the scene: eating dinner at SA before night class
present: mikey, shirley, dren, me

..these are not exact words. but whatever.

mike: me, dlo, and sarge might move into a 3 person place. if we do our acronym could be DAM or MAD.

dren: who's the M?

*shirley, mike, and i look at each other in disbelief*

*eruption of laughter*

oh dren :P haha good times.


karina sent me this really good article on dating. thanks again karina! it's good for those of you who are thinking about relationships/dating lately. which is a lot of ppl apparently? considering all the talk that's been happening.
http://www.relevantmagazine.com/life_article.php?id=7300

some key parts i really liked if you don't feel like reading the whole thing (but you should!):

The essence is this: Whether or not you proceed to marriage or breakup is not the determinate factor of the success or failure of the relationship. Finding out whether or not this person is a suitable partner for you is. Many will nod at this in agreement and go about their life, yet many will miss its power.

“What is a successful dating relationship?” A successful dating relationship is one that recognizes and respects the eternal importance of the other person in purity while discovering and accepting your role in that person's life. However, this ability to treat her with absolute purity and respect as a sister in Christ before, during and after the relationship can only be achieved through His power. Relying on our own power and wisdom brings the widespread confusion in dating we currently see in the Church today.

hm. kinda puts another perspective on things.

fun weekend!




















womens cell sleepover at gen's house on friday night!

small group hot pot at jeff's on saturday night!

omg i got 10 hrs of sleep last night. hahaaa.. PTL! *arm leg thrust* :P

today was a BEAUTIFUL day. i took advantage of this fact by sitting outside for a few hours on campus. i don't think i'll get an opportunity to do that again in a LONG time. it was funny because i had lots to do.. but i ended up just doing it outside. the sun shining down.. mm so blessed. i would've stayed longer but the sun was disappearing behind weldon so i lost my source of warmth for the afternoon.

i totally didn't take advantage of the nice weather in the summer. now i'm regretting it. buuut.. i welcome winter too. the snow will be nice.. and white.. and pretty :)

i was reading about godly sorrow today in corinthians. i didn't know it could lead to so many good things!

Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation and leaves no regret, but worldly sorrow brings death. See what this godly sorrow has produced in you: what earnestness, what eagerness to clear yourselves, what indignation, what alarm, what longing, what concern, what readiness to see justice done.
2 Corinthians 7:10-11

He turns mourning into dancing. He turns sorrow into joy :D and SO much more. when you're sorrowful for Godly reasons.. it produces INDIGNATION and ALARM and a desire to SEE JUSTICE DONE. ohhh soo goood! earnestness and concern to live a life worthy of being the Lord's. paul did not regret causing the corinthians sorrow. because it led to their repentance. i guess sometimes we have to endure the hardships so we can get to what God really has for us. something better.. something that is awesome because it's from Him. mmm PTL :)

tiredness is affecting my memory. mostly short term.. i can't seem to remember parts if conversations i've had with ppl recently as well as i used to be able to. this is kind of frustrating. but yet i'm still up. why.

thank God for long term memory tho. i can still remember good times that happened in the years past. shirley and i were at lobe-laws today and remembered the time in first year when we (shirley, dren, and i) celebrated being done exams by getting our eyebrows waxed. hahaha.. at loblaws of all places. what were we thinking?

i love memories. i love reminiscing.. maybe a little too much. sometimes i get caught up in the past. don't want to think about the future. but i'm being forced to. eesh.

time.. slow down a little?

we've been studying psalm 23 for awhile for sunday school at LCAC and today we finished the series. i've really enjoyed it.. who knew SO much discussion could come out just one verse per week? i wish i remembered all of them..

we looked at verse 5 today and this verse ends off with..

my cup overflows. (NIV)
My cup overflows with blessings. (NLT)
my cup runneth over. (KJV)

so we were talking about God's blessings and i asked the question to the group.. can we ever receive SO much of God's blessings that it's too much? the first thing that comes to my mind is that we are such needy and selfish beings that we could never have enough. and from the verse it says my cup overflows. it runneth over. so that means there is so much that there is no more room in the cup anymore. too many blessings for the cup to hold. so.. it IS too much? too much for us to handle tho? hmm.. i don't think so. we can never get enough of God's blessings. and it's awesome because He wants to bless us. if we just let Him. and if i think about it.. my cup does overflow :)

just some of my thoughts from today.

shirley and enoch told me they watched garden state and didn't like it. and it made me question why i like that movie so much? (besides the fact that zach braff is in it :P) enoch always has specific reasons why he likes movies. ernie does too. but i always base my enjoyment of a movie just on.. if i enjoyed the movie. haha. i'm easily entertained.. easily satisfied? i guess my standards for movies are quite low. still.. it makes me wanna watch garden state again and figure out why i liked it so much since so many ppl thought it sucked. i think it has something to do with the quirky relationship between zach braff and natalie portman. hmm.. maybe i'll watch it again tonight.

gah. the semester is almost over.

it was a great weekend enjoying the company of ACF/LCAC alumni! thanks to bri, cho, ken, austin, wendy, ali, and gabe for coming back to visit.. it was so good to have you guys back at HYPE and LCAC :)

picture time..

16 reunited.. aww look at the smiles and laughs. love this pic.

16.. the boyband. nicely done boys.

HYPE! a bit blurry.. but our first group pic of the year!

HYPE counselors.. past and present!

ken, mike, austin, bri.. guys of LCAC.

mike and austin.. roomies reunited.. and quite silly too.

the oldies :P.. oh no i'm an oldie now?!

cho, me, wen.. girls of LCAC!

having them back was awesome.. and sad to see them go again. just another reminder of how things change.. and we all must move on sooner or later.

but ahh can't do it yet.. it's too soon. time's going by too fast. 1st semester is whipping by and in a flash the year will be over :(

things like this are hard to accept. am i the only one who doesn't want to graduate?

yo. wongfu met jin!! harhar.


they have a blog! http://amytour.blogspot.com/

ooOOoo :P

hm. haven't posted in awhile. lots going on.. just can't put it all down.

i added a bunch of ppls' blogs to the left.. including a couple of sg blogs and the yeongs. i hope that's ok with them. let me know if it's not :P group blogs are cooool. keep it up space monkeys and DE (Y).

exec meeting was great this morning. thanks for the awesome breakfast shelbs! and for the yummy yogurt parfait and juice jon! we should have more meetings like that :)

i saw lotsa ppl at the mall today when i was working! i guess lotsa ppl go to the mall on saturdays. the girl i was working with thought i was so popular. harhar :P

like i said lots has been going on.. it's just hard to compile it into a blog. all i'll say right now is God has been SO GOOD this year. aaaahhh. words can't express just how GOOD He is. my mind is boggled. :O keep expecting and believing because He is sure to respond when you do! PTL! (*lowers elbow raises knee*) chris we gotta think of another way to describe that using words. i've been having a hard time haha :P