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Name: - : Apple : -
Country: Canada
State: British Columbia
Metro: Richmond
Birthday: 8/7/1986
Gender: Female
Interests: shopping, eating, MSN!!
Expertise: Sleeping..! ZzZzZzzz
Occupation: Student
Industry: Retail
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Member Since:
5/10/2003
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| The tears well up to the surface, threatening to overspill from my eyes. I never expect to fall in love in such a short time. I never expected this to happen. But like they say....love comes when you least expect it.
Hong Kong has made such an impression on me in these short 3 months that I've been here. When I first arrived, it seemed like a such a long way to go until I leave for Singapore. But the days turned into weeks, and the weeks turned into months, with something new around every corner for me to experience. It truly has been the best time of my life in the time that I've been here. I have loved being independent and taking care of myself. I have loved having the chance to get to know my relatives better after all these years and share the mundane moments in life with them.
When I first got here, I was afraid that I could be lonely and not be able to adjust to life here. But, God has really blessed me and he lead me to The Vine and to my fellowship one-eighty. It's because of this great group of people that I now have the confidence to come back after I graduate and to make a life here for myself. It's because of this awesome group of people that I am inspired to work on my relationship with God and grow closer to him. It's because of them that I had so many unforgettable experiences. From the retreat to the live recording to the hanging-outs at people's house, I feel that I do have a place where I belong in Hong Kong. It's because of all this that I don't want to leave..Life here will go on without me, and I feel that I would miss out!!
Thank you 180! God bless you in the year to come and that you will continue to grow (in Christ & in numbers). Thank you to everyone else who has made a difference in my life in these 3 months.
I am off to Singapore tomorrow.....quite nervous & excited at the same time...Please pray for me!
I'll see everyone in Hong Kong in 4 months!!!
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| I don't really want to say that I am lonely cos I chose to stay at home over Chirstmas, but I think that I have just been going out too much before Christmas eve, I just need a break. There are about a million people out in the streets of HK tonight and I just can't handle it =p. But walking to my aunt's house, on the way, I saw a bunch of carolers and they were singing and anding out little flashing pins saying "Jesus loves you" and for some reason it just made me really sad and miss Vancouver a lot. Especially this year, it's sooo not fair how we have the first white Christmas in sooo long and I'm missing it!!! I love snow, makes everything so beautiful!!
However, going online and FB And such helps me to be distracted from these feelings. The computer always gives me entertainment, I am glad I have it :P I didn't realize how important Internet is until we didn't have it even at work and then I really was crippled hahaha~
I have really really loved my time in HK so far. With the exception of one aunt, I really really love it here. But I mean, nothing is perfect right, it's hard to have everything great!! But I have even found ways to avoid it now...so it's alright....I love getting to know my cousins better now, I think that is my greatest regret in life, is that having moved away I hardly know my cousins at all. I am never bored here, in fact, i am always seeking ways to rest & relax cos I don't get enuf of that. It's stressful to be in a place with so many ppl on the streets & on the MTR all the time!!! Sometimes it's fun but other times it's really tiring, esp. when you've gone to work the whole day and u stayed up late the night b4...haha...many factors begin to add up.
I think that coming here was the right decision for me; I was able to see that I really could realistically move here and be poorly adjusted. I think that I can adjust, I have confidence in this 100%. However, whether this will actually become a reality remains to be known cos there r gonna be stuff that happens b4 I graduate!! But I think that I will definitely aim to come back if at all possible. Besides regretting not knowing my cousin, I just regret not having truly spent time here studying, cos I can still see that I'm so different than ppl from HK....i don't think that I could become like them..!!! ah well.....it's ok as long as I fit in somewhere..!! hahaha
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| Yah, I know people usually say that after a vacation...
But today, i have never been so glad to be in a place I call home in my LIFE. Not after vacation, not after some horrible camp, but after a grueling experience of 1 night of being locked out.
I'm still not really used to how the doors work here, with the gates that bang shut once you close it, rather than using a key to lock up. It's already the 3rd time this has happened to me...but this time was the worst of all. Not only was the 2nd key locked up inside but my aunts and grandma were in China and I didn't even know if they had another spare key. My dad was in a rush to catch his flight and everything was just a mess. But in the end, I reached my other aunt who had a key to my grandma's and I crashed there for the night. Thank goodness when they came back today they had one more key so I didn't have to get the locksmith to break the door.
I know this sounds all very calm but I can't even begin to describe the type of panic I felt yesterday. I don't really think I'm over it today so I cannot describe it any more vividly at this moment..
Soooo....not much else to say. I'm too freaked out by this experience.
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| Yes, although I complain about the many trials that I go through, suchas loneliness, or trouble with exchange ..multiple troubles to beexact. But really, the more I think about it, the more blessed that Ifeel I am. Why? Here are the reasons:
1) A chance to come to HK and have a good working experience in a nice vacation-like state.
2) Place for me to live rent free in HK and paying only the utilities and management fees
3) A starting point of people to expand my network.
4) Flexible supervisor and office rules.
5) Super nice boss who is willing to help me out in my crisis.
6) Caring co-workers.
7) Friendly people at the church I meet.
8) My extended family that takes care of me and takes time to do stuff with me.
9) Being able to go on vacation with my family, all expenses paid OR at a highly discounted rate.
This includes so far: Clifford Estates and Macau
10) Being able to meet many people on this experience.
11) My family back in Vancouver who supports me when I have problems even though they are so far away.
12) Living independently and freely! it's gonna be hard to go home and live with parents again.
13) The Vine retreat! I am looking forward to it.
14)Living on the same side of Hong Kong as where I work. I hate longcommutes and I would hate paying to go across the harbour every singleday.
15) AWESOME SALES!!
Check out my booty of Nov. 14, 2007,Thanks to the L'Oreal Friends & Family Sale. Yah...i went a littleinsane there...but it was so cheap.....
Everything here cost me$645 HK...which due to the high exchange rate..is about $80 CDN. It'sawesome cos I can try so many new products I couldn't have affordedbefore.
It's great to have hook-ups ^__^
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| In the past 2 weeks alone, I have gone through more emotional trauma than I have in the past 1.5 months that I have been here. From receiving emails from a certain bitch tellling me that my work is not good enough to dealing with two exchange crisises, it has been really difficult. The worst part is...I get these bad news when I am just settling in to work so it just makes my whole day really hard to get through. I just really need a massage. Thankfully....these mini crisises hve been taken care of, but not without the cost of me becoming highly agitated and my heart-beat greatly exelerated. I probably lost like a few months of my life just from these events.....but I am still waiting to hear on the exchange part, so all is not well yet. My form that was supposed to be dropped off before I left didn't arrive, and thus, the exchange office at UBC wants to cancel my exchange. When I found this out, I nearly had a heart attack. How could this have happened? Besides this, like I've told some of you via email before, there were some conflicts with the courses that I chose according to NUS, so they asked me to pick new ones. There was no reason why, just a message to just do it. I really cross my fingers that the new courses will be ok.
But it's really in times like these that I see God's blessings bestowed upon me. My "big" boss happened to be in Hong Kong this week, and when I told him about the situation, he offered to send my forms via courier along with his!!! i was soo relieved. Still waiting for confirmation that the forms have arrived before I can truly feel relieved. Big boss here is ok...got to go out for free lunch which is always good hahaha...
When I first arrived, after a few weeks, I was really not used to being in HK and living here and stuff. But now that I've been here longer and life has become more "normal" I could imagine myself being here. I guess it really depends on where I get a job...it's too early to think about it now anyways.
Check out pix on facebookk!!! New ones posted!!
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