Can't believe I'm freaking 38 years old already. I think I'm really getting old... can't really stay awake much... getting really tired at around 12-ish... and I can't really make up the lost sleep in the morning because I'd wake up in the morning!
Anyway, we didn't take advantage of Disneyland again this year... don't want to bankrupt Disneyland with 2 free b-day tickets again..., plus, wife doesn't really want to visit Disneyland again anyway! ;) So this year, since our b-day is in the middle of the week, we decided to just chill out and take it easy!
787 work had really burned me out a little... actually lost quite a bit of sleep over that! Burning the midnight oil try to meet deadlines... so I'm glad that is over. Plus, wife and I had not been fighting much lately! (Fighting usually means lost sleep too!) So hallelujah! ;) Today's scripture was particularly encouraging to me!
10 The LORD sits enthroned over the flood;
the LORD is enthroned as King forever.
11 The LORD gives strength to his people;
the LORD blesses his people with peace.
But of course God only helps those who wants help! Since one of our main problem is that my inability to carry out meaningful and interesting conversations, I have been trying to read up some more stuffs in order to generate more conversation topics that can help bring us closer together... Honest to God, I have never read more books in my life... all this I have my wife to thank too! I never really had the hunger for more knowledge... very complacent personality... So I think for sure God give me my wife to kick my lazy butt on the right path and try and work hard in order to prevent us from turning our marriage into a yellow-dog marriage!
I think God has probably sent Little K to remind me to exercise my brain some more by memorizing more new vocabularies! Today's word of the day happens to be 'yellow dog', that's weird... is that really a word? Or merriam webster dictionary is crazier than I am? ;)
Anyway, we enjoyed a nice little new restaraunt we found on Yelp. Pretty good food and reasonably priced. Not only that, we had a soup, appitizer, 2 entrees, and then 2 desserts and we didn't even get fat!!! WHOA, that was like too good to be true! Wife and I recently started a plan to lose weight together because we are steadily gaining weight for some reason, we've been making steady progress so far... and I was like expecting to completely mess the plan up, but instead, we continue to lose weight! Amzing! ;) Afterwards, I gave her a LUSH bomb bath! That really help relaxed her and put her into a good mood I think.
May God continue to give me the wisdom to know how put push wife's right buttons instead of the wrong buttons! ;)
(20/20, 175.2 lbs, $3.179)
Friday, January 29, 2010
Sunday, January 17, 2010
Enneagram
787 work seems to continue to drag on for whatever reasons. Thought I'd be done by the end of the year, but then it kept on going and going..., after this week, maybe it'll be done for sure..., but then again, Lord knows. ;) It kept me busy and lost a few nights sleep too, but at least I was able to make a few bucks out of that. At least I appreciate that part, just hope that the extended work hours won't just drag on indefinitely though. Wife was also making extra income this month. Besides teaching, she had to work extra recording some score for movies. Very tiring work actually, but I think she likes it better because she doesn't have to deal with some of the lazy and untalented students! That is just so unbearable for a 'Perfectionist'! ;)
Yeah, we've recently discovered our types of personality thru facebook. Wife is a perfectionist(Reformer) and I'm a peacemaker. Thru the website http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/, I also managed to learn the good things and the bad things about such a combination. It was shocking for me to learn how accurate of a description they had for us whether the good or the bad! Actually Pastor Su had already done something similar for us during our pre-marriage counciling. He was pretty good too... he had already warned us of the potential problems we might face, but we weren't really there back then, so the impact wasn't as great I guess. Now after the fact, I was just amazed how psychologists already knew about people like us! It took wife and I years to get to know one another, but psycologists already know what we're like... what's even more shocking to me that there are only roughly 9 types of people.
So if I truly learned about all 9 types of folks, and how to properly deal with them... then I guess I will be awesome in all kinds of social situations... perhaps also stratigically spread the gospel differently with different personality types?
Anyway, first things first, I need to learn to deal with perfectionists better! ;)
I also signed up to have that website send me words of encouragement/improvement every day. Today, it says:
Remember, you will grow by moving toward those things that are symbolized by Type Three. Can you acknowledge your potential and recognize your own value today?
Type III's are 'Achievers'. I do score kinda low at the 'Achiever' category. Low self confidence? Dunno. But yeah, today I'm going to acknowledge my potential and recognize my own value! ;)
Today's 20/20 reading actually was about how Abraham asked his servant to find Isaac a wife back home... That's actually the part I was reading when I was about to find my wife... I used the same tactic as the servant used... asked for 3 signs to be sure I'm finding the right one. (Wife also had her own 'signs'!)
So anyway, no marriage is going to be perfect and problem free. Although a perfectionist may disagree with that, at last God will help us thru our troubles and imperfectons and the move both of us more toward that perfection. We just need to have faith like Abraham to hang in there I guess. God can't possibly lead us wrong, right? Right. ;)
(20/20, 172.6 lbs, $3.179)
Yeah, we've recently discovered our types of personality thru facebook. Wife is a perfectionist(Reformer) and I'm a peacemaker. Thru the website http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/, I also managed to learn the good things and the bad things about such a combination. It was shocking for me to learn how accurate of a description they had for us whether the good or the bad! Actually Pastor Su had already done something similar for us during our pre-marriage counciling. He was pretty good too... he had already warned us of the potential problems we might face, but we weren't really there back then, so the impact wasn't as great I guess. Now after the fact, I was just amazed how psychologists already knew about people like us! It took wife and I years to get to know one another, but psycologists already know what we're like... what's even more shocking to me that there are only roughly 9 types of people.
So if I truly learned about all 9 types of folks, and how to properly deal with them... then I guess I will be awesome in all kinds of social situations... perhaps also stratigically spread the gospel differently with different personality types?
Anyway, first things first, I need to learn to deal with perfectionists better! ;)
I also signed up to have that website send me words of encouragement/improvement every day. Today, it says:
Remember, you will grow by moving toward those things that are symbolized by Type Three. Can you acknowledge your potential and recognize your own value today?
Type III's are 'Achievers'. I do score kinda low at the 'Achiever' category. Low self confidence? Dunno. But yeah, today I'm going to acknowledge my potential and recognize my own value! ;)
Today's 20/20 reading actually was about how Abraham asked his servant to find Isaac a wife back home... That's actually the part I was reading when I was about to find my wife... I used the same tactic as the servant used... asked for 3 signs to be sure I'm finding the right one. (Wife also had her own 'signs'!)
So anyway, no marriage is going to be perfect and problem free. Although a perfectionist may disagree with that, at last God will help us thru our troubles and imperfectons and the move both of us more toward that perfection. We just need to have faith like Abraham to hang in there I guess. God can't possibly lead us wrong, right? Right. ;)
(20/20, 172.6 lbs, $3.179)
Monday, January 4, 2010
New year New hope!
The year actually began wonderfully..., I've never celebrated the new year that way before!!! Not the most exciting new year, but definitely the most wonderous! But 'good scene don't last long' unfortunately... things turned out really bad because wife and I end up having a really huge fight thanks to the stupid movie Avatar! It was a decent movie I guess, besides the predictable story, it is actually not too bad overall. It's just too bad that it end up causing us to have a huge fight... So interestingly that 2010 began with a new height... and then fell into a new low... what an emotional roller coaster!
But fear not! Today's 20/20 devotion, God told me this:
Psalm 4:5 Offer right sacrifices and trust in the LORD.
Just do what I'm suppose to do and then trust God... and voila! God was able to lead us out of the valley of shadow of death! ;) I think God used this bad situation to further help wife and I get to know each other even more! 'no fight no know each other!' Tonite I was able to have decent enough of a discussion with the wife, developed based on the fights we had, and I think it helped her feel a bit better and offer her new hope!
Anyway, tomorrow is another day... more sacrfices will be in order and I will continue to trust in my God! :)
(20/20, 174.6 lbs, $3.159)
But fear not! Today's 20/20 devotion, God told me this:
Psalm 4:5 Offer right sacrifices and trust in the LORD.
Just do what I'm suppose to do and then trust God... and voila! God was able to lead us out of the valley of shadow of death! ;) I think God used this bad situation to further help wife and I get to know each other even more! 'no fight no know each other!' Tonite I was able to have decent enough of a discussion with the wife, developed based on the fights we had, and I think it helped her feel a bit better and offer her new hope!
Anyway, tomorrow is another day... more sacrfices will be in order and I will continue to trust in my God! :)
(20/20, 174.6 lbs, $3.159)
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