Yoo-hoo we MADE IT! 👍👏🎊
Thank you everyone for bringing a smile on these children’s faces. Your contribution and generosity made and makes a difference.❤️
TRUEST INDICATOR
When Kayan visited me last month, one morning our conversation lead us to this:
Kayan: “…at the end, many will call God..God.., God I did this, God I did that. But God says: ‘I don’t know you’.”
After she flew back to HongKong. I was still digesting her words. I want to know what matters to Him.
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During my morning tea routine, I was thinking about the charity project we are currently organising. We are collecting donations to buy shoes for 157 school kids in Kalimantan (Borneo). My mind was occupied with how to find the best shoe distributor, the best company for sending them, and how to reach the our goal as cost effective as possible. As I was lost in my own mind, thinking of options, Tobias was smiling happily.
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On Sunday I attended a church in Karlsruhe Durlach for the first time. On Tuesday I received a phone call from them. The lady on the phone asked me how I feel about their service and if I’m interested to come again. Then, she asked me if I am a believer, when and why. I had a flashback…
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Continue reading “SIMPLE MUSHROOM PASTA ft. Kayan”SIMPLE JAPANESE CURRY RICE 🍛
THORNY QUESTION
There are two boys, they are brothers and in their teenage years. In 2017, the younger brother had been fighting dipg for several months when the big brother himself was diagnosed with thyroid cancer that had spread to the lymph nodes. The unthinkable, both brothers fighting cancer.
The younger brother passed away that year. Now, the cancer of the older brother is progressing.
I read these news posted by a dipg advocate. There I also read and see photos of many children in pain, and remembering those who have passed away because they suffered from DIPG.
My heart is shattered.
Continue reading “THORNY QUESTION”LESSONS FROM TRAIN
On the train, on our way back home from Berlin,
me and Tobias were sitting next to each other, opposite other passengers, separated by a table.
GROWIN’ UP
Can kids navigate their way in London alone unsupervised?
Continue reading “GROWIN’ UP”THE POWER OF WORDS
As Indonesian with Chinese descent, since I was a kid until I got older, I still face harassment and discrimination. Sometimes I got called out, using racial pejoratives, including from colleagues when I was working for a governmental institution.
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