Tango Tonight

Look at those confident ladies. They transformed to be professional dancers.

Tango Tonight

choreographed by Kathy Chang & Sue Hsu (Aug 09)

Wanna Be Elvis

Both the song and the dance is nice.

Wanna be Elvis

choreographed by Robbie McGown Hickie

Lugasa, Viqueque District, Timor Leste

Lugasa is another village that we had to visit and do our programme with the children. This is the toughest village to get the children engaged in the programme. Despite of the difficulties, we still had a good time with the children.

Why Old Folks Love Line Dance

My colleagues had persuaded me to sign-up for line dance organised by the office healthy workplace committee. I was hesitant as I felt that line dance was those boring folk/country dance enjoyed by old folks. In the end, I signed up just to have some form of exercise. I was surprised to find myself enjoying it. Why? Line dance has revolved over the years. It is no longer those slow boring folk dance. It integrated many other modern dances such as hip-hop, rock & roll, waltz, jazz, rumba etc.

You do work out your cardio for those fast music and work out your brain as you would need to remember your steps. It also used pop songs. It was fun to dance in a group and laughed together for the mistakes made. Now I understand why the old folks in my office simply love line dance. With the changes, it is slowly drawing younger age group people.

The video is just one example of pop song integrated with line dance. People simply just feel that they can dance like a professional.

Nobody but you!

choregraphed by Emily Woo

Fatudere Sub-district, Viqueque District, Timor Leste

Here is another village that our church has adopted. Fatudere is near to the sea, so after the volunteer work we went to the sea with the children following us there.

Bibileo Sub-district, Viqueque District, Timor Leste

Bibileo is one of the adopted village that our church is working on. Volunteer teams have been making continuous trips to support this district-building efforts. Due to the frequent trips into this village, they are familiar with us. Whenever the cars arrived, the children would run out of their houses to welcome us.

Viqueque District, Timor Leste (Part 4 of 4)

We attended sunday service at this local church. The missionary got to shift house due to some rental issue. So she got to move to another not familiar place to stay. So scary to stay alone in such a quiet place. Luckily the new landlord was a policeman and stay near to her new place.

Local church in Viqueque

Old missionary rented house

New missionary rented house

What On Earth Am I Here for by Rick Warren

This booklet is basically excerpts from The Purpose Driven Life by Rick Warren. What On Earth Am I Here For by Rick Warren is a great way to get someone who has no time to read The Purpose Driven Life. For those who need to hear what GOD wants, but don't have time to read a whole book. This is perfect!

Viqueque District, Timor Leste (Part 3 of 4)

Since the travelling from Dili to Viqueque took us about 5-7 hours, it was only wise to be based at Viqueque to make full use of our time serving the locals. We stayed at the orphanage where meals were prepared by the cook of the orphanage. We paid the orphanage for the accomodation and meals to help them in running the orphanage. You would notice the beauty around you only if you could slow down your pace and took a closer look at nature.

In the clip, you got to see the different view of the orphanage, the beds that we slept on, the toilet, the food that we ate and the children in the orphanage.

Food poisoning - prevention, DOs & DON'Ts

The recent food poisoning case that hit childcare chain Pat's SchoolHouse, should not be just the issue of caterer. Mothers should also reflect whether they have been handling food properly at home.

• Wash your hands thoroughly with water and soap for at least 20 seconds
• Store cooked food above raw food in a refrigerator so drippings from the raw food will not contaminate the cooked food.
• Place food on shelves at least 30cm off the floor so that the floor under the shelves can be cleaned.
• Keep nails short, clean and invarnished, and wear gloves if your hands have adhesive plasters on, so they do not slip into the food.
• Avoid reheating food unless it was previously cooled and stored in a chiller quickly. If food has to be reheated, bring the temperature to above 75 degree C for at least 2 minutes. Food should be reheated once.
• Do no refreeze thawed food. Bacteria multiplies during thawing.
• Do not put hot food into the chiller. This increases the temperature there, endangering other food there.
• Do not wear jewellery or watches when preparing food.