February 2011
77 posts
[while making guacamole]
mom: I think it needs more orange
me: you mean lemon
mom: whatever, same thing.
January 2011
72 posts
there’s a very strong possibility that the old phone I’ve been using that doesn’t ring or vibrate may actually still ring, and the only reason it hasn’t been ringing all these weeks is because I’ve kept it on silent.
but still, I get mad sometimes about the stolen phone. I was in the middle of reading Anna Karenina on my iBooks app.
Before We Meet - Camera Can’t Lie
sometimes, I really believe being jobless has been a blessing. I was able to go to China this summer on the GP without worrying about a summer start date. it allowed me to leave for Hong Kong on 48-hour notice when my grandpa got sick and stay there for an entire month. I didn’t officially restart my job search until mid-September and only did it half-heartedly for 2.5 months, taking a few...
“Today is mine. Tomorrow is none of my business. If I peer anxiously into the fog...”
– Elisabeth Elliot, Keep a Quiet Heart (via kevinkong)
“Never under any circumstances say “things can’t get worse.” Life will prove you...”
– Unknown. (via kari-shma)
Brothers Shimm: Deathbed Confessions →
shimm:
Here’s a question to make you think.
If you were lying on your deathbed tomorrow, what would be your greatest regret?
I’m not asking you to tell me, “I would have no regrets because what’s past is past, and Jesus has forgiven,” don’t answer this. But think about it. I thought to myself, “What if?
I would regret the time I’ve wasted not giving my best effort… because we don’t have time....
“Time present and time past
Are both perhaps present in time future
And time...”
– excerpt from Four Quartets, T.S. Eliot
stop and stare I think I’m moving but I go nowhere yeah I know that everyone gets scared but I’ve become what I can’t be, oh
stop and stare you start to wonder why you’re here not there and you’d give anything to get what’s fair but fair ain’t what you really need
my new year's resolution
…is to stay healthy.
just kidding, kind of. it’s to do everything for a reason.
“So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God.” -1 Corinthians 10:31
some recent compliments
1. “Wow you got so skinny!” 2. “Your color is a lot better. The last time I saw you, you were kind of greenish …not that green is a bad color.” 3. “You have a really good PICC line!”
the last one is definitely my favorite, and one I’ve heard quite a few times. I didn’t even know there were such things as bad PICC lines, I’m really...
Last night I invited some people over to watch the Jets-Steelers game. What started out as a simple night of football and pasta turned into a deep discussion, beginning with praise team “probation”, and tangent-ing to a bunch of other topics before ending with issues that New York Asian-Americans face, questions that many of us need to answer on our own, and an email as an answer to...
“A Proverbs 31 woman deserves a Proverbs 1-30 man.”
– Unknown
(HT: Keith Fong)
“You meet thousands of people, and none of them really touch you. And then you...”
– Love And Other Drugs (via anditslove)
My Heart - Paramore
favorite song by Paramore?...
“With photographs, we have concrete proof that we have not been hallucinating all...”
– Max Kozloff (via thingssheloves)
my meds have been reduced from 10 to 8, I can now roll (literally) out of bed on my own, walk up and down the stairs without having to stop and catch my breath halfway, lie down when I sleep, and walk around for more than 15 minutes.
I still can’t open some doors, but hey, progress is progress!
“We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told,...”
– C.S. Lewis
approaching the 24-hour mark of not eating… the biggest lesson I’ve learned so far:
don’t watch tv when you’re hungry. I’m now craving crab (Joe’s Crab Shack), pizza (CiCi’s Pizza Buffet and Dominos), Wendy’s, and Taco Bell. they should be happy to know that their advertising is very effective, especially since I never eat fast food..
it all started with an endoscopy. might as well end (hopefully) with a colonoscopy. har har. 18 hours down, 18 more to go… I am so hungry.
God, please let this be the last thing. I don’t think I can handle anymore.
The Cure for Pain - Jon Foreman
and here tonight...
today someone told me I look 14 yrs old. it makes sense; I feel myself regressing with each passing day. thank you, meds.
things I'll never take for granted again
(but probably will)
1. sleeping on my side or lying flat down 2. getting out of bed on my own 3. opening a door (that weighs more than 5 pounds) 4. putting a jacket/hoodie on by myself 5. uncapping a pill bottle/jar
and finally everything from last January is starting to come back to me. the uncertainty, the tears, the waiting, the hope, the pain. a little late; I wish I had remembered back in March. and I forgot everything that happened in March as well once April and May came along. damn my short term memory. if you had invited someone over to your house and they trashed it, you wouldn’t invite them...
here’s a night, and it shines and it calls us on and on so be here by my side, and watch the stars they’re ours make a wish or just take charge the moment comes get lost and go far
You Be The Anchor That Keeps My Feet On The...
I’m terrible at resting and doing nothing. every part of me wants to jump back into everything, start applying to jobs again, do a bunch of different things at once and keep busy. I have mental lists of all the projects I want to start.
but I’m not allowed to at this time — physically not allowed to, and perhaps that’s for the best. it was so easy at school to find...
“… because thing’s change. And friends leave. And life doesn’t stop for anybody.”
– - Stephen Chbosky - Perks of Being a Wallflower
(submitted by d-hu)
so much music tonight. some covers and rearrangements and just a lot of random. oh it feels so good to sing again.
“I’m pretty sure I didn’t eat anything in the middle of the night,...”
– dad
Praise God, I’m finally home after 3 weeks and 2 days of being in the hospital. they almost didn’t let me out today, since I’m anemic and the last time my blood count was low, they gave me 2 units of blood. it’s even lower this time. but I finally got to see the snow today as we were driving home from the hospital; it was beautiful. and it felt fantastic to breathe in the...
