another glorious day from God... too bad i'll be spending most of today working on my midterm SAS paper...

more to say as i think up stuff.

bob(or any CTCC or former CTCC bud); Eddy Foye's a pretty interesting worship leader. well, from what i got from at mp3.com, i haven't seen any original stuff of his. BUT, he has some interesting interpretations of some popular worship songs. go over to mp3.com, type in Eddy Foye in the search engine, then find his artist page.

click on the 2 songs:
Everything That Has Breath(i say this one's interesting cause you get more soft distortion in this, plus the electric guitar fills; i personally like it; gives me ideas of what i could do next time i help out a worship band, and i won't have to worry about my pedal drying up the batteries this time)
Be Glorified(again, very interesting fills for the bassist; i'm sorry, i meant electric guitarist, i wasn't listening too carefully)

and if you have the current Windows Media Player, i think you might even be able to save the .mp3 files.

i should go to sleep; i'm gonna pull a later again. but i really should finish my SAS journal before that.

hah hah; grace w. talks SO FAST and SO INACCURATELY on aim; it's like a runaway ferrari. (thinks of possible buddy icon project)

oh yeah bob; i finished Ch 8; if you wanna chat sat, i'm open.

.... everything that.... everything that.... everything that has breath the praise the lord....

what i learned this week:

look at jesus when he was crucified... THAT was how much God HATED SIN... i guess it's a new spin on an old viewpoint... we tend to think that THAT was how much God LOVED US, and in many ways, it's true. but this is a new concept i picked up from a fellowship today... THAT was how each of us was going to suffer for our sin... actually worse, cause in hell, you just die an everlasting death for the rest of eternity. so, you were going to suffer worse than 40 lashes in the back, wearing a crown of thorns, mocked, spit, and struck, then carry this large burdensome piece of wood up to a hill where they were going to drive nails through your limbs into the wood and hang you up until you couldn't breathe and die. makes you so thankful that Jesus DID die for us now, eh?

Christianity isn't about what happens AFTER we die... it's about what we get NOW... well, it is partially, but it's more like what we get NOW, and FOREVER. many philosophies that ppl share are something like this:
"so why do you want to work your butt off?"
"so i can get a good job, find a wife, marry, have children and die..."
why wait to feel happiness in your life? do you realize that when you decide to live in communion with God everyday, your joy can start NOW, and never stop?

Christ preached revolutionary thinking; to LOVE others, to submit to others; by submitting you will listen to others and feel free to not HAVE to have your own way. he even commanded children and wives to obey this, like they HAD a free choice. he ALSO told masters to love their slaves... to take care of them, look after them. but we should only submit til it becomes destructive.

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need a mic that can attach to my laptop... it'd be so cool to hear my own songs played back. i've never gotten the chance to record anything and save it. and after hearing a sample of what josh recorded on his computer... i admire him.
what else: gamepad, AC adaptor for flanger pedal, delay pedal?

g'luck wes on your sat2 tomorrow; chinse and math; don't get masturchis'd!

nice memorable quote: my SAS class on thursday had a guest speaker, and our teacher was trying to adjust the wireless, handless mic so he(the guest speaker) could speak. so he went up to him, and said, "let me just turn you on" ok, so i may have a sick mind, but that was funny.

to much to do, too little time: 1 paper due wednesday, 1 prelab due wednesday, a journal fill-in, math hw, and i STILL need to read some in every class, plus i need to find out more about registering for winter!

'k; i'm out, cause i have nothing to say.

i haven't been playing my electric guitar lately... i should start building up calluses on my left fingers again, and learn to play scales... scales are good practice to play riffs.

i have a feeling that halloween isn't all about evil or something like that, or going door to door to get candy. that's about as realistic as the idea that christmas is about a fat man wearing red clothes going around giving out gifts to kids who are good. the real story of halloween is that our deceased relatives come back to visit us(supposedly), and we're supposed to pay them respects. so while i'm not exactly getting into the mood by dressing up and trick-or-treating, i am celebrating this halloween by honoring my dad. i'm so sorry dad that i treated you so badly while you were still alive; i wish i could undo all the hurt i caused you. you didn't deserve it, at least not from your own son. i hope that you're reading this from heaven and accepting my apology. you really were more than the father i thought and treated you for.

just watched Family Guy - Too Sexy For His Fat... the episode where Chris is trying to lose weight; pretty hilarious; i should've kept it; i'm gonna go dl it again. the exterminator scene cracked me up like crazy.

more to add...

saw some guy who had like 10+ ice cream sandwiches trying to sneak out of the cafeteria... a woman caught him, and made him put all the sandwiches back, telling him that she was going to tell his room adviser that he was stealing. not good, not good. i was wondering why he was pulling all these ice cream sandwiches outta his sweatshirt pocket.
there's this good jap restaurant on J street, according to my doom floor neighbor; she said you get an all-you-can eat for 8.99. not bad. but all i want is some bento. btw, she said there was this weird debate at berkeley w/norcal and socal ppl; and the socal ppl said "we take the 5" whereas nocal ppl said "we take 5", referring to driving on interstate 5. i said to her, "well, you shoulve said, 'well, now you're in norcal, so get used to saying the 5.'" then i wondered to her whether there was such thing as a "CenCal," and of course i had to talk about the little incident in CTCC where we were discussing whether there was a CenCal.

yao ming sucked for his 1st game.. NO points and only 2 rebounds. you may say, big whup, it's his 1st game, but compare that to David Robinson, or Shaq, or the candy man, all which did a LOT better than that in their 1st game in the NBA.

yeah, KG...

heh heh... mj missed a dunk again... i mean, i like the guy(when he was still on the bulls, he was fav bball player), but seriously, miss a dunk AGAIN?!? sheesh, stop repeating the 2K2 all star game.

yeah... right now blazers are 20 pts ahead of the lakers at halftime...

(i'm a genius in a dumbass class... everytime i go to Short Calc, i falll asleep, because i can afford to do it, so far, that is)
fred: why do you go to the math lectures, ReCharred?
me: yeah... why DO i go to the lectures?

king david's wise... read my previous blog this day.

had a dream last night... thought the cops were going to my dorm and busting it open cause they thought i had illegally downloaded mp3 files and were putting me to jail for it... i'm sure it's slightly farfetched(since most of my mp3s are legal, cept for maybe 1 or 2), but it could happen. not to mention i think they can retrace all the things you did on your computer, which would reveal how many mp3s i've illegally dl'd and deleted. it's going to make me extremely paranoid; it already did for me; i had a hard time going back to sleep last night; tossed and turned quite a bit. i wonder if God's predicting the future for me.

strikes me how much King David was wise: there's a lotta examples, but here's a scenario i recently stumbled upon; 2 Sam 15:25-26; read it and compare it with 1 Sam 4:1-11. Do you see the difference? The Israelites in 1 Sam thought that by bringing the ark of God into battle, they would succeed; they trusted too much in earthly shelters, thinking that the ark of God was a good luck charm, in essence. Compare that with David's reaction when he was fleeing Absalom; though the priests were bringing the ark of God with him, he told them to take it back into the city, indicating that if God was pleased with him, he would bring David back into the city and let him see it again. But if God was displeased, then David would be ready for whatever God wanted to do. David recognized that God was not a good-luck charm who could be manipulated to do what he wanted. He saw that God was an actual being who could live anywhere he wanted. Now, i can't say the exact reason why God let David live and let disaster fall upon Absalom, but it could have been due to David's wisdom here.
moral of the story for you here? stop trusting in your temporary shelters, stop looking at the temporary, stop looking at the earthly ways to satisfy yourself, and look to the eternal, the heaven-bound rewards.

*sigh* today makes for the 2nd time i MISSED chem... skipping chem and missing chem are 2 entirely different things; i unintentionally skipped chem. and i blame it on the way i've been going to bed lately. do you hear me God? i need help... i've SKIPPED math before, but that was because i was confident enough sitting in the lecture and looking at the homework that i could figure out what it was... i guess God does give to us, but we're used to growing up in a culture that demands immediate results, and often those types of results are only temporary. i need to be more patient; the things that take just a bit longer to wait for are the things that are the most worthwhile in life.

i need self-control... just self-control. i can't control it when i'm playing VF, i lose track of time. and when i turn off the alarm clock, recently i have no incentive to get up, so i just lay back down and that just jacks up my day often. if you're reading this bob, it'd be nice if you pray for me here... also, i haven't gotten around to finishing Ch 8 yet though... i'm hoping to do so by the end of this week; i know i said i was going to finish it last week's thursday... just wait a bit.

what am i made of?
do i get up when i fall?
how bout when i'm overwhelmed?

i think the proverbs i put down under the constant thoughts can give hope to anyone.

http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/305/losing_daylight.html; Looking to that Day sounds really nice.

current list of stupid things we college freshman have done so far(i may or may not have been witness):
-jon falling outta bed while sleeping
-norm sleeping right through his midterm
-norm having trouble falling asleep then making farting sounds to himself and laughing about it
-sleeping through 1 class(i know we've all done that); i've slept through chemistry once(good thing it was only a lecture that i had prepped for)
-me falling asleep daily in my math class and doing fine(in fact i set the curve for the A range for the last test)
-weird photos that josh and norm do
-laura saying that she's been to the UCLA library and can't find the books cause she's a freshman(taken off of lydia' profile)
-mandy being asked if she would like to smoke pot
-me and jon falling asleep right through a possible oppurtunity to visit a davis church

ok, i'm sure there's more, but i'm too tired to write... i know this will carry right over to the next day, since i'll end up waking up, turning off my alarm clock, then wake up again at 10:00; i should go to sleep or this'll happen, i know it already will.

all we need is a spark... will a worship session and mike's talk in december be it? will it be a large enough spark? damnit i hope so.

it came to my mind that i'm not necessarily bored of Davis... it's the fact that i am bored with both my home AND Davis. so, that means me and jon actually need to explore around, instead of biatching every day. i sense a trip to sac...

sniff, giants lost. if any socaler goes "SO-CAL!" tomorrow, i will lose it. i'm tired of socalers acting like they're on top of the world. not to say that all socalers are like that... this guy named stanley on our dorm floor is actually pretty cool, and doesn't do any of that weird stuff.

i should bring my VF2 to Davis, and get a good gamepad for a laptop, or buy CS... nothing to do. the only disadvantage of doing this is i might get totally sidetracked from studies and worship... mwhahah... VF2 Lau juggle combos...

the only arcade games i play around in Davis is Tekken 3(Nina's awesome in that game), Area 51, sometimes MVC2, and Raiden(the raiden machine at Davis is on free play, so hey, it's a free game). i miss VF4 Evo...

something to try the next time i play Area 51 here in Davis; reload by putting my right index in front of the handgun and shooting; the gun only detects if i'm NOT shooting the screen, so in this way i could be able to fire more often... i saw a tip like this before, well, i'll have to try it myself... heh heh, doing this w/the automatic shotgun could be very nice.

the Man Show Boy is pretty funny.

ok, enough of this rambling... i need to do some hw... except i hear some saxophone going off in the building...

some blogs that i meant to put down for previous dates, but didn't have access to high-speed internet(well, there's one disadvantage to being not in Davis, if any)

10/26/02

deep thinking time:

Now i'm gracious that i actually had the oppurtunity to come back for the weekend and did; Mike, Wes, and Jerm were all there at church, and while we didn't really do anything, it was Mike's plan to talk about his experiences and what he wanted to pass onto us college freshmen as well as Sam and Tim that was the kicker. i was thinking, God, it's so good that Mike's here telling us this. anyways, he basically told us that so many ppl jump into relationships or want a friend who is a different sex. but at the age of around 18-21, you're probably not doing it for marriage, so for what? and if you seriously think about it, would you really want to be involved in something which you know is going to end? would you be comfortable telling your friend, i want to have a relationship with you just to see what it feels like? no, of course not. the fact is ppl are searching for the temporary things, and they think that that's all there is to life: work your way up to get money, get a lover, have children and die. the problem with ppl today isn't necessarily that they don't believe in God, it's that they don't take the time to sit down and deeply think.

here's something that might enforce this thinking; think of the cross as our relationships with each other, the 4 basic relationships of a christian: the 2 side extensions are spouse/lover and peers respectively, the one on top is your leaders, and the bottom are the ppl you lead. now if you concentrate too much on your lover when you're still developing, you're ignoring 3 aspects that would greatly influence the way you are, and what God wants you to be.

and believe me, God, i am so thankful for what you told me through Mike tonight. thanks for the message. thank you for everything you gave me and how far you've brought me. now help me not to forget this, ever. give me the strength, willingness, and love of you that you want me to have. help me to love worshipping you and communicating with you, and to never let this desire die down, but to continuously feed it the fuel needed for it to keep burning brighter and brighter(like the proverb that i noted beforehand). amen.

10/27/02

technically, this should be 10/26, but i'm writing this very late, so i guess that's the irony of it, if any.

anyways, actions speak louder than words. why am i repeating this cliche? because the presence of God is not reflected in how many things we spew outta our mouths. it's reflected in how i think everyday when i'm NOT reading my bible or playing my guitar. it's reflected in whether i take a few quiet moments each day(whenever i can) to think of what i'm sensing and it's connections with God or what he's trying to tell me. in a sense, it's like bob said once, "God is most real in your everyday life." i can tell everyone that on my profile that i say that God is my #1 priority in my life, but unless if i prove it to you by how i act, it's nothing more than me just being another present-day Pharisee. isn't that why so many ppl get turned off by Christians? they're in your face, telling you this and that, then they lose their lover and lose it. or adversity comes down in their face and they cower before it. which brings me to another thought...

what makes you think God can't do what he wants? ok, so he's merciful, but don't you think he knows so much better than we do? so we get pissed when we fail our midterm or get a B or something. or when we lose our lover. and so we biatch about it, thinking why, why, why... i'll tell you why; God knows better. and who can tell God, what have you done? God is God, as Steven Curtis Chapman put it, and like so, can we tell God what to do? no... of course not. of course, not to say i'm above any of you, i struggle with problems like these a couple of times, since i DO have my dreams and such. but if we feel that it should only be about us, you have forgotten to try to see things the way God would see it. don't ever doubt God's strength; what makes you think his arm is too short?

CTCC youth group is crumbling apart... i sense it. in fact, i sense impending doom, drawing closer and closer each day in just about everything... i need to have a word w/God...

i have a feeling we're all growing and maturing with wisdom... mike feels that the next time we gather together, we're probably going to be talking about DEEP things, rather than shallow things such as farts and CS. i feel it too; even though some of us(like me) have kept deep thoughts under rapts, maybe it'll all just come out soon.

finally, i close with this thought... we don't resolve problems in the world by b***hing about them; we solve them by actions... it doesn't matter whether they're small actions or large actions, but if we keep at them, they will make a difference. you may not see the difference you make, the results might not even be reaped in your lifetime, but they WILL be reaped. don't tell me what you want done... SHOW ME.

be a good sport when i play internet reversi against ya. plz.

REALLY funny Family Guy episodes:
British Pub(too many spoofs to list; the King of the Hill spoof cracked me and jon up)
Screwed the Pooch(this one's the most funny Family Guy i've ever seen)
And the Weiner Is(some sexual references, but it'll make you crack up)

(to self): Reach! Reach! you have to start setting a regular sleep schedule, like 11:00 to 6:30; if you don't, you're seriously going to eff yourself to hell everyday!

i am very sure that God flows around us, and that he knows everything. sometimes, i wonder if it's even necessary to tell him what i want or am thankful for, because he knows what i'm grateful for or what i need. so why tell him? you don't need to thank him or tell him what you need; not like God forgets. not like God's sitting in heaven going "did i do something wrong," and we need to go, "no, God; you're doing a great job" and God goes "that's GREAT!" but i see it like this: God created us in his own image; in that sense, he wants company as much as we do. that's why; he wants to converse w/us everyday, in every aspect.

1st priority to God is worship, the 2nd priority is servitude... worshipping IS the way to follow God. so when i let ya pervade my soul, it's all good.

will be back for the weekend

Terminator 3's coming out July 2K3... i dunno whether it'll be worth it... part of me tells me it's going to be a rehash of the past stuff, but yet, i dunno... a lotta us guys have grown up on Terminator, so, oh man.... at least now we get to see John Connor as an adult and the future world. but now the cyborg against the humans is... a female? heh, when i brought up that tidbit to jerm, he told me she was probably sexy, so we'll all know the REAL reason jerm goes to see T3; for the rest of us, though, heh heh.

oh yeah, i finally found out who the band behind the Pepsi Blue commercial... Sev. the song? Same Old Song(monk mix). i don't think they're christian though; checked the site; no references to God, Jesus or Christ. still, it's a nice, creative song. it's closer-sounding to Linkin Park than most of the other hip-hop/rock hybrids that i've heard, but still just not it.

just came back from another fellowship, called Real Life. my impressions? very similar to the College Life(which was lovingly referred to as the "white fellowship" by me and jon for a bit), in that great worship band(drummer, percussionist, pianist, bassist, 2 guitarists, the worship leader, who is one of the guitarist, had about 5+ fx pedals on the ground next to him, and had an acoustic and electric guitar to work with.), good speaker(guy reminded me of a white, old Joe Lin, whatever that means, ask me if you don't get it), and a LARGE mainly white fellowship. UNLIKE College Life though, no one talked to me AT ALL, and it seems their emphasis is more upon God than fellowship(while you should be concentrating on God, the point of a fellowship is to get together and build each other up), but then again, they are also known as "Campus Crusade," so maybe that explains it. while they have good worship, i feel that delving into this group would cause me to look more into spreading the word than growing and keeping others accountable.

YYYEEEEAAAA... giants won game 5, 16-4. all you need to do now, is clean up on game 6 and then IIIITTTT'SSSSS OOOOOOVVVVVVVVVAAAAA! (and don't get fresh with me, all you ppl who are from SoCal)

heh heh... also just had my 1st cream-sicle in a long time... those things are a real treat. i've forgotten how good they are(now i'll have to grab more the next time i frequent the cafeteria).

if i'm hungry because it's 2 hours past my usual chowtime and my stomach's acting up, i won't complain, i'll take the pain, and remember that it will help me to build myself back towards God. it will help me to remember my dependance upon God, then i'll go eat. besides, it takes about 40 days before your body actually starts feeling the pain from hunger... if you drink adequate water before then, it won't matter(although you'll lose a buncha weight before then i think). all you ppl who don't act like this is true, go read Celebration of Discipline by Richard J. Foster, and look into the Discipline of Fasting.

i am really pissed at the way some ppl who play the Internet Reversi on windows behave... while i get some really good comp against others around the world, some ppl just leave the game without saying anything when they notice that i'm probably going to win... nothing, no "good game," or anything. i just played(i might comment, a REALLY competitive game against) this intermediate chinese player who just left when he(or it could be she) saw that i got 1 corner. nothing, just left. like being a bad sport or something. auuugh, you piss me off. if i weren't about halfway around the globe and so cool-headed on the outside, i would've smacked you upside the head just about now.

mwhahahah.... jon fell out of bed while he was sleeping! i think he rolled over too much and just fell right out. i wasn't wearing my glasses, so all i heard was a loud noise similar to dropping a huge block of metal onto the ground from 5ft rather recklessly. my comments when he actually told me what happened during the night?
"good thing i don't have 20/20 vision, or i would've laughed my ass off the rest of the night." ;)
now how did other ppl react? most of the church guys gave a nice hahah, jerm and norm said i should've taped it, laura gave an "awww, poor jon", lewis said it funniest; "what a loser."

keep your eyes open, in order to see dif perspectives from different sides of the picture... (lemme just rest my eyes for a bit, i just got up to the sound of my jarring alarm clock)... oh shoot! it's 7:30 AM! i'm late for chem! (augh, screw it, i already took notes)... and now i find out i didn't study, well, enough for that test. @#%#$%$^!!@?!!?!?

(some recent Davis dormroom conversation between some guy named Brice and me and Jon)
Brice: so you doing anything thursday night? we got bible study, it'd be awesome, come along
Jon: (casually) oh lemme see... (a moment passes by)oh... (casually)i got to go to the World Series
hahahah....

it is currently 10:38 PM desolation time, and my head SO FRIGGGIN HUUUURRRTTTTSSSS!!!

just got my test score for Chem... 83. not too bad, except the problem is that i really wanted a 90+ and i felt for the amount of effort that i put in as well as the problems on the test i thought i really knew my stuff... what the hell is going on? and don't tell me that it's curved... that was the RAW score... ?!?!? i hope i find out soon why the heck i got such a messed up grade(i really hope it's an error)... geez it blows when you really think you know it on the test, and then you get your grade and it's totally 20+% lower than you thought. do TAs dock off 13+ pts on a single question?!?

keep your eyes open... always look at perspectives from both sides of the picture. that's what i'm learning.

"what makes what goes down, get back up?"

and as i struggle not to be the hypocrite, i have to keep telling myself, "Reach, don't eat your own words." auuuughh, so hard. i think i have to talk to God sometime.

(some recent Davis dormroom conversation between some guy named Brice and me and Jon)
Brice: so you doing anything thursday night? we got bible study, it'd be awesome, come along
Jon: (casually) oh lemme see... (a moment passes by)oh... (casually)i got to go to the World Series
hahahah....

i think i'm going for the delay pedal.... both the chorus and phase pedal are essentially modified effects pedals... maybe just get adaptors for the stereo flanger and wah that i have, so i won't have to use batteries.

just listened to Delirious- Deeper, the '99 Mezzamorphis album version.... that's so NIIIICCCCEE... so full sounding. i guessing the use of a wah. you HAVE to listen to this! BIG encouragement to get a wah pedal, dist pedal... fender... full band ;)

should i sign up for IM vball? should i? 5'11 ppl don't get too many spikes...

Hitler Show on Family Guy's hilarious!(don't worry you pacifists... it's nothing racial)
Kool-Aid Man! mwhahahah!

list of notable Proverbs I wrote down(so far), as well as some comments:
4:18-just sounds awesome; i will look to blue horizons, anyone? ;)
9:10-fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom- nuf said
10:25-the righteous have what it takes to stand a storm
11:2-pride leads to disgrace, but humility leads to wisdom
11:4-wealth's worthless in the days of doom, but righteousness delivers
11:28-see 11:4; just another way of saying it; don't trust in your riches
11:30-fruit of the righteous=tree of life; remember this? the tree of life seen in the beginning of time which Adam and Eve DIDN'T EAT?
13:7-better to pretend you're nothing when you have everything than vise-versa... is Soloman telling us to lie? or is he hinting at humility?
13:8-see 11:4; another way of saying it
14:9-make amends for sin... fools mock it, but goodwill's found amongst the upright
14:12-what seems a right way to man... leads to death
14:21-God commands us to love our neighbor, so if we despise those, we sin... we are blessed if we are kind to the needy though
14:26-A God-fearing man has a secure fortress... so it protects his children
14:27-Fear of the Lord=fountain of life... turns a man from the snares of death
15:3-God's everywhere, he sees everything
15:4-A tongue that heals=tree of life(think of the tree Adam and Eve DIDN'T EAT), and a deceitful tongue crushes the spirit

chorus, delay, or phase pedal? one thing's for sure... no octave pedal... found out you can't play chords on it w/o messing up the sound! i would've meant to buy that for uping my chord sounds, but i guess that's a no-no. that's what the other pedals are for(btw, i'm still figuring out if a phase pedal's basically a flanger pedal except more options)

ugh... arm cramps from chem... prelab AND lab report, both of which need to be written instead of typed...

i think i should hit the SNOOZE button on my alarm clock when i'm getting up... i tend to shut off the alarm, then say to myself, just lay down for a few more minutes, and of course, i'm back asleep, except this time i've got nothing to pull me back up... cept maybe jon's alarm clock. but he gets up a LOT later than i do. it should be only after i've gotten up that i turn the alarm off.

currently it's 11:10 PM here in davis... time for a shower, then get back, and maybe jam some before i hit the bed... g'luck for all you guys who know me who are taking a midterm or a test or quiz or something this week... i'll hold up a prayer for all of ya.

note to self; NEVER go to sleep past 1:00; it's already pushing my ability to get up; i should really go to bed around 11:30; me and jon missed an oppurtunity to visit some church here in davis due to that. at least i visited some new fellowship during friday; AACF. comparing it CTCC youth group when i was a freshman... small size, ignorant ppl to the newcomers, good worship attitude.

i should write down the funny stuff i remember from family guy; one episode:
Peter: so you want me to whack a guy? off a guy? whack off a guy?
another part of the episode:
On board navigation computer: There is a fork in the road... (russian accent)In Russia, road forks you!

another episode(which was FUNNY)
Chris: is dad mad at me?
Lois: No, of course not... now get some cereal and meet me at the 10 inches or less line... ITEMS!

hehe... and Mintos

I am tired of byron style food in the Davis Cafeteria!

yeah... whatever... worship tomorrow... with me and God!

thank God it's over! 1st midterm over! and not only that, i have a REALLY GOOD FEELING that i did well... thanks a lot God, i owe you one...actually, i owe you more than a couple ;)

jon went to berzerkeley to visit some friends, while i'm still stuck here in davis doin my own thing... how boring of me. but then most of the ppl from MVHS who went to berzerkeley are nerds, ppl who i wouldn't care about. so desolate on saturday here in davis.

what i think so far of the fellowships i've gone to:

College Life: well-intentioned, great worship band, friendly, but possibly over-friendly(they literally won't leave you alone)
ABSK: just-right friendly, good speaker, but a bit large, and i still don't know about how well their worship is
AACF: think CTCC size... somewhat friendly, good worship attitude, but they didn't really talk to me, aside from the get-together times and this one girl who was a bible study leader... ahhh, feels just like CTCC youth group when i was a freshman... heh heh.

i think my song's lyrics need tweaking... figures, you can't figure out the lyrics and expect ALL good guitar fills to go along with it.

Giants: 1 game, Angels: 0

btw, while i was walking around today in davis, i noticed some recycle trash can with a small hole in it: on the top, a label: "cans, ass, plastic." ok, so the ass was really glass, with the gl part off, but it was so funny to me... think about it... small hole, etc. made me crack up for a good 15 sec while no one was luckily around... how childish of me.

yeaaaa.... 1 last test, and it's math! study? are you kidding? i could fall asleep in that class and still do ok(which i do often, heh heh)!

you won't believe the free stuff you get from on-campus christian groups; what i've gotten so far... 4 new testaments(i've been running past the gideons guys for about 2+ times, and got a paperback one(!?!) from an on-campus christian fellowship), "The Case For Christ" by Lee Strobel, 3 christian CDs(2 are multimedia, one is a sample of an underground music group, one is a "witness CD" and the last one is a collection of some of the common christian artists), a weird yoyo, a drawstring mesh bag, tons of candy/munchies, and 2 free dinners.

steak dinner yesterday... great.

phil hartman's hilarious, so are peter and stewie griffin.

one man pretends to be rich, yet has nothing; another pretends to be poor, yet has great wealth -proverbs 13:7
the fear of the lord is the beginning of wisdom, and knowledge of the Holy One is understanding - proverbs 9:10

chorus, delay, or phase pedal?
(after looking at the online prices, i am so freaking shocked; ~$100/pedal?!? ack; worship isn't true worship unless you sacrifice something, but oh man...)

paper down, 2 tests to go this week; i feel a trip to the library coming... today. and i need scantrons.

haha... snl... w/phil hartman(his voice's so funny when he's trying to act funny)
-may i introduce you to the classic b**ch electric shaver... but when i say classic b**ch, i mean it in a good way! it not only shaves, it pulls and tangles your hair up... or you can get the classic lesbo electric shaver!
mwhahahahahah! ;)

in SAS1, we were discussing environmental problems as well the current UC strike going on and one guy brought up the thought of "what can we do to help? i dunno where to start." and i replied, "well, we can do either big or small actions." we don't need to do anything big; there are ppl who choose to picket, but we can just do everyday small decisions, like actually eating all the food that's placed on our plate, instead of throwing some away. it doesn't matter whether the actions are big or small, they'll add up, and make a difference. just like how we can't see the difference our misdeeds make in the short term, ditto with our good deeds; we might not even be able to see the fruits of our labor in our lifetime. but it all makes a difference. and who cares really how the other countries act towards us when they don't realize that we HAVE helped? do hungry ppl need to really know where food is coming from?
and that's how i view our ministry of christianity; we don't need to get on the streets and preach to make a difference; the way we live our lives, the kindness we show to others, the gratitude we give, it all adds up. we may not see the fruits of our labor in our lifetime, we may even get insulted and falsely accused for not helping others, but do the hungry really need to know who helped them, as long as someone from God brought them back to him? do they?
(maybe SAS1 IS interesting... still a lotta work though, but i'm getting there)

guess how many free pocket bibles i've gotten from gideons international at davis so far ;) come back to me with an answer

http://www.lpfan.com/main.php3?page=video; currently like looking at the Linkin Park live videos of:
Conan: 1 step closer
House of Blues: Papercut
House of Blues: Pushing Me Away