About two years ago, when I started my Masters degree, I decided I wanted long hair. I wanted this for quite some time but just never had the guts to grow it out.
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For those who may be interested, here is a brief newsletter reflecting on the last year. Enjoy!
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I have just finished preparing another Turkey (yes, another one) for a Christmas Eve party tonight. While its sitting and absorbing all them herbs and stuff, I thought I would put up a quick post about this past weekend when Betty and I took a trip down to London visit family, see Les Miserables (awesome musical!) and do a little shopping. We stayed at the house of my Uncle David and Aunt Sue (he’s technically my second cousin — my dad’s cousin — but that just sounds weird). My Uncle David came out of retirement six years ago when his brother, Sam, passed away. Uncle David took over Uncle Sam’s ironmonger (translation: hardware store). As you can see from the pictures it is such a clutter, but he has just about everything and knows where everything is! Evidently, prior to the establishment of Samuel Ironmonger, his parents started the first Chinese restaurant in that area of London in 1953 – Kowloon Restaurant. It was really cool to see the pictures of the restaurant and original menu. Hmm.. I would like some Gar Lee Ngau Yuk £5 and Yee Foo Min Tong for £2 (yah, it was really expensive even back then!).
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I have never missed a Thanksgiving celebration. I have always remembered the holiday as one celebrated with family — often my family with my mom’s side of the family getting together for a Burmese-American Thanksgiving fusion dinner. Even when I was in college in San Diego, I remember sometimes going with the youth group I worked with on Thanksgiving day to serve food at the local shelters — but by the afternoon, I was driving up two hours to be at Thanksgiving dinner.
But then, when I moved to Canada in 2006, things changed. Not only was the last Thursday of November a full day of classes, Thanksgiving in Canada was celebrated a month and a half earlier. A few friends and I decided to still celebrate American Thanksgiving — in Canada.
The next year, of course, we did the same. This year, I have moved again — this time with my bride and to England. Though the number of Americans here are far fewer, we still celebrated God’s goodness!
What I think is very special for me is the fact that Thanksgiving is a time of family. And, as I have lived away from home for many years, I appreciate the fact that God has given me surrogate families wherever I have gone. I am truly thankful for God’s blessings.
Happy Thanksgiving!
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Hi everyone!
We are finally here in the UK, finally here in Birmingham. It’s been a long journey, leaving Vancouver on September 1st and embarking on an 18-day journey here to Birmingham. God has been very good to Alex and myself. He has blessed us with so many wonderful memories that we will treasure forever with the friends and family with whom we met up with along the way. Of course, we remember and treasure the dear friends and family we left in Vancouver too!
So how does it feel to finally be here in Birmingham? I can only speak for myself, Alex will have to share his thoughts in his blog entry. I have already been asked many a times why I would return to such a country as England, always so wet and so dark in the winter and so gloomy here. I have been quite surprised actually by all the negative comments I hear about this island. Perhaps many people are fed up, for whatever reason. The only thing I want to say is that grass is not always greener on the other side.
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