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		<title>One Year in Hong Kong!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Apr 2012 13:59:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[去年的這天，我們從墨爾本來到香港! Or in English: &#8220;A year ago today, we left Melbourne to come to Hong Kong!&#8221; Check out a previous post on why we chose to relocate to Hong Kong.  Time has flown and in this most memorable year yet, we&#8217;ve: joined and are actively serving in an awesome Christ-centred, family-oriented, and discipleship-focused church called [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blueandlavender.com&#038;blog=5066701&#038;post=2475&#038;subd=blueandlavender&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>2 YEAR ANNIVERSARY!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 13:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has been a while since we&#8217;ve updated this blog&#8230; it&#8217;s an understatement, but time has certainly flown by so quickly &#8211; we can&#8217;t believe we&#8217;ve reached the 2 year milestone! At this very time last year Steph initiated the relocation discussion over our first anniversary dinner.  A year on and we certainly have no [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blueandlavender.com&#038;blog=5066701&#038;post=2455&#038;subd=blueandlavender&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Aug 2011 13:29:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Trip I just returned from a one-week trip to Gan Quan (甘泉), a county situated 3 hours north of Xi&#8217;an, or 30mins south of Yan&#8217;an in the Shaanxi Province.  Together with 14 others, we conducted an English Training Seminar to train local teachers who taught English to primary and secondary students.  In these rural [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blueandlavender.com&#038;blog=5066701&#038;post=2424&#038;subd=blueandlavender&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In the market place</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jun 2011 10:40:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am finally writing something on our blog! Today is Fathers Day in Hong Kong and I finally have some room to breathe after a hectic start at work. Sam and I have settled in ICA and have also found a home group. I feel much more settled once we found a place where we [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blueandlavender.com&#038;blog=5066701&#038;post=2412&#038;subd=blueandlavender&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2011 04:06:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On relocating to Hong Kong, there were a few things I was certain of: this is an optimum time for us as we don&#8217;t have children; we are still quite young in our career lives and can adapt quickly; we have family and a few friends in Hong Kong so we can settle soon; I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blueandlavender.com&#038;blog=5066701&#038;post=2407&#038;subd=blueandlavender&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Relocated!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Apr 2011 12:30:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sammerz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[..and so we&#8217;ve finally relocated to Hong Kong, a little over 4 months since we first talked about the possibility. A month ago we were on a Holy Land Tour in Israel and Egypt. Subsequently, we had less than a month to pack EVERYTHING! Most things were either sold at our garage sale, and then [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blueandlavender.com&#038;blog=5066701&#038;post=2364&#038;subd=blueandlavender&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Holy Land Tour 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Apr 2011 11:51:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We were in a team of 52 pilgrims, organised and led by the amazing Daljit &#38; Gurmit Gill as well as Dan and Alison Daniels. The two-week trip began with a day in Cairo to marvel at the Pyramids of Giza. Our 16-day tour of Israel was compressed into 9 days and we stayed by [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blueandlavender.com&#038;blog=5066701&#038;post=2383&#038;subd=blueandlavender&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>SGS Wedding Highlights</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Mar 2011 18:08:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sammerz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hey everyone &#8211; we&#8217;ve finally gotten around to uploading the highlights of our wedding&#8230;. enjoy! SGS Wedding 19.12.09 from Sam Leong on Vimeo.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blueandlavender.com&#038;blog=5066701&#038;post=2353&#038;subd=blueandlavender&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>and the winning Property Management agency is&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2011 09:24:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; Allens Real Estate! Congratulations!  We were happy to entrust our home into their hands, and even more so explaining why: the Director personally came to visit us, she even took off her shoes which was unexpected but welcomed, her former occupation meant she valued RESPECT with utmost importance, her advice was for us to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blueandlavender.com&#038;blog=5066701&#038;post=2344&#038;subd=blueandlavender&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bai Bai Melbourne</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2011 13:18:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stephtong</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The conversation started as we celebrated our 1 year wedding anniversary at Orita&#8217;s. &#8220;What do you think about relocation?&#8221; asked Steph. &#8220;I thought I will stay in my current job for at least another 4 years&#8230;&#8221; replied Sam. One month later, following much prayer and advice from family and our close mentors, one thing was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blueandlavender.com&#038;blog=5066701&#038;post=2335&#038;subd=blueandlavender&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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