too fast too furious...

Yea...praise the LOrd, I passed my California driving test! 5 mistakes in total with most of it on my speed (too fast & need to slow down). what the? who fast? Me??? My Perth friends who knows me will find it really weird...i think a granny will walk faster than i drive. Anyway, i passed...nothing to complain.

God is so good...apparently there's a short-circuit in the computer system at DMV (Department of Motor Vehicle); if i were 10 to 20min late i will be denied of taking the test today. Hallejulah!

Another step into the 'promised land'...by His grace alone.

Time-out @ Balboa Park

What a beautiful day...blue sky and perfect weather @ San Diego Balboa Park - the nation's largest urban cultural park. It is home to 15 major museums, renowned performing arts venues, beautiful gardens and the San Diego Zoo (supposedly to be the best zoo in the world?).

Excellent day to exercise my photography skill but alas the battery was low, thus only manage to take just a few...

Our Journey (Part I)

We have been @ San Diego for close to 5 weeks and the settling in was rather tough initially; not sure if we are to unpack our luggages and all the boxes from Australia, living off the luggages everyday, no proper bed to sleep, etc...but really consider it pure joy that we survive (grace from God).

We still missing Perth (we call it our 'Egypt') - the security of employment, the comfort from friends, the joy of serving in God's ministry and having the whole house to ourself whereby Ian could 'air-dry' himself...*grin*

5 more days before we head back to Singapore (AGAIN) to get the US visa on our passport...and I can see my family again & eat the yummy unhealthy hawker food plus all the Chinese New Year cookies *i can so see me running on treadmill once i come back to San Diego loh*

Call to persever & discipline...

We had a date with Caleb (Ian's brother) and his good friend, Eric to Valley View Casino. Gambling? Of course not! We are there for the BUFFET!!!!

I was running on the treadmill for almost 30 minutes (mostly walking of course) plus 20+ minutes on a ski machine just to 'prepare' my body for this sumptuous meal.

It takes us almost 90min to drive up there; caught in the traffic jam, travel on windy road (almost make me puke)...but when you see the food (i.e. choc fountain, extensive range of cakes & pies, ice-cream, snow crab legs, mexican food, sushi, steak, etc...) is worth it, plus being my first visit to the casino they offer me a complimentary buffet so i eat for free. Good deal *grin*.

After the dinner, i know i need to get back to gym tomorrow and run for another hour. How to keep slim in this place? I really need self-discipline & perseverance...

My Inaugural Blog...

All thanks to my dear friend - huifU...i'm persuaded to try 'blogging'. Journaling my thoughts is much easier than typing it down which requires me to write with the right grammar, right sentence structuring, right spelling (oh, i forgot there's spelling checker of course), right punctuation, etc... Anyway, i will give a try and see how long i can last.

I titled my blog "The Beloved" which according to Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines beloved as 'a person with whom one is in love'. I love the show 'Everybody loves Raymond' but that's not the reason i gave myself this title but rather I know I am loved (a great revelation that changes my walk with God).

I know I am the beloved of my dear husband (Ian), my mum & dad and most importantly my Abba Father...who love me no matter what i did, who i am, whether i'm skinny or fat, whether i'm pretty or ugly, whether i'm rich or poor, healthy or sick, etc.

The Father's love for His children is so great that He gives us the freedom to reject his love or love Him in return; sometime our choice of actions just pierce His heart.

Many of us (including myself) live our lives never fully sure that they are loved as they are. We search high and low for love & acceptance from wrong relationship, from career, from drugs, etc...not realising that we are already loved by our Father (God).

We all can be so deaf to the voice that call us 'His beloved' and continue to 'strive' to be the perfect one so that we will be loved. All the 'I need to be smart...i need to be cool...i need to be do this or that' or ' i wsh to be like xxx' are foolish discourse. WE ARE LOVED!

God touches me with HIS love (i never experienced in my previous 'relationship' (if there's any) with buddha). Since then i open my heart to be embraced by Him and my life has never been the same...

to finish off >>> "one word frees us and that word gotta to be LOVE and GOD is love..."