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My love, my pillar of strength in both happy and trying times. Love you so much K. And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him. 1 John 4:16 ~~~~~~~ 1/in God we Trust Overwhelmed but I won’t break Through the battle I will say Your grace will be enough Your grace will be enough Under fire but we won’t fall We will never be alone You’ll always be enough You’ll always be enough Now in God we trust In His Name we hope I know God will not be shaken God is here with us He’s already won I know God will not be shaken We will follow where You go We will trust through the unknown I know You go before I know You go before Lead my heart now in Your ways For we’re carrying Your Name Your promise never fails Your promise never fails You finish what You begun Forever strong in Your love Your Name is sure And You will fight for us Our hope forever secure In You alone In God We Trust, OPE...

It's been some time since I shared my cooking stories.  K and I share the same load in cooking (thank God for a hubby that cooks - hurray to that) and we have been somewhat sticking to the usual dishes that we cook and enjoy.  Once in a while we would discuss which are our top few dishes from each other.  So far, I enjoy his Hainanese Chicken rice, a self-invented sweet and spicy chicken dish and beef steak.  He loves my mee goreng, salmon teriyaki and claypot chicken rice.  (You can see we consume quite a bit of chicken in the Ong household.) When we are a bit tired of cooking after work, we sometimes would drive to a good Chinese restaurant 15min away and order their beef hor fun for dinner.  It has not occurred to me that I could try cooking it until I saw JX sending us a pic of his home cooked beef hor fun, followed by Pris posting a pic of her homemade hor fun that I think those were signs.  I need to try making them too! We went to the Asian ...

Life has been pretty mundane these past few weeks in general.  I guess it's the colder season and it takes more energy to drag ourselves out of bed and come weekends we prefer to stay home and just chill.  It has been so for the past 2 weekends which was low key and nice.  But that also means I have more time to pause and think and reflect about life.  And the golden question is, did I make a wrong choice to leave my previous workplace? I am still adjusting to my new workplace - new company, new colleagues, new systems, even the new work location in the city.  As much as I was sad to move to Canary Wharf years ago, now that commute is longer I do think working in the city is overrated for me.  I do prefer working in CW just because the travel is less stressful.  I arranged to meet up with my ex manager Ed and another team mate Rich for drinks last Wednesday and I realised how much I missed them short of sounding emotional and sentimental.  They ...

This is the second year in a row that we decided on a day to drive out to the country to "look at autumn leaves".  I know, saying it to my colleagues made me sound quite "doh!" but it was actually really nice to go for a walk, to breathe in some country fresh air, and take in the burst of colours amongst God's wonderful creation.  To be honest we got the idea from our friends, the Kims.. and so on Saturday, that's what we did.  K and I went out to Burnham Beeches together with JX and his cousin Rachel.  Really love and appreciate the chance for us to do things like that living here in the UK. I did the research on where to go.  Initially we suggested driving into Kent and I even identified two places, but then I read about Burnham Beeches in Buckinghamshire and it was about 1.5h drive from our home which we all thought was do-able within a day. We stopped by a service station and had MacDonald's for breakfast.  The drive was smooth, thank God and ...