My day off

Hospital is a place that tests your patience and stomach...

According to the doctor's instruction, my mom cannot eat or drink anything the night before her mechanical heart rhythm adjustment surgery today.

Waiting time-1.5 hrs:
My mom and I checked in the St. Paul hospital in downtown at 9:30am (according to the instruction), but the nurse said we are too early and asked us to come back 1.5 hour later. *_*

Waiting time-whole day:
I was told the surgery will take 3 hours and it takes 2 hours for my mom to feel conscious again. So I waited at home......I got a call from the nurse and was told I can pick her up at 7pm.

Waiting time-4 hours:
However, my mom was vomiting and feeling dizzy when I arrived her room. She became impatient and grumpy and wanted to go home. I had to stay with her until she agreed to stay in hospital overnight at 10pm. (Fortunately, I brought a book with me while waiting in the hospital.) I was lucky to grab a piece of simosa in an Indian cusine snack shop in downtown but my mom hasn't eaten anything since last night! No wonder she was so grumpy and demanding. ~__~

"Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres." 1 Corinthians 13: 4-7.

My heavenly father, please teach me how to love others with patience like the way you love us.

Why would 2000 people complain Holy Bible as pornography publication in HK?

http://www.mingpaonews.com/20070518/mra.htm

quoted from mingpaonews.com on May 17,07.

A recent visit to a chiropractor

I started to feel pain on my lower back (a position that is a bit higher than my butt ^_^) after my snowboarding trip on March 31, Saturday. It was an unforgettable day as it was the first time I drove to Whistler and the snow was super icy on that day. I had a fun time with my friend on that day. However, every time I lay back my body (siting around 22.5 degrees against the couch) to watch TV or on the bench in our church (sunday service time), I feel a sharp pain on my lower back. I think God is using this pain to remind me to listen to His every word carefully with proper siting position! It also reminds me of Paul's thorn. "To keep me from becoming conceited because of these surpassingly great revelations, there was given me a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me...'My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.' " 2 Corinthians 12: 7.

This pain has been hurting me slowly for a month and I finally take action to deal with it. I went to visit a chiropractor, named John, in this morning on my day off today. It was a great experience to visit a chiropractor as my back pain problem was explained in details nicely. John also thought my back pain was caused by my snowboarding trip at the end of March and mentioned "misalignment of sacrum". I wonder what is it and do a bit of research on the net. http://www.products4health.com/diagram.htm Sacrum is the bone lower than L5 on my spinal nervous system. John said the scanner showed that my sacrum was shifted to the right side of my hip. That is why I feel pain when I have a "lay back" position.

Thanks God as I feel my muscle and bones are more relaxed and comfortable after the visit. (ha...I can even exercise in Killarney fitness center in the afternoon!) Thanks God that the cost of chiropractor visit is covered under my extended health plan from my workplace. I pray that I will get well soon so I can go snowboarding in this winter! :)

PMS Survival Kit

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCwKbUVyHLY

I still found it funny after I watched it in the second time.

Is drinking alcohol shrinking Paris Hilton's brain?

It came to my attention when my co-worker told me that Paris Hilton will go to 45-days county jail for "violation of probation in an alcohol-related reckless driving case" yesterday. She was stopped by police officer three times for not having a valid driver license to drive (or speeding,drink & drive).

"She said that when an officer who stopped her in January made her sign a document stating her license was suspended, she thought he was mistaken and did not actually look at the document.... [Her spokesman Elliot] Mintz testified that to his knowledge Hilton did not drive during the 30-day period. He said he then advised her that he believed her license was no longer suspended." Of course, the judge did not believe Mintz's testimony and questioned Paris Hilton why would she sign something she did not know?!

Another interesting statement was made by her mother Kathy Hilton, "This is pathetic and disgusting, a waste of taxpayer money with all this nonsense. This is a joke."

Paris Hilton's news is quoted from: http://edition.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/TV/05/04/paris.hilton.ap/index.html

Without too much effort in doing research, this article comes up on my msn homepage: "Drinking alcohol shrinks brain"
http://healthandfitness.sympatico.msn.ca/Drinking+Alcohol+Shrinks+the+Brain/News/ContentPosting.aspx?isfa=1&newsitemid=183351052&feedname=CP-HEALTHSCOUT&show=True&number=5&showbyline=False&subtitle=&detect=&abc=abc

"A small amount of alcohol is beneficial for the heart," noted lead researcher Carol Ann Paul, "but there is a continuous negative correlation between alcohol consumption and total brain volume. It seems that there is not a beneficial effect of even small amounts of alcohol on brain volume."

"The researchers found that the more alcohol people drank on a regular basis, the smaller their brain volume. People who had more than 14 drinks per week had an average 1.6 percent reduction in brain volume compared with people who never drank. "

Perhaps, Paris Hilton's brainless answer was not only affected by the amount of alcohol she consumed, but also her inheritance and irresponsible teachings by her parents (especially her mother!) Did Paris Hilton learn from this trial? Well, I really don't know. She is still filing an appeal to the higher court for this 45-days jail sentence.

First Post May 5,2007

"I can't think of a good name for my blog!", "I won't have time to write my blog", "Nobody will have interest in reading my blog", "I can't type Chinese and my English is not good enough"....they are my excuses of not creating a blog. Why do I only leave comments on other people's blog but not able to express my own thoughts? However, I 've learned in my sunday school that if I don't take the first step, I can never make it happen. That's how I come up with the name of this blog. Well, it may not be the best name but it's good enough for me to begin my first post.

Here is the biblical story behind "First Step":

Crossing the Jordan River:
"..the priests carrying the ark of the covenant went ahead of them (the Israel people). Now the Jordan is at flood stage all during harvest. Yet as soon as the priests who carried the ark reached the Jordan and the feet touched the water's edge, the water from upstream stopped flowing...the water flowing down...was completely cut off....The priests who carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord stood firm on dry ground in the middle of the Jordan, while all Israel passed by until the whole nation had completed the crossing on dry ground." Joshua 3-14-17.

I always wonder would I have the courage to take the first step if I were the priests?