Have you ever imagined?

Have you ever imagined living a life without vision?
Have you ever imagined living a life without someone to hold on to?
Have you ever imagined living a life aimlessly?
Have you ever imagined living a life without knowing what you are after?
Have you ever imagined living a life without someone who will love no matter who you are and what you've done in your past?

Maybe you are living life in that way at the moment.
Maybe you are lost, aimless, empty, depressed, sad, angry, hurt, feel abandoned by your love ones.
But you have to know that life doesnot need to be like that.
We can live a fulfilling life, filled with joy, not half empty or half full but overflowing...
We can live that life in Jesus......

Have you ever imagined living a life without Jesus?

I have....and the thought of not having Him in my life scares me.
After knowing Christ and having Him in my life, I realize that life without Him is no life at all.
Life without Him will be empty, scary, painful and aimless.
The thought of not having Him in my life scares me.....I cant imagine what I will be like without Him....I'll be lost, sad, empty.
But in Him, I have hope, dreams, vision. It doesnt mean that life will be cruisy, without problems and down times. But it does mean that when I'm down I can hold on to His hands to lift me up, when I'm sad I can still find my joy in Him, when I'm hurt I can find my comfort in Him, when I'm scared I find my peace in Him, when I'm lost I'll find my way in Him. That's what life in Christ is, filled with joy, hope, strength and love.

Have you ever imagined living your life with Christ in you?
I can tell you that that's the best thing you can do to yourself.
Trust me. I know how it feels like to live life without Him, and I can definitely say that to have Jesus in me is the best thing that's ever happened in my life.

God the mountain mover

Halllllooooo.....gosh im back to share something incredible incredible incredible...ahhahaha...that's lots of incredibles....So what's so increadible? God's incredible for he's healed my dad.
So here we go, last year my dad went for heart check, he's got a bit of high blood pressure and high cholesterol level. So he went to penang at first for a test to check if there's any blocked arteries in his heart. The test at that time showed quite significant blockages of at least one of the artery, couldnt really remember which one, but i read the report and it did write that at least one of the artery was blocked quite severely. So last month my dad decided to go for another test. He went to singapore this time and he did this test called the thallium scan. So what this test does is to look at the circulation of the heart before and after exercise, and also to look at how well the heart is pumping blood. So I've been really praying that God will heal my dad of his heart condition. Being a medical student, I cant help but to know that heart condition is not a very nice thing to have ( for obvious reasons...).

So I've been praying and claiming for my dad's health, believing in God by faith that he's gonna heal my dad. I actually pray specifically that the test result will come out to be totally normal, that there will be no blockages of the heart arteries, and all the blockages will be opened and cleared. ANDDDDDD...yesterday my dad's secretary sent me a message to ask me about the test result, she sent me a short summary of what the report said. ANDDDD....PRAISE GOD, my dad's heart is functioning normally, the test showed no reduced heart circulation before and after exercise, there's no evidence of reduced perfusion of the heart,every part of the heart is beating strong with good output.....ALL IN ALL THE TEST DID COME OUT TO BE PERFECTLY NORMALLLLL.....HOW GOOD IS GODDDD!!!!!!...HE again came through for me and my family. Im just sooo in awe when i read my secretary's message and to be honest I still couldn't believe what I read...ahhahahaa..it's just awesome.....now...... isnt God incredible or what. He answers prayers and there's no limit to what He can do. Remember, God has unlimited power but He's only limited by what we can believe in. If we believe for small things, then He can only do small things. But if we dare to believe God for big things, He surely can do big things. There's no limit to His power and this testimony is the evidence of it. God is indeed the mountain mover. He can move our mountains of troubles, problems, no matter how big they seem.

I hope this will encourage you if you're believing in God for a miracle in your life. Remember, there's no limit to what God can do. God's only limited by what we believe in. If your circumstances seem big, know that God is bigger.Don't put God in a box ( we cant even fit ourself in a box whatmore God...ahahha...). Don't put your hope in men, not even yourself. Proverbs 3:5 says" Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him and He shall direct your paths."

woww...what a weekend

woah what a weekend for me...
Went for dinner with the girls to celebrate our dearest friend, Tricia's coming wedding this December. Congratulations Tricia. Im sure you'll be such a lovely and beautiful bride as you already are such a beautiful person......Again, Congratsss!!!!...Am really happy for you and Im sure you and jon will be such a strong couple that will definitely be a blessing to all those around you as both of you already have been.... That's on a really happy note.



But on a sad note, another dear friend of mine, Casey, has just left for good today. And we went for a group dinner as a farewell party for him. I'm really gonna miss him a lot, he's just been such a great friend and of course a great co-leader of our coolest lifegroup. He's just been a blessing. Casey if you're reading, Hope things go well with you back home ya. Know that you're dearly missed by all of us here in melbourne. Don't forget to come back here and visit us. And of course, I'll see you in April when i visit malaysia on my way back to Indonesia. No matter what you do, I'm sure the hands of the Lord are with and upon your life. You'll succeed in everything that you do and I believe that you will fulfill the dreams that God's put upon your heart. You've been such a tremendous tremendous blessing to all of us here in Melbourne and I'm sure you'll be a great blessing wherever you go too. Know that you'll always have a friend in me. No matter what you do, DONT YOU DARE FORGET ME k? I know you wont...ahhahahhahhaha.......you wont dare i suppose...muahahahhaha...im jokingggggggg.....Casey's a lovely person so he'll definitely remember all of us. Keep us updated with things back home k?

Well..that's my weekend and these are the photos. I made opera cake, recipe taken from my fave blog http://pennylanekitchen.blogsome.com
Highly recommended everyone, try and make it, you'll love it, you dont even need to decorate much coz it's already such a wonderful and beautiful cake...
chao chaooooo....

Unconditional love

What does unconditional love mean?
According to Oxford dictionary, Unconditional= not subject to any condition.
So unconditional love to me means a love that's not subjected to any condition or sitution. Love that's ever so strong and true despite of all the weaknesses of the other party, love that persists through the good and the bad, love that doesn't change despite circumstances that ever so often change in our life, love that's always there even when we dont deserve it, love that's ALREADY there when we havent realized it. To me, that's unconditional love.

But how often do we find this kind of unconditional love. Honestly, not very often I find. Too often in our society and even as a child, we were brought up in a culture which says " if you're required to do something that doesnot benefit you, dont do it.".Too often we try to work so hard to try to obtain other's love and approval. Don't you agree with me?
We try to be nice, smile at people, do nice things to others so that we can obtain their love. Honestly, in our society nowadays do you think many people will love us if we are harsh, impolite and rude? Well.....i guess all of us know the answer. Too often people love us not of who we are but of what we do or have done. Where then can we find unconditional love? Im not saying that we shouldn't improve to be a better person. Neither am I saying that we should be rude and harsh to others. No no no no...Im a kinda person that am completely into being a nice person to others. But that's not the point, my point is, all of us are human and we make mistakes yea? We do wrong things, we have our ups and downs, good and bad day, happy and sad day. No one escapes making mistakes in life. And when we do, do we have people around us that'll say : "I love you no matter what mistakes you've done in your life. It's not too late to change." Well of course some of us do, but sometimes people are too quick to judge that we aren't given the opportunity to change.

I think unconditional love can only be found in God. I was strucked in awe again by God's love the other day. He made me realize again how much He loves me despite of all my weaknesses, all my shortcomings, all the mistakes that I've done in my life and all those times that I have either intentionally or unintentionally hurt Him. His love is always there. He is the ONE that'll continue to love me with a love so strong, a love so true despite of all my weaknesses. Even at times when I've walked away from Him, at times when I've neglected His presence in my life, He is always there waiting for me to run back to Him. And when I take that one step back to Him, guess what? He'll take that extra 100 steps to me. All He wants is just that one step back to Him. Nothing can separate us from the love of God the bible says, not angels or demons, not heaven or earth. His love is always there for us. he loves us even before we love Him. But the only way that we can get disconnected from God's love is when we choose to walk away from Him. His love is STILL there even when we walk away, but it's us that choose not to experience it. But we we turn back, we'll always find Him, Our Father, there waiting for us.

A love so strong, a love so true.
This love I find when I found You.

Bday cupcake project!!!

Hi there everyone....
gosh after so long...I'm finally back again....
Today's my lovely housemate's bday...happy birthday ADELINE...this post is for you...if you're reading...ehehhehe......For the rest who are reading this post, Ade is really such a sweet girl.....She's an excellent housemate, TV mate, chatting mate and of course just a great friend to me. Doesn't she look just beautifulllllll??....again Happy birthday girl, really look forward for the dinner this evening with you, I'm sure we'll have heapsssss of fun.....

Soooo.....roughly one month ago I decided to make a bday cupcake for her.....Karen( my other housemate) and I then decided to make this bday cake and it turned out well.....
I was inspired by another girl who made bday cake for one of my friend out of cupcakes and since then i decided that I want to make it for Adeline's bday too...coz i just thought that It's something different and it actually looks really cuteee....=).....We decorated with white chocolate which we added in pink colouring, milk chocolate, flowers made out of marshmallow fondant and I made my own chocolate balls. The cupcakes that we used were coffee cupcakes and Devil's foodcake cupcake...It turned out really nice...All thanks to Karen too who decorated the decorating chocolate really nicely....check out all the decos we put ...ehehhee....it was really a fun project...wouldn't mind making it again for another friend's bday if the opportunity comes up.....

ok.....guess that's all from me for now..very sleepy and I'm really going to bed soon...I'll write more about our food adventure tomorrow....chaoooo....

first attempt at cake deco...

Hi there...as promised...hahahaha..here I am writing a bit about my weekend and my baking experience through the weekend...
I made pandan chiffon cake on Saturday.....that was my second attempt and I turned out wayyyy better than my first one......my first chiffon cake just look and tasted weird.....it's tooooo green coz I put too much pandan essence and it's not quite that "chiffon-y" if you get what I mean. But this attempt was fantastic....well we learn from our mistakes dont we....I used the wrong flour and the temperature was too high....

So this is the recipe:
PANDAN CHIFFON CAKE

Ingredients 1:
-200 gr egg white ( around 5 large eggs)
- 150 gr castor sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon cream of tar tar
- 1/2 teaspoon salt

Ingredients 2:
- 150 gr self rising flour OR cake flour
-5 egg yolks
- 75ml vegetable oil
- 100 ml coconut cream
- 1 teaspoon pandan essence ( please dont put too much coz it'll taste and look like play dough...ahhahahah.....that's what happened to my first one)

Method:
- Heat up oven at 170 degrees celcius
- Ingredient 1, mix everything and beat till stiff peaks form ( around 5 minutes with hand held mixer)
- Ingredient 2, put the flour in a bowl, make a well in the centre and put the egg yolks in, mix in one direction, add in oil and coconut cream slowly until you get a paste. Add in pandan essence. Mix well.
- Pour 1/3 of ingredient 1 into ingredient 2, mix well, add in the mixture back to ingredient 1, mix well.
- Pour into a chiffon pan or bundt pan WITHOUT greasing it with oil or flour.
- Put in oven for 30 minutes and turn down the temperature for 150 degrees celcius and bake for another 15 minutes or until it turns brown or an inserted cake tester/tooth pick comes out clean.
- Take cake out from oven and turn it over. Wait till the cake cools down then use a knife to scrape the side of the cake to help you get the cake out of the pan.
- While baking, NEVER OPEN OVEN DOOR

And i also baked a japanese cheesecake, you can get the recipe at http://pennylanekitchen.blogsome.com . Go to the cheesecake section and look for japanese cheesecake. Forgive the decoration. It was my first attempt using a decorating bag so obviously I need more practice....ahhahhaha...

And today's church service was great, pastor Doery preached a great message on believing that God is a God that's able to turn the impossible possible. He is the GOd of abundance and able to give us the miracles that we need or have been praying for. That really lifts up my spirit and I really felt very encouraged.....Sooo..keep believing everyone, God is able....

Well..that's all from me for now........I attached some of the pics we took today.....enjoyyy.....

Weekend's here againnn....

Wooohhooo...weekend's here..but my weekend wont exactly be the type that I want it to be....why you wonder? coz I have to study...guess for the next one month I'm just gonna lock myself at home and study study study study......My final exam's coming up and I kinda regret haven't been studying as much as I should have prior to this...ahhahah...but ou well..what can I say.....It's my last semester, I'm finishing soon, why not enjoy the last bit of my student life coz working life will be absolutely different.....

For those who are having exams...my lovely friends.....work hard, work smart...dont be too stressed out. Just do your best, I'm sure you'll be fine......My motto is : "Just do my best and God will do the rest."

If you're feeling stressed out, just stop and rest.......no point forcing yourself when you know that nothing can go in anymore, take a short nap, have a cuppa coffee, watch tv, pray, just do whatever it is that can make you relax....and then start studying again....

I'm gonna make japanese cheesecake during the weekend...will post the picture and recipe up for you guys. I've tried the recipe a couple of times and my sister absolutely loves it...hahahaha..and me too.....

For those who havent tried jap cheesecake you gotta make this cake, it's soft, spongy, melts in your mouth and not as rich as normal cheesecake so you can have another piece if you want to. You can also add in green tea powder ( which you can get in asian grocery I suppose )to make green tea cheesecake. I've even tried brewing couple of bags of herbal tea and put it in, and it tasted absolutely fantastic.....!!!

Sooooo.......don't miss out my post for this recipe k? check out my next post...
chao chaooo.....