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It has been a while since I posted on here. Today after eating lunch with some friends at Festival Walk in Kowloon Tong (Hong Kong) I saw this cool old man skating, I filmed it on my camera and posted it on youtube, very entertaining!

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Chinese University of Hong Kong where Reese has been studying has an immersion component to it where she travels to an English speaking Country for exchange. The options at first were England, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. She received her first preference which was Melbourne Australia, so excited I found the cheapest airfare I could to go along with her, for her the Government subsidise a

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As an Australian who travels through borders a little I am very appreciative of the hi-tech city which is Hong Kong. I was first impressed with my Australian passport that it had a chip inside it to make processing quick and easy in Australia (and I am sure other Countries which also implement this technology).Hong Kong has gone one step further issuing a card and using finger the finger print of

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I often sing love songs to Reese, she feels so special and it has been something I have done ever since we first started dating. Sometimes we change the lyrics and make the love song slightly funny. Well last night Reese discovered my voice is the perfect depth to sing Elvis *haha*, so she has been getting me to sing Elvis to her (the song in the YouTube video is the main one).Well, today we

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Dean's Cantonese's getting better, and he can say more than he used to. So he started to get cheeky. The other day I told him to stop being silly. He said "Dim gaai or haai sor tsaai (點解我係傻仔) ?", which literally means "Why am I a silly boy?". However, in Hong Kong setting, that's often interpreted as "Why am I a retard"...

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I don't know how many of my friends know that I like Handel's Messiah. I'm so nerdy about this production that one time I even borrowed a study of it. And of course I did study it. Actually, I don't remember much musical knowledge of the book *hehe* Well, that's not important. I like Handel's Messiah mainly because of the message it carries (in the lyrics).Tonight I played it in the computer room

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Original link in YouTube.1997, July 1st HONG KONG was repatriated from England back to China. July 1st 2007 was the 10th Anniversary to celebrate this event which lead to the production of the above video. At the border going into Hong Kong today I received "special benefits", many of them I receive special price if my birthday is the 1st of July or I was born in 1997 - hm, 30th of June is pretty

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Reese and I have been struggling with Church life in the last few months, on one hand loving people at Church in Kwai Fong, on the other hand my language limitations at the moment creating stress for Reese to translate as well as putting an unfair dependence for me on her to be there for me during the service, I never once had a feeling of independence there merely due to my language barrier. As

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We didn't really have a weekend last week. We'd been super busy with ministries in China and didn't have a chance to have a good rest until today. This morning we slept in until 10am. After shower I cooked a nice late breakfast or early lunch for ourselves. We'd decided not to do much but spent time with the family. So we first spent time to pray and read the bible together. Then we romanced each

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Gweilo (鬼佬) is a Cantonese term for Caucasian people (generally men). It literally means "ghost", "ghost man" or "ghost chap" and arose to describe the pale complexion, the sometimes "red hair and green/blue eyes" (紅鬚綠眼; Jyutping: hung4 seoi1 luk6 ngaan5) of Caucasians. When the term is translated into English, it is sometimes translated as foreign devil. The term arose in the 19th century and is

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A new version of Long De Chuan Ren performed by Leehom Wang.The phrase Long De Chuan Ren (龍的傳人) came from the title of a famous song written by the Taiwanese songwriter Hou Dejian (侯德健) in 1978. Hou wrote it as a protest against the USA switching its diplomatic recognition from the Republic of China (ROC) to the People's Republic of China (PRC) - his message was that the ROC was still the true

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No cheating. Honesty worths more than high marks.

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Quiet! Listen to me!

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Monday 4th and Tuesday 5th of June the two of us packed a tent, sleeping mat (only one, Dean slept on the hard ground), food, camp stove and set forth to the local Fanling train station to begin what would be a two day camping experience to be remembered. From the train station a little mini bus took us out to Hok Tau campsite, the weather hot, the humidity over 50%, however we had the campsite,

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BELLFLOWER, California - At the height of his Hollywood success, former "Growing Pains" sitcom star Kirk Cameron started worrying about something his money couldn't buy: salvation.He had more than just legions of fanatic fans. He also had stalkers and kidnapping threats, and was sometimes driven to the set in a bulletproof car. It got him thinking about his own mortality. He had it all, but still

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Class, do you still remember what our rule is? You'll get stamps or stickers as long as you TRY. Students who don't even try will never get anything from me. It's okay that you make mistakes or get nothing right, as long as you try. So, if you get zero in the dictation but I see you have tried, you'll still get your stamps or stickers. Mark isn't a big deal because you can only get gifts with

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In Australia I spent many years at a Young Adults fellowship at St. Mark's Anglican Church in Emerald (super east of Melbourne). Today a friend of mine Justin back in Australia emailed me their blog link for the young adults fellowship (called iSite), it was so interesting to read 'life as normal' back in the hills east of Melbourne - of which I am so out-of-the-loop.In my many months in Hong

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But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away. (Isaiah 64:6)Reese is so right that God's grace can take what little we have and multiply it. While we are both looking at different things, I think this different angle is deep also. I look at the verse above from Isiah and think

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ONE - is a flash movie for children. However I think the concept of it is just deep enough for adults. Talking about number or Maths, I never liked them until I was born again. Well, I'm still not good at Maths nor sensitive about numbers. But I'm always amazed by how God put His glory and wisdom in Maths and numbers.The other day I kept asking myself a question: Why is that no matter how much we

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So funny, our hamsters have been in separate cages for many days now after their violent outbursts (one of them was bleeding, I myself tried to get in between them and got scratched). After putting them together again a few days ago, they were nice to each other for a while before it all turned 'nasty'.However, Reese put them back together again, this time they are 'good friends' spending most of

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Yesterday Reese received a phone call from her Mother about her grandmother, news had been in the last few weeks how she had come out of her coma and could blink, or from Iris about how she had responded by blinking to things and opening her eyes, even that she gave very excited response to Jesus, prayer, and faith. Yesterday the phone call was not like that, it was a phone call that changes

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I have stored up your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you. Blessed are you, O LORD; teach me your statutes! (Psalms 119:11-12)I love this verse, O how all Christians everywhere should want this to be true of them! Yet in 2007 with Internet, TV, DVD's, radio, music, WiFi devices, mobile phones with built in PDA's loaded full of games, not to mention Playstation, Playstation Portable

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A few weeks ago Reese and I made a new addition to our family, no we're not having a baby (as many requests as we have by people wanting to see a half Western half Chinese baby). We did buy two pet hamsters however, a cute little addition to our family. We decided a boy and a girl would be cute yet potentially reek havoc, this did not stop our purchasing decision.It has been an interesting

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The other day, a friend from church called me and asked how my married life is. She wanted to know what the hardest thing for me to get used to. Well, I think it's involving Dean into my spiritual life. It's hard because we have different spiritual habits, for example, the way we pray, we worship God, we read the bible, even the way we meditate. I know there's no model method for devotional but

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Today Reese and I visited a Church in Fanling for the first time. Some of the things we like about this Church are; location (it is in the same estate we live), it is in both English and Chinese as well as there are other mixed marriage Couples (Chinese and Westerner, Filipino and Westerner etc). The advice and fellowship you can get with someone who is in the same situation is really benificial.

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Prayed with Dean before we go to sleep. I love praying with my husband, anytime and anywhere. I feel such indescribable intimacy with Dean when we're praying together. It feels closer than any physical touch. And I come to know more of Dean from what he prays. For this, I feel sorry for Dean because I usually pray in my first language. I tried praying in my second language, but making grammatical

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The following is parts of an email Dean sent to a Brother in the Lord named Scott in April. It was so much fun looking back on the Wedding day and writing this email, I hope you enjoy it as well.FINALLY Reese & I have the Internet at our new home - we have a fair amount of stuff, some given free, some picked up from a Missions organisation whom give free furniture to volunteer workers, and some

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The below speech was written and spoken by Doug at our Wedding. It was very touching and I hope you are blessed by it also.Reese and Dean it is a real honor to speak today at your I have known you both for a little more than a year now and I see real commitment in you both. Your wedding is a brief moment in time. Yet the marriage starts today and this is something that you will have for the rest

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