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Saturday, October 11, 2003
i am so blessed. so blessed. God has just been good to me a bajillion times more then i'd ever deserve. recap of my day: my mom helped me make tuna casserole today. i came back to berkeley to bake it. zinnia came down to keep me company while i was baking. the fire alarm kept going off when i was browning the top of the tuna casserole. haha. zinnia and i then walked to tim and alex's for the sophomore potluck. wow. soooooooooooooooooooooooooo much food. haha. sophomores rock! wow ... i wish i had a bigger appetite. i ate some of zinnia's salad and some of tisha's noodle thing and i was stuffed. didn't get to try any of nate's lemon chicken or the grilled burgers tim was making ... or the spaghetti, or the homemade potato salad ... ugh. so much stuff there. haha. so anyhoo ... about twenty of the aacf sophomores were at tim and alex's. we were there from 5-10:30ish ... and it was just so awesome. the purpose of this potluck wasn't really just to hangout, but to also talk about our vision as a class. after eating, we just had an awesome time of singing praises to God. it was so cool ... alex played bongos ... haha. nice. vicky is a crazy-cool guitarist, too. =] anyway, after the worship time, we just spent a lot of time trying to figure out where God was taking us as a class. we discussed different ways of going deeper as a class and not just having superficial fellowship. it was cool ... everyone was sharing, and we have so many ideas of how to grow closer as a class and to be able to keep each other accountable. i'm sooooooooooo excited. =] even though i didn't know most of the people at the potluck very well at all, i know that some of these guys and girls will just be friends for life ... anyway, we came up with a class vision and a class verse ... so that's pretty cool. i'm just sooooooooo grateful God has placed all of these people in my life ... 'cuz i know that God will use each and every one of these sophomores to help me grow in my walk with God. i hope i'm able to do the same ... to be an encouragement to these brothers and sisters and to help them grow spiritually ... i pray that we'd be united as a class, striving to build each other up ... that we, as a class, would reflect God's love ... i'm just so blessed. so blessed. thanks, God. -bj 
Friday, October 10, 2003
i found this post from Nate totally encouraging. I don't know what about this post strikes me, but i really like the reminder that every good gift comes from God, and that we ought to turn right back around and offer these gifts back to HIM. (i also like his last line where he says "hold on to your butts, butt-holders" ... haha ... i found that cute.) i hope he doesn't mind me copying his post on my bloggy ... (for all you who don't know, FCS is a Christian acapella group that ben started a couple of years ago. i think they're still looking for guy bass singers if you know of any) ************************* For Christ's Sake: More Than I Could Have Imagined First, a little background info: For Christ's Sake is an a capella group (born three years ago, I think), seeking to spread the Good News in the form of music. To be honest, I didn't even know what FCS was until Tiffany told me about it. A week later, I auditioned. And to be even more painfully honest, I had my own reservations about a capella groups to begin with. But FCS has become an important part of my walk. First, FCS has become a wonderful medium to glorify God with our voices. Second, even as recent as a year ago, music was my own little golden calf. If my life was a pie, music was a major slice, and a lot bigger than my faith slice. I wasn't even all that good in my high school Wind Ensemble, but they were good, and simply playing in the same room as the other kids gave me unforgettable experiences. So, when I came to Berkeley and was big time disappointed with the music program here, I sadly thought my life with music was over. Then along comes FCS. It's funny how the Lord gives and the Lord takes away (Job 1:21b), but there you go. And even more amazing, I never would have imagined playing music besides for the sake of music. But you know, all we can do is appreciate the gifts God gives us and lift them back up to Him. When we rehearse, we really try to keep God in our hearts with every note that we sing, and it's been very uplifting. Did I mention the people in that group? The leadership is ridiculously awesome, especially for a friggin' fifth year student (ahem, Ben P); how many fourth year students would have thrown in the towel a long time ago? And everyone else is just amazing and enthusiastic, just more inspirational fuel on the fire. Another thing...GO TENORS! In the next couple weeks, our performances commence, and I only pray that, perhaps, even one non-believer hears our song, sees our joy, and thinks, "God, I'm ready." Keep your hands folded on that one. So, to recap (and some new stuff): I used to see music as a separate compartment of my life, separate--sometimes even more important--from my walk with God. Now I understand what Tony Aria meant when he described our lives as wheels. We have our spokes, like music, but what's at the center? The hub (not the axle...), and that hub is our Lord who blesses us beyond understanding. It's been through FCS that I'm realizing how much I've been hoarding for my own, stupid plans. And if we can even reach one person, well...my heart would just explode. In a good way. Hold onto your butts, butt-holders. Time to lift our gifts back up to God! 3...2...1.... BOOOOOOOOOOCH!!!!!! ***************************** every good gift and every perfect gift comes from the Father of Lights -bj
i went home with dave tsai today. we barted home together. he's so sweet ... he bought his mom three tulips 'cuz her birthday's tomorrow ... =] haha ... anyhoo ... had a really good time talking to him on the bart train ... 'cept i kept spitting on him ... hmmm ... i don't know why i couldn't control my saliva today. then my mom picked me and dave up from the bart station and we drove dave home ... he lives about two minutes away ... and he's my accountability partner, too ... so hopefully during christmas break or during the summer, i can still meet with him ... heh heh ... God is GOOD! =] so i'm going to make tuna casserole AND spinach dip for the sophomore class get together tomorrow. heh heh ... my parents had already picked up the stuff for me to make spinach dip ... so now i can bring both ... i spent half an hour trying to send out an e-mail to all the freshmen on the aacf freshmen e-mail list ... for some reason, the stupid majordomo list didn't like the word "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" because i guess they're keywords ... but the dumb thing is, i was trying to explain to them how to subscribe and unsubscribe to the list ... booo ... so i had to type s-u-b-s-c-r-i-b-e or un.sub.scribe ... haha ... very cumbersome ... i spent half an hour trying to fiddle with things, but i still had to resort to stupid dashes and periods ... boooo. bg. hahaha. bg. that's a good one. feeling sooooooo much better ... heh heh ... my head's still a little funny, but i feel a billion times better than the past couple of days. =] vir says that i've started putting periods after my sentences when i'm talking on aim. weird. i haven't been making an effort type periods ... and i never used to put periods after sentences ... hmmm ... i wonder if i have a distinct way of writing ... like if no one knew that i posted this, could they guess based on the words and punctuation i use? that's interesting ... ANYHOO ... back to work. as you were -bj
haha ... just kidding. my 'lil bro overslept. i just went out with him to sun hong kong and to see's ... dooood ... he spent like $15+ on dark chocolate ... o_0 obey the hand -bj
jason kong is a funny, funny boy ... =] he caused quite a scene in my math discussion ... haha. he's so full of energy. he's also insanely smart ... he's one year younger than me (but a 2nd year) but trying to graduate a year early. he's also elsa and dana's cousin! WHOA. heh heh ... i found out that he's older than Chris, though (Chris from foothill ... i think he was foothill co-president ... dunno) anyhoo ... chris is only 17! whoa ... he's a second year, too ... i feel so old. tried to meet with my aacf lil bro today, but he didn't show up ... owell ... maybe he didn't know what the sproul fountain was ... or maybe there's another fountain on sproul that i don't know about ... feeling semi better ... =] still sick, but better. God is good! ba-gawk -bj
HELP! i'm supposed to bring a main course to the sophomore potluck! (*GASP*) and here i was just gonna bring spinach dip! ummmm ... panic time. hmmmm ... too bad i can't really cook anything ... =P salty like spam -bj
Thursday, October 09, 2003
BEN has the most awesome stuff on his xanga. haha ... i should make his xanga my homepage. i like his picture of the "riced out" cat ... haha. =] fun like an amoeba -bj
Wednesday, October 08, 2003
like i said, it's not much fun being sick ... but my friends have made me feel sooooooooo much better. CastleTactics (11:11:07 PM): feel better its a m i l y (5:36:10 PM): i will also pray for your sicklyness jame5gang (7:01:23 PM): hang in there buddy jame5gang (7:01:31 PM): God will sustain KeithLooCH (12:26:16 AM): i hope you feel better and i'll pray for you. melia says (12:29:31 AM): feel better bj! melia says (12:35:41 AM): i'll pray for you! mightydru (4:22:08 PM): i'll pray that you get better. Don't get your roommates sick. StupidOleg (5:04:23 PM): how are you feeling? StupidOleg (5:15:00 PM): you better get better!!! VShum3388 (1:46:52 AM): drink alot of water VShum3388 (1:46:56 AM): get alot of sleep Yekimwg (12:47:27 AM): go to sleep! Yekimwg (12:49:03 AM): yeah, it sounds like the nasty old cough again Yekimwg (12:49:18 AM): sorry bj firemoose02 (11:41:10 PM): hope you feel better! :-) tomchen4jc (3:33:41 PM): lemme know if i can be of help tomchen4jc (3:33:53 PM): tho, i can't really cook, tomchen4jc (3:34:03 PM): so i guess that limits things, but anything else is fair game tomchen4jc (3:34:14 PM): (i can buy food ;-) ) kingplim (10:29:19 PM): well, i hope you get better then heh heh ... thanks everyone who's left me messages, thanks everyone who's prayed for me, thanks for everyone who's told me to rest ... (like mary lou, who gave me a hug even though i was sick. awww ... she risked getting my germs in order to make me feel better. =] ) ... i hope to feel better soon. i truly am blessed. for the worst and for the best -bj
feeling yucky. blah blah blah. ummm ... nothing much happened today. tiff s. so sweet. thanks, tiff. that made me happy. =] listen to our hearts -bj
my illness is funny. i'll be feeling totally normal one minute, and the next i'll feel totally yucky. i'm feeling pretty yucky right now ... sleep should help. 'nite all. shoop shoop shoop -bj
Tuesday, October 07, 2003
it's funny how i can feel so sick and out of it before aacf, but come back still sick, but re-energized. i'm so thankful that God's given me a place where i can just really learn and grow and fellowship with fellow brothers and sisters in Christ. i thought the message was really good today. we talked about growing closer to the heart of God. pastor james used the passage of David and the time where he wanted to build a temple for God, but God rejected it ... then we broke up into small groups to talk about the message ... i think i really learn a lot more when i'm discussing what I got out of the message, and when i'm listening to what other people are thinking ... justin really said some poignant stuff that i really hadn't thought of. growing closer to the heart of God basically boils down to accepting what God gives us ... claiming His promises, wanting what He wants for us, following and not leading ... mmm praise God for allowing me to meet with my accountability partners tonight! it seemed like we wouldn't be able to meet 'cuz i was sick, henry had stuff to do, dave had a midterm, and ben was sick, but God brought us all together ... ben gave us some really good tips on how to really be good accountability partners ... then when the three of us met after ben was done sharing with us, i think we were all more open. if you guys remember me in your prayers, could you just pray for me and my accountability partners? pray that we can just reach the point where we can be totally vulnerable with each other ... and pray that God would just use each of us to build the other two up ... thanks. =] still sick, but feeling much better. yay! oh yeah, i forgot to share about tabling ... TABLING HAS BEEN A HUGE BLESSING TO ME! it's kinda funny that i'm getting so blessed by tabling because the aacf table is out there more for outsiders who are interested ... but tabling has really been awesome! i'm getting to know more and more aacfers. i had a good talk with my tabling partner, vickie ... =] it's also fun talking to trevor, the guy who sells pirate cards next to the aacf table ... he's pretty cool. it was really neat today 'cuz he was hungry, and a couple of girls that weren't tabling but were hanging out at the table decided to go buy him some chicken skewers from the gbc ... he was so appreciative. it's just awesome that the girls had such kind hearts ... that's really showing trevor the love of Christ ... Christians in action ... yay! hopefully we'll have a chance to witness to him ... i've had very little stress this semester even though i'm taking 20 units ... today i wondered why and today i found an answer ... even though i have 20 units, i think God's just used all of my aacf stuff (large group, small group, accountability, tabling) to keep me sane ... and i know He'll give me time to be a big bro to pons and to be discipled at aacf ... it's so awesome that God's using aacf both to help me grow closer to Him, but also to not get too stressed about schoolwork ... and all the while He's giving me strength to get all my studying in. praise God! i wonder how long it will take me to learn to spell our new governor's name ... schwarzenneggar? ummm ... no ... that looks wrong ... owell ... in time, in time. freelancer. -bj
Monday, October 06, 2003
so today ... i woke up all yucky. i think i'm getting sick. hopefully i can curb this illness before i become full-blown sick ... argh. anyhoo ... small groups was definitely cool today. today was an off-week, meaning we didn't have a Bible study. each small group just got to decide to do whatever they wanted. ben was sick today ( =[ ) so we went to tim's apartment ... tim's idea was to bake for the monday girls' small group ... (there are two small groups that meet on monday, wednesday, and thursday ... one girls group and one guys group.) me and brian toy were in charge of making the cookies ... hahahahaha. at first we tried to shape each of the girls' initials ... but that didn't work ... they just baked into weird blobs ... haha ... and we didn't read the instructions ... it said to place the cookies on ungreased baking sheets ... ummm ... we greased them. haha. the bottoms got burnt ... owell ... they still tasted okay ... the rest of the guys (tim, jon, keith, tony, and new guy - leo) made a mud pie out of crushed oreos, two quarts of ice cream, and lots of chocolate syrup and a peanut topping ... it looked really yummy ... then we went to joellen's place where the girls were meeting. it was kinda weird 'cuz my group is really young - all freshmen and sophomores and ben, a fifth year (i was the oldest today since ben was sick) ... yeah ... the girls' group was mostly older girls ... so keith and i cut the mud pie and we passed out pieces to all the girls ... good stuff. then joellen asked us to write down on like a 3x5 index card what we thought love was ... she has a "love wall" where anyone who visits her apt writes down their definition of love ... she must have about 40 cards! whoa ... some cards that stuck out ... "love is a chocolate milk moustache" ... and "love is extravagant." haha ... mine was "love is a prayer from a friend" ... tony (from my small group) had the cutest, geeky definition. his was, "God = sin^2 and love = cos^2 ... together they make 1" ... ahaha. good stuff. anyway, then the girl small group killed us in taboo ... hahaha ... guys aren't very good at taboo. Jenn Chau: "It's like a chinese hooker." Zinnia: "A CHICKEN!" hahaha ... very bizarre ... (the answer was "geisha") ... apparently if you translate "hooker" from chinese directly it means chicken ... or so zinnia says ... =] rinse and repeat -bj
Sunday, October 05, 2003
man ... it's sooooo hard trying to find a time where me and my two accountability partners are free to meet. there are only like three different one hour periods all week when we're all free ... but we're also trying to coordinate with ben who wants to be at our first couple of meetings to help guide us in the right direction ... so basically the only time we might be all free is right after large group on tuesdays ... that means if large group runs long, then we won't be able to meet 'cuz dave has intramural bball at 10:15 on tuesday ... hmmmm ... aiya. it's kinda sad 'cuz we're all excited about accountability ... it's just really hard getting together to meet ... owell. i know God will make time for us to get together. bespeckled -bj
i am now the proud big sib of a freshie! haha! hilarious ... i signed up to be a big sib @ aacf, not really thinking that they'd really hook me up with someone because there were like fifteen or sixteen guys signed up to be big sibs and only about six or seven guys signed up to be little sibs ... i told aimee that if they ever needed someone, i'd help out ... haha ... i guess each little sib just gets more than one big sib ... anyhoo ... that's pretty cool. i kinda know my little sib already. pons. he's pretty cool. he's a crazy dancer. haha. we'll see ... not sure what i'm really supposed to do, though ... i'll play it by ear. =] wheeeeeeeeeeeeeee -bj
mm. the a's anger me. yahoo literati and gin anger me. imma angered. that is all. okay, not THAT angered ... but ugh. no good. top of the world -bj
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