Chinese New Year

I am not a big fan of chinese new year. But I do miss the crowd in Hong Kong.
Today, b/s shared their testimonies during Sunday service, that's pretty touching. A brother mentioned a point that I found inspiring. God bless us, may not because of what we do, nor even his own mercy, but his promise to the people around us, say God blessed Soloman because of David. In this sense, we should refresh our mind, we owe God for everything we have, in addition, we do owe our parents, our b/s, and many people we don't know.

driver license

I made it.

driver license

Today, Stella have finally passed the road test. We are very glad. To us, it's far beyond a license. Failing in the test, merely a symbolic representation of all the tear we broke into and unhappiness we faced in this stupid country. Those rude examiners, their bad languages sort of summarized many things we have seen.
We are hurt, not by a couple of people, but the whole world (i know it's just a feeling, not true).
A sister I met in church made a wise observation. "No need to envy those people who are in good shape, they are (or they seems to be) just because they have been stuck here for a longer time ." I like this thought, and it's really true. We have been stuck for a long time, therefore we get our license.

Against Manchester United

Liverpool was beaten by Man United, a single goal happend in the 90th minute. It keeps bugging me this week.
"I have seen something else under the sun: The race is not to the swift or the battle to the strong, nor does food come to the wise or wealth to the brilliant or favor to the learned; but time and chance happen to them all."
Football is such a realistic reflection of life. When your team loses, or millions of stupid things happen in life, one still needs to move on...

God should....

We experienced God in many aspects of our daily life. We heard many other Christians' testimonies. These are good and they indeed help us to understand God, but it's terribly wrong if we believe we have figured out sort of protocols of how God works.
Paul and Silas traveled to Philippi after Paul had seen the vision of Macedonia. Just a couple of days, they were put into jail. If I were Silas, I would ask Paul, "hey, are you sure the guy in your dream is really a Macedonian?"., as I expect such a direct message from God "should" lead to an exciting journey.
When I bought my car from a friend, it was possible to reduce (or even avoid) the tax by lying about the price. I decided not to, and spent several hundred bucks. To be honest, I had a feeling that God "should" bless the car and me. Unfortunately, the car did bring me troubles, I spent more than a thousand on fixing it.
Clearly, God is not working according to a manual we wrote, and he is the one who has absolute right to do whatever on us. We are servant and he is the Lord. To bear in mind is, his will is good, pleasing and perfect.

holiday

Monday was a holiday. We drove an hour to visit Ikea. Honestly, I do think that's quite stupid. However, I like visiting Ikea, even there's no need to buy anything. The stuffs are nice. We did a lot when we were in HK. I urged Stella to buy a piece of furniture but she refused. I know that our current arrangement is sort of optimal, but I always love to see something new, some changes...
Monday was our third time to visit Ikea in here, the previous time was almost two years ago, when we started to rent the studio we are now living. I remembered God blessed us in all those arrangements...
After Ikea, we found a cantonese restaurant, we tried a couple of dim sum. That's my hoilday.

Endless

"Of making many books there is no end, and much study wearies the body." Ecclesiastes 12:12

Browsing the large number of different sessions of the APS march meeting, the feeling of the meaningless in endless scientific work came up to my mind again. This few years of living enable me to know better the meaning/meaningless of life. Once again, if I were not here, I could not have the perspective I have right now.

So I saw that there is nothing better for a man than to enjoy his work, because that is his lot. Ecclesiastes 3:22

Winter

 

something new

I can't remember starting from when, I have been trying to do something new. Nothing special, I just want trigger something out there. So, here I am.