"多謝你o地一直照顧阿湄!"said the groom to the colleagues of the bride when toasting at our table. (This is the touching one!)

"我十二月結婚喇!"said Y (finally made her relationship with Mr. K known). (This is a truly exciting one!)

"I have been with my boyfriend since we were 13" said Di. (This is the amazing one!)

The rest of it are...

"It's like chewing someone's feet...The stuff between the toes tastes the best, " said Rob the English guy when eating the goose's claws. Laughed till tears came out, Rosy the American girl said, "Hahahaha...You just said something ridiculous..."

Refusing to take off the shawl, Crystal said, "唔除得o架，淨間你以為點解finish o左隻乳豬，又多隻o係度~"

"I like Mr. Luk. There were a lot of Mr Luks in my school when I was small."

"Yeah, 'stupider' is an actual word! Forget about the dictionary. If Google says yes, I'll go for it."

"To Google!" said Rob, raising his glass of wine to toast.  "...Really? To Google?" said Rosy.

Referring to the panel head, "She knows it when I lie! She knows it!! She and Jesus...same kind of thing."

"This is the 27th dress tonight! " said Rob, referring to the gowns of the bride, puzzled.

Fighting for the two special dumplings in the sweet soup, after two rounds of rock-paper-scissors, it narrowed down to Crystal, the panel head and Ms Wu. "望住我!!" said seriously the panel head to Crystal. Crystal ducked and handed one of the dumplings to the panel head, "嘿嘿嘿嘿......Ms Wong!"

"Deep in my heart, I am a very shy girl, "said Crystal. "Really?" said Rob. "Yes," said Crystal. Silence. "Really?" said Rob.

Whenever a dish came, "Cheers!" People put their glasses down. "飲杯!" People put their glasses down again. "Salud!" People put their glasses down for the third time. "Kanpai!" People put their glasses down for the fourth time. "Sante!" People put their glasses down for the fifth time. "Arghrrrarghrrr.." People put their glasses down for the sixth time.

I've been wanting to write down what we experienced these days, just it's never been harder for me to find words. Things seem to be passing and changing so quickly. I don't even have enough time to think.

Tonight, we had some quiet time staying together by the sea. And I got to stay away from my desk and really took a rest, my body, my mind and my heart.

I guess for me it wasn't exactly the hardest blow in my life. After all, God fixed it quick and nice. It was indeed the most emotional and spiritual experience that makes the most sense. Not just one day, but all the past two weeks. Never had I been more nervous about the challenges presented to another person. Never had I been in greater pain because of somebody else's pain. Never had I been more real and honest with myself and with God. Never had I had more faith in a person's essence.

And in the end, you'd know, there's really nothing to boast about. After all, what's more than faith, hope and love? It would sound totally cliche if you have never been of the verge of losing them. Once you have, you'll know.

I'd been praying to God for taking away the thorns that's been causing us pain before. I prayed for God to change me and cleanse my heart so that I could be free from my weaknesses and sinful nature. Now I know I will probably never be cleansed and saved from the problems once and for all. And I will probably fall again and again till the day I die. What I have gained this time was... I know to ask myself, "What's the most important?" whenever those thorns come up again. When you don't lose sight of the most important thing, you can't be far from the right path.

Whenever I ask this question to myself, I take a deep breath and then I can give myself a true happy, satisfied smile.

My heart melted when I received a short message from one of my babies this evening telling me that she misses me so much. It's not the first time I got that from them. It still touches me deep inside.

I miss them too, each of them. How are you in your new school? Enjoying that or struggling to survive?

Be good, stay well, my dear babies.

感謝，我的摯友! 感謝妳對我的著緊和心痛。妳是我一生中第二個會為我的事而如此激動的朋友。陳年的傷，都好了，一點也不再痛，就連疤痕也淡得不易看到。曾珍惜的，失去了的，總有點心痛。沒有誰被犧牲，大家當時也只是太年輕。我總願意相信未來會是美好的。那天，我真心的感到快樂。再一次，感謝妳的愛。妳叫我很感動，妳知道嗎?

也感謝不會看這blog的你，那天，你一直陪在我身邊，沒有問甚麼、沒有說甚麼，就一直照顧著我，不曾讓我靜下來。想起來，我一直忽略了你的心意。那天，和多年前的那一天，和更多年前的那一天，一切也在重覆著似的，我相信你都看在眼內，可是你始終沒有明言一句，就只一直地保護我，給我支持，要我勇敢...... 感謝你，真的。

Rev. John pointed out that the first thing we need for our faith to work out is forgiveness. Our faith wouldn't be proved real if we prayed holding grudges in our hearts.

I found it both ironic and interesting how the most "unforgivable mistakes" are usually made by persons whom we care about the most. For random acquaintances, we can easily shrugged that away. But we can remember and retell what our loved ones did by mistake for easily ten years or more.

I started to ponder these little question: How many sorrys is too many sorrys? How big a mistake is unforgivable? What is forgiveness? What has God been doing for me? And what has it been to me all the way?