Living out Faith

A couple days ago, I received a letter from the church that I attend in HK. It was a tax receipt. And it got me thinking. I admit wholeheartedly that I'm terrible with money. Seriously terrible and I'll do good with money management classes. It's only in the last couple of years that I'm learnt better control and management my money. When I first started working after graduation, it was such joy to get a real salary. With such great joy, came elation at shopping. And with the elation, savings never happened but credit cards debts grew. Honestly, it never really mattered. I just enjoyed my buying. I never really had enough money for God. Rather, I gave God whatever that I had leftover of each month. I started to wonder why don't I really have savings and what was really my tithing to God. It wasn't even 10 percent that's stipulated in the bible. It was whatever that I had in my wallet. Having written all that, it was only moving to Hong Kong and being committ...

What's Plus? Plus means addition and sometimes plus means synergy. So what really is Plus? Well, Plus is a care/cell group that I attend on Park Island. Maybe slightly more than a year or so, we were invited by a couple to attend a meeting on Thursday. Sure in the beginning it was a little daunting. We didn't know anyone except for a couple. But soon, we got to know each other and it's become a comfortable and comforting group. Over time, this group has been quite crucial in our spiritual growth. It was nice to finally find a nice group of people that we can hang out and have fellowship and worship God together. It's been a long time since I've belong to a group like that. Probably more than 15 years? Guess it must be since Youth Fellowship. It's been really encouraging to know that there are fellow brothers and sisters in Christ that are praying for us and we're praying for them too. And I'm thankful that God has brought us to them. Living in Hong Kong,...

I received a call today. A call that I kinda knew was coming and I was sort of dreading it too. My case worker for adoption called. As you know, we've been in the process of adopting for forever. It's been a long, long journey and it's still not at the end yet. So anyway my case worker told us that we've been pulled out of the pool of prospective adoptive parents for the time being. The reason being is that Babe is kinda working overseas. When Babe had to move to Singapore for work, we sort of knew that this might happen. But we decided to be truthful and honest about our situation to our case worker. He tried his best to help us in many ways and guess, he must have dreaded the call to me as well. Well, we're not ending our journey for adoption. We've just taking a pit stop. Babe can't head back to Hong Kong now. He would if he could. He has obligations that has to be fulfilled and in God's time, he'll head back. At the same time, when he heads back ...

I'm back in HK after a long Easter break. I reached home last night at midnight and had to get to work this morning. Not a good idea. Regretted it last night while trying to get myself to sleep. Oh well, I learn something about myself every day. While trying to fall asleep last night, I started to think about my life and where it is leading. I realized that my life isn't that transient anymore. What I thought was going to be a 2 year stint in Hong Kong is turning out to be longer than expected. The only transient thing about my life is the holidays that I take. Flying between Hong Kong and Singapore and sometimes, making pit stops in different parts of Asia and occasionally, stops in States. Other than that, there's nothing really transient about my life. Why was I thinking about my transient life? Maybe it was a prompt that it's time to sink my roots. What I mean by that is to really attend a church and to start serving in that church. Yes, I attend a church in Hong Ko...

Tonight is my second last night in Singapore. Easter hols so far has been good. Well, good not in the sense that I've been having loads of fun but good as in I've been seeing God's hands working in this holiday. I came back on the 25th of March. On 24th of March, my brother in law's brother past on. He was in an accident. I was not able to be there as much as I would like for the family as I was involved in a school trip. However, I was able to attend a vigil service and to a certain extent be there for the family in whatever small ways that I can. After the school trip, on the 31st of March, we had to visit Babe's grandma in the hospital. She had a fall and is resting in the hospital. She's still there and hopefully she'll be fine soon. We left for Phuket on the 1st and were there till the 4th of April. It was a good trip. Good couple time. And thankfully, we were not affected by the protests and madness that's happening in Bangkok. At the back of our h...

Recently, I've been getting a couple of comments in Chinese. Well, since I can't read it, I normally delete it. But this time, I 'approved' the comment since Babe read it for me. For readers out there who want to comment, I'm sorry, for Chinese comments, I'd normally delete it away unless I'm able to read it or someone is able to read it for me. So in other words, please comment in English.