誰曾應許

誰曾應許，一生不撇下我？每段窄路，誰陪我去走過？
誰還領我，於青草恬靜處躺臥，豐足恩惠比海沙更多？
誰曾應許，天天看顧著我，晝夜眷佑，連頭髮也數過？
誰還以愛驅走心裡懼怕，怯懦那懼路途捲動著漩渦？
因你是我主我避難所，我盾牌和詩歌，你是我的高臺我隨時幫助，來吧，用信心讚頌和高歌，你永在我心窩，唯你有永生江河，除你以外不倚靠別個，我究竟算甚麼，神你竟這般顧念我。

我真的好鍾意這首詩歌，當唱着這首詩歌的時候，心裏不自覺地由衷的去感謝神，感謝他的看顧。第一次聽這首詩歌是當老公和我在 honeymoon trip中. 老公很好, 去 honeymoon 前預備了mp3。當時在巴士上望出窗外看週遭的事物，呆呆地坐著 走一段很長很遠的路，聽到這首詩歌時有着很深的感動。我看看身邊的老公，想起他在許多的事情上為我作了很多，心裏很是感激他。 但畢竟人是有限的， 就算身邊最親的人也不可能像神一，連我的頭髮也數過吧？ 因為神這般顧念我，我更要去珍惜生命中曾經擁有過的，多多數算主恩典，感謝神，讚美神！

因為在巴士上的路很長，聽完 N次的我，大概已懂得背這首歌的歌詞了！每次當我想到這首詩歌，都有一份用言語也說不出的感動在心中運行著，願神繼續提醒我多多倚靠他，事奉他。

Cooking

Those who know me and Kenley long enough know that he is a good cook but I know nothing about cooking. So for the last couple months I started learning cooking, provided that I have the time and mood (this is very important, haha!).

It is a really painful learning process especially when the finished product turns out to be a mess (which is always the case). Not only that I have to clean up the kitchen, but also I have to eat the so-called food. Many of the times I just don't understand how come I can only make the food from "raw" to "cooked", while Kenley can cook the food so delicious with flavors.

I have dinner by myself tonight so I decide to try something new. I stir fry the bak-choy and steam a plate of fishpaste with tofu. The bak-choy is alright, at least it is not as salty as my first time. The fishpaste with tofu looks good, but the texture is so weird. Sigh! Lucky that Kenley has to pack lunch tomorrow, so half of the dish goes into his lunch box. By the time he discovered how awful the taste is, he has no choice already, am I smart? haha...

Well, practice makes perfect. I will keep trying, don't worry :)

Steam Pork Buns

Kenley made a dream the other day. In his dream I make breakfast for him, no, not those ham, egg, and toast breakfast, but one of his favourite food - Siu Lung Bao. It is a dream apparently.

I've never thought of making breakfast for my loved one, not even when I was at 17 dreaming fantacy. Now after I become Mrs. Ng, Kenley's breakfast is cereal, cereal and cereal. Not that I don't love him anymore, but I just love sleeping so much. So I educate him over and over that cereal is a healthy breakfast and he gladly eat the same thing over and over again without any complaints.

Then one day he made a dream of having Siu Lung Bao as breakfast. Psychologist says this is unconcious desire. May be I can do something, I tell myself. Afterall, it is not something so big that I can't handle. So I grab some frozen Siu Lung Bao, wake up really early today, and cook steam pork buns for him! In fact I slept at 1:30am last night and I'm so sleepy, but I know he is going to appreciate a lot when he sees a plate of hot, juicy Siu Lung Bao waiting for him!

Sometimes it just requires small effort to make other people's dreams come true. Why not be Aladin today? It's going to be A Whole New World.

Performance

My student invites me to a concert where she will be part of the joint-school choir and perform on the stage of Chan Centre at UBC. It is indeed my honor to be invited to this concert. As a teacher, I've always long to build a relationship with my students, a relationship that is more than just teacher and student, but a relationship of trust and friendship. It is always not easy and it takes time and patience to listen and understand them. Thank God that my student are willing to share with me their daily lives, like the gossip at school, the fight with mom etc. I feel honored to grow with them and just be there listening to them when they want to share their problems with a big sister.

Here is the family background of the student who invites me to her concert:
Her mom runs a store on her own and works 6 days a week, 10 hours a day.
Her dad is a construction contractor and works 7 days a week, ??? hours a day.
Her parents seldom joined any school activities because of the above schedule.

It is her first time to perform at Chan Centre and she invites me, isn't that touched? I'm more than happy to reschdule my other lessons to make myself available that night. You never know how significant and supportive your attendance is to a child when she performs on the stage. I think if my other student has similar performance in the future, I would probably do the same thing too. I feel honored to be part of the audience because I treasure this relationship so much, yes I really do.

Honeymoon

Kenley and I just come back from our honeymoon. We don't have honey nor see the moon in Europe, but we did have a very great trip.

We joined a tour for the first 10 days - a very typical Chinese tour. You wake up early, eat, sleep on the bus for 3 hours, get off the bus at the attraction and take pics for 30 mins, get onto the bus again for another 3 hours ride, eat again, and sleep. We call this "The Life of A Pig". So with this group we went to Netherland, Belgium, Switzerland, Germany, Italy, Vatican, Monaco, and France. It was rush, but we managed to capture all the main tourist attractions.

The highlight of our honeymoon is the following 2 weeks, when only 2 of us can really enjoy ourselves in Paris and London. We stayed in Paris for 5 days and London for 7 days. It was not rush, and we see what we want and eat what we want.

Enough said, check out the link below for our pictures.

http://good-times.webshots.com/album/554582096HzzmSU

Life after married

Many friends ask me how is the new life after married. Life is pretty much the same to both of us, nothing excited happen, well at least no fights yet. The routine goes on: I teach piano, he works hard for the gas company. The biggest difference probably is the place we both called home now. We have moved in for a month already and the reorganization process is slowly working in progress. Believe me, I still can't get a stamp or a paperclip in a minute. If you really want us describe our new life, we can only say thankful, thankful, and thankful. Thanks to the Lord for this little hut. It is a place for us to rest after each day's hard work, it is also a place where we can share our lives, not only between two of us, but among others. I am thankful that since we moved into this new place, there were times where I prayed with the despaired, offered listening ears to the discouraged, and shared laughters with the joyful. Thanks Lord, for this little hut and your blessings.

La Pelay

I was dreaming to start a piano studio. My friend suggests calling it La Pelay Studio.

It indeed sounds more fancy and sophisticated than Chan Lee Mo Chi Memorial School. I thought it is French, but the creator's translation is "The Play". It sounds more pro, but no one knows what it means actually.

This is how marketing affects our mindset. A product named Botanical Anti-aging Purifying Essence sells 10 times more than something simply called Body Lotion, though the ingredients are identical. If there is a product called Mineral Anti-aging Vitamin-Enriched Purifying Facial Serum with Lavender Essence packaged in a fancy 25ml glass jar, I beg it will sell 100 times more. Ads condemn you having osteoporosis. You keep taking calcium pills because they made you believed that you at 25 years of age have already carried a skeleton of an 85 years old man. Years over years, we put unknown chemicals onto our face and intake unknown drugs. We thought we treat our body well, are we?

My bf never uses skincare products but he is younger than Alan Tam. He looks like 18 every year. My grandma is over 80 but she never take supplements. She is still alive.

Afterall, La Pelay is just Chan Lee Mo Chi Memorial School.