my trip to yunnan...

what a wonderful trip... our group has only 11 ppl... all are nice and funny...

yunnan is great... with nice scenary... i have taken quite some 600 pictures... here are the online albums to share... pls enjoy...

Yunnan 8-day tour (2005.06.11-18)

turns 27...

finally turns 27 today...
an year closer to 30... //sigh... hahaha...

happy birthday to me,
happy birthday to me,
happy birthday, happy birthday~~~
happy birthday to me!

thx God for His 4ever guidance and providance...

a surprise b'day party...

yes... it is supposed to be a surprise party for me... eventually it doesn't work out... somehow, the surprise party is being de-surprised... i'm such a good detective... =p

thank you for all the brothers and sisters... chris, cow the angel, vicky, siuwai, shirley, jaiphen, ar yin, alice, edith, puikit (danny), vincent, angel, laihar, david, mr & mrs chan, mr & mrs mak... and those, for whatever reason, couldn't join us tonite...

thank you for your b'day gift... it is so touching... ~~>_<~~~~ once again, thannnnnnkk yooooooouuuu (x 1,000 times) !!!

em... btw, this friday will be my last day @ CCCon...

contract signed...

today's afternoon, i went to MMI... and signed my letter of offer...

as told by cissie, i would be assisting her in two new shows in hongkong (gonna be my main job duty)... one is about leisure goods (apr 2006), and the other is for sports goods sourcing (sept 2006)... both are joint events with TDC...

should have more information after having the first meeting, with TDC, on this thu...

i will report duty on june 20...

my new "toy"...

just forgot to introduce u my new "toy" - the HP pocket pc, model rx 3715...

haha... i'm not rich but they do offer 12 month interest-free installment plan from credit card (the most evil side, the dark side, of credit card)... *_*

but, yes, i love it... i love it very much... plus, with the HP promotion, i can get a 1GB SD card (memory card) as free gift... it is really a good deal, rite? yeah~~~

updates: the new challenge...

it has been almost 3 weeks since i first got the call from ex-boss... em... yes, the decision is made: i will take the offer... back to the exhibition industry...

after lots of prayers... seeking His guidance... sharing with friends... i think i need to move on... move on to the next stage... i will leave CCCon in mid-june... it is not a easy decision though...

in this new post... i will be assisting the manager, mainly, in two new projects / exhibitions, including the leisure sport expo, to be co-organised with tdc... plus some existing fairs, to re-package the show, like the real estate industry expo in the mainland...

gonna sign the contract / letter of offer next week...

may God's peace be with me always...

so many things but a prayer request again...

so many things happening lately... say moving office, new and unexpected projects... but i think the prayer request is more critical... and here comes the story...

today i received a call from my ex-boss at the germany exhibition company MMI... she asked if i would like to work with her again... according to her, the company gonna expand and extra manpower was needed...

my feeling was so strange... amazed... coz it's not making sense... couldn't really understand... indeed dunno how to describe the feeling... since there should be quite a lot of good / suitable candidates in the market... but why she has to call me??

to be honest... i'm really 15/16... em... i'm happy with CCCon... i love my colleague... they are so friendly... and we are really working as a team... plus i can have flexi time for my ACM serving...

on the other side... i have been longing for a job which is more PR-related, more marketing-oriented... to work in the exhibition industry which is really attractive...

well... this offer would have a more "foreseeable" (in my mum's sense) future and prospect... plus i assume that i can start saving up money for my other plans...

but what is my career path?

so i'm really frustrated... should i go or stay... so pls do pray for me... pray for the peace from God... no matter what the decision is... what i want is His peace... thx~~~

sexual orientation...

we have such a case in hongkong...

a 2nd-floor bookstore refused to put some pamphlets - promoting a book on lesbian lifestyle, funded by the gov - on their news stand... since the director and owner of that bookstore is a Christian... even though it is not a Christian bookstore... they don't think it is appropriate to put such materials in the store... so they rejected...

this is just half of the story...

a lesbian organisation - Rainbow Hong Kong, then claimed that this incident had showed that they (lesbians and gays) were being discriminated in Hong Kong... their human rights were being intervened... 2 LC members, Chiu-hung Cheung & Emily Lau, said that Hong Kong as a plural society, the public should be more open and supportive to different minority groups... they urged the government to pass the anti-sexual orientation discrimination bill...

my goodness... should we have a bill to protect heterosexual's rights?

i found love...

"i found love" - this is the song we have been practicing in the singing class for the last couple of weeks... it is so difficult: in term of its tempo and its melody... esp i, as a bass (second bass), have to sing a "high A" note (ok, it is the so-called "high A" in male range, u know what i mean?)... this "high A" is really out of my range (as my upper range is just an "E flat", or "E" the most)...

yes, it is difficult but challenging... and we are having fun as well... hopefully we could make it one day!!!

wedding invitation...

today i received another wedding invitation... it's from my university schoolmate - kwanny & her bf, tommy...

this is my 4th (?) wedding invitation in 2005... but my another good friend told me - this is his first invitation received since he starts working... oh, lucky him...

i've expected to receive a few more (hopefully, later this year)... //sigh... $$$-less... but glad to witness each of these weddings...

to kwanny & tommy: happy wedding~~~ see u on april 23...

a prayer request for u...

here comes an *** urgent *** prayer request... for canada... for the world...

"On April 9, a rally (organized by mainstream Canadians) will be held in Parliament Hill, Ottawa to protest against Same Sex Marriage Bill which will be read and voted on April 12. This is our last chance to express our views and concerns and pray for the government of Canada. All Chinese churches will organize own car pools ... Please pray for Canada!!!"

when hong kong has...

when hong kong has...

poutine @ lankwaifong
excel [gum] @ 7-11 (no more now)
starbucks @ everywhere
burgerking @ airport, restricted area
subway @ wanchai & discovery bay

what gonna be next?

doctor Lien - part 3...

just wrote an article on the story of doctor Lien Chia-en... pls check the latest issue of Sojourners @ ccfellow.org... but only available in Chinese, plus Cantonese narration...

goodbye bel...

bel is leaving tomorrow... to end her 3 weeks vacation in hongkong... she will first head back to vancouver... for a nite with her family... then back to her office in ottawa again... we haven't seen each other for almost 3 years... my goodness...

so far, we have leung's family, ar hong & hw, likin & manchi, peter & suki with chau's sisters, ar lai, david visited hongkong (do i miss out anyone?)... plus yanyan will come in may...

meanwhile, wilson (and his gf) and donna is coming back for good (in mid-april)... ar lai seems like heading back upon graduation... mingkei wanna move as well... woh~~~

cova t buffet...

yummy yummy.... for only HK$138 + 10%... how can u resist... having "high tea" at such a nice and elegant environment...

plus we met stanley ho 何鴻燊 & his n-th wife today...

my first time...

today is Good Friday... yes, we have Good Friday every year - but...

today is my first time being in a prison (for 7 hours)...

today is my first time leading worship (should be sharing hymns, to be more exact) in English...

today is my first time sharing my testimony in English...

maybe u can figure out what i've done today... i (together with other ACMers) went to Pik Uk Prison for their Easter EMs organised by HK Christian Kun Sun Association...

we had three meetings to host: two in Cantonese, one in English... i was then "assigned" to lead the English one... really scary... coz i had no experience in leading a English worship... ~_~

it took me quite some days to come up with the songlist... we had a brief rehersal two weeks before... i wrote down all my scripts... all things were ready the nite before...

but things never happened as u might wish... esp when u thought that u had well prepared...

according to the rundown, we would have a 15-min hymns sharing before the sermon... but upon we arrived the foreign canteen (where we had the gathering), the speaker - Helen Reed - had finished her sermon already... she, indeed, had already been there for an hour and more...

well... we could simply sing the 3 songs which we had prepared... but what to do next... coz our session was supposed to end by 4pm, but now it was only 3pm...

okay... we just finished our part as planned... meanwhile Helen did a few sharings between songs... we sang Perhaps Love, More than Anything, and God will make a Way...

after those hymns - we had 45 mins left... so Helen asked us (our team) a very simple question - How did Jesus change your life?... simple but we needed to use English... ooops... hopefully with God's mercy, we managed to share our stories in English...

this is really a wonderful experience i ever have in serving Him... so many "first time"s altogether... thx God for letting me to serve Him in the prison...

poo ai...

another round of "killing school" has just announced lately... i didn't pay much attention to the news... until my friend told me: "poo ai" is on the list... oooooops... my goodness...

"poo ai" is a catholic primary school in hunghum, kowloon... it's just next to the apartment building where i once lived... so it just took me a few mins to walk downstairs for school...

but in the coming school year... "poo ai" will no longer allow to admit P1 student (a.k.a. grade 1 in american edu system)... as it couldn't recruit enough P1 students this year... "poo ai" is just one of the primary schools to be killed...

why do we such a "school killing" policy? just becoz of a low birth rate in hongkong... resulting in an excess of primary school vacancies... esp hunghum is an old urban district, with fewer new born babies now... but u may also say that - there is a fault in the planning of education resources...

anyway... no matter for what reason... it is sad... *_*

more on doctor Lien...

here is one of Lien's stories from the book...

when his churchmates knowing that he was sent to Africa, they kept sending him boxes of used/new clothes without saying a word, or stating any reason... a total of sixty boxes (woh!)...

with his creative mind, he started the idea of a clothes-for-garbage activity in his area... hundreds of children gathered at a school playground... within only 2 hours, all the clothes were gone...

then...

a taiwanese girl heard of his story and wrote him an email... but Lien's reply on the clothes-for-garbage project was then being forwarded to seventy of the girl's friends... and these seventy kept forwarding the email... finally this email was widely spread around the world... [pls don't under-estimate the power of the internet...]

more and more ppl knew about this wonderful project... then they started sending him boxes and boxes and boxes of clothes and toys... this time, there were 1,500 boxes...

these 1,500 boxes of clothes had created a series of problems... under God's providence, and with Lien's faithful heart... all these problems were resolved one-by-one, no later no earlier... so he could start another round, with a larger scale, of clothes-for-garbage campaign in the city...

about doctor Lien Chia-en...

yes... i am back from taiwan... with lots of fun, new experience... no photo, coz my DC wasn't working... plus lots of, lots of books...

lately i have been reading one written by doctor Lien...

doctor Lien Chia-en (連加恩), a brother in the Lord... he is a medical graduate from National Yang Ming University, taiwan... he signed up for the alternative diplomatic service program and served in Burkina Faso (South Africa) upon graduation...

the book is about his life in Burkina Faso for the past 2 years... about the miracles happened around him... about God's mercy to his faithful heart...

i am so touched by the book... by the work he, and He, has done...

CNY is coming to town...

just 3 more days... CNY is coming to town... according to chinese calendar... it (2005) gonna be the year of rooster...

tonite i went to the flower market in causeway bay... well~~~ already "ppl mountain ppl sea"... the streets are crowded as well... and shops are all in their "final sales" stage (from 20% to 50% off)... money are flying away... $$$less, BAD...

starting from the coming wed, we will enjoy our 5-day CNY holiday (including sat & sun) in hong kong ... my friends in canada, don't be jealous... hehe...

hong kong's CNY holiday is the shortest among the three main chinese areas... taiwan ppl will have a week of holidays (woh~)... and, indeed, the mainlanders will have almost two / three weeks (woh~ woh~ woh~)... since they need to travel for days and nights to get back their home... so very likely that they would have used half of the holidays on the road...

i will be spending 3 days in shaoguan (northern part of the guangdong province) with my mum... then will have usual family gatherings during the rest of the CNY holiday... and the key is - to get red pockets from relatives... hehe...

btw, my trip to taiwan is confirmed... leaving on the 18 morning and returning on the 21 evening... the air ticket only costs 980 + tax (371)... a good deal, rite?