I don't understand how some people can enjoy doing dishes or say that it relieves stress when doing them. You people who you are. I mean God bless you guys and all (especially when you guys are doing my dishes), but stress-relieving or enjoyable aren't the words that come to mind when I'm doing the dishes. It's more like "omg...how long has this been here? Is this supposed to be this color? Dang roommates! Wash the food out of your bowl so I don't have to scrub the bowl for three minutes to get this awful smelling crust off. Where did these noodles come from? Why is the water not going down! Oh it's because it's clogged with...OMG....WTF is this?!?!? It feels like hair and smells like green tea and bbq chicken...."

So if you guys like doing dishes, you know where to come.

Went to Interpraise tonight (where a bunch of fellowships on campus get together and just worship and praise together). I thought it was pretty good, better than last semester's I think. Pastor Dennis Tuma is the man. So much good stuff coming out of his talk and he's entertaining at the same time.

One thing that struck out during the night was when Dennis Cole was talking about The Call, which is a gathering coming up at 3Com park where a buttload of people will get together and worship, and he was talking about the influence Christians can have through music, film, etc, and was like "Christian movies don't have to suck." Of course people were laughing and all that, but I was thinking, the few Christian movies and music videos that I've seen haven't been pretty good. I just finished watching DC Talk "Jesus Freak" and Relient K "Pressing On." The Relient K video was one of the most boring music videos I've seen. Granted, perhaps that's what they were going for, and it's also a relief from the extravagant over produced crap in a lot of music videos today, but I was just wondering if the lack of quality in these pieces of work are done intentionally as so not to take away from the message, or because there is a dearth of resources (whether it be financial or skill) when it comes to Christian art. This is pretty hard to swallow because I see so much talent within the fellowship I'm in now, and just seeing all the different fellowships today, I can only imagine the vast amount of talent out there that may or may not have been explored. It's just a shame that we as Christians aren't putting it to use. I dunno, just something to chew on.

BTW, ONE GAME AWAY...

-Phil

Ooh World Series tied at 2-2. Whew. I'm still confident in my Giants. The only sucky part is that WHEN the Giants win, they'll be back in Anaheim. No fireworks. No rushing the field. Oh well. I shall have my own celebration at home with my Giants fans.

Midterms are over for now, so I've been chilling and doing absolutely nothing for the last two days. I even played counter-strike a little the past couple of days for the first time in a while. That's how much time I've had. Oh and I've been playing this addicting helicopter game the past couple of days:


Addiction


Korey thinks it's stupid, but I've seen him sneak in a few games every once in a while. Plus, I think he's just bitter that he can't score as high as me. 1870. Try it out for yourselves and let me know if you guys can beat me. I'm rooting for ya. Kwan got really close, like within 72 points.

Jimmy Eat World - "Crush"

Such good imagery in this song. He talks about how the suppression of his feelings for someone is like taking in a deep breath and holding it to the point that his lungs ache. Man, this band paints some cool pictures. I wrote a couple of blogs ago how the line in "If you don't, don't" had this awesome line "We once walked out on the beach and once I almost touched your hand." Granted I've never done that but you get such a good idea of all the emotions involved in such a vivid picture through such simple words.

Btw, I am a hopeless romantic. So sue me. I'd be suspicious if you told me you weren't.

This past weekend I went home and saw my mom become ordained as one of the deacons in her church. It was a pretty big deal for her, and even though the service was incredibly boring because the guest speaker had to have every line translated in Korean even though he was Korean himself apparently showing he didn't know a word of Korean and the translator had a hard time with certain words therby leading to a talk that seemed like it went on thirty minutes even though it was probably closer to twenty minutes but who's counting?, I still felt really happy for my mom to see the smile on her face when she was ordained. She's been really faithful to God and to the church these past few years even though it must not have always been easy for her. So I was real proud to see her become the first and only woman deacon in the church. Go mom!

My roommates are freakin hilarious. Elvin is just real chill and I have a fun time messing around with him, even though he slips in these shots in every once in a while that are just devastating. Oh and last night, Korey was playing this Park Jin Hyun (spelling? I dunno) video, and Kwan started dancing, and later on Korey started doing this weird thigh master squeeze dance in his chair. Hilarious I say. Hmmm, reading this now, it just sounds scary. Oh well.

Hey guys, let's hang out. I have some free time now. Some.

"Like a breath...."

-Phil