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| Suddenly occurred to me this morning that is time for me to move on... for every new beginning comes with a brand new life, and as for me, decided to start with a new blog site. Those that wish to continually walk with me along the way can update yr bookmark to this blog site.
athena's new blog
Thanks everyone~ and bye for now. | | |
| 1. Ever since I was a kid, the only times where I get to chill w/ my cousins are either at my grandma's or somebody's hse... conversations were shallow, topics would either be "r they still playing majong outside?" / "anything good to eat?" / "where r we going for dinner" / "what should we play?" Rarely do we ever talk about our school or events that happened during the "months". I say "months" is bcoz majority of them we meet every quarter months, some we meet annually during new yr/grandma's bday.
This week, I'd say is the first time ever that we get to meet up without our parents along. I'd say this is a pretty awkward yet awesome experience for all of us~ And obviously, being young adults in HK, activities to-do are either sing k/movie.. we chose the former. It was @ greenbox, $79 for all-u-can-eat plus K. We had a great time singing n' joking around of coz, but the place n' food was not AS good tho... neway was way better... o well~
Seen enough of those aka 啤酒妹 (beer girl?) on movies, but this was my first time seeing one. When she walked in, I didn't know what she wanted.. but I hear both of my cousins kinda flirting w/ her~ asking for her # , name n' stuff~ it was kinda hilarious, but at the same time, really admire her for her bravery and how well she managed to "shove" those questions aside~
2. So I finally get to "fix" my left leg. At first when I heard my cousins talk about the place, I thought is those chinese medical doc/acupunturist (somehow I always manage to link the term chinese doc and needles together  )
Back in CA, I remember when I see my family doc, after he reviewed my X-ray and ultrasound, he kinda disappointed me with the answer "nth is wrong. u'r just borned joints like those... eat more MSN..."
But today when I told the chinese physician those, he said it was nonsense~ bcoz rarely do ppl are borned like that, for it was my back bone problem (apparently he said my back bone L3/4 is twisted to the left, so my left leg would hurt whenever I bent down) .. The first attempt was to massage my back and give it a pull, I literally let out a "YELP!" coz 1) I was terrified 2) hurt abit. Then he and the girl assistant kept cracking my body here n' there, pulling my legs, neck, back n' arms... It didn't really hurt but I guess I was too scared to hear all the cracks lettin out from my body.
The helper said I'd be tired when I get home, and indeed I was. I went straight to bed after. Did some bending/actions that would usually hurt my leg today, everything was fine. Let's seee what happens later. | | |
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節制是自我的約束, 不受外界的引誘, 是能力的表現, 是成熟的記號.
Temperance is a self-restraint, and not lured by external enticement.
This is a display of ability and is a symbol of maturity.
Better a patient man than a warrior,
a man who controls his temper than one who takes a city. Proverbs 16:32
Reflection: Temperance is one's ability of self-restrainment, therefore, we should not have excuses for something that we ought to do but failed to do so. According to one course I've taken, any citizen that past 14 are considered as independent individual. Therefore, we, as an independent individual, should developed a certain level of maturity within; and we, ought to train ourselves to be a more accountable individual.
P.S. Do remember that "self-control" (self-restraint) is one of the fruits of the Spirit. Let's work on that together!
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| Hvn't had a sermon that would "hit" me for quite awhile...but today's the one:
Topic: 天助.自助.人助 (Translation: Help God.Help oneself.Help Others)
Scripture: II Kings 4:8-37
THis sermon is drawn from the story of the Shunammite's son. The woman's name was not mentioned in the Bible however, through the scripture it clearly shows that she was found favorable in God's eyes. Due to the time constraint, the details of it I won't write it here... but if I don't write it today, I may forget tmr.
Reflection: A person that would be blessed by God is one that is willing to assist God: to do things that would please Him (and you should know what the things are), assist oneself- maintain a healthy body (spiritually and physically) to perform tasks; help others- have a loving heart to help others. It is a very simple truth indeed, but can we really walk it out? If you're like the woman in this story, never set hope on a son but suddenly got one and, suddenly died in your arms.. or should I put this in a more applicable example: never asked for a PS3 bcoz you cannot afford one .. but received it from a friend as a gift but broken after? never hoped for a raise at work.. suddenly got promoted but got fired after? how would you feel? When it did happened, would you still obey Him faithfully? would you complain to Him? Or would you disown your religion?
Here's the hymn that we sang today and thought would like to share it with all of you... some of you might not be able to read it, but.. here it is:
【榮美恩主】
詩集:詩恩集 1 - 神的愛意,3
曲、詞:Charles Yong
慈愛救主,榮美尊貴,我願能一起在前行,
祂照亮我的心,血淚除掉苦困,無盡愛意救主恩。
神愛的深,誰也在驚嘆,照著一生永共行,
祂美善常可親,每日長路指引,隨著愛意永不分。
榮美恩主,頌讚祂創造大能,
萬眾歡呼齊來高聲唱,內心傾出最真;
榮美恩主,用愛心救贖罪人,
萬眾歡呼傳揚祂的愛,在高聲歌唱傳妙韻。
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| I dont' get it... I mean, is not the first time that I get to stay home all day, but why would I have the feeling of boredom when I'm living in it? Back in TO, I feel perfectly fine when I'm not doing anything but to just sit at home all day; in fact, I kinda enjoy that.. but when doing the same thing here at a rather different geography (different race, culture, climate) I feel bored.
Perhaps I'm starting to get used to the crowdiness in ev'ry bit of corner, hence I feel abit wierd when surrounded by such limited open-ess at home. And this might also be the reason why hk-nians like to hang out all the time... students like to hang out during their recess to go for "afternoon-k (karoake)", workers tend to go out for lunch~ and after their "day" is over, they'd call out each other for dinner... now been here for almost 3 months, I think I've only had jap food once or twice, reason is, you see mountainous of people lining up in front of the sushi restaurant (yes, those restaurants sell only sushi) EVERYWHERE! What's more is that these days, I guess ppl would already assume the wait needed for sushi/jap food, hence the sushi wave is now shifting towards the shanghai-ness rest.!
On a very regular month of a very regular night in a very regular place, we arrived at a shanghai-ness restaurant our fd suggested... when we got there, WOAH! It was all packed!! So packed that we couldn't even make it to the door... so we crossed the road looking for some other choices.... You see those ppl in costumes handing you pamplets (of food, of coz!).. within a minute, if you're nice and accepted all those handed to you, you'd probably collect half-dozen of them. THis is strange, coz on one hand, ppl here says they need to "SAVE THE WORLD" by killing less trees thus less plastic bags... some stores would hve a "no-bag" day on a particular day of the week, and some would just give you those "recycle bag" so you can use that each time on yr purchase. However, on the another hand, you see ppl shoving you pamplets everywhere you go... how ironic. Plus, the sad thing is, ppl trash those pamphets right after they receive them on the ground... sigh! (well to think positively, they'r producing jobs for more citizen?)
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