Monday, February 26, 2007
Orange IS BACK!

Back from a good and fulfilling trip.

what can Orange say?

Hahas.. out of my 24 years of living... I've never, really experience.. what I just did, in this one week break.

The people, the feelings, the atmosphere.. the place.
Food is definitely part of it too.. hahas. But there is more to it.
Orange will post the pictures up asap when all the travelling clothes are washed and when she clears her sleeping debts.

First Hand Experience:
1. Living under one roof with a hairy dog (and i mean really hairy..)
2. Eating reunion dinner with a warm family + 1 friendly dog
3. Having outfield trips all planned for and being chaffeured back and forth
4. Entering a village, meeting more relatives, chit chat, sit back.. relax in cooling environment with mountainous view and with own farm chickens, self-grown vegetables, radishes, tomatoes...
5. Speaking and learning cantonese in a 'always conducive' environment
6. Eating village self-made chinese new year specialities
7. Eating authentic cantonese dishes
8. Swimming at natural hotsprings with an environment temperature of 18 - 20 Degrees Celsius

Its really a nice trip for me. ^^ Orange will definitely be making her way back to GuangZhou in July. And... YES.

Daddy shall come with me. I feel very strongly that knowing one's roots is important and knowing it and not making time for it is JUST == Not knowing it.

now that i finally gotten the actual address of my 'house' in GZ, I really wanna go and see it and experience it. I am proud to be a Singaporean and will feel more proud of the fact that I know my roots.

Great learning experience for me too. I've been dodging many things in life... many a times God just place things right smack in my path... time after time to mould my character. Different areas in my life, some.. I've already surrendered and really, its not easy. And God doesn't reveal all the areas that He wants you to change AT ONE time. He ensures that what you are facing is what you can take.. within your ability.. and not beyond your ability. After one such experience and you changed for the better, more challenges will come along to change your other areas. This moulding process I can definitely see it taking place in my life and it takes more than just courage to accept this.

I wanna say T H A N K S to Ting Ting, who made this trip possible for me, with her relatives so warmly welcomed both of us and took care of us so well.. I feel like as if they were my own relatives!