My latest creation...

Company potluck yesterday and we had a lot of left over eggs in the frige so I've decided to try to make a frittata. First tasted one from Europane Bakery. Been wanting to try to make one but never got around to it. I planned on making fried rice for potluck but turned out couple of other co-workers have decided to make fry rice... so I guess I'll finally make a frittata! ;)

It looks prettier than the crab cake I made, but it didn't quite taste as good as the ones from Europane though... needs more seasonings I think. Regardless, at least it also tasted better than the crab cake too! ;)

Pot luck organizer also handed out awards to encourage us too... my friend Daniel has been winning twice in a row!!! Oh well, if God is willing and if I practice and improve, surely someday I'll win that certificate and the wooden spoon award! ;)

Oh, and wife's friend A-kiang is staying with us... perfect timing so that she can take care of the cats while we're visiting Taiwan! She had stayed with us nearly 3 years ago and was kinda suffering from depression... hopefully she's feeling better now...

Yesterday devotion was psalm 88. It's an amazingly depressing psalm... King David's Psalms could have horrible or hopeless beginnings, but they'll usually end with something uplifting..., but nope, not Psalm 88! What would be the purpose of Psalm 88?

Well, hopefully when the entire congregation back in the time of Israel sing that Psalm, they'll be able to sympathize with people who are suffering from depression better?

Anyway, hopefully we can give A-kiang some positive impacts while she's here with us...

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So much to do with so little time...

Sigh...

Work is getting a bit crazy lately. But it's still good to be able to make some extra money in such lousy economy I guess. Today I actually totally over slept... was really sleeping like a baby this morning until wife woke me up! ;) Guess it's because of the sudden cold weather recently... just doesn't feel warm enough to wake up yet. I do love sleep, but sometimes wish that we don't have to sleep. That way we can have ourselves some extra time!!!

What would I do with the extra time though? Probably playing video games! ;)

Anyway, may God help me manage my time wisely... and help me practice to be good enough to work thru whatever I need to get done efficiently... and of course, after I become just so amazingly good, may God also help me not to forget about Him. Don't want to be like King Asa, faithful initially and then prideful later on in his years...

I also need to learn to be more focus and not spread myself too thin on whatever it is that I do. Over the weekend, I think I was a bit over ambitious with cooking. Watching too much Korean cooking drama I guess... really need to just focus on doing one thing well at a time... over ambitious or pride, like the Bible said, will usually come before a fall.

The main 'fall' was the crab cake I was trying to make. I suppose it tasted okay, but it just looks weird. One of them actual broke in half... and they looks like some sort of Chinese food actually. ;)

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Ferrari Virtual Academy - Official Trailer (www.ferrarivirtualacademy.com)

Woohoo, on September 9th, I can attend the Ferrari virtual racing school!!!

Kinda looking forward to this... 5 top finalists can win a trip to Italy and visit Ferrari!

Oh my God! Do You think I can go? ;)

http://www.ferrarivirtualacademy.com/teaser/EN/index.jsp

Sharing the love...

Tonite, I'll be sharing and discussing about 'love' to some young Art Center students thanks to Howard! I'll be sharing pretty much all I know about love... all the stuffs that I wish somebody had told me about love when I was in their age...

I think the info I'll be providing is right..., as for my personal experiences, they're just my experiences, cannot really be right or wrong, at least so far I think my marriage is as good as it could be..., but of course there's always room for better than just 'good'...

Anyway, may God anoint me with sufficient amount of His wisdom during tonite's sharing. Here are the outline of my sharing session... Everything I know about romantic love condensed down to 6 pages! ;)

This Truth Triangle shown on the last page really doesn't have to be restricted to male and female kinda love only. It can be applicable to father/son, boss/employee... basically in any sort of relationships including Jesus to us! These ingredients are crucial in order to maintain a longterm loving relationship... Anyway, hope my info will be helpful to them. ;)


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3 years!!!

Today is our 3 year anniversary!!!

Wow! Hard to believe time flew by so quickly! And I haven't blogged for over a month!!!

I got a model 787 plane with our names on it as anniversary gift this year. Yeah, it took a while for 787 to take flight, but at least it eventually made it!



Also took a day off to chill and relax with wife at home... and we prepared our first ever prime rib dinner... trying to emulate Lawry's prime ribs! Everything tasted pretty good I suppose, but there are still room for improvement for sure. ;)



I've never noticed the awesome aroma of the roast meat at Lawry's, but that roast smelled wonderful while it was in the oven. It even drove our cat Hades nuts... he couldn't wait to get a taste of the meat...




I guess perhaps this is why God also like the aroma of the meaty sacrifices... we had our dinner at our home made 'tabernacle' in the backyard too... well, besides the nice smelling meat, I hope God finds our marriage pleasing as well! :)



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Our cats are pissed off for some reason...

Yeah, we thought our cats are getting used to the house, but then a new cat, Chap, moved it..., then all hell broke lose! Hades went on a hunger strike and started spraying all over... finally had to temporary remove Chap for a few weeks...

Now, we're letting Hades run around in the backyard more, we think that is helping him somehow... there are now less spraying inside the house (because he's doing it more outside)... we believe besides Chap, there probably were other cats living in the house before..., plus there is a stray cat who like to hang around our house... perhaps Hades is just going nuts because of all the different cat scent...

Chap is moving back in this weekend... we can only hope that things won't go crazy like before... it's just this time, we'll be more careful and make sure we separate Chap in a room until they're really used to each other's scent.

Poor wife had been wiping off cat piss pretty much on a daily basis..., we can only hope that situation continues to improve! As bad as the situation is, one can see the power of love at work in our house... wife is cleaning up the messes the cats were making just like God cleans up our messes!

Dad's latest sermon said it well:
「愛」是一種動力，驅策著自己不斷的努力向前，為了自己也為所愛的人，神造人原本看為美好的，但人的罪性卻讓世界走了樣，耶穌來替我們找到挽回的方法，那就是回到愛的源頭，掌握愛的本質，行出愛的真義，來回應愛我們的神。

Anyway, there's still a lot more work to be done around the house, but we are steadily making progress! May God continue to help us build our new home... I feel like I'm rebuilding our own little Eden... we're still a long ways off, but steady as we go...

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We're finally MOVED IN!

Yeah! After countless visits of Home Depot and countless hours spent sanding and painting and waiting for our handyman Peter to finish fixing up our house... we've finally moved in to our new home!

Interestingly the house is both bigger and smaller at the same time... how paradoxical... ;)

Yes, each of the rooms are smaller compared to our old apartment... whether it's the living room or the bedrooms, but of course overall, the house does have more area than the apartment.

Another thing that takes getting used too is the hardwood floors and the tile floors of the kitchen and bathrooms... we now only have carpeting in the bedrooms. Not sure if it's water retention due to fatigue or what..., but the colder and harder floor can be really hard for my feet!!! Should've carpeted the whole house!!! But the looks of the hardwood floor is not that bad now that it's finished...

Whatever, the house is still in a big mess after the weekend move. Probably will take us a while to organize everything... clean everything... and the finally finish painting everything! But nevertheless, thank God that we now have a place of our own and we love it!

I think our kitty cats are getting use to the new place too!

I'm so tired for the past couple months though... probably won't be able to rest and relax much because there are still so much to be done... cool thing about all this hard work is that I have lost quite a bit of weight and even with all the hard work and stress, we do look so very happy together, huh? ;)

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