hello 2010

man, does time fly by or what. can’t believe we’re starting a new decade. but im excited cause i know its going to be a good one. last decade, it was all about high school, getting into a college and whatnot. but this decade, its all about graduating college, entering the real world, getting a job, settling down, etc. crazy, eh? well, cant wait. hope everyone had a nice start to 2010-

have a jolly day :o)

i absolutely LOVE this weather.
i cant get over it.
the cold air.
its so crisp. :]

call me weird for loving this weather. but i just cant help it. every time i walk out of my house in the morning to go to class, i automatically smile as i can feel the cold air surrounding me. its as if i can feel a burden being lifted off my shoulders. so one can imagine how much ive been enjoying walking around campus these days. ive been aimlessly walking around campus alot by myself. well, perhaps not completely aimless. usually, i walk around running errands for work. i can easily take the bus or just take the short routes, but i just take my time taking a long detour around campus instead so i can enjoy every minute breathing in cold air. however, there is a down side to this and i am suffering from the consequences. this cold air has a price to pay. dryness! my lips are so chapped. i feel like im quoting napoleon dynamite when i say this, but my lips hurt real bad. it doesnt matter how often i put on my-never-failing-burts bees. nevertheless, i hope it stays this cold foreverrrrrrrrr :] k maybe not forever. but for a long long long time.

bits and pieces

i feel like things have been falling into their places on their own lately. like a puzzle. except im not the one thats putting the puzzle together. life has been good. despite all the crazy studio hours and whatnot, i havent been stressing out much or anything. ive just been enjoying every minute of life. hanging out with friends, going to classes, studying, staying up in studio, eating, just everything about life. little things, and big things. and believe me, i havent felt this peaceful in a long time. perhaps its the thought that this is my last year of being a college student and i wanna make sure i make the best out of everything. or maybe ive just found a better way to deal with what may be stressful situations. or maybe God is just amazing. :]

anyways, i heard something today that really made me think. of course this is not the first time ive heard it, but it just hit me harder than before. we call ourselves christians, but what are we doing differently that set us apart from non-believers? or i should direct it towards myself. how is my life, my act, my words set me apart? hmph.

on a lighter note, i am absolutely LOVING this amazing cold weather! im super stoked for christmas. yes already. i realize im 3 months early. but seriously..i cannot waiiiit for starbucks to bring out holiday cups and holiday drinks, to feel the cold icy air when i walk outside, to be bundled up in sweatshirts and scarves and just everything about winter. :]

finally

i got an answer

:]

breathe in, breathe out.

i am so exhausted these days. physically, emotionally, spiritually, pretty much in any way possible. i just want to curl up in my bed, watch hansel’s chill session video (those  of you who know what im talking about, gah..its amazing. but i should stop here b/c if hansel sees this, he will go on about how awesome he is for introducing me to this video hahahahah jk kindof) , and not think or care about anything for a whole day. haha i sound so emo, but i promise im not. its just that sometimes, i get caught up in my own doing that i forget what is really important. just need to take a deep breath. or maybe stop complaining…haha :]

put some gratitude in your attitude

it’s simply amazing the way God works in people’s lives.

seriously..?!

story #1

the word is that i have the crappiest parking spot in the city of Berkeley. it was supposed to be a temporary parking spot until Pam, whom id like to refer as the devil woman, gave me a better spot. but it hasn’t happened yet, and im still waiting. anyways, the other day after gomtang + watching the boys play bball + yogurtland + chaperoning isaac, i came home with joyce. as usual,  i was trying to park my car back in the crappy spot. its the one on the left as soon as you pull into the garage. anyways, that day, the stupid red suv that parks next to me was all up in my parking spot making it impossible for me to park my car! after pulling in and pulling back out about 10 times, then being stuck in between the wall, the garage door, and the red suv, we thought it was a good idea to go ahead and call david to park the car for us. ugh. you can imagine how hard david was laughing when joyce called him to ask to park my car. anyways, i realize i sound stupid, but in my defense, that parking spot really really does suck. lets just hope that i get a new spot soon.

story #2

i came into work today, but my boss was too busy getting help from a technician, so he just told me to chill and hang out. (as usual) after surfing the web and chatting online for about half an hour, i got so bored that i decided i should be productive and study. so i decided to print some geog notes b/c well, i never take notes in class because 1. i have sam to depend on haha 2. theyre posted on bspace. anyways, i printed 3 weeks worth of notes and i went to go pick’em up from the printer down the hall. God knows what happened to those notes, but they weren’t there. hmmm. i was confused. i checked to see if the printer was off or if the paper was out. but everything was perfectly fine. so then i went upstairs to check the other printers, but no luck. so after circling the building about 2-3 times, i finally gave up and told derrick what happened. he laughed at me and called me a fake employee. hmph..but really, what happened to my notes?!

story #3

another failure story at work today. about  an hr and half into the shift, my boss finally decided to give me something to do. he asked to go pick up some documents from stanley hall. being bored from sitting at the desk for 1.5 hr, i was happy to go to stanley. so i walked over to stanley, enjoying the cool weather listening to my ipod. i walked into the office, picked up the documents from the mailbox ready to head back to calvin, but this employee that works in the same department requested that i drop off something at i-house. considering that i-house is relatively on the way to calvin (which is where i usually work), i said id glady do it. on the way out, i thought id  be nice and ask another employee that works in the same office if she’d like me to deliver something. as mean as this may sound, i asked in hope that she would say no. but no. she wanted me to deliver to university hall. but either way, i didn’t mind. i was just a little worried that i wasn’t going to be able to deliver both of them on time considering both offices close at 4. so i power-walked my way through campus like a ahjumma and delivered both on time.  to reward myself, i decided to take the bus back to calvin. but when i got to calvin, i found out that my boss had gone over to stanley. WHY! with a little bit of frustration, i made my way back to stanley only to find out that my boss had just left to go back to calvin and i had missed him, AGAIN. oh, COME ON!! so i turned back around and went back to calvin praying that my boss will be back in his office. and thank goodness, he was. if he weren’t, i probably would have just gone home. haha at least i got my workout for the day, eh?

story #4

last story for the day. ill make it short. so im going back to texas tomorrow for the weekend because i have some family from korea visiting, hooray! but of course, there is a downside. come to find out, everyone is coming up to berkeley for the weekend. everyone in my definition being steve whang, derrick, and alex c. whyyyyyy this weekend! alex, derrick, and i had talked about them coming up for a weekend since last month, and of courseeee, it just happened to be one weekend im going home, ugh. and ive been telling steve to come back up and of course, this is one weekend he decides to come. why!! haha 

anyways, that is all for now. time to get back to writing a paper on the universality of romantic love. sounds mucho interesting, eh?! not..

thank God we are weak

because it makes me run to God.

today was a good day. i really liked the sermon. got lots of work done at sack’s with ives. cooked alot and ate alot. played games. i love my friends. :]

anyways. my life is pretty chill. summer schooling, working, chillin with friends, eating like there is not tomorrow (story of my life). last night, i was trying to read for geography but after about two or three paragraphs on political ecology, i had to close the reader. it was so boring haha, so i decided to read crazy love by francis chan. if you havent read it, you should :] you can borrow it when im done reading, whoever ‘you’ may be. i really like what i have read so far because he writes it so that its easy to relate to. and its a reminder to how i should live everyday. and its not some eye-opening deep message, but i think we can all relate to this. 

“when i am consumed by my problems–stressed out about my life, my family, and my job–i actually convey the belief that i think the circumstances are more important than God’s commands to always rejoice. in other words, that i have a “right” to disobey God because of the magnitude of my responsibilities. 

worry implies that we dont quite trust God is big enough, powerful enough, or loving enough to take care of what’s happening in our lives.

stress says that the things we are involved in are important enough to merit our impatience, our lack of grace toward others, or our tight grip of control.”

bipolar weather = no bueno

yay im back in berkeley :]!
well as of last saturday.

and finally unpacked everything & settled!

my classes have been surprisingly interesting so far. and that doesnt happen too often so that is definitely a plus!

anyways, that is all for now because im at work and its almost time for me to get off. yay

oh, and bye bye summer.

“i wasnt born in texas, but i got here as fast as i could”

I love summer, but I realized that I really need to start being more productive. I mean, I’m taking two online classes, but afterall, they are online classes. Haha anyways, I went to Bill Cosby’s show on Friday. Oh my goodness, why must he be so funny? Everyone should go see him, if possible. Because it is so worth it. And he is awesome. Then, I went to Rascal Flatts concert last night. It was pretty good, but the speakers weren’t loud enough, so it didn’t really feel like a concert. Oh well, they are still amazing.

Oh yeah, the other day, I was home alone getting ready upstairs in my room and I heard the tornado sirens go off outside. But I just went on minding my own business because it’s Texas.. It happens, so I didn’t think too much about it. Well..turns out, it was a pretty bad one. The power in the house was going in and out, my cell phone was down, things were flying around in my backyard aka a screen to one of the windows. Anywho, I called my mom from the house phone about three times because I got scared and she finally told me to stop calling her. Uhhhhh………thanks mom?! Haha my mom can be so wack sometimes.

Anyways, I got an e-mail from this sweet old couple I met on a trip not too long ago & just wanted to share.

“This is God.  Today I will be handling All of your problems for you. I do not need your help.  So, have a nice day. I love you.

And, remember…

If life happens to deliver a situation to you that you cannot handle, do not attempt to resolve it yourself.  Kindly put it in the SFGTD (something for God to do) box. I will get to it in MY TIME.  All situations will be resolved, but in My time, not yours. Once the matter is placed into the box, do not hold onto it by worrying about it. Instead, focus on all the wonderful things that are present in your life now.

If you find yourself stuck in traffic, don’t despair. There are people in this world for whom driving is an unheard of privilege.

Should you have a bad day at work; think of the man who has been out of work for years.

Should you despair over a relationship gone bad; think of the person who has never known what it’s like to love and be loved in return.

Should you grieve the passing of another weekend; think of the woman in dire straits, working twelve hours a day, seven days a week to feed her children.

Should your car break down, leaving you miles away from assistance; think of the paraplegic who would love the opportunity to take that walk.

Should you notice a new gray hair in the mirror; think of the cancer patient in chemo who wishes she had hair to examine.

Should you find yourself at a loss and pondering what is life all about, asking what is my purpose? Be thankful. There are those who didn’t live long enough to get the opportunity.

Should you find yourself the victim of other people’s bitterness, ignorance, smallness or insecurities; remember, things could be worse. You could be one of them.”