Friday, December 28, 2007

as of october 07...

alright... as i look at the 4th Oct, china? oh yeahhh... i did go to china. beijing. visited my parents. which also reminds me of the week before where the travel agent forgot to tell me about the passport needing to be more than 6 months before expiry. but i was fortunate that i had enough time for applying a new passport (very very fast now) and also getting the China visa quickly enough.

spent a good 10 days in china. yups... it was long leave. a long DESERVED leave. it was nice to see how my parents were doing in China. and the church they were attending.
Beijing food is very very oily. the air is very very dusty. i think its due to a lot of construction for the Olympics.
how did i survive in beijing without knowing manderin?
just know how to say 'wo bu dong' and 'wo bu hui jiang hua yi' can loh... haha..

the Great Wall is really a Great Wall. my fit legs (or so i thought it was) was not fit enough. Forbidden City, seriously cool. Chinese love big stuff. and in those old days, the grander, the better. a bit pitiful that during the Cultural Revolution, so much was destroyed.

on the way home, the airplane showed 'Hero' and 'Curse of the Golden Flower'. how cool is that! we were fresh from the real thing and now seeing the wars and all that. i had my sister take a video of me running from one end of the courtyard to the other. hahaha....

the week after i'm on leave again. this time for sunday school teachers retreat. its hard for me to commit to being a full-fledge teacher because of having many things to do. honestly, music ministry is preferred. but then again, music isn't everything. lives are more important, right?
so i strike a balance loh...

classes for CFA started. seriously tiring. i'm half dead in office the next day.

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