Living out Faith

Since I ran out of books to read and pay day is a few days away and I can't seem to find the book that I really want to read so I thought, I'll reread Tuesdays with Morrie. Have to say that the book had a profound effect on me. God must have had it planned that I should reread the book. Mitch Albom is a great writer. The stuff that he writes makes me ponder and think about my own life. "A great teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops" Henry Adams Took that quote out from the book. In all honesty, I never liked going to school as a kid. Right from primary school to secondary school to hotel school. I always felt left out, a little out of place. I couldn't speak Mandarin as well as my school mates and therefore I did feel ostracised half the time. I met a really nice teacher in secondary school that made me think about my life. Th...

Ha! Got you there! No..I wasn't out on an internet date. But rather I had dinner with some of my friends that I met online. I joined Geoexpat before coming to HK to find out more about HK and also to make some friends. This is my 3rd or 4th time going for a function. Met new friends and it's always nice meeting new friends. There was probably around 10 of us. I've met about 3 of them before. Didn't get a chance to talk to everyone as there were too many of us. Hopefully the next time, I'll get know some of them better.

Went home for lunch and got a bit of Blogtv on CNA. The title of the show was, I was here. Basically, they talked about people who blog about their illnesses. And a couple of them passed on. Daniel Leung was on the show. Well, I've not met him before but I'm really touched by him. Check out his website. http://jesusfreakdl.diaryland.com I have to say, after watching the show, it got me into a pensive mood. And got me thinking about my life again. I was reading Daniel's blog and well, it doesn't help if you're listening to James Blunt as well. It got me into a somewhat thinking, depressive state.....But then again, it's good for me to get in touch with myself again. I remember FD asking Daniel, are you afraid of death? And his response is, no, because of my belief and religion. I ask myself, am I afraid of death? No, the answer is a strong no because I know that I'll be going home. I'll see grandpa, Adrian, Derrick and people that I would have liked to me...

Yesterday when I came home, I opened my mailbox and got my bank statement. Looking through and I noticed that I was overpaid by HKD1090. And there I was sitting and thinking and trying to figure out why I was overpaid. And then.... thinking maybe I should just not say anything and wait and see. But then again, no, I will just go to work and check with them. So I went in today and checked with the school clerk. And to my nice surprise, I've got an increment! Ya!!! Yes, folks, it may not seem a lot but it's an extra bonus...Me very happy! And yes, will have to thank God for providing me with blessings like these. Last weekend Stephen, my black brother was in town. We went out on Friday nite. But such a shame, forgot to take pics with him. These are some of my friends that we met up with. We had good fun and it's nice meeting old friend and new friends. Had a good night out but well, had to leave early because I had to work on Saturday morning. Went to work on Saturday morning...

Last night, WK and me had a spat. Oh...nothing to worry, spats are a regular feature of all marriages if you hadn't known it by now. WK made a comment which I think is very apt in life. He said that some business guru said that whenever 2 strong brands merge to be a single brand, very often it ends up in a divorce and not in synergy. Well, in a marriage, it is hard when 2 persons of strong characters get married. It's the same as the corporate world in some sense. WK and me have very strong characters and very often we clash. But at the same time we produce synergy as well. However, we have our faith and religion to hold us to our ground and not seek the easy way out. Well, after the spat, we were talking about things. There were things that we said and that we thought that we made mistakes in our lives. I guess it was choices that we made with education and career. However, today as I was thinking through, I realised that God does not make mistakes in our lives at all. What ha...

Today, we had a school picnic. Well, as this was my first school picnic, I was very excited to go. Basically, it's a huge excursion, and everyone in the school went. From Primary 1 to 6, all the teachers and even the technical assistants went as well. We went to a YMCA Youth Village in Ma On Shan. Ma On Shan is kinda far from Ma Wan when I live and the school is. Ma On Shan is in New Territories. When we got there, the kids basically ran wild, played games, ate and ate. It was nice as some kids shared their homecooked picnic food with me. It was a nice experience. Here are some pics. As usual, I should have taken more pics.

Yes, I know, the title is a little or actually rather controversial. Let me explain. I came home for lunch on Tuesday and I caught a little of Grey's Anatomy. I like the show and I seem to only have time to catch snippets of it. Well, there was this scene (can't remember the characters' names) when this male intern was sleeping on the bed and this female intern woke him up to go through some stuff with him. I guess they have to take an exam soon or something like that. He asked her, why is she going to help him after what he had done. And she said, 'Because Jesus would have freaking done it!' Well, that set me thinking for a couple of days. There are numerous times in my life that when someone does me wrong, I would seethe and be pissed and want to take revenge on that bastard or bitch. But then again, is that right? And going back, there was this person that I felt had singlehandedly almost made me lost sight of what I should be doing professionally. Like I wrote a...

I've been trying hard to keep to my resolution of really going to the gym to work out to lose some fats and inches. Am especially determined after I realised that I lost my only pair of jeans that can fit me. Not sure where on earth is it. Me thinks maybe my laundry man loves my jeans too much and kept it! Went and walked around to shop of jeans and realised that I'm just one size too fat for normal size jeans and 2 sizes too small for fat people's jeans. So now, I must really try to lose weight to fit into normal jeans. As tempted as I am, I'm not going to eat myself to 2 sizes bigger. So I'm been pretty good, went to the gym on Monday and yesterday, I went for a swim. Swimming, that's something that I've not done in about a year. Even the last time that I went swimming, it was snorkelling in the sea. Had lots of help from my life vest, fins and mask and my snorkel. So, I went into the pool yesterday in my bikini and my goggles. Errr...only female in the po...

I'm not sure if age plays a factor but days seem to just go by and half the time, I'm in a daze. And without a blink of an eye, a week has passed. Days pass too fast and I'm getting old!!! Wrinkles showing soon. Been trying to blog but for some reason, I can't seem to get onto blogspot. This year started pretty well. Came back to HK on 2nd Jan and on 3rd Jan, I went to Shenzhen with a new American friend from Geoexpat. Kris is pretty new in HK and I was glad to have made friends with her. I believe that God sends people to us for reasons. Sometimes is for us to be a blessing to them and sometimes is for them to be a blessing to us. Either way, it's nice meeting her. HK has been pretty cold since we got back. The cold is really getting to me. I guess maybe I'm not used to so much cold at a go. Not sure if that makes sense. This weekend has been around 10 degrees and where we live, it's probably 8 degrees. Freezing....As much as I'm tempted to get another ...

Here am I sitting in my messy apartment in Hong Kong. Lots of cleaning up to do.....Left home at 4 am in the morning and the moment we get on the plane, even before the plane taxied, I fell asleep. Slept all the way through the flight and then got home, had lunch and then promptly took a nap. And now, suitcase is sitting in my apartment, stuff has to be packed, clothes to be sent to the laundry......oh well..... When I woke up from my nap and after dinner, and on CNA, a plane went missing and today's news, the plane actually crashed. I don't take very well to news of plane crashes. This is especially when we were on a plane yesterday. Have to really thank God that He has given us journey mercies with all the flying that we have been doing. Something struck me today as I was surfing the net. It does seem that it's around Christmas and New Year's that things happen. The ferry sank in Indonesia along with the plane crash and the earthquake in Taiwan, bombing in Bangkok and...

I intended this post to be the last of the year and the first of the year. But oh well, things didn't really work out the way I wanted it to be. I spent my last night of the year in church. It was nice spending my last night of the year, listening to church members sharing on how God has blessed and been real to them. I never really have the courage to go up and share how God has blessed WK and me. Maybe, just maybe, one day, I'll do that. Tonight's watch night is a little different. For one, I had to come back home to make sure that I've everything packed and my tummy is a little strange, not really behaving as I've obviously been eating too much. And dad and mum came to church with us as well. It's good. I'm going to write about my highs and lows of the year. I'll try to write it in chronological order starting with highs. Highs In April, my sister Joanne got married. Wedding was great and we welcomed Joe to the family. The wedding was so romantic and...