Sunday, January 29, 2006
What a profitable weekend...
...this was truly a blessed time, as well as a "de-stresser" time.
FRI: dinner with housemates at Jump! Cafe and Bar. Awesome food, relaxing atmosphere. i got Grilled Calamari with anchovies, capers, black olives and lemon brown butter, Seared Sea Scallops with butternut squash caponata, garlic rapini and vincotto, dessert was a Dark Chocolate Tart with espresso cream.
Afterwards got together with Mr. Kwan Chan for some sharing/catching up/chilling.
what a way to start off a weekend =)
SAT: Breakfast at IKEA with Emily, Esther and Mel. Good times chilling with three fair maidens. Then lunch with family at Asian Legends. MMmmmm...hot skillet beef...
Did some nerdy stuff in the afternoon. Got together at night with Kwan, Emily and Esther for some BBT. Beautiful time just chattin' and laughin' and then getting kicked outta the food court. Went to First Markham to see Abby for 5mins, cause she was too popular. Chilled more with Kwan (solid guy is he) and parted ways we went.
"A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother." [Proverbs 18:24]
SUN: Sunday service, reminded to be STILL broken. It's not a one-time thing but a life-time thing. Lunch with family was sweet. Got a call from Will saying Caleb was back in town...which means...hAlo14 meeting. Went to Montana's with Caleb, Will, Eric, Mike and Gab. Such an awesome time just getting together like the "good ol' days" sharing, updating each other on the happenings of our lives. Really challenged by the discussions we had. Soul searching. Then came home for dinner with family and back to the loo.
"As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another." [Proverbs 27:17]
This weekend really helped put my life back into perspective. In life, it's not all about school, marks, money, material stuff, the current snapshot of life...it's about the bigger picture, the grand scheme of things. how i have lost sight of the eternal causes this term. my BSc degree is meaningless, but my relationships with people is meaningful. the only investing i wanna do now is in people, time well spent.
"And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son." [1 John 5:11]
Thursday, January 26, 2006
wow. third yr biochem is by far the hardest thus far. work piles up like cow manure at a pig's farm in kansas where they bbq chicken. temptation lurks at most corners, even corners five feet away. my patience runs thin, my selfishness arises valiantly, my concentration dwindles, school is making me into a heathen of a student.
despite all of this, i think i enjoy stresses, challenges, obstacles and trials to a point. it makes me wanna push myself to the limit...as t approaches infinity. i'mma gonna make like a sodium-potassium pump and go against the grain and be set apart.
but if i perish, i perish.
"The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away. Blessed be the Name of the Lord." [Job 1:21]
Tuesday, January 24, 2006
Setting Captives Free
J. Stroud
Great and simple men alike have known the horrid chains
Of sin's enslavement and defeat of struggle without gain.
This battle common though it takes daily casualties
And leaves the wounded living without hope of being free.
They walk in silent solitude behind their painted masks
And wallow in their private sins until somebody asks,
"Hey brother, how may I and these who know your desperate plight
Walk side by side with you in grace to end your pain and strife?"
We've known defeat and sorrow in this battle you now see,
But now we spend our lives instead in Setting Captives Free.
Your battlescars and stories of entrapment and of blame,
we know them all, we've lived them all, we understand the shame.
Step up and walk beside us now, we're going the same way
We're seeking life in Jesus Christ and trusting more each day
That He will change our hearts and minds so we might come to be
Ones who pass the truth along by Setting Captives Free.
"For the LORD your God is the one who goes with you to fight for you against your enemies to give you victory." [Deuteronomy 20:4]
Monday, January 23, 2006
Blessedly blessed beyond belief
Housemates
bio-CHEM
PEOPLE(s)
SOL(diers) II
"Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me." [Philippians 3:12]
Wednesday, January 18, 2006
i realized...
...i think the best when i'm on the can. lemme explain. this is probably the only time of the day when i feel the most serene cause it's just me, my bowel movements and a freshly minted roll of toilet paper. during this sacred period of time, i have the least care in the world, and my mind is always clear to solve problems, specifically physics problem sets (involving projectiles and the periodic wave disturbance it causes on the pond). the gentle humming of the exhaust fan provides the perfect zen-like conditions for pondering, wondering and meditating. 9 times out of 10, when i go onto the can with a problem, i exit with the problem solved. so the next time someone asks you to solve a question...just tell them to "can it". har har har.
"There are three things that are too amazing for me, four that I do not understand: the way of an eagle in the sky, the way of a snake on a rock, the way of a ship on the high seas, and the way of a man with a maiden." [Proverbs 30:18-19]
Friday, January 13, 2006
man i'm such a nerdy loser. i can't believe i ordered the 722 series on "Love and Marriage" by Voddie Baucham. and i can't believe that it actually came today.
SOOOOO.
if anyone is interested (whether single, single and desperate, non-single, non-single and wanting to be single) in listening to some Godly teaching on "Love and Marriage", gimme a shout =)
two weeks of school has gone by. nothing exciting happened besides the awesomely visit from Mel, Em, Aids, Sammi and David! and eating grasshopper and maggot.
"Therein lies the power of temptation. You may fear that temptation will be too strong for you in this battle, but temptations honestly have no power at all without our own arrogant question." - Every Young Man's Battle
Sunday, January 01, 2006
Another year has come and by
Joyful tears and painful cries
No matter what happened in the past
In light of eternity it won't last
Make this year the one to remember
All the way from January to December
Let this blessed light radiate within us
Declaring the Way Truth and Life that is Jesus
Amen.
