Mother Church...

Today, after work, I decided that since I dun have to work on Saturdays usually anyway (as I had to fill in for someone) and my workplace is east of the 427 which isn't that far from my house, but a good maybe 15km east so I'm kinda closer to it already, that I would go to Johnny (Cheung)'s Macau Mission Trip Fundraiser Praise Night. Well, I think I got there before him, but apparently Daniel Tse was also there. I was like, "Hey, that sounds like Daniel's laugh" and I turn around and there he was! :O I should have hitched a ride off him as gas is expensive and I already use enough of it to get to work, it's not like last summer when gas was almost 20 cents cheaper (or even more than 20 cents cheaper if you compare the gas when it's expensive during the day). LOL it's like that new marketing campaign GM has that if you buy any new GM vechicle you get 20 cents off for a year's supply of gas would only make the price of gas close to what it was if you brought and filled up a new GM vechicle last year, except it would the older 2004/2005 models. Also, I dun think the price difference was that big between night and day last summer as it is now. I remember filling up Monday morning before going to work sometimes. Since I already made the trip, I was thinking of sleeping over at my cousin's house to visit RHCBC the next day, since John complained that I'm staying over there too often... But when I called my Aunt she could barely here me and I told her I'll call her later and she said she was a concern and won't be home till very late and told me to call her back tommorow... Err... I decided, oh well, maybe next time... Now that I have to work Fridays 4-9PM, even though I plan to try and ask again for another shift later, I can't go to fellowship at church anymore and I can't go to SALT either. So that kinda sucks, if I go on a Sunday, which I probably will, I won't be able to stay for CD either. However, I think my boss may keep me rotating to work every other Sunday so I could. But since the 427 is somewhat closer to Richmond Hill, I'll most likely pic a Sunday that I need to work to go visit to save gas since the store is somewhat halfway or in the middle between RHCBC and my house/apartment. I just hope I dun have any softball games on the Sundays I need to work.

Anyhow, I guess I should get back onto talking about the Praise Night. I got there a bit late, actually 1/2 an hour or so :P cause I was still in Metro Square eating. I got off work at 6PM, but after closing the shop and driving my co-worker/supervisor to the subway and trying to call Jeff and Arthur to see if I could catch a ride... Ugh... you might be thinking those would be the last two people I would ever call, well they couldn't help me anyhow; Jeff did not go and Arthur did not answer his home phone or his cell. I was going to call Daniel to ask if I could use his hose to test the new Mr. Clean AutoDry Car wash that I bought, since I dun have a hose, if I decided not to go. Too bad I didn't, because maybe I would have found out he was going and hitched a ride off of him! I ended up getting in contact with my "daughter" (she's not REALLY my biological daughter, what can I say? "No mommy...") Lisa for the details on where and when. I was going to stop at a McDonalds or something, but didn't see one along the way so I just ate at Metro and turned the car in while I drove by. Ended up taking longer than expected. But as I was about to walk in late I saw some RHCBC people going in too and I also ran into my "daughter" Lisa outside taking care of the kids, but there was only like 1 or 2 kids there so far :P She was like "Hi pops..." :P

The program that night was um... interesting. Not saying it wasn't good...I got there and sat near the very front on the right side not seeing anyone I recognized. They were singing already, I also saw that on stage were some people from Lisa's fellowship which I've only been to one time and apparently most of the people on the Macau trip this year are from her fellowship. Johnny is from CCF. Ya, saw Daniel, after I turned around cause I recognized his laughed, then suddenly moved back to sit with him and Johnny. Then something interesting and unexpected happened, Mike Lau went up to preach... Only this time it wasn't Pastor Mike Lau that spoke at our church once before, it was his son, "Mike Lau Jr." (as Lisa puts it)! WOW, never seen such a young, non-preacher, preach before... I wonder if his "couSin" has. I was like, "I know Sam..." he's like "Sam who? I know a lot of Sams." then finally I explained I meant his cousin and he's like "Ooohhh... I just call her cousin" :P I also saw Adrian there and I was like "Guess who I am?" and he was like "Oooh! You! You're my blog stalker..." Not the words I excepted. Anyhow, afterwards we went out to noodles at hmm... what's that place called again? I only remember it was NOT "Kenny's Noodle" but some name with Ken or Kenny in it at the end or something. It's near the TNT at Warden and Steeles I believe. We talked some more there and I learned that Mike Lau had some training where he had to memorize a bunch of short 5 minute sermons or something. I wanted to stay over at my cousin's or maybe John's that weekend since I had to make the trip out anyway so I could visit RHCBC the next day. But that didn't quite workout, my Aunt was at a concert apparently and she said she could barely hear me and asked me to call her back the next day since she said she/they would be out late. I could have tried calling later, but I decided to just forget it. Oh well, at least I did enjoy going to Metro to play Initial D after going out to eat. Stayed there until like 1AM :P Actually, if I remember, I think that might have been the day I lost my Evo IV, I went back for it, but I think someone stole it :( I think I was supposed to type something else somewhere up there, but it's getting late and I wanna move on to finishing my other blog entries so I'll just end it here for now unless I remember later what it was...