the weekend is finally here! i mean, the weekend is ALREADY here!!! i love my 2 days of class a week schedule.

Thought of the Day: Incommensurability.
Song of the Day: Eric Clapton-Sunshine Of Your Love

it felt pretty good being on campus again. even though parking got ALOT worse and i didn't get to add my computer science class, school was good. i love the idea of keeping my mind stimulated. even in the classes with the crappy professors who are not qualified to teach, i still learn from their attempts to give an educational lecture. i feel like it's really important to realize that we are not students of the school but rather students of God. and as students of God, we are required to do our best in our studies. we are to be witnesses in our respective secular campuses (well, even at Biola!). we are to glory in God's creation just as much as we are to recognize what sin has done to it. being a student should be a blessing, not a burden.

my last class for today was Asian-American Psychology (psych 174A). man, this class has SO many shekis! you know those retarded asian guys who only come to class to check out girls or be a wiseguy to the professor. they talk during the lecture and make sure that the whole class recognizes that they're too stupid to remember to turn their phones off before class. they're those guys who try to talk like black people yet drive their lowered AZN cars. they abhor class and encourage parties. you take one look at them and wonder HOW the admissions office didn't filter them out. shekidul! they need Christ and i need to learn to love them.

today, i found out that amy was trying to get into two of my psych. classes. amy is like a super duper senior who used to live next to me last year. i met her at ccm when i was a freshmen but i really don't know her too well. anyways, we were walking and talking about how things have been. she told me that she was kinda done with the whole ccm thing now. she realized that ccm isn't everything and that it can't keep you accountable forever. she also realized that it's kinda closed off as a group. she seemed really discouraged just with how everything was going...well pretty discouraged compared to the amy that i'm used to seeing. but the crazy thing that she said to me was, "well, i know YOU'RE doing good. you go to CPC." i'll let you chew on that for a bit.

Thought of the Day: Sensitivity.
Song of the Day: J 5

i feel like i have finally started off the new school year.

1. Hold'em

last night, willburt called me but i missed his call. i was pretty sure he wanted to gamble so i didn't feel like calling him back. however, he got a hold of me online and entreated me to play that night. he had all the boys gathered up and everything! i feel like i have a hard time saying no to the guy. it's not that i have a lust for gambling or anything. it just makes me happy to see willburt happy with his goofy smile. of all of my friends, i enjoy playing with these guys the most. so we kicked off our weekly poker night yesterday at frank's new place...and willburt was happy.

2. Exercise

a few nights ago...

edu: how fast can you run a mile?
me: well, i haven't run in like 4 months. i bet you once i start running again, my 2 mile is going to be around 19 min. for sure i won't go past 20 though. 20 min. is just SLOW!

so my 2 mile time today was 20:14. i lapped this one guy 3 times but by the time i was done, he had lapped me 4 times. dang it, man.

3. Clusters

chris is leading the boys and genie is leading the girls this year. we had a joint meeting today at my apt. all of the freshmen looked through all of the pictures on my computer and laughed at my yellow hair. funny...nobody laughed at me in person when i actually had the hair.


i start my first day of class tomorrow. i've already told this to a million people but this qtr., i only have class on tues. and thurs. that means i have class from 9:30am-6:20pm on those days. right now, i'm having a hard time picturing how difficult or tiring those days will be. i guess there's only one way to find out.

the summer has finally come to a close. i am seriously convinced that this summer was the best summer that i have ever had in my life. everything from paraguay to temp. job to retreats to biola to living at edu's house. i grew up alot this summer. let's see what junior year has in store for me.

Thought of the Day: Thank you, Doe.
Song of the Day: Phorte-Live Korean Megamix #1

i missed friday night bible study tonight b/c my student invited me over for dinner. jin is his name. 31 years old, married to harriet, 31 years old as well. this is the second time i've had dinner with them. the first time, harriet made us spaghetti. tonight, she made us this tasty fried rice. i really like harriet. she's very gentle and kind with her words. i'm almost afraid that anything i say to her will hurt her since she's so innocent. i really like this couple b/c they're so much older than me but i can still see so much of their youth.

i feel like fobs are crazy polite with their guests. i ALWAYS get to drink hot chocolate, juice, or tea whenever i tutor my students. they're just so nice! but what makes me sad is that not a single one of my students go to church. Christ is not their Lord and Savior so i can't help but feel really different from them. all of their kind words and generous actions are not pleasing to the Lord. they merely reflect God's image through their "good" deeds but their motives are all selfish and sinful.

today at dinner...

me: do you usually pray before you eat your meals?
jin: oh! no, not yet.
me: oh, is it ok if i pray by myself then?

oh the stench of awkwardness! but i hope that even these small deeds would somehow be a witness to them. i mean actions do speak louder than words right? jin and harriet do go out to church. but i think they only go b/c the person that helped them move into this country was the pastor. jin tells me that it's still difficult to really trust God.

right now, i'm reading a book by Greg Bahnsen called "Always Ready." i got it as a gift my senior year in high school from chang and i didn't start reading it til this week. haha...better late than never right? anyways, Bahnsen says, "One does not first satisfy his intellect with certain autonomous proofs that God exists and has a particular nature, and then after gaining this understanding place his faith in the Lord. Rather, reverence and faith precede one's understanding or knowledge of God and all that He has made." and with these brilliant words, we, educated christians, know that man is dead in his sin and does not have the ability to even desire God. only God can work in people like Jin and Harriet. only God can make the times that i spend with them meaningful and effective to make the Gospel more real in their lives. and that is why only God deserves all the glory.

Thought of the Day: Two words: FINANCIAL AID.
Song of the Day: New Full Metal Alchemist Opening

i'm here at Biola's library again with edu, doe, and zen (who has apparently replaced our beloved grandpa joe). i am sleeping over edu's place again for the next few days as we study by day and play by night. lately, people have been asking me what edu and i talk about every night before we go to sleep. well, to put it simply we talk about theology and girls: things of the good nature and things that naturally bad. (grin). but you see, when we talk about girls we don't simply go down a list of names and gossip away. we first agree that there is a strong lack of godly women in this world. then we agree that we must FIND the Cave of Godly Women.
note: edu and i do not "lovefest." only dinkas and i do that.

The Theory of The Cave of Godly Women:

look around you. spot any females? there is a 95% chance that the female(s) you have just witnessed is/are not godly. our theory is that somewhere in Africa (i don't know why we always pick Africa), there is a cave full of awesome women. women, godly AND bodily. women, who can cook and clean well with pleasure. women, who do not get angry with passages on submitting to their husbands! women, who are TEACHABLE for crying out loud!!! *tears flowing* now, you must be thinking that you know of a few lucky men who have been blessed with an incredible woman in their life. therefore, you are convinced that it IS possible to find that lucky someone out there-you are convinced that you just have to be patient.

A few suggestions:
1. a good majority of the lucky men who have godly wives are pastors.
2. the few godly women that you've run into are women who have escaped from the cave.
3. if you hit jackpot (found the cave), would you want to share it (announce it to everybody)?

nobody ever talks about the Cave of Godly Women for three reasons:
1. you found it!
2. you are so discouraged by the fact that you will never find it.
3. you are really really discouraged that you convince yourself that it does not exist.

now, the ultimate question is-where do we find the map? that is a very good question and edu has made a very wise observation concerning the matter. if you remember suggestion #1, it states that "a good majority of the lucky men who have godly wives are pastors." now think, where do all pastors go before they claim their precious jewel?

*drumroll*

answer: seminary.

you see, seminarians are so happy on their graduation days, not b/c they are finally done studying, but because they receive their maps on that day...in other words, the diploma is the map!!!

now, the matter with p. dennis. after some thought and discussion, edu and i have concluded that one of three things could have happened to our beloved reverend:
1. he is just having a hard time finding the cave.
2. somebody stole his map.
3. the fool just lost it!

so going back to what i was originally writing about, one of the things that edu and i talk about at night is girls. we encourage each other that we will find the cave someday. we remind each other that God even loves the sinful women who are not of the cave and that we too must continue to love and be patient with them. we exhort each other to keep one another in prayer. this is the fellowship that we share.

Thought of the Day: Almighty Over All finished.
Song of the Day: Eric Clapton-Sunshine For Your Love

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it's really warm. i cannot handle cold. i can handle warm. it's really warm.

Thought of the Day: Outreach is like Paraguay.
Song of the Day: Bebo Norman & Caedmon's Call-Holy Is Your Name