off to kansas city

im off to kansas city in a few hours
well be driving the whole day and night... oh my gus. but i have some dramas and books that should make time pass... im going to finish Twilight, Irresistible Revolution and start a book by Max Lucado

this week went by so fast its so crazy... we just got back from toledo on monday night then... bam tuesday-friday zoomed by. i went snowboarding yesterday for the first time... ive found a new hobby i would like to pursue. it was mad fun -- but my butt, tailbone... actually my whole body is in pain right now but it was worth it

im not exactly sure what to expect from onething... but im sure theres something i can get from it as long as i keep my heart open. there was a part of me deciding whether i wanted to go to ydc and onething... but thats 2 conferences back to back... so i had to choose one.

being in toledo was good times. a laughed a lot and just everything that happened this past semester was kind of able to be forgotten... or at least put on hold. thats what usually happens, when we end up hanging out everything in life is still there but at the same time i just forget about it because were having such a good time. im not the kind of person who has to always be doing something but just the usual games, bowling, hanging out is enough for me. without these friends my life would be so different, and im so thankful to God that were able to still be close despite changes in our lives.

ahhh the new year is coming!!!

2008 is almost over

i officially fail at blogging.

maybe in 2009 i'll improve.

there's a few things i want to do in the upcoming year... only God knows if they'll actually happen or not, and i realized that i can hope for a lot of things, but in the end it doesn't matter what i want... there's more to life than that.

1. get a tattoo - i'm thinking agape in greek - ἀγάπη - that'd be a sick tattoo)

2. go to thailand or vietnam - i've read and heard stories of the slums in these two beautiful countries, its tragic how sex trafficking is such a big industry in countries like these. i don't want to go "volunteer" but i just want to see with my own eyes a country and people other than just korea/koreans

3. snowboarding at least once

4. bungee jumping

5. during spring break... go to one of those travel agencies and look at the cheapest flight and just go

6. read more... way more than i did this year (the Bible, Christian books, and other good books)

7. learn to trust God with school... money... housing... life... direction...

8. be more open to talking to people in classes - kick out the anti-social in me

9. spend less money on food - eating out adds up like crazy... i need a practical plan for next semester for real

10. i will add more to this list...

the year is almost over. i hope the year ends well, don't really know what to expect right now. putting hope in something that you're not sure of is kind of hard. but i guess rather than being doubtful, i should be thankful at least for how this year has gone by. 2008 was full of eye-opening situations, conversations, encounters. i can't remember in 2007 what i had expected/hoped for the year, but overall i am thankful that i didn't mess up my first year in university and that God provides (in terms of friends, support, financial costs). even when i did qt in the mornings, i'd usually read a passage that was so relevant to my life that it was only God who could have led me to read whatever it was.

so as 2009 is just around the corner... i'm praying that the year will just end well. no drama. no arguments. no distractions.

btw... do the positives of snow outweigh the negatives? boo... snow...

Promises

Hebrews 10:23
Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful.

As much as I hope to do well in school.. in life.. whatever, I realized that there's so much more to life than my own successes. I find that a lot of people... even Christians talk get consumed by SCHOOL when of course I admit school is important, but isn't there more? At fellowship a few nights ago, we had sharing - so people voluntarily shared whatever was on their hearts. Many talked about school ... and how they trusted God... and their grades were good...

I don't know, maybe school was never a big struggle for me. I'm not the smartest person I know, but I work hard and hope that it'll pay off. But also, when I think about how I spend my time, I've given up a lot of things... like tv, shopping and so... what do I do with my time? Mostly studying, working, spend time with friends/family, fellowship or church. I'm still not sure of the promises which God has planned for me, but I'm holding onto hope... that He is faithful and is leading me in the best direction.

My first final tomorrow :) yay... heh
I want to praise God though, for being faithful in my first semester. The majority of it has been good... fun... I like the people I've met and become friends with. I just wonder what next semester will be like! I'm excited to attend onething at the end of this month, it should be pretty sweet.

friends

I know I'm a person who can't complain about the people I have in my life, especially my friends.
Not having friends has never been a problem for me, so it's easy to take them for granted since they're always there.

A friend asked me the other day to stop saying I didn't know him because I guess when I talk I sometimes imply that people I know for a few months.. I don't know very well. I didn't mean to make him feel like a stranger, nor anyone else I've met at school these past few months, especially those from fellowship.

My sister and I struggled a lot and got stressed about friends... even though we both are so blessed with amazing ones in our lives. Whether they're in UBF, from school or wherever, I can list friends in my life who have stuck by me and been there for me through everything.

I can't believe my first semester in university is coming to an end...
it's been an interesting year so far.
God has been faithful, as always. I'm looking forward to winter break -- can't wait to see all my really good friends, yayyyy

I should get back to studying... here come finals. Whoo hoo!