Angel Redemption - chapter 1

Introduction

Chapter 1 – Awakening

A man wakes up in his bed in the middle of the thunder storm. Screaming. His heart is racing at 200 bpm….at least that’s what he think how fast it is….his head is throbbing…his breath is short….after a couple of minutes, he begins to calm down. Shaking his head, he tries to get up from his bed. He starts walking to the sink, turns on the light and washes his face. After drying his face, he looks at the mirror….he stops and gazes at the person in the mirror….saying to himself….”Who are you?” only to realize that it’s his own reflection.

He looks at an unfamiliar face…a rugged unshaved man with a long scar on his chest and a couple more on his arms and back….”What happened to me? What did I do?”

As he was trying to make sense of everything, a loud ring breaks the silence. With the tune of “Ride of the Valkyrie” it puts and an end to his pondering. He hurriedly grabbed his phone. “Hello?” Silence….then a weird voice comes out....the person’s using a voice altering device. ”Vincent?” He stays silent as the person calls out the unfamiliar name. Then the person calls him out again “Vincent? Are you there? “It takes him a couple of seconds before he realizes that it might be his name. Finally he replies “Yes” The voice speaks again “I got a job for you”.” What job?” Vincent asks. ”The usual” Vincent is puzzled. What is the ”usual” ? The only distant memory he has is the last 15 minutes of pure confusion. The voice says” Go to the newspaper stand on Clay and Leavenworth. I hide all the information you need there. Be there in 30 minutes.” Click. The phone went dead.

Vincent puts down his phone…walks slowly towards the window and opens up the blind....he can see the bright city lights among the raindrops….he notices a tall pyramid building that looks very familiar to him….it’s the Trans American building… he’s in San Francisco…..

“How do I end up in this city?”….”Who am I?”…”Who is ‘Vincent’?”…..Then he walks to his dresser... grabs a black shirt and a raincoat…then he gets out of his apartment. “Maybe I can find the answer in that package, whatever it is…” Vincent asks for direction, and then he starts walking in the rain, losing himself in deep thoughts as he walks among the crowd of China town…..

Angel Redemption - a web story introduction

Hello out there

I am going to start a web story called Angel Redemption .....it's fiction of course...a story about an angel.....Due to a plot by the devil's minions, he was thrown to earth as human because of his part in the final battle of Armageddon......as plots are unfold, I will welcome suggestions from readers as you give your comments of where the story should go.....I will try to continue based on most popular suggestions as long as it can come together to the end of the story I have planned =)

Cheers ^__^

Diary of a Coolie - Mission Trip Seram.

Just went back from mission trip !!! The feeling is surreal....I felt that I haven't been gone that long....that the work we did in Seram was a dream....then suddenly I was back here in Surabaya....The first great feeling is that you will appreciate your own bed....so clean and nice.... :)

Anyway...rewinding to the first day of the mission trip, I was feeling so excited cos this is my first trip...so I'm expecting so many things to happen......I was mentally prepared that we will have to live under a tent in a shady church somewhere.....but to my surprise we live in someone's house....great house with a bathroom in each bedroom....so God is good to us first timers....

But the "surprise " doesn't start till the day after...the day when we are all transformed into coolies. I am so shocked to the amount of work that we have to do.....first we have to move all the big bricks into the skeleton that was built last year....we need to make equal stacks of bricks along the wall that we are going to build.....then we need to make cement mix with nothing but shovels.......we work for about 10 hours straight doing all kind of labor with just 1 hour-ish lunch break.... the first day of work was the worst.....I felt the pain in all my muscles.....so that day all of us is using 3 layers of different ointments in our body....when the girls in SS team come over, they said "hey this place smells like grandpas" ^__^

Day 2 didn't go any better.....we can't sleep cos the weather is so hot.......moreover we started earlier at 5 am....so the back pain and sore legs are so "fun" to have.....

Day 3 is the day that all the pain is sinking in...I got sick from masuk angin....and I drank all kinds of meds that I have.....put some minyak angin all over my body....I was ready to give up....then SS team is coming over and prayed for all of us.....and the prayer worked ^^p I was healed the next day and ready to work again....

The rest of the days are fun..altho mixed with friction here and there......we joke around a lot....talking about us as sissy coolies...that we always wear sunscreen....if a real coolie works like us, all the salary will be gone by the end of the week =)

And there are some memorable quotes made by the team members, like :
"Wan le..mei yu lik" - translation : it's gone, I have no more power
"The only thing that keeps us standing is our pride"
"We work like coolie, eat like coolie...and finally act like coolie...." - sorry for the cat calls ladies =P

All in all...altho this is a "mild" mission trip compared to others, it took me all my strength to finish it. One thing that Mission Trip teaches me is that to push my limit beyond what I normally do. To push through my sickness and tiredness and keep working.....but i know that it's not the purpose of the whole thing...so I was waiting for God to explain to me what this trip means to me....what He wanna say..He keeps quiet until I watch the movie "the Bucket List" I felt that God is telling me to make a list of all things I want to do before He called me back.....that now is the time I have to start planning for the future....for some reason i see me my own funeral....with my pic in every mission trip there is :)

So.....to all of you who haven't tried it, please do...at least you got one thing you can cross of the Bucket List .... God bless you all...and thanks for the prayers during the trip..... ^__^

The Story of A Ling - Part 2

Welcome to the story of A Ling.....hope you like it.... ^__^

The Lost Treasure
A Ling has lost something in her life....at least that's what people think when they look at her..she keeps on searching for that thing that will fill the hole in her soul...but it was nowhere to be found...

A Cia was one of her friends that knows this...but she doesn't want to say anything......As she was watching the TV series "Monkey King" ....she realize that it was A Ling...she's the "Monkey King" among her friends.....

Monkey King is a very naughty and stubborn creature....he has many antiques, and easily angered by small things....

One day, one of the older monkey in his group died...The Monkey King is afraid that he too would die someday - unable to enjoy the pleasures of life forever. so he go out and seek immortality, wherever it was. The very next day, the Monkey King set out on a raft to travel across the sea.The Monkey King searched the sea for many years, but was unable to learn the way to immortality. But he was determined, and continued his search on land. Many more years passed.During his search for immortality and position in heaven, Monkey King has destroyed many things along the way...disturbing the peace in heaven and fight with the Gods such as Chu ling , Nuocha and Erh-lang....even his presence is an annoyance among his peers...Until finally Budha has had enough of him and trap him in the Five-Element Mountain...his quest for a "lost treasure" of immortality has cost him his freedom for 500 years......

Thus A Cia was just sitting there and ponders what to do....if she lets A Ling be monkey king all her life, then one day "Budha" will punish her for what she did and she will be trapped in that mountain forever.....She realized that for A Ling to change..she needs to take the first step......by telling A Ling about her problem...that people actually don't like her attitude.....that some of her friends are actually fed up with her.....what to do ? what to do ??......

We'll fly away from this story while A Cia is lost in her thoughts.......

to be continued.....