I was pining for mooncakes for the past 2 weeks after having been tempted by a friend's blog abt her having bought four boxes of top grade mooncakes - Raffles Hotel's Snowskin with Champagne Truffles and Ganache and Baked Mooncake Mother of Pearl with White Lotus Paste Single Yolk...

And God has been really good to me!  Was invited to a kolic's place where we celebrated 中秋节 and I had a taste of 莲蓉蛋黄月饼!!  To top up the atmosphere, we had hung candle-lit 灯笼 around the living room and drank 龙津茶 from authentic looking chinese tea cups :)

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Sunday morning.  I surfed NBC Europe and came across Joel Osteen's surmon about self worth. 

He narrated a story about going to a friend's place and saw many paintings in the house.  Joel didn't appreciate them until that friend drew attention to one particular painting which was worth a million dollars.  It was painted by Pablo Picasso.  A painting draws its meaning from its painter.  Likewise us - we have been made by God!

The bottomline is to not seek for external validation.  Living life this way will result in a roller coaster of ups and downs .   Eph 1:12 ... that we, who were the first to hope in Christ, might be for the praise of his glory.  Do things to the best to our abilities, then take time, recognise that it is good and give thanks.   Amen!