done
Not because of what I've done, but because of who You are.

Yes Lord, everything that I am is given by Your grace. I am not to boast about anything because it is not my position to do so.

Kind of looking forward to serving in church this weekend yet there is this teeny weeny bit of apprehension because it's my first time. But I know I will do fine and it will turn out alright!

I don't know if anyone feels like this sometimes, but I do. Like settling into some kind of familiarity and getting too comfortable in life. I don't know why, but I don't really like this feeling because then things would remain status quo yet we should always be striving to improve each time. That said, I'm 'enjoying' this familiarity and I've been happier at work thanks to my two colleagues who make me laugh daily while facing the screen. So glad to have found them, and right now I'm really amazed and astounded by the greatness of His plans. A year ago, I accepted this job because of various reasons such as distance, nature of the job and simply gut feeling and would never have expected NEMO to come this far. I'm heartened to see reports on what we've been doing the past one (or two, for some of us) year. So motivated to work harder to make a difference for more of these patients!

I guess stress makes me shop more, okay those are just excuses. My eyes are very bad, they're spoilt, like my grandma would say whenever she sees things that catch her eye and make her want to buy them. I've been shopping on Love, bonito quite a bit. And I've moved away from the fit and flare dresses that I used to favour towards shift dresses which look more formal. Will share some of them soon!

This entry is such a mish-mash of random ideas in my head, I will get down to proper posts soon, just a matter of when now! Hahaha.