(tell-us and siu kwong, looking into each other's eyes!)

this evening after work echo came and drove me to 'lim wan'... it's a secluded village in the middle of some huge trees, overlooking the gold coast. i like those village houses, where cats run between the gardens. i even saw bunny rabbits... we sat in the garden having dinner, while absorbing in the coastal late autumn breeze while seeing the gold coast hotel in the horizon. i was tired, wasn't so much like my usual self (well, it was my first time there) but it felt good. new.

it's funny how i was brought there. echo is the friend of claire who is the friend of heung, who is the friend of sophia, my irish friend from queen mary hosp when i was an intern. so i got introduced by one person to the other and then to the other and then to the other.... that was how i ended up in the vineyard in tm.

st. stephen's works for those in need. there are people who've been in and out of prison, those who are addicts and those who are homeless or workless, or skiving school. i got talking to echo in the car and those stories felt so far away, with people so unreachable whom i don't seem to understand. yet they were so near tonight. and we are all the same.

and there is one thing that has pulled us together....