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Thursday, 02 April 2009

  • New Working Challenges

    I felt sad today... Many people left me within a short time. I don't know when I will see them again. Maybe I won't be able to do so. It seems that they disappeared in a sudden and I did not say say goodbye to them.

    Ahead of me, there are many challenges. I worry about driving, being late to meetings, dressing properly, making mistakes, taking care of more frail elderly, recognizing new environment and faces...

    Less than a year before, I started working at my current position. Well... not long after I became familiar with the working environment and started do more, new challenges came to me.

    This afternoon, I was assigned to work in San Jose 2 days weekly.

Monday, 13 October 2008

  • Thank you for...

    the good living environment. I enjoy the fresh air and weather a lot, especially when I walk in Golden Gate Park and Ocean Beach.

    finding a suitable job for me. It is my first job which I have never expected. It may not be a good job for everyone (at least for those who worked for a short period~!) but I found it appropriate for me. I have enough money for a living and it is not as hard as it could be in HK, I can do more for the community and the church.

    surrounding me with caring friends. Although I am not a sociable person, I encountered some very good friends in my life. Sometimes, I just think I do not deserve it at all. This is my first birthday in San Francisco, being far away from many friends. It was so surprising to me that quite a few remembered it and sent warm greetings to me!! Also, people I met in the church are nice and fun. It makes me much more easier to adapt to the life here. Now, I have more opportunities to do something for fellowship. This is also one of the things I wanted to do in the past.

    giving me hopes. I hope to be a better me in the future. I want to do something meaningful in the coming months before 2009. I want to know more about my new friends. At work, I want to get my things done before deadlines. I want to establish a good relationship with my colleagues. I am greedy. I hope I can see my sister in Singapore and my father, grandma, little nephew and niece in HK next year.

    Hee hee...









Monday, 17 March 2008

  • 100 Roses

    Today, I met the ministers with respect to the issue of baptism.
    They were nice and encouraging! (and fun actually)

    Although mom said she would not come to see the ceremony,
    I am glad that she did not oppose us so strongly as before.

    The meaning of 100 roses is

    Harmonious union in a century.

Friday, 14 March 2008

  • 99 Roses


    I have been given time and space for a rest. More importantly, I was able to introspect myself.

    Last October, I considered being baptized. I asked mom and dad hoping they would not oppose me.

    When my birthday was approaching, I prayed to God, "I really want to be baptized so I will belong to a member of the church. Also, I will be able to contribute more to church by sharing some other work... If it is your will, please give me this chance as my birthday present..."

    Their response really upset me...

    Their words precipitated into my distress on my birthday. I went to Victoria Harbor in Tsim Sha Tsui. Walking alone with bottles of water (not beer!), I wanted to escape from calls and have some silent time.

    I wondered in the streets. Luckily, no police arrested me on that. I went into a shop which attracted my sight. I was amazed by the price tags of each products in that store--God loves you.

    Then I walked to a fountain and sat beside it. An old man approached me and said, "Would you buy some flowers for me? Thirty dollars each... My flowers were pretty!" I said, "Well, today is my birthday, could you give me a discount? If you don't believe me, I can show my ID card to you." He said, "My sight isn't so good. I can sell it to you at Twenty dollars."

    Thank you for the little bunch of flowers. It was a special gift on my birthday. Standing at the coast, I hoped to dedicate myself to God.

    During the several months, I felt stressed of different things... submitting my final draft of thesis, tracing rush deadlines of work in HKFGF... I did not have enough time for dealing with my inner doubts and even taking care of myself... I was unable to cheer up particularly I was blamed by family, friends, colleagues and even strangers... I started to suspect myself.

    I don't know what to do and where to go in the future. I thought about previous self since I stayed here. In these months, I thought seriously about how I can do something valuable.

    I am thankful God gave me opportunity to introspect and "repair" myself. However, I am still thinking about it I found another interesting thing when I counted the days.

    Today the 99th days since I have arrived arriving in San Francisco. What does it mean? I searched on the internet and saw the words below:

    99 Roses--Love with understanding makes love eternal.


    Although I don't understand myself, you understand me as always.



Thursday, 06 March 2008

  • 生命何價?

            最近收到給嶺南校友的email,得知一位零四年的校友已辭世。雖然我並不相識那位校友,但對於一個年輕人的早逝,心裡感到甚是惋惜和難過。她在嶺南的學術表現突出,故我對她的名字亦有點印象,從新聞報導中才得知她是自殺身亡的。 

            她自幼失聰,但多年努力、發憤向上,不單可以入讀主流學校,而且成績比同輩更為優異。她亦擁有很多人沒有的下棋天份,曾在公開象棋比賽中代表香港參與其他國家的高手比試棋藝。可憐的她,多年來被學業和人際關係的心理壓力折磨著。她在遺書中表示,在學時曾被人嘲笑,為了不想被人小看,因而比別人都要努力。畢業後,學業的壓力也許消失了,但自卑的想法卻持續困繞她。在求職和工作上,她感到被歧視,對世界懷著不甘和怨恨的心。自殺的念頭因而萌生,即使曾向撒瑪利亞防止自殺會尋求協助,亦未能令她釋懷。最後,她選擇了結自己的生命。    

            也許,我們當中每一個人也曾有過這樣的想法:為甚麼我沒有他那麼聰明?為甚麼我沒有她那麼好看?為甚麼我沒有他們那麼受歡迎?我們也曾感到自卑,覺得自己總比別人差。如果上帝真的存在,為何祂對待人是那麼不公平? 

    去年在嶺南畢業的我,來到三藩市找工作已有數個月了,尚未有offer。我想我若在香港,情況會是「我揀工」多過「工揀我」。現在想找一份entry-level的工作,我也不容易被列入考慮之中。失聰帶來的痛苦,我雖未能身同感受,但不如意的事情也叫我感到不公平、不合理。

    有人說生命可貴,又有人說自己「賤命一條」。看到網上有人留言,說她太傻,有很多人比她更慘、更可憐。亦有人斥責政府對殘障人士的支援不足,以致他們得不到公平的待遇‥‥‥人的價值何在呢?

    前幾天,聽到有朋友說不要光顧某間餐廳,因為「d嘢好難食」、「唔抵」,寧願「加多幾蚊去第二間食」,表示不值得花自己口袋裡的錢換取那餐廳的食物,因為「不值得」。人只會把所擁有的花在自己認為值得的東西上。那麼,「以物易物」的方式能反映出一種事物的價值。要衡量其價值,可看看那被用來交換該事物的價值。

    原來,上帝為了買贖人,願意用自己的獨生子的性命來交換。你說人的價值是高還是低呢?人的價值豈能以外表、能力、別人的狀況去衡量呢?我便明白到自己的價值遠遠高於人力資源的市場中的相對價值。

    對於人的價值,人們有很多不同的意見,要得出一致的看法或許很不容易。有些人覺得生命沒有價值,也沒有值得歌頌、感謝的東西。但可笑的是,有人認為自己應該是命運的主宰;人無法選擇出生,但有權選擇死亡,故自殺是個人自由選擇的權利,安樂死維護人的尊嚴云云。可是我要指出,即使人不太清楚自己生存的價值,亦未明白人的生命有多寶貴,人卻要懂得珍惜那上帝吹進人鼻孔裡的一口氣。

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