Day 22 - BREAK FAST DAY!!!!

Baked the night away the previous night, and I have to confess that I tasted cake batters and cream cheese filling and whipped cream many times, but it was liquid-y enough that I didn't think I was doing something wrong. lol.

Learned something about fancy ovens the hard way - they have different settings that allow heat to be released in specific directions. for instance, you can bake a cake in 350F with heat only coming from the top, so the top will burn and the bottom will still be completely raw. Because of that I had to re-do the cake and ended up only sleeping 3 hours before heading out to Prayer Meeting. Prayer Meeting was GOOD. It was good because God's presence was there. I mean God's presence is everywhere, but you can actually FEEL God's presence and the Holy Spirit ministering to people there. Today's passage was Matt 18 and Pastor Sam talked aboutForgiveness using the parable of the unforgiving servant. I'm sure you have heard it many times like I did, but man, today it hit me HARD. The HS showed me so much unforgiveness in my heart that I haven't even noticed before, and seriously, who am I to hold these grudges when I owe God so much more that I could even repay? And then it blew my mind just realizing how much God has forgiven me of, all the sins I've committed, all the hurtful word
s coming out of my mouth, all the hypocrite deeds with wretched motives... all wiped away, white as snow... I know these sound like Christian lingos & blahs, but I guess this amazement can only be understood by grace through the Holy Spirit.

Honestly, I have been looking forward to this day pretty much every single day during the fast, but when I was at the prayer meeting today, I really didn't want it to end. I simply didn't want to leave. Dude, who needs food when God is so much better and more sustaining and comforting.. and I don't know, it just felt really good to be in God's presence.

If all these sound like crazy-talk to you, maybe you should consider fasting for a period of time and seeing what God does to you. I've pretty much gone crazy. CRAZY for GOD lol. Ok I'll stop acting weird. Right now I'm just really happy, really exhausted, but still really thankful.

By the way, to listen to sermons during morning prayer and sunday services, go to www.solomonsporchhk.com

Yesterday during Service Pastor Sam had warned us about the process of breaking fast and the need of self-discipline in doing so, horror stories about people not breaking fast right and also specific food we should and shouldn't eat the first few days. Here are 2 main points I got:

1. Breaking the fast requires the same, if not more the amount of self-discipline as you did during the fast.

2. Stop eating at the first warning sign

oh and he also said no cookies, pastries or cakes.

So after I finally got home, I broke fast for real with the following:

Bo Lo Bao as promised, pear and korean strawberries.

This is how much I ended up with when I decided to stop.

So that was 2 strawberries, 1/3 of a pear, and none of the bolobao.

I eventually ate some of the bao part of the BLB though.

But then after that I took a nap and went a korean street food place with Jason and Joseph. I ate ddukbokki. Like 6 pieces of them. And then I ate cake. Please pray for my digestive system.

So good. All these for HK$90.

I ate this cake. That I made for this dude.

To read more about the cake, go to http://yourfaceislikedirt.blogspot.com/

I am bringing YOUR FACE IS LIKE DIRT back to life.

Day 20 & 21

Coming soon.

Day 19

Hello! I'm blogging again because CLIU said it'd be cool if I did. It's already Day 19 and I'm feeling... so complicated.

I am overjoyed because I'll get to eat in a little over 54 hours and it makes me so happy just thinking about what to get after our 7am break fast prayer meeting on Monday morning. I'm thinking, BoLoBao for sure, and then maybe i can eat some eggs... but that's not the point.

This is not the point.


My no.1 reason for this fast was to get to the "next spiritual level" and be more in line with God's presence in my life. I was expecting something really life-changing to happen. I was expecting every day of the fast to be ground-shaking and that I would be soooo close to God I can hear even his breath.. but that wasn't the case. At least not for the past 19 days. Looking back I wished that I had spent more time reading and praying, went to morning prayers more often, read more of the Christian books piling up next to my bed... but it was very hard to stay focused. It was so cold it's hard to concentrate.

But I shouldn't waste time regretting what has been done.

Today I was talking to a dear sister and she reminded me of how faithful God has always been. He has pulled me through the toughest times and he will do that again. Oh, and I also just realized I have a huge prayer project to do for the next two days. Please pray for me as I pray. haha.


I can't remember a trial or a pain He did not recycle to bring me gain... He's always been faithful to me.



BTW, SHOUT OUT to my A.B.S sistas and Julene. I'm so thankful for you guys, for your honesty, understanding, constant encouragement and prayer supports.


I don't know how to turn this picture. And Julene, I owe you a picture on my blog.

I'm still alive!

So if you were wondering why I stopped updating... yeah. I stopped. It felt weird not being able to say that I am fasting but I don't want to tell everyone I am fasting. And then I figured, who's reading this anyway? No one, probably.

On the bright side, I'm still alive!! With only 4.5 days left for the fast!! Woohoooo!! I have a recent obsession over poineer women and lafujimama's blog posts and I think I'm going to cook and bake a lot once Monday hits. I am going to make pasta, bread and udon from scratch. Successfully. Some day.

Here is a picture of pictures Stephanie sent me because all blog entries deserves a good picture. In this case a picture of good pictures.

Day 2

I felt a lot better on Day 2 - probably because I was distracted by cooking lol. Some of my dad's younger friends (Med students) were coming over for dinner so I volunteered to cook. I was so sad as I tasted the sauce of the dishes. =( Here are a few dishes I made:

Chicken stew - Chinese style. You can still see the chicken fingernails lol

Fried Rice, Chinese style. My cooking style has changed so much. I need me some kimchi.

For dessert, the ever-popular Estin Tart.

Ok enough of food pictures ttyl.

Day 1

Hello World!
It has been a long while since I last had the motivation to post something on this blog. After much consideration I decided that this would be the best option to keep you (yes, you) updated with what's happening to me during these 21 days since I didn't want to annoy my prayer-support-list people with daily emails.

For those who do not know, my very cool new church SP has a certain 21day project as the new year begins. I'm not going to say what it is since I don't know who's reading this, but if you got my email you'd know what I'm talking about. If you don't, you can probably guess. If you have no idea what I am talking about, you can ask me. If you don't know me, you shouldn't be here. lol. By the way, if you do not receive my prayer request+update emails and would love to hear from me once in awhile, feel free to drop me a line in the comment section below.

Yesterday was Day 1 out of 21. I was mentally prepared for the project itself, but the real problem that I didn't really think about presents itself - 7am prayer meetings. It takes about an hour for me to get to church, so that means i have to wake up at 5:45am for these 21 days except for Sundays. =0=. Well that's only, like, 6 hours earlier than when I usually wake up and 3 hours after I usually sleep, not to bad, eh? jk. I felt like I was going to die yesterday morning when I woke up. It was still completely dark outside at 6am.


Hong Kong at 6am.

Even though it was so hard to wake up, I certainly wouldn't want to skip the morning prayer meetings. I am certain that it was what sustained me through the day. Well, technically God sustained me through the day, but you know what I mean...

They say that the first 3-7 days are the hardest... we'll see how it goes.