05/09/04

I joined the womens double 21K To-lo harbour canoe race, its the first time I joined such a long distance canoe race and luckily we became the 1st runners-up and got a trophy!

10/09/04

Today I went to HKU to preach with Louisa, hoping to share the gospel with some freshmen. Finally we did share the gospel with few freshmen. What surprise me was that there was a sec- sch junior approached me in the campus whom I almost forgot. She said she wanna say "thank you" to me thru out these years- we did exchange one or two letters nearly 6 or 7 yrs ago and I encouraged her to study hard. I dont expect this random acts of kindness helped this young lady so much!

13-20/09/04

This trip to Tokyo was decided just more than a week ago when Ada called and initiated, I applied 2 days annual laeve and swapped a duty with a collegue and successfully made the trip. Also I got staff stand-by airtickets from my friend. We saved some hotel costs as we stayed in Ada's friends house.

Here is the dairy written my sec sch-mate, after we met and she described my trip:
快樂 9/23/2004

離soho日子已遠 懷念天天找咖啡館的日子...
工作一大堆 完成無期 乾脆豁出去 約朋友吃飯
朋友剛到日本旅行 因機位緊張 比原定時間遲兩天回來
約她於 "呼吸" 還書 逼她將粉茶送我... :]

她的旅程有驚無險 好玩又精采...
$900 坐 business class 食 "乾爭爭" 帶子沙律作頭盤的飛機餐...
機上有乘客病發 朋友表明醫生身分 不用顯身手 卻得回香檳一大瓶...
爬富士山 巧遇72歲健旺伯伯 定神一看 伯伯手上拿著自己設計的日程表連圖解 電腦做的...
棒球賽中的傘舞...
朋友波鞋運動褲被拒上機 臨上機才匆匆忙忙換衣...
好像好久沒有嘗過橫衝直撞的蠻勁式旅行的興朋友奮了...
我們明年的旅遊大計 會實現嗎?

但願你二十五年後的尼泊爾之行成真 :]

Some more feelings about this trip:

- being the only one who visiting Disneyland alone…the feeling was so strange… this place was meant for fun and I went alone..how can I have joy? But I really wanna tour around the Tokyo Disneyland…when I set up the tripod and took photos of myself, people looked at me in strange ways…

- I couldnt finish watching the baseball match of swallow vs bayster…hiya, cuz its so windy and Ada said she was almost sick and fly into temper when she saw the last batter always hit foul balls…we left and just missed the last hit which turned the score from 3:3 to 4:3…the home team won!

- The trip to Hakone is good, at least we saw the Mt Fuji! Ada's friend been in Tokyo for a yr and have not have the luck to see that as it really depends on the weather.

- When I was told very firmly that I could not get on the plane on 18th…I felt so lost and did not wanna leave the airport, hoping there would be miracle…u know when I was told that 9 ppl got fake passports and suddenly got 6 standby vacancies, my heart beated so fast as I thought maybe God was making something impossible to be possible…anyhow, the moments I took my luggage back and got on the Keisi line back to Shijuku…I will never forget…I waited outside Ada's friend's house for 1 hr for Ada to come back…

I had to be back to HK on 18th as there was a baseball match on 19th which I didnot wanna miss. Also I had to work on 20th. Guess what happened?

That extra-2 days are great, as things were sorted out and that I could travel to more places in Tokyo as well as I bought a home-run trainer for just 1000 Yen in Odaiba.

my duty on 20th was cancelled and my boss treated it as I applied another day of Anual leave.

an email from a baseball teammate:
" My dear teammate,
Your news was really frustrating yesterday, however, how lucky we are! The match is cancelled for the bad weather!!!! "

Trip photos