Halloween

Halloween is big here. Kids love Halloween because they can get candy anywhere. They can go from door to door, people will give them candy, even sometime people don't like Halloween. When I ask what is Halloween, I get two answers.

1. People believe that on the Halloween's day, the hell's door will be opened to let the evils out. People dress up in scary becuase they want to scare all those evil away...... But let's stop and think... when people talk about evil spirit, the pictures or images they have in their head would be scary or bloody or what ever that is not like normal people. So how come people dress up in a scary image to scare the scary creatures? What I think is like that, when I evil spirits come out, they will be everywhere. People dress up scary because they want the evil spirit confuse that they are in the same family then the evil spirit will not do anything harm to them. What do you think..... OK let's continue. When the kids come to knock on the door, surely they will get candy- trick er treat, because if they don't give them candy, the spirit will curse the house or the family... I have no comment about this.

2. People celebrate Halloween because the children love candy and Halloween is the only day that they will get candy anywhere they go.

After hearing what people told me about why is Halloween, it reminded me of Pchum Ben which Cambodia celebrate in the month of October. People believe that the Pret will be allowed to come out of hell for many days. People will bring food to the Wat- Buddhist Temple and the Monks will bless the food. Prets will search seven Wat, if they could not find any food because their descendants don't offer them, they will live in hunger for the rest of the year and they will curse their descendants for doing such thing......

20cm Snow

As I was walking home in the snow, I can see the reflection of the snow from the light of the lamps along the street. It was so nice to walk in the white, cold snow. It was so beautiful. I really want to roll my body along the side walk. It must be fun, but I think the people will think that I am crazy. I sometime stick my tongue out to taste the snow. I wish I have syrup with me, then I pour out on the snow ans eat as Teuk Kork Choose...hahaha. I remember once I was in the Elementary School, we talked about snow. We asked the teacher so many questions. We asked, "Do people eat snow? Then we will take the Syrup and pour it in the snow and eat." But he answered, "No!" He was wrong, in fact he did not know about snow either. People can eat snow, but not the yellow snow.

Canada Festival with Franklin Graham

I am blessed to be in Canada and able to be at the big festival in Canada that will not happen in every year. Franklin Graham, the son of Billy Graham came to Winnipeg for the weekend sharing. He also brought many famous Chriatian Music bands, Rebecca St. James, Tree63, News Boy, Casting Crown, and Micheal W Smith. Here are the pictures I tried to take from the big screen...

Sharing my testimony at church...

It was a great privilege to be asked to share about my life at the church this morning. I have always remembered about Paul, wherever he went, he shared about his life. Part of the Christian's life, I think we ought to be prepared and be ready to share about our life whenever we are asked to. I was so nervous, but I remember once Jesus said to His disciples, "Do not worry what you have to say..."
I am blessed to be here, to be with these people, and to be with this church, even though it is very different from the church where I grow up with.....

Canadian Wedding...

I am blessed to be able to participate in the wedding ceremony here in Canada. It was so nice to experience the wedding in different culture. I think I like the wedding out here. It is short and we can do anything we want to. Here are the pictures of the couple- Wes & Mary.

Steinbach Mennonite Church

This is the church where I attend mostly. My host parents are attending that church. It is a big church but because of the city is so small and there are 29 churches out there, there are not so many people in that church. Sometime I feel like they are wasting money building big building, however it is the way they build the church out here.

First Day of Snow....

Oh... I just don't know how I would describe it. It is snow. Well, it is not the offical day to be snowed yet but it is snowing anyway. It is so much fun to see snow even it melts as soon as it falls on the ground. I can't wait to see the real big snow coming. How exciting it would be... I took some pictures.. My house and my backyard