Love. No Fear. - Give Thanks

Love. No Fear.
Thanksgiving week in Hong Kong this week. Of course, you can give thanks again on the last week of November.

Some time ago, a school started to replace Halloween celebration to Thanksgiving week as their school activity. Giving thanks is not always a natural thing in our gene, just because we are so used to take things for granted.

Today, I want to thank my parents, for their support and love all the time. I want to thank my husband, Menno, for loving me as who I am, encourage me to go on and contend when i really want to give up or slack off. I want to thank my friends, for walking with me and praying for me. I want to thank my spiritual parents, all of them, in different times they inspire me to have conviction on what i am doing. They pray for me and protect me as I am growing and learning. I want to thank my next generation, most of the time they do radical things with faith, which provoke me to trust in God even more. They challenge me to humble and press on to persue God.

I thank God. He is so faithful. He is good all the time.

Menno's birthday present

it is supposed to be a surprise. Surprise means the event happened to a person is unexpected at all. So, it implies that he present I got for Menno is supposed to be q secret until the day he opens the wrapping of the gift and make a "wow" sound (at least out of obligation). 


So now you know things didn't go as I wish. 

A photo album as birthday gift. My idea is to record special events and moments for the year. Of course it can sound like another reason to make a year book for our family, I don't care. The point is at least I have an excuse to do it. 

I took time to discreetly move pictures from all different cameras and computers to my working computer... And discreetly make the photo book (Which is not easy, cos as you know Menno n I are kind of always together... Work and traveling and home and meals and bed... Nearly 24 hours) ok, I know I might seem a bit distracted when we watched the tv show two weeks ago... But that was kind of the only moments I can have your attention to the tv screen and your mind occupied so you re not wondering what I was doing...) 

I successfully got it done. Yeah! Operation m accomplished!!!

Wait. I don't have a credit card to buy this thing online!!

Sigh... This mint be the only moment in my life I felt like I snoops have a credit card... 

After 3 minutes of frustration, I had to go to Menno and ask  if I can buy his birthday gif with his credit card. 

Silly enough, I asked his question. And silly enough, Menno didn't try to figure out what I chose for him. 

It came to the moment of booking... I was desperate... Cos my apple account was acting up on me. It said with a Dutch credit card paying I cant get the book deliver to HK!

I don't know if they are being too American or what, it is possible that a person is buying something out of their country and deliver to somewhere but their home address! There is this possibility!

To fix this insolvable problem, I had to ask Menno for help, reluctantly. Very reluctantly. 

It's not surprise/secret/mystery anymore. I knew it, Menno knew it, you know it now. And the whole world will know soon. 

Lesson of the day, the present economy wants to have us in debt, so they create credit card. And they bully me thru this system... Anyways, I should just think of something I can buy with cash next time. 

Burn notice

Burn Notice.
Menno and I are watching the season 3 already. Spotted it on Fox channel when we still had the free preview of the channel. Not just Burn Notice, we watched White collar too. (That is another good one.)

Totally love the narration by Michael Westen, the main character, teaches us all how to be a spy, of course it is a tv series, so I am not quite sure how much of it is practical in real life.

The story is about Michael Westen, a former spy, discovered that he is blacklisted. The bad news is, with a ban from doing any of the intelligence work, he doesnt have any information, money and the worst is not having a single idea of why he is "burned" (blacklisted). The good news is, he is at a city where he has some family and friends. So here he comes, trying to find out who exactly set him up.

Our coworker is watching "V" and "Stargate Universe" and said both are very good... I would perhaps let Menno to explore it first... :)
Suggest to me if you find some nice tv shows.

Time for some pictures

I discovered, not long after Menno and I got married, that both of us are not very fond of taking pictures. That became so obvious when we have around 12 pictures on our honeymoon trip. The place was beautiful, our hotel/resort was amazing... the sunshine and the beach/swimming pools were fantastic. And Menno and I so enjoyed the whole trip... the only thing is, we didnt remember to take pictures while we actually carried the camera with us pretty much the whole time.

Okay, my plan is, to have a few pictures before our children grow old and our memories fade like toilet paper flushed down the toilet... 

picture from hellotxt

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