January 2011
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Must I Wait - Phil Wickham
“Oh, how long...
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Day 30 - Your highs and lows of this month.
Oh dang, I’m wrapping this up.
Highs:
Finishing this challenge, and actually having a thoughtful response to a majority of them.
Going to LA with Marc and Tim. One of the best trips I’ve taken; so much positive growth has come through that
One of which is seeing Phil Wickham perform. Really amazing artist/worship leader.
Going back to study at one of the best universities in the...
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Day 29 - Goals for the next 30 days.
Goals for the month of February:
Pass all tests
Read the Bible every day
Continue building friendships with other guys
Keep the trend of finishing tasks early
Successfully organize and plan events for Californians and Crossroads
Start running/Going to the RSF
Actually finish writing a song; I have too many drafts
Attend Crossroads retreat!
Day 28 - Something that you miss.
Honest to goodness, I miss the smell of the stairs in the education wing of Tolman hall. After climbing them again this past Monday to get to my psychology discussion, it hit me how much I actually missed taking those stairs three times a week during ATDP. I mean, I don’t miss the smell because I like the unique mix of old building and old textbook flooding my nose (even though the smell...
Day 27 - A problem that you have had.
Ok I’m a little behind cause I was busy fooling around with friends.
How about a struggle I’m having right now. I’m having a problem being patient with people right now. It’s hard to put my finger on why at this point, but it’s like a combination of seeing them often and not being as good friends with them as I was last semester. I’m sure it doesn’t have...
Day 26 - What kind of person attracts you.
It’s hard to quantify it, I’m attracted to so many different qualities that change. There’s stuff that I think are really important qualities a girl has, and there are also qualities that I know I’ve been attracted and then those qualities that I’ve been attracted to but not necessary want in a girl now. Cause I don’t know if the qualities I want in a girl are...
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Day 25 - Someone who fascinates you and why.
I am fascinated by my grandpa, and when I say fascinated, I mean fascination as in I want to know what he thinks about, his motivation for doing the things he does, his childhood, his life in general. All this is motivated by the fact that I can’t communicate with him verbally, I can only see what he does.
See, my grandpa, doesn’t speak any English, he immigrated here from China after...
WatchHahaha Kawai, thanks for reblogging this. Made me laugh haha.
xkawai:
-hollywoodfashion:
OH MY GOD.
i can’t believe how many times i’ve seen this movie. i didn’t want to see it so many times. not even the first time. but Disney yay!
also, this reblog is for Dennis. hi Dennis.
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Day 24 - Your favorite movie and what it’s about.
Mean Girls. It’s about this girl Cady Heron, played by Lindsay Lohan, who grew up in South Africa. Home-schooled all her life, she transfers into an American public high school after her parents decide to move back to the states. The movie documents her time figuring out how your stereotypical high school works, as she gets noticed by the super stuck up but hot girls (the plastics), and...
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Day 23 - Give pictures of 5 girls who are famous...
Alright, I have to pick 5. There are plenty of very attractive famous people in the world, but I have to pick five? What is this…
Not in any particular order.
Zoe Saldana. After I saw her in Star Trek, I realized that I had seen her in other movies before as well. What do I find attractive about her… she pulls of cute, sexy, funny, and intelligent all really well, both in movies...
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Day 22 - How have you changed in the past 2 years?
Rewind to January 2009. Second semester Junior year, super excited to take my first classes in the new school building that was just completed. Not particularly stressed about school or anything really.
Now, January 2011. Second semester of my freshmen year of college, and I’m stressed about school in general.
So what’s changed besides the context? Well a lot during Senior year of...
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Day 20 - How important you think education is.
I’m in college, so education is very important to me and how I’ve grown up. However, I don’t think compulsory education is for everyone. Honestly, not everyone is into learning history or english, some people are more adept at learning how to fix cars or do things with their hands. I do believe though that it is important for everyone to be able to learn basic skills necessary to...
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Day 19 - Disrespecting your parents.
A moment I remember disrepecting my parents was during college apps, and I was arguing with them about where I should go to school. I had gotten some acceptances already, and I really wanted to go to UCLA, so I could get away from the bay area for once and live independently. Amidst those arguments, I probably disregarded their opinion plenty of times, yelled loudly, and hated to be their kid so...
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Day 18 - Your beliefs.
I’ve talked a lot about one of my beliefs, my belief in God, a lot, so I’ll give that one a break. Instead, I’ll talk about some of my other beliefs.
I believe in being a gentlemen, a real man, upstanding in his character and confident in his actions. I believe that honesty really is the best policy, because there have been too many times where by not telling the truth I not...
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Mika - Happy Ending. This song has been stuck in...
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Day 17 - Your highs and lows of this past year
Talking about 2010 here. Glad I kept some record of the year in my journal, but it’s not the most comprehensive.
Highs:
Submitting college apps and getting into college. Man, I was so glad to get those out of the way and go to a great school like Berkeley.
Senior ball! A lot of fun with a really wonderful date.
Graduating high school knowing that I had grown a lot in a positive...
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Day 16 - Your views on mainstream music.
I was trying to find this comic about this hipster that works at a record store but ironically doesn’t listen to any music, but I couldn’t sadly.
My opinion on mainstream music is that because of it’s popularity, everything is the same. When I say mainstream, I mean songs that I can hear on any Top 40 radio station or bumped at a club. A lot of it is I-V-vi-IV, using electronic...
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Day 15 - Your favorite blogs
I don’t follow that many blogs at all, but some of the ones I enjoy are these:
Make It Mad. I like this one because it’s very real. He’s Christian and has gone through many struggles along the way to becoming who is today. It’s been very motivating to me. I started following after reading this article on being a Gentlemen.
Salacious Sounds. This is one of those...
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Day 14 - Your earliest memory.
It’s hard to order the memories I had when I was about four years old in chronological order… but the memory I have that I call my first memory is of me in Sunday School. It was at my church, I remember my teacher being Peggy, and the only other thing unique about that memory is that I was crying. Yes, it was me, my teacher, some of the other kids in the class, and me crying. Great...
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Day 12 - Bullet your whole day
I was so busy Sunday, I was totally unable to find time to post all the awesome things I did!
Played Super Smash Brothers on N64 (This is at midnight)
Late night conversation till 3AM about girls, God, the gospel and other personal struggles
Waking up early to go get ready for church (another 5 hours of sleep night)
Getting picked up by Christine! (so weird to have her drive)
Ate 85 for...
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Why Chinese Mothers are Superior →
sugarquill:
or, I hope that (if) you relate to this, it’s only a little.
OR, why to never go to Yale Law School.
via Janvi.
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Day 11 - Put your iPod on shuffle and write 10...
For the Moments I Feel Faint - Relient K
I Like (Josh&Grubert Radio Edit) - Keri Hilson
Meteor Shower - Owl City
You Can Win - David Choi
You’re Nobody Until Somebody Loves You - Michael Buble
Secrets (OneRepublic Cover) - Jennifer Chung
Lie to Me - Ne-Yo
Electric Feel (Justice Remix) - MGMT
Best for Last - Adele
Fall for You - Secondhand Serenade
Keep Shining: Yes. →
justkeepshining:
So I finally did it today.
I told my parents that I accepted Christ. It was actually surprisingly very casual and well… surprising. I imagined it to be like at the dinner table all serious (maybe a prayer beforehand). But I literally came back from fellowship with Tiff and walked in their room….
So amazing dude!
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Day 10 - Discuss your first love and first kiss.
I laughed when I read this title. I both smiled that I had to write this and felt apprehensive on the inside since I’ve got to make this public. Is it strange that my first love and first kiss are two separate things? Maybe it’s not that out of the ordinary when I think about it.
My first love is Pokemon. End of story. If you want the details, ask me.
My first kiss is actually pretty...
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Day 09 - How you hope your future will be like.
This is kinda like where I want to be in 10 years…
I’d like my future to be comfortable? Ya know, after doing all the hard stuff right now, i’d like to be able to enjoy my life. Hopefully doing a lot of travelling and taking pictures of stuff. Yeah, I’d definitely like to pick up some hobbies with some of the money that I’ll be making working.
Well, maybe it...
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Day 08 - A moment you felt the most satisfied with...
It was some day near the end of this past semester of college. It was one of those busy days, but the feeling I had wasn’t that of distress from the load of things I had to do, it was more of eustress, like by completing everything I had achieved something; it was just this realization of all the great things that had happened.
It was like all this excitement that I wasn’t able to...
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Day 07 - Your zodiac sign and if you think it fits...
Born in the beginning of March, I am a pisces, and yes it fits me almost too well. I might not be extreme in any of these, but I definitely display some of these qualities more than other people.
Taken from about.com:
As the last of the twelve Zodiac signs, Pisces is said to contain aspects of them all. This makes the Pisces Sun so changeable as to appear not to have one singular identity....
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Day 06 - Write 30 interesting facts about yourself
Crap I never have to write this much interesting stuff about myself. Can I even do it? Err…
I could be my own band. I play the piano, drums, guitar and bass, as well as sing.
I plan on being single for this school year for many reasons.
I’ve never moved homes. Been living in El Cerrito all my life.
I went to Albany Middle School for 1 year before going back to Portola Middle...
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Day 05 - A time you thought about ending your own...
Wow, super intense. I’ve never actually considered ending my life, but I have entertained the thought. There’s been a time in my life when I was pretty lonely and I asked myself what it would take to drive myself to end my own life. Would it actually end any of the pain or suffering? Would anyone miss me? In the end, I found that it would have been really dumb for me to take my own...
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Day 04 - Your views on religion
What a thought to start the new year. I am a Christian. I believe that we’re all sinners and God sent Jesus to die on the cross to reconcile us to him.
It’s crazy though, I never took my faith that seriously until 2010, heck not even ‘till this past semester of college, mostly because I put the relationships I had with people (ie girls) above the relationship I had with God....