Living out Faith

The day started with a slight drizzle that became a huge down pour. The red rain signal was actually hoisted. Thought nothing much of it as the weather in HK can be rather unpredictable. Went for my class and just before I went home for lunch, I checked my laptop and there was a message from WK. Apparently, his granduncle went home with the Lord. On Sunday night, Mum called and told us that WK's granduncle was sick. The church was praying for him during pastoral prayer. We thought nothing of it as WK's mum didn't mention anything when he spoke with her. Yesterday, WK emailed his aunt and she replied and I called her as well. Apparently, he was in a serious condition. Half of his heart is dead. When we first heard that he was sick, our first question was, 'Is he saved?' When I was speaking to WK's aunt, I asked the same question. She told me that WK's grandma actually asked the same question at the hospital. Yes, praise the Lord, he's saved. I hardly know...

Was in the city yesterday. WK went to play soccer and I wondered in the city. Had a couple of errands to run anyway. While walking towards Soho for coffee, I saw a protest. Well this was a Falun Dafa protest. It was pretty full on. They had flags, drums, meditations and goodness knows what. The pic is rather blur as I took this pic with my camera. Took more shots but they're pretty blurry. Had to learn how to take pics with my phone. Protests are pretty intriguing. When I was in Sydney, I saw a protest. Think it was the Chinese protesting against something. And yesterday, I saw this. I like protest, actually, I like to protest against things. Dad used to say that I'm the opposite girl. Sometimes I would purposefully do things the opposite way because I like it and enjoyed speaking my mind. But in reality, I don't I'd ever join a protest because I too chicken to really join one.

So Happy has been itching and scratching for a while. We put it down to her just being a little dirty as we have not given her a bath since we got her. Her vet told us to hold the bath since she's still a little under the weather. On Tuesday night, there was a sudden thunderstorm and Happy was a little spooked. I felt sorry for her and I brought her up on our bed to sleep. Boy, was she happy! In the middle of the night, WK woke up and started scratching his faces real bad and I was itchy myself too. We had no choice but to put her back on the floor. WK continued scratching and we had a bad sleep. Happy started to whine because she wanted to be on our bed. When we got out of bed, yesterday, I was getting a little worried. Thinking, that we might have caught something from the dog. What if we got bugs, fleas, lice or goodness knows out. Asked this guy from Geoexpat online, he's a vet. He suspects that Happy might have scabies. I'm like scabies??? What on earth is scabies??? A...

I was watching Channelnewsasia last night. They had a program about an extended family that lives together. While watching that, I was reminded of my own extended family and my cousins. Just a couple of days ago, Sharon, my cousin in States, restarted the Sim Cousins email circle. She started it when her dad was sick and now it's restarted. I remembered when we were kids living in Pandan Gardens, Uncle Albert's family (Sharon's family) was just living next block. I'd go over all the time to play with Sharon and Morgan. Morgan was like my partner in crime. I love him to the bits! We used to sit in a corner and share our woes...yes, we had our woes at that time! And Xiao Di (Calvin) was like my little brother that I never had. His birthday is a day after mine. School holidays and weekends were a blast! Cousins gathered in Uncle Albert's place and we'll go crazy playing. During June holidays, Uncle Larry would fly back with his family and Eelynn and Jolynn will joi...

So last night, we were walking to the pier after having dinner. Found this nice Thai restaurant in Soho but the service ....could be better. Not sure if it's going to be a keeper. Going back to our walk, we walked past my favourite newsagent. The family that mans it, sells my 'ang mo' magazine. Love this stall. While we were paying up, WK suddenly exclaimed, look! They have Straits Times! I was surprised. And it was Saturday's too. Out of curiousity, WK asked him, how much and he said HKD$28. And I paid for it. WK seemed to be happy finding his piece of Spore. And then....it dawned on us...what we paid SIN5.60 for something that we normally pay for SIN$0.80! Text Joanne and her reply was..'Mad ah! Tell me what day you want and when I go there, I bring for you!'

Here, some pics that we took while we were in Macau. We're thinking of heading there again...in about a month's time....Time to play my pokies again!!! Happy is a lot better now. Brought her to the vet and she was well enough to get her shots. And she's a strange dog...She loves sleeping on the shoe shelf along with the shoes...Wonder why....And check her out..in her pretend Paul Smith outfit.

Happy Easter! The Lord is Risen Today! I love Easter! Easter is my second favourite festival next to Christmas. Christmas, Christ was born...Easter, He is risen! I'm glad that I worship a living Saviour! Praise the Lord! Went to church and after church, went to the Carlsons place for lunch. They invited us over. Nice of them. We were in Macau on Thursday to Saturday. It was a good time to go away. But Macau was real crowded! Macau is nice but it's small as well. We went to the casino quite a bit. I love love playing the pokie machines. Didn't lose and don't think I won much as well. Played enough to entertain myself. Planning to go there again probably for WK's birthday. Macau is a nice getaway and I get to play pokies....i love love pokies....but don't worry, I'm not addicted and I play 20 cents machines, which is something like 4 cents Sin.

The cold snap started yesterday. It was around 16 degrees which I thought was strange. In the afternoon when I was heading home, it got real cold. I was almost shivering. Poor Happy started to cough again. On Sunday, the temperature was something like 24 degrees and then the sudden drop. We had to take out our heater again. Poor Happy, she was cold last night and started coughing real bad. Felt sorry for her and brought her up our bed. This morning, horror of horrors, it was like 13 degrees. Pulled out my tights, boots, scarf and coat. It's winter all over again. Good grief, when will this weather madness end??? Getting sick of the weather and I mean it literally. We're heading to Macau tomorrow. Jace, Angie's daughter will be coming over to house sit and look after Happy as well. Hopefully, Happy will be fine and happy. And it's beginning to dawn on me that Happy is such a corny name!

Yesterday was my sister and brother in law's wedding anniversary. They got married last year on 1st Apr. April's Fool. Joanne has always been the cheerful one and probably getting married on April's Fool was befitting for her. They're on a holiday to Redang now. Met Jacelyn yesterday for lunch. She's Angie's daughter. Angie is almost like my mother at my old workplace. She brought stuff from home for me. And she also brought a present from Daune. One of my ex-students. It was really heartwarming that he still remembers me. Gives me a nice and fuzzy feeling.