i just finished watching two episodes of Hajime No Ippo. hajime is a boxing anime that i've been watching since winter break now. i really enjoy it cause it gives losers like me a sense of hope and determination to...become buff? haha. it has some awesome characters (takamura) with some intense humor ("the ippo firework"). but as i've been watching this, i realize that ippo is never satisfied with where he's at. he's determined to become stronger and stronger even after he wins his tournaments. he wants to fight better people and really "learn what it means to be strong." even though i'm only on episode 44 out of 72, it hit me that ippo is never going to be satisfied. after he beats one guy, there'll always be someone stronger. after he beats that guy, there'll be another guy waiting for him again. it's ridiculous. i've concluded that ippo needs Christ. he can fight and win all he wants but he will never be content. his life has become boxing and it will continue to be with no complete satisfaction.

i'm also watching All About Eve with danny. this is a korean drama that april let me borrow so danny and i watch a couple every week. pretty dramatic and actually fun to watch. but even more so with this one, you can definitely see the need for Christ in every character's life. i think that's the constant thought i'm thinking of when i'm watching these dramas or anime. w/o Christ, your situations will only become worse. and if they get better, your happiness will be temporary. you have to constantly find some kind of meaning in your life. (Ecclesiastes 1:2-"Meaningless! Meaningless!" says the Teacher. "Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless."). i couldn't have said it better myself.

even with this knowledge that i have, i realize that i continue to fall into the same problem. my sinful nature desires to have that temporary pleasure that will result in emptiness. i cry out to God to forgive me everyday as i fall into the same sinfulness over and over again. the same cycle that the Israelites went through for hundreds and thousands of years. we learn. we sin. we learn. we sin. But...Romans 6:14-For sin shall not be your master, beacuse you are not under law, but under grace.
it always goes back to grace doesn't it?

movies that i still need to see:

1. Pretty Woman
2. Amadeus
3. Cocktail
4. Days of Thunder
5. Gone With the Wind
6. Citizen Kane
7. Tampopo
8. Donnie Brasco
9. Annie

oh yeah, i got a flat tire last night. i went to commons to go study and when i came back, my front left was flat. apparently, i had gone over a nail sometime that night. well, i think i know how to change my own tire now. another learning experience with the car.

Thought of the Day: Audience laughter is interesting.
Song of the Day: Chopin-Ballad In G Minor