Let's sing along....

I'm just amazed at all the musical magic Mr. Khalil has to share....
LIVE IN VANCOUVER... 2009?

Happy New Year!!

Lead Me to the Cross - Hillsong United (All of the Above)

Savior I come
Quiet my soul remember
Redemptions hill
Where Your blood was spilled
For my ransom
Everything I once held dear
I count it all as lost

Lead me to the cross
Where Your love poured out
Bring me to my knees
Lord I lay me down
Rid me of myself
I belong to You
Lead me, lead me to the cross

You were as I
Tempted and trialed
You are
Te word became flesh
Bore my sin and death
Now you're risen

To your heart
To your heart
Lead me to your heart
Lead me to your heart

For the past two months....

It's been a while since I've updated my blog, due to... 

1) Laziness

2) Too much pictures/stories to post

3) Facebook... that's where most of my updates have been so far. But I have to admit that I'm starting to feel a bit iffy about Facebook... for reasons I'll list in another post. 

And Blogspot isn't very stable either at the moment, apparently, since all the pictures I posted are just out of order; I wonder if it's because I've been ignoring it for so long... 

Well! Here they are - in random order - my life here in Vancouver for the past few months.

 

Og's birthday party... with TWO bday cakes. Lucky boy... well, you only get to turn 20 once. =)

Jo, don't look so down. We'll get you 3 for yours!

Walks in DEER LAKE is one of the most enjoyable things in Burnaby.

New girlfriends!! There's nothing like girl chats.... about... well, boys. and other girly things you can possibly think of.

New church, and new group of friends... One of them is from South Africa, and a chef at one of the restaurants in Grouse Mountain. This is FONDUE NIGHT at his place. yumyumyum.

Work..... is pleasant, and a bit boring at times. But look! we decorated our work station! We have the prettiest Christmas decorations in the entire office. Go Dental Department!

Daddy and Wei feeding Yue cake. A rare gesture of generosity.... =)

And... well, isn't this picture self-explanatory?

The ABUNDANT LOVE in the LEE FAMILY!

I wish I could go on but.... 

I need some beauty sleep! =)

one of the funniest videos I've seen recently...

THANKS TO OGGY! THE KUNG FU MASTER!

And piki, you will enjoy this!

How Deep Is Your Love...

Now I know YOU will like this song, dear Auntie ~ =D
この歌はあたしのエッコンシキで放送するよ〜！

Recently, I've realized...I love listening to oldies.

What does this mean?

Passion of Our God

We sang this for worship the other night at church, and I was singing along, the images I had was just our God in all His splendor and glory, without any association with, well, unholy or unclean things. But then when I youtubed this song, and saw the video, I realized that how just miraculously intertwined are these two things which are essentially the Good News itself: our sins and His Love = the Glory of it all.

And, I guess the best verse to sum it all up is this:

''For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.''

John 3:16

oh, and just in case some people can't deal with violent scenes... this video is very graphical.

The Glory of it All

by David Crowder Band

At the start
he was there, he was there
In the end,
he’ll be there, he’ll be there

And After all our hands have wrought
He forgives

Oh the Glory of it all is:
he came here
For the rescue of us all
that we may live
for the glory of it all
for the glory of it all

All is lost
find him there, find him there
After night
Dawn is there, Dawn is there

After all falls apart
he repairs he repairs

Oh the Glory of it all is:
he came here
for the rescue of us all
that we may live
for the glory of it all

oh he is here
for redemption from the fall
that we may live
for the glory of it all
oh the glory of it all
the glory of it all
oh the glory of it all

After night
comes the light
dawn is here
dawn is here
it’s a new day
it’s a new day
everything will change
things will never be the same
we will never be the same
we will never be the same
we will never be the same
we will never be the same

Oh, The glory of it all is
you came here
for the rescue of us all
that we may live
for the glory of it all

Oh you are here
with redemption for us all
that we may live
for the glory of it all
for the glory of it all
oh the glory of it all

My Japanese Visitor

This post is long overdue... But here I go anyway!

So, for those of you who know me, you probably also know PIKI. A dear friend, auntie (long story), foxy chicken (even LONGER story and for reasons I can't even remember), and finally, an irreplaceable member of the Three Musketeers Team (Mock.... Yeah! Ing.... Yeah!)

And this dear friend of mine came for a short visit. And this would be the perfect moment to pop that corny line...

'If only time could stop...'

(Piki様！一緒に書いた詩思い出すね！）

Thanks to her short visit, I got to go around BC, as a tourist myself, and also finding myself in love with this city just a tad bit more~ hehe.

And what did we do besides sight seeing? 

.......

How can we leave out CAKE from our busy schedule?

This is in GANACHE, again... (my regular spot, now!)

And ... meeting up with friends include... really, really old friends!

Neighbour Flanders  were part of our friends circle 8, 9 years ago?! And it was a joy meeting up together again, after such a long time. Talking about old times is one of my favourite things to do now. Nostalgia, what an obvious sign of aging.

This is us, at a lounge/bar place near GANACHE, with yummy 'tasting' menus and an atmosphere so relaxing and chic at the same time that we just took the longest time to finish 3 small plates of delicious food.

Here is one of the 3 delicacies we ordered that day...

BREAD and CHEESE.

Oh, it really does taste better than it sounds.... Can you tell from the picture?

And UBC garden!

The weather was hands-down amazing that day - actually, for 3 days Piki was here, the rain was just somehow chased away... by....

晴れ女？

And how could we not squeeze in BUBBLE TEA on our last night?

Remember the Pudding Milk Tea at 宝島？

Until next time...... when we go to PARIS!

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