my bday present

Thanksgiving Year 2007

Being the last day of 2007, below are the plentiful gifts which my Heavenly Father gave me:

1. A sweet and smooth transition married life w/ Mr. Lai. Life is very busy but thanks to my husband w/ unlimited love and patience, we began to know each other's habit alot.

This is the steak my husband made me tonight - full of love!!

2. Work - another extremely crazy work life but thanks God that I have really smart and good colleagues which are lovable.

3. Family - my mom, my father my sister and brother are so good to me.. and they are getting better.

4. Health - despite the fact that I got sick at least once per month, I'm thankful that those are just small disease, at least not harmful. Now, gotta treasure every moment I have and do sth really meaningful so that I won't waste every single minute I "earned".

5. Cell - I've got a wonderful cell in Timothy. I love you all - brothers and sisters!

Jesus is the heart of Christmas

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

John 3:16

While we were having so much fun during this Christmas, let's not forget that it's God's grace and love so that we can have a fruitful life, and an eternal life.

O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree....dala dala lalala~

Fai Lun Wedding

Dec 17, 2007 - One Year Anniversary

We had a candle night dinner at Soho.. The steak tasted great and the price was very reasonable. My husband got red face after drinking a bit wine..haha~

Thanks God for a very smooth married life for the past one year....and I've married to a guy who treated me extremely well. Still a lot to learn though.

Bobby Brown

I went to "frame" my eyebrow at Bobby Brown but this time it's a little bit different - a Male staff who helped me. I was quite worried at the beginning but indeed he's very nice and professional. The outcome is nice...esp when I recharged a bit after falling into a sleep! ha~

Happy Birthday to me

Thank you all for celebrated the day w/ me thru SMS, phone, dinners, FB..etc.

Haha, I need to thank my dear husband who bought me a very nice gift. I love you!

I had a great week although I was sick..haha

Long Pin 360 Walk

The 3.5hr walk was extremely challenging. We've walked thru' 3-4 uphill and downhills. The uphills are almost stairways...

Finally I made it and this proves to be another health check for me..haha

NDS II (revised)

After 3 months of waiting, the police finally called and we can pick up the NDS tmr. Yeah!!!

Venetian Macau

The hotel is huge. Suite is very nicely decorated. It was extremely tired to walk around suite<-> breakfast <-> meeting room. But the service are not good..Everything is so expensive..

More pics at Hin's blog

Happy!

Today is the the day I married Mr. Lai for 10 months. I always feel that time really flies and the past months were not easy... so much to do but it's really happy to live w/ Anthony.

I'm on my study leaves these days. Originally I planned to go back to office at 9am-9.30am for a con-call w/ NY. Thx God that the guy cancelled the call and now I can stay home and wake up late.

No worries!

"Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus." Phil 4:6-7

A very familiar verse which almost everybody can recite! However, how many of us can really do it?

In my mindset, I think I can manage to understand but it's not easy to apply on every single daily tasks - as smallest as "Can I finish this calculation by tomorrow so that I can discuss w/ my boss tmr?"

As serious as when will my family accepted Jesus Christ? It do worries my a lot, sometimes. Father pls again assure me w/ your promise and let me understand this from my bottom of my heart, not just mentally but full-faithfully. Not just "Ah Q" "spiritual" but really as a faith from what we have been gone thru' during the life we walked together for the past 10+ years. And of coz' to bring it to action!

Amen!

NDS? Cell Phone?

After picking up a NDS on the bus some time ago, I picked up a cell phone at a min-bus yesterday. Hee hee, it was an old model Motorola. Gee, how come I'm always so lucky? I have thought of leaving the cell phone as if I had not been noticed. At last, I decided to bring it home and wait for the owner calling back!

She lost the phone after going to church on the way home. I think it's God who used me to give her back the phone. A very nice arrangement, Father!

What about the NDS? I really look forward to "adopting" that machine if no one reports lost to the Police ..hoho - so greedy!

Daily bread from my co. cell - 不要小看你年輕

經文: 「我就說：主耶和華啊，我不知怎麼說，因為我是年幼的。耶和華對我說：你不要說我是年幼的‧因為我差遣你到誰那裏去、你都要去‧我吩咐你說甚麼話、你都要說。」（耶一：６－７）
上帝差遣耶利米；那時他還年輕，自然覺得膽怯，但上帝卻不讓他說︰「我只是個小孩。」他心裡怎麼想，我們不知道，但我們知道，他忘了是上帝揀選他作祂的傳聲筒，他不必費心思想要說什麼話，也不必去選擇聽眾，他所要做的，就是到上帝要他去的地方，說上帝要他說的話，上帝必給他力量，做成這樣的事。
這不也是一些年輕傳道或教師的情形﹖上帝知道你是年輕的，知識經驗都不足，但祂揀選你、差派你，你就不得逃避這呼召，上帝會在你的軟弱處彰顯祂自己。若你像瑪土撒拉一樣高壽，年紀對你又有怎樣實際的幫助﹖若你像所羅門一樣聰明，或許你會像他一樣，晚節不保。持守你的信念，並堅守你的原則，你就會有智慧，慎謀能斷。

Congrats MIchele!

I'm so happy today coz' I got to know that my U classmates got married today. We have the same name - Michele.

Yup, she left for NY after U graduation for her medi study and I lost contact w/ her somehow (actually being too lazy) but I still recall the days we went to class and had dinner w/ Alean and Jacqueline.

All the best my dear!

Devotion Sharing - 2 Corinthians 5:7-10

"We live by faith, not by sight. We are confident, I say, and would prefer to be away from the body and at home w/ the Lord. So we make it our goal to please him, whether we are at home in the body or away from it. For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive what is due him for the things done while in the body, whether good or bad."

A big warning to me! I woke up this morning, pretty tired and still feeling sick (hv been sick for the past few days!) Worrying about work and study, my head is filled up w/ the earthly tasks, not mentioned about "how to please Him"... (my new colleagues work so hard that they need to take taxi home for a few nights, you can imagine how busy and pressure we are.)

Recently I have been thinking of how my life to honour God, praise?

Again, it's the priority of my life. Gotta reset things all over again for there's one day I hv to stand in front of the Thrown and Jesus will count my fruit of Spirit - hm..no love, no patience, not much joy (I always forgot that Lord is w/ us and why still not feeling happy?), no peace, no ???..OMG! "big wok".

If I have real faith (i.e not judge things by our logical common sense / sight), there no more need to think too much about the earthly problems/ difficutlies/ worries...

Cheers

Hin's fellowshipmate visit us.

Thanks for the gifit. I like the Noah ark.

Sept 10 - Inside Out

Our cell started to use this book for our guided group sharing session bi-weekly. Just read a few pages, we've gone thru' a few interesting topics:-

1. Eager for change / transform / following Christ's standard: seems like we all want to change but our body is weak. Dun give up pal! Our Heavenly Father has grace upon us.

2. Our purpose of life - my first questions when I was in form one: If my life is just like everyone else: born, grow up, work hard at school, work extra hard at work, marriage/family, worry about your children, sick, getting old and then die. What's the point to making an effort? Why do I need to follow this routine? Will I feel happy on this life path? Is there sth else which is more worthwhile for me to pursue?

3. 10 min true happiness? I'd like to use the word JOY instead of happiness since JOY is sth come from the heart but happiness is sth dependent on environment/things. When we grow up, we begin to look at how much achievement we get, value from the world such as fame, authority, house, car, degree/ master title..etc are the things we being measured as "successful". However, have ppl ever thought that in order to chase these things, one gotta sacrifice a lot? Does it really worthwhile to go for it? Are these things even more important than our own health, our relationship w/ the beloved ones and the love from our Heavenly Father (and Eternal Life)? I felt even more lonely, empty and aimless eveytime i finished one exam. Felt depressed after a karaoke night. I'm not saying that I did not enjoy the time / the satisfication after some advancement, just that these kinds of happiness cannot really fill up the "hole" deep down in my heart.... which is meant to be filled by Jesus.

Jesus said," I have come that they may have LIFE, and have it to the full."

A lot of interesting discussions: what quality does a mature Christian acquire?

Sept 7-8 Company Team Building - Zhongshan Shangrila

http://www.shangri-la.com/en/property/zhongshan/shangrila

Out of my expectation, the hotel is very clean, spacious and nice. There is a chinese garden (those with bridge and small lake - nice garden view from my room) No wonder the group is highly ranked. Daily rate is RMB 800, which is reasonable.

Just that there's nth specail in ZhongShan - except we tried a delicious meal at a famous reataurant.

Organic Corn

First time to know that organic corn is in such a special color. Hin asked if this is eatable....

Drama

The drama from TVB, Bobby said," if eveyone's life is put on a drama stage, Children would be the main characters in parents drama but Parents are at most the supporting actor/actress in children's drama."

So sad? I fully understand the way I miss my family so much when I move out after married, (still getting used to it)...But I think I will do my best to keep my connection w/ my family. Although I'm not living w/ you now, you are always in my prayers for God will take care of you.

Romans 5:8

No need to explain, this is the statement which clearly spell out how God loves people by action:

"But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us."

When I'm mad w/ people or complaining, need to think that I'm also a sinner. For God loves them also, how could I not forgive them?

Macau Trip Aug 25 - 26

Had a relax trip at Macau with Hin this weekend. Nice portugal dinner - sirloin steak wrapped with bacon.

We didn't do much but walked around and ate and met Saga. Really admire him for taking a 3 month no-paid leave and spend time in short term mission in Macau. Gotta give up alot of money! But I can tell he's really very happy - God has rewarded him for what he pays. First time to the "black beach"! intesting that the sand are very fine.

Book

This is the book I shared during the cell's Cheung Chau camp. It's a really good book. The authur is a Law degree graduate from Yale and works as a journalist at the Chicago Tribune. The book is like his spiritual journal converted from an atheist to a Christ followers. The book started off w/ the challenge "Is there credible evidence that Jesus of Nazareth really is the Son of God?"

A really "thinking" book to lead you re-think your belief! And as you know, I dun like reading but this is really one of the books I DO finish (a long time ago, no more time to do this luxury thing!)...w/ 350+ pages!

MegaBox

Went to Megabox last night. It's not as big as I thought. Another issue is transportation issue - too hot to line up for the free shuttle bus. Anywayz, a nice date w/ Hin last night. hee hee.

Meaningful LIfe?

里奧.巴斯卡力 (Leo Buscaglio)說:
生命, 是上帝賜給世人的禮物; 生活,是人類回報上帝的禮物.


Anthony asked me whether I work for earning a living OR I live to work. A tough question coz' sometimes, I don't know if I really like my current job. Somehow I've lost the passion since graudation. Too busy, too "inhuman", less and less friendships..etc. BUT, working enviornment is like that. The only way is to take it and recall that God has a mission on me in the working place. Then, work become much more meaningful than just going after the title or money.

Nice pic

Look at these two little cute babies...

I bet their swimming suits are even more exciting.

hoho, Halloween is yet to coming!

Insurance Coverage #2

We came across this topic last Sat - discussing on how much is enough for our family should we die.. 500K? 1 mil? 2.5mil?

A frd of my bro passed away, leaving a wife and child and a small amt of insurance sum assured. I ask Anthony how much is enough, and I told him that I believe no matter how much is left, God will provide sufficiently, in all aspect. So, no need to worry too much.. Though, need to reduce extra / unnessary spending so that I can use money wisely and save!

Typhoon #8

While everyone were rushing home and got stuck at the MTR station, I was working at office until 5.30pm. So sad!

Insurance Protection

1 〔上行之詩。〕我要向山舉目；我的幫助從何而來？2 我的幫助從造天地的耶和華而來。3 他必不叫你的腳搖動；保護你的必不打盹！4 保護以色列的，也不打盹也不睡覺。5 保護你的是耶和華；耶和華在你右邊蔭庇你。6 白日，太陽必不傷你；夜間，月亮必不害你。7 耶和華要保護你，免受一切的災害；他要保護你的性命。8 你出你入，耶和華要保護你，從今時直到永遠。

While more and more ppl are getting insurance coverage (in all aspects) to boost up the insurance industry stock price, (thanks to that, otherwise I won't hv a job!), wonder if ppl are caring about their eternal life "coverage".

The Bible says, God gives us protection, anytime, anywhere. More importantly, we are granted eternal life if we believe in Jesus. I shall put more focus on the everlasting life in the Heaven.. like what would Jesus say when I meet Him at the day of judgement.

5 Yr Anniversary

We had dinner at discovery bay tonight. A relax and cool place. It's a perfect date - romantic dinner, yummy food and dessert + long waited Disney firework...

Do consider this place a surprise for proposing..ha~

Interviews

Had a few interviews w/ the fresh graduates this week and realized that finding a situable candidate is like picking boyfriends/ husbands. Not only you are looking for academic, backgrounds and personalities are very important as well..

I recall Jesus says we should not judge by appearance but inner qualities.. Definitely not easy to do in business world. I will try though.l

prayer meeting

Joint the prayer mtg on Thurs night w/ three brothers in Timothy. Originally I did not want to go coz' i was not feeling well. Thanks God who brought me there - it's always good to pray together. And everytime I left the chruch, my spirit got re-newed, my footsteps became lighter.

My dear prayer buddy, hv not talked to you for soooo long. Hope you are doing gd.

"But seek first His kingdom and His righteous, and all these things will be given to you as well." Matt7:33

"Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks, the door will be opened." Matt7:8

Environmental Issues

Statistically, a person dispose an avg of 1.44kg garbage per day.
=> 43kg / month
=> 526 kg / yr

Every 2 second, a portion of forest of the size as big as a football field will be exployed.

July 7-8 Short Trip to GZ

It was a nice trip in a sense that it's been a year since we met last year. Very little time to chat though.. I pray that God takes care of them and let them get to know Him more...

I've also got a chance to meet w/ other brothers and sisters from NPAC and other Alliance churches. Really admire you guys to spend the days w/ the kids, to share w/ them our belief and experience in work.

The kids (not kids actually coz' they've already graduated. but they are really cute and naive.) are very thankful for we to visit them and Cornstone to sponsor their university / high school study. I'm really touched by them sincere thankful heart and the strong mind they procure in achieving their career goal. I'm also very touched by the volunteers, esp the two highly respected elders (70 yrs old) who take care of these children since all these years. May God bless them.

"You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? it is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled by men." Matthew 5:13

10 Year Anniversary

While the Hong Kong people are celebrating the 10 year anniversary of SAR gov't, I'd like made a small lookback on my past 10 years.

My family left HK on June 30, 1997 for Toronto, together w/ the British government. So July 1, 2007 has a double meaning to me. It's a time to remember - having a new life! Thanks God for his blessing and provision, I've got a chance to receive education in Toronto and my life changed since then.

The 5 year life in Canada enriched my life, both spiritually and intellectually. I had a very fruitful church life, friends and family life are memorable to me. I believe my God provided me with many lessons in preparing me for the next 5 years life in HK.

My another 5 years was spent in HK - working crazily. There is nothing much besides working + studying. But I think I really treasure the life spent w/ my parents and family friends. After a struggle at church, I finally settled down.. Again, thanks God for leading me to this so far in my career and church life.

One of the most important thing in this 10 year is that I've run into a charming guy! Yes, I'm very thankful to God that He bring this guy to me.

The today's me is the MEs in the past. I hope that my coming 10 years will be another wonderful and meaningful milestone, not only career but as a Christian, daughter and wife.

"Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight." Proverbs 3:5-6

Name

I dun want to be offensive but somehow I dun understand how come there's parents who would pick a name for their child as "SHxT" ..

Read the instruction

Last Fri, a friend from Japan brought us a dessert wine. We opened it immediately to try the taste. It took us more than 45 mins to open the wine, with 4 guys' effort+ a number of equippments . Why so long? Coz' we used a old fashioned "T-shape" wine opener. The cork stuck at the wine opening and the guys had to "pull" out the cork by hand! Lucky that the bottle didn't got crashed or sth. After all, someone figured out that there's an instruction on how to open the wine with a few Chinese words (of coz' the whole thing is in Japanese), "besdies T-shape opener".

Sometimes, we think we are old enough not to read the instructions...Opps!

Haft Year Anniversary!

Today's a special day of my life - I've married Mr. Lai for half a year already. Can't believe time pass sooooo fast and I've already "transformed" to a "slide": doing the housework, cooking, doing my "monitoring" job..haha~

My dearly husband brought me a gift who cheer me up - Ipod Nano!!! I am so amazed that he noticed I actually like hearing to music.. He's so sweet.

Thank you for taking care of me for the past 6 months. I enjoy the life w/ you and will learn to be a better wife (and to be more comfortable w/ this title)! Thank you Father for giving me a partner to grow up w/ and to learn from.

Peter Pan - Flying back to the old days!

It was a cool performance esp the dancing part - Peter Pan danced particularly well. I felt like I was a child too! (sitting there w/ Peter Pan flying above the audience panel in a "bubble" world, throwing away all the earthy worries and enjoy the fairy dance.)

To have a pure heart to "believe in fairy"... I wished I had a child heart to believe in Jesus in whatever circumstances.

Work Like Crazy

Got off at ten's and eleven's pm these days, I felt so exhausted not only due to the long hours but also the unreasonable requests from the boss. Man, I have two hands only, how can I manage to do so many tasks and everything due today, tomorrow and Friday? Things get worse when everyone calls and asks for help, my subordinates, my bossES, heads of other dept, my colleagues who do not want to go ahead without my "review" on the numbers..My boss "checked in" my workstation every half an hour. I cannot reject them but to help, in the middle of my "arithmetic sea"... Better put on a tag in front of my desk "Do NOT Disturb!"

I was so upset during lunch and I told my husband that I'm so "咀" "song", I dun want to bother anymore. I told God, "you put me in such a situation that I can do nothing but give up, unless you are really what the Bible mentions, "God just says a word and the world was created..." I surrendered."

(Pls refer to Genesis 1...eg "And God said," Let there be light.," and there was light. Gen 1:3)

Things changed after lunch. Suddenly, my colleague offered me a helping hand, which totally out of my excpectation. At least, someone's fighting the battle with me tonght. I feel better. Thanks Father for your faithfulness and answering my prayer. You've proven to be THAT wonderful!

Cheers.

Korean Movie

I've watched the recent Korean movie about a fat girl who turns into a Cinderalla by plastic surgery from top to bottom. A funny movie though.

As a second thought, we are more or less the same as her. She pays a high price in the "transformation", the pain, the wound, disappear for a year . Now she gets what she wants, becoming a hot singer but lost her own indentity, deny her friends and father. I somehow think that I have paid a high price to earn someone's praise, to do what the world values and lost my own self! Father, pls guide me w/ your Words so that I won't walk the wrong path and do sth really meaningful.

Cheers.

Thank you!

My dear mom and sis bought me a white bag yesterday. Haha! so happy!

Morning Prayer Meeting

I attended the prayer meeting which started at 7am last Tue. It's a breakthrough for me to get up so early in the morning and to worship God in the morning. I have to admit that I couldn't fully concentrate on the prayers coz' my heart was fully stuffed w/ work. However, at least I gotta gain energy from the Heavenly Father before the start of the day. The rest of the day was - wonderful!

Here I am to Worship

This is a song learnt from a sister who went to church in US. I like this song very much..

"Light of the world. you stepped down into darkness.
Opened my eyes, let me see.
Beauty that made this heart adore You.
Hope of a life spent with You.

Here I am to worship. Here I am to bow down.
Here I am to say that You're my God.
You're altogether lovely, altogether worthy, altogether wonderful to me.

King of all days, oh so highly exalted, glorious in heaven above.
Humbly You came to the earth You created.
All for love's sake became poor."

I'll never know how much it cost.
To see my sin upon that cross.
I'll never know how much it cost.
To see my sin upon that cross. "

I pray that my daily life is more like a song of praise rather than a life of complains, pressure, sadness, a need to chase the materialistic satisfaction.

Although the real life is pressure everywhere, our Jesus promise us that Christians is granted His peace and joy. I should grap this tight to fight against the bad things bump into me! Go, Miche!

Wii Game Nite

This is a crazy, stupid but fun game - drawing the pictures, bowling, boxing (gd exercise though), "dancing"..etc.. Looking at the players "boxing" is another way of fun!

Cheers

BBM at Stanley

Last thursday, Hin and I went to Stanley to enjoy the beautiful beach and sunshine in the morning w/ my friends.

Here's the conversation between two young men:

Well bulit guy A: XXX, although you are not a gal, would u pls help me to put the sun oil on my back?
Guy B refused of coz'....hee hee.

My husband gave him a hand in the end.. He's so nice! I believe there's someone who's more willing to help - a "T-back" next to us...haha~

My Cake