Simple Thoughts of Mine

Do someone know the simple word for this illness?  My son once again hospitalized because of this.  The symptoms? Severe coughing.  I gave my son cough medicine for 2 days from the sign of cough but it didn’t relieve him and if you hear him cough especially at bedtime, you’ll pity him.  So I sent him to Sta. Lucia Health clinic to have a check up and the doctor advice me to confine him in the hospital.  She gave me referral.

As we entered the room.  Well, what would I expect?  it’s a ward room.  There were 6 beds.  Sean’s bed was already prepared.  I just wish they used sferra sheets on his bed. Hahahaha… silly me. Sean stayed in the hospital for 3 days (negative to pneumonia) but unfortunately he still coughing. Dr. Domasian just gave us home medication to continue.  It’s been a week now but still Sean have cough.  Now I am giving him Lagundi and I noticed that he is better now.  I’ll keep praying that he will be completely healed.

As we arrived at The Highlands, the venue of the camping, I noticed that it was perfectly organized.  And it’s amazing because we are about a thousand participants.  We were divided into 4 groups, the Countless, Ceaseless, Boundless and Endless teams.  I belonged to Endless Team which won the second place.  There were singing, talk, games and play (dramatization) in every sessions.  It was fun, informative and glorious.  It’s really different from the other camping I’ve been.  The host of the program was really witty and entertaining.  I like him.:)

One more lucky thing is that there were missionaries who gave free medical and dental services to some of us.  They served to 50  medical patients and 10 dental patients.  I salute them for their noble doings.

The games are really physical, bad thing that I wasn’t able to join because I have …  There’s only thing I didn’t like… it’s the bed… yes… I have to climb at the top of the triple deck bed!  But generally I liked it and I find it magnificent.  Kudos to Mega City Ministries, Inc.  More power to you and I wish that you continue to touch people’s lives.

We arrived in HongKong International Airport or colloquially known as Chek Lap Kok Airport.  That was 9:00 in the evening and we were 25 minutes earlier.  We were eleven and all first timers in HK.  So can you imagine how it goes??? Hahahaha… Luckily there are signages on how to get to the immigration department.  We toed the line… presented our passports to the officer and woolaahhh we were given 14-day visa.  It’s not important though, we will leave after 3 days after all.  Ok we passed the immigration… now the real adventure began.

We didn’t know which exit we’ll be heading to the bus station going to Mongkok MTR station.  Because from there it will be walking distance from the hostel we booked in.  I saw an information desk.. I fall in line and waited for my turn.  Good thing that the staff was so accommodating and led us to the right exit.  As we board on the bus, we didn’t know that the bus won’t give us change as we don’t have smaller bills yet.  Ok, I lost HKD 18.00 for that first night.

I told the driver to alight us to Mongkok MTR station and he said, ”Ok”.  I stood once to asked the driver if we were there yet.  He replied, “Not yet”.  I sat back and relaxed.  It’s over 45 minutes already and we are still in the bus, my brother approached the driver and to my dismay we passed by two stations.  Did the driver understand me at all???

We jumped off the bus go down to the MTR station as we were instructed.  Another problem… how can we get tokens??? Hahahaha…  We were like contestants in a reality tv show “Amazing Race”!!! Luckily this old lady cleaner helped us even though she don’t know how to speak English.  And good thing that my son’s Mandarin lessons helped a bit. We were then in Mongkok station… then what next???  We don’t know which exit to go to…  We exited anyways and wandered around the city at 12 midnight… Hahahaha!!!  How I wished I could buy hdmi cables, tie ourselves and glide from the airport to the hostel.  Hahahaha…

Ok we reached the Hong Kong Budget Hostel inMongKok at around 1:00 in the morning just to meet this sooooo unaccomodating owner  of the guesthouse!  His name is Jacky Chan and he is not so nice though his place is clean and nice, didn’t feel the hospitality of this person.  I just thought Hong Kong nationals are like him.   We were checked in, paid the amount of HKD344.00 each for 3 nights.  Mr. Chan led us to our respective rooms and called it a night.