Brutal Baby

This is Chloe's new hobby. She is fascinated over the ponytail holder on ladies' heads. Unfortunately, A was Chloe's target because Chloe kept pulling her ponytail holder off her head! See. A was tortured by Chloe, "brutally":)

A: No Chloe.... OUCH!!!

There are 4 things that would catch Chloe's attention:
1. Food
2. Laptop/computer
3. Ponytail holder
4. Toys (not those belong to Chloe)

If you have one of those 4 things, Chloe will surely become your good friend:)

Celebrate Birthday

Last Sunday was my friend, Ying's birthday. I was so touched by the way her friends celebrated her birthday. She is from Thailand and she is studying in Portland State University now. Her ex-university friends in Thailand sent her a video to wish her happy birthday. The video is so special, see this!

The title of the video is "Where is Ying?". At the beginning of the video, it shows a guy was knocking on the door of room 616. The room 616 was Ying's room. That guy was looking for Ying, but he couldn't find Ying. Instead, it was Ying's ex-roomate who was sleeping on the bed. Then both of them went down to the dining place to find Ying. They thought that the girl whose face was covered by the newspapers was Ying. Obviously, they were wrong. So, where was Ying? Then, 3 of them stood up one by one behind the bar and there, they pointed at the video cam and shouted,"Ying!" THEY EVEN BROUGHT UP A BIRTHDAY CAKE!!! They sang her birthday song. In the end, Ying's ex-roomate pointed to a board with the "HAPPY BIRTHDAY YING" message.

I have mixed feelings when I watch this video. I was so touched by their friendship. She must be a special person to her friends, until they miss her so much. At the meantime, her friends were pathetic because they had to help Ying to blow the candles and eat the cake without Ying:)

Try this on your friends who are far away, he/she must be very touched!

The 4 Spiritual Laws

I have learnt this from Sister YS and I would like to share with you. Those are the 4 spiritual laws which govern our relationship with God.

1.God LOVES you and offers a wonderful PLAN for your life
Because God loves us, He created us to have personal relationship with Him. God wants us to have abundant and eternal life.

John 3:16 "God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life"
John 10:10 "I came that they might have life, and might have it abundantly"

2. Man is SINFUL and SEPARATED from God.
Man is continually trying to reach God and abundant life. However, God is perfect and holy but man is sinful. Sin separates man from God. So, no matter how many good work a man does, he still cannot reach God and eventually leads to eternal death. No one can experience eternal life through his own efforts.

Romans 3:23 "All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God"

Romans 6:23 "The wages of sin is death"

3. Jesus Christ is the ONLY way to reach God and eternal life
Jesus Christ is God's ONLY provision for man's sin. God has bridged the gap which separates us from Him by sending His Son, Jesus Christ, to die on the cross for our sins on our behalf. He was sinless, and yet He had to pay the price for us, even before we were born. He had overcome death and was raised on the 3rd day.

John 14:6 "Jesus said to him, 'I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father, but through Me'"
Romans 5:8 "God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us"

4. We must individually ACCEPT Jesus Christ as our personal Savior and Lord to experience God's love and plan for us
All we need to do is to receive Jesus Christ as our Savior and Lord by faith (This is called saving faith). We need to acknowledge Jesus Christ is the Son of God that He died on the cross for our sins. We must repent to God for all the sins we have committed.

Revelation 3:20 [Christ speaking] "Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if any one hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him"
John 1:12 "As many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name"

How to accept Jesus Christ? Very simple, just make a sinner's prayer by faith:
"Dear Lord Jesus, I admit that I am a sinner and I need your forgiveness. I believe that you died for my sins, I want to turn from my sins, I now invite you to come into my heart and be my personal savior and Lord of my life. Thank you for coming into my life. In Jesus name Amen"

Now, let's evaluate (see the diagram below), where are you at now?

Check this out too! Knowing God.

Your Brother Is My Husband

This is a very funny one, from Joel Osteen's Joke~~~

On one Sunday morning church service, it was going just fine. All of the sudden a lightning bolted. When the smoke cleared, the satan himself was standing behind the podium, people panicked and ran out of the building as fast as they could. Satan stood there with a glee, but suddenly his mood changed when he noticed a woman sitting in the front row just as calm as it can be. He said,"Lady, do you know who I am?" She said,"I should do." He said,"Aren't you afraid of me?" She said,"No, I'm not." He said,"Why not?" She said,"Why should I be? For 30 years, I've been married to your brother."

Easter Sunday

(continued from the previous blog post)

We were so blessed to have sister YS preaching on Easter Sunday. She brought a new breath to our church. I like her omelette illustration. let say we need 4 eggs to make an omelette. One of the egg is already bad and is beaten into the mixture. So, no matter how many good eggs we add into the mixture, do you think the omelette can be fixed? No. Likewise, it applies to the sin that we have committed. We are sinful, the good things that we do cannot overwrite our sin. But Jesus provides a way to cleanse us from our sins. All we need to do is to accept Him into our hearts.

*Expressive~~~ sister YS*

After lunch, we were looking forward to an excited outing ~~~ TULIPS FARM! Just couldn't wait to take beautiful pictures. However, *SIGH* the weather was not really good. Cloudy and drizzling. The worst thing, it was windy. I don't mind cold weather, but I hate wind, because once it blows, it gets all the moisture out of me and I just couldn't open my eyes. Anyway, be positive, we still could make the best out of it, no matter raining or what. There you go the pictures of tulips - one of the highlights of SPRING!

*Windy*

Tell u a secret, Chloe broke the stems of those tulips later

Purple tulips, nice!

Daddy and Mommy:)

Sister YS and us

We didn't make it to the end, because we were chased away by the rain. Then, we stopped by at Woodburn instead. Since we had only one hour, so I chose to shop at my favorite shop - GUESS outlet. Guess what? I bought a pair of jeans with a very good deal - 34USD org price with 15USD off and 20% discount = 16USD!

DINNER TIME again! We had decided to go to Wong's King. Many of you know about Wong's King, but do you know that it's famous for its "Salty Spicy Pork Chop"? You must try that if you never had that before.

The top left picture is Salty Spicy Pork Chop!

Tell you what, I put on 2lbs weight after all these food. haha, there wasted all my effort in workout. OK, finally, I'm done! Thanks for staying patiently with me until this last line:) That's all about my last weekend!

MIA

I have been Missing In Action for the past few days, I miss this blog very much. Wanna know what was happening?

FRIDAY
It was started with a wonderful dinner with G and WL in SIAM restaurant on last Friday. We ordered Siam fried rice(highly recommended!), barbecue chicken, curry and cashew nut chicken. Good reward! The Siam fried rice was not in the picture below because everyone couldn't wait to eat the food, hehe!

After the dinner, we went to D & A's house. We spent 3 nights there. I felt it was like a camping, hmm ... a 5-star-camp is more appropriate, because their house is far more better than a camp site. Let me explain why were we in D & A's house. A powerful sister, YS from Hope Singapore came to visit Hope Portland and she was kind enough to offer teachings to us while having her holidays in US. On Friday night, she shared her experience in street evangelism, then we had role-playing. haha ... I was paired up with her, arrgghh ... I was so nervous and I had forgotten how to share gospel. So rusty ... I really need to brush up my skills. However, it was a good experience though. Under pressure ... what do you think? Forget to mention that we were so blessed with the cheese cake baked by sister YS. It was far better than Cheese Cake Factory! Cheesy but yet not "jelak"(not very filling). But, midnight cheese cake, hehe ... sounds crazy.

SATURDAY

On Saturday, sister YS went through Hope Vision and Philosophy (V&P) with us in the morning. It was a refresher lesson for us, as we had already gone through it in Penang. Then, we had our lunch at a Mongolian Grill restaurant. Basically we took whatever ingredients we like, e.g. noodle, meat, veggie ... then the cook will fried them into a dish. I think it was so-so, probably because the soy sauce and oyster sauce were diluted.

Who was the inventor? hehe ... hf. Looks good huh?

Sister P and myself ... while waiting

After lunch, we went to Party City to get some decoration stuff for Easter Sunday. At the mean time, Sister YS put some garlands on Chloe's head. She was so excited over them.

Hawaiian Garland ~~~ colorful

Pinkish baby ~~~ Chloe is so girlie

Then, we went to church to achieve 2 missions: decoration and worship practice. After that, we went to Karma Cafe in 82nd Ave to get our favorite bubble tea. Tell you what, the mango bubble tea is very good, with tapioca and jelly.

cozy ~~~ Internet time while waiting

It was dinner time then. We packed dinner from Tian Hong. You cannot miss the "Fried Squid" from Tian Hong, too bad no picture was taken. I promise I will definitely show you the picture in my future blog post. It was so nice to continue on with V&P lessons while eating the dinner:)

I feel very sleepy now. *YAWN* I will continue my story on Easter Sunday in my next blog post. Gotta sleep now ... (to be continued ...)

You Be Jesus

Happy Monday! Joke from Joel Osteen~~~

A mother was cooking pancake for her two young sons. Ryan was 5 and Kelvin was 3. There began the argue of who should get the first pancake. She saw this as an opportunity to teach them a lesson. She said, "Boys, boys, if Jesus were here, he would say, let my brother have the first pancake." Ryan turned to the younger brother and said, "OK, Kelvin, you be Jesus!"

PSU Caregroup

Praise God! The PSU caregroup was finally established! There were 10++ of us in this week's caregroup. Most of them are PSU students.

The CG began with interesting introduction of ourselves. Besides our names, we were to share our favorite movie stars. The flow began from Western movie stars e.g. Brad Pitt, Jim Carey, Jennifer Lopez to Korean movie stars e.g. Rain - the only one that I can remember, feel myself too old for these:) Our of expectation, someone mentioned "Jacky Chan" too!

It was followed by a game called "sop, sao, aha". Each one of us had to pick one of three actions and pass it to the next person. It was very funny to see many of us confused with "sop" and "sao", plus the words were especially hard for US guys.

We had an excited praise N worship session. Praise God! Not only they sang, but they clapped their hands too. Hf and I were sharing our testimony later. Feel kind of nervous to share my testimony in front of so many foreign students. Anyway, it was a good experience. There were short bible teaching too, with topic "Our Life Purpose" - from the book "The Purpose Driven Life". Each one of us were to share one goal. Interesting answers varied across all the people. We laughed out loud when someone said, "I want to make people that I love happy!" Wow!~~~

The CG ended up with a light supper, hehe ... food and fellowship! We spent quite a long time chatting with each other, until someone shouted, "Hey, it's time to go now!", then only we realized, it was already 10:30pm!!! Anyway, it was wonderful!

Everybody, show me the best! Cheese~~~~

ladies + a mom + a pregnant woman + a baby girl

INTRUDERS

HELP! INTRUDERS in my house! They are so IRRITATING .. gerrrr!!!

Yesterday was quite warm, so we left our door open. Oh no, I saw 5 of them hovering around in the house! Hf, fast and furious, hunted 3 of them down with his SHIRT (the nearest weapon that he could grab, haha!) Then, he killed another 2 in the toilet. Oh man ... there were more than 5 of them!!!

This morning, I saw another 2 in the bathroom. I quickly grabbed a cloth and killed them all, what an achievement! When I was loading the dishes into dish washer, this suicidal one went inside the dish washer. What else? I closed the lid and activated the washer. Sure die!

Who are they? I think you already got it by now:) If you are kind enough, please lend me your "badminton racket", I still have one more to go.

Prison Break Finale (Season 2)

Finally, I have reached the last episode of Prison Break season 2! However, I'm sad to hear that season 3 is coming up. Arrgghh .... have to WAIT again. If you were in my shoes, you would understand what I'm talking about. Every episode was very excited from the very first in season 1 until this finale in season 2, you just can't resist the temptation of keep watching. I remember PF told me that someone watched 8 EPISODES (season 1) in a day, I couldn't believe that. After I watched it, I knew why - The first climax of this series cools down in episode 8:) Prison Break is not like the typical US movie series, it's more like Hong Kong movie series, the story line continues on from one to another.

For those who don't know about Prison Break, season 1 talked about this smart Structural Engineer, Michael Scofield (Wentworth Miller) installs himself in a prison in order to help his brother, Lincoln Burrows (Dominic Purcell) breaking out from the prison. Lincoln is sent to death row due to a political conspiracy. The process of breaking out from prison is very impressive, including extraordinary smart, perfect and detailed planning from Michael Scofield. (I think the editor must be very smart too.) In the last episode of season 1, both brothers successfully escape from the prison, together with 6 other criminals. The story continues on in season 2, where they are on the run because they are the top wanted criminals of the country. A new FBI agent, Alexander Mahone (William Fichtner) comes into play in season 2. He is equally intelligent as Michael Scofield, you will be overwhelmed by his ability to track down all the run aways. Even though the conspiracy is revealed in the finale of season 2, but new plot is coming up, which will be continued in season 3. Michael ends up in another "prison" called SONA, so you know what to be expected in season 3.

I believe everyone who follows PB will like Michael Scofield, due to his extraordinary intellectual and creative power. On top of that, this guy is pretty good looking too! Dr. Sarah Tancredi (Sarah Wayne Callies) is Michael's lover, and I feel that her existence in the series sometimes is overshadowed by Michael. I like Lincoln Burrows too, for his characters - decisive, daring, fast to react and willing to sacrifice for his love ones. Agent Mahone is my favorite too due to his intelligence. He is sharp in reading people, and he always gets it right! However, he is pathetic because he is threatened to work for the Company to get rid of both brothers, in order to protect his wife and son. I hate Paul Kellerman (Paul Adeistein) in season 1, he is a well trained FBI agent who works for the president, he wants the lives of both brothers too, but being betrayed by the Company, he stands out as a witness and reveals the conspiracy. But, I don't like the fact that he is killed in the end.

Theodore 'T-Bag' Bagwell (Robert Knepper) is labelled as the creepiest character in PB. He is smart, cunning and sneaky in this movie. John Abruzzi (Peter Stormare) shouldn't have died so early. I wish the editor could let John Abruzzi stay alive and settle T-Bag:) Both of them are equally cruel, T-Bag slashes Abruzzi's throat but fails to make him die. And later Abruzzi chopped off T-bag's hand with an axe. So bloody! However, I respect T-Bag, because this guys is so tough, considering he gets his hand sewn on by a vet without anesthesia! Another annoying character, Captain Brad Bellick (Wade Williams) plays as a greedy, rude, dishonest and money-minded Fox River Officer. This guy appears from time to time to disrupt the flow of the story. I really wish to kick him out of the series:)

Besides the romantic love story of Michael and Sarah, I'm so touched to see Fernando Sucre (Amaury Nolasco) ride his cousin's classic motorcycle, a 1952 Ural all the way to Las Vegas trying to stop his pregnant girl friend, Maricuz marrying another guy, Hector. But he fails to meet her. Fortunately, his girl friend still loves him very much, she left Hector at the chapel. A few episodes later, she finally meets up with Sucre and runs away together with him. They thought that they can live happily ever after in Mexico, guess what? Bellick has her in a hiding place with only enough food to last for 3 weeks. (that's why I hate this guy so much!) Sucre is threatened to lead Bellick to the 5 millions for an exchange. In the end, his girl friend Maricuz still remains missing. *SIEN*

I'm definitely looking forward to season 3, this is the best movie series that I have ever watched so far! Enjoy the PB Video Clip below!

Your Wife

It was an embarrassing experience. I chatted with a friend, I asked about how his wife and his son were doing. He said they were doing good, then he added, "By the way, she is not my wife yet." OOooppss .... I should have mentioned her name instead of addressing her as "your wife".

I met an Indian lady who works in Hillsboro. I asked Chloe to call her "auntie", guess what? She told me that Chloe could call her by name. It was awkward for me as an Asian. Our culture taught our kids to respect the elders by calling them "uncle" or "auntie", however it's an opposite in US, where Americans prefer to be called directly by their names. That Indian lady told me that try not to use "sir" too!

There are quite a number of DON'Ts that I have learnt, one of them is do not simply ask people if they are married or have any kids. Because you do not know what you might bump into. There was this lady, I knew she had a husband. 3 years later, I met her again and I asked her, "How's your husband doing?" And, she told me that she was divorced. I was speechless.

We have to be careful with our words, in order not to offend other people.

Result Oriented

I almost forget to publish a joke on Monday. Here u go ... from Joel Osteen.

A minister was standing in line at the public gates. And in front of him was a guy dressed in T-shirt, blue jeans and sunglasses. Peter came up and asked, "OK, who are you?" "I'm Joe Collin, taxi cab driver, New York city" Peter checked his list and he handed him a silk robe and a golden staff and said, "Welcome to heaven!" The minister stepped up next and he said, "I'm Reverend Joseph Snow, I'm the pastor of the St. Mary Cathedral." Peter checked his list and he handed him a cotton robe and a wooden staff. He said, "Hey, wait a minute. The taxi cab driver got a silk robe and golden staff, how could this be?" Peter said, "Here we work by result. When you preached, people slept; when he drove, people prayed!"

Chloe Chatting On MSN

While we were sleeping together with Chloe, the phone rang at 11 something yesterday night. It was from hf's parents. They asked if Chloe had slept. That time Chloe was about to sleep. In our expectation, they asked if could chat with Chloe on MSN for "a while"(haha ... there will never be a while:)). However, that little Chloe was more than happy to entertain her grandparents!

Count My Blessings

A few surprises happened this week. I feel so blessed!

(a) First of all, hf brought back a container of red bean soup on Monday, it was from a sweet sister. I was thinking about cooking red bean soup, I've never thought that someone would cook and give it to me:)

(b) I received a Korean Songs CD. It was from another sister. I think she was caring and sensitive. I just mentioned once that I like Korean and Japanese songs, especially those series soundtracks, but she remembered that!

(c) Another sister paid a visit to me on Thursday and stayed overnight at my place. I enjoyed the time we spent talking to each other. And, she taught me Thai language too! Before she left, she passed me some snacks, it was my favourite chocolate chips cookies - Chips Ahoy!