Came back from GUANGZHOU last night. The holiday was fantastic, with plenty of shopping and yummy food for the past 3 days. GuangZhou is definitely a food heaven! Despite all the fun, I couldn't get to see any snow, so disappointed.
The weather there is FREEZING, ranging from 1 degree to 6 degree celcius. Surprisingly the traffic there is super smooth and their trains system are quite similar to Singapore, they even have the ez link function where you just touch and go, though instead of getting a temporary card we get a plastic coin, and when we exit the train station instead of scanning out, we drop the coin into the machine and the doors will open. Unlike in Singapore we have to go through all the trouble depositing back the temporary card.
However, there is one experience that still irks me up till now. On our first dinner over there, my parents brought us to FANTASY RESTAURANT; judging from the name of the restaurant you could have guess that it sells exotic food, and it certainly DOES! They even display it for you to choose. There were crocodiles(alive and dead), monkeys, elephant trunks, rats, all kinds of insect be it from land or water, turtles... ...
Seeing all these made me feel disgusted and I totally lost my appetite for that night eating pratically only vegetables. It made me realised how evil man was, how the cycle of life is that bad, I could have become an animal activists right at that moment. When the pictures of the trip are posted up, just look at the cruelty done to the animals. Who knows you might even convert to be a vegetarian. Hahas.
I had a head, shoulders and leg massage yesterday before we flew off, and I was laughing like some mad women the whole time. Its just ticklish! But, it was really relaxing and the staff there are so nice and entertaining and it is definitely a rare sight as the china people are so rude. Plenty of other things happened during the trip too and I took plenty of pictures but it will not be blog out today as it takes a long time to upload the pictures and I have got other things to blog out on.
I am addicted to a chinese song-北极星的眼泪(tears from polaris) by Nicholas Teo and I rarely get addicted to chinese songs, so this is definitely good. Its lyrics are touching too. You can hear it from my friendster.
After the 3 days of holidaying, I finally feel much better and I have sorted out my thoughts too. Going to church today made me realised the reasons of my foolishness. By the way church today was fun and the pastor made all the married couples renew their vows in front of the whole church. Awww, thats so amazing! Even as an onlooker, I could feel that love is in the air. Ahahas.
Today pastor preach on love, lust, roles of the husband and wife and how through 1 male, sin entered the whole world( romans 5:12)
Through his preachings and one of the story he went through, I finally understood what made me had no trusts in any of my relationships. If lies and deceptions never existed in the first place won't there be trust?
The same goes for friendship. If I wasn't backstabbed, bullied time and time again despite countless ignorance and forgiveness would I have changed? If there was at least someone who appreciates me and not put me down, would I even need to protect myself. If there wasn't anyone taking me for granted, lying and decepting me would I even think of changing my life, for the worst!
I was given the choice to choose- do I want to be nice and be bullied and taken advantage of, or be someone firm and be hated. I knew that by choosing the 2nd choice, I won't be me anymore and by not being who I am, I can never be happy. But I didn't want to be bullied, I want to stand up for myself. I want just at least one person or even my closest friends to appreciate me. Yet I hide this longing inside me.
I want encouragement, sincerity, innocence and most importantly to smile. From today onwards I don't want to be firm anymore, I want to be nice and that doesn't means I can be bullied. I shall see no evil, hear no evil and speak no evil. I don't have to stoop to that low as their level, I will take everything in stride. I will be a forgiving person.
I want to be a elegant grace who is filled with happiness. It is easier said than done, but through christ, all things are possible. I believe in my GOD.
The weather there is FREEZING, ranging from 1 degree to 6 degree celcius. Surprisingly the traffic there is super smooth and their trains system are quite similar to Singapore, they even have the ez link function where you just touch and go, though instead of getting a temporary card we get a plastic coin, and when we exit the train station instead of scanning out, we drop the coin into the machine and the doors will open. Unlike in Singapore we have to go through all the trouble depositing back the temporary card.
However, there is one experience that still irks me up till now. On our first dinner over there, my parents brought us to FANTASY RESTAURANT; judging from the name of the restaurant you could have guess that it sells exotic food, and it certainly DOES! They even display it for you to choose. There were crocodiles(alive and dead), monkeys, elephant trunks, rats, all kinds of insect be it from land or water, turtles... ...
Seeing all these made me feel disgusted and I totally lost my appetite for that night eating pratically only vegetables. It made me realised how evil man was, how the cycle of life is that bad, I could have become an animal activists right at that moment. When the pictures of the trip are posted up, just look at the cruelty done to the animals. Who knows you might even convert to be a vegetarian. Hahas.
I had a head, shoulders and leg massage yesterday before we flew off, and I was laughing like some mad women the whole time. Its just ticklish! But, it was really relaxing and the staff there are so nice and entertaining and it is definitely a rare sight as the china people are so rude. Plenty of other things happened during the trip too and I took plenty of pictures but it will not be blog out today as it takes a long time to upload the pictures and I have got other things to blog out on.
I am addicted to a chinese song-北极星的眼泪(tears from polaris) by Nicholas Teo and I rarely get addicted to chinese songs, so this is definitely good. Its lyrics are touching too. You can hear it from my friendster.
After the 3 days of holidaying, I finally feel much better and I have sorted out my thoughts too. Going to church today made me realised the reasons of my foolishness. By the way church today was fun and the pastor made all the married couples renew their vows in front of the whole church. Awww, thats so amazing! Even as an onlooker, I could feel that love is in the air. Ahahas.
Today pastor preach on love, lust, roles of the husband and wife and how through 1 male, sin entered the whole world( romans 5:12)
Through his preachings and one of the story he went through, I finally understood what made me had no trusts in any of my relationships. If lies and deceptions never existed in the first place won't there be trust?
The same goes for friendship. If I wasn't backstabbed, bullied time and time again despite countless ignorance and forgiveness would I have changed? If there was at least someone who appreciates me and not put me down, would I even need to protect myself. If there wasn't anyone taking me for granted, lying and decepting me would I even think of changing my life, for the worst!
I was given the choice to choose- do I want to be nice and be bullied and taken advantage of, or be someone firm and be hated. I knew that by choosing the 2nd choice, I won't be me anymore and by not being who I am, I can never be happy. But I didn't want to be bullied, I want to stand up for myself. I want just at least one person or even my closest friends to appreciate me. Yet I hide this longing inside me.
I want encouragement, sincerity, innocence and most importantly to smile. From today onwards I don't want to be firm anymore, I want to be nice and that doesn't means I can be bullied. I shall see no evil, hear no evil and speak no evil. I don't have to stoop to that low as their level, I will take everything in stride. I will be a forgiving person.
I want to be a elegant grace who is filled with happiness. It is easier said than done, but through christ, all things are possible. I believe in my GOD.
