Merry Christmas to All

Today is the jolly season and I would like to wish all my readers a Blessed and Merry Christmas! It is just like another day for me with the usual activities - eating, napping and logging to the computer to play around. I also added this blog to PPP and just claimed it for future sponsored posts. Later on, I need to submit and email 2 sports quotations which need some measure of calculations as the size is not standard. My youngest sister has gone to her church friend's house for a Christmas lunch and she sang in the choir this morning. She also went to church last night at the Cathedral of the Holy Spirit. I did not attend church as I just came back from KL yesterday.

God has been blessing me with more than enough

In the past, I have been struggling to keep my jobs but it was short lived. And I was staying alone in Singapore which add to the pressures of life. Now, I am happily settled at home staying with my parents and they are both healthy in their golden years. I am blessed to have such parents who took me back when I had to start all over again in Penang. In between I rested for 1-2 years doing nothing and later started my web design business from home. I did earn some cash from clients around the world and it was a steep learning experience. At that time I was very good with Macromedia Flash and earned US dollars creating Flash animations for a USA client. Now if you ask me to do Flash, I must say that I have forgotten how to do it and leave it as that. It was also the time, I was introduced to receiving money through Western Union - the fastest method of payment internationally.

Cute Animals Christmas Song

I found this Youtube video online and it is rather funny. Just watch how they animals mime the song with musical instruments this coming Christmas. I simply love watching this video and the creator is rather talented using computer graphics to make it all the more interesting. And yes, the sound system in my computer has been repaired, thus I can listen to nice music and songs from Youtube. Have a Fantastic Christmas and a Wonderful New Year in 2010.

Missed Church Again

I missed church again last week as I was having a nagging back ache for almost a week. I suspect there might be muscle tear when I was trying to lift heavy weights while stepping up a steep stair in the garden. I am now self medicating after dad bought some medication from the pharmacy. Even as I rest, I have to be careful not to break my titanium spectacles like I did a few years ago. At that time, my titanium specs was rubberband thin and extremely light, which was bought from Paris Miki. It was expensive and my heart ache when I broke the fragile frame while sleeping.

This time, I hope my back will heal quickly so that I can be more mobile and work more efficiently. Moving around is now a problem as I cannot stand up immediately without pain at the back. And to compound the problem, my gmail account was hacked into a few days ago when I inadvertently gave out my email password to world wide web. Little did I suspect that the con artist use the internet to fish for email details and use it to solicit money from all my contacts using my name. Well, I have recovered my gmail account and changed the password already. The con artist was very well prepared - he knew Google is going to block my email and even directed all incoming mails to another email of his!

Did not attend service last week

I did not attend last week's service as I had backache. Pastor Yeoh preached on the persecuted church. My friend who is a very motivated Christian, attended the service alone. And the local church has stopped giving out weekly bulletin to save money. Common, how much is 1 piece of bulletin that they cannot afford to print out every week as they used to. I think they are getting to have the cheap skate mindset even though it is a rich church with at least 3 million in the coffer. And to think that I have contributed thousands in the past few years of my tithes and offerings every week. So, I have decided to just give offering and not tithe anymore - I could save up a lot of money in the long run and perhaps pay a downpayment for another apartment unit for rental.

Tags : Penang church, tithes, church offerings, cheap skate, persecuted church, bulletin

Book of Proverbs

The book of Proverbs is a book of God's ordained wisdom to humankind. It teaches us to work until the day we die and not to be slothful, otherwise you have nothing to eat. There are many verses that talks about being diligent and to leave an inheritance to your children's children so that they will not starve. Your future generations will be blessed. In the book of Malachi, it tells you to tithe 10% of your income to your local church to be blessed as it is God's money after all. Giving an offering is easy because there is not fixed % of the amount but tithing is not for everyone - only for the enlightened and those who want to give back to Jesus.

Been Bless with a Job

Early this year, I read of the many stories of retrenchments, lay offs and unemployment by the millions worldwide. I must say that I have been blessed with a work at home job since February 2004 until now. Needless to say, I met my boss from the internet - initially he was my web site client and now I am assisting him in his sports building business. The web site that I designed has generated many enquiries which became clients for us. I guess this is God's providence for me because for an unlikely person to email me from the internet turned out to be my boss for the last 5+ years. Time flies and we have completed more than 100 different sports courts all over Malaysia.