HK doggies

there are lots of doggies here... some finds:

this doggie got walked in the park..

this doggie got hugged..

this doggie got to be treated like a baby.. and check it out!!! it's a westland white terrier... a westie, complete with a scarf!!!

let me explain my hysteria. i love westies. but there are no westies in RP. i have been raving about them for months now, ever since kathy started a puppy craze in the office. i promptly adopted a westie in my facebook account. one with a red scarf. now, i got to see one in the flesh.. adorable!

look ma, breakfast!

trust me, these people know how to make bread. all these for just under 50 pesos. delicious!

beautifully mad

Causeway Bay is just as crazy as i remember it.. spectacularly noisy, smelly, and fun. it's a marvelous shrine to capitalism. you can't help but stand in awe.





and this is in a somewhat drizzly day! can't imagine when it's a good-weather one.

ayiee... i'm becoming one of them!

Lippo Center, revisited

this afternoon, i passed by my most favorite building in Hong Kong. my faithful readers will remember i made a post before. up close, Lippo Center is just as beautiful. really, there is no way to screw up a shot if this building is the subject.


and the building's fascade, which i never noticed before..

good building. :)

Condos, condos, condos!!!!

in cebu, the are only a handful of condos.. i should know since i have spent most of my free time looking for real estate. here in Hong Kong, condos are everywhere. just from the A11 bus ride from HKIA to North Point, these are some of the pictures of condo projects i took:




there are millions more! people here live like documents in filing cabinets. really strange, but somewhat romantic. i remember watching In the Mood for Love. Hong Kong in the 60s is really just as crowded and... tiny.

Did God know Adam would sin?

like many people, i have also struggled with this question. i did not want a Yes answer, i wanted a No. however, much to my consternation, i could not successfully defend a No answer. a Yes answer presented a lot of problems for me -- issues of free will versus predestination. jayjay said fore-knowledge will not necessarily logically conclude to predestination. he will answer Yes to the question, but will posit the inevitable "His thoughts are higher than mine" to explain how fore-knowledge will not interfere with free will.

i got online, and found a bloggers' post on this issue. please visit here.

i think the issue is settled for me:
1. God does know everything. If he does not, he is not God.
2. Despite God knowing everything, he went away anyway and created man.
3. He gave man free will.
4. Man used his freedom to sin against God. and he continues to do so.
5. But God desires friendship with man, even though he knew many will sin and betray him.
6. But as many as those who betray God, there will also be those who brave the odds and seek Him, and honor Him, and call on him through Jesus.
7. He will gather those who belong to Him so he may share His glory to them.
8. 7 will only happen if there is 6. 6 is only possible if there is 5. 3 makes 5 and 6 possible.

if you think of it this way, you will find that the issue of God's fore-knowledge as the ultimate killer of free will does not make sense. i challenge you to think about it.

happy thinking :)