A Sweet Valentine...

14th Feb 09, this is our first valentine day celebration together as a married couple in another country. Though Loong wanted to surprise me with a reservation at a hotel(don't think too highly of hotels here okie hahahaha) but when he saw the cost per person, think that reminded him of me nagging of too pricey :P

Anyway, I prepared dinner in advanced. Supposing to get chicken thighs, my dear husband got chicken meat in cubes... anyway I managed to turn this around so instead of getting a nice big piece of chicken thigh grilled on the plate, is all in cubes... Loong arranged the food on the plate so nicely and with a nice candle set on the dinner table, the atmosphere changes. (By the way there was no electricity too...)

So 2 nice plates of food - sweet onion chicken grilled, mashed potatoes, carrots and zukinis at the side and dessert wine. (Will show u the pictures in the next post)

Loong's commend:
" The chicken was very good! But the company is even better... " (mushy mushy)

Most importantly is, Loong was sharing about what the Lord spoke to him about being content whereas, the Lord has impressed on my heart is not to store up earthly treasures rather be a blessing to others espeacially in M.

Today at the international ch. the msg was on Living our Lives as though we are dying. Meaning, live a life to the fullness for G. and for others... though we faced lots of culture shocks, instead of staying at our shock stage, move on... think about J.C who came down and faced lots of cross-culture issues too... and it is fine for us to feel cross-culture shocks bcos indeed we do not belong to this earth, we are just strangers/aliens living here for a short while and soon we will be returning to heaven... I personally thk G. for this reminder and to want to live my life to the fullness together with my husband, serving till we leave this earth...

Its a privilege to be serving the King of kings and Lord of lords...

Back to the city...

Do not mistaken that i meant City as in Spore... rather the capital here...

Both Loong and I had just came back to the city 3days ago after been up in the villages for 5days.

We brought a team of doctors from Spore and visited 3villagers, saw 1000+ patients in total. By His Grace, glo helped a lady Doctor in translating while Loong was helping out in the dispensing of medicines and he is now very good with the medicine names- the antidote to whatever illnesses u can name (hahahaha)

glo: I had a good time learning from the doctors and helping to translate... I know only He who enable me to translate and understand the language too... I am the only female translator and therefore was asked to do special examinations on female patients with the doctors... i saw womb dropping out (4th stage), a mini operation, any part of the body , i seen it all with all different issues.... (hahahhaa) I would have to say is exciting and fun...

There are cases also where I had to tell patients that they are in their last stage of life.... that is really hard to come out from my mouth... all i could do is laid my hands and pry... in any cases, all the patients will receive their medicines and then head to a prying corner by our co-workers.

loong: When i was dispensing the medicines to the various patients, I knew that they want to find healing in their lives/health. But my pryer for them is that they will truly find the Real Healer that is who we live for. 

Now both of us are back in the city facing no electricity for most of our days... Loong started his language sch today and seem like he needs to chase up with what he missed, and glo is now back busy with the preparation for the new work and going for meetings... 

Keep us in ur thoughts and pryers..

- a new house to move into (3bedrooms with 2 toilets at least so can host guests)

- a motorbike/scooter for a little connivence in traveling around esp for work...

- our monthly support

- our family members who have not know Him

- Loong's language study (enjoyable and able to pick up fast)

juz us and Him...