I think I'm just going to write tonight. I'm sitting in my chair listening to some worship song and I think I want to just exhale a bit. I think life has been really good. I'm really happy with a lot of things that are happening around me. I sat in on nice sunday school class today. i feel like sunday school is really rolling along nicely. There is something I forgot and haven't done in a while.

Once upon a time people would ask me how my day was going and I would say, "best day i've ever had" and because everyday i'm getting closer to God and that was true, either through intimacy or through the fact that I'm older and one day closer to heaven. here, this week God has reminded me of that. I'm good to be unphased by the crap that happens but even nicer to see the hand of God and be filled with joy in seeing it. Now i realize that isn't less true but I've not said it out loud and i think it's because i'm conforming to the workplace. something i'm going to change.

i'm going to read the Bible a bit. it'll be nice to just read with no objective tonight. wait... forget that, i have nehemiah for 7up... no... not tonight. forget it. I'm just going to read something random. it'll be date night with Jesus :D

"Brothers, what we do in life... echoes in eternity. " -
from the movie "Gladiator"

I was thinking about this quote before and just now, I was watching a web series where this fictional guy's life was impacted most because of that quote. It's really interesting.

If you guys have time, check out this site...it's pretty cool. A Christian site with many mixed media for our generation. www.steelroots.com

Gym Goals update

So for the most part I've reached my goals. I'm actually at the gym a lot and it's good. Just figured I'd let you guys know I'm doing well. I completed my fitness test yesterday and it worked out pretty well.

I'm planning Feb now. I'll keep you all posted.

randomly found this song. I thought it was pretty sick beats for anyone that likes rap. Might wanna not watch and just listen though.

East Asia Sharing "Notes"

Ou, exciting stuff.
I'll be honest that I didn't really take notes...
I sort of don't understand my notes as well.... =.=;;

East Asia Sharing

• Drama - Spiritual Warfare (East Asia drama/The great commission drama)
• Plot Twist: Like Cliffhangers (Not sure what'll happen the next day)

^ So, basically during the sharing, they were saying that a lot of "Drama" occured and most of them ended as a plot twist. But in the end, things eventually "even out"

For example, one of the stories they said was that one day, the school leader-person changed/added a residency rule for foreign students that they were prohibited from living outside of Campus. Due to that rule change, they couldn't really have a fellowship group/bible study group, so they prayed about it and decided to be-friend the school leader-lady. Eventually, they ended up persuading her to let them live outside of campus and yeeeeeeeuh.

Then later on during the sharing, the guy brought a really interesting point: "Are you trying to be like Christ or training to be like Christ?" Well, he didn't exactly say that, but t'was something like that. So basically, he was saying how, if you're trying to be like Christ, you won't be able to get the result you want; which is to be like Christ. But if you're training to be Christ, then you will. Hahahaha~ Well, to understand it better, the analogy he used was, "If you want to be an athlete, then trying to be an athlete won't get you there, because you're trying to imitate what an athlete does (I guess it's sorta like... you'll only get the surface layer of it?) ; while training to be an athlete is more like, eventually, you'll get the result?"

I don't know how he said it :P Sorrrrrrryyy :(

Sorry for not really taking notes, it was a very... edge-of-the-seat interesting thing to listen to. The sharing was really~ interesting. It's a joy to hear people talk about their experience(s). ^^

Mmm, I guess that'll be it? Hope that I'll be able to blog/update more ^^

Running versus Running

I guess this is something that Bryan and Dave might care about but then again I’m not sure if they share the same issue with me since I’m n00b at running. This morning I was running to the bus stop because I left the house a bit late. Honestly, I thought I was running kinda hard since it was about a minute later than I’d like to be and making up a minute is hard so I figured I’d run. As I got a fair distance I was tired and out of breath I started walking briskly. Then it happened, I saw one guy running to the stop. He was close and I could tell he was running because he might miss the bus. I exploded forward and ran hard. As I was running I could see the bus pulling out and I ran even faster. The weak sauce mechanisms that hold me back turned off and I was flying. I caught the bus and as I got on the bus I could feel blood rushing to my legs still. I had the heighten sense of awareness that usually comes with situations like that and I realize that I often think I’m running my hardest but I’m really just jogging. As a Christian I mean. Moments when we face off with the devil and we win it makes us wonder why we lose at all. When we look at life and overcome and not get entangled by the “failures” we begin to wonder why we ever cared to begin with. I’ll leave the thought off here. Any times you guys succeeded or failed recently?

Beautiful Things

This picture is interesting. You have skulls and dead things that make up a flower into something beautiful. I guess I've been learning that it's not really about how well I do things or how well I do Bible studies but it's about how God works through me. I learned this from leading my last Bible study. It felt really dry and I felt really discouraged during the study. I didn't know what to say at times and it felt like I was just asking questions that I didn't know the answer to. But at the end of the study, one person spoke up and said that his perspective of God was changed because of the study. CRAZY RIGHT? I thought I was doing a horrible job but somethow God made it work. I can't take any of the credit. Maybe that's the point...we can't have any of the credit even if we tried. So yea...God does His thing through us.

Here's the real song...hope you guys are blessed by it.

dexter: season 3

So i've gotten to seasons 3 of dexter. the season i keep hearing that it's not as good as the others. I knew this would be the reason why but now that i'm 3 eps in and the story continues to develop I am pretty sure. Why don't people like it? Because they aren't married. lol~ pretty simple to me but the idea of identification is lost on most people. when dexter kills that pedophile for stalking Aster i totally get that. It resonates as I know i would do that for my kids. the lion protects his cubs and it goes much deeper than the justice of right and wrong. it goes into the paternal instincts of all fathers and our Father. It's funny for me to see this and realize part of the reason people don't appreciate God is because they don't get it, what it means that God is our Father and what that means. When we see then it becomes personal.

Hello!

Hey guys,

Hope your weeks are going good! Btw, good luck on all your exams and homework! Just would like to say "hi"=) Have a blessed week of doing exams with God.

my first game

so i played my first game of star craft 2 this past weekend. Just one game. It's interesting to me to see all the things i had to deal with. insecurity. confusion. all thing things that i theoretically know and yet find trouble putting into practical action. It's like being a Christian, right?

Anyway, I figured I should share some thoughts so I don't hoard the experience to myself. One thing I realized is that actions per minute were important to me. when I was younger (your age?) I played star craft 1 and i didn't do a lot of stuff. my 30 actions per minute or 2 seconds per action you could say. Now I would imagine my apm to be closer to 100 as there are quiet a few things i am doing. What's the difference between then and now is not that my hands are faster, but the number of necessary actions has increased. It used to be ok to play at a slow rate because there wasn't much i wanted to do. Now I got tons to do and not enough time to do it all. Noob christians are like that, they think there isn't anything to do so they do nothing. The challenge is then showing them the loveliness of being one with the Lord and seeing what the Father does and then we will be compelled to do more and more and more until we reach 300 apm which is already considered the minimum level for pro gamers. :D

a quick vid on apm

Interesting Song I thought I'd Share

Enoch's Gym Goals

so it's been a little while since posting here and I guess i should at least say "hi". Anyway, I've been trying to get back into the gym and getting into the gym list style. I think that's the biggest change in my approach is to have specific goals and push towards them. I guess I'm no longer playing this game for fun but to improve.

I feel like i should write something since I haven't in a while. Here's a copy of my goals.

Muscle	Goals	Exercise
Biceps	40	Curls
Tricepts	35	Extension
Chest	105	Bench
Lats	105	Pull Down
Row	45	Row
Quad	75	Leg Press
Ham	60	Leg Curl
Calves	75	Calf Raise
Abs	130 reps	Various
Shoulder	15	Fly
Weight	174

What I learned today

When you have an ISU due the next day and you haven't started much, I think is when the gears start kicking in and you're forced to go full speed.

HEYYY Whats happening next sunday??

heyyyy guysss and girlsss
just wondering whats gonna happen next week for NHG like wat are we going to start on??
or who is going to lead next week?? or better yet who wants to lead?? or find an interesting topic that we can read and go into..


Nathan

How I've Been Doing

Hey guys,

Well, I just got back from Hong Kong yesterday. Annoying part is that I get tired easily now and I start to zone out when it gets to 4 PM. Well, school's been okay. I'm still figuring out my role in the school and still struggling to really establish a kingdom mindset at school. It just seems like it's harder to live for God at school as opposed to maybe church. Iunno why...more distractions I suppose? I guess I'm still figuring out my own cell group at Didomi and still struggling with getting to know my co-leaders. Kinda realized with ministries or serving, that everything's not going to be given to me on a silver plate. Right now, it's not with all the ministries at school and church. We'll see how it goes and I just really hope for more faith this year in God with my ministries. Faith in what? I don't know yet. I think I'm still figuring it out.