Come Back To Me

 

Photo taken on 18 March 2024

Photo taken on 28 May 2024

Everytime I cycled passed the church, I would look at it.  I had not been to the church for many years.  I had not stepped into the church after the renovation.  I think I miss the church.  On 18 March 2024, I saw the banner : Come Back To Me.  It is like God telling me to go back to him.  Then on 28 May I passed by again and I see the signboard "Come And Find Peace", it reminded me of last time I went to church with the family.  

January 2024, I had dry mouth.  I prayed to Mother Mary because at the workplace one day, the hymn of Lourdes prayer.  I was not aware of the title of the hymn but I went home to search for it and then I know about it.  

Photo of Mary taken at St Anthony Church: I stood there to pray for a suitable job and to heal my dry mouth

Now then I know this is Our Lady of Lourdes.  And I know that the hymn which originated from my heart is Our Lourdes Prayer.  Now my dry mouth had improved.  Last year, it was totally no saliva.  And when the 'music' came, in the evening, the saliva just come and it feel so good to have saliva.  

The Lourdes Prayer, the song that came to me in January 2024.  

Now I had already gone back to church...  

St Joseph Church

 

Photograph of Patrick, Mary and me at St Joseph Church, in front of St Joseph statue

Yesterday was the feast day of St Joseph at Bukit Timah.  The church celebrated her 179th year.  There are so much changes over the years... the bare grounds where Richard and I had sat to take photograph many years back, had now transformed into beautiful objects.  I had missed mass for so long.  The last time I went to St Joseph Church for mass was 15 years ago.  Yesterday we met at woodlands bus interchange at 8am.  We intend to take bus 961 to the church.  At the bus interchange, we could not find the berth for 961.  Later we realized that it was at the old bus interchange, and on Sunday, we would only take 961M.  

The bus journey took approximately 50min and after alighting we need to walk a short distance to reach the church entrance.  It was so nice to be able to come to this church again.  I had mass with my sister and brother-in-law at 930am.  It was so good to have companionship to have people to attend mass with me. 

When we reached the church, we walked around the church and went to Chapel of Resurrection to visit our departed loved ones there.  We took so many photographs and we bought things from the booth.  My sister paid $2 to do a henna on her hand.   

 

This is a video I had made showing some external and internal of the church.  I am still learning to make video and this is not the best but viewable.  

Before the mass started, we went to sit down earlier.  We got our seat near the choir.  The mass started at 930am sharp, and throughout the mass whenever hymns were sung, the songs and music were wonderful, loud and clear.  We loved it so much.  

After the church, we went to Bukit Timah to buy lunch (frog legs).

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Divine lot

                                                 I cast a lot and this is the result that I get

Today is election day.  I did not know who to vote.  Before I went to the school, I wrote two sheets of notes with the party name, PAP and SDP. Then I folded the papers to be exactly the same.  I do not know which is which later once I put them in my hands.  

This is my altar in the house

I walk to the altar with the 2 folded papers in my hands.  I looked at the statues, the cross, my father and Dora there.  I prayed to God, and my father to give me an answer as to who to vote.  Slowly, one of the paper dropped out from my hands as I cast the lots.  I picked up the one on the floor.  I opened it and it was PAP.  As I picked up the lot, I have something on my mind.  What if it means the one in my hand?  

So I think I will try again, this time more precise in what I prayed.  The same as above, but this time, as usual, the answer will be the one on the floor.  Once I had finished praying, a lot fell out onto the floor.  I picked it up, unfold and again it was PAP.  

With this answer, I make up my mind to vote for PAP.  If my father were to vote, he would have chosen PAP.  

So I walked to the school.  I had forgotten to bring the polling card.  Luckily can use epoll card in singpass.  There was no crowds when I went at around 130pm.  Everything went smoothly and within 15min I was back home.

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Malaysia Boleh

 

Cuttlefish Kang Kong

It is so hard to buy Cuttlefish Kang Kong nowadays.  The one at Marsiling Mall closed down already.  Good cuttlefish kang kong are so hard to find.  Yesterday my sister, mum and me went Jurong Point's Malaysia Boleh food court.  We were surprised to see the fried kway teow stall selling cuttlefish kang kong.  Even though there were no pineapple in the dish, the overall taste of the dish was considered good.  The cuttlefish was fresh and got reasonable amount.  One plate of it cost $6.60.

Fried Kway Teow stall and Cuttlefish Kang Kong stall at Malaysia Boleh

My sister paid for the cuttlefish kang kong while I paid for the popiah.  The popiah were not that nice.  It was quite salty too.  It cost $2.50 per roll.  

Popiah at Malaysia Boleh

This Malaysia Boleh at Jurong Point is bigger than the one I went at Great World.  There were so many stalls; there were chicken rice, bak gu teh, kway stall, fried kway teow, fried oyster etc  However the dessert stall was rather small, selling only green bean soup and three others soup only.  There were no ice kacang or chendol.  

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