January 2012
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Now Paul puts some questions. “Who can be against us? He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also give us freely all things?” (Romans 8:32) When God the Father gave Christ, the son of his bosom, he literally gave up all that heaven had. He gave the richest jewel that heaven possessed. And if he has given us his Son, is there anything...
November 2011
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“There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better or worse as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to fill?” -Ralph Waldo...
October 2011
3 posts
그 사랑 얼마나 - 이지은
“Most of our players when they end playing basketball they are going to be living for another 40 years or so. And so I don’t know how long that money is going to last,” he added. “Even if they made every prudent investment that they could possibly make, I don’t know at what level they are going to be able to live. But I think after a while it just becomes a...
송지은 (시크릿) - 미친거니 (feat. 방용국)
August 2011
1 post
“God knew what it was going to cost him and yet he was still willing to go ahead and create you and I. Knowing that we would reject him. Knowing all of the pain that we would bring and usher into this world. And knowing what it would cost him. That it would cost him everything. God was in Christ, reconciling us to himself. God himself comes into this world. God himself takes on the...
July 2011
2 posts
“Daily observation: More often than not, when someone is telling a story, all I can think about is how I can’t wait for them to finish so I can tell my own story, which not only is better but more directly involves me.” -Reader’s Digest
“If you have the choice between humble and cocky, go with cocky. There’s always time to be humble later, once you’ve...
May 2011
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Time Magazine Article on Einstein and Faith →
Fascinating read.
April 2011
2 posts
I’ve made some purchases in my life that have been such steals it could be robbery and others that have been utterly dumb (in hindsight). To say a few…
Of the proudest: -80GB iPod that I bought off of some dude for $80. The iPod was not in a great condition actually… but for the price at the time and the way it’s now served me so faithfully during my long So-Cal car...
I tell my little sister over and over again how much I love her and I show it to her as much as possible so she doesn’t go looking to fill a hole in her heart out in the world. But eventually, I’m going to help her understand the truth that no man’s love can fulfill her save the love of Jesus Christ. Keep her safe God, until you enter into her life personally and she’s...
March 2011
4 posts
An objection to the claim that creation can be reasoned have been created by other matter. Why therefore, there stands a reason to believe that there is a God who created all thing ex nihilo - out of nothing:
If there was a time when there was nothing but matter, there could be no beginning of motion because there is nothing self-moving; and if there be no beginning of motion there can be no...
The one thing that connects all morning commuters together… the ability to multitask driving and something else that occupies the hands. While driving down 57S this morning with my Greek book laid out in front of my lap beneath the steering wheel, I passed by a man in a BMW to my left eating a bowl of soup with both hands and a lady to my left in a SUV using her left hand to clutch both the...
“Joy does not mean we don’t have tears. Joy does not mean we don’t have moments of sadness. Joy does not mean we don’t have agonies of the soul at times. Joy does mean that God calls me to look at my malady through His eyes and not look at Him through the eyes of my malady and that makes the difference. We need to learn to laugh more. We need to learn to enjoy life more,...
September 2010
3 posts
The name theos [God]… it were derived from theein [to run] or from aithein [to blaze], from continual motion, and because he consumes evil conditions of things (from which fact he is also called a consuming fire)
-Gregory of Nazianzus
Buy one get one free Jamba Juice expires tomorrow!!
‘The LORD did not set His love on you nor choose you because you were more in number than any other people, for you were the least of all peoples; but because the LORD loves you…’ -Deuteronomy 7:7-8
The LORD set His love on us… because he loves us? A love beyond comprehension and logical reasoning for our rationale. Our God who loves for the sake of loving… is...
August 2010
5 posts
I just resisted an urge to buy a pair of AKG headphones.. at the very last second right as I was about to click on the Confirm Purchase button. How I arrived at this page… as I was listening to Pandora, an advertisement by Guitar Center for their Mix & Match Sale (buy 1 $49.99 item and get 1 $49.99 item free) came up, and I was at this page a half hour later after having read up on some...
My professor today:
My grading scale is as follows:
A+ 100% A 95% - 99.9%
I don’t ever hand out 100% because that’s perfect. And nobody’s perfect but God. I daresay… none of you are God. If your work is everything I asked for… I’ll give you 99.9%, .1% short just to remind you.. that you’re not God.
I have to get a TB shot this week before school starts… noooo, not again. Sigh.
I’m pretty excited to start school in general. For the first time I’m following a true passion that I’ll be actually interested in learning and not just trying to get the grades in journey of another pursuit. (I just re-read that, and that sounds totally naive and overexcited. I think...
I came across my old task list of when I was in Berkeley on Google. It reads:
Groceries - bread, fruit, juice, cheese, cup ramen, pb & jam, frozen chicken
This is what I used to feast on in college.
Right now, I am drinking some Costa Rican coffee as I prepare to sit down with Math IIC and form a lesson plan for tomorrow so I don’t get owned by the students. Nothing’s more...
On one hand, my roughly eight months of pure vacation without school or real work is now coming to an end. On the other hand, the next four years seem to be pretty set in stone about how it’s going to be with more school. Bracedddd.!
This past week, I went to Costa Rica on a mission trip to find out that the missionary’s son goes to the same boarding school as one of my dongsengs that...
July 2010
3 posts
Yesterday, I began reading David Copperfield by Charles Dickens. I read the first line, which reads, ‘Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.’ and ended up putting the book down in contemplation. As I began to think I moved from my desk to my bed and then fell asleep. I am now picking up from...
June 2010
13 posts
I’ve driven roughly 12k miles in the last 4 months since I got my civic back in February. It had less than 28k on the meter when I got it and now it’s nearing the 40k mark. That means 100 miles a day on average. And assuming an average speed of 40 mph accounting for local and freeway plus LA traffic, that’s more or less 2.5 hours a day on the road. Craaazy. I don’t even...
“While I have no doubt that the grace which has followed me since my boyhood will continue with me while I live on earth and for an eternity after, I have enjoyed already enough of God’s benefits to supply me with matter for constant praise for at least a thousand years to come. If God were to close my account tomorrow and refuse any longer to honor me with His favors, the...
From chosun.com:
축구대표팀 김남일 선수의 아내인 김보민 KBS 아나운서의 미니홈피가 일부 네티즌들의 공격을 받았다. 김 아나운서의 미니홈피에는 23일에만 오전 9시 현재 6만명에 가까운 네티즌이 방문했다. 방명록에도 계속해서 글이 올라오고 있다.
이 중에는 김남일을 비난하는 글도 눈에 띄었다. 이날 새벽 열린 나이지리아와의 조별리그 3차전에서 후반 교체 투입된 김남일은 상대 선수에게 거친 태클을 해 페널티킥을 허용했다. 나이지리아의 야쿠부는 페널티킥을 골로 연결시키며 2대2 동점을 만들었다. 방명록에 오른 글 중에는 심한 욕설이 섞인 것도 있어 보는 이의 눈살을 찌푸리게 했다. 하지만 다른 네티즌들은 “경기중에 실수할 수도 있는 것” “16강전에서는 선전하길 기원한다”...
As much as I admire Apostle Paul, I sort of wish I wasn’t named after him. My parents gave me and my sister the names Paul and Lydia respectively because of Acts 16, in which Paul brings Lydia salvation and she houses him. In such a way I suppose my parents wanted us to help one another. At this I always mention that Lydia helped Paul but Paul never really helped her back. He just went on...
‘Therefore I testify to you this day that I am innocent of the blood of all men. For I have not shunned to declare to you the whole counsel of God.’ Acts 20:26-27
Pleeeeeaase Lord, let me be more fearful of You than of men.
I went in for my first stint, albeit as a sub, as SAT teacher last Saturday. It was the first time in Cerritos and my instant reaction was how Asian it was with...
WC: Korea beats Argentina > Greece and Nigeria draw > Greece beats Nigeria
Basketball: Artest doesn’t take dumb shots > Kobe goes off for 40
I’m actually up at 3 having been reading for the past several hours. I haven’t read a fiction novel for fun in a pretty looong time but I happened to pick this one up called ‘the house of the scorpion’ because one of...
Rivers: Fisher a really good flopper
Jesus taught us not to judge others before we judge ourselves… so I rebuke such a statement and say… ‘Hypocrite! First remove the plank from your own eye, and then you will see clearly that Ray Allen and Paul Pierce are the biggest floppers in the game.’
Some ramblings: -Adam Morrison will have more rings than Lebron James, Dwight Howard, Melo and D-wade combined at the end of this Finals… without having played a single minute -As ridiculous it sounds for an entire city to be clamoring for Lebron James, according to a study done in Chicago, Lebron will bring an estimated additional $2.7 billion to the city’s economy if he were to...
I’ve been pushing for my sister to move up a grade because she’s one of the older kids in her grade. Not that that’s a bad thing, but I figure if the opportunity’s there, why not? Her birthday is 12/12/2000 so she’s either oldest or the youngest depending on where she’s placed. What I didn’t find out until today was how hard my mom pushed for this from the...
In memory of John Wooden, his top 10 quotes as mentioned in the ‘Christian Science Monitor’:
10. Failure is not fatal but failure to change might be. 9. Ability is a poor man’s wealth. 8. It’s the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen. 7. Don’t measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished...
After having spent my day running to the post office to finally ship off the textbooks I sold on half.com, at the church, watching the Laker’s game and lastly hitting up B&N for a quiet read, I realized when I got home that I hadn’t seen my little sister the entire day, except for when I dropped her off at school in the morning. It bothered me just a tiny bit that I spent so much...
May 2010
6 posts
I will buy the most vicious cookie to the person who can find me the footage of Phil Jackson saying to Derek Fisher, ‘Don’t pass him the ball. Don’t even give him the ball.’ during the timeout right after Artest jacked up that 3 in Game 5. It aired during Game 6… and it is ridiculous hahaha. Also, temperature readings earlier today: Claremont - 86 Berkeley - 66 I...
I recently discovered the vast world of coupons. I’m talking legit coupons available for pretty much any shopping store you will most likely shop at. For instance, sites such as coupon cabin, retailmenot, couponchief are just a few sites that list arrays of valid promos. Isn’t that so cool?! Or maybe I’ve been living under a rock and I might just as well be saying something...
“It’s not always a good shot, but nobody’s perfect. We were up three. I was hoping to go up six.”
-Ron Artest UH. No, nobody is perfect. But nobody is THAT dumb enough to make such a gaffe. I still think Phil Jackson should tape Ron’s fingers together so the only use he has for them is for steals and defense.
NBA refereeing sometimes gets me so frustrated watching games. Even if it is to the Lakers’ benefit, it’s rather 찝찝해. And when it’s to the Lakers’ detriment altogether, it just leads to pure rage steaming. But seriously, I honestly wouldn’t be surprised if the games were fixed at a higher level. Okay I take that back, it probably isn’t. But the reality is that...
Lincoln Brewster - Love the Lord
The better...
For some reason, I was thinking about the fact that Jesus can descend today and the world would end. But I pretty much knew it wouldn’t happen. Biblically speaking, 2 Peter 3:9 says, ‘The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.’ Then I began to think.. God...
April 2010
1 post
I wanted to replace my car’s worn-down speakers so I went to Pep-Boys to check out a few, got sold on some salesperson’s talking and purchased a set right there on the spot without even knowing any real details. I then did the research afterward and found out I paid twice as much for them as I would if I buy them online. After finding a set online, I began the checkout process. When I...
March 2010
4 posts
I’ve been getting update on all this excitement about healthcare reform especially after my other excitement March Madness is officially over with Cal out of the tournament… Someone in a comments section of an article mentioned that Jesus himself would have supported such a universal healthcare reform in a like analogy that He would have gladly taken his coat and given it to another...
To pass time.. and to earn at least my car insurance (an unmentionable amount due to my two accidents couple years back), I looked for tutoring jobs around Claremont. When calls began coming in, my mom (amazed that people would request my services) asked me why God would want me to tutor and what I could learn. Well, I reasoned, it was to teach me the experience of… tutoring to translate...
If you have food in the fridge, clothes on your...
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Recently I got a car, but only yesterday I finally got insured so now I’m free to drive around on my own. Before, I was content to stay home and read the Bible all day. Quite literally. Or at least until I would pick up my little sister and then help her do her homework. Then I would read some more, watch some TV and it would pretty much cap my day. Until now, I’ve been to the library...