A Poco Appreciation to everything that is in your life

Life is wonderful! When you start knowing the truth - 'In all things God works for the good of those who love him' and you really know Jesus Christ our Lord. And know that ' the Word is powerful, because it is spoken by the powerful God.'

To walk with Him, and He will be with you wherever you go, whatever you do will be prosperous. He is faithful, He always keep his promises. But... with condition, just one condition, OBEDIENCE, this is the key to open the treasure box.

Live simple, life is just a progression, many good things still happening, think good, then it will draw good thing, the bible said in Philippians 4:6-7 "Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus". Waiting for 'One Fine Day', to share 'How God does wonderful things in my life'.

Being a single mom, I have the privilege to complain of injustice, living with unforgiven, hatred, sadness, loneliness, thank God, I didn't choose to live in this way! Some how, I choose to acknowledge that God wants me to learn, lessons about trust, love, thankful and many more. At times when I feel lonely, I feel unfair and unreasonable, I feel helpless, I feel tire, I feel unloved, I feel down, but these are the moment I learn about 'God is with me'. He is faithful, He always keep his promises, I know Him thru these so called 'down' period.

Lunch with Ex-husband's family in Nov 2008

In all situation, acknowledge God, be thankful at all time.

Nature - I love the aroma she produces, she gives hope, she gives strength, she gives new life, not hard to understand that green - is my favourite colour.

Octopus - I used to describe myself, I told my son Gabriel: "mommy can do many things at one time, very effective. "..... when I was young, now... not so much, retired. RELAK...s

Wonderful life...let's start from here

6 Aug 2008

Gab wrote a note

On the 6th January 2009, I had a piano lesson at 8am, while I was about to start the lesson, after setting up, I saw a paper on top of a red drawer chest, a short note on a small blue paper, here he wrote in pencil:

bad day and live


I hate to play piano

and my mom allwast

call me to ply piano And

she like to call my

gab.

I smiled after reading the note. I went to him (he was still sleeping), tickled him, that is what usually I do to wake him up. I told him that I read the note, and also told him stories of famous pianists, he listened, and kept quiet. I felt the joy being able to communicate and share our thoughts.

Such a sweet boy I have, at least he expresses his thought in words, this is not the first time, there was another time he wrote:

Jane Lee has a good ....boy.


He wrote it on my computer table, I still keeping this short note he wrote, I love him, and encourage him to express what his thought is. We chat, he is a sentimental boy, and he likes to give surprise to me, helping me to re-arrange our home furniture, decorate the hall with his toys, then he will just keep quiet till I notice the differences. He'll pluck a wild flower give it to me, how romantic he is, really thank God for giving me such a wonderful boy.

Give thanks to the Lord once again.

Brayden and Gabriel

Desperado

Desperado

Desperado was first sung by The Eagles.

Simply wanna keep this feeling in memory, loving this song, beautiful lyric, and melody. I wonder what did the writer went thru and yet could put his emotion into this song, amazing. This version by Emi Fujita, in the album Camomile. Love her style, the arrangement of songs in this album were mainly unplug, soothing, relax, romantic, love this album.


Desperado Lyric

Desperado
Why don't you come to your senses
You been out ridin' fences
For so long now

Oh, you're a hard one
But I know that you've got your reasons
These things that are pleasin' you
Can hurt you somehow

Don't you draw the queen of diamonds, boy
She'll beat you
If she's able
The queen of hearts
Is always your best bet

Now it seems to me some fine things
Have been laid upon your table
But you only want the ones
That you can't get

Desperado
Oh you ain't gettin' no younger
Your pain and your hunger
They're drivin' you home

Freedom, Oh freedom
That's just some people talkin'
You're prisoners walkin'
Through this world all alone

Don't your feet get cold in the wintertime
The sky won't snow and the sun won't shine
It's hard to tell the night time
From the day

You're losin' all your highs and lows
Ain't it funny how the feelin' goes away...

Desperado
Why don't you come to your senses
Come down from your fences
Open the gate

It may be rainin'
But there's a rainbow above you
You better let somebody love you (let somebody love you)
You better let somebody love you
Before it's too late...

Song facts

On the surface, this is about a cowboy who refuses to fall in love, but it could also be about a young man who discovers guitars, joins a band, pays his dues and suffers for his art. The stress of being a Rock Star is a recurring theme in Eagles music (e.g. "Life In The Fast Lane"). The overall theme is how you must suffer for your art. (thanks, Randy - Beaumont, TX)

Don Henley began writing parts of this in the late '60s, but it wasn't arranged into a song until his songwriting teammate Glenn Frey came along. It was the first of many songs Henley and Frey wrote together. (thanks, Bill - Johnstown, PA)

The album had an Old West theme. It was inspired by The Dalton Gang, a notorious group of outlaws.

Bon Jovi drew similar parallels between the life of a cowboy and that of a Rock Star on their 1986 song "Wanted Dead Or Alive."

This has the feel of the American Old West, but it was recorded in London. the Eagles went there to work on the album with British producer Glyn Johns.

Guitarist Randy Meisner claims he came up with the guitar intro, but was not given songwriter credit. This means he does not get royalties from it.

This was featured in a episode of Seinfeld where Elaine goes out with a guy who won't let her speak when it is playing.

This is a Classic Rock staple, but it was never released as a single.

This has been covered by Linda Ronstadt, Kenny Rogers, The Carpenters, Bonnie Raitt and Ringo Starr, among others. The Eagles started at Ronstadt's backup band.

The Eagles included this on their album Greatest Hits 1971-1975, which, mostly because of catalog sales, is the best selling album of all time. This song is a big reason for its success. Since it was never released as a single, it provided a lesser-known track that fit in very well. The Eagles' "Outlaw Man," which was released as a single, was left off the Greatest Hits album.

In 2004, Linda Ronstadt caused a stir when she dedicated this to film maker Michael Moore during a performance at the Aladdin Casino in Las Vegas. Moore had a movie out called Fahrenheit 9/11, which made US president George Bush look very bad. Ronstadt said Moore "Loves his country deeply, and he's trying to get the truth out." This didn't go over well with the casino's president, who made her leave immediately. It's unclear what happened when Ronstadt performed the song, but stories circulated that patrons got upset and booed the singer. She had been dedicating the song to Moore throughout her tour without incident.

Desperado - The Eagles in You Tube Video Clip

Family Dinner at Louisiana Restaurant

Family Dinner at Louisiana Restaurant

It was a restaurant just opened for a year located at Kelana Jaya Lake side, they serve western cuisine, prices at moderate reasonable rate. The environment was quite, where many shops are still vacant. We parked our car underground, where the main entrance is at car park, you may walk direct to the restaurant.

When you walk in from this entrance, playing songs sung by Emi Fujita, you may find out that the restaurant is decorated in country style, which is love this style, the first left turn lead you to washroom, they give a sweet deco in the washroom, walk traight will reach to the main hall, a few tables and bar counter in the center, slide turn to the right lead you to another exit to the lake, where we have our dinner.

I took a few magazines from the bar, browsing them while waiting for the food to be served, it was a windy day, just perfect for the rest and relax New Year Day.

The use of the red gingham for the table setting, it enhances the romantic feel for the environment, the tea-light candle will be lit up at 6.30pm warm up the cold night.

Family Dinner at Louisiana Restaurant Web Album

A Medi Mission Trip to Cemara Island

A medi mission trip to Cemara Island. Francis Hoo, Ps Sonny, Ps Yu, bro Fu Wei, bro Gabriel Ng, Doctor Wong, Margaret, Jessy, Vi Jay and me. 20th Aug, driving down to JB. Pastor Yu and friends drove from Setiawan, met us (me and Francis) in Subang Jaya at 2pm, after lunch head down to JB FGC, arriving at 6pm, right after the get-to-know session, went for dinner with Pastor Kim Tai, we separated into two groups, arr....basicaly are men and women groups, stayed a night in Pastor Sonny and Pastor Kim Tai's house. Off for Batam on 21st Aug Thursday early in the morning, of course, we went for a delicious breakfast.

2nd arrival in Batam, meeting new friends and full time workers, get to know their ministries and out reach. Visited a small local children 'church' in Bengkong, and shopped for material needed in Cemara Island.


Batam mission trip : 20th - JB and 21st Aug 08 - Batam


In the 22nd morning, the sky was cloudy, everyone was worrying about the trip would have to delay for this bad whether. True enough... we were hit by a stormy and windy whether while we were on the long way (an hour drive) to local 'small' jeti. Amazingly the rain stopped when we arrived, everybody was praising God! Amen for that.



First day in Cemara Island, we held a klinik at 3pm, and kids time in Noah ministry. There were about 40 patients came. And at my side, there were about 20 kids in the class, we sang songs, we sang malay and english songs with action and dance, also played a short skit - I am Special, due to shortage of artists, everyone in this trip accept Doctor Wong, Jessy, Margaret and Vijay, they have to set up the clinic at the school class room, the rest had to play a role, featuring : Fu Wei - Snail ( he was real slow snail), Gabriel - Miss Tortoise(hahaha, 'she' was beautiful 'girl'), Ps Yu - The Fish( poor fish), Francis -the butterfly(keke, 'it' was a Jumbo butterly), and Ps. Sonny - The Cat(oh! I like the cat, so did the children!). Oooh! o_O~ guess what? They were good actors and 'actress', haha! The kids enjoyed the performance, we didn't have enough time for rehearsal, it was all about spontaneous, they have done well, pretty well. We have a craft session right after the skit - 'I am Special' photo frame, it is the first time ever they were teach to do craft. The duration of today's session was about 2 hours. Praise the Lord. Things had done according to the plan.

God is good all the time - short video clip on the boat.

First family we met in Cemara Island - video

Batam mission trip : 22nd Aug in Cemara Island

23 Aug 9am - 11am Klinik time as well as Children story time. There were about 12 kids attended today, I shared the 'Wordless Book'. Thankfully all of them invited Jesus at the end of the story, which I strongly believe the gospel seed has been sowed in their tiny heart. Praise the Lord of his great work and of His grace. After lunch in Noah's center, while we were waiting for the boat, we had extra ordinary fellowship time, friends from Indonesia sang us a few beautiful songs, and also singing english praise and worship songs together, wonderful time, and most important thing - it was raining that time, arhhh~! As soon as the rain stopped, we loaded all of our luggage and saying good bye to our friends in Cemara Island.


As soon as we back to Batam Jessy and I visited single-mom house, to share some of God's word and testimonies to encourage them, I did a short sharing then we prayed for them.

24th Aug first english service at 7am for missionaries. Second service 9am preached by Pastor Yu, I was in another building for Children Ministry, telling stories and did some ballooning!

Annie and Retno, Annie is in Children Ministry, Retno is in Single mom ministry

Batam mission trip 23rd - 24th Aug 08

The Five Love Languages

To all the friends who are willing to 'choose' to live a loving life. This is my 3rd time reading the book, this time in english, which I could share with people around easily, why do I say so, because I am too lazy to type in mandarin, somehow english is easier.

The first time I read this book, it was last year, I am very much agreed with, and totally believe any one could live with any one, this take effort and action, no doubt it is a lesson for everyone out here with flesh and emotion...and with blood. I encourage you to buy this book from Focus on the Family bookstore at PJ SS13, it is worth of investment, read this book, you will find the key to live a successful marriage.

I believe 'Love' is a choice, it is an 'Action', you need to put in effort in order to attain it, don't give up, let us press on to make our lives wonderful.

Marriage Myth: Married life is unhappy life.

Fact: Studies show that married people have better emotional and physical health, longer lives, greater sexual satisfaction,
greater incomes, and more accumulated wealth.

"Being sincere is not enough. We must be willing to learn our spouse’s primary love language if we are to be effective communicators of love.

My conclusion after thirty years of marriage counseling is that there are basically five emotional love languages—five ways that people speak and understand emotional love. However, there may be numerous dialects. The important thing is to speak the love language of your spouse.

Communicating love isn’t as easy as feeling “in love,” because it’s quite a different thing. Falling in love is not an act of the will or a conscious choice. It’s effortless. One who is “in love” is not genuinely interested in fostering the personal growth of the other person. If the euphoric pleasure of being “in love” never ended, we might never experience true love and meaningful communication.

Love is something you do for someone else, not something you do for yourself. Most of us do many things each day that do not come “naturally” for us. For some of us, that is getting out of bed in the morning. We go against our feelings and get out of bed because we believe there is something worthwhile to do that day. And normally, before the day is over, we feel good about having gotten up. Our actions preceded our emotions.

The same is true with love. We discover the primary love language of our spouse, and we choose to speak it whether or not it is natural for us. You might not love the language itself, but speaking it will clearly communicate love to your spouse.

Love is a choice. And either partner can start the process today. ' by Dr. Gary Chapman

About Dr. Gary Chapman

The Five Love Languages - by Dr. Gary Chapman


You’ve read the book – now talk about it!
If you have read The Five Love Languages
you no doubt want to put its ideas into action in
your marriage or special relationship, and you
want to talk about these ideas with your mate.
Here, chapter by chapter, are some printable
discussion starters for both couples and groups.

The Five Love Languages Study Guide pdf



with love,
Jane

Science and God

Just received an email from friend that titled Science and God. An Atheist Professor of Philosophy was speaking to his class on the Problem Science has with GOD, the ALMIGHTY.

It wasn't pleasant (to me) at the beginning of the conversation, not until the student (Albert Einstein) threw some questions back to his professor.

An interesting conversation of Albert Einstein with his professor

Albert Einstein Biography & Pictures

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My Little Hero - Gabriel

Lata Kijang - Negeri Sembilan Waterfall Survivors Camp

It was held in 6-7 Dec

This was the 3rd time Gab and I join WS, each time gave us a special memories that two of us would share about in bed time, sharing about the people we met, the place, the tent, the food, the waterfall, the insect, the toilet.... Gab is extra comfortable with this Kijang waterfall, it is the tallest waterfall we've ever met, and yet it is the most shallow pool we've ever swam, this is the first time ever that Gab get so close to the fall, he is happy and excited.

Me? for sure I am happy and excited too, meeting new friends, friends that love to take photo, I love them... haha! especially Vincent and Tony, they took extra-ordinary pictures, Leo too, he took things that we usually neglected, or I should say, I usually neglected, compile all of their pictures, you could really go back to that moment again.... fantastic gang!

Thanks to all of you who made our (Gab and I) days, knitting every single memory, making our life wonderful, may God bless all of your days.


Please feel free to browse my personal web album about this Kijang Camp Travel Log, pictures that I have posted, is a compilation from Vincent, Leo, Tony, Gary, Ben, Vaani and myself.



Love,
Jane n Gab