Father-Son Love

Great videos that show how unconditional love can be:

Looking forward to Mondays?!

With biz trip to Shanghai, Suzhou & Hangzhou last week and weekend at HK, i totally forgot it was the thanksgiving weekend for you guys back in the US. Yeah thanks for all your xanga blogs of exciting thanksgiving stories and events. Well, nobody celebrates thanksgiving here in Asia - I guess that's why people are never thankful for anything.. haha..

Well, as much as i lack a thankful heart for these tough 2 years of life in Asia, there is one thing at least i must be thankful for is my new "tiny" apartment in HK. It's tiny tiny and expensive, but heck, at least no more those crappy cheap hotel nites where you feel like literally sleeping in a closet with no windows.. haha.. and yeah, you guys are welcome to come visit me and crash over my place now...  

I am finally in the process of trying to turn my attitude towards life around by learning how to be responsible and disciplined for my own circumstances and unhappiness in life. The differences between a good and tough life are relative, depending what we are comparing to, and if the person has a right, thankful attitude towards problems in life. It is definitely easy to complain and get frustrated when one goes from a comfortable life to a tough life with a lot of hard work. Lots of things I used to take for granted is no longer available. It is even easier to blame others and God when one made a life decision thinking that it was a personal sacrifice for others. Yeah, that's me for the past 2 years living in China. There is still a huge part of me feeling resentful about why God and my parents put me in my current situation. But i have to learn to see it's how blind i am, denying the responsibilities of all the daily decisions i made regarding my own work hours, level of stress & workload and recreational time spent in building friendships locally.

With Christmas & EOY approaches in less than 1 month, it's time to look back this past year and start really thinking how i want to live a joyous life that glorifies God next year.

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Thanks Paigoomein for the book!

Currently Reading How People Grow: What the Bible Reveals About Personal Growth By Dr. Henry Cloud, Dr. John Townsend see related

Destiny

What a weekend of college football! With Auburn, Texas & Louisville all went down over the weekend, the new BCS shows USC back on No.3!

Go Georgia! i knew you could deliver an upset over the average Auburn!

Poor Texas QB got hurt but props to Kansas State for taking advantage of the situation. 

Rutgers beat Louisville and is going 9-0. But man, together with West Virginia, the Big East is just like a closed bubble with teams playing against each other where most of them are simply unranked, or temp ranked.

Too bad Cal didn't hold on but lost to Arizona. That weakens our strength of schedule when we finally meet next week.

We control our destiny. As long as we win out, we should have good chance returning to BCS title game and contest with the winner of Ohio State vss Michigan (next week).

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Life/work is so frustrating here for me. So my only diversion is get excited about SC Football. Thanks, boys!

FIGHT ON!

Currently Reading An Introduction to Theories of Popular Culture By Domini Strinati see related

Great math answers

Unreasonable

"Reason" is a very relative thing. Depending on the cultural, social & religious background, people perceive the world diffferently and have different standards of reasonings.

I have been having a hard time getting along with my parents who have lived all their lives in a world that is almost completely different from mine culturally, socially, professionally & emotionally? So many things they do and say just simply do not make sense. Add that with gen gap and languange barrier. And that you have to live and work with them 24/7.... hahah...

Instead of emphsising obidience to the "Law" - how Christian should behave,  lately I have been trying to remind myself to focus on living out the fruit of true salvation - Faith, Love & Hope. Out of the 3, love is particular hard esp. when I simply can't agree with them on several issues of life & work. How do you love someone after you had a serious fight with them on differences in opinion about family biz? Or worse, how do you not dislike someone who is completely unreasonable and selfish?! Sigh...

I have faith in God, but i feel like i am holding onto "Hope" blindly, that one day all these work/life situations will finally be resolved. 2 years have gone by. Shouldn't I a line somewhere? How long and how much is ENOUGH? I know that i am not supposed to take up this family biz role to please my parents, but to do it as a sacrifice to glorify God. But i must have gotten my priority confused some way along the process. For now that i can really understand how those of you with non-believer parents feel. My parents are Christian, but sometimes they are so used to working all the time that work takes over everything including God.

What do you do when the interests of your parents conflit with God's? Worse, when your parents ARE Christians but they share somewhat different opinions about how Christian should live their lives? I know you are thinking "edifying", but it's so hard and takes so much patience and persistence.

My sisters tell me that i take it too seriously. I think i am finally realizing they were the smart ones and they were right. Why am I doing this for? Why am I trying so hard to help the family biz when i get no joy out of it? I must have placed the need to please men before God. I must have overworked and put aside God's time in the process. All my hard work becomes in vain when my motivations is not the right place. I need to reprioritize my life.