31st Dec, 2008 (Wed)

Today is the last day of my work, I've actually started a part-time job since the mid of November, 2008. I had been working in a law firm which called J.S.Yeh & Co, which is in Chinatown Point, as an admin clerk. My job was to reminder clients to pay their unpaid bills by phone, letter and fax. I would need to take MRT to work everyday. I worn contact lens for the first few days of my work because my spectacles was spoiled in the morning of my 1st day of work.
After working for 1 month, I had finally got my 1st paid. I bought my first bass guitar at the Yamaha year-end promotion. It was a Yamaha Bass Guitar Set with free tuner, guitar bag, guitar picks, cable and bass amplifier for just $550, which was selling $708 as its original price. Hahaha... I am having electric guitar, bass guitar, keyboard & drumset now, which are the basic instruments used for a band...
I was supposed to go Thailand for my church mission trip from 26th Nov 2008 till 2nd Dec 2008. But the mission trip was postponed to 22nd - 26th Dec 2008, due to the conflict between the protesters and the Thailand government. The protesters occupied the Bangkok International Airport for 3 days, and it was just nicely 1 day before the date we were flying to Thailand, so we were not able to fly.... Due to the postpone of the mission trip, I was able to make it for the anniversary dinner of the law firm which I was worked in on the 28th Nov 2008...
Finally, We flew to Thailand on the 22nd Dec 2008. We needed to transit from International flight to Domestic flight at Bangkok, then flew to Chiang Rai. When we reached Chiang Rai Airport was around 9pm - 10pm in the night and Pastor Tao Rong was there and waiting for us already. Pastor Tao Rong prepared a small truck to fetch us to the Hui Ju Christ Church, which was at the waist of a mountain. After we reached the church, We slept straight away after unpacked our stuffs.
On the 23 morning, we had our 1st quiet time together with Pastor Tao Rong and Xue'er, Who had flew to Thailand before us. And we helped them to decorate the church in the afternoon after we went out to buy some decorations for the Christmas. And we gave the shoes and shirts that we bought from Singapore to the children from Grace Home in the night.The following day, we were busy shopping. Buy present and gifts for children in Hui Ju Church and the Chinese School kids, and stuffs for games to be played on the Christmas. And we also gave out the Christmas gifts which we had prepared for the students of the Chinese school.
On the 25th Dec 2008(Christmas), the leader of the Hui Ju Church invited the leaders and people of the Hui Ju village and principles of the nearby Thai school to the church and had a celebration of Christmas. In the morning, we had a Christmas service. The children of the Grace Home presented a song.
After the service, lunch was prepared for us, leaders and people from the village. The Children from the Grace Home were tasked to serve us and the guests for our lunch. Zhang Qi and Zhen Ping were interested and excited with the things in Thailand. They helped the children to serve the guests.
After the lunch, there were a gifts exchange session which all the people must bought a gift costed at least more than T$20 for exchange. Follow by the Game Time, we have setted up 5 games and it was FUN and excited! The children were really into the games, they won't scare of dirts or anythings, just in order to WIN!! In order to let the game masters to calculate the scores of the different groups, I was asked to give a Magic preformance. Both the adults and children were amazed by the Magic and all the children crowded around me when even I go after watching my performance.
The most excited moment of the day was the Bamboo Climbing Competition. They were asked to form team in 6 to challenge the Bamboo Climbling.
In the night, there were people from other villages ride motors to the church because they heard that there were Magic performance. After our dinner, we had a song learning session and we prepared Some Christmas gifts for all the children from the Grace Home. Every member of the mission team were in charge of prepare Christmas gifts for 4 children out of all the children in Grace Home.
It was really a Meaningful, Interesting and Wondering trip!!!=]