Confirm, guarantee and chop!!!
Ok I have accepted the job with the international school in Bangkok... Initially they offered me us$800 but I turned it down... I had originally asked for us$1500, which i strongly felt was a fair wage...then I told them that I would only settle for $XXXX, which was only a miserable amount on top of what I was getting....and they agreed to the amount...+ living expense which was good... well the contract for 3 months untill we can confirm that I can get a work permit... well its a good thing as we can still negotiate the salary at the end of 3 months and stuff...

The thing is... I like the bosses and well I guess its a step down but I can see myself having a good time of learning there...well we ll see how things go... But now my time of eating Pho Bo Tai Chin is over and now Ive gotta start eating my Pad Thai and Kuey Teow Heng Mai Ped

Pai Tee Gong Zhor (Pray to the God of Heaven)
For my birthday, interestingly enough God gave me a little present....It was a little flame which he re-kindled in my heart for missions... On tuesday I visited Thanh at the hotel and then as we were arm wrestling....... erm yes I arm wrestle...this middle aged couple stepped in and said in chinese 'i wonder how cold it is' and so i promptly replied in mandarin that it was 13 degrees...they were surprised and thats how everything started....

They were from singapore and the lady was originally from Taiwan...then as we were talking, for some strange reason, I told them that I was a christian and we started this really weird conversation on missions teaching used on the chinese people from missionaries from over a hundred years ago. The things I told them about were mainly from Don Richardson's 'Eternity in their hearts' who talks about how God as the creator has left reminiscences of himself in all creation...and the Chinese people have know him ever since the beginning of our civilisation...fyi Shang Di, the name which we modern Christians use for God has been a name that has been used in the Chinese culture for thousands of years... Western Missionaries adopted the name because they recognised that this was indeed the Creator God/ God of heaven and earth...

Well anyways we talked about this for 1 1/2 hours and the wife was very interguied with what i had shared as she had never heard of it before, but the interesting thing was that her husband was supporting everything I had said...they were seeking and were considering becoming christians but they felt that they could not agree with what the pastor was telling them but hearing my perspective on the matter they were ready to begin seeking... I have no theology of my own, but its simply an understanding which I have received from my mission's training and reading... well many would disagree, but hey...if im wrong...pray for me...and teach me....Agape