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)
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Life after 787...
Had been super busy with work for the past month and cousin Jen just recently went back home after visiting us during the Christmas break... so things are slowly settling back down.
Faith Community Church is starting a new devotional campaign called the 20/20. Hopefully it can really help me 'see' God more clearly. Life had been kinda hectic lately.
I was kinda annoyed at work because supposedly I was picked to do more 787 work, but somehow office politics got in the way so that somehow got derailed. Oh well. I'm not really that particularly attached to that plane, it's just that 7-8-07 was our anniversary date and has a special meaning to me that's all.
Anyway, I was working on a particular part on 787 called the 'pickle fork' and that item was actually the 7th of all the rest of the item. So anyway, regardless what happens, I still kinda see that as if God's reminding me that He's still with me no matter what!
Today's 20/20 reading, this scripture verse came to my attention:
Isaiah 65
23 They will not toil in vain
or bear children doomed to misfortune;
for they will be a people blessed by the LORD,
they and their descendants with them.
May God bless us... and cousin Jen... since she is a descendant of a blessed family! So hopefully she'll be able to have a blessed 'marriage' with some blessed guy! ;)
Faith Community Church is starting a new devotional campaign called the 20/20. Hopefully it can really help me 'see' God more clearly. Life had been kinda hectic lately.
I was kinda annoyed at work because supposedly I was picked to do more 787 work, but somehow office politics got in the way so that somehow got derailed. Oh well. I'm not really that particularly attached to that plane, it's just that 7-8-07 was our anniversary date and has a special meaning to me that's all.
Anyway, I was working on a particular part on 787 called the 'pickle fork' and that item was actually the 7th of all the rest of the item. So anyway, regardless what happens, I still kinda see that as if God's reminding me that He's still with me no matter what!
Today's 20/20 reading, this scripture verse came to my attention:
Isaiah 65
23 They will not toil in vain
or bear children doomed to misfortune;
for they will be a people blessed by the LORD,
they and their descendants with them.
May God bless us... and cousin Jen... since she is a descendant of a blessed family! So hopefully she'll be able to have a blessed 'marriage' with some blessed guy! ;)
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Monday, December 14, 2009
787 Almost Airborne
Suppose to be delivered on July 8th 2007, our anniversary date... after more than 2 years, it may be finally ready to take flight tomorrow... weather permitting... ;)
Friday, December 4, 2009
Blink...
Wow, past month seemed to have passed me by in a blink of an eye! Mostly been busy with working on the Dreamliner! Some called the plane the impossible dream, but we'll just have to wait and see... expecting the worst, yet hoping for the best! At least I'm earning some overtime money! ;) The part I'm responsible for is called a 'pickle fork' and was assigned an item number of 7! I will take that as a positive sign and things will go well in the end because God is with me?
I also finished reading a book called 'Blink'. It talks about how our subconscious mind can make rapid decisions without us knowing how it was made. Sometimes the decisions are good... other times it may be bad... so it all depends. I've been reading a series of decision related books recently. "sources of power", "predictably irrational", and now "blink". I think the main issue with my slow decision making process is simply because I'm too inexperienced with life! ;) Practice does make perfect. Furthermore, I think perhaps my subconscious mind is just somewhat damaged or something... Yes, the book mentioned that there is a specific area of the brain if damaged, can cause people to be really indecisive. They can list all the pros and cons all day long, but won't be able to reach a decision in the end! I don't think I'm that bad, but for sure wife thinks that I'm bad enough.
Anyway, another interesting thing I found out with their research is that our facial muscles do not just express our emotions within. We CAN actually make ourselves happier by activating the muscles we use to smile! Interestingly I read about this when Pastor Jim was preaching about sometimes we ought to 'act' good even when we don't feel like acting good. And this brings us to another interesting thing... that is... exactly which is our true self? The one that feels sad or feel like doing bad things... or the one decided to 'act' good and happy?
Of course in the real world, such as economist, whatever we actually 'do' is considered as what's the real us. Psychologists on the other hand would have problems identifying which is the real you..., but as for God, I'm sure He can figure us out easily for He truly knows our hearts!
Anyway, past month has also been filled with some difficulties too. Such as fighting with dear wife... But everytime after we fight, I do gain new insight on who my wife is... and what kind of man I am. So it's not like our fights were all in vain..., but hopefully someday we can grow without the fights! ;) Besides our own difficulties, one of our dear friend is current going thru some difficulties of his own as well. Is God really Handpicking this Tangerine for some special purpose? I'm happy and excited and at the same time sad and worry about our friend's future.
Oh well, we'll just have to continue to expect the worst(so that we may be prepared to handle all difficulties coming our way), and hope for the best! If God is with us, why wouldn't He give us the best? :) We may not be able to predict exactly what's going to happen tomorrow... such as we can't predict how the stock market will go tomorrow, but in the long haul, surely stockmarkets had been steadily growing leaping past even the worst depressions! So YEAH! Our best is indeed yet to come!
Oh, btw, I've temporarily quit sodas for a while... I think it has been helping me to lose some weight. Sure looking fwd to another sip of Coke soon. O God O God when can I sip on Coca-Cola again? Hopefully soon? In another blink of an eye?
(Gen 1-3, 171.0 lbs, $3.05)
I also finished reading a book called 'Blink'. It talks about how our subconscious mind can make rapid decisions without us knowing how it was made. Sometimes the decisions are good... other times it may be bad... so it all depends. I've been reading a series of decision related books recently. "sources of power", "predictably irrational", and now "blink". I think the main issue with my slow decision making process is simply because I'm too inexperienced with life! ;) Practice does make perfect. Furthermore, I think perhaps my subconscious mind is just somewhat damaged or something... Yes, the book mentioned that there is a specific area of the brain if damaged, can cause people to be really indecisive. They can list all the pros and cons all day long, but won't be able to reach a decision in the end! I don't think I'm that bad, but for sure wife thinks that I'm bad enough.
Anyway, another interesting thing I found out with their research is that our facial muscles do not just express our emotions within. We CAN actually make ourselves happier by activating the muscles we use to smile! Interestingly I read about this when Pastor Jim was preaching about sometimes we ought to 'act' good even when we don't feel like acting good. And this brings us to another interesting thing... that is... exactly which is our true self? The one that feels sad or feel like doing bad things... or the one decided to 'act' good and happy?
Of course in the real world, such as economist, whatever we actually 'do' is considered as what's the real us. Psychologists on the other hand would have problems identifying which is the real you..., but as for God, I'm sure He can figure us out easily for He truly knows our hearts!
Anyway, past month has also been filled with some difficulties too. Such as fighting with dear wife... But everytime after we fight, I do gain new insight on who my wife is... and what kind of man I am. So it's not like our fights were all in vain..., but hopefully someday we can grow without the fights! ;) Besides our own difficulties, one of our dear friend is current going thru some difficulties of his own as well. Is God really Handpicking this Tangerine for some special purpose? I'm happy and excited and at the same time sad and worry about our friend's future.
Oh well, we'll just have to continue to expect the worst(so that we may be prepared to handle all difficulties coming our way), and hope for the best! If God is with us, why wouldn't He give us the best? :) We may not be able to predict exactly what's going to happen tomorrow... such as we can't predict how the stock market will go tomorrow, but in the long haul, surely stockmarkets had been steadily growing leaping past even the worst depressions! So YEAH! Our best is indeed yet to come!
Oh, btw, I've temporarily quit sodas for a while... I think it has been helping me to lose some weight. Sure looking fwd to another sip of Coke soon. O God O God when can I sip on Coca-Cola again? Hopefully soon? In another blink of an eye?
(Gen 1-3, 171.0 lbs, $3.05)
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