.....times of refreshing.....

8.3.10

The faith of the little ones...

ChrisAu 11:55 PM life sharing , 13 Comments

After my badminton competition last wed night, I was deep in thoughts. Well, it's just for participation and have fun but suddenly this dawns on me. When I was a little kid, though never been to any training, during Sports Day, I will always tried my best to run to get into the class team. The attitude is always 110%, though there are other kids who are much active than me or physically stronger than me. But as kids, and not just myself, we have that innocent little faith that we believe we can do it, though we may lost but in the end we always tried our best and best of all, without fear of failing and full of confidence.

How great if we tap into this natural instinct that we used to have when we are innocent little kids, not just in sports but in work too. Have no fear but believe that we can do it even we may not have the skills. Of course, we do always have the required skills in work or when we participated in our favourite sports.

Now I know why in Matthew 19:14, Jesus said, "Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these."

Well, sometimes let's not complicate things by thinking too much but JUST DO IT!

4.3.10 Nusajaya, JB

ChrisAu 11:41 PM travelling , 9 Comments

Finally I got to visit Johor's Putrajaya - The Nusajaya City. It was located at the mid-west of Johor and very near to the western side of JB city. I took the highway which can access the second link to Singapore from Taman Bukit Indah and it was a 20mins drive. It's really nice to be there - quiet, clean and nice structural buildings. However, the place is still very much in development and have around five government buildings in a place called Kota Iskandar, a yachting centre and an housing estate.

I can't recognised or rather noted down each building but remembers this one - the Dewan Negeri Johor. It was a nice and artistically designed building!

A nice and refreshing pool greets you as you walk in from the car park.

Lots of water flowing at the heart of the building towards the front.

The signage.

The inside of the dewan - beautifully design staircases and structures.

Above and below, the others 'jabatan' or government offices of Johor State. I understand there's one where you can pay water and power bills, I guess it's the one below.

A closer look at this building. I was actually enjoying photography here.

Below is Johor's Chief Minister's office. It's really a majestic building!

Walking into the building, here's a closer look at the interiors of the Chief Minister's Office. I really feel like I'm in the middle east. :)

Somehow I love capturing pics which detailed the lights and shadows.

And, last but not least, a family portrait minus my daughter, who's soundly sleeping in her aunt's arms.

3.3.10 Chaw Yuan Restaurant, JB

ChrisAu 12:14 AM 7 Comments

It's been a while since I updated my blog. It's really been busy lately with a lot of pending work in office as well as I slowly crawling back to my usual routines after the long holidays. Well, I also gradually go back to my makan ways and during the last weekend and I'm back at Chaw Yuan restaurant, located at Nusa Bestari in JB.

Perhaps this place offers one of the better dim sum in town, at least to me and it's my favourite place to go for 'yum char'. Their dim sum starts from 11am till 5pm daily while they also served cooked food for lunch and dinner.

Ok, here are the dim sum that I had with my family and in laws over the weekend. Check it out -

Sesame seed balls or 'chin dooi'. My kids loves it and these are crispy!

Carrot cake... yummy!!

My favourite porridge - Century egg porridge. I usually had a bowl of it. Not a big bowl, though, just nice!!

Another one of my favourite dim sum - BBQ pork bun. I even 'tah pau' (take away) 15 buns!

Hk Chee Cheong Fun .... a must for dim sum. Serving small enough to savour the smooth and wide noodle.

It's been awhile since I had 'paper fried chicken'. Anyway, I still preferred those that I found in Ipoh.

Shanghai 'Xiao Long Bao' - It's quite rare to see this dim sum sold in a HK type dim sum restaurant.

All time favourites - 'siew mai' and below 'har gau'! I never failed to order these two delicacies every I time I go 'yum char', as well as most of the folks!