Merry Christmas and God bless you all!
- Tiny Tim (Christmas Carol)
Sorry it is belated. My family and I wish you Merry Christmas!!! I love Christmas. I walked around Causeway Bay in Hong Kong to enjoy the spirit of Christmas with people around. It was such a busy street and I have never seen anyone so happy to be with their family and friends. It was a great night. I miss my friend back home in US.
My family and I celebrated on Christmas Eve at the restaurant. It was an office party. My grandfather's employees came with their family and kids. It was fun Christmas party with weird music. It was like they use Christmas music which was suppose to be soft, melodic, and smooth, and they turn into fast tempo driving my brother crazy. There was a lucky draw and the prizes turned out to be full of toys! When they brought up pink Malibu Barbie's mini car, I was going for that for my friend's sister. Anyway, I lost to 5 year-old kid. The party so far went well and everyone went hope happy except my brother who has some ringing in his ears and some nightmares because of the music.
On Christmas day, I worked a little to print out paper for my mom. It is like 50 pages. My mom always work on holidays. It was my half day. I went out to shop with my brother and my mom. We went to Kowloon side to buy some things for my brother's friends and a jacket for my brother. We ate at Cafe de Coral for lunch. We had vermicelli with roast duck in soup. It was every Hong Kong people's favorite. I highly recommend this dish if you come to Hong Kong. The place was packed like pack of sardines in can. It was crazy. We later went back to Hong Kong side and walked around Pacific Place in Admiralty. We had a nice dinner at Island Shangri La's Summer Palace restaurant. The food was great! My favorite dish is Peking duck. I never out grew my childhood favorites.
What I got for Christmas? It was a best gift I ever had. I was sad because I left everything in the States. My friends, my home, my car, and something I worked so hard to build. Now I am in Hong Kong and everything became new to me. Everyone was gone. Some went out of town for vacation, some moved away, some transfer their job somewhere. Some of the places were closed down because the rent is so high. I had to start my life over again. It just made me so lonely and my self esteem dropped. I was heartbroken. I am trying to heal myself. So that night, I wanted to walk home from the restaurant by myself instead of riding taxi home. I went from MTR (Mass Transit Railway) to walking to take the shuttle bus home. I didn't realized my mom was following me. She talked to me about what's was bothering me. She told me her story about when she was young. This story is very personal to tell. The whole point is that she taught me to be a fighter for something I love and never give up. She is trying to get me to count my blessing seriously. The way we think about life is different. I believe everyone has its own suffering and suffering itself helped them to become stronger. I felt that suffering is one of blessing people learned to become stronger. For her religion, suffering is more of what you had done in past life that made who you are today. She told me that her mother asked the Buddhist monk why a person so unfair is so blessed. The monk said that you cannot blame a person. It is part of Heaven's blessing to people to suffer and they will have a chance to have better next life. It taught me not to blame myself for being deaf. In my belief, suffering is whole different story to me. I believe it is something that brought us into a perspective about what's God is trying to make us become. I believe that He is trying to make us be like Him. The gift my mom gave me is her extraordinary strength. She fought everything for me. It is my turn now.
Merry Christmas and God bless you all!
Pictures are coming soon. I just can't find something to put the memory card in...
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