Because I will be taking another two weeks off in September for home (to get married twice yes, to the same man), I don't have much holidays left and so sadly I had to give Hillsong Conference a miss this year. Well not completely, because I bought the evening tickets so I could go after work on Thursday and Friday.
I heard Louie Giglo preach for the first time and Chris Tomlin led the closing songs on Thursday night. Louie Giglo preached about Jesus stopping funerals when he walked on earth and in today's context, the church is not dead but very much alive. Considering the O2 arena being packed out, yes indeed the church is alive! And in our lives too, whatever that is dying, Jesus is in the business of restoration and may He restore to you what you have lost. Amen :)
Brian Houston
And wow Chris Tomlin. He is cool man. I had chosen one of his songs to sing at my wedding a few weeks ago: Amazing Grace (My Chains are Gone) and also 10,000 Reasons by Matt Redman. To sing 10,000 Reasons again weeks later in the O2 with thousands of people brought back a smile to my face. And I was encouraged that God is faithful no matter how much we might stray away from Him.
Closing worship with Hillsong United
A packed O2 Arena
The latest Hillsong album called Glorious Ruins is out now. A few songs were recorded here at the Dominion Theatre where months ago I was there at the recording singing my lungs out (hehe). Am privileged to be part of it, athough it was a teeny weeny bit.
One of the songs on the album called Man of Sorrows is definitely one of my favourites and on my playlist now.
Oh that rugged cross my salvation
Where Your love poured out over me
Now my soul cries out Hallelujah
Praise and honour unto Thee
http://www.thediamondjubilee.org/ Today is the end of the Jubilee celebrations and how better to end it off than to have an afternoon tea party in the company of friends, while watching the celebrations on our TV. It has been quite an emotional afternoon, in the good sense of course. I don't think I've ever seen Queen Elizabeth on TV (and heard the national anthem God Save the Queen) more than these 3 days combined, but this Jubilee weekend has made me grew to love and admire this lady. She is 86 and reminds me so much of my own granny, and her strength is amazing. Imagine being sworn in as queen at the age of 26. (I mean, what was I doing when I was 26?) On Sunday when she and Prince Philip went onboard the Spirit of Chartwell boat to watch the River Pageant, it was cold and windy but they stood throughout the 3 hours event. It was said she was offered some hot tea and a seat, which she both said no to. I love my grandma but I have to say I don't think
I had an idea to blog about Isabelle's sleep behaviour the other day. Before having Isabelle, I had not the slightest idea how big the sleep topic is for a baby, and now a toddler. I merely assumed that babies will sleep, no matter what, right? Because they are tired right? No, of course not. Isabelle showed me how much she could and can fight sleep even when she is tired. As a new mum, I did not know how to read her sleepy signs, and more often than not, she would be overtired by the time I catch her signs and by then she is cranky and crying. Oh the tears. From Isabelle and mummy. The early months Sleep has always been an issue for me when Isabelle was born. She cried non stop every evening for hours on end, and we had no idea what to do with her. Colic was the word most used on such babies, and everyone comforted us that this difficult phase would be over within 3 months. I still remembered uttering "3 months?!" under my breath. Not 3 weeks?
Two Saturdays ago we were invited to the Kim's for a themed dinner, specifically a Murder Mystery dinner party. What is that, you might ask. It was our first time attending such a dinner too, and so how it works is: a group of people attend a dinner party. Each is assigned a role and will be given a script to read that night. The aim of the party is to identify a murderer in the midst of us by the end of the night. The hosts would work off a dinner game set (they got it off Amazon) and it comes with proper invites, setting/ scene, table name cards, scripts and even a suggested menu. Clearly RX is an Agatha Christie fan. Two weeks beforehand, we received our invites in the postbox, telling us what roles we each have been assigned and the suggested attire (and props if necessary). Interesting yes? The dinner was to start at 7pm and we were to have 8 people that night. It's all very mysterious… Our invitation cards assigned K the role of Monsieur Bertrand, a f
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