I'm so unprepared for my immunology midterm :( :( so much material, it's starting to feel like o-chem all over again, except w/ experiments. i guess ready or not, it's coming....just be disciplined and ask for God' grace.

a hard hw set was due today in my bioe class (hw is actually worth 40% in the class). i finished it last evening, after repeatly staring at the equeations and continuously flipping through the reader to see if it'll give me any clues, and bugging esther w/ questions. :P and i'm still not sure of all the problems, but i feel like i learned the most that i could taking into account the circumstances. before and in class, i watched other ppl near and far from me look and share/copy answer (it wasn't due til the end of class)...i could remember a time when that was something that would make realli angry and bitter in my heart (here i am slaving for hrs while for those ppl it onli takes 10 minutes)....but not anymore. God's sanctifying power has transformed my thinking, at least in that area. i realized that it doesn't bother me, not for the worldly reasons some would give (e.g. oh well, they'll fail the midterm b/c they didn't learn it and you did). the reasons y i don't copy other's answers is that ultimately it is out of pleasing the Lord that i do the hw, and that i should not measure my work in terms of standards of this world. i onli felt sad for those ppl that didn't look at doing work in this way, because ultimately they don't receive that full satisfaction that can onli be in Him. The deeds that we do are ultimately judged by Him and no other.

"As obedient children, do not be conformed to the former lusts which were yours in your ignorance, but like the Holy One who called you, be holy yourselves also in all your behavior; because it is written, "You shall be holy, for I am holy." If you address as Father the One who impartially judges according to each one's work, conduct yourselves in fear during the time of your stay on earth; knowing that you were not redeemed with perishable things like silver or gold from your futile way of life inherited from your forefathers, but with the precious blood, as of a lamb unblemished and spotless, the blood of Christ."
--1 Peter 1:14-19

Praise God for His Word!~ :)

Tony's sermon was awesome today....well, not to say that his sermons aren't *always* awesome (b/c of the enormous amount of Biblical and God centered-ness and emphasizing the gospel everywhere), but today's was.....i dunno. Even tho dan kepted falling sleep ;), i was realli realli awake altho i didn't sleep that well the nite before. I mean, it wasn't so much that i learned a lot knowledge-wise, but i felt realli fired up during and afterwards, b/c the doctrines of justification is soooo central to what Christianity is about, and there's so much heresy surrounding it that when tony preaches, he's just soooo good at bringing out the central points and making every clear without losing any "meat". :P *sigh* i wish i could be so eloquent....i often struggle on how to clearly present an idea or thought.....or even a feeling....but it's overwhelming to think that God could use a little tiny person like me to use for His purposes. :)

Reading carson's blog makes me feel like me and greg are old. :P but hopefully that onli means we are more mature and wiser than we were before. :)

Happy 22th birthday albert (even though u didn't get too much lunch)!~

my mouse died....*sniffle* *sniffle*.....i onli left it for a day.....:(

anyways, the third day concert was realli awesome! mac powell is so cool. :) well, of course all the other guys in the band is cool too, but they didn't say cool stuff like mac did. :P they are realli God-centered ppl, and loves to worship Him as He ought to be. The roller coasters were an added bonus too...plus all the stuff animals that greg won for me. :)

So, oddly enuf, i stayed friday nite at dan's mom's place and saturday nite at dan's dad place. Dan's mom and dad are interesting ppl in their own ways. His mom is realli nice and has a REALLI huge golden retriever named Chaucer, and his dad talks a lot and has many interesting things to say. :P Now i gained some insight into why dan is the way he is.....eh, something like that. :P

ok, gotta go do hw now w/ esther...she's smart! yay! Will be back to update more on this weekend soon.....:)

My mouse's eyes opened!!! it's so cute. :)

I think my mouse is deformed or something...its eyes aren't open and it walks funny. And it doedsn't eat any normal food and doesn't like water....this was tested by the fact that i repeatly pick it up by its tail and tries to stick its nose/mouth into the little water bowl/cap, but no avail...siiiiigh. So last nite me and fi tried different things to feed to it....doesn't like milk, but does like grapes and banana.....such a weird mouse!!

Fiona: c'mon, poop already. (not me.....the mouse :P....and it has since pooped)
Fiona: let's feed it some pork sung.
Yiyin: nooooo! it's vegetarian!

anyways, i spent a better part of the day attempting to do my bioe 153 problem set, but failing miserably....i think i have a realli slow learning curve. but at least someone today was nice and told me that i'm special, so that all makes up for it (well, kinda :P).

gonna hit the sack soon....or so tina would say. :P

example of greg-like behavior ;)

eculeus125: you!
eculeus125: u u u u
eculeus125: dun be idle
eculeus125: un-idle-ize
eculeus125: didn't u know that idles are bad?
eculeus125: "You shall not have any idles before me"
eculeus125: remember?

I'm not being disciplined. :( well, i have been for the last two hrs.....it's actually not that bad once u get started--it's the getting started part that i have trouble w/. :P

Something Shelley said today hit me. She said that the readings for the small grp should be supplemental to our own study of the Scriptures, and not replacement it....because "God's words is always better than man's words." so if we only had time on a particular day to do one, we should read the Bible and not the reading. that's something i'm lazy about i guess, cuz sometimes i would substitute reading Scripture w/ reading a spiritual book, for various reasons....maybee i dun hafta think as much, or it's more entertaining, or i think i need some exposition or explanation of the Scripture in order to understand it. that's not the right perspective tho....

i'm tired....only 5.5 hrs of sleep left...good nite.

small group was cool! it's always encouraging to hear about the power of the Word of God to go out and convict and renew ppl. :) I think it's cool how when you read all these Books that Paul wrote, you realize that he wrote them not to only the elders or the leaders of the church, but to ALL the believers there. He always emphasized the importance of the unity of the Body (Phil. 2, Eph. 4), and that there is only ONE Body. Therefore, when i go to small group and bible studies, i should be joyful to be a part of the local body! And that all of us who come from all kinds of backgrounds can come together and be united in the eternal hope that we have!

I had sushi today for dinner. yum yum. :) :) me and theresa want to make some....supposedly it's not that....ooooor, we could just buy slabs of raw fish especially for sushi at Berkeley Bowl and eat sashmi. =D

Esther: I'm so happy i'm going to Berkeley Bowl!
Yi: (someone cool like me!) :P

Plans: making of swedish meatballs for dinner on Friday. :) :)
for some reason, me and theresa always talk about food....especially cooking food. ;)

did you know.....that there's realli realli weird bookends out there for sale?

Today Fiona asked me what my spiritual goals are for the semester so that the three of us in the apt can keep each other accountable to them....I said that my goal is to not sin. =D wada u think? bah, maybee i should think about it more.

you know how the popular phrase WWJD is everywhere? but the right question is not "what would Jesus do?", but "what has Jesus done?" i never thought about that before...but that's what Paul did in all his preaching throughout the NT, and that's where the power for the Christian life comes from.

diddy reese cookies are realli yummie w/ milk...i think my favorite kind is candy. :)

Fi: Mike might be moving to la. :(
Yi: Let's do the Friends Fly for Free!! =D
(c'mon, i'm asian)

Yi: It's important to followup on prayer request in small group.
Fi: So, how's the research project and proposal coming?
Yi: (silence)

Yi: what's the ULTIMATE purpose of small group?
Fi: grow in spiritual walk.
Yi: well, that's one of the purpose...
Fi: encouragement through sharing.
Yi: it's one of them....
Fi: perseverance through accountability.
Yi: mmmmm....
Fi: support with love.
Yi: that's another one...
Fi: what dictionary are you using?!?
Yi: =D

hewwo?
testing testing?
waaaah!