Wow, I haven't updated my xanga for a while. Do people still use xanga, or they just shift to facebook. Anyways, I've been back to Hong Kong for almost a year. I want to update everyone with my life here. I am going to first share with you all about my church life here. I have been going to a church called "The Vine Christian Fellowship." For those who visit HK sometimes and look for church, you would probably hear things about The Vine. It is an independent church. There are two senior pastors and couple about pastors who help in different ministries. There are 4 services each Sunday. Ministries vary from children, youth, and young adult, refuges to men, coed and women small group. I am involving in children and young adult fellowship. One thing I like about my young adult fellowship which is called 180 is that it's been giving me a lot of supports through my hardest moment since I got back. I don't know where my spiritual life would be if I didn't go to 180. Most of the people from 180 are Asian American, Asian Canadian, British, Aussie and some locals. I got a group of brothers to share and pray and it's been good. It kinda reminds me of IV at UCSD. I am also helping out at the children ministry. But no longer with at the nursery which I used to do at the Rock in San Diego. I am helping out at the class aged from 4 -8. They are the cutest kids I've ever seen in HK. Here are some interesting stories. 1) A 4 year old gal came up to me and asked "Eric, why is god not giving me what I want when I pray to him. I pray a lot. I want cookies, I want a teddy bear, but he's not answering, why?" (I never expected a question like this coming from a 4 year old.) 2) Here is a conversation between me and a 5 year old Caucasian gal Annabel when I first met her.
Annabel: "Daddy, can you play with me please?"
Me: "Annabel, what did you call me?"
Annabel: "Daddy, Please..Please..I want you to spin me around."
Me: "Annabel, I am not your daddy. I am Asian"
Annabel: "Daddy, Please..Please..Please." Her mom was cracking up on the side when she heard this. Yeah, from that time on, I have a Caucasian daughter at church and her mom said I can practice my fatherhood on Annabell. Heh. She's one of the most adorable 5 years old. :) 3) Annabel called me "ELIC" instead of "ERIC" because she can't pronounce the R. 4) Annabel has two sisters, one is Jasmine who's 7 and the other one is Bree who's 3. I am getting closer with the kids and I enjoy playing with them. I was playing with Bree in front of the elevator door the other day. We were fogging the mirror door and drew a smiley face and laughed. The door opened a couple times and we kinda scared the people who were coming out. Bree was having a lot of fun. While we were playing, Jasmine was standing right next to us and doing the same thing as Bree and I were doing. I didn't pay much attention to her. Suddenly I heard a really loud and horrible scream. The scream that penetrates your heart and scares you. I turned around and saw two of Jasmine's fingers were stuck into the elevator door. It looked nasty. At that moment, I caught her arm and was trying to pull her out. One thought in my mind was whether her fingers would break if I just kept pulling her out. Her mom rushed from the tabernacle and held jasmine in her arm. We finally pulled Jasmine out and she's crying and shaking. I felt extremely bad at that moment because I couldn't prevent this accident from happening at the first place. Twenty minutes after the accident, I was walking Bree, Annabel and Jasmine who's still shaking and out of it and their mom to the ferry pier. I was holding brae and she looked at Jasmine who's walking behind us. Then she said "Jasmine, You feel better now, okay.." Then she turned to me with a long face. I asked her what's going on. She said "I care for Jasmine, I don't want her to get hurt. I am afraid." While she was saying that to me, I also overheard that Annabel told her mom almost the exact same thing Bree told me. I was overwhelmed by their loves. Then I turned to Bree and said, "Bree, its okay, Jasmine will be fine, Jesus heals, right? Do you wanna pray for your sister?" She said yes and we prayed. After we prayed, I told her to give a hug to Jasmine to show some support. I put her down while we were waiting for her mom to do some grocery shopping. She rushed to jasmine and gave her a long hug. This's the sweetest thing I've ever seen. What did I learn? I learned that children's hearts are just simple and they always care for each other. There is no hate between them, but only love. Can we as adults live like that/ | 
