Global Cafe

I haven't been faithful in blogging lately due to my study/workload. What with papers to read, analyse and critique, and presentations to prepare, along with meetings and seminars to attend, plus cooking and housework...Anyhow, I finally found the time, now.

Every Thursday, the Global Cafe is open from 430 pm until 7 pm or so. This is for students to drop by and have a chat and a hot drink and snack, and to get to know people and make friends. I have been coming although not so regularly due to my academic commitments. But I still try to go whenever I can despite the distance as the venue is quite a walk from my study room in another building, and I had to brave the cold (and sometimes the rain). It's just something that I want to go to where I can meet friends and talk about other things. And I get to meet nice people especially the organizers who are friendly and genuinely interested in us.

Today we had the Christmas Global Cafe. The last meeting for this year before students go for Christmas break. I had been looking forward to this, along with last Tuesday's Christmas Carol Service, which was also a good one, simple yet profound.

A good number of students came - some I've met before, while some were new to me, just as I was to them. But all of us have been coming to the GC during the semester.

We had some special Scottish food such as haggis, oat cakes, shortbread and pudding with cream, together with chocolates, peanuts, biscuits, and hot and cold drinks.

We also had Christmas crackers with goodies (marbles, key chain, mini-notepads, and small items), coloured paper crowns and jokes inside.

Aside from the talking and eating, there was also a sharing of what Christmas means by Ken, who came wearing his Scottish formal wear, the kilt.

Thanks to Joan (& Ken), Carol & Christine for organizing this. See you again next year!

Merry/Happy Christmas! May we all experience the peace, joy & love that Christmas brings, which come from our loving Saviour!

World Wide Web Friendship Award

I got this award from Rechie. Thank you so much for counting me in as one of your web friends. It is quite amazing how people meet online through blogs especially and become friends. We get to know each other through words and photos on our monitors but it seems as though we have known each other by heart. I am very glad to be a part of this world and to be a part of your friends' list. I am passing this award to people who have become my friends here in the blogosphere: shydub, julieanne, tack, renz, janette, kutitots, anne, frances, fritzs, linapuhan

I am grateful because ...

I got a tag from Rechie today asking what I am grateful for. Thank you so much Rechie for sharing this to me. There are lots of things that I am very much grateful for in this life.



1. God loves me with an everlasting love and has given me eternal life in Jesus.
2. I have a husband who loves God (and me, of course). An answered prayer.
3. I continue to experience the goodness of the Lord in my life, work, with my family and friends.
4. Each day is a gift from the Lord and His word reminds me to keep going and looking up, and to look at life through the eyes of Christ. Whether times are good or rough.
5. Christmas is coming and this will be another opportunity to share Christ with others.

Let me know what are the things you are grateful for. I am sharing this tag with the following: ultrapink, ztirfmanic, simplykane, lärarinna and linapuhan@starbucks.

How This Works:
1. Re-post the picture on your blog and pls. acknowledge where it came from. Kindly leave a comment on this post so I would know you've posted it.
2. Write down 5 things you are grateful for and the 5 bloggers you are tagging.
3. You may copy this or write your own quote regarding gratitude:
"The Lord is faithful to all His promises and loving toward all He has made." - Psalm 145:13b