20191210_Beautiful Night Scene of Singapore @MBS - Bumboat Ride! Bicentennial Christmas at St Andrews Cathedral

10th Dec 2019 : View from our Bum Boat A MBS (laser Lights at 8PM)

Panaroma View at Suntec City 

 Panorama view at MBFC (Financial Centre)

 A glimpse at the Art Museum from the waters

Bird's eye view from the mouth of the Spore River

After the simple dinner at Merchant Court Hotel from 6:15-7:20pm, the coach took us to Clark Quay for the BumBoat Ride.

Surprising the crowd was pretty good for a Tue evening! Long queque but fast moving as there were about 12 boats which could take 30-40 per boat. 

Amazing view from under the bridges.
By about 8pm, we arrived at MBS just in time to catch the laser lights!

We hardly get to see MBFC from the waters...so here are the great vantage views.

The bum boat ride was about 40 min to and fro.

Thereafter, we hopped on to the coach again to our next destination!

The newly renovated Raffles Hotel which was re-opened only in Aug 2019.

Some of the tourists went to the LongBar for their Singapore Sling. But for the rest of us - we had a mini-tour of the place.

A stay in this place would cost more than S$1k! WoW.  This reminded me of our stay at Mahaphajit Hotel in Surabaya! Built by the same architect of Raffles Hotel - and we paid only S$150 thereabout! (Same design concept)

By 10pm, the tour was over!

MANY THANKS TO SY & C and Little Anna for the excellent invite of this night tour cum dinner!

We played tourists in our own little home of Singapore.

And guess what?

The RAIN started pouring when we were at Raffles Hotel!

So thankful to the Lord Jesus for holding back this downpour while we were on the bum boat at the Singapore River!

Not only did we enjoy a cool breezy nite ,we manage to take clear excellent night shots along the way!

GOD IS GOOD , ALL THE TIME!

Little Red Dot is celebrating bicentennial in 2019.  Sir Stamford Raffles set foot on shore in 1819.  So 200 hundred years has passed us by.

On 13/12/19, St Andrew's cathedral celebrated bicentennial Christmas too with some major VIP and other interfaith religious leaders being invited (800 over guests) And our PM leeder was invited as the Guest Of Honour (GOH)

Well located in the heart of the city centre of red dot, St Andrew Cathedral was also the site of many historic events.  Today it is also an icon tourist attraction.

I remember back in 2015, this same PM  was invited as 'GOH" to our Day of Jubilee Prayer at the Sports Stadium. Red Dot celebrated her 50th independence. And that new stadium boast of housing 55,000 people.

The above Handel Hallejujah Chorus - reminded me of who the actual real Guest of Honour 'GOH'should always be.

I am a 'Goh'. 吴 So in such important events like this, to me, this "GOH" shall always be YWHW and no other man.  In my heart, this Goh muay will always have Him not as a guest, but permanent resident King in whom I give all honour and praise to. 

My family surname 吴 (ko-Tian "WU")- oh yeah? with my mouth 'KO'  , may I remember to honour the King of the Heaven or the God of the Heaven "TIAN"   ! He is the One who deserves the Hallelujah!

20191209-长 Fish Growth in a Year! Fishy Reflection or 2019 ending (Chang2 and Zhang3) 长

11 mths passed me by and my fish had grown (长) leaps and bounds and in length (长)!

JAN - DEC 2019!

Above taken in Jan 2019

Above taken in Dec 2019

The new 11 fish had grown 长（Zhang3) to as long as the old 7!

They are now at least 9 inches long 长Chang2)!

When the 11 new fish came, they were less than 5inch long.

I forgot to measure the length of the 7 old fish back then.

But 11 months later, these new 11 grew to as long as the old ones - now 9 inch thereabouts.

I wondered - why did the NEW young ones grow faster? What happened to oldies like Koila, Koile, Koili, Red Head and Lihao, Lily, Litu?

In fact new Zebra, Fed & Red Dot seemed to have overtaken the old ones in size!

Reflections:

Perhaps the old are just too accustomed to the pond environment.  Too contented and so stunted growth.

Whereas the newbies were happily flexing their scales from their little sheltered pond to a bigger new pond and hence it grew in length. FDD too. (Fei Dui Dui)

Interestingly, I just realised that the word“长”in Chinese can mean "long" as well as "grow"

Perhaps this applies to our own little walk with the Lord Jesus.

As we approach the ending of 2019 in another 21 days or 3 weeks' time, we want to spend some time reflecting on how this year had passed us by?

• Have we "grown" to be more like Jesus -coming to such unity in our faith and knowledge of Jesus? Eph 4:13
• Have our walk with Him been closer and sweeter in the grace & knowledge of our saviour Jesus Christ? 2 Pet 3:18
• Have we turned our past disappointments into divine appointments ? Col 4:12 - becoming more matured that we fulfil God's will for us.
• Or have we become 'obese' aka FDD like some of the old fish and become stagnant in our spiritual journey? Stunted growth - Hardened or jaded life? Nightmares striken by the real and not reel horror live action of the prolonged HK drama of mobs and rioting ?

GROWTH - is a process.  It is not an overnight thing. 

Like those new fish - it took them about 11 mths to catch up in length with the older 7 fish.

We invested in lots of fish food - some cheaper ones and others - pretty expensive kinds where they 'guaranteed' the vibrancy of the koi colours!

So just like these fish, in order to grow we need that spiritual food that comes from none other than the WORD of God.

The B.I.B.L.E which many known it as Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth -is the key that guarantees the compass for our life in this journey.

In the world where so many troubles can be seen around of late, we are reminded to stay focus on YHWH - He is the WORD.

The word“长” -also means Forever, Always, Constantly. 

Hence, in order for us to GROW, we must always remember YHWH - He is the One who is Always Forever changes NOT and the Constant who Constantly changes NOT....长..长..长 What a paradox ?! We need to change to grow into more like Him who changes not.

Beautiful song about our Unchanging God.

20191126-Learning Decoupage! Paper unto canvas Bag!

Interesting Decoupage Workshop at COOS on 26/11/19

And I made this for my little grand niece Sarah's 9th BD!

Materials Needed : White Glue / Vanish/ Brushes/ Sponges/ cardboards or paper sheets...hairdryer!

and of course...any paper servettes....

.and tote bags or other materials..for the printing on...

PROCESS:-

1. Brush some white glue to the tote bag. Dry it
2. Select the servette paper.  Tear the artwork
3. Peel away the 2 layers leaving only the 3rd layer
4. Place the artwork on the bag.
5. Use a sponge/water and dapped the artpiece. Dry.
6. Vanish Layer #1 on artpiece - dry.
7. Vanish layer #2 again and dry

Presto! Here comes the bag with the customised artwork!

20191104-LTAW! 50KM??? Walkie Walk..

Our Team Name : Only Twenty? 

(why 20? It means 20km ...not 50km target:)

But...walk and walk...some gave up ...and in the end some ended at 40km mark...short of a 10!...Ha ha ha)

and so the sequel continued on 24/11/19...

Men In SYN!⧫

Hort Park has great variety of flowers!

For detailed diary...GOTO this blog?


https://mytravelbooket.blogspot.com/2019/11/lets-take-walk-2019.html

20191012-13: Malacca Revisited ! Encore Melaka!

Our Melaka 2D1N trip! Pines Hotel stay S$50 per head with Encore Show!

The Lourves look alike?

20191027 - OH PULitzer vIDEO OF A LIGHTning on Deepavali!

John's video of the Lightning from balcony on 27/10/19 around 7:50pm! What a Pulitzer capture!

Today we celebrated Deepavali or Diwali aka Festival of Lights.

And it rained cats and dogs around 7pm on our site!

Out came the thunders roaring and lightning flashes.

And we bade goodbye to our usual sunday tennis matches!

As curious as cats, we took our mobiles out for a catch

of the strikes of lightnings we hoped to snatch!

Aha! Aha! The favour of our Creator God seemed to be on our side

And so this Pulitzer video I CONFERRED ON JOHN was our joy & pride!

What an AWESOME lightning video and stunning funny in-music tune!

Hope you enjoy it as much as I do!

Festival of Lights?

In Him we Delight!

James and John the sons of Thunder?

In Jesus alone we will awe in wonder!

20191026 Matt 13 : Parable of the Sower Came alive!

Rem the passion fruit planted at the fence on 25/5/19?

Was not growing until re-potted with different soil in Oct 2019!

Lesson Learnt:-

The soil at the fence was bad.  Stony, rocky and hard.  So the passion fruit plant hardly grew for the past 5 mths since May 19!

But barely 2 weeks after i re-potted them and moved it to the backyard, they had grown taller!

Reminded me of the parable of the sower! Matt 13.

Depending on the ground in which we sow, we reap accordingly!

1. Wayside sowing - needless to say....eaten up straightaway
2. Stony ground - Not much earth, no root , not deep so scorched by sun and withered away
3. Thorns around - choked the good and hence cannot grow
4. Good soil -like the organic compost which I bought to put the passion fruit plants in? It will grow!

Yes, like my french beans and bitter gourd vines - now I am into my second harvest of the 16 french beans (in 2 weeks) and another bitter gourd!  Getting fruitful!

Reflection

I do understand the parable of the sower.  But nothing beats being a sower and watching the seeds grow.

It is no wonder why Jesus is often pointed out as a Gardener in the bible.

Had also observed this cucumber seedling sprouts on 8/10/19 thereabout.

Their heading towards the sun....is yet another lesson in life.

No matter what comes at us, we are reminded to look at the Son.  

He is the Gardener who sows, prunes and cause us to be fruitful.

He is the Vine, we are merely the branches.

Without Him, we are really nothing.