After the Christmas Cantata I was in Hong Kong for 2.5 days (Monday, Tuesday and half of Wednesday.) Wednesday at noon Sebastian’s class had a Christmas play. Of course, I recorded the whole thing and over the hols will You Tube a mini-production of the event. The whole thing was very sweet. I forgot to mention that after the Sunday Christmas Cantata I preached that evening at the 6 PM service at Union Church. Does anyone want to read the sermon? Should I post it here?

After Seb’s Christmas play I was off on another business trip… Hong Kong -> Bangkok -> Mumbai -> Bangalore -> Delhi -> Singapore -> Hong Kong. I arrived back on Monday night. I am a bit disoriented right now with jet lag and general fatigue so I am not sure when that was… I think two nights ago. Is this Wednesday? Answer: yes, midnight conf call tonight, it’s Wednesday. I am happy to be back home and even happier to be entering the Christmas season. This is when people in Hong Kong get caught-up on work. Ooops, now I can’t post the sermon. Point is: the quiet days over the next one to two weeks allow for clearing off desks, getting caught-up on e-mails (over 4000 at last count) and sleep. The pace will also allow for more family time.

What I don’t like about being back in Hong Kong is the reminder of another incident from right before I left – our car broke down… badly… in the middle of rush hour traffic with Lita, De and the triplets inside. The Achilles Heel of the Renault is the transmission and the entire thing went to the tune of HK$ 30,000. (About US$ 4,000.) We get the car back on Thursday, upon which I will write a cheque, compartmentalise and move on. But it still hurts… alot.

Meanwhile, next month is the 16 year anniversary of my first ever trip (1990) to Asia. I recall going through Singapore back then and reading the drug warning on the Immigration form.  The same drug warning is there today.