sometimes there's no reason for you to believe in someone, because they've let you down. in those times, there's god. god will help them, heal them, show them a way forward, through you. you need to keep supporting them. one day, the sum of your support will help them rise again.

zoolander pose

i'm in london now, just got back, but be sure it won't be long before i leave again. i want to give my    to all the wuvly people who took me places and showed me hk highlights  :D (hello missy handbag!) and a very special

~~~ thank you ~~~

to the hostess with the mostest! how can i say it? she took great care of me and i owe her the whole world now but i've promised to come live near her and cook yummy food for her! wah!

stay blessed guys

trying to do everything by myself is arrogant and not christian. and the worst thing is that most of the time i don't even realise that i'm doing something wrong.

we are not in this world alone, but i've got this attitude built in me...it's wrong.

can't wait to upload some fotos...but now my computer-ing ability is limited! hehe, anyway, in my 2 first years of architecture i used to make a lot of stuff out of wood and you used to have to get wet wood (freshly chopped) so it could be worked easily. dry wood (cut and dried industrially) is used in modern construction, what you do is cut it and join it. but wet wood (greenwood) can be bent easily and basically you can do whatever you like with it, like soft lead. anyway..this wood business made me consider humidity a good thing, as the wood would stay wet, and i used to think of my skin in the same terms. after all, in greece, your skin dries like a dried tomato and you look 60 when you're only 30. humidity also seems to keep me alert, it's easier to do things, the head doesn't hurt from dehydration, and so on. i consider humidity a blessing for hot countries, as it keeps you from drying out.

p.s. hk island eastern corridor: wow...so impressive! my friend couldn't understand why i got so excited about it. well i've only ever seen such an amazing motorway on paper, as a proposal for manhattan by asymptote architecture. (picture at start of this blog) only here, not only is it built, but it's elevated, over water, overlooks kowloon on one side, and some supertall buildings on the other. coming back from north point and looking at the buildings in central at night feels like...i dunno...the future? or a very glam sight anyway.

www.ecchk.org  huzzah!

i am in causeway bay at the library, i am supposed to be doing some research but instead, hey let's blog a bit.

my coworker of four years ago has just written, this is part of her email:

God's inconditional love is the best teacher. And somehow Jesus was able to cure and heal, and bring back to life the ones he touched, because he had eyes of hope and he had faith in people's life, in people's heart! I thing it is amazing how he could love everything in people even things that are for us impossible to love as diseases or our sins, or those things that we hide from everyone...I hope you can always count on God to pursue that love! It is a task and requires effort, but it is the biggest richness a human being can get... to love! Don't forget: he trusted you with this mission... he never gets it wrong...

there are some things about my family that i find absolutely appalling...essentially one of my parents is completely clueless as to how to love others. loving is not one of his skills. so according to andreia, i should learn to accept that, regardless of how crap it is. other families' mistakes i find easier to accept, forgive, and help with, perhaps because i know that they haven't had the chance to harm me when i was young and vulnerable.

how can loving others be so difficult? how can you not accept love in your life? how can you live such a fxxxing secluded life? how can you be so fxxxing twisted? this morning i called home to say i'm ok, that hk is cool etc etc...and i got some happy replies along with 'don't be a burden on others'. life requires you to be a burden on others sometimes, so that they can get close to you. i hate this 'i am on this planet on my own' attitude, and i hate the fact that i still have to face it whenever i call home.

anyway, let's do some research. i should feel strong enough, i'm old enough to cope.

eight-five-twoooo

i love yououou!

i even like the stickiness

feels good

yeh