I want to share with you about the trip to Hong Kong, Nov 21 - Dec 11, 2007.  Enjoy:


Nov 21

 Wed

Arrival - I stayed at my parents' apartment.  This is my room .

slept around 7pm - good adjustment to jetlag

 

Nov 22    

 Thu

get HKID, cash, cell phone

 

Nov 23

 Fri

7:30-9:30am bird-watching at Kowloon Park

afternoon bird-watching at 元朗南生圍 with 黃麗儀, 梁浩熾. 

 

Nov 24

 Sat

dim sum with my brother Yip's family, then go to Adventure Paradise (Playland)

 

Nov 25     

 Sun

church service, then lunch at Ka Lin Wah restaurant

 

Nov 26     

 Mon

to Macau with my brother Ming

 

Nov 27

 Tue

leaving Macau, to ZhuHai (珠海) and ShenZhen (深圳), Mainland China

 

Nov 28     

 Wed

8-10am bird-watching at Hong Kong Park

 

Nov 29     

 Thu

visited CUHK (中大) with Lau and met an old friend Lai

 

Nov 30

 Fri

7:30-9:30am bird-watching at Kowloon Park

afternoon bird-watching at Long Valley
Kowloon Park -> Yuen Long (元朗) : bus 268?
-> 燕崗 : 小巴 21
-> Long Valley
Return: -> 河上鄉 : walk -> 上水 : 小巴 51K

 

Dec  1

 Sat

4-9pm party at Wong Chuk Hang Police Academy  

 

Dec  2

 Sun

church service - 33rd anniversary

afternoon, Clementi Middle School old classmates gathering

 

Dec  3   

 Mon

take a break - rest at home daytime

dinner with my friend Chiu at Kowloon Tong

 

Dec  4

 Tue

lunch with So

met an uncle in Rainbow Cloud Estate

evening - dinner at home with my brother Yip's family

 

Dec  5     

 Wed

dim sum lunch at North Point with Cheung and Choi

 

Dec  6

 Thu

ShenZhen Bird Watch - pictures : 1 2
with Priscilla, Joe 高, 岑太, etc.

 

Dec  7     

 Fri

申領回鄉卡 at Central

 

Dec  8

 Sat

lunch with So and driving around in NT

dinner party at Cheng's apartment

 

Dec  9     

 Sun

met Dr. Wen at church

Long Island birthday banquet of 5th grand-aunt

 

Dec  10     

 Mon

dinner with friends

 

 

2004 日本本州[名勝]之旅 

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Twentieth Century Earthquakes - Confronting an Urban Legend by Steven A. Austin, Ph.D.

http://ldolphin.org/quakes2.html
EARTHQUAKES AND THE END TIMES: A GEOLOGICAL AND BIBLICAL PERSPECTIVE

CONCLUSION

A number of prophecy teachers say that a pronounced increase in frequency and intensity of earthquakes has occurred in the latter part of the twentieth century, a worldwide trend fulfilling a prophecy made by Jesus. Contrary to these prophecy teachers, no obvious trend is found indicating an abnormal increase in the frequency of large earthquakes during the last half of the twentieth century. Neither is there a noteworthy deficiency of earthquakes in the first half of the century. Graphical plots of global earthquake frequency indicate overall a decreasing frequency of earthquakes through the century. The decades of the 1970s, 80s and 90s experienced a deficit of larger earthquakes compared to earlier decades of the century. The 70s, 80s and 90s are precisely those decades that many prophecy teachers suppose, erroneously, show a dramatic surplus of larger earthquakes. Regional earthquake data from California and Japan also do not argue for increasing earthquake frequency in the latter decades of our century.

At the time of Christ the Jews had a heightened anticipation that wars, famines, pestilence and earthquakes communicated signs having apocalyptic significance. Jesus responded to apocalyptic expectations in the Olivet Discourse. Whether one interprets Matthew 24:4-14 as (1) events which will occur during the tribulation period, or (2) general signs of the present age, there is no clear scriptural warrant for the claim that earthquakes will increase dramatically prior to the return of Christ. In the former interpretation, these earthquakes would be part of the tribulation period and so of little significance for any increase in earthquakes during the present Church age. In the latter interpretation, earthquakes are seen as recurring catastrophic events common to the present age - events that must not be misinterpreted as "signs" of an immediate end. It is ironic that a passage that intentionally teaches that earthquakes are not indicators of the "end of the age" should be so frequently interpreted as teaching exactly the opposite.

Jesus' statement, "all these things are merely the beginning of birth pangs" (Matt. 24:8), has been misunderstood to imply that pain would increase steadily in time. The birth image associated with such signs does not point (necessarily) to an increase in pain with time. Paul's understanding of creation's pain (Romans 8:18-25) is not that pain will grow steadily worse, but that the present period of suffering provokes eager longing for the new birth and the consummation of the coming age. The author of Hebrews sees a similar hope, not in anticipating a future "sign" of increasing earthquake activity, but in the coming of a sudden cosmic cataclysm producing a "kingdom which cannot be shaken" (Heb. 12:28).