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Monday, Jul 6, 2009 12:51PM / Standard Entry

I had so much fun this weekend. I went to another Jeff Caylor show, I went kayaking in the rain, and I finally went to The Peak and did - absolutely nothing!

I'm saving my touristy experience of The Peak for when my mum and sister arrive in August. We are so gonna do everything! This trip for my mum was supposed to be a school reunion but they postponed it due to swine flu. Just after mum had finally booked her tickets. So she's still coming, but not for as long as she anticipated.

So Friday night I went to another Jeff Caylor show, this time at Backstage Live. I've never been there. It was a much smaller place than I imagined. But a really good vibe. We watched some guy named Rupert Stroud from the UK before The Jeff Caylor Band went up. He did a cover that I recognised. I tried singing to it, but soon realised I didn't know most of the words - I just knew random words at the end of sentences.

The best part of the Jeff Caylor Band performance had to the be the MJ bit. I couldn't get a very good photo (you can't really see their hats) so they looked much cooler than this:

They sang Man in the Mirror, Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough and Smooth Criminal. Awesome. Hats off to you guys!

At one point, I could smell something weird and Jeff said the stage was on fire, but they kept the show going.

The show lasted til 12:30am, and I had to be in Sai Kung by 9:30am, so I didn't get much sleep before the kayaking. But I must have gotten enough cos I was pretty good for most of the day. I didn't do much of the kayaking. When we discovered there were three-man kayaks, the person I partnered up with suggested we split up and tag onto another team, so I joined another pair and there were only two paddles on our kayak, so since I was in the middle, I didn't do much paddling. But I did do some! Whenever one of them stopped, I would take their paddle and help the other, but whenever it was just us girls, we were much more in sync, but we moved much slower than when the guy we were with was paddling. You really noticed the difference. I was exhausted by the end of it, and so was everyone else. A bunch of us went to Tequila Jacks in TST for steak, and most of us were falling asleep on the minibus ride.

It rained every now and then, but I found it really nice. For some reason, I felt like the rain was much fresher out there than in the city, but I think it was more psychological. I would have preferred to stand out in the rain when we reached the second of the two beaches that we stopped at, but everyone headed for shelter when the rain started getting heavier so I joined them. I had my camera with me in a waterproof pouch that I found at the 7-11 where we were meeting in the morning, so I got a few photos.

I didn't originally have plans to go to The Peak yesterday. Our care group, which meets Sunday afternoons, is taking a break for the month, so I had absolutely nothing to do for the afternoon, and one of my friends had a whole bunch of people with her visiting Hong Kong, so I joined them on their trip to The Peak. I didn't go see anything, but when my friend and I went to go meet up with everyone else, and we were taking pictures, a huge cloud was coming down just in front of us. It was moving so quickly, it was like watching a show. So I snapped a few shots.

I took a video in between these two photos, so another whiter cloud had started to move in from the other side, at which point the rain also started.

Overall, a wonderful weekend. I've actually had a few of those. Sorry for not blogging about them. Hong Kong has definitely been much more eventful for me than Wellington. Mostly cos it's easier to get everywhere.

Hope everyone else also had a wonderful weekend.

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101,401 visits

Friday, Jul 3, 2009 11:59AM / Standard Entry

Shoot. I missed seeing the 100,000 mark. I swear I was still a few thousand away when I was last in, and I know I wasn't being visited as often as I used to, so I really didn't expect to have passed that mark already.

Aw man!

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Blog: Friday, Jul 3

Friday, Jul 3, 2009 11:54AM / Standard Entry

Wow, umm, it's been a while, huh?

I guess I don't really have the excuse of nothing happening in my life, cos my life is definitely much more eventful than when I was home in New Zealand. I guess I tend to feel guilty for coming on to the site when I should be applying for jobs and stuff.

So, umm, what's been happening with me? I've had 7 or 8 interviews since arriving in Hong Kong. It took 3 months before I got my first interview, so they've all been in the last few months. Slowly getting there. Even if I don't find a job before my decided deadline, this has been a wonderful experience. I made some wonderful friends, and really learnt to rely on the Lord. My relationship with him has definitely grown and if I do have to return to New Zealand, or head to a different country, he will definitely be the most important thing in my life (which, unfortunately, he hasn't been for most of my life so far, though it was slowly getting there when I shifted churches a few years back).

I've become a huge fan of Jeff Caylor and have been to a few of his performances. It's kinda weird though. I've never been a fan of someone who I also get to see all the time outside of performances. In fact, I never really get to see people I'm a fan of except on stage and on the screen. But he's both the worship leader at church and a friend of a friend.

What else have I done? I've done a junk trip, a worship conference, a Spring Ball and I'm going kayaking tomorrow. And I also go out for dinner much more often than I would at home.

The junk trip was so much fun, and I can't wait to do it again. I'm definitely getting myself a can of the spray on sunscreen my friend lent me, cos I wasn't burnt anywhere. I'll have to remember to get it tonight for tomorrow's kayak trip.

The worship conference was amazing. It was nice to discover the singer of some songs I knew. And they were really funny guys too. I had a huge blast singing and laughing and just plain enjoying myself.

I have yet to attend an E.V.E.N.T. event, but I might go to the Speak Up! thing next Wednesday. When I find out where Mint is so I don't get lost - again. I've gotten lost in Central so many times, I can't even remember how many times!

Anyways, I hope you are all enjoying yourselves out there. Hopefully I come in again sooner than a month. Though I'm not sure I'm being visited anymore.

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What Birds Dream

Monday, Jun 8, 2009 6:47PM / Standard Entry

LOL, I'm not sure why it's called What Birds Dream, but I love the album.

I went to Jeff Caylor's CD Release show two Fridays ago and had an awesome time. Very different music to what I got at the Anniversary Party, but it's the type of music I like listening to. When first listening to the CD, I felt that I enjoyed listening to it live more, but now I love the album as it is too. His first album, Okay, I also bought. Jeff Caylor is one talented guy.

I got him to sign my CD. My accent did not do me any favours.

Then I bumped into him the next day - while wearing one of his t-shirts. I was in one t-shirt and my friend was in the other. Cool, eh? Okay, okay. We were all going on the same junk trip, so we knew he was gonna be there and we planned it. Since my friend organised the party, we arrived first at the dock and decided to wear his t-shirts when he arrived. We cheered at him when he arrived and he played along, which was cool.

Anyways, as always, I run out of battery when writing my blogs, and the library's closing in 15 minutes, so I leave you with his next next show (I know he's doing something at The Fringe Club the night before, but I have something else on that night).

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Jeff Caylor this Friday!

Wednesday, May 27, 2009 3:45PM / Standard Entry

Just a reminder for those of you in Hong Kong who aren't doing anything Friday night.

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