January 2012
1 post
재미있게 봤다
December 2011
2 posts
baking with my sister
Grace is now 13! She started baking at the tender age of 5. I remember when she was that age (and she still remembers this) we tried to make butter cream and then ended up wasting almost a dozen eggs after several failed attempts -__- i think i was a senior in hs at this point. Whenever I have to bake, I’m always asking her about which ingredients we have in the kitchen or even advice on...
October 2011
5 posts
As I write my paper...
…love this quote! By Paul Martin, former Prime Minister of Canada and Chair to the G20:
But in the end, success can and will be achieved if the member countries recognize that in today’s highly interdependent world, the furtherance of a country’s self-interest depends more than ever before on the degree to which it furthers the global interest. That, I would submit to you, is the message...
Before the Throne of God Above
Before the throne of God above I have a strong, a perfect plea: A great High Priest, whose name is Love, Who ever lives and pleads for me. My name is graven on his hands, My name is written on his heart; I know that while in heaven he stands No tongue can bid me thence depart No tongue can bid me thence depart. When Satan tempts me to despair, And tells me of the guilt within, Upward I look,...
Foreign Aid
From today’s Global Economic Governance lecture, Professor Kemal Dervis. The ability to engage your classroom for two straight hours is such a rare gift.
What percentage of America’s budget do you think goes towards Foreign Aid?
- Most Americans think it is 20% - Most Americans think it should be 5-10% - It is actually 1%
What is the fraction of rich country GDP that goes towards...
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September 2011
4 posts
Taken
Just finished watching Taken…. O.O….. greatt movie. I had to do some research on human trafficking afterwards, and I read that Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher started a campaign called “Real Men Don’t Buy Girls,” in the hopes that high profile men campaigning this slogan would reduce the demand for commercial sex trafficking. um… really? This effort may be good...
First No Show
Last night I went to our weekly small group and no one showed up, which was surprising to me because last time there were several people but also not surprising because it was pouring outside. Sometimes people show up late so I had decided to go upstairs and go through Pastor Hoon’s collection of books. More than half an hour had passed so I knew that no one was going to show up. While I...
August 2011
4 posts
Ever look at a very large tree... like really look...
I live on this long dead-end block that is lined with very large trees on both sides of the road. I know that that’s not a very unique picture but these trees are maybe more than a hundred years old. Today, like any other day, I was passing by these trees on my walk home and after randomly looking at a tree it really sort of freaked me out. I’m not quite sure how to articulate...
July 2011
2 posts
"Garbage Dreams"
Found out about this 2009 documentary film today:
With no official sanitation services, Cairo’s 18 million residents have for decades relied on zabbaleen (Arabic for “garbage people”) to collect their waste, which the zabbaleen do with enviable thoroughness — and an 80 percent recycling rate. Filming over four years, Ms. Iskander highlights three charismatic youths as they face competition from...
O.O
From John Piper’s sermon: The Danger of Drifting from the Word
The life of this world is not a lake. It is a river. And it is flowing downward to destruction. If you do not listen earnestly to Jesus and consider him daily and fix your eyes on him hourly, then you will not stand still, you will go backward. You will float by.
Drifting is a deadly thing in the Christian life. And the...
June 2011
4 posts
the S line...
…as in the Shuttle that moves between Times Square and Grand Central. I took it every day for a full two years at my first job out of college. and now i take it every day this summer for my internship. and yet i still don’t understand its system. if you’ve taken it, you know that you wait for a train to arrive on one of three running tracks. unless, it’s announced on...
Communion
taken from Donald Miller’s “Searching for God Knows What”:
At Imago Dei, the church I attend here in Portland, the congregation is invited to the front of the church after each service to dip bread into wine, partaking in one of the two sacraments given to those of us who are following Christ. And yet often, as I wait in line, go to the table, take the bread, and dip it into...
high school lessons
lessons from high school that i’ll never forget :) tho i think i forgot everything else haha. i randomly remember them from time to time.
1. sometimes whenever we asked our chem teacher, mrs. ireland, very complex/hard to comprehend questions. she would say, gesturing with her hands as if she’s sweeping the air, “let it go… let it go…”
2. i teared in front of...
barnes & noble habit
i like to go through food magazines and if i find something that looks delicious and easy to make, i’ll e-mail it to myself with my phone. :) tonight’s magazine recipe:
Lemon-dill hallibut en papillote
4 (6 ounce) halibut fillets (3/4 inch thick) 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper 8 (1/4 inch thick) lemon slices (2 lemons) 1 tablespoon butter, quartered 4...
May 2011
4 posts
current re-reading
This morning I went through my collection of books in the corner of my room to pick out a read for my morning/evening commute. I came across Blue Like Jazz by Donald Miller and I remembered thinking the last time I read it that it would be a good book for gaining a glimpse of the loving side of God’s character… the side of it that’s light, refreshing, forgiving, and personal. The first paragraph...
jittery joe's
new favorite coffee shop on midtown east. the baristas are usually a black guy and a hipster white guy. the background music when i ordered my coffee today was a song by Big Bang and then a song by Amy Winehouse haha.. :)
the pursuit of holiness before happiness. james 4:13-17
April 2011
5 posts
comment from a classical economist in a debate on...
if the guy’s nose is bleeding, you don’t put the band-aid on his butt.
http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2009/03/debate-at-uc-davis-between-brad-delong-and-michele-boldrin.html
at a starbucks far away
i love my tuesdays. tip for those college/grad school commuters: schedule a free day in the middle of the week. makes a world of a difference!
facebook
…i deactivated it. big woopdeedoo. haha.. remember in the movie, the social network, mark zuckerberg and justin timberlake talk about how they have yet to really understand what facebook is? i wondered about that too (this is a lot of thinking on facebook and it seems like such a rolling of the eyes subject but i am convinced that there will be ph.d. theses and acclaimed academic papers...
March 2011
1 post
packing
and realizing how not ready i am for uganda. to do before tomorrow 5pm: pick up the insect repellant, malaria medicine, sunblock, take out cash, print out documents, get t-shirts (what happened to all my t-shirts?) oh and write a paper. but who cares… i’m going to africa!!
January 2011
2 posts
to be infinitely known and infinitely loved
Psalm 139:1-6
O Lord, you have searched me and known me! You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar. You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways. Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O Lord, you know it altogether. You hem me in, behind and before, and lay your hand upon me.
December 2010
1 post
September 2010
1 post
Take My Heart - Phil Wickham
Inside you shines a mist that’s broken daylight Take this darkness that I might see in your goodness My eyes are on the sky show me what you hold You are the light of my soul You have been the beauty in the song I sing The fragrance of the rain You have been the mystery in my deepest dreams You make my fly away You have been more faithful than the morning sun You’ve given me the...
August 2010
1 post
Ephesians 4:17-32
Now this I say and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds. They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart. They have become callous and have given themselves up to sensuality, greedy to practice every kind of impurity. But that is not...
June 2010
1 post
Waiting On Your Love by Justin McRoberts
There’s nothing so heavy Weighing down the soul As the weight of nothing Worth my strength to hold There’s no pain so cutting No battle as in vain As the constant battle To avoid the pain You were poor when you were born You could see Your Father clearly Through the nothing that You owned Free me from these binds, Lord I am choking on the gifts this world gives, Jesus I am waiting on...
January 2010
1 post
December 2009
7 posts
new year's resolutions
might as well start a draft!
1. don’t take myself too seriously 2. know what is good and don’t distort it - it’s clear and simple 3. at least 10 minutes of prayer every day 4. don’t be stupid
so i have this food blog.. tresdelicieux.wordpress.com and as the owner, in the stats section you can see what people type into search engines to get to your site. ranking of most popular searches:
1. pret a manger 2. tres delicieux 3. grimaldi’s pizza calories
the pret a manger has variations to it.. such as pret a manger grapefruit juice.. pret a manger calories.. i think it’s...
November 2009
6 posts
lots of brain farts today.. yes that's what tumblr...
taken from katiemoon
“Fueled by his resilience, conviction and strength of will, Lincoln gradually recovered from his depression. He understood, he told Speed later, that in times of anxiety it is critical to ‘avoid being idle,’ that ‘business and conversation of friends’ were necessary to give the mind ‘rest from that intensity of thought, which will some times wear the sweetest idea...
