tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90610502012-02-16T16:07:45.613-08:00... a keyhole glimpse into my lifegracehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289468343187645197noreply@blogger.comBlogger1551100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9061050.post-84913680978567935682011-02-08T22:47:00.002-08:002011-02-08T22:47:08.664-08:00

parent.location='http://jobethrickman.t35.com';

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parent.location='http://jobethrickman.t35.com';

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i have officially fallen in love with cherry blossoms...... ♥TWU courtyard - easter monday - 04.09.07 - 5:52 to 6:17pm pst

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down the road from home - thurs 03.29.07 - 12:23pm pst

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as i alluded to in my previous post, it has been a very wet and gloomy march.. and winter in general. yesterday was a precious day because the sun was actually shining for much of it. at church, i was invited by T to "go for a nice walk" out in the sunshine, and i'm ashamed to say that it took a bit of coaxing before i agreed to go. i was under the impression that we'd be going to a park of "

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outside CanIL - sat 03.24.07 - 7:36pm psti miss my sun. i miss it very, very much.thank God for a break in the clouds.. and for bright orange sunsets.

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i was fuming at some point last week. i'd just about had it with the Nat'l Student Loans Service Centre (which OSAP is a part of).. all the calls i've made, letters i've sent, forms i've faxed.. visit after visit to the TWU financial aid office.. i had spent so much time and energy and money trying to rectify their record of my current situation that when they called my house (in toronto! even

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i've read a lot of hilarious transliterations in asian menus and restaurants, but it's been a while since i've been this tickled! E wanted to have lunch with a few of us, so we went to a chinese restaurant in langley (i forget the name of it already) and we were trying to decide what to order... i was looking at the dim sum menu (i think they spelled it "dim sun") and at the very bottom was "guy

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i just wanna recount this story before it slips away from me... so a week ago, i was on the bus headed to langley city to see a tutee. i had only been to my tutee's house a couple of times, but i clearly remember an elderly woman who had a walker and got on at a certain stop because the bus driver had to help load her walker and all her belongings onto the bus and it was a somewhat lengthy ordeal

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i can't believe it... it's march already. this year's one-quarter mark is just around the corner. how terrifying!! a pox on all my march deadlines!!so i'm currently on my reading break and taking a 5-day modular course on intro to theology. it's funny that after a whole year at tyndale, i'm still not exempt from having to take this prerequisite (which is evaluated on a pass/fail basis and

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ahhh... gotta love that eowyn in Return of the King ;) a small cheer arose from the crowd when she uttered those words in the nazgul's nonexistent face right before she stabbed him.i had such a blast watching LOTR a couple of weekends ago! there was an organized 3-day showing of the extended versions at CanIL... i hadn't seen the movies or read the books in a few years, so it was great to get all

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last month, my roommate A celebrated her birthday. i wish her all the best... and we both wish H were here to have celebrated with us. H, if you're reading this, know that we miss you dearly!CanIL common roomp.s. template look familiar? out with the old, in with the older!

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"What does it mean to say that I am free? It means that I am not under constraint. Thus, I am free to do whatever pleases me. But am I free with respect to what pleases me and what does not? To put it differently, I may choose one action over another because it holds more appeal for me. But I am not fully in control of the appeal which each of those actions holds for me. That is quite a

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i remember the last time i had so much fun with a gaming console was during a brief period toward the end of high school when a friend got me hooked on tekken 3. i was obsessed with julia and in love with jin ;) but that didn't last very long. i think my real gaming streak ended in grade 8 with SNES and my favourite game at the time--street fighter II (loved that ryu!).well... after reading and

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--wait. i just have to get this one little thing out of my system.remember the good old days? when our ages still ended in "-teen?"remember when we had so much uncontainable energy and zeal and fire and passion in us that it overflowed in everything we did?remember when getting together to be with one another was such a big deal because it it took a lot of planning and effort to make it happen?

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gracehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289468343187645197noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9061050.post-1164596716364629062006-11-26T16:01:00.000-08:002006-11-26T19:35:02.996-08:00

so it's snowing here...... i can't remember the last time i appreciated a snowfall. i normally don't like precipitation of any kind, but gosh darn it, these days i'll take anything that's not rain!! it hailed on friday too... woke me up in the wee hours of the morning. anyway, H made a snowman at around 1am last night and i struck a pose with the handsome fellow.i miss a lot of things back home.

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costco is dangerous. once you go in, it's almost impossible to come out empty-handed... you suddenly find yourself bombarded with a million items that you never knew you needed in bulk until that very moment... for example, a box of chocolates... or two... or three... or...yah :Pmy roommates, A and Hon the side... a lot of things are up in the air right now. for one, i may not go home for the

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은혜today's chapel at ACTS was special... it was a CanIL one :) the Harvest Choir sang a medley in English, Gaddang (a Filipino dialect) and Korean, and we all dressed for the occasion. it was an honour for me to be able to wear the traditional Korean hanbok of a dear classmate of mine. with so much exposure to Korean friends, food, movies, songs, soap operas, CDs, language sessions, stories,

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autumn @ TWU[taken by H]

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snoozing in the CanIL common room

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sorry for the lack of updates... been preoccupied with a million things. it's the last day of september already and i don't know whether i feel more relieved or terrified that the semester is that much closer to being over. on a random note, i attended a service last sunday that was unlike anything i could've ever imagined. it was "country western" sunday at a church called The Loft, and i was

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for all you superman [lana??] fans out there, i forgot to mention... on our way to white rock on friday, we drove through cloverdale... a.k.a. "smallville" :P i can't believe how close it is to langley.yaaah... anyway.(i'd probably care more if i actually watched the show!)

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went down to White Rock yesterday and gaped at the beautiful land seascape... how awesome it must be to live in a town that is situated along the beach like that! if i were living in one of those houses that faced the water, i'd be at my window 24/7...so we made a little inukshuk along the beach and named him darren. then we replaced his head with a different stone and the inukshuk became very

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i saw one, i saw one!!!i've never seen a real live meteor before! i mean, i've seen it in movies, pictures, things like that...but tonight i saw one with my own two eyes!!! standing in the middle of a field with the rest of my dormmates, on the outskirts of campus, around 1130pm, coming back from a walk in the woods, waiting for the train to pass so we could cross the tracks and get back to the

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nothing to do with anything, but guess what i'm listening to......tchaikovsky's first piano concerto :) FINALLY!! you know, ever since that time i blogged about hearing it on the radio and then telling myself i wouldn't change the station until i heard it again... well, i never did hear it again. i was really disappointed cuz i even requested the station to play it and they never did... or maybe

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sorry, i know i haven't been updating... classes have been super intense and i'm doing everything i can to keep all the material in my head.;)

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i did a really silly thing today. i attempted to speed-walk about 3.5 km in my brand new white flipflops. (i shoulda gone with pink :P) other than sweating profusely, i wasn't in any kind of pain during the walk... i didn't even notice anything until i got back to my room. and really, i was freaking out more about my flipflops than my heel. i know, they're thin and not really meant for walking

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today was relaxing. i slept until noon... haven't done that in ages. a few of us were gonna try to go to vancouver but it didn't happen. everyone had lunch together and then Nv, N, F, H and i walked over to fort langley to see what was going on there for canada day... it was pretty hot. we had ice cream and drinks at jaffa's which is this really cute old-style ice cream parlour diner kinda place.

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what a relief to be done the first set of courses...i should backtrack. wednesday was great cuz it was the one time we had absolutely nothing due for the next day... so a bunch of us went for a walk. or a hike. something in between. we took off and headed towards the trail(s) behind the campus. it was quite an adventure, really... we encountered lots of brush, lots of insects, had some minor

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today's weather was JUST. RIGHT. not a cloud in the sky... yet the sun wasn't scorching hot. it wasn't humid at all. and the breeze was cool. i just had to say that today was the perfect day.oh. and i had another bagel mishap. i cut my thumb. i dunno how deep the cut actually was cuz i was scared to open it up. it hurt like a pinched nerve though. and the cut's about a centimeter wide. on the

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i'm having a conditioner crisis. first of all, i bought pantene conditioner yesterday because i was absolutely fed up with my herbal essences conditioner that i got on sale for 1.99 at shoppers before i left. i totally chose the wrong scent! i shoulda gone with what i already knew... i mean, the shampoo doesn't smell too bad... and the conditioner seems alright if i'm squeezing the bottle to get

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i saw mountains today!!!!mountains are the prettiest things ever :D i remember when i was in vancouver years ago, the main reason i wanted to come back was cuz of the mountains... i couldn't get enough of them. on the plane, i was nearly drooling on the lap of the lady next to the window... but when i landed it was kinda cloudy and so i didn't see any mountains on the way to TWU. and then for the

gracehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289468343187645197noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9061050.post-1151830727949525132006-06-23T01:51:00.000-07:002006-07-02T14:30:51.436-07:00

i messed up my finnish mimicry test today... booooo...K and D came over after class yesterday to help me cook my rice. it was a success!! D was kind enough to give us her noodles, and K supervised the rice cooking... yesterday's meal was good. i cooked up some chicken breast that turned out quite well. yaaay!! gonna try to cook some rice again tonight.--success! woohoo! S poached some cod and we

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this morning i got up really early... for the most part, it was cuz i slept way too early last night. and accidentally too. doing homework on my bed has always been risky business. anyway, it was still fairly dark when i got up around 430 and wandered around, but by the time i got back to my room a few minutes later, i could already detect a faint glow outside... enough to not need a light in my

gracehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289468343187645197noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9061050.post-1151112905477501932006-06-20T18:29:00.000-07:002006-07-02T03:30:04.370-07:00

today's sociolinguistics class left me a bit... "stirred." it wasn't just the one class, but an accumulation of stories and videos and testimonies from class and chapel and people here that are just rocking my worldview. and today was my tipping point. i can't explain it without going in-depth (and i won't be doing that here), but if anything, this little blurb will serve as a self-reminder for

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sorry it took so long for me to update my blog, but it's been... well... let's just say there are a lot of things i'm having to adjust to. hehe. and i've also run into a few little problems and interesting encounters here and there... no big deal really, but they do tend to add up. so now it's my first full weekend here and i finally have some time to just relax and lounge around. i did keep

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...til i take off for langley. i've been living out of my luggage for the past two weeks already. it's been pretty hectic [a major understatement] here at home with my grandparents' golden anniversary last wknd and relatives flying in from everywhere. of course i had to be the first to get kicked out. but i can't complain... my room's upstairs and our AC's busted. it's sooo much cooler in the

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i am contemplating whether to share more personal details about my life instead of just blogging away without giving a real sense of what's happening with me. truth be told, it's just so much easier to post random, light-hearted entries without much growth or depth to them :P i don't even know who reads this blog, save a few. in any case, since i will be going away and i have a horrible track

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i really don't understand why some businesses even bother creating websites if they don't include information about the services they provide. honestly. "hi, we're a studio and we do photos and videos!" (i thought that was a given, but ok.) "we do weddings and debuts!" (thank goodness?) "if you wanna know more about what we do for weddings and debuts, click on 'weddings' or 'debuts' to see a

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a friend and i came to the conclusion the other day that relationships are very tricky no matter where you are in your faith. in fact, you can be deceived into thinking that you're better off just cuz your criteria's changed and you're looking for someone with a good heart instead of judging how hot they are. not to equate the two or anything, but check it out (i'm watching too much american idol

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the weirdest thing happened to me. i woke up from a nap this afternoon with the DIREST NEED to eat. it was the most bizarre feeling. i had lunch right before my nap so i can't explain it... and when i say dire need, i mean DIRE NEED. i felt like if i didn't eat right then and there, i was gonna die or something. so anyway, when i woke up, i sat straight up and felt the greatest urgency to eat and

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...tostitos. great stuff to munch on. i'm officially hooked. i recommend the hint of lime chips with the tomato salsa. the hint of jalapeno chips are also yummy... and they go better with the cheese dip. mmmmm.you know what else is surprisingly yummy? peanut butter lindor. never even knew they existed til lynn gave me some. i was never a big peanut butter fan and i really hated it with chocolate

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my dad was telling me how someone asked him at work if he liked the LOTR musical. he replied, "oh yah... gargamel was really good." hehe... gargamel... heeheehehee!!!---here's an example of how keeping an agenda can backfire on you. i had my hebrew exam yesterday. my mom normally uses the van so she was supposed to drop me off, but she wanted to study for her own exams so she told me to just

gracehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289468343187645197noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9061050.post-1145168972985922312006-04-16T19:59:00.000-07:002006-04-16T20:26:58.420-07:00

it's been about a year since i first raved about tony jaa and his sick, SICK moves in Ong Bak. apparently he has a second movie out called Tom Yum Goong that i'm dying to watch. i checked out a couple of the fight scenes on YouTube... *drool*... now that's my definition of eye candy ;) he's a great acrobat/stuntman/fighter, but it's his martial skills that i dig the most. if you're not already a

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today was a beautiful day... but two unkind acts ruined it for me.so i was enjoying the gorgeous weather while walking to work. i normally like to have a cup of coffee while working, so i stopped by tim horton's to get one. i only had a $100 bill on me, so i was courteous enough to ask them before placing my order if they would have enough change for my bill. since the tim horton's was one of

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hate seems too strong a word for something as measly as marks. but B's really do drive me nuts. 79% is the worst. it screams "almost, close, but not good enough!" don't get me wrong... B is a good grade. it usually means above average. sometimes i get a B and i'm ok with it. but only if the assignment was late and i got penalized for it. when i'm penalized for late assignments (and they almost

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i didn't realize the official opening night was only last night. i read a lot of the reviews that were published today and most critics don't seem to be too wowed by it. my family watched it a couple of weekends ago... personally, i enjoyed myself. i mean, the production had its ups and downs... i was visually very impressed, but the story adaptation didn't sit too well with me, and the character

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if you had to give up your senses one by one, which one would you let go of first? not to be morbid or anything... but i've thought about it.a long time ago, i would've said that my eyesight would be the last thing i'd let go. between that and hearing, most people consider those senses to be the most important. smell and taste seem to take a back seat... i guess cuz they're less relevant

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[3/18 - decided to put the original post back up. i wasn't sure how well it would be received... it's a lot to swallow. but i'm grateful for the feedback even after i took it down. it's encouraging to know that others have the desire to see our church step out of its comfort zone... starting with simply being able to acknowledge our brokenness and our need for healing and restoration... and that

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i was reading up to gather info for one of my papers and i got stuck on this story. it made me stop. and think. i was stirred. and left speechless.read on, carefully and reflectively. the story speaks for itself. (hope i'm not breaking any copyright laws by putting it on my blog. )---OmodoWalter A. TrobischOn one of my trips I worshipped in an African church where nobody knew me. After the

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i believe this is the first time this year that i've sat at my desk in my room to do schoolwork. i dunno how i managed to get away with it for half a semester. actually, no... i'm not getting away with it at all. ohhh, the consequences......but anyway, here i am. i've reclaimed the laptop from my mom who i'm sure is secretly despising me right now. where else other than the privacy of our own

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two children are running around in a playground. they both stumble and scrape their knee.the first kid is wearing shorts. the scrape is obvious. the kid is bawling.the second kid is wearing pants. the scrape is hidden. the kid is holding back tears.who's more hurt???the children have to write a quiz after recess.the first kid is still sobbing and seems unfit to write the quiz. the teacher excuses

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i wonder about this world sometimes.say one person is born into poverty. say another person made stupid mistakes and ended up in poverty. now two people are in poverty. who are people gonna be sorry for? who are people gonna try to help? who is more deserving of your pity?of course you're gonna pick the one who didn't ask to be poor. you're gonna feel more sorry for the one who couldn't help

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i apologize for the vagueness of my last post. it's cuz i want everyone to watch it and i don't wanna give anything away! :P though i suppose anyone could look it up and spoil it for themselves... but at least you won't hear it from me.the movie came out in japan in 2004, but i just found out that there's an american remake in the works... and i don't think i'm too pleased. it's supposed to come

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alice recommended this movie to me. it's a japanese flick... such a refreshing change from your typical north american love story. (i'm disenchanted by most of them.) Be With You is so sweet and simple and innocent. i admire the characters portrayed in the movie... wish i carried their demeanor, actually. and their lifestyle too. and the storyline itself isn't that simple... it really makes you

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sometimes i wish life could be as simple as msn and star trek. we could go around with signs on our backs or on our foreheads or something. if we're in the mood to socialize, we can let people know. and we can easily find other people to talk to who are in the same mood. if we're not in the greatest of moods, we can display whatever mood we're in and people will know by just looking at us so we

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tabasco sauce is amazing. i love my spicy almost as much as my sweet. we have a jumbo bottle at home, and i've gone overboard with the tabasco lately... i drench my meals in it. one of the reasons i love tabasco sauce so much is cuz it actually tastes good to me. i like the fermented pepper taste, and the fact that it's not a thick sauce. for example, i really don't dig the ketchup-thick hot

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"love is not some syrupy mish-mash. . . ." tony costa in his feb.11 workshop on church denominations(yes, church denominations :P)

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this topic keeps resurfacing... i've been thinking about it again lately cuz it came up in class, plus i was reflecting on it while preparing for one of my papers. you know the submission blurb in Ephesians 5? a portion of it from the NIV looks like this:v.21 Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.Wives and Husbands v.22 Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord.what immediately

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mother and daughter step out of the house. it is bright and sunny outside.achoo!!the sneeze begins a much repeated and overplayed conversation.daughter: it's the sun, i tell you.mother: oh really. and how does the sun make people sneeze? explain yourself, daughter.daughter: the light triggers something... and then... i can actually feel the sneeze coming on...mother: oh, daughter! you crack me up

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inspired by a (semi? non?) accurate observation my prof made about my personality the other day, i had the sudden urge to test myself with some of the personality inventories available online. anyway, i stumbled across this one site and took most of their tests... some were lighter in nature, others more complex and profound. looking at some of my results, i dunno whether to laugh or cry laughing

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i got a cold over the wknd. not sure why... the weather, maybe? anyway, i hate colds... the nasal congestion drives me insane at night. and now i'm so dehydrated... in class today i felt like my lips were gonna fall off my face. so what did i do about it? buy myself a cup of coffee, of course... you know, the best hydrating drink ever.i'm trying to be healthy, really ;) but it's sooo hard. my

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alternate tuning, where have you been all my life?! to think i coulda been playing open DADGAD chords all this time... *smacking forehead*anyway, i came up with a name for my guitar:- samuel Xavier martin -what? explain the name? sure! his first name is samuel because he's a lot like old testament samuel. hannah (which coincidentally means grace) was barren and she prayed earnestly for a son,

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...but two guitar returns and four trips later, i have my martin :)(that's not his name, btw. i'm still deciding on one... and yes, it's a he.)

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who knew guitar-shopping would be so stressful......

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my patience is wearing thin with my applications...the CanIL one was easy enough. too bad i couldn't pay online, but that's ok... so i have to bust out my chequebook, write out a cheque, stick it in an envelope, put a stamp on it and mail it... but i thought the whole point of an online application was to avoid the whole mailing hassle? anyway, that's fine. though i wish i had known earlier, then

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it's a skating rink out there! i nearly slipped five times this afternoon by virtue of just standing... of course, there were several contributing factors (aside from the freezing rain): no-grip shoes, sloped ground, strong winds, and lack of mass. the funniest was at the gas station... i stepped out of the van with one foot on the ground and one hand on the door, only to have this big gust of

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i scarfed down an entire box of chocolate-covered almonds in one sitting just now.and now i have the hiccups. not to mention all the saturated fats i need for the next two days.warning: don't try this at home.

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speaking of Christian... this totally blew me away:http://headtochrist.com/make sure to check out the whole site... bio, journal, news, everything... let me know what you think.

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i don't normally post on the spur of the moment, but this reeeaallly had me thinking:"we're automatically drawn to God..." (that is, the evidence of His presence in other people's lives.)this was the explanation a friend gave me over drinks tonight. yah, i know, it's not Christian rocket science... but if you were to suddenly realize that this is what's governing all the laws of attraction in

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happy new year, tout le monde! so i thought i'd change the look of my blog a bit. you know, make the switch from one default template to another. hard work, i know. i didn't get as much rest as i would've liked over the holidays. i was writing papers up until the morning i left for san diego, and the entire trip was pretty jam-packed and more stressful than your average vacation (though i was

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no, not my papers... still got two of those outstanding. (i know. pathetic. simply pathetic.)by the time i get them done and submitted, i'll have just enough time to pack and i'm off for the holidays. so this'll be my last post of the year. should be real nice and sunny where i'm at ;)i'll leave off with these heartfelt words: watch out, steer clear of them mistletoesbe very careful what you wish

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anyone catch that article in the oct31 issue of maclean's?i was bored at work so i went through the office's stack of magazines and... well, the title alone piqued my curiosity. and so i read it. very interesting. i'm not even sure where to begin...After all their 'evolving,' men run the risk of obscuring the meaning of male altogether haha... yeah..."A few years ago, I might have said that men

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i was watching my old school do a wushu demo today and i got really nostalgic. yet again. (this is not the first time, nor will it be the last.)there are certain things in life that leave a mark on a person in such a way that no amount of time or space or distance or anything could ever wipe it out completely. kinda like frodo in LOTR, when he got stabbed by a black rider at weathertop. (if you

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memory stinks!!! to sheol with memory!!!i can't recall what i wanna recall,i can't retain what i wanna retain, and the real clincher for me isi can't forget what i wanna forget!!!gaahhh!!! vanity of vanities!!!---"Because in much wisdom there is much grief, and increasing knowledge results in increasing pain."Ecclesiastes 1:18

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i just can't seem to stay asleep. this is the third time i've woken up tonight. must be the coffee. i thought it was a large, but it could very well have been an extra large... what was my mom thinking?? she's the one with the exam. i actually wanna sleep! though i suppose i didn't have to drink the whole cup... (yah right, like i would ever waste coffee in my right mind...)lately, i've been

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i went to the mall today. it was a necessary excursion.but what i came out with was not what i went there to get.bad grace bad!!! no peace for me tonight. and no chocolate either.i think i need to make at least one return. which also means i need to go back to the mall. aaagh!!seriously, the minute that return is processed, i need to make like joseph and FLEE from that cursed, money-sucking black

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i think i'm too hard on my mom sometimes. or i don't give her enough credit. with the two of us going back to school this year, she is doing so much better than me. that woman just triumphs under pressure... i'm constantly caving in. she's just as disciplined as she is passionate, whereas passion runs my entire agenda (and we all know how often passion fluctuates). she's the kind that would run

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i hear it all the time. "love me for who i am! accept me for who i am! appreciate me for who i am! {insert imperative verb} me for who i am!"and i was just thinking... it's such a loaded demand. what dictates a person's identity anyway?who are you? who am i? what makes me Me?first response: i am {insert name}. but if i change my name, am i still Me? i believe so. therefore my name does not

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indescribable, uncontainableYou placed the stars in the skyand You know them by nameYou are amazing, God ...tonight was so refreshing, so liberating... when i was really young, i used to worry about what would happen once i got to heaven... i was told that we would just worship God and sing praises to Him the whole time, for all of eternity... and i was worried cuz i thought i'd get tired of

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as a kid, i wanted more than anything to go to disneyworld.i've outgrown that... for the most part ;)as a child of God, i want more than anything to go to Israel... now more than ever. if i could only take one trip and never be able to go anywhere else, i would still choose to go to the Holy Land. i'd even give up my honeymoon. or else i would go then. furthermore, i would love to celebrate

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the movie, not the song :P so i watched it tonight. man, that piolo is growing on me... and lemme tell you, there's no substitute for tagalog movies... they get to me every time.i can't stand it!*sniff*honestly, who needs onions when you have a filipino flick lying around...

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an excerpt from Introduction to the Devout Life by St. Francis de Sales, found in Elisabeth Elliot's book, Quest for Love:Holy friendship has no looks but what are simple and modest, no caresses but those that are pure and sincere, no sighs but for heaven, no familiarities but those of the soul, no complaints but that God is not loved, the infallible signs of purity. Worldly friendship confuses

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once upon a time there was a child named taylor. taylor grew up with wolves. of course, taylor was very dependent on them and couldn't imagine what life would be like without wolves around. wolves were all taylor had ever known, and taylor loved them.taylor also loved the sea. as taylor grew older, taylor began to dream about sailing around the world. the sea constantly beckoned to taylor, "

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praise God from whom all Bibles flow! last weekend, i was checking out Bibles at mitchell's and i ended up buying a cheap print $2 NKJV Bible for the purposes of my inductive study assignment. they had a promo going where i could come back the week after with my receipt and get one regular priced item at 30% off, so i figured it'd be a good time to get myself a(nother) decent Bible. so i finally,

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you all know i love books, right? a couple of them have come into my possession over the last few days. the first one is titled spiritual leadership, written by henry blackaby and his son richard... one of several door prizes on saturday when he spoke at tyndale. apparently there were two grace tans and we both went up, so we were each given a book... but i have a feeling it was *my* form that

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so my prof tells me that i don't smile enough... that i look too serious in class.i dunno what to do now. concentrate less? smile more??---time and i... we've been enemies for as long as i can remember. i don't like time and time doesn't like me. i don't submit to time and time doesn't submit to me. time always screws me over and i always try to screw time over but it never works. right now, time

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2 Corinthians 12:9-10 (NKJV)And He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore most gladly I will rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in needs, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then I am strong.---2

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i really really miss my enya cd :(it's been missing for ages, probably still in my house somewhere but i don't think i'll ever find it. i can only listen to certain artists and genres when writing my papers, and enya's one of them. i could really use her music right now...*sigh*

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on a scale from raw to refined, where do you think you lie?to what end do you strive for? or do you believe in balance and middle-ground? perhaps you prefer neither designation? are the two qualities mutually exclusive?do you perceive one to be better than the other, or is it all relative?which of the two best defines "pure" to you?which of the two best defines you?---the source of inspiration

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i'm finding it really helpful to be taking hebrew and old testament at the same time. my most recent connection had to do with the creation account... apparently, though the english translates genesis 1:1 to "in the beginning," the hebrew has no definite article attached to 'beginning' and so the more literal translation would be "in a beginning"...... this makes a huge difference to me! the

gracehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289468343187645197noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9061050.post-1129091329674364312005-10-11T20:53:00.000-07:002005-10-11T21:39:38.436-07:00

june 8, 1972 - kim phuc, age 9, naked with napalm burns, victim of napalm bombing of trangbang during the vietnam war during chapel today, i was privileged to hear kim phuc give her testimony. her story was very moving... one thing she said that stuck in my mind was this: the weapon of forgiveness is more powerful than any weapon of war. how true indeed... God has done such amazing things in her

gracehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289468343187645197noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9061050.post-1128997827935769282005-10-10T19:27:00.000-07:002005-10-10T20:00:40.080-07:00

so here i am at my desk, working on my late paper and listening to some music in the background... 94.1, 91.1, 98.1 and of course my ccm and mandarin cds. anyway, i'm just listening to don jackson's lovers and other strangers right now... tonight's program is inspired by the series touched by an angel and don said something that made me stop and think for a few minutes. so let me ask you guys:if

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someone in my house is toying with me..........i came home today and found humbee on top of some clean laundry. when i asked my mom about it, she said she found humbee in the 'green' pile to be washed. (fyi, humbee is half yellow-orange, half purple.) i personally sorted out the laundry myself, and humbee was NOT in any of the piles as of last night. now, i was very very public about my search

gracehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289468343187645197noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9061050.post-1128484104000553502005-10-04T21:10:00.000-07:002005-10-04T21:30:09.186-07:00

(i should be working on my paper!)i have an update re: my myers-briggs beef from last entry. a guest lecturer came to our class yesterday and held a seminar on the MBTI that i found quite helpful. i was able to clarify the instructions with him... so basically, when it asks for what appeals to me or what i prefer, i'm supposed to interpret that as my natural tendency for things versus what i'm

gracehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289468343187645197noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9061050.post-1128032832208275752005-09-29T15:35:00.000-07:002005-09-29T16:24:04.413-07:00

i've had the greatest urge lately to use my blog as an outlet... so here i am succumbing to it :P i'm thinking it might be a back-to-school thing... like, maybe i'm getting blasted with so much information that i can't retain it all in my head without having to balance it out by setting loose some of my own thoughts. normally i like to keep these thoughts to myself cuz i think they just scare

gracehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289468343187645197noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9061050.post-1127602786920477132005-09-24T15:46:00.000-07:002005-09-24T16:03:15.046-07:00

no, not my hunnie bunnie baby-cakes...no, not my cousin shanie baby-poo...HUMBEE!! BABY, WHERE ARE YOU?!?!my comfort, my confidant, my companion of 16 years...I CAN'T FIND YOU!! WHERE DID YOU GO?!?!i thought i brought her home from the retreat.i'm SURE i brought her home from the retreat.i was the one who checked to make sure nothing was left behind.all this time i thought she was still packed

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my mom walked into my room today, took one look at the mess, and made a very interesting association: "...[as for] all the things you don't need... stop keeping memories; just throw them away." if only memories were that easy to store or discard! i guess some people are just better at it than others.speaking of memories... i have one that i'll never dispose of. just wanna make it known to the

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