February 2012
1 post
facing disillusionment.
dperng:
To eat, to breathe to beget Is this all there is Chance configuration of atom against atom of god against god I cannot believe it. Come, Christian Triune God who lives, Here am I Shake the world again.
— Francis A. Schaeffer, No Little People, Introduction
January 2012
3 posts
What a day - 2
My roommate and I are sitting in the room producing and directing our own laser show in the dark. He got this super powerful red laser to gift to one of his high school teachers, and it also came with various kaleidoscopic lenses that give off trippy patterns. When we’ve thoroughly entertained ourselves in shining the laser on every crevice of the room, we decide to expand.
We (or I) decide...
What a day
I’ll talk about it later.
Music and Massage
Back in the old days (when I stilled played violin regularly), I would sometimes come out of my parent’s master bedroom (where I practiced for acoustic reasons) with complaints of upper back pain. After lounging around for a while on the couches, I would find myself back in the room practicing vigorously. After all, the music must go on.
Unbeknownst to me - but skillfully detected by my...
October 2011
3 posts
Let us seek the greatest pleasures
Let us seek the Lord!
I’ve finally (at last) truly realized that heaven is quite a decent place to spend eternity.
Martha
The following is taken from the story of Jesus raising Lazarus from the dead.
Martha: “Yes, Lord, I believe that You are the Christ, the Son of God, who is to come into the world.”
…
…
Jesus: “Take away the stone.”
Martha: “Lord, by this time there is a stench, for he has been dead four days.”
<paraphrase>
Martha: You are God. You are...
September 2011
1 post
“When I am with my friend, me thinks I am alone, and as much at liberty to speak...”
– Seneca, on friendship
August 2011
2 posts
This is how we were raised: weird.
Sis: I'm taking the MCAT tomorrow!
Me: You're screwed, man!
Sis: I know!
...
Sis: I renamed Smurffy. His name is now Pascal.
Pascal: *waves*
Me: What? You can't do that. Actually you can, whoa! He's smart now!
July 2011
2 posts
Death of a Tumblr post.
beingbrianhuang:
Reblog it, and it will live on.
Like it, and you will remember when the time comes.
Do nothing, and it will cease to exist.
I got yo back brian huang.
hehehehe
WatchThis is proof that:
1) I am weird.
2) I cannot say thank you to a webcam properly on the 17th try.
3) I am weird.
I hope you enjoy it too. Cheers!
June 2011
6 posts
6 mice died today. Among them was Larry.
He squirmed until her strong hands pulled back his tail and head. Seconds later, ketamine entered his body and he succumbed to its soporific power. She picked him up and regarded him with slight interest, as one regards a salt shaker before pouring out its contents. With deft motions, she lay him on his back onto a metal baking pan, his tiny paws still sticking straight up as if rigor mortis had...
“The real test of being in the presence of God is that you either forget about...”
– C.S. Lewis
The second sentence.
May 2011
3 posts
World ending today, guys
If the world were to end today, I would be regretful.
I guess to make it more relatable - if I were to die today, I would have wished to live life differently in the past. I would have lived it more to the fullest.
Off to recweek!
Farewell, scrub
I can’t believe this.
Daniel Tan left for Houston at 6:40 pm. We said our goodbyes. We hugged.
Around 10:20 pm, I get a Skype call. From whom?
Yep. Scrub.
Here’s a poem for you:
Daniel Tan—
where do I begin?
you are the friend
who sticks closer than kin.
(space)
May you go
in the grace of God
in power and love
in Armor shod.
Daniel, I still can’t...
Goodbye, violin
I officially quit violin today.
I have played almost everyday for the past 14 years. Some days I liked it. Some days I didn’t like it. Tomorrow I will not play violin. The day after I will not play violin.
My hands will lose their touch. They seem too ingrained with that familiar caress. But I know when they pick up the violin once again, it will be quite strange. They will be strangers...
April 2011
3 posts
It’s not too late for an Easter post
I’ve got this compulsive urge to write about my Easter experience. This post will be very honest and somewhat personal. It will be about spiritual matters.
I have a terrible urge to just type right now “CHRIST IS RISEN!” in all caps with an exclamation point. Yea, like that, but I can’t say that was my attitude Easter morning. I was certainly awake that morning and refreshed as I got out of bed....
March 2011
2 posts
Did you feel the mountains tremble? Did you hear the oceans roar? When the people rose to sing of Jesus Christ the risen one. Did you feel the people tremble? Did you hear the singers roar? When the lost began to sing of Jesus Christ the saving one. And we can see that God you’re moving A mighty river through the nations And young and old will turn to Jesus Fling wide you heavenly...
The Daniel Tan Story
This is a story about a scrub. He’s also my friend, incidentally. Okay.
So me, bruce, and daniel are entering a classroom about 2 minutes late. the professor has already begun speaking. and as we enter, he says, “oh, here are the front row folks!” he’s a cool, funny dude with a big white beard. so we laugh and move to our usual places at the front of the classroom.
but i...
February 2011
1 post
I'm a thoughtproject stalker.
Note: thoughtproject is an open blog that was started at Westwood High School as a social experiment.
I love reading the posts on thoughtproject. The writing is always excellent. It’s excellent, because the writing is so real, so uninhibited. The writers write about who they are, not who they want people to think them to be. Many times we write not our deepest thoughts and struggles but...
January 2011
10 posts
Reflections on El Salvador and faith
This has been on my heart for a long time.
My heart was not in the right place when I went to El Salvador. It was focused upon myself instead of Christ. I saw it manifested in my thoughts and actions. I was supposed to be there to love, to help; instead, I made it for my own self-gain.
I did not really love the people there. I had no heart for them. When I saw the children, I did the checkups...
Sign
A few months earlier, I saw this custodial sign posted above a toilet in a private restroom:
“We aim to please; you aim too, please.”
Apparently, they were so irritated at this problem that a few days ago, I saw this new sign posted on the door.
“This is a WOMEN-ONLY restroom.”
Dia-rrhea
When I was reading my med terms book, I saw the definition for the prefix dia-: across or through. A few minutes later I saw the definition for the suffix -rrhea: discharge.
Through discharge.
But, now, I can add the prefix post-, which means after. And the suffix -ia, which means condition.
Postdiarrheaia!
Best pick up line ever
“I bet you $20 that you’re gonna turn me down.”
So I was walking to the restroom when I read this on someone’s door. And then, on the toilet seat, I was literally thinking, “IT’S SO FOOL-PROOF.”
And then I realized the girl could just say “NO DEAL, GET OUT.”
:(
Diarrhea
Me: I have diarrhea
Sis: Me too
J Shie: It must “run” in the family.
Updates on El Salvador
Asian Restaurant
Waterfalls
Pride in volunteering
Leslie is so cool
Forgetting to sign out on Tumblr and going to Skype with Melissa Wu.
Reflections on El Salvador
I remember one house we visited to examine the children, a pair of twin girls 12 years of age. We were led into a patio sort area and before we could get our introduction over, the mother invited us to sit down. So we did. After some small talk, she suddenly began to cry.
She cried because her husband had died 5 years ago and because her son had left home 2 years ago and had never come back, had...
From El Salvador - all details
I’m typing away in my hotel room. The bed is comfortable and the air is comfortably warm. I’ve just taken a shower and I am clean. Even my fingernails are quite clean.
From around 9:00-4:00 I’ve been working at a clinic and its surrounding community. It seems like I’ve been there quite a while but I’ve only worked for two days. I get quite dirty working in the clinic...
Allright fine, reflections on 2010
The first time I approached this prompt was quite daunting. Bad memory (perhaps coupled with some bad memories) subconsciously detered my efforts. But the more I thought, the more I remembered, and the more I felt a sense of gratitude and a desire to praise the Lord.
2010 was a year of both faith and doubt.
It was a year of joy and tears.
It was a year of passion and apathy.
It was a year of...
Happy New Year!
I never get New Year’s. What is there to say?
For Thanksgiving, there’s the list.
For Christmas, there’s the nativity.
For New Years…oh wait…resolutions…
I’m tired. Going to bed as 2011 wakes to greet us.
Happy New Year!
December 2010
5 posts
The first time I ever played Monopoly the right...
It was fun.
I guess it wasn’t perfectly right, because we played the “pay 200 dollars for income tax no matter what who cares if you’re really poor or that you start with 1500 dollars” and “put all taxed money in middle and collect if you land on free parking because it makes a useless square awesome” way.
And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death— even death on a cross!
—Phillipians 2:8
I am always very much wrong-footed when I talk to...
His response to my reflection:
Thank you Jonathan. I hope you remember and are true to struggling to achieve what you write—you will never get there—on the list of the seven deadly sins, pride is the one we least learn to harness, and in fact, spend a life time fighting—but it is in that specific struggle that we come closest to enlightenment.
What the…
Called out by Dean Laude
I got called out by my professor (who incidentally is also a dean) for not doing good work. Thus, I had to write a reflection for him on why I turned in such poor work. The first paragraph of my reflection is here, so I do not forget this experience. (For background knowledge, he previously cornered me into agreeing with him that I was “elite.” - he is quite the dean.)
Most questions...
November 2010
8 posts
Back to college station
nivekuk:
I will post about my thanksgiving real soon. but right now i must pack and leave.
and Jonathan, you have my shorts.
You own them, Tim wore them, now I have them.
What can I say.
WARNING: DEEP THOUGHTS AHEAD...(jk)
I’m thankful for so many things.
I’m thankful for life, the ability to breathe, the ability to know, the ability to share, the ability to receive, the ability to turn away and come back.
The ability to be someone, the ability to hope, the ability to cry, the ability to feel deep emotion, the ability to hear words out of mouths and out of instruments.
The ability of making ability...
Hello
This computer is being hijacked. Jonathan is watching me do this, so I have to say something embarrassing quickly before he stops me.
Edit: Needless to say, the great Tim Moon was cut down quickly.
I miss jokes about Kevin.
James: I feel like I'm missing a girl
James: you, Terri, Kelly, Emily, Samantha, Ruth, Char
Oriana: uhhhhhhhhh
Oriana: nope
Oriana: that's us
Oriana: wait
Oriana: Kevin
Oriana: hahahha
James: LOLOLOL
so true...
The thoughts of a Christian
“And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge – that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.
Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is...
Kevin KU
kevin ku: ...
kevin ku: WOW
kevin ku: so tell me
kevin ku: who has replaced me
Jonathan Chang: lol
Jonathan Chang: just another guy
kevin ku: ...
kevin ku: WHO!
Jonathan Chang: lol
Jonathan Chang: some guy next door
Jonathan Chang: he's allright
kevin ku: BETTER THAN ME THOUGH!?
Jonathan Chang: lol
Jonathan Chang: i can't judge
Jonathan Chang: i think you're better looking?
Jonathan Chang: and buffer?
Jonathan Chang: i can only judge superficialities
kevin ku: lol
kevin ku: WOW
kevin ku: dude
kevin ku: no need to point out the obvious
--he actually meant something else-- but this is pretty funny
Struggling
exploding-satellites:
Chris’s posts are thought-provoking. I’m very ignorant in the field of religion. Can one still be Christian but refuse to partake in/hear of evangelism?
Hi ChanAn,
Wikipedia:
Evangelism refers to the practice of relaying information about a particular set of beliefs to others who do not hold those beliefs.
Note, evangelism is about relaying information, not about...
