Hiii I'm in HK now! I wrote this earlier on the plane: _________________________________________________________________________________ Hi my awesome friends! As I’m sitting here in my 18thE aisle seat of Air Canada AC7, I’d thought I’d just type a small update of my HK trip so far…(I’m not even there yet! I still have to wait 5 hours before landing T_T). I’ve just finished arguing with my mom for the 4th time in a row (My gosh….why does my mom always have to provoke me every single time we go on a trip? To tell you the truth, my dear friends, every single time I go on vacation trips it’s a nightmare when it comes to communicating with my mom…she gets so stressed out over such small things I don’t even know what to do about it T_T…right now she’s yelling at me for not buying a netbook and taking that instead of this laptop to HK- You see, we saw a really pretty (pink!) sony netbook yesterday at Futureshop and she told me to buy it. I said I wanted to think about it ($500!) and she said I’m stupid...T_T –and so she’s still blaming me for not buying it... (am I the mom or she’s the mom? =o=) Anyhow I miss my home sweet home already but so far I’ve quite enjoyed my flight so far (besides the arguing part). Maybe it’s just me but I feel like I’ve been eating every hour or so (I’m going to get fat!), I’ve watched 3 movies so far (G-Force, 500 days of summer, and Julie and Julia), I’ve read a chapter or two of “Boy Meets Girl” and I’m listening to my favourite music on ipod =]. I thought that G-force was funny whereas 500 days of summer was a bit over-rated. I liked how the movie used several different forms of drama technique (70’s, 60’s style) but I don’t really like the main story line. I felt awful watching the poor fellow fall so deeply in love but being hurt so bad in the end…the lesson was meaningful but, really, what was the point of “not wanting a boyfriend” but then being so intimately close with him? Why did she have to play with his heart so badly? Why did she still have to care about him if she knew that that would only hurt him even more? Hmm maybe I’m weird for not liking the movie… But on the other hand I really enjoyed watching Julie and Julia! It was such a touching movie as I saw how the two ladies searched desperately for something meaningful in life, something that they could do to make themselves happy but to also persevere through in order to grow in their character. I was especially touched when Julie mentioned in the end how she wouldn’t have made it through if it wasn’t for her husband’s support. There are so many times in life that we only see from our own point of view (we view ourselves as the centre of our lives) that we neglect to see how others are serving around us, such as our family and friends and whomever that loves us. I’m guessing this is a pretty simple lesson but it’s good to reinforce this thought over and over again once in a while =]. Haha as you can probably tell by now I’m super bored and that’s why I’m typing up this super long entry about my boring flight and movies I’ve watched, but on the other hand there’s really something more important I wanna share with you guys! And that’s “Boy meets girl”! If you’ve read my previous entry about “I kissed dating goodbye”, you’d already know that Boy meets girl is the second running book in the Joshua Harris series-and let me tell you this-I LOVE THIS BOOK SO MUCH MOREEEEE…which means, if you haven’t read “I kissed dating goodbye” before, it’s OKAY because this book is so much more better. In particular it talks about how to form good relationships between girlfriends and boyfriends but more importantly, it specifies our roles as men and women in Christ. And while reading the book, I found myself sticky-taping some pages of my favourite quotes, which includes (but not limited) to the following: The first quote was found in the section called “Tell me how, tell me who, tell me when”. In that section, Joshua talked about a young couple whose relationship was a long journey as God taught them how to be patient and how to know when and who was the right person. You see, the guy in the story had always liked this girl, and he told her about it one day. But the girl had never thought of him in that perspective, got angry, and almost ended their friendship. But in the end (to keep the long story short), they ended up together because God had wanted to teach the guy about patience (He had to ask a second time) and God changed the girl’s heart. Now their love story wasn’t anything bizarre like the ones you see in Taiwanese dramas, but at the end of the chapter, I loved how the young couple used L.M Montgomery’s quote from Anne of Avonlea to describe their relationship: “Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into one’s life with pomp and blare, like a gay knight riding down. Perhaps it crept onto one’s side like an old friend through quiet ways. Perhaps it revealed itself through seeming prose, until some sudden shaft of illumination flung athwart its pages betrayed the rhythm and the music. Perhaps…perhaps…love unfolded naturally out of a beautiful friendship, as a golden-hearted rose slipping from its green sheath.” The second quote was found in “What to do with your lips” which talked about the importance of effective communication between guys and girls. And this was also found at the end of the chapter, which basically summarizes the section (I think): “You can’t love what you don’t know. You can’t be truly loved if you’re not truly known. And the only way to know and be known by another person is to communicate- openly, honestly, sincerely, humbly” -I guess this quote can be used in all circumstances, not just between girls and guys, but also between our relationship with Jesus. The third and last quote I’d like to share (I’ll have more to share later on =) ) is from “If boys would be men, would girls be ladies?” which talked about God’s expectations of men and women’s role in relationships. This quote was by Matthew Henry who did a commentary on Adam and Eve’s relationship in Genesis: “Eve was not taken out of Adam’s head to top him, neither out of his feet to be trampled by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected by him, and near his heart to be loved by him”. What a beautiful quote about Adam and Eve and God’s way of viewing lovers!!! Haha now you’d probably understand why I’m so in love with this book-it has such wonderful quotes! Lol. Anyhow it’s now 10:43 Vancouver time and I just did a word count that said I’m in the 1200 word range-which is…um…wow? So I guess I’ll stop writing for now. Maybe I’ll start reading my book again, watch “The time traveler’s wife” because I’ve never watched it before, or play with my DS (I’m so glad you guys bought it for me last year!). It’s really dark right now because everybody’s sleeping (but I can’t sleep! I need to save that for later) and I’m excited about getting to sleep on a bed instead of this tiny little seat (but guess what? I think I’m one row behind business class so there’s this huge space in front of me to extend my legs and stand if I want to ^____^”. Missing you guys already, Kathy PS: I bought a Miga head cushion just before I got on the plane and it’s so very pretty…its gonna be my night time buddy (even though it’s not a plush toy) in HK =] ) ________________________________________________________________________________ Now its officially been 24 hours since I've last slept XP so I THINK I should go sleep now.... | 
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. Oh and the museum admission was free because we went on the wednesday=free admission!). Then we walked over to the ferrie terminal and met up with Kiwi to take the ferrie...but before we went there we stayed to watch a bit of this performance that was performed by a multi-cultural group trying to show us the true meaning of Christmas =Jesus! and using sharing testimonies to spread the gospel to others (I liked the dances!). Took lots of pictures on the way to the 山顶 with the sky tram, and then took even more photos at the wax museum there! I think most of the figures there look pretty much like the real person (Its so much more better than the one in Victoria!) and there were costumes and certain areas where you could take and wear to take pictures with! It was fun making weird expressions with Kiwi and others, and I really liked my picture with Leon-I think its sooo sweett!!! 
I used to like Leon when I was 5 or something haha). After the wax museum, we took a few pictures of the view there (but the mist was pretty bad so we couldn't take that nice of pictures) and then came back down the cliff to eat dinner. Kiwi took us to this place called 谭仔and the noodle there is so very filling! We each ordered a big noodle ($42 only!) and we all ate until we couldn't eat anymore (I think only Kelvin finished up his bowl of noodles?). We also had side order chicken wings and 皮蛋 so you can imagine how full we were!!! The whole dinner was pretty nice as we got to talk a bit between food too, so the whole thing took us about an hour and something to finish XP. After dinner we were sooo full we went over to a convenience store and bought ourselves some Jolly Shandy to drink and tried to burp the air out so we wouldn't feel so full-but it turns out that it doesn't work >.<". Took the ferrie back to the other side, still took some photos of random christmas decorations, then headed back home...it was pretty much the best day of my trip so far..haha...thanks to my fellowship friends 
. And then there was cute 4D video showing how we could make a difference to the world by being more energy conservative and less polluting (which is irrelevant to Noah's ark but I found it cute). I took some pictures, bought some stuff (including 高皓正's cd!!!) and then went back to this hotel to have Christmas buffet...spent the night afterwards trying to take a couple of photos of christmas lights on the streets but ended up having to walk for about an hour before we found an mtr station to take the train back home (many mtr stations were blocked >.<"). Oh so that was my first "family day" in my history of 20 years (well, in my memory at least since I don't remember anything in my childhood) and I guess even though theres still this major gap that I don't think will be filled up for a long long time, and even though I don't really like how he's acting sometimes, overall it wasn't that bad...I think...
Good nights now!
). I'm also deciding if I should bring bear bear to HK or not because if not then I guess I got nobody to hug at night 
. But thats k...I'll find some cushion for substitute lol. 
