Buddha Works in Mysterious Ways!

Yesterday, right?, here in Guangzhou, Halley was very depressed. Her job's winding up and she doesn't have another one to go to, and yesterday morning the woman who has a job up on offer and who had interviewed her many times for the vacancy, rang to say, quite rudely, she was going to hire the rich influential guy instead.

"It's hard to have a proper career in China unless you know people in high places." she told me sadly.

Then that afternoon, because I wanted to see old Guangzhou-style buildings, she took me around her old area, the streets where she'd grown up; in the process of being torn down by developers.

The Old Area.

There - and I will be blogging on these streets more fully later - we stopped by her old temple.

Don't know the name of this one,
but could be Three Big God Temple.

While I ran around photographing gods ...

If this lady asked for fabulous legs,
her prayers were answered.

... Halley "offered puja" (although that's the Hindi term for it, but you get the idea) first to Smiling Buddha ...

The Smiling Buddha,
for when things are too hard to bear.

... to lighten her heart, and then to Big Buddha to send her a job ...

Big Buddha x3

... and then whizzed around the wall to offer puja to Kwan Yin ...

The Goddess of Mercy,

... to provide her with a job that sets her on her career path, just as backup.

Lightened heart? We had a great afternoon! Lots of fun and laughs!

Security guards who
seem not to know
how to use a ladder.

And then came the call from a Professor she knows to invite her to dinner, and so after dropping me off in Li Wan Square, she was off.

10pm, she rings me. Over dinner, the Professor had offered her a job, in the area of her choice, where she wants to make her career ... and when she got home there was a message from the woman who had turned her down only that morning to say she'd reconsidered and that she wanted to employ Halley instead of Rich Boy!

So, I think that Halley discovered that, afterall, she does have Friends in High Places!

In fact, the highest you can possibly go.

I think it also shows that Big Buddha and Kwan Yin really don't consult each other much!