Not Bad, Scorsese

last night, the movie didn't happen because of some ticketing issue. we decided to come home, have a bowl of ice-cream and catch up on our t.v. shows we've been missing for the last couple of months that we've been apart. it was a nice time, and i'm sure something we'll be doing a lot. but we went to see a matinée of shutter island today and it was pretty good. i'm not entirely sure i was satisfied with the very ending, for reasons i won't disclose here because i'm sure a lot of people haven't seen it yet.

but yeah, it was good.

church this morning was great, continuing on in the series on jonah. pastor bruce's sermon was so encouraging for my wife and i, as it was about redeeming a city as opposed to going out to the small outside villages. it's our desire to do work in hong kong, a major city, that there would come forth a large group of chinese missionaries to the chinese people outside of the major cities, which is where a lot of work must be done. i haven't seen a strong emphasis on changing hong kong as a city, and since it has millions of people living there, it seems like it should be a priority.

got to talk about hong kong with one of our flatmates today, patrick. it was cool because he had been there on float in the navy for about 9 days. it's always interesting to hear an outside story of what the city is like because we are so obsessed with it. different people have a different flavored impression of what it's all about out there and how it's like. i love listening to it. pretty much i just love hong kong and everything about it.

tonight, christin and i made dinner and hung out at home in our new place. it really is beautiful out here, and quiet! it's good to be in our own place, even though there are people living upstairs and all, it still feels really private. i'm looking forward to a productive week with my schoolwork and hopefully a successful time at the unemployment office [tomorrow — please pray] and a job search throughout the week. also, please pray that christin and i would make good on our efforts to learn cantonese quickly and efficiently.