Handmade

Isn’t this familiar?

Went for a school carnival and saw this beautiful bag done by some old folks to raise funds. Ann and I fell in love with it and bought it. These days, handmade things are really rare. These are really hardy. It is hard work too. Imagine  every little flower is hand sewn individually. Then sewn together to form a bag. Very impressed.

Cold sweat…

This morning was the usual routine. Woke up at 5.30am, wash up, quiet time with God (never start the day without this). Prepared breakfast, got the kids ready for school. Saw Ann to school, marketing, came back, get ready for exercise…you now those mundane things you do every morning. Then, news came on the radio. The familiar voice of Brian Richmond. “Two bombs went off near the finishing line of the Boston Marathon…three dead and at least a hundred injured.” Not so mundane after all.

Not again. Remember 9/11. The bombing of the Twin Towers in NY. I was in US at that time but left exactly one month before 9/11. When I heard that news, I broke into cold sweat. Today, the same feeling again. Watching Live coverage on the laptop is like watching 9/11 all over again. The only comfort is that this is not as serious but still, lives are lost.

Live your life well, there are times when you really wish that it will just be another day of routines.

This is so de ja vu

The church is under redevelopment. We have to use a hotel for our services for the next 30 over months. Today is the first day of our service outside church. The first thing I told the spouse was that “this is so de ja vu".

Shanghai – Marriott Hong Qiao


Singapore – The Furama Riverfront Hotel

I pray that the people will continue to remain faithful.

One final shot

The church gathered for one final service before the building goes.

 
 
 
So apt

 
Want to guess what this is? It is a piece of the pew which we have been sitting on for the past few decades

 
This is how the new church will look like

 
I hope they have kept this
 
 
One final shot

The Art of the Brick

We also managed to take time out to visit this great exhibition…work done by a lawyer turned artist, Nathan Sawaya. It depicted many of us. Caught between a need and a want. A job is a need, a passion is a want.  Not many will choose passion although that’s what many of us want. A job allows us to have a decent life, a passion… it may not. Excellent exhibition. One of the best I have ever come across.




  
  
  

 
 
 


 

 
 
This piece made use of 80,020 lego pieces. Amazing.


They must get creative too



In art, lies the soul of man. That’s why, Literature cannot and should not die in the journey of learning.

That’s why I do what I do…

Robert F. Kennedy said, “Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events. It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.”

关注孩子，不要关住孩子

It basically meant, watch over your kid but not caged your kid. In spite of the holiday homework given, we made sure the kids have time for play.