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...