Holidays.

Shalom!

And so as you see the title, you must think I'm going to write what happens during my 2-months holidays right? Half of your thoughts are right. I have good and bad situations to tell. Hope you don't get bored.

First of all, last weekend, from 23-24th of November, our church's leaders had a retreat to Santubong Resort. I don't have a clue as to where my family was needed, but this is what we call blessing when we believe we can do extra-ordinary things in the Lord. By the time we arrived, there were only three families, which was ours and our church members and their relatives. We got into our own rooms and settled ourselves while unpacked our things out of the car and reserving our places to sleep. After that, we had tea with the other family and then comes the best part; swimming!!! So we changed our clothes and dived our hearts in. Haha, that's a new proverb.. by me.

And after the swimming and all, we got dressed and ready to eat at the seafood here. I've got nothing much to say about this place, just that the sunset view from here was honestly breath taking and we ate seafood fried rice. They served this prawn, I have no idea what is it called but yeah. I bet it's delicious because the one on our table finished in a blink of an eye and I didn't eat one prawn. Too sad, but it's nothing, because I was already full by that time. Hmm...

In the night, the parents got to sit on a round table and we kids (and teenagers) got into our own playgrounds  (as in teenagers in one room and the small kids in another) and had our own agenda, which is the main reason why we followed our parents here, to play, have some SERIOUS fun and release our stress. I made a video with my youth friends but I can't upload it because the video is currently in my boyfriend's hand phone. But I tell you, having the whole night to my besties and I was the best thing I did, other than last year, where we had the same group of people, but we were telling scary stories, which made me hard to close my eyes in the night. This year, it was all-the-way different, the good different.

The next day, the parents had to continue their meeting, and this time they tried having their meeting by the swimming pool. At the same time, they can also watch their wild and swimming kids even when they are SERIOUSLY meeting by the pool! Haha..

And yeah, I guess I changed my mind about telling you guys everything. I'll just stop here, because I'm sadly hungry and I got to go get some food for my tummy. I'll maybe continue tomorrow? Well then, GOOD BYE and GOD BLESSINGS BE WITH YOU PEOPLE!!!

Anything For The Future

We had a retreat to a famous resort here in Sarawak, especially for the church leaders and I was proud to be one of them.

Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God. (1 Corinthians 10:31)


And I wasn't proud in the worldly way, but in a way that I thought (and see) that how God is going to use me very well for His coming up ministries. I can't wait because I know many are in need of His miracles to happen, so people, be ready for our outreach to you people!


Our committee members had bought a new piece of land for a new church building. We are looking forward to some programs that could help raise funds for renovation of the church. And we brought this matter up in the retreat and seems like we got our hearts one in prayer, I'm sure God listens and He has the best plans ever for this upcoming church building.


Not forgetting the delicious food we had. The way we did it was each family will have to cook enough for everyone to share and it was deliciously fun indeed! We get to share the love and recipes when Christ is in us.


As promised for every blog pages :) Here comes the hit!

Paying attention to this 'new' comic he had. He calls it new, and it was already very dusty when I found it in his room last month.

He has a name. Shawn Nix :)

We have our own sleeping beauty.

My mother who just untied her hair and it blew in the wind. She was searching for a contact number my brother and I accidentally deleted days ago.

She was posing her new handbag. And we were like -_____-

A view of the famous mountain on Sarawak. Known for its legend, this surely was an attraction to tourists.

That hat, oh no.. That hat! (Notice the lump on the right side of my neck? I was chewing a sour sweet that time, and that explains why my eyes looked >.-)

During the sermon, before the church planning. I noticed the flash but then I thought it would make a nice shot :)

That was this morning, before having my way back home. I got obsessed with the hat! 

Anyway, got an occasion at Franklin's place tonight, I'll post that tomorrow, along with the church post. And I'm making that church-post a label on my bloggie post and that's weekly. 

AstridSwift, signing off. Stay tuned :)

Random Much?

And today as it goes, I go random. You can tell what I did on the dates shown in the pictures, okay? I don't wanna talk much, but I will describe some pictures where necessary.

I was talking to him before I had this picture. Then I became disappointed because he didn't even respond to a single thing I say. That's when I turned and saw him stuck to this PSP.

So called half-clique.

I was doing (and drafting) a birthday present for my friend, Sonia.

Essential for celebrations and all, we've got a lot of choices here for you!

One of the new kitchenware stores in Kuching. And my favorite too.

This was behind the store, we thought we finished the place, but there was actually more at the back of the store.

AstridSwift, signing off. Stay tuned!

Dumdumdabidam

I don't know what to say, just my broadband connection suddenly went terminated last night and I forgot about what to say. Which means, I've written my blog halfway then the broadband was suddenly not there when I got back home from an occasion!

Oh, I didn't tell you about that.

So, I went to a something last night. It's not to be called an occasion, it's some king of a simple gathering for one family who just received Christ as their personal Savior. Hallelujah! For sure, I got a lot of pictures but I'll be posting only a few pictures. The others looked cranky.

Listening to God's word by Pastor Roland.

The one next to me, the one in stripped cardigan, is what you guys call, sister-in-law.

Look at the coincidence of the same pose :) Such beauty!

And also, I picked up on a new hobby. Sports, I chose badminton. It was such determination for me to just sit at home and be something my mother does not enjoy. So I cleaned up my brother's room one day (again) and found a bag with three rackets in it. And oh how I exalted with joy!

And today was always the big day for all Children of God all over the world-it's SUNDAY! Yeah, I went to church with my father and Gerald, while Genevieve followed my mother to our old church. We had to go our separate ways, but we knew God kept us one :) I played keyboard just now, and met with my new brothers and sisters. Though we just knew each other DAYS ago, there's this one bond that kept us together. And a day won't pass without it remembering each other in our prayers. I passed my camera to Sonia, and these pictures are not all of them. (P/S: I know the coming up pictures has no water mark, but no taking away pictures without credits. Thank you.)

 My phone and my so called sister-in-law's :)

Yeah, that's me on the keyboard.

And I really really loved her dress! 

I'm gonna miss my brother :'(

Oh yeah. I forgot one thing I did yesterday. I helped my mother out with some Sunday School objects yesterday, you know, cute drawings and messy artworks? Haha, sorry :D I helped her to draw a simple verse from Psalms 104:24b, which was:

I also got some presents from my mother. Not some, two. A handbag and a purse. The handbag was my mother's treasure, but she didn't want it anymore so I asked for it and she gave me open-heartedly. Oh I love you mother!

And I made a hand-made notebook yesterday, while waiting for my father to come back from work

                                             

(Like always) And I'm now randomly posting pictures!

AstridSwift, signing off. Gotta go sleep. Goodnight. Stay tuned!