CBC ABC Stereotype

photo credits: http://tjk-musings.blogspot.ca/

So while reading some Hong Kong entertainment news articles (magazines, whatnot), I came across several misinterpretations of CBCs and ABCs... the conclusion is:

If you like to dress liberally, like to show off your body, opened to kissing strangers, smoking, swearing, extremely liberal, spend a large amount of your "free time" going clubbing, then... You must be CBC or ABC.

(CBC = Canadian Born Chinese, ABC = American Born Chinese, etc)

However, that is simply not true... That isn't even true for Caucasians either...just because a Chinese girl likes to hug and kiss other girls or guys, this doesn't make them ABC, CBC.. she's just... her.

Here I want to clarify a few things...

1. we are not wild... we do not all like to go crazy...
2. we don't all swear, e.g. we don't say f*ck, sh*t, etc all the time
3. we do not smoke... (we care about our health too... ok?)
4. We don't go clubbing and partying all the time, I have a bunch of CBC, ABC, Caucasian friends, who have not ever gone clubbing.... Ever!
5. We do not randomly kiss and hug strangers (we do hug/kiss some of our close friends and relatives.. notice I said "SOME" and for most... that's hardly...)
6. We do not get drunk and go out of control... nor do we enjoy doing so...

SERIOUSLY... We can be very conserve, and most importantly, dressing provocatively doesn't make you CBC, ABC... (for those in HK... LKF is not every CBC, ABC, BBC's dream hangout place...)

Wait for my post on how "Caucasians" view us Chinese (CBC, ABC, etc) over here! (link will be posted here)

(please excuse any grammatical errors... I wrote this out of frustration... didn't even proofread it)

Loving Others & Heaven

(I am Christian so this is from a point of view of a Christian)

What I realized over the past week while browsing over facebook is that people are very optimistic, they say things like "oh, you are so nice, I will see you in heaven" or "you will be heaven", or for fan pages "**** **** is resting in heaven" etc.

photo source: emergingyouth.com

but... how can you be sure they will be heaven? are you saying "you will be heaven" just to make them feel good? if you really love them, should you make sure they will be there? it is good to think, you will be in heaven but how?

I understand that for most, you would consider that you will go to heaven and will think so for those you like/love and for those you don't, you wish them to go to hell (am I being too cruel?)... but just because you say they will go to heaven/hell... doesn't mean they will... it is easy to say "he's in heaven now, bless his soul", but by saying that does it make it true?

As a Christian, I believe that there is only ONE way to go to heaven, through our Saviour Jesus Christ and God, the Father is the only one who can say "You can come into heaven" or "no, you are going to hell".

being nice to others do not get them to heaven... actions to make them go to heaven, introduce them to Jesus Christ, if you truly love them get them to heaven... if you feel they are not being good Christians, try to tell them... and ask them to change their ways... words do not mean anything, only actions and results matter.

Everyone loves sweet talk but only the truth is what keeps us from making regrettable mistakes.... and in this case, it is an eternal mistake.

What would you do to bring your loved ones to heaven?

updates!

I am still here...

sorry for being MIA, I have actually written quite a few posts, yet I am not sure how to "finish" them, thus, the inactivity

some quick updates:

1. Been extremely busy (duh)
2. developed some kind of writer's block ( T____T)
3. I start a lot of things but am not able to finish them :(
4. got invited to being a member of Gastropost (from National Post)

Noah

Happy April! I had an intense few weeks so I didn't get to blog much... I had lots of "small"thoughts, I will gather them and put it as one post.

I got to watch Noah last night

movie tickets to Noah

to be honest, I didn't like it... the video transition, edit was terrible; the sounds were cheesy, and the worst, the movie plot made no sense... 

I was really looking forward to this movie as it was one of my favourite Bible stories. I was heartbroken by how badly made this movie was... they even made Noah seem like an insane senseless cruel man. They tried to make it "epic" but it was not. 

I found this on a friend's facebook, thought I would share this with you... 

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it seriously has been a long time since I have seen a movie I couldn't wait for it to be over... 2.5 hours seemed too long :(. I feel they tried too hard... making it into quite a disaster...

Fake sun...

The sun deceived us all today! There was not a bit of sun's warmth... It was so cold! :(

Toronto 2014 winter

snow!

Spring in one day, winter the next.... DX

we got snowed... again

Just when we were going to celebrate, winter kindly reminds us that it is not over...yet... 10 cm of snow and more to come!!! DX

weekly update... end of Feb, beginning of March :D

weekly updates... been watching a lot of dramas and movies lately :)

• got sick with a terrible stomach flu :(
• finally watched Frozen!!! I cried so many times watching it! It was beautifully made! Highly Recommend it!
  

  

  Frozen

• watched "Wolf of Wall Street"... too many sexual scenes >.< the movie would have been so much better without those scenes.
• watched Wonderful Single Life 結婚しない" highly recommend this jdrama! I cried a few times during the last 3 episodes (will be doing a review/reflection on it soon)

  

  Wonderful Single Life

• Recently during devotions, I have encountered "the year of the Lord's favor" several times, and they were from different parts of the bible... I wonder what does that mean and what does that mean for me?
• went to Paramount for dinner again, totally love Middle Eastern food
• celebrated my mom's birthday! :D
  
  

  

  Mom's birthday cake

  

  mom's birthday dinner