Dear friends,

It’s been almost a week since I’ve written on here and it’s friday! That’s a long time. Alright well how’s everyone’s week been? This week’s been treating me well, pretty exhausting and busy but it’s all good.

School’s been busy, work and all. But my frees have been compensating for them, doing work during my frees therefore I get to relax afterschool. A friend from Macau was in town for the past few days, and I’ve been spending lots of time with him. It’s good to have a friend to talk to and look forward to hanging out with. It makes school and doing homework easier.

Tim did a great job at FISH yesterday. He spoke about how we listen to music all the time, but do we really understand what the words tell us? They hit us when we don’t expect it to. He spoke about Love, where it came from, and how we should love our neighbors. Those we don’t like. Be ambassadors of God. Be the one people can look to and feel and see God’s love.

I’m heading to encounter soon. I am exhausted but it should be refreshing.

This post is kind of vague (yawn).

Jo Delight!

Do you know why Korea is spelled with a K?

Corea: This is how it used to be spell. But why suddenly it was changed to a K instead of a C? This is when a large part of Asia was occupied by Japan, including Corea. But when Olympics came, they each had an olympic team competing. Much like Hong Kong and China. The order they compete in is by alphabetical order. Because C is before J, Corea would be competing first and Japan wasn’t happy about that. Can you see where this is going?

Japan changed Corea to Korea, so Japan would be competing first. 

Interesting eh? Well I found it quite interesting anyway.

Thanks Darius! I had a great time catching up with you again.

Jo Delight!

First off, I’m sorry if I offended anyone in my last post. I didn’t mean for it to come across as everybody in HKIS is like that. That is definitely not true. It was just the feeling I had at the moment in time through that experience. I’m sure many would agree with me. I did enjoy all the comments I got though, so thank you!

Secondly, and the one thing that I have wanted to make this post for is tonight. The past three hours have been special. Encounter, the sermon was good. It hit home, and the card idea, although definitely unexpected – was a good idea.

Afterwards, instead going to mango place or PCC or anywhere else, we stayed in the office. Paul, the old youth pastor for Harvesters was in town and he joined us for encounter tonight. We gave him an acoustic guitr and closed the door. He started playing and we all started singing. Worshipping, to songs that we request or to any song that he throws out. We turn the lights off and as time passed, a few more people came in and joined us.

Listening to only the acoustic guitar and many voices all singing and crying out to God, that feeling is amazing.  That is a feeling we don’t get very often, with so many things going on, the last thing we have time to do is sit for two hours with your brothers and sisters in Christ and worship to God in an acoustic setting.

We were in there for two hours. If we could, we would stay there all night.

It’s one of those times that you don’t want to stop, ever.

I’m alive, I’m alive. Those words continue to ring in my mind, the fire going through my body. The spirit inside me jumping around like flee.  I just want to continue singing. Sing my heart out to God.

It is 1:20 in the morning, not many descriptive emotions are coming out of me.

But all I can say is… Wow, God is powerful, God is good. 

Jo Delight!

Ever felt left out? Ever felt like you didn’t belong somewhere? Ever felt like all the eyes around were on you, giving you the “look”? I had a little experience today. Not that I really care, but it hurts to see that this part of our school community can be so un-accepting.

I’ve always thought, as well as other people’s opinion I’ve heard – that the HKIS Community is very opening to new students. Perhaps many people are, but today’s event is enough to change my mind, at least a little bit. People say, hkis is an easy place to adapt to socially. People who’ve been in HKIS for a long time, including myself would believe that way, but that’s because we’ve gone through so much, met so many friends through out the year. I’ve realized that if you are not considered ‘cool’, hkis is an extremely hard place to adapt to socially, and that hurts, to me as a person and as an ambassador of the school.

After chinese today, I had lunch with two new friends. They are both lower classmen and moved from a local chinese school in Hong Kong. I figured it won’t hurt to have lunch with them and just chill out with them, considering they are having a hard time settling down socially. We went into the cafeteria, sat down at a table right behind one of the so called “cool & popular” group. We got our lunch, sat down and started eating.

You have to understand I use to be in this ‘group’. They are use to be my closest friends, at least I thought they were. So I know all of them, and they all knew me but just me and not the two guys sitting next to me on the table.

For the five minutes that I sat there, it felt like the longest time. Why? Because I felt eyes all around me. Even though I knew those people, said Hi to them. I still felt their eyes, I didn’t even have to look at their face to feel the look on the face means: “What the hell are you doing here? Don’t you know this is our section? Who the heck are these two guys? You’re in the wrong place, get out.”

I decided to get outa there and eat outside the cafeteria. Even when we were walking out, I could still see out of the corner of my eye all their faces following us, all the eyes with us until we were out of the caf. You know what’s the worse thing? I’m not a new student, I’ve been at HKIS since third grade and I still feel this way. I’d be absolutly terrified if I was a new student, would you not?!

This is for the most part, the reason why I don’t like the cafeteria.

Even if you have lots of friends. Even if that table is where you usually sit. Does that give you the right to treat others like crap? Perhaps they are younger than you, does that still give you the right to act like a fool and superior? The people who walk away are not fools, the people who try to act superior are the fools.

Perhaps it is like this at every school. We know it happens, but you never understand how it feels until you are in that situation. It’s heart breaking to know that some of our community is this way, hear breaking to know that it is so hard to adapt to socially. Perhaps I’ve done it to people before, give them the ‘look’ and not accepting of them, and I’m sorry.

I can go on and on about this. But I will end. I only wish that everyone would understand how it feels to be that “new kid”, to not be accepted, to have all eyes on them everywhere they go. God tells us to be kind, to be patient, treat others as you would like to be treated, and to reach out. We all need to be reminded of that once in a while.

Jo Delight!

Be on the edge of the boat. Be ready to obey. Be ready to fail under God’s commands. Take that step out of the boat. Walk on water. Have faith: make decisions under God’s will, and not our own. Live by faith, not by sight.

Hillsong – Made me glad 

You are my shield, my strength
My portion, deliverer
My shelter, strong tower
My very present help in time of need

 Sometimes you have good days. You have bad days. And you have days that just goes up and down with all kinds of different feelings. I guess today was one of those days. Sigh. Only one person really know what i’m like during the bad times, and it feels good to have that one person. So I guess I’ll end with a good note. Beside God, that is. Who’s that one person for you?

Jo Delight!