International City Church, ICC

since someone asked me abt the church info, i suddenly remembered the first church that i been to after i arrived Brissy. that's Internation City Church at Valley...
but after i got lunch shift on Sunday before, i chose another church which is at City and the time is just good fit to work for 10:30am shift.
from last month, i don't have to work on Sunday, but i still went to same church at City.
but this week, i thought of going to ICC again.

long long way to get there after got off the train... it takes 10-15mins... it's juz opposite to Emporium... 977, Ann Street.
the worship time is always great & touching ...

after the sevice, amazing thing happened...
i saw Lily, the malaysian chef of my working place....

i called her and chatted for a while. just found that she goes to this church, and she got 4 children already... she introduced her 3rd daughter to me, she's around 1X year old, i think not more than 20... sometimes when she called me "Mui Mui", i would think "i'm not that young actually=p" but in her eyes, i'm really a mui mui since she's got 4 children already...
she asked who brought me there, i just search from internet b4... she said why i didn't ask her... how could i know she goes to church=p
i told her abt my leave, but we will still meet in this two weeks...


how amazine!!  if i chose to go the church at City, i would never know she's a christian too...
thanks God's special arrangement~~ it's encouraging

365 days of love

today, after work and sun tanning... i went to the bus stop and waited for the bus. saw the
444 bus came but it just stopped for passenger got off only. then i checked the schedule and the bus would arrive around 10 mins.... 
in this 10 mins, i found many many elderly there.... i guess coz of after the Mama Mia show??
some of them checking the bus schedule, some screwed their eyes, some seems confusing...
i'm willing to help but a bit shy.....
after a few elderly gone, another old man came and looked at the schedule again.... the time was abt 4:4Xpm and his eyes was browsing around 2:XXpm... i pointed to 4pm area and told him should be around there... he first saw his bus at 4:32pm, i told him it should be gone, let's check the next bus... should be at 4:47pm... i told him it would come a few minutes later.... he thumb up and thanked me... just a simple thing... but  i felt great...

inspired from Jaeson Ma, his 365 days of love.... don't know if added him at facebook... i sometimes received his newsletter.... he sometimes did some project to serve others to show God's love... sometimes looks amusing but i enjoyed it all the time.... i think he's great!!
juz a little thing, can bless those who around us.... 

while i was on the way home.... i suddenly thought of actually i can do a project myself... stay at the bus stop and help those who need help... 


for today, if the bus not coming that early, i would like to help a few more ppl... mayb next time=)

Visit Annie's place

received a msg from Susan yesterday morning just b4 work. she invited me to join their Zumba Fitness party at  Annie's place.
so after work, i backed home and changed a suitable outfit and got on May's car and got there.

first thing impressed me was their garden, they planted alot of vegetables... they got a green house as well, but not much things inside...
i saw auntie picked a bucket of fishes as fertilizer... i understand the concept but didn't know someone is using this way to plant crops........  
we walked to have a look on the house just nearby which is selling.... but after chatted with a guy outside the house, we found that it's sold out, someone pay for the bond already...

May left afterwards for run...
Susan bought her Zumba Fitness DVD set and we chose the 40 mins cardio party.
Susan, Annie, her mum and Aunties plus me danced together... her mum and aunties quited half way.... actually it's a bit short if comparing to the real class.... but still learned some new moves from the DVD.
they got Karaoke as well, although mainly Taiwan's mandarin songs.

we had dinner b4 the K.... i saw auntie prayed for the meal... she said Amen loudly...
the meal was good, a little bit Taiwan style since they are a Taiwan family. we had fish,bitter squash, meat cake,  peanuts, some preserved vege... and a good fish soup that they fished themselves that morning... 
during the meal, when i looked up the wall... i saw a plaque writen 基督是主 Christ is our Lord. ...
then i found that among their group of frds, Annie, Lilian, Jersey and Ryan are all Christians.
no wonder the candle that Annie prepared for Susan's birthday with a tag writen "Grace"...
no wonder Lilian agreed with me when i said that's God's will for Ryan met his fiancee...
everything is unfolded... good to know some Christians frds here, Thanks Lord =) 

We karaoke afterwards... sang a few songs... as me and Susan love to 玩野 ... we sang some super old songs as well.... 倆忘煙水裡..... 小李飛刀... wahahaha....
Annie sang some cantonese song too... not bad pronunciation...
aunties sang 上海灘... and a few taiwanese songs... so funny...

sing K, dancing, eating... what a wonderful night...
ar, thanks Susan drove me home.

After Aftershock

watched Aftershock with May at Sunnybank AMC, the only cinema shows this movie.
as many HK frds highly recommended, and as being a Chinese, i should watch it anyway.
昨天問朋友有沒有興趣看, 反被問及為何如此想看.... 真過份!
without knowing the director, without knowing the whole storyline... only watched the trailer... why not? need not to be care too much, many ppl recommended... i actually seldom watch Chinese movies... but this one is really attractive.
know too much abt the storyline is not good either, i don't want to predict the scenes.
so if u want to watch the movie later, don't read the comments below.............

without describe too much abt the earthquake and the rescue since it's not the main theme but the prelude. since this is not a disaster film like 柴犬奇蹟物語 (A Tale of Mari and Three Puppies) or 2012, Knowing, The Day the earth stood still.... those story abt the end of the world...
yea, coz it's actually really abt "Aftershock".... so i think the English name is more telling the story but 唐山大地震 would be more vibrating for sure. 
i quite like the fonts of  唐山大地震...
just as the poster "Her survival was just the beginning."

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Sacrifice
當兩個只能活一個, 你救哪一個? it's really hard to choose... both are your children, save whose life? in my point of view, the mum save the little brother not only because his gender, but he's keep calling his mum for saving his life while the sister couldn't say anything but crashing the stone. the younger ones always got privilege... that's the normal (: as i'm the youngest child.... kekekke...
but their mum sacrifice her entire life, her fortune to fulfill her belief... their ghost couldn't get home if they moved too far away. 

Persimmon -- promise
that's the most touching part i think.
b4 the earthquake, there was a scene that only one persimmon left, the mum given it to the little brother, the daughter complainted her mum favouritism... the mum promised to buy her the next day.... at that night, the accident made her couldn't complete her promised.
after 32 years, their reunion scene... her mum prepared a few persimmons for her... no matter how old she is... she still remember that after all these years......... as she had promised... really meant it, not just a lie to a child. 


Pregnant scene
the daughter got pregnant with her bf, while her bf asked her to do an induced abortion....
such an irresponsible guy... this made me think of my frd who also got such experience while she chose the same thing with the leading lady...  give birth to baby and left the guy.
the most funny thing is when the adpoted father slapped the bf, an audience was too excited and yelled "打得好!!" in mandarin... really rofl XD

Coherence
it links up with the Sichuan earthquake at the end of the story...
another story begins to lead u have a little flashback. back to the scene that the mum made the choice...

Director
since the director Xiaogang Feng is familiar with comedy... so humourous scene are between. not crying scene for the whole movie...
14X mins... long movie but not boring at all.

cry or not, so depends... May didn't cry, i did. i'm emotional... but not only me, i seen ppl's crying eyes after Aftershock...



and i suddenly missing my mum...