Christmas is gone for this year, only a week left to 2010, and I know to the bottom of my heart, this has been a beautiful and long year.
There is a group of adjectives I can use to describe my year of 2010 (granted that facebook did not do a good job for my status of the year), and it would be the following:
Lost, confused, waited, and waited, dark, darker, fall, fail, redeem, slowly, return, hope, happy, busy, tired, joy, warm, love, stories, dream, and amazing.
The story of my life, I was lost but now I am saved.
What can I say more? My friends you all knew where I came from last year, from a small campus called New Kensington, PA, waiting for God to do something, waiting to be over with roommates trouble. Then you knew that I was no longer waiting when I transfered to another campus, because that was what He promised and He made it happen, just like magic. We all know, though, it is more than magic.
The waiting and the horrible times of living with mean girls in spring was just plain awful, I think any time in my life that was as dark as this spring was the depression period I had in childhood. And I thought there was no lift from some where like that. Well I was not at all correct.
Its not a BLINK, then God found me and I love Him again. More like God BLINK and made His promise come true, but I didn't BLINK and "Oh Hey There You Are!!! Found You Again, Oh You Are Awesome, Love Ya and Awesomeness (insert fist pumb and awkard turtle hand shake here)". If I did I would think I am a well manufactored robot. Na.
And maybe if spring didn't happen life would be great. It did happen, so there isn't much I can do, but learn to live this life and learn from it.
Well, as soon as the summer ticked away, school began once more, in a different place thou. Everything is new again, and friends have to be made again. My perspective for everything is not the same any more, for better or Worse. God is like another person to me this time. The way I look at things and Him was like before. I made new friends, still cool wonderful people but I think my friends in New Ken are cooler and more wonderful. really. Go and talk to Jesus, yet He is not like the Jesus I knew before, more like some one I just met and getting to know. He has been cool about teaching me who he is. New classes, crazier professors, and they are so unpredictable, just like my grades. Sometimes for a second I'd love to be back to New Ken again to see my cooler and more wonderful friends. I tried to go back and it didn't work out, so I guess we will meet next year. As a promise this time, to meet some of you again.
So 2010 is about to be over, but God is not done yet (even if you belive the world will be over at Feb, 2012, since next year is 2011 not 2012 =P ), which means story of my life and stories of your lives are to be continue. Wish you all can in one day/way or the other understand what a blessing your life can be to yourself, your friends, family, neighbors, and your God, if you would like to believe that.

Abba's Child Chp. 4 pg.64

Funny how that sometimes your "hours of darkness" haunts you in your thoughts and the kind of things they do to you when you are afraid to be loved. And it happens on someday, like a bruse, not often enough to be recognized as a symptom or a sickness or a spiritual alarm until the bruse becomes darker and worse somehow. By that time, I found out last year, was too late, things spint away in a matter of one decision, and my world turned cold and sad. By Grace, I was loved and I now believe again, but boy, bad memories haunts, worse than the worst horror movie/story you've read.
I just want to know the truth, and to be reminded by it when that ever will happens again.

home for Christmas

Another vacation for us the kids..... it is such a short trip back to school. Finished all the projects and finals.... and oh well, I know I didn't do as good in some class. But after all, the semester was over! ok.
It's a great semester up in main campus, needless to say I do miss New Ken thou, friendship in big campus is not the same as in New Ken. I can't wait for my friends from new ken to be transfer to main campus next year.
I was buzy all the time, it's a little crazy, ya. It's the college business. Busying to finish homework is the majority of my life. A little sad. And after all that, I got the college habit...brunching alot.
I hope it's all for a good cause.
Back at home I go to church like I do when I'm in school too, and when I'm there my mom's friends (that means most people in Newton, the sister campus we go to) they all treat me like an American Born Chinese, becuase, I just act and talk like one. Really? oh thats... I guess there isn't too much I can do.
It's not a shame to be accept to the "foreign culture" so well, but didn't I grow up in another culture for a good 15 years? most teenagers who lives in the other place I grew up in (aka Hong Kong) don't listen to Boardway music, and that is just one of reasons why other parents think I act like a born-local. But I love the stage, since it was introduced to me when I started dancing at the age of 5. And I've been dancing since, sure that it isn't a continuous 14 years of dancing, but I never stop thinking about dancing and the stage. I guess I made sense to myself when I realize play acting and musical singing are also wonderful activities happen on the stage. The stage magic just isn't something I can easily forget, because anything about the stage is amazing. That's not something every other kids in Hong Kong understood, even in America. Oh so why bother.

christmas gift list 10

Hi all, again,

Considering I haven't update since thanksgiving break, you might think I'm abandoning this whole update thing.... no, I'm not, I'm just super busy, just as usual.

Being home for the break was great, I enjoyed it so much, absolutely didn't want to go back to school. haha.

Somehow I manage to come back to school, even my logic told me coming back would be like welcoming the death to our class. so much work is due in this week.

Anyway, there was a 20 minutes time gap between classes today, so I wrote a christmas present list for this year and post it on facebook. I thought it would be a good idea to share with you, so there...

My Christmas gift list '10

1. cash

2. a hat that is blue

3. Toy Story 1,2,3 combo pack + blue ray

4. socks, lots of them, like the fun ones in multi-color

5. donate to THON.org

6. cash

7. a pirate bird named Herwing, it has to be smart

8. A move-able fussy awesome pillow/blanket, aka a Dog

9. cash

10. cash

11. cash

12. more cash

13. INCEPTION DVD!!!!

14. Maybe a never dying betta fish named phoenix

15. a naigene bottle, but it has to be awesome and easy to wash

16. Wicked sound track

17. Rent sound track

18. a "Jewelry" Ballet production DVD (you will be the most awesome girl if you get me this)

19. X&Y by Coldplay

20. cash

21. year pass to New York

22. A pig named "bella", ya

23. an army of penguin

24. lotion

25. a DVD reader for netbook

26. hmm, you????

Preparing for the happy times of Christmas....

Faye

21st November, 2010

Another weekly post, it's in an email format because it is originate as an email and I'm too lazy to change that.

How is everyone?! This may be the first email since winter really started. Sorry if anyone was concern for me. I’m fine, busy, as usual.

Winter seems to have come sooner than I wanted to be. It was all green and all of a sudden is cold and winter like. I wasn’t ready for it yet, was hoping to catch a little bit of fall when I get the time, but that never happened. Instead, I have this thanksgiving week of, a good break before the real end-of-semester-2-weeks-rush come upon. This week is very relaxing and exciting for me. It is finally, there is something other than school business I can talk about.

This wonderful week, first, is going to be a great down time with family. I couldn’t be happier to be back home, to be with the people who meant so much to me and give so much to me so that I can thrive in my business. In a way, I wish I can do more to give back when I’m around, but I really am not sure how to do that besides being with them.

Second, this week is a great chance to connect with friends at home, especially my best friend in high school. Very excited for her, as something very big and life changing going to happen to her the coming January, that is, getting married. (don’t panic) It is shocking news, but a good one, very joyful news. Please pray for her and her fiancé and everyone planning for this weekend as many things will needed to happen for them in the next MONTH!

Third, this week can be a great peaceful time for me. I haven’t have a through all down time since school started 12 weeks ago, and so I’m going to use this opportunity to do some serious process time. Little or less, I’ll need some in order to set a good pace for the next month, because it is going to be one of the most memorable month my friend’s life, and mine and many others. So with that said, please pray for everything! Thanks guys, and enjoy the winter! And the Thanksgiving at home!! Almost there!!!

Faye

week.... I lost count

Hi everyone!

There was too much happening the last two weeks that I couldn’t deep up with the email update at all. Ya. It was very busy, just with school work alone.

The week before this week was absolutely insane, and I mean when I say insane. We had a career fair, a giant exam (some of us in the major had 2 exams that week), and a giant project that included research, computer modeling, physical modeling, and presentation, all in one week. That week basically marked the beginning of our insanity for the rest of our academic career, possibly the rest of our professional career as well. Our lives don’t seem to get less busy, do we? That seems to be a true statement…… I heard that being parents while working and have a spouse it’s even busier. Hmmmmmmm, I’m scaring myself.

We like breaking the traditional “college-student” mind-set in our own little major. We are still busy with class work all the time. I really wish there is one week I can tell you guys I am not busy but that is probably an impossible thing.

(side note: people are dressing up for Halloween weekend and the football game against Michigan this weekend….)

(Intermission…. Because I walked away for 15 hrs.)
(side note: sorry Michigan fans, but Penn State won.)

I walked away for a whole night, so the part above was written on Saturday night and this following part is written on Sunday afternoon.

Well beside that crazy week there are more exciting things lying around. Like a dance performance this coming weekend, and a new kid in town.

This new kid is a 13 year-old girl who originally from Shen Hai and is adapted by one of our pastor in the church I’m attending. I just met her today at church and already she is out-going and talkative. Her whole family is excited to introduce her into the rest of the family as she came a week ago. There is a great exciting dynamic happening, I would really appreciate your prayers for her. And um, if you want to know more feel free to email me and ask. I would love to tell you all about it right now but it is probably better if a) its not a mass email b) another time than this because I want to get some processing.

So many exciting and busy work going on, I’m about to run out of hours and priorities again, so that means I’ll need to re-shape my schedule. But it’s alright. I wish I can mumble on but I’m afraid it’s going to be so boring, so I’ll stop here. Thanks for reading and praying and supporting.

Faye