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Heal The Wound

Heal The Wound
Point Of Grace
Download the chords here.

I used to wish that I could rewrite history
I used to dream that each mistake could be erased
Then I could just pretend
I never knew me back then

I used to pray that You would take this shame away
Hide all the evidence of who I’ve been
But it’s the memory of
The place You brought me from
That keeps me on my knees
And even though I’m free

Chorus :
Heal the wound but leave the scar
A reminder of how merciful You are
I am broken, torn apart
Take the pieces of this heart
And heal the wound but leave the scar

I have not lived a life that boasts of anything
I don’t take pride in what I bring
But I’ll build an altar with
The rubble that You’ve found me in
And every stone will sing
Of what You can redeem

Repeat Chorus

Don’t let me forget
Everything You’ve done for me
Don’t let me forget
The beauty in the suffering

Repeat Chorus 2x

Leave the scar

This is a song sang by Joanne during service today. All of us made mistakes and we are ashamed of our past failures. Our wounds will heal but the scar will always be there. Initially, I was pondering.. why must our wounds to be healed when the scar is still there reminding us that “eh..God ar..i’ve made this mistake, I’ve failed in this area..but God.. why dont you also help me remove the scar too..“. But if you look at the other side, actually, this scar is there to remind us how God has healed us. It is through God’s mercy that we are forgiven. We can use this scar to share the truth to others who need mercy and healing in this area.

The truth will set us free, Amen!

God has healed our past and uses the scar to remind us of what He did for us on the cross. God is a forgiving God who loves us and dies for our sins on the cross, so that we are able to walk in a no-guilt life and walk our life with joy and happiness. No matter what we have done, God still loves you. Even though we have scars in us, God still uses us and always have his loving arms around us.

Romans 8:28 (The Message)
Meanwhile, the moment we get tired in the waiting, God’s Spirit is right alongside helping us along. If we don’t know how or what to pray, it doesn’t matter. He does our praying in and for us, making prayer out of our wordless sighs, our aching groans. He knows us far better than we know ourselves, knows our pregnant condition, and keeps us present before God. That’s why we can be so sure that every detail in our lives of love for God is worked into something good.

A few days ago, Sherlynn was asking me to participate in this competition. But I told her I’m afraid to stand in front of the public, afraid to face what i’ve done in the past. I wanted to hide myself like a tortoise. I’m a bird without a wings who wishes to fly but afraid that I’ll fall. My past experience has become a stumbling stone in my life. I tried to put this past away, but the nightmare keeps haunting me. Is it worth to let this mistake to bug me forever in my life? It takes a lot to really believe the truth and to walk in faith. I really want to get out of this kind of life and live like what I was in the past. I’m very glad to be in this house of God, where sisters and brothers care for each other. No condemnation and I’ve found assurance and security here.

Off track abit.. Just now I think I saw someone familiar at Far East..his voice also familiar.. Haha.. but I didnt approach him. :shy: and ya, want to thank my Loving Number 1- Shu Ning. I almost broke down just now on our way back home. Thanks for being there, girl.. Encouraging me and told me that everything will be okay. I’m not a saint who can please everyone. There’s surely one party bounds to get rejected. I knew I should do something but I couldnt.  

7 Eleven Hello Kitty Promotion

*SCREAM** Hello Kitty is here at 7-Eleven!!

 

$5 Purchase = 1 Stamp
Promotion from 7 Jan – 17 Mar 2009. Redemption till 24 Mar 2009. While stocks last.

$5 purchase excludes Hello Kitty redemption ($3.90 + 5 stamps). Cigarettes, statutory items, bill payments, top-up services, phone cards, lottery sales and fuel purchases at 7-Eleven@Shell.

Credits: http://www.7-eleven.com.sg/promotions_monthly#hellokitty

Wah..excited.. Everything is soo cute that I do not know which one to get (Haha..maybe get all 9.)! Think from today onwards, I should spend more at 7 Eleven.

[Web Design6] Instructorpotato @ blogspot.com

See the enlarged screenshot HERE.

Finally, I’m done with the blogskin for Alex. Haha.. promised him for sometime le but didnt manage to start it. So, from morning till now, I forced myself to squeeze out sometime to start plan for his blog design. A few days ago, I started to draw shapes and sizes of different potatoes. It will be the “mascot” for the blog. Like my simplyjas.com blog, I chose sheep as my mascot. So, his blog will be potato.

So, this is the sketch of the potatoes in my sketchbook.
 

 
I also asked my bro to help me draw his impression of potato. In the end, I decided to use his as the banner for the blog, and used photoshop to do my colouring.  

Then as usual, I created the blogskin and input all the colour scheme. This is a very simply design because I dont think guys like too much things on their blog? (from my past experience with my brother’s blogskins [2])

And I used two of my potato designs for the sidebar.

       

And just now, shu ning was jealous after seeing the design. She asked me to do for her too. Haha.. Ok lar.. =)
 

Chinese New Year 2009

Gong Xi Gong Xi! How’s your chinese new year celebration so far? I enjoyed myself catching up with my relatives and friends.

How’s your CNY celebration? For the first four days (including CNY eve), I was super busy helping out in spring cleaning, reunion dinner prep and visitation. During the CNY service last week, we learnt that:
1) I can express my love
2) I can take initiative
3) I can discipline wisely.

During this season, I practised (2) a lot. Took initiative to help out, approached my relatives and cousins for a chat. Normally, my cousins and I have lil things to talk. We have “age-gap” as we are 10+ years apart.

God first worked on my relationship with my cousin, Nicole. Last year, I worked for her and it was then we started to care for each other, talk to each other more. In the past, we only meet up together when there’s big events like CNY, bday party. Now, we even meet up to make pineapple tarts, shopping, update each other our lives. =)

Now, I’m also getting closer to my other cousins who are 10+ years older than me. =)

Thank you God for this wonderful time during this festive occasion!

CNY eve [25 Jan 09],
I woke up super early trying to do some spring cleaning. After doing the spring cleaning for a while, I need to rush a web design for my brother. I spent the whole day, from morning till evening doing it. It was frustrating when I’m trying to solve the problems faced while designing and my mum keeps nagging at me for not helping. Super pek cek. But luckily got Nicholas who helped me from the morning to the new year’s morning. We worked from morning to the next day’s 3am. Php codes are really irritating. Now, I think I’m hating them. Codes cant talk to you. They dont tell you what is the problem, how to solve. They just tell you there’s a problem and you need to solve them. Evening time, helped out with the prep for reunion dinner. And I’m the noisiest in the kitchen. Cause I’m concerned with the presentation of the food while my mum wanted everything to be fast. fast and fast. She kept buzzing me non-stop. In the end, we started our reunion dinner around 820pm with our grandpa.

CNY Day 1 [26 Jan 09],
Before going down to my da gu’s house, we went to our neighbour house to bai nian. Her whole family was wearing red and Whiskey too. We took our family photo outside the corridor and I took photos with the flowers.
 

Then, we headed down to my da gu’s house. On the way, took many photos with my mum and dad. You can check it out at my facebook. I tried a lot of times to get the nice shot of my mum but the photos didnt turn out nice. I only took 2 tries with my dad and got the perfect photo. When we reached, we started our lunch. After that, I was munching all the CNY goodies and the pineapple tarts my cousin, my mum and I made. Got compliments from my relatives that they were great. Of course lar.. it’s our third year making the pineapple tarts. Got a lot of catching up with my cousins. In the past, I found difficulty in finding a common topic to talk as they are +12 years old of my age. But strangely, we had things to chat. Think this is one of God’s work that make our relationships work out better. Two of my nephews are doing well. One ITE Multimedia Design and another SHATEC cuisine diploma. The age gap between my nephew and I is like 3 to 4 years old?

Giselle and Gabrielle were there too. I played with Gabrielle more than Giselle ‘cos the whole day she was sleeping. At the end of the day, we managed to take some pictures of Gabrielle and Giselle together. But apparently, we did not get a decent photo of Gabrielle with Giselle. Either one moves and one dont or the other moves and the one dont.

I told Gabrielle to do this action. This is called the “pretty pretty” pose. And she was wearing my star charm.

CNY Day 2 [27 Jan 09],
Afternoon, met Claris and went to Shir’s house to bai nian. When we reached there, Leong and Cai Hua were there. Spent sometime catching up. Then, Shir’s relatives said they wanna played mahjong. So, Shir’s mum sent Leong to represent her to play. Auntie was really very generous enough that she will pay for the losses. In the end, Leong lost $55. We spent the whole afternoon eating and talking. The guys shared to us their NS life and the jokes they had. Everyone’s like already grown-up. Guys become stronger and fitter!

Evening time, hurried my way down from Potong Pasir to Boon Lay to visit my maternal’s grandpa. I was super duper late. The rest reached there at 3 plus and I only reached there at 7pm. Everyone was like waiting for the arrival of the “queen”. As usual, chatted chatted and chatted. One of my cousins (Wei Wei korkor) told us that he got karaoke set at home and asked us if we want to go his house to sing. All my brothers went home and I went ahead to sing karaoke with my two cousins – Mei Yin jiejie and JianHong korkor. We sang from 1030pm to 12am. Super shiock. We going to his house again the day after Valentine’s day. Woohoo!! Karaoke again. After that, Jian Hong korkor sent me home and Mei Yin jiejie escorted me up to the flat. It’s bcos my house area got a lot of foreign workers and it’s super scary. My cousin going play badminton this sunday. Wanna go leh..

CNY Day 3 [28 Jan 09],
Have been sleeping late and waking up early recently. I’m super busy recently.. Received a call from my bro to send Edmund and Nicholas the files that I’ve developed. Actually, programming can be cool but only till you meet problems, you will not think the same. Packed my bag, 2 karaoke mics, my karaoke discs and went down to meet the rest of my caregroup member. On the way, met Shawn and Jun Yao at Raffles Place mrt. When we reached tpy, met carrie and alex at mac. Alex told me that he got present for me. So, he pased me this hello kitty plastic bag with present wrapped in hello kitty wrapper.

AND GUESS WHAT?? IT’S A HELLO KITTY WATCH!!!

*SCREAM* Hey, you can dare me if you want. Dare me to wear this watch and I will! Though this watch looks childish (and yes, it is a  childish watch), I will still wear it cause it’s from my ou xiang. and..this watch just stopped at 5:22PM and not working. Gotta get a new batt for this.

We had our CNY visitation from bentay’s house to mau’s to alex’s. We had food, games, karaoke, mahjong. Mau showed me her heels’ collection and they are soo cool. Should I adopt one of them at $10? (you should ask my wallet). When we reached alex’s house, I was both excited but not very happy. He wanna show me his Jay’s collection he has. After seeing what he got, IM TOTALLY JEALOUS! Take a look at my collections here. Then, alex gave me this:

Open it up and you will see this.

How to stop fainting when you see this right??

After seeing his collection, Im now finding a place for me to put my jay stuff together.. Dont think I’m withdrawing all my collection of hellokitties from my display rack just because of Jay. Jay and hellokitty both important to me.
 

Jassy’s Comic Corner

Note: I will not be blogging (in words) for the events happened this week.
See the comic strip for the story.

Ngee Ann Alumni House

Have you tried the food at Ngee Ann Alumni House? If no, it’s okay! I’ve taken photos of some of the food we had. Li Ping, Maurise, Ben Tay and his two friends and I met for lunch on monday.

Tori Karaage Ramen
It taste okay. I still prefer the one I had at Shin Nichi Japanese Restaurant.
Ratings: (out of 5 stars)

What a new year..

Someone copied my design

I was checking my blog and found a link to my blog. I clicked, and I was brought to this website.. and the design looked familiar. And when I looked again, this is exactly the blog design I’ve designed for my [Web Design3] An Immanuel Valentine’s.

This website, not only used my design, he/she deleted my credits. Obviously, the web master deliberately deleted my credits, and used the exact html code that I used for An Immanuel Valentine’s. They are 99.9% similar. And the blog is used for his/her e-shop blog. It’s a definite NoNo if you use other’s design(without permission) and relate it to any form of commercial purpose.

Let’s take a look only on the text..

This is from the http://animmanuelvalentines.blogspot.com/

“All you need is LOVE, LOVE is all you need”
And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. (1Cor 13:13)
Welcome to … …. …

An Immanuel Valentine’s
We Provide a wide variety of gifts for both lovers and friends. Click on to see what surprises we have installed just for you and your beloved ones on this special occasion.

We have flowers, bears, keychains and even something special for friends.

For flowers, you can either choose from our Unique bouquets of flowers and bears or Personalise your own bouquets for your loved ones. (Please indicate in the order form)

For www.Scentcious.com customers ONLY: $3 off the flowers + free delivery island-wide

All our flowers come with accessories flowers to match with any bouquets of your choice!
Wrapping done by external florist company, professionally wrapped and packaged, ensuring that the flowers you are receiving are all in tip-top condition.

All orders and place of collection will be confirmed via email upon payment.
All payments made are non-refundable.
Delivery charges applies to places not listed on this website. It will also depend on the type of order and place of delivery.

This Valentine’s Day, let’s also remember that we are loved.
“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)

And check this out from the copycat‘s website:

“If I could have 3 wishes, I wouldn’t wish for the stars, the moon, the riches and this life. But for 25 hours a day, 8 days a week, and 13 months a year to spend a longer time with you. ”

A Big Welcome to
A Romantic Valentine
We provide a variety of gifts for lovers on the upcoming coming Valentine’s Day. Checking out what we have to offer for you and your beloved ones on this special occasion is just a click away.
We have flowers, couple bears, dolls and lovely chocolate box.
We even offer to customize your own bouquet for flowers and bear upon request (please note it upon order).

For purchase over RM200, Free Delivery will be provided to areas around Petaling Jaya or KL.

All orders and place of collection will be confirmed via email upon payment.
All payments made are non-refundable.
Delivery charges applies depending on the order size and place of delivery.

Valentine’s Day is a day to honour your love for your dearest person as well as to remember that you’re always loved by someone in this world.
“Love is just a word till someone you meet gives it a meaning.”

Do you think by deleting my “credits” portion could allow you to escape from being caught? A simple search on the web and I would be able to know who is hot-linking my images and ripping my stuff.

I’m not going to post your url on my website as I appreciate you to apologize me and remove the blog template from your blogspot. If not, I do not know what will happen to you. If you are the owner of the blog, email me at l0ve.jassy@yahoo.com. I can keep this discreet if you apologised. If you want, I also provide web designing service. You can look for me if you want a personalised blogger template.

Happy 30th Birthday, JAY!

In few hours time will be his birthday. If he is standing in front of me (and provided that I wont faint then), I will encourage him to fasten his pace and find his true love. Love wont wait for him! I began to like him when I was in secondary two. Ben was my SJAB senior and I dont know when did we started to exchange letters to each other every morning before assembly. Then, I slowly find that I had a crush on him. Knowing that he likes Jay Chou, I went to search about Jay Chou. I was silly enough to force myself to listen to Jay’s songs so that Ben and I can have one more common topic. Though it was silly, I never regret what I’ve done. If not, I would not be Jay’s hardcore fan.

The first album that I bought was Jay’s third album 八度空間. 

I bought it at Chinatown and got a poster and a pouch. It was then I started to get to know 周杰倫. My favorite song in that album was 半島鐵盒. The track begins with the sound of a man entering a bookstore and asks for help finding the novel Iron Box of the Island. In the lyrics, the “Iron Box of the Island” is described as both a locked box and a book title, used metaphorically to represent the memories of a lost lover.

Though I only started to like Jay from the third album, I got the full collection of his albums. I managed to get the first and the second from my da ge. In our family, we practiced this idol-fan system. This means that if I like Jay Chou, no one in the family must be his fan. My Da Ge is a hardcore fan of Faye Wong but he got Jay’s album too. Seeing both my brothers had their own idol, I also want to be involved. So I asked my da ge to give up Jay and give it to me. He agreed and so, I koped the first two albums from him. I remember that my da ge and er ge were snatching among themselves over this singer 张宇生. My da ge made my er ge to sign an agreement indicating that 张宇生 will be my er ge’s. But my da ge was cunning enough to change to surname in that agreement from “张” to “陈”. HAHA..In the end, I think my er ge cried and my mum had to stop everything.

This is my full collection of Jay’s album, including his music videos albums.

I also labelled them so that I will be clear which one is first album etc.

Jay’s latest album Capricorn was a birthday gift from very sweet brothers – J.A.S (Justin, Alex and Shawn) It’s my first time not buying the album and a gift for me!

This Initial D soundtrack was given from my GP teacher from helping him set up his website. He always tease me about Jay Chou until I felt irritated.

Being his hardcore fan, I also cut out his articles from magazines and newspaper. I have 3 books of his cuttings.

My god sister decorated this for me and I pasted it on my cuttings collection. And she also gave me the Winnie the Pooh imitation wearing Jay’s t-shirt.

When Initial D was coming to Singapore, I had my fan club gathering and we took with the real AE86 car which was owned by one of the members. We decorated the Initial D banner and took it with us to the airport to welcome Jay when he was here for the gala premiere. The banner was featured in the Wan Bao. Besides that, we queued up at IMM to get his super big Initial D poster and the Initial D T-shirt and car decal.

I also got some gifts from my friend. Sherlynn gave me Jay’s potato chips which I kept for years and years without opening it. She also gave me a glass for birthday present with Jay printed on it. I gave my first visit to the Indoor Stadium to Jay during his Incomparable concert. I was in secondary four that time and bought the very expensive ticket. My cousin was there too. She bought the concert merchandise for me as a gift.

I participated in a lucky draw contest from I weekly and was shocked that I won Jay’s limited Curse of the Golden Flower(滿城盡帶黃金甲) notebook and the poster.

In 2008, I went to his concert again, but this time round with Jay2U fan club people. I bought the fan club t-shirt and we bombarded the stadium. OMY.SG, XIN.SG, and many reporters came to interview us. I preordered the concert merchandise (my friend got lobang to preorder) which saved myself from queueing the super long queue. We celebrated his birthday and sang birthday song for him as it was 18 January 2008.

I went to his movie Kung Fu Dunk(功夫灌籃) sneak preview and this is the ticket and the nice invitation card. We got a super big poster.

I got the mp5 player that he endorsed from Shang Hai.

Next month, I gonna meet up my Jay fan club(JCNet) friends for steamboat. Long time never see them already. Some married, some attached, some back to school, some working. Cant wait to see them!!

3rd time making Pineapple tarts

Woo.. I didnt realise that it’s my third time making pineapple tarts. Tuesday, my cousin asked me if I want to make pineapple tarts with her. I did it with her last year too. So yesterday, we went to scout for ingredients early in the morning and took the taxi down to her house. By the time we settled down with our pineapple tarts, it was 1130am. Initially, my cousin’s cousin is coming to help too but she could not make it. So, left with the two of us, slogging all day long. The steps for pineapple tarts is super tedious. We were ambitious to make 5 batches but I left halfway for caregroup.

Let us recall the steps for making pineapple tarts: (pictures shown here were taken in 2009, 2008, 2007)

Ingredients

Ingredients A:
250g butter (cut butter into small cubes)

Ingredients B: (sifted)
340g plain flour
20g custard powder
½tsp salt

Ingredients C:
20g egg yolks
¼ tsp vanilla oil

1kg pineapple filling ((divide into small part and form into balls)

3 egg yolks(beaten, for glazing)

Step 1, mix cubes of butter(250g), plain flour(340g), custard powder(20g) and salt(1/2 tsp) together in a mixing bowl.

Step 2, use finger tips and rub butter into flour until it resembles breadcrumbs. Then add egg yolks (20g) and vanilla oil(1/4 tsp) to the mixing bowl.

Step 3, mix the ingredients into a dough.

Step 4, leave aside to rest for 20 mins before shaping. While waiting, you can make use of the time to divide the pineapple filling(10g) into small parts and form into small balls.

Step 5, Form small ball(10g) with the dough.

Step 6, Fill a pineapple filling inside and seal up. 

Step 7, Glaze the beaten egg yolk on the surface of the pineapple tarts.

Step 8, Bake in a pre-heated oven at 180ºC for 20 mins till golden browm. .

Step 9, And ENJOY!

Unlike last year, this year’s pineapple tart making was exhaustive. It’s because there’s only 2 person doing and there’s a lot of work. Last year, I was able to take a little break and sing karaoke. But this year, I could only stare at the karaoke system and do nothing.

Baby Giselle was interested with the pineapple tarts. She keeps staring at us. Gabrielle wasnt at home, so I cant play with her. Last year when I was there to make muffins, I was entertained by Gabrielle.

I really thank God for this cousin. Not only she introduced me my previous job, she also always encouraged me by His word. My cousin and I are much closer now as compared to the past where we only see/contact each other when there’s big occasion like CNY.