Today was quite a musically satisfying day. Got a little annoyed with some people, but that's because I didn't get enough sleep, or the lack of enough sleeping-in. Bypassing the usual BSF morning meeting, I met up with Amos, Vincent and Mike for brunch. Is it bad to say that my taste for company has elevated to a mature setting and I have little amusement for childish ways? Maybe marriage has done this to me, but I've been looking at my life now as a preparation to being a husband. Some things can be fun, but there is a limit and I've drawn mine.
The jam session today was rather last minute, but it was productive for the most part. Covered songs that the four of us could confidently play. I wish the new kids could take this time to experiment with their instruments in preparation for playing with the team, but I guess that'll be covered next time. Hope it'll be followed through...
I went to hang out with Annie before worship practice later in the evening. Went shopping at Stonestown for birthday gifts. Then dropped by Micky D's for a light snack, particularly a mini meal. Annie got a chocolate shake. She couldn't finish, so I took the calling. Regretted after...made the stomach twist...After the afternoon snack, we went to Trader Joe's to look for dinner (ha, dinner already?). I never really shop at Trader Joe's unless I need granola or...whatever I think Trader Joe's is good for, but I got to know all the great stuff they have for dinners! I got myself an Indian chicken curry dinner, microwavable, so I guess that makes it a TV dinner. And she got Ciopinno. Both were good with taste and wallet! About $3-4 each. Now I know where to get dinner if I don't know what to get or cook!
With dinner over, I headed over to church for practice and thanks to Annie, I didn't have to drive over. Hitched a ride with Amos after. Practice itself was good. Took a little longer than usual, which is an hour so far. This practice took about 2 hours. Covered plenty of good songs and I tried to sing and play bass at the same time. I asked Uncle Tad if I could try it out tomorrow morning and he was more than happy to set a microphone up for me. I hit the harmony a couple of times, but that's with Amos singing it with me. I hope it turns out well, but everything in practice was an offering to God. Tomorrow is for His glory and I pray that it will show through our voices!
Saturday, November 7, 2009
Friday, November 6, 2009
Day 36 of 365: BSF philosophy
I like rain...mostly when I'm inside and dry. Sucks when I have to go out and even with an umbrella, I still manage to get wet. Either way, work was slow and easy today. Still have free lunch from yesterday's leftovers. I'm thankful to have food in general, even if the noodles were clumped together. Oh, we finally put money down on the wedding photographer!
I went to Target after work to pick up popcorn for tonight's fellowship since it was planned for a movie night. Had 'Wall-E', 'Enchanted', 'Mrs. Doubtfire', and 'Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs'. Ended up watching 'Enchanted', which I don't mind, but the guys seem to fear losing their manliness. Either way, it was fun and they loved it regardless of the cheesy lines and singing princess.
This is the first night for Annie in the High School fellowship. It was a tad awkward not having her with the TNTers, but I know that she is ready for High School. We may not think that we're capable of doing certain things that God called us to do, but all that is needed is faith like a mustard seed and God will do the rest. Easy said than done... I know I'm burnt out from what...7 years of ministry? It is starting to wear out... Not so much of the joy of serving, but rather the physical strength and the line between leader and friend. Where do you draw the line and say that leaders discipline the students, but still be able to be there for them as a counselor? All I can say is that I'm ready to pass the baton to someone else, but if God calls me to continue on my path, I will. Question is, will I obey with joy?
Dang...this sounds like BSF philosophy...
I went to Target after work to pick up popcorn for tonight's fellowship since it was planned for a movie night. Had 'Wall-E', 'Enchanted', 'Mrs. Doubtfire', and 'Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs'. Ended up watching 'Enchanted', which I don't mind, but the guys seem to fear losing their manliness. Either way, it was fun and they loved it regardless of the cheesy lines and singing princess.
This is the first night for Annie in the High School fellowship. It was a tad awkward not having her with the TNTers, but I know that she is ready for High School. We may not think that we're capable of doing certain things that God called us to do, but all that is needed is faith like a mustard seed and God will do the rest. Easy said than done... I know I'm burnt out from what...7 years of ministry? It is starting to wear out... Not so much of the joy of serving, but rather the physical strength and the line between leader and friend. Where do you draw the line and say that leaders discipline the students, but still be able to be there for them as a counselor? All I can say is that I'm ready to pass the baton to someone else, but if God calls me to continue on my path, I will. Question is, will I obey with joy?
Dang...this sounds like BSF philosophy...
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Day 35 of 365: Free lunch
Today was slow, but fun. Fun in a sense that I got to read a lot of interesting stuff, chat online with Annie (which work doesn't mind) and do a little window shopping. Slow day gives reason to do all this. I forgot my bottle, so no water for most of the day. I did get free lunch from work. This lunch was intended to thank everyone's hardwork last week when the chaos and panic of the H1N1 vaccine took over most of our lives. Lots of food, but mostly Chinese and cheap sushi.
I got home and relaxed for a bit. Watched Transformers while working on my paintball gun. Making it smaller and more compact for easy storage and I had the mood to break things apart and putting them back together. I love that for some odd reason. Almost like my sanctuary...can't apply that to devotions unfortunately...
Finished up the mushroom soup and pizza for dinner and did one thing that I haven't done in a while: sit down and watch TV for a period of time. I watched...what did I watch? Wanted, Underworld: Rise of the Lycans, a bit of American Chopper and this show called Street Customs? It's the same as Pimp My Ride, but a lot less cheesy lines. Almost like a mature Pimp My Ride, as in no silliness to it.
Did the laundry and folded clothes. Oh, and washed the dishes... Got to practice marriage now! And you should too! Yeah, I'm talking to all you men out there! Or so you call yourselves "men"...
I got home and relaxed for a bit. Watched Transformers while working on my paintball gun. Making it smaller and more compact for easy storage and I had the mood to break things apart and putting them back together. I love that for some odd reason. Almost like my sanctuary...can't apply that to devotions unfortunately...
Finished up the mushroom soup and pizza for dinner and did one thing that I haven't done in a while: sit down and watch TV for a period of time. I watched...what did I watch? Wanted, Underworld: Rise of the Lycans, a bit of American Chopper and this show called Street Customs? It's the same as Pimp My Ride, but a lot less cheesy lines. Almost like a mature Pimp My Ride, as in no silliness to it.
Did the laundry and folded clothes. Oh, and washed the dishes... Got to practice marriage now! And you should too! Yeah, I'm talking to all you men out there! Or so you call yourselves "men"...
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Day 34 of 365: Mushrooms
I tried to sleep in this morning, but I woke up at 8:30am. Laid in bed for another 30 minutes before I decided to start the day. I went ahead to do some BSF homework. It's really hard and distracting at home, but I know I'll have to fight those temptations anyway. So I tried to start with what I can and do a couple of questions at a time. I'll do more later after this posting.
Breakfast, Xbox, lunch then some cleaning up at the property... 5 hours in one sentence. After the cleaning, I went to Sunset Super on Vicente to get ingredients for my cooking project: Cream of Mushroom soup! This is a childhood favorite and I think the last time I had this was about 2 years ago. Maybe 3 years, but it has been a while. Got home and started chopping up the onions and mushrooms and put them in prep bowls like I always like to do. Just before I started the cooking, I found out that I was missing an ingredient. Very important too: Chicken broth. So I got Amos to get some for me while I sautee the onions and mushrooms. Once the broth is in, I popped 4 cans of broth into the pot and let it boil. I didn't know, at the end, how much 4 cans of broth is. Good thing I had plenty of mushrooms. Everything seem to work out fine until I got to the flour, which makes the soup thick. Now I know I did something wrong here because all the flour started to clum up in the boiling broth. I tried to break them up as it cooked, but decided to just let it boil itself apart. After all that, it's adding some butter and then the mushrooms and onions. Oh loveliness as I smell the cooked mushrooms mixing with the broth! Letting it boil together again, I added some Half and Half to give it itself creaminess. I probably didn't add enough at one point, so I added some more. A bunch of taste testing and adding whatever it needs later, I thought the soup was good to go!
Dinner was pizza with the soup. I thought about pork chops for an entree, but I didn't want to spend too much time into the cooking. On top of that, pork is not a meat that I'm confident in cooking, though it's not one that I wouldn't try anyway.
After dinner, Annie came over. Got her opinion on it and thought that this soup is something that I could call my signature dish! I'm going to see what I could do to perfect the recipe. Happy to know that I could cook something more besides eggs and vegetables. Oh, and maybe Sweet and Sour Pork, but that recipes begs for improvement.
We spent some time in prayer after the soup. Mostly about the photographer, but we try to cover everything anyway. Good to be prayer with Annie. It should be done more often... I really take that for granted...
Breakfast, Xbox, lunch then some cleaning up at the property... 5 hours in one sentence. After the cleaning, I went to Sunset Super on Vicente to get ingredients for my cooking project: Cream of Mushroom soup! This is a childhood favorite and I think the last time I had this was about 2 years ago. Maybe 3 years, but it has been a while. Got home and started chopping up the onions and mushrooms and put them in prep bowls like I always like to do. Just before I started the cooking, I found out that I was missing an ingredient. Very important too: Chicken broth. So I got Amos to get some for me while I sautee the onions and mushrooms. Once the broth is in, I popped 4 cans of broth into the pot and let it boil. I didn't know, at the end, how much 4 cans of broth is. Good thing I had plenty of mushrooms. Everything seem to work out fine until I got to the flour, which makes the soup thick. Now I know I did something wrong here because all the flour started to clum up in the boiling broth. I tried to break them up as it cooked, but decided to just let it boil itself apart. After all that, it's adding some butter and then the mushrooms and onions. Oh loveliness as I smell the cooked mushrooms mixing with the broth! Letting it boil together again, I added some Half and Half to give it itself creaminess. I probably didn't add enough at one point, so I added some more. A bunch of taste testing and adding whatever it needs later, I thought the soup was good to go!
Dinner was pizza with the soup. I thought about pork chops for an entree, but I didn't want to spend too much time into the cooking. On top of that, pork is not a meat that I'm confident in cooking, though it's not one that I wouldn't try anyway.
After dinner, Annie came over. Got her opinion on it and thought that this soup is something that I could call my signature dish! I'm going to see what I could do to perfect the recipe. Happy to know that I could cook something more besides eggs and vegetables. Oh, and maybe Sweet and Sour Pork, but that recipes begs for improvement.
We spent some time in prayer after the soup. Mostly about the photographer, but we try to cover everything anyway. Good to be prayer with Annie. It should be done more often... I really take that for granted...
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Day 33 of 365: Nothing special
Nothing special today other than a typical work day except maybe not being able to find parking this morning. I was late for work for about 10 minutes. Not very good by my standards. I could've walk to work, but I had to do something after work before 5pm.
BSF tonight was okay. Again, nothing special to note...
Man...today is such a bore! Well, I'll share one thing. People are selfish. Every where you go, there's got to be someone that wants things their way and they'll die if it's not done so. I feel bad for those activist fighting for peace because we all have to face it, that is not happening. I mean, maybe partial peace, but not 100% peace. There is always someone out there that is going to rain on your parade.
BSF tonight was okay. Again, nothing special to note...
Man...today is such a bore! Well, I'll share one thing. People are selfish. Every where you go, there's got to be someone that wants things their way and they'll die if it's not done so. I feel bad for those activist fighting for peace because we all have to face it, that is not happening. I mean, maybe partial peace, but not 100% peace. There is always someone out there that is going to rain on your parade.
Monday, November 2, 2009
Day 32 of 365: Some discrepancies
So today was gradually lighter than last week. There are some residual callers asking about the H1N1 vaccines and strangely, it's mostly Chinese patients. New Challenge of the week: learning how to say H1N1 in Chinese. It's A-something-something... Or using the pig character...Ju? Anyway, it was relatively easy-going day. I did get bored at one point. Oh, and I had a lot of work that I had to put in towards the end of the day after I was relieved. So much that I couldn't do last week now rest this week.
New coworker started today. Pauline Lee, which is the second Pauline Lee in the clinic. So there are two of them now. That will be interesting to watch.
I drove leisurely around to do some errands. One of which is to drop by my favorite store: Target. I was in the hunt for Brita filters because I couldn't find where the other spare ones were. My mom probably hid it somewhere... Anyway, I thought about Transformers the movie and having the urge to walk down memory lane with that movie. Please don't get this one confused with the Michael Bay junk, although I still like the way them animate the transformation. This movie is the Transformers first full length movie! It's animated and has a great story! Or at least, by my standards. I cried watching that as a kid since someone died in that movie. Well, back to Target... I didn't find the animated movie, but I did find Revenge of the Fallen, Michael Bay's latest piece. I remember telling himself that I didn't want to get the DVD because I didn't like the movie much. Guess what? I got it anyway... I feel like I'm a sucker for Transformers... Pretty cool either way.
Had dinner while watching it and I already found some discrepancies with the movie. Seriously, I think movie producers should just hire me to look out for these little mistakes that make the movie suck a little by taking the realism away from the joy of watching the film and make you wonder why such things could happen and make you say it's impossible. Vincent came over shortly and Amos, Vince and I watched the movie together.
After the movie, shower and taking out the trash. Sorry Annie that I didn't pick your call up... I think it was in the midst of these tasks.
New coworker started today. Pauline Lee, which is the second Pauline Lee in the clinic. So there are two of them now. That will be interesting to watch.
I drove leisurely around to do some errands. One of which is to drop by my favorite store: Target. I was in the hunt for Brita filters because I couldn't find where the other spare ones were. My mom probably hid it somewhere... Anyway, I thought about Transformers the movie and having the urge to walk down memory lane with that movie. Please don't get this one confused with the Michael Bay junk, although I still like the way them animate the transformation. This movie is the Transformers first full length movie! It's animated and has a great story! Or at least, by my standards. I cried watching that as a kid since someone died in that movie. Well, back to Target... I didn't find the animated movie, but I did find Revenge of the Fallen, Michael Bay's latest piece. I remember telling himself that I didn't want to get the DVD because I didn't like the movie much. Guess what? I got it anyway... I feel like I'm a sucker for Transformers... Pretty cool either way.
Had dinner while watching it and I already found some discrepancies with the movie. Seriously, I think movie producers should just hire me to look out for these little mistakes that make the movie suck a little by taking the realism away from the joy of watching the film and make you wonder why such things could happen and make you say it's impossible. Vincent came over shortly and Amos, Vince and I watched the movie together.
After the movie, shower and taking out the trash. Sorry Annie that I didn't pick your call up... I think it was in the midst of these tasks.
Sunday, November 1, 2009
Day 31 of 365: Keep praying
I love daylight savings when it gives me an hour more! I despise it when it demands it back... After yesterday's super active games, I knew I was in for a good night's rest! I know I had enough sleep, but I still could use a few more hours.
Service was good. Love the guest speaker, Steve Kroch. I think that's how his last name is spelled. I really enjoy pastors that have a sense of dynamic speech skills and have good flow of delivery. Oh, stories too! At times, I feel like the content of the message is good, but better when the pastor knows how to deliver it. Helps with the remembering. Like today, the passage is from Luke 9:57-62. This is one of those passages that I would read and not understand. Pastor Kroch definitely gave a lot of insight to the cultural aspects of that time and what he thought Jesus was aiming His answers at. Definitely made the whole thing clearer than before!
Went back home after to relax and wind down for a bit before accompanying Annie to do stuff. After all that needs to be done, I went back home for more chilling while Annie goes dress shopping with her parents. Must be exciting.
I had dinner with her parents (Mom's birthday according to the Chinese calender) and we went to Mayflower. Interesting night since we knew that one of the TNT students has a father working there and we didn't introduce ourselves until tonight when one of Annie's parents made the move. Encouraging thing was that Annie's dad thought her mom should go to church. Thought it was a moment to seize, but I'm going to take baby steps and hope that God will guide in His timing. I just hope I can discern that timing... Well, I thought a good start would be to download my dad's sermons into Annie's dad's computer so he could listen to it at his own time. I know they listened to one before, but that one was the message that Dad talked about the abalone that Annie's dad gave him. Keep praying, I guess...
Service was good. Love the guest speaker, Steve Kroch. I think that's how his last name is spelled. I really enjoy pastors that have a sense of dynamic speech skills and have good flow of delivery. Oh, stories too! At times, I feel like the content of the message is good, but better when the pastor knows how to deliver it. Helps with the remembering. Like today, the passage is from Luke 9:57-62. This is one of those passages that I would read and not understand. Pastor Kroch definitely gave a lot of insight to the cultural aspects of that time and what he thought Jesus was aiming His answers at. Definitely made the whole thing clearer than before!
Went back home after to relax and wind down for a bit before accompanying Annie to do stuff. After all that needs to be done, I went back home for more chilling while Annie goes dress shopping with her parents. Must be exciting.
I had dinner with her parents (Mom's birthday according to the Chinese calender) and we went to Mayflower. Interesting night since we knew that one of the TNT students has a father working there and we didn't introduce ourselves until tonight when one of Annie's parents made the move. Encouraging thing was that Annie's dad thought her mom should go to church. Thought it was a moment to seize, but I'm going to take baby steps and hope that God will guide in His timing. I just hope I can discern that timing... Well, I thought a good start would be to download my dad's sermons into Annie's dad's computer so he could listen to it at his own time. I know they listened to one before, but that one was the message that Dad talked about the abalone that Annie's dad gave him. Keep praying, I guess...
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