Christmas cards that brag


Recently.. a little bit before the holiday I met a friend of my father's.. and man I have never seen dad so excited to see an old friend. After meeting said 'uncle' I found he was a pretty cool guy too. A real cool dad from hearing how he dealth with the disobeying son. HIs wife however could not stop pushing her children up there and bragging about how wonderful and successful her two kids were. Never have I been so grateful that my grades were not bad... or I would have felt soooo small... the woman just wouldn't stop.

In any case we got a Christmas card from them. Very sweet no? oh yes there is a catch.. there was an 'updates' section in the Christmas card which told the 'family news' of the year... all the successes of the family and how the wife just got promoted. ohhh yes you are completely right when i instantly thought "this must be the wife's idea.. she must have insisted".

In retrospect it wasn't a bad idea tho. In our busy lives it is sometimes hard to keep up with some old friend and keep them up to date with our own business. So I guess here's a little update for you guys on my life too :)


For those of you who dont know, my dad's been back a year (yay!!). It's been pretty sweet having dad around :) he cooks, cleans.. only bad thing was probably i didn't get to use the car as much but that was okay! mom was a lot happier too (understandably).

Ahhhh... but all party's must end sometime... well he got a few interviews in Calgary so he just left this Friday to check them out. Life seems..... a lot quieter suddenly.. hmm.. i suppose it's not as fun.. well i dont hope he returns soon but im much happier that he's in Calgary and not in HK.... he can come back home SOOOO much more often now :] or even I could go see him!

Then there is the question of "well what if he does stay there?".. well mom is thinking of maybe going there too..? yes that's right.. me alone? in Toronto???? I guess I have to.. must finish.. pharmacy degree..... and become.. licensed!!

Ahh yes, if you dont' know yet.. NOW YOU DO!!! IM GOING TO BE A PHARMACIST!! YEAY!!!!

that's right future doctors.. refer all patients to meeee!!! hehe


annnnnddd.. i suppose that's all the updating i can take for one blog :) i'll keep y'all posted about the calgary/dad/job deal

 
by popular demand..!


a followup to angry rant post:

all is well. i am now not angry

haha that is all :)


well more like.. they finally did some works :) so since the act is together i shouldn't be mad anymore right?

BUT IF THERE ARE FURTHER RANTS YOU WILL BE THE FIRST TO KNOW!!!!!


okay happiness continues as the usual forecast for today tomorrow and future tomorrows until further notice :)

 
OMIGOODNESS I NEED TO RANT

SERIOUSLY FOLKS.. dont take up responsibilities AND THEN DONT DO ANYTHING..

i mean for real.. if you are a passive person and need me to call you to get your butt moving that's alright..

but dont fricken not take initiative on YOUR OWN RESPONSIBILITIES but then fricking take initiative to tell everyone to go out saturday night.


I MEAN COME ON YOU CANT TELL ME THAT YOU DIDN'T ANSWER BECAUSE YOU WERE BUSY WITH SCHOOL

IF YOU WERE SO FRICKING BUSY THEN HOW'D YOU FIND TIME TO HAVE SO MUCH FUN HUH????????

that 'im busy with school' thing only works up to a certain point and your time is up buddy...

disgruntled out..~

 
Fur Elisha...



So I'm not going to be attending the retreat after all but I've been told that some of you think that that means that I just plain don't care about you guys. That I haven't put in the effort to try to make going to the retreat happen.

And you know what.. I probably haven't put in enough effort.. but that's not because you guys are getting treated worse than I treat others.. I'm just a forgetful and lazy kind of person. That is my fault for which I apologize. And if you must know, NO I am not going to my other fellowship's retreat either, because I've got a report due the following week. So it's not like im snubbing you guys for them either.

It has also come to my attention that some of you think that if I'm not going to the retreat, it represents me not wanting to be a part of you guys at all. Well, to be honest I never thought of it that way. Why am I not going? Well the first reason y'all have heard is because I want to celebrate my birthday with my dad. Is this selfish? to some of you maybe. But for me.. I've been waiting for that day for 13 years.. I haven't celebrated my birthday with my dad since i was 7.. I think I'm going to entitle myself to be selfish this one time.

The other reason? well i just confirmed that i have 5 softball games that weekend.. it's a tournament. When I had asked about it previously, I was told that it was at the end of September but now it's confirmed for labourday weekend. "That's a pretty crappy reason" I'm sure you're all thinking that right now.

But here's the thing: if I'm to come in on Saturday, I'm going to have to ask very unwilling parents to drive me into Brampton (why not Andrew? He's the headcoach for the softball team.. so he's got an obligation to be there at the games on Saturday). They are also not going to let me drive by myself either. So I'd have parents with shaking heads plus a whole softball team thinking that their assistant coach also ditched them.

So it sounds like I'm sacrificing you guys right? I guess so, although I never thought of it meaning that I was also giving up on spending time with you guys. I do spend time individually with some of you. And I apologize to those who I've neglected to speak with.

Overall, my whole point.. is that I dont want to go to retreat to prove that I care about you guys when I equally care by not going. To me, it's more immature to change my decision now for 'zang hai' (getting air) but I do care if you guys think that my decision reflects on how I view you guys in my life.

If you've got any problems with this, and do think that I'm neglecting y'all.. please don't hesitate to take it up with me. I'd love to talk... :)

 
Blessings..!

weeeeellllll long time no blog!

but after reading garway's blog about faith i have a testimony to share with y'all about how good God is.. seriously.. FAITH ROCKS!!!

okay so here's how it played out..

on Friday my parents had to go to fellowship and since dad's been back.. i now need to get rides home. so normally it's okay as long as i get to don mills station by 6:00 so they could pick me up and go home and still be on time for fellowship. the thing was.. that i was going for coffee with angel since it was the last day of school.. and school ends at 4 for me.. plus coffee = getting to don mills at 7. not enough time for parents to pick me up.. so i tell them with absolute confidence "yeah dont worry andrew can definitely pick me up" even tho i hadn't called him yet... haha

okay so i called andrew and he said that on friday nights, his parents often used both cars in going (fellowship i think it was?) and also driving timothy to and from fellowship as well. So the time of him having the car wasn't exact.. especially since his parents come home at different time... no set time of when either one gets off work.. so he said he couldn't give me a set time of when he would have the car to drive me home. so i was like.. alright just means i might have to wait a bit so that's okay.

well afterwards i was wondering what i would do if i got to the station and his parents hadn't come home from work yet.. but i was like.. meh.. whatever.. worst comes to worst i can always take the bus home!

well at sheppard station.. i got this killer stomach ache.. so i went to the bathroom.. haha i know that sounded like too much information... anyway.. i was feeling pretty craptacular from my stomache ache.. and i wandered around the station looking for a bathroom.. took me quite a while.. well afterwards i hopped onto the sheppard train to go towards don mills. now i usually go to cars near the ends to be near the escalators when getting off.. but this time i ran to the middle since i was afraid the doors would close on me. then inside the train someone in the end of the car waves to me and im like.. "who me?"

you know who it was???
RITA LAM!!! omigoodness!! i never see that girl by chance on the subway.. hardly ever anyway.. well there was this one time.. but anyway... i was like.. OHH THANK YOU GOD!!! haha b/c for those of u who dont know.. she lives super close to me.. a 10 mins. walk away. and so she drove me home... no need to take the bus or worry or anything! the whole subway ride home.. i had been thinking.. "well it's okay.. taking the bus wont be bad.. just might be dangerous..? hmm.. well should be okay.. okay not worrying about this anymore.. just going to see if andrew can drive me.. if not then buses.. then hope i'll get home safely"

so i really felt.. inside the whole time that things would work out.. i never specifically prayed for a way out of taking the buses.. but i remember there's a part of romans that talks about how when we pray.. the Holy Spirit would say things for us.. because sometimes we dont know how to pray or the words dont come out right. I'm pretty sure that's what happened here..!!

ciao guys!