Christmas Celebration @ work

a few pics on our prechristmas celebration @ work, with a few of our friends at work.

Impression from Zurich part 2

Impressions from Zurich

Blessed Christmas to all of you, enjoy some impression of my city during the christmas celebration.

Pic 1) A 50-foot tall Christmas tree glittering with more than 5000 Swarovski crystal ornaments

Pic 3) The singing Christmas tree

Pic 4) The main shopping street is lid up with beautiful lights.

Snow strom in Zurich

All the busses and trams were stuck or was not able to conquer the snow on the road. I was late for work and wait out in the cold for almost 1 hour. Well i don't mind if it is not that cold as was around minus 5 degrees. Welcome winter, welcome snow stroms. The snow strom lasted for 3 whole days and has caused a lot of casualty and accidents.

pic 3: (This is the path of our appartment leading to the main road.. icy cold)

my last prepared meal

So now it is proven and official.... yes I do cook !! I had my official cook jacket with my name sewn on to the pocket. My team was very surprise as they had never seen me in the cook's jacket as some of them worked a year ago. So I shared to them in the begining of time when there were no cook, I cooked and started my career very fast and abrupt. So they all were speechless that i do know about cooking (just at times I just act stupid) and I cook up a 3 course meal for around 100 people that day. So they wanted to take photos to make it official. Some of them even joked that the firm might even find more value in me and decided to call me back to work. I just wink and said that... they just do not know how much more surprises I have in me. All glory to God.

Happy Birthday Danny - 8th December 08

Danny... may you always feel blessed and love by all.

Know that you are wonderfully and awsomely created by God. You are called His special son.

May you will always have contentment in your heart.

Blessed Birthday

Dinner for 10

Organized my company's dinner to thank them for their help and efford in making the business to be such a success in 2008. A wierd feeling as this is the last time we are going to be in this group. I am really thankful for each of them in my team and has learned so much in personnel and leadership management. Thank you Lord for using them to refine me in the way you want me to be. I am so thankful to have such a team from different parts of the world. Working together in harmony and accommodating and respecting each other. That is an achivement and a great example. After many years of strive, we are now able to enjoy and understand each other much better. The countries represented here are Croatia, Peru, Italy, Kenya, Sri Lanka, Tibet, Thai, Paskitan, Malaysia and Thai.

Road to recovery 2

My last day at my job will be on the 19 of December 08 and i would just really let loose and have a real celebration on the 20th December my birthday. A new begining for me.
Yesterday my team was introduced to the new manager which would be my successor. A young cook who is suppose to dive into this deep black hole. He does not really know what is in deal to take on this position. He is in his mid twenties and the team seems (as first impression is always important) that he would just give up in the early stages of his time there. My supervisor has been painting beautiful and wonderful szenario of the position. At the end of the short tour of the place and a few handover documentation, he sighed in front of the supervisor and me and said that this is really too much for a person to handle. The supervisor was so vicious and he commented, it only seems a lot but it is not that much to handle. Well I do not really want to take it personally as I know that he is getting back on me.

Please continue to pray for protection and favor as I have heard rumours that the firm is trying to frame me with accusation of mismanagement of finance. So I pray for the schemes of the enemy to scatter and the lies to be reverse. The management want to revenge on me for resigning so shortly esp at the end of the year, where there are so much closures to be completed. Until now they are not able to find any reason to back fire on me. So each steps and day until the 19th december is a very crucial. Let the Lord reign and let righteousness be visible.
Thanks so much for keeping me in prayers in this difficult time.

Road to recovery

My dad's operation has been successful, he undergo a revascularization surgery helps to restore blood flow to the heart. As he had blocked arteries with coronary artery disease and that cause the heart failure. He undergo percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI).
PCI, also called angioplasty, uses a catheter to inflate a balloon inside the artery. So they were able to treat it well and free his arteries. The other arteries which is not that bad, he would be under life medication and regular checkups. Now they are treating his lungs as it was functioning very poorly. My dad has been a chain smokers for many years and he did not really heed to any of our advise. God is gracious to him and has granted his speedy recovery and time to think the meaning of life.
He was discharged from ICU and has been in a normal ward. All of my mum's family and friends has been visiting him daily. He is indeed surrounded with people who cares for him. At the same time he is going through sport therapy to strenghten his lungs and heart functions. He will be allow to fly home to Zurich on 28 January 09. We shall be all joining him on the second week of Jan 09 to accompany him home. So I will be in Bangkok at this time.

Thanks for praying and standing in the gap for me and my family

Latest updates

Just a quick update on my dad's health condition. He has been release today from the intensive ward and is now residing in a regular room. He has made much progress, his lungs has dried up and now the doctors can finally do futher tests on his heart to find out the actual condition of the clog in his main blood vessel.

If they can treat it with medication, then he would be flying home to Zurich. If it is needed to do the heart bypass operation, then one of my family member will be there in Bangkok to be with him. Right now the situation in Bangkok is really bad. The main airport has been invaded by demonstrators, added to that, we are not able to fly off at this present time as all Thai Airways flights has been cancel. Thanks so much for all those precious, comforting and reconfirming sms and prayers.

Any one has any feedback on the Air Asia European flights ? Apparently Air Asia now flies to London Stansted.

Thanks again.

Prayer request

Hi Friends

I would like all of you to pray for my dad and a shield of protection over my family.
My dad is hospitalized after a routine check up, as the doctors discover he has heart problems. So they would need to do a by pass operation on him. We are praying that they would still find a way to treat him with medication instead of the this major operation.
As the doctors were doing some tests on him, they found out that he has a swollen lung and need to analyze a dark spot on his lung. So please pray for healing and that this situation will bring him to know the Lord Jesus in a new way.

will update you soon on more...

check out my creative blog

Hi all..
Just wanted to encourage you to check out my creative blog 2spark2inspire.blogspot.com
Been creative and productive and want to share with you other aspect of my life.

Take care

a river breaks forth .....

Yesterday I was on my way out with the bus, to help out my parents down town in their restaurant as they needed pronto help. So I dash out and catch the bus and was so glad I did not have to wait long for it. As it was driving along an area, there was suddenly immense water flowing all along the street. Thought it was just snow melting or a temporary leak somewhere. As the bus continued to drive on, the scenario got worse and worse, there were more influx of water all over and the worst thing is that, we are all stuck in the bus. If he open the bus door in the middle of teh street, the bus will be flooded with water !! This has never happen to me before and I was not in fear or fret as I knew help would come on soon. But I was kind of taken aback and started to ask God, what is He trying to tell me through this situation !!! hmm.... the song.. let the river flow comes to mind.

I was in the bus for nearly 30 mins until the bus was able to go to a safe place and let us all out. So after I got out of the bus, I was stuck and could no longer go down to help out my parents. I called them and my brother said that "sis... you are always into something interesting".

Apparently there was a huge water pipe that was install during the 1st world war and has been in need to be repaired again. The authorities had to break open the tar of the road to stop the leak. It was like a major big hole in the middle of nowhere.

I took some pics. Oh yes.. at the end of the day I was still able to get to the restaurant to enjoy my dad's char hor fun ... yummy and hokkien mee. We had customers from malaysia who are working and residing here, one lady even made us real malaysian pandan cake !!! What a blessing !!! We were all enjoying kopi o with fluffy pandan cake.

My dad was organising for the 2nd time saturday lunch for malaysian. The last 2 weeks ago, we had laksa. All of them glee with content !!

It was fun to get to know some of them as they shared their experience in Malaysia. Met some malaysian born swiss in the group. Looks like a swiss, speaks manglish. Very very interesting.

A visit to the Opera Haus in Zürich

Last Friday, one of my employee gave me a treat and arrange for 2 tickets for a perfomance in the Zurich Opera House. It is my first time being an audience in the Opera House and to sit in that beautiful hall arrayed with beautiful wall paintings and golden angles on every side.

I did made a tour of the Opera Haus many years ago to see tour around the backstage and the whole backset and rehersal rooms. It was such a fun tour venturing into a world of stories and scripts.
After a hard week at work, I went home and to get ready for the renowned perfomance call AIDA. AIDA is usually perform in open arena like in Verona, Italy on a late summer evening, where the air is cool and the sun just setting on the horizon. It has been my hidden desire to one day travel to Verona and be an audience of such live perfomance of ancient romans stories. Stories of heros and war, love and death and many more intrigues.
God has heard my heart's desire and has granted me a great seat at the Zurich Opera.
Aida is sung so all those opera singers was in top form, they sung their words in Italien and we had a small scroll screen on top of the stage to translate into German. The whole perfomance lasted 3 and half hours. The backdrop was breathtaking and I could only share to you the pictures but it do not do justice to the atmosphere and beauty in this hall.















It was like I walked into a surreal world and was captured and embraced by the stories sung live on stage. It is such a memorable experience.