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Wednesday, 08 July 2009

  • every pastor/Christian article I read...
    talk about how we are living this this age or that age.

    1. Relativism age -belief that all points of view are equally valid. What you think is right and wrong is right and wrong for you, and what I think is right and wrong is right and wrong for me. Though our lists may be different, our lists are equally legitimate.

    "That's true for you but not for me"
    "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder"
    "You can't judge other cultures by the standards of your own"

    2.Postmodernism -refers to a cultural, intellectual, or artistic state lacking a clear central hierarchy or organizing principle and embodying extreme complexity, contradiction, ambiguity, diversity, interconnectedness or interreferentiality, in a way that is often indistinguishable from a parody of itself.

    3.Progressivism - refers to ideologies and movements favoring or advocating changes or reform, usually in a statist or egalitarian direction for economic policies (government management) and liberal direction for social policies (personal choice)


    Is your head spinning yet?

Tuesday, 07 July 2009

  • Picture 2 Picture 1
    I'm on my way to creating a mini-mag.
    I'm having trouble with settting a title and a stable design concept.
    some titles I came up with was angle. spark. mark. POV...
    but its all kinda eh.

    Sammy V introduced me to relevant magazine.
    I love love love love love love it.
    I used one of the articles as one of the resources
    in bible study...the kids liked it 'cause
    there was a link between the world they know
    and the faith that they hold dear.

    i'm still troubled by what this magazine should say.
    what ideas it should convey & how.
    Picture 3

Sunday, 05 July 2009

  • my fam is so funny.
    really really funny.
    my 15 year old cousin
    just beat me at pool.

    you know...
    the place where
    i first learned how to
    play pool is owned
    by the father of
    my current hyungbu.
    haha funny


Wednesday, 01 July 2009

Monday, 29 June 2009

Monday, 22 June 2009

  • i miss japan so much.



    so I went to francis bacon exhibition on friday with sva kids.
    i need to blog about it before i forget it.

    one. I never had so much fun at the met before.
    who knew sva kids were so rib splitting funny?
    I just thought we were emo. oh my gosh. :D

    two. the most important.
    francis bacon's exhibition was so aggressive.
    very harsh in its perspective. very dark.
    very good... but very dark

    so i was talking with yura and I was talking to her
    about christian art and how its rare in form in modern
    students. how francis' art expressed his dark age
    what does our art show about our thoughts
    especially about our faith.
    I began to think about joe's art show back in the far east :D
    and I started to dream about sva kids own gallery show
    we have one for the atheists and out week..
    why not one for us to encourage each other in our walk?!!

    it doesn't stop there.. I said it before..
    but lets really flip this art world.
    why is art always parallel to secularism?
    Who made that call? Why not let God
    shine through in our art work as well?

    i'm excited for the future.

Sunday, 21 June 2009

  • they say its ok we'll all friendly with each other. we'll not hostile.
    yeah...kids going home hurt and crying is not hostile at all.

    There is a obvious problem and even a more obvious answer.
    we all need to let go of ourself, to our pride and to comfort zone.
    there is a lack of cooperation, lack of prayer thus, lack of unity.
    I hope that we aren't hoping that things will continue this way.
    'cause right now we are welcoming hostility, disunity and the devil.

    tell me what part of anger, bitterness and hatred is pleasing to God?





    --

    we were sitting there rooted in our bitterness.
    refusing to budge at all, because they hurt our hearts, our pride.
    trying to calm down another is not a job for another victim.

    then our college group bu-jang sungsengnim (head teacher??) came by.
    He is a jip sanneem, who invest so much into cg, financially and in love.

    I mentioned teasingly, no one cares that my brother went to korea.
    no one seemed to noticed that he hasn't come to church for a month now.
    that the girl in front of me went away to school and when she came back,
    someone asked her what was her reason for rebelling and not coming to church.
    I said jokingly i guess nobody cares.

    then he spoke.
    about his mentally disabled only daughter, susan.
    how when they moved her to another church....
    none of the adults and none of the college group
    members where she was once a active member....
    no one asked him where she went.

    They just remember the days when she caused havoc
    hitting people, pulling hairs, throwing bibles...
    but recently susan became part of praise team
    singing and praising God and blessing all those who were
    there...pastors, elders, jipsanneems.

    Its true people don't care at all.
    But God loves susan too and He didn't turn away to the
    5 years of consistent prayer of the Jipsaneem.

    "You can say whatever you want to heal a person's heart,
    but that won't accomplish anything. God knows..God
    can heal your heart. Thats all him..."




Wednesday, 17 June 2009

  • i xanga as much as jonelle twitters.

    my grandma is gonna turn me into an alcoholic
    "wine is not real alcohol. wine is for people who can't take soju."
    thanks gma...

Tuesday, 16 June 2009

  • there were only 2 times in my entire life
    (ok... maybe not. lets say conscious life span)
    that a cold/flu affected my meals


    1. 2007 - korea
    I got so sick during CM
    I didn't eat anything for the entire week of CM.
    James Gsns bought me & Jinyoung unni Juk/congee
    with this little bowl of kimchi and that was my first
    meal after the 4 days of gagging...thanks GANS.

    2. 2009 - Long Island.
    I'm sick now. Coughing up flem, runny nose..etc
    and for the first time... I'm having problems
    eating because everything just tastes sour.
    Whatever I eat, I feel like I washed it all down
    with some bad yogurt. arg.

Saturday, 13 June 2009

  • maybe its the summer heat

    but where did all my passion go?
    my passion to teach, pray, live...

    i hate going out cause its a $16 lirr ride back & forth
    and its hard enough having my parents pay for my ticket
    when i go to work.. Not to mention the fact that I spend
    another 20 when I do go eat. thats 40 bucks down the
    drain just to eat and chill with a friend. I know I shouldn't
    be thinking about money like this but I keep thinking about
    how i should really be saving up to send mtf for friends. sigh.


    lately I feel the most alive when I'm cutting paper at work.

Thursday, 11 June 2009

  • all girls have their comfort food.
    i don't mean an actual meal.
    a little thing that helps them get through the day.

    in witch yoo-hee, it was the box of marshmallows.
    in matilda, it was Miss Honey's father sacred chocolates.
    for most girls, the most common are ice cream or chocolate.

    I thought mine was a can of coke.
    but my mom bought a box of ferrero rocher
    that she intended to send to our relatives in korea
    but she just kept it. Its been quite heavenly. ;D

Sunday, 07 June 2009

  • Please lift up a prayer for Euna Lee & Laura Ling

    N.Korea sentences 2 American Journalists to 12 years of Hard Labor.

    North Korea on Monday sentenced two American journalists to 12 years of hard labor in a case widely seen as a test of how far the isolated Communist state was willing to take its confrontational stance toward the United States.The Central Court, the highest court of North Korea, held the trial of the two Americans, Laura Ling and Euna Lee, from Thursday to Monday and convicted them of “committing hostilities against the Korean nation and illegal entry,” the North’s official news agency, KCNA, said in a report monitored in Seoul.

    Ms. Ling and Ms. Lee have been held since they were detained by North Korean soldiers patrolling the border between China and North Korea on March 17.Ms. Ling and Ms. Lee were on a reporting assignment from Current TV, a San Francisco-based media company co-founded by Al Gore, the former vice president, when they were detained by the soldiers. The reporters were working on a report about North Korean refugees — women and children — who had fled their homeland in hopes of finding food in China.