14 Days Diary of COVID-19 (Day 14)

31st March 2020

Today is the 14th day of MCO which is the first phase, tomorrow will be the second phase another 14-days of MCO.

Started my day with a warm breakfast prepared by mum, porridge with eggs, cherry tomatoes and some canned food.

side dishes for the porridge

the chicken porridge

Today, I started to do a planner for the day, so that I will be more productive and sticking to schedule rather than procrastinating. Hehe

I did some of the admin work and I happy to get most of it done.

my messy workstation

At 3.00 pm, we had a Zoom teachers meeting to discuss and feedback on the online classes that we did with our students.

Tonight, I started the bible study on book of Revelation in English version - Book of Revelation by FF Chong (TJC Dublin Ireland).

14 Days Diary of COVID-19 (Day 13)

30th March 2020, Monday

Hello! It's the 13th day of MCO here in Malaysia. Today I woke up early, 7.00 am thinking to be productive, but end up not. Started the day having breakfast with family, American style breakfast bread with sausage, egg, baked beans and my favourite green tea.

Breakfast

This morning we had an important mission, buying some groceries to distribute to few of our church members who are in need. Mum and I went to the opposite store to get some food for them while dad was assign to get it delivered to them. Feel thankful being able to do something for other during this time.

Later on we had lunch, I cooked a simple dish, tomato chicken and heated up last batch of mum's sambal udang. 

Lunch

Tomato chicken

After lunch, sky was getting gloomy and dark then it started to raining. Feeling cool and wanted to rest. Bro switched on The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh. I watched half way and my eyes started to close and right before the movie finish my eye opened again , hehe...

Winkwink & Chipchip watching too

After waking up from nap, I managed to settle some admin work of the music centre. At least I did some work. 

Tonight I've put in some time for bible study. I always wanted to learn more about Book of Revelation. I managed to listen to three videos and shall continue tomorrow. I hope I can finish it before the MCO ends.  

Thanks to Joseph for sharing this link to me for quite some time, but only now that I managed to have time and a peace mind to really listen and learn about it. This is the link to the bible study: Bible study on Book of Revelation (in Chinese)

Hope to be more productive tomorrow with a discipline schedule!

14 Days Diary of COVID-19 (Day 12)

29th March 2020, Sunday

Well, it's Sunday again! I didn't do much during the day time. As usual we had breakfast together then I prepared and setup for my online piano lesson with my student at 1.30 pm.

Set-up for online class

It was my first live online lesson with my student and we were using video call on Whatsapp. From camera placement to giving instructions and keeping students focus was really challenging especially for younger student. It was good experience though, shall improve for the next session. 

Online class

14 Days Diary of COVID-19 (Day 11)

28th March 2020, Saturday

It's Sabbath Day again. As usual Sabbath routine during the Movement Control Order period, we are having online morning service at 10.00 am. This week, sermon speaker was Pr. Nathanael Chin and Sis. Chin Yen Yen interpreted. The sermon title was Bergaul dengan Tuhan.

Morning service

After service, we had our breakfast, fried mee with eggs and sausages. Then we rested before the afternoon service.

Breakfast

The afternoon service started at 2.00 pm, sermon title Takutlah akan Allah dan Berpeganglah pada Perintah-perintahNya delivered by Pr. Thomas Kam and interpreted by Sis. Wong Shen Shiang. 

Afternoon service

After the service ended, I had a Zoom meeting with TMP teachers discussing about replacement classes to do online during this MCO period. It was a nice experienced though.

Nothing much for tonight, rested then had some time talking with dear over the phone and watched some videos.

Continue to stay safe at home everyone! 

14 Days Diary of COVID-19 (Day 10)

27th March 2020, Friday

Good morning! It's Friday again. We had warm breakfast, mum cooked chicken porridge with mushroom and corn.

Porridge for breakfast

Then I continued editing the pan mian cooking video and finally it's done and up on YouTube, check it out here Pan Mian Soup

Later in the afternoon, I had some me time to look into a music page which was free for teachers and students to use it during this MCO period. So many fun and exciting materials to learn from.

Mum made some popiah for tea time snack. Yummy!

We had early dinner as we are preparing for the Friday evening online service at 8.00 pm. Pr. Hagai Tang delivered sermon titled Permulaan Pernderitaan  and Sis. Catherine Chin interpreted.

14 Days Diary of COVID-19 (Day 9)

26th March 2020, Thursday

I woke up quite late this morning, around 8.30 am. I had a bowl of yummy goodness for today's breakfast ~ oat with watermelon and sunflower seed. First time having this combination and I love it!

My yummy bowl of goodness

After breakfast, I started my work some accounts stuff for the music centre I'm working for. I was determined to at least get one part done for today. And yes I did it. Shall continue the rest tomorrow. 

In the afternoon, we watched Jungle Book, a Disney cartoon too. I had the VHS back when I was a child too, and this one was the first VHS tape that mum bought for me. I had quite a number collections of VHS tape of Disney cartoon. Up till now I still prefer to watch Disney cartoon, the old ones.

watching Jungle Book

Mum cooked stirred fried potato with chicken fillet and gizzard oyster sauce for lunch. It was so yummy!

Yummy lunch!

Skies were getting dark and then it started to rain. All of us had a good afternoon nap ><

It was my time to prepare the dinner. Just simple two dishes as there are some left over from the lunch. For dinner, we had stirred fried cabbage and toufu with shrimp and mushroom sauce.

Dinner is served

And now I typing this post, hopefully by tonight I can manage to finish up editing the pan mian cooking video.

Update 27.03.2020: Pan Mian Soup video is here!

p/s: continue to pray and stay safe everyone!

14 Days Diary of COVID-19 (Day 8)

25th March 2020, Wednesday

Today was a laid-back day. Mum prepared bread, egg and sausages for breakfast. After having breakfast, I started to clear stuff on my laptop, since its starting to run slow.

Yum yum breakfast

At 1.00 pm, Prime Minister announced that the Movement Control Order will be extended until 14th of April 2020. 

MCO to be extended

In the afternoon, there was nothing much to do, so we watched 101 Dalmatians cartoon, one of my favourite childhood Disney cartoon which I watched it using the VHS tape. 

We had late lunch, I cooked a simple dish for us to eat just stir fry crabmeat with egg and mushroom. Also heated up some mum's sambal udang.

Lunch!

Since the extension of MCO, before people start to panic buying again, mum and I went to the Pick n Pay store in front of our house to stock of some food as our food in the fridge are running low too.

picking up what's needed only

14 Days Diary of COVID-19 (Day 7)

24th March 2020, Tuesday

Today is the seventh day of Movement Control Order (MCO). Still staying at home, doing some work most of the time on the laptop.

I managed to typed the notes melody for a hymn. Lyrics to be completed on some other day (procrastinating).

I also received videos of a student practicing his ukulele from his mum. I'm glad that the videos helped them to be productive at home too.

Mum cooked Sambal Udang for lunch which was so yummy. I wasn't being productive in the kitchen these few days.

Mum's Sambal Udang

I also managed to edit the pan mian cooking video. But haven't done yet too. Hehe

Also pampered myself for facial mask tonight.

I think that's all I've done for today.

Click here to read my 14 Days Diary of COVID-19 (Day 6)

14 Days Diary of COVID-19 (Day 6)

23rd March 2020, Monday

Hello Monday!

Last night I've prepared some song for my Lagenda group class children and I shared it with their parents through WhatsApp group for their children to practice at home. So some parents requested video for the songs so that they can play and sing along. So it was time for me to film the videos.

My bro assisted me in filming the videos and the process took around 1 hour plus. Then we break for lunch. After lunch I started to edit the videos, one is for ukulele class and another is for music and movement. Feel free to check out the videos here: Music & Movement , Ukulele

Remember to continue to stay safe at home everyone :)

Click here to read my 14 Days Diary of COVID-19 (Day 5)

14 Days Diary of COVID-19 (Day 5)

22nd March 2020, Sunday

It's Sunday, I woke up around 9.00 am. Mum woke up much earlier, she steamed pandan mantao for breakfast.

Then we decided to make pan mian soup (Hakka Flat Noodle Soup) for our lunch. It's our first time making it from scratch. Mum boiled the soup while I prepared the dough for the noodle. We improvised the recipe that we found online.

The ingredients for making the dough (noodles) are:
500 grams of flour
220 ml of water
an egg
a pinch of salt

Ingredients for the dough (noodle)

For the soup, we'll need:

some chicken fillet / pork meat (didn't take photo)

anchovies

mushroom

sayur manis or any preferable vegetable (we are using cabbage, as only this available at home)

Ingredients for the soup

These are for the garnishing:

Stirred fried chicken fillet

Fried anchovies

Fried garlic / red onion

For garnishing

Pan Mian Soup

In the afternoon we made Dalgona Latte, the drink that went viral on the social media.

Here are the ingredients needed:

2 tablespoon of coffee powder

2 tablespoon of sugar

2 tablespoon of hot water

milk

Here's our version of Dalgona Latte ^^

Click here to watch video of us making the Dalgona Latte

Click here to read my 14 Days Diary of COVID-19 (Day 4)  

14 Days Diary of COVID-19 (Day 4)

21st March 2020, Saturday

I woke up early today, around 7.00 am. It was Sabbath Day and I seldom get to observe the full Sabbath as I'm working on Saturday morning. Thank God for this blessing in disguise, even though we can't go out to church for service but I get to observe the full Sabbath and also to rest.

I cooked breakfast for the family, two types of menu (sounds like a chef hehe) first one is Fried Rice with Sausage and Egg, second is Tomato Pasta with Crabmeat.

After breakfast we prepared ourselves for the online morning Sabbath service at 10.00 am. The service was led by Pr. James Yapp and interpreter was Dn. James Kieu. The sermon title was Pada Hari Yang Malang, Ingatlah. Sang hymn number 388 and followed by prayer. Preacher Yapp delivered his sermon then ended with singing hymn number 344 then followed by prayer.

After the morning service we took short nap while waiting for afternoon service at 2.00 pm. The afternoon Sabbath service was led by Pr. Zakheus Yong in Malay and interpreted by Sis. Evelyn in Mandarin. Sang hymn number 333 and then followed by prayer. Preacher Yong delivered sermon title Lembah Akhor Menjadi Pintu Pengharapan. Second hymn was 407 and ended with prayer.  

Thank God after the service I feel more comforted through the words of God. I feel more safe and not worrying too much of the spread of virus because in Him we trust and also He is also the provider of shelter in the time of storm. But that does not mean we can go out any where that we want, we must still obey to the rules by the government. 

Watch LIVE Online Sermon from True Jesus Church Sabah here:

YouTube: TJC Sabah GA Official

Facebook: GA Recording

Later at around 5.00 pm, mum and me went to the newly opened Pick n Pay store just right in front of our apartment (within walking distance) to buy some food. Thank God having this store which is convenient for us during these days. 

Remember to pray. Stay safe everyone.

p/s: Donggongon choir was supposed to attend KKR Kudat on today and tomorrow.

Click here to read my 14 Days Diary of COVID-19 (Day 3)