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| ^__^ Hello my old blog! How have you been? I suppose if you were sentient some how you'd say you've been lonely! Well, I just finished reading Plato's Apology and Crito, now I'm on to the Ramayana, an Indian epic I'm not familiar with! I wonder how I will fare.
.__. Hmm, I have so much to say to you, but I guess there are things that even this sanctuary cannot hold in; things to disclose that cannot be said. Repercussion can be anticipated, but the fear of it is unbearable! I did say I was going to run tonight huh? I suppose I might...but I just had...three, or was is four, fish tacos. I will wait until things settle down.
I should apply for a job soon as well, I will right after this...but I must read the Ramayana as well! D: Ahh...I will read then apply! Or should I dress well and enter the store on Monday? :/ Hmm, the possibilites of making a good impression. I think I will show initiative by going on Monday! I have to make plans!
There are also a list of things I would like to get for some people...I wonder if that'd be excessive :(
I slept for an hour and a half today in the afternoon! Weird because I got up at ten =.= I ought to be more productive than this! Maybe it's the pants I'm wearing...they say, "today I rest" but I say "NO!" nevertheless they're too comfortable to sleep in ^__^ eh heh...
I remember Herman told me, "I feel so happy right now, but I'm so apprehensive, like a bad vibe that something bad is going to happen after this happiness peaks. Like when you feel like you're on top of the world and boom you slam back to earth again." and in response I said, "Hey, life's garauntee is that there are going to be ups and downs, so when you're up, just be happy about it so you can endure the downs when they come" something like that; be grateful for what you have and never take anything for granted!
Like time, I should get back to reading. So long for now I guess :D
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| *This is in regards to my blessing on Friday, July 10th, 2009* I shared it with some friends I taught with in Taiwan and decided might as well post it here as well! :) God bless!
I was handing out fliers for our tutoring center to people in front of a Rite Aid when I saw a homeless man picking stuff out of the garbage to eat. I looked at him and ignored him for a good minute, thinking that I'd better leave him alone, but then God put scripture in my mind, specifically Matthew 25:31-45, and I felt a conviction in my heart to help this man. So, I gathered a bit of courage and approached him, asking if he'd like me to buy him a meal. Immediately he said yes and I took him to a Burger King within the same plaza, bought him a meal, gave him all my cash (six dollars), said "God bless," and parted ways.
Where I get in trouble for all this is when I left my post my boss came and didn't see me, so I explained to her my situation about me feeding the homeless man. Nevertheless, she wants to talk to me tomorrow about it; I'm a bit nervous, but I'll leave it to God and trust that Christ who began a good work in me will be faithful to complete it! It was because of that homeless man I was actually able to hand out more fliers because the manager of the Burger King saw me feeding the poor guy and so he told me to give him a handful of my fliers so he can put them on the COUNTER!!! I only passed out eight fliers in one hour, but with that single act alone I gave out eighteen!
I was really considering about leaving my post early because of how discouraging it was all going, what with the people glaring at me and ignoring me, but I remembered that I should obey my earthly authorities, so long as it doesn't contradict the will of God's authority, that I'm paid to do this so I'll stick it out, so I stayed and God really pulled through! I was singing hymns to myself because of how down I felt, and kept saying "God is good; praise the Lord; I will bring glory and honor to Him in victory and defeat..." and He answered my hopelessness with such triumph! Praise the LORD!!!
So that's why I'm in trouble, maybe, but it's been a blessing of an experience and an encouraging one at that. If you guys are interested in the scripture God put in my heart, it's in the link below! Peace be with you! :)
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2025:31-46&version=47
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| It is quiet. Not in the sense that the atmosphere was completely devoid of sound, but rather an emptiness that is similar to a lull in battle or the hushed air that holds back a hunter's heart before he sends his round through the brush and to his mark. There is also tranquility, like lying on the lawn under a dewy night, the warm release of breath forming a column of fog that dissipates into the dark.
Yup, that sounds cool but it doesn't have meaning. Ah well, I'll compose more later :)
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| Proud Mary, Lookin' Out My Back Door, Down On the Corner, Up Around the Bend, Spirit in the Sky, Have You Ever Seen the Rain
Creedence Clearwater Revival (CCR), playlist of my head! :)
There is a boy, he's running and his feet are beating the earth underneath him at a steady pace to the race of his heart. His breath flies past his face in thick white patches of smoky fog in the still night air, his lungs are burning and already he can taste the iron in his blood in his throat, which now feels like a pipe shredded to bits, held together only by the phlegm that has stuck to the walls of the ragged windpipe. Still, he runs and runs. Behind him he hears the chatter of a thousand gnashing fangs, the panting sound washing over the boy's ears like waves of knives, each tide closer than the last. The boy has no chance of seeing another dawn, just like his father, then his mother and sister, his older brothers, they're all dead. The pack on his back now feels heavier and its weight bearing down into his shoulders as the straps tighten into his skin. He could give it up, let the sea of razor fangs consume him, but his legs are apart from him now and moving to their own accord, numb to the thin cold ice seeping into his shoe, to the pain that stings at his calves nor his quadriceps, all his concentration focused on pushing forward.
The woods began to grow thinner as he made it out into an open meadow where a convoy of military humvees stood waiting. Half way across the field the first tracer sizzles past his face, and soon a hail of bullets are flying past him at an incredible rate, as if he was running past a thousand stars all at once. A man throws out a hand and he grabs it, immediately thrown up onto the back of a flatbed. The trucks and humvees lurch forward into the dark, the .50 cals beating away and the convoy finally on the move.
(I just lost the reason why I wrote this, spur of the moment I guess =__= I'm sleepy...
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| Roughly two hours ago I got hungry and walked around the house and found a pack of Asian ramen!!! Not the American Maruchan, but the honest-to-goodness Asian stuff, the kind that actually has some flavor I can stomach. Anyways, I this is pretty much as far as I go in the extent of "gourmet" and I like to experiment with ramen, because it's like a universal platform to try different ingredients in different quantities. On the counter, I found a bottle of yakisoba sauce and decided to go for a yakisoba-flavored ramen! I also like to cook "alone" so I keep the kitchen dark, all but the light in the exhaust fixture so I can focus; plus it has a rustic feel to it that I enjoy, very calm and peaceful environment where I can express my inner chef. I have two more packs that I'm saving for tomorrow and the day after :) They're so good!!!
So here are some pictures of me cooking up some ramen, I enjoyed it, though it might've been better if I hadn't added so much water, but oh well.
http://supa-man88.xanga.com/albums/07008457251d30/
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