February update

Dear friends,

Thank you for taking the time to visit our blog once in a while to check up on us. We haven't been regular in writing mainly because we were just plain lazy... no excuses. 申し訳ございません (common polite phrase for expressing regret). Anyway, we will aim to write in more consistently, starting with this little update.

JLPT2. Thanks to all your prayers, we passed our JLPT! Our results came in 2 days ago. It is a huge relief to know our results after having held our breaths for over 2 months after our exam in December.

April 15. That is the date we are intending to fly back to Singapore to mark the end of our 2-year associateship. Daniel's parents will be visiting us one more time in end-March and we take a trip Kyoto and Nara during the cherry blossoms period.

Chocolate fondant. Joy tried making this heavenly 'chocolate spilling from the insides' dessert for Valentine's day. She did pretty well on her first try, and Daniel has been bugging her to make more of it since.

Genesis 6. Daniel will be sharing on the story of Noah and the great flood in Tokorozawa HC this weekend. It takes a day to draft a simple outline in English, but 3 days to translate all of it into Japanese! (make that elementary Japanese). Daniel was also wondering what some terms mean in the passage.

A question for the audience: What does "Sons of God, daughters of man" refer to in the chapter, and why does Noah's name mean 'comfort' especially when God sends the flood in his time? Send in your comments in the Guestbook!