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I'm back from Boston!

Tue, 25 Sep 2007 03:38:27 GMT

Forget about the work part in Boston, I had lots of fun...hanging out with my friend Pasun. She took me all around town! I was supposed to come back on friday but stayed over at her place until Sunday. I had the best Thai food, the most stuffed meal, great hot pot/shabu shabu, the greatest shopping, seen one of the most beautiful churches, seen the monument for Bejamin Franklin, enjoyed awesome strolls at Harvard Square, and met the most awesome people!

Thank you Boston!

Saturday, September 15, 2007

Sat, 15 Sep 2007 14:22:35 GMT

Kingston has really nice waterfront view of Lake Ontario. All the yachts and boats are parked rite over, it is a watertown. The shops are authentic and unique.The people are really nice, of course that would be Cai, Donnie, Yan & the lovely Jada. Thank God for creating such beautiful places for us to visit and bringing us joy while traveling. I truely love You!

Toronto/Kingston 3rd nite

Sat, 15 Sep 2007 06:21:26 GMT

man, such a day today!
Really enjoyed myself with Edwin and friends. They are really good drinkers and karaoke people. All the beers and shooters and stuff. lot's of alcohol and mostly, lots of fun. Just the way parties are supposed to be.
I was supposed to hop on the 8:15am bus from Kingston back to Toronto but Donnie couldn't get up in the morning so i took the 11:15 ride instead. It wasn't until 2:30 I got to Toronto and met with Jessie and Edwin/Nikki. After that we went shopping a little for the Roots recycle bags and Canadian souvenirs. Then we were off to a restaurant called the Full House restaurant and it was good. Though i was so stupid after coming back home, thought i left my handbag at the restaurant, made Edwin drove me back to the restaurant to pick up the bag. Then midway to the place, realizing that i took the bag already, but just left it at the door step. My friend wanted to stab me! He was calling his mom to get all the knifes and sharp objects out. I asked if he can only to fork me instead of using the knife!
I was such an idiot and can't remember sh@t!
I think i had a couple of shooters too much, so sleeping time is here.
later!

great place-toronto, worst flight-american!

Fri, 14 Sep 2007 04:35:31 GMT

Great that i'm at my cousin's place now getting to sleep, supposely.... really nice Donnie handed over a laptop for me to check mail and stuff. I thought i wasn't gonna be here until today...

My flight supposed to leave JFK at 5:10pm yesterday. We got to the airport at 4:15 and the lady at the front desk said that we were really late for the flight.. and asked us that since our luggage is so small mind as well take them with us. We did that and of course the nice bottles of wine and my friend's $200 make up stuff were taken away...

After a whole long 10 min walk with our luggage to the gate, didn't even take a breath, we thought we were in good shape with10 minutes before the boarding time, then the crew at the gate told us the flight was cancelled. I was in total disbelief. Without giving us much explaination, the told us to take a seat. then of course, other people on the same flight were also waiting to get some kind of response from them.

another long wait later. at around 5:25 it was our turn, can't believe it but the lady told us to go to La Guardia to take the Air Canada flight that leaves at 6:30, i asked her how was I supposed to make that flight? then she gave me a voucher to take a car service over... I was relief until we reached downstairs.... There wasn't a car from that specific car service there! after calling the cab company we finally got a ride, we got to la guardia at around 6:10pm got to the counter, the crew gave us a dirty look cause we told him we needed the 6:30 flight... he had that attitude and said "you are not making the 6:30 flight, I'll get you something else.." i said to myself, dude do you have to say it like that? Well, he did us good and gave us seats at the next flight at 7:30. So we finally was able to board and got to Toronto!

On the way, I did so much praying and asking the Lord if we were not supposed to come to Toronto. Then later i realized that God just wanted me to get on a better flight. The American Airline flight would have been very cramping with no room to sit and no service at all, in the other hand, air canada has a bigger aircraft and able to service better.

I thank God I arrived safely and had great time here. Our friend Edwin took care of us really nice. He bought us to a nice chinese restaurant and enjoyed dinner then took us back home to put us up. His family has a really nice place at Markham. We bothered him until 2am in the morning, although he has to get up really early and drove me to the bus station this morning. He's such a nice kid. My cousin here is great also. drove me around town. Hung out at his restaurant and did some shopping at the mall. Then he gave me a tour of Queens University. His family also took me to a nice steak house for dinner. I got really good hosts here in Canada!

Going back to Toronto for the rest of the trip tomorrow morning, also meeting my friend Jessie who just handed in her thesis paper for her master's degree in Toronto. Hope to have a lot of fun!

Btw, my friend Edwin will take me to his church in the neighborhood for Sunday service! hoohooo!

photos are coming up.... after i come back.

Wow! overwhelmed!

Sat, 08 Sep 2007 05:12:57 GMT

so much to do, so much have done, and so much more to do!
Summer conference is finally over. The joy and the fun and the work and the no sleep and the worry about this and that is all over....Left only with a little loneliness...plus a little worn off too.
This summer conference is the first time i served God in OCM with a tittle. I was the Large Group Activity Coordinator along with 2 others. We started planning all of 3-4 months ago, to start brainstorming ideas, then 2 months ago, we started to argue with plan is better fitting our church, then 1 month ago, we still haven't decided which plan to go forth...finally, we realized praying would help. So we asked for prayers from the team, from our friends. God blessed us and we finally came to a perfect conclusion after meetings and a few dinners together. 2 weeks ago. We were set to go!
Though we were lacking a "to do list" for the activity. IT REQUIRES TRANSLATION! So i was 膽粗粗and volunteered to translate it into Chinese. I knew i needed someone to help me revise my Chinese. Only I didn't realized my Chinese was not even 3rd grade---it was 1st grade level!!!! Of course, we needed our Conference President to revised it, then it even had to go through our Pastor Kong for better translation! 好羞愧啊！
The Large group activity went pretty well. I love our idea. Though I did get some feedback that the activity was more for kids and over 60% of the Chinese congregation didn't show up, but the idea of building a church together as a fellowship is wonderful and fit our present condition for our church---we are rebuilding and renovating our church, not only the exterior but to renew our hearts and spirits together.

May the Lord bless us with pure hearts and THE HEARTS TO SERVE GOD!

So many people, so cool everybody works together to build our "Church"!

Ideas came across!

The finished product! OUR CHURCH!

Isn't it so nice!!!

Pics from 8/23

Mon, 27 Aug 2007 04:22:52 GMT

Some of my best friends came over to cheer me on this past Thursday for a local singing contest. Although there was some technical problems that my song was cut 1/3 through, but my friends were very supportive and cheered me on. They went over to the boss of 100Fun to ask them if I can sing again, but the boss didn't allow. It really wasn't my problem, they claimed the disked got jammed and they were already running over time.....bla bla.. But later on after all the competitors were done and the scored had already start to calculate for 15 min, a late competitor was given the chance to sing....then I started to get really pissed off and upset. I know i'm not a regular at the karaoke bar, but they should have not treated me like that. I'm not sure if I'll ever go back to 100 Fun again because of their attitude, but the friendship between Niki, Ivy, Allen & I have certainly built during this event. Also, I feel very touched that Joe came all the way from Toronto (well, not excactly for me but...) to cheer me on and give me support. Although Joe is not on the pictures (he's camera shy) but I remember you!

The trio! Allen, Ivy& I...I was acting really stupid...I was pretending I got a punch on the face!

clockwise from left: Niki (my beautiful girlfriend ) , ??? (a friend of Allen), Ricky (a friend of Allen), Ivy (great great friend since JHS!), Allen (sweetheart you are!) & beautiful Alice

Alice is holding some strong alcohol! It's from the lucky drawing Allen won, He gave it to me, to make me not as upset as I was about to punch somebody's face! Ooops, gotta control my temper!

Saturday, August 25, 2007

Sat, 25 Aug 2007 06:31:17 GMT

Just been so busy and running around so much... Summer conference stuff, EM choir practice, singing competition, family issues, work problems, roommate issues...time runs so fast. But God has giving me enough time to take care of things. Thank you Lord!

I pray that Father God, you will guide us and lead us through the whole day tomorrow on the EM. You are our Chief, our El Shaddai, Erkamka Na Adonai, may You open the hearts of those who doesn't know about You. Your glory will shine...

Pray in the name of Jesus, Amen

Last bible study for red group...

Sat, 11 Aug 2007 03:24:14 GMT

Learned a lot from Ezra chapter 7 &8. Learned we must have faith in God and have trust in Him. He will guide us through. Ezra and the Israelites did so much praying and asked for the help from God. Of course, they were answered!

May the Lord bless the new team, with wisdom and strength to go through another year to worship Our Lord.

Judy's baby! :)

Fri, 10 Aug 2007 04:10:18 GMT

I went to visit my friend who gave birth 2 months ago. Bought grocery and cooked a little at her place, it was so cool! The baby's father was really excited to see me too. Judy is so blessed to have a such a baby, he is very healthy :)

High School Track Team Reunion today!

Sat, 04 Aug 2007 05:09:22 GMT

I was so excited to see so many people from years back when I was still running on the track team. Those happy times when they called me captain with a little tongue tuck.. the ladies were showing up a couple at a time.. Goldberg was there with the new assistant coach Mr Singer. Haven't seen Goldberg in 2 years, he seemed so much older...
I miss him.

Goldberg made a great video clip of our running days. Pics of us running the relays, throwing the shotput, jumping the long jump, running up those hill at Van Cortland Park for cross country season, accepting awards, the moment of winning the PSAL City Championships! That video clip really brought back memories.

The reunion was organized that all the track team members ever since Goldberg coached at Bergtraum, can drop by. By running days were since 10 years ago, so i was the oldest one at the table. I just can't believe I'm 10 years older than some of the girls! Time flies!

I guess only Dallas BBQ can make a table that huge. The rain didn't stop the girls from coming, there were 27 girls with the coaches, 29 total! It was amazing. Though I was the only non-black at the party. Well, put it this way, I was the only Asian at Bergtraum who stayed on the track team for more than 3 months! That's since Bergtraum opened it's doors 28 years ago!

I'll post the clip on youtube so we call can enjoy it.