A New Home Deco

Since our nephew Jo Jo arrived 2 years ago, we have to indirect transformed our house into a child friendly place, and thus I have to hide most of my fragile display items. My little piggies collection has gone underground for almost a year and a half.

We have been searching for a display unit for our living room, but couldn't’t find one that we both agreed for months. Finally, as we went to Ikea to buy a sofa bed (in preparation for my family visit) last Saturday, we spotted this and immediately it became our one of our acquisitions. Now it is fully installed and on displayed in our living room. And my little piggies also now back on display on the 3rd level (not captured in this photo). This display unit has becomes the center piece of our living room.

As for me and my household ....

Last Sunday, my mum-in-law (far left in the photo) got baptized. On Sunday evening, we went out for the dinner in Den Haag to celebrate her baptism. We are glad that she is now also actively going to the church on Sunday. May the Lord bless her physically, emotionally and spiritually, I pray that she will learn more of the Lord each day. The bible says 'as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord'. I thanked God that one more family member are added to the kingdom of God.

Litty Matty

Since the last two Sunday at church, little Matty came to me automatically during the praise and worship time in the service and wanting me to carry him. He is really cute and chubby. The funny thing is he can really worship the Lord, he claps his hands and his body moves according to the rhythm of the music. Last Sunday after the service, he came to me again and stayed with me at the coffee table for a long time. He is such a famous boy in the church that is usually pre-occupied by other sisters from the church, I feel really special when he comes to me. God bless little Matty.

Factory Outlet Adventures

5^th Jan 2008

This is our first cross boarder day trip of the year. We decided to drive to Roubaix, which is a town close to Lille, France.

L’Usine – a typical French designer factory outlets in a converted old mill which I believed only for domestic French market, since non of the sales attendants are willing to communicate in English, stocks are piled up like a warehouse, where you have to dig into the stock and find your precious items. If you really make an effort to browse through the items, you can find really quality goods here. http://www.lusine.fr

Mc ArthurGlen – a usual chained outlet presenting the shops in a certain village style that provide certain level of comfort shopping http://www.mcarthurglen.com

Both outlets are closed to each other, but the scales and the variety of shops they offered are pretty small selection compare to other outlet stores. Although we visited 2 factory outlets in a day, but our wallets are saved and have not suffered any damage , Johannes got some bargain from L'usine and I just got a nice set of handmade wine glass from McArthur Glenn.

Anyway, it was a good venture since we haven’t done that for a long time.

Old Year’s Day

The table is set, the Christmas light is on, the candles are lit and the food is on its way to our home.

While waiting on the guests I played some smooth jazz music and start reading the annual year book from my company which entitles ‘ECHO – European Concert Hall Organization’ with beautiful pictures of concert halls all over Europe. The quiet moment ends as soon as the first batch of guests arrived.

We waited for awhile and finally the food arrived and is set on the table and ready to be served. This has been a yearly ritual; the New Year’s Eve (or rather as the Dutch put it as Old Year’s Day) is either taking place at our home, my sister-in-law or my mum-in-law’s place.

Mum cooked a lot of good dishes, mixed veg bird nest, prawns, fried chicken beacon, roasted Duck, Chinese cauliflower, fried wantan, steamed fish, fried oysters, fat choi mushroom (traditional Cantonese new year dish), crab claw, scallop & squid mixed veg and nonetheless the chicken corn starch soup.

Eet Smakelijk

Bon Appetite

Selamat makan

吃饭

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