Sabbath, July 25, 2009 Beijing Capital Airport
While I’m waiting for the transfer counter to open I’ll enter a few thoughts.
Left LAX at 1:40 AM Friday and the flight took about 12 hours to reach Beijing at 5:33AM Sabbath morning. The plane was an older 747-400 with no individual monitors. The vegetarian Asian food was pretty delicious and healthy.
I listened to a lot of classical music and avoided watching the movies as there was a main screen about 30 feet from my aisle seat. So I read the Sabbath School Lesson Study for this Sabbath about obeying God’s command as evidence of our faith and love. Then I read through Dr. Albert Sanchez’s book on Faith and Righteousness Unite, a commentary about Romans 1 with applications to Health. Found about 10 typos. The bottom line is the need to have righteousness by faith in both spiritual and health actions. Pretty good thoughts from Dr. Sanchez.
Two days before leaving, I was so enjoying my life in Bakersfield: my little dog, Jack, loves me and we went for nice long walks and runs. I shall really miss him for the month I’m away.
The Tai Qi classes with Larry got off to a good staff with 12 and 11 staff attending the first two sessions. This traditional slow Tai Qi is amazingly difficult and yet effective. I hope to learn it better.
On the day I left, I went down to Torrance to help Johansen pack up Josiah’s household goods in his condo that he is renting out. A really nice American Korean lady, Jany, may be renting it for 2 years. It was sweaty to pack up all the furniture as well as kitchen utensils into a 14’ Uhaul truck. Johansen is an amazing person. I am so proud of my second son. Not only is he talented, devoted, kind, willing to go the second mile, but he is so generous, service oriented and just a really good kid. I don’t know what Janet and I did to get such a good second son.
Joyalene wanted Josiah’s bed and hifi equipment as well as a lot of other things. We had a sweaty time packing the luxury bed, dismantling was the challenge. Joyalene, I found is very nice young lady, who is generous, loving and concerned about others. She is not only an excellent sister, daughter, nurse, but a great musician. I don’t know what Janet and I did to deserve such a wonderful daughter.
After packing, Johansen and I went for dinner at this Hong Kong Chinese Restaurant and ate freshly cooked dishes, the egg plant, Szechwan tofu and hot soup, totaled $16.50 for both of us.
That night while waiting in LAX, I found to my dismay that Air china was not in the Tom Bradley International Terminal but in Terminal 2. So it took about 5 minutes to walk there. While waiting for the check-in to begin, I met this Mexican businessman who just landed from Beijing. He has been importing solar water heaters from China for the last 4 hears. He started with 1 container load of 100 water heaters and this last year has already imported 100 containers at 50K per container. The heaters are automatic and retail for about USD900, vs. US made ones that cost $2500. Interesting business!
Now I am waiting in transit for my flight from Beijing to Xiamen, a 3-hour flight. I think brothers Chia WS and Wang Peng will be there at the Xiamen airport. Stay tuned for more posts from Xiamen.
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