Shoebox dinner actually went pretty well. I took a risk in cooking something I have never cooked before and it turned out to taste pretty good. But I felt like a fob cooking Korean style chicken that moms make. Hopefully the group that bought it liked it. I personally didn't think it was satisfying enough to get their money's worth. Gerry might be broke unless he got paid tonight because he bought all the groceries with a check but he only has like $5 in his account.
It felt good to cook again.
I feel really renewed spiritually after last night's worship. It's definitely a good sign.
U2 won four Grammys. I'm glad. I don't think I've heard any songs by Alicia Keys, but I probably will recognize them when I hear them. And say "ooooh, THIS song."
I've been listening to "Everything" by Lifehouse an awful lot these days. I'd like to sing it for worship sometime soon at church.
At Shoebox Dinner Jane Park taught me how to play one of the theme songs from a Korean drama called "Gah Ul Dong Hwa." I'm going to play it at church when I mess around with my guitar and probably everyone will turn their heads and say hey isn't that the song from Gah Ul Dong Hwa and get all sad and depressed and emotional. Haha.
It's been a good week.
Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2002
Grape Juice led worship today for KCM. Eric is a pretty crazy guitarist, probably a genius musician. I heard his brother is a genius too, he's in UCLA med school. Even Albert Park couldn't make it to UCLA med school. Wow. The whole night was a bit long, but it was nice to pray and worship like that. I feel I had a spiritual releasing of a lot of things that were holding me down.
Worship has an amazing effect on people, I was talking to my roommate John about this a few days ago. As much of a burden it is to be a worship leader, it is so worth it when the Spirit moves in us in such overwhelming ways and we have this feeling that we're just riding along what God had set up, and it doesn't feel like we're really in control of ourselves.. like we're literally an instrument that God is using. It's hard to explain clearly in words... but both of us knew what we were talking about.
I'm really excited about leading worship again for EM.
Bank of America is evil. I can't believe the ridiculous fees. And those stupid hidden charges too. I need to get off my butt and hurry up and switch banks.
A super snack that I seriously don't eat enough of - chocolate-covered gummy bears. OMG those are sooooo good... *drools*
I'm still broke. Dan was gracious enough to pay for me at In and Out after KCM.
Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2002
Not the most eventful day, just played basketball with KCM people. There was this one guy that was acting like a jerk and it totally ruined the whole night for me. First he lies about being next in line for the court, then he starts giving this jerk attitude when we try to play. It was just one of those "bleh" nights.
I saw the 405 traffic outside my window and said wow I'm sure glad I'm not in the middle of that, and then I remembered something I thought about a few months ago. What if the world today was not "modern" and we were still like in the Western age, but the population was the same as what it is today. Then the primary mode of transportation would be horses. With this many people and seeing how the majority of the population owns cars, would this world be full of horses? How would you maintain horse traffic? During rush hour, if I look outside my window would I be seeing a bunch of horses lined up on the horse freeway moving slowly? How about the problem of horse parking.. and horse jacking?
I'm still sore from FSF.
I have no money for anything this week, including food.
I started the week with $20 to spend, that's how much I had leftover after bills. Spent $5 for Sunday dinner, $4 for lunch on Monday, $3 for hot chocolate for Monday history discussion because the air conditioner was on Antarctica mode and there was no thermostat controller thing so we were freezing to death in there for 2 hours, and today spent $4 on Jamba Juice, and $4 for dinner. We have no food in the apt. except pasta (which John and I are saving for a more worthy time) and some apples. I'm cool with apples for lunch, but dinner will be a problem. I could have just had rice and water for dinner today but I just decided to spend the last of what little money I had left... I have faith that God will provide.
Found out today that Byong was planning to leave KRUMC in April. I'm not particularly shocked but it's going to be a big blow, seeing how we're desperately short on male role models to begin with and now we are losing one.
Tomorrow Grape Juice (a band) is leading worship for KCM. I have a feeling something extraordinary is going to happen to me personally.
Monday, Feb. 25, 2002
Okay so I decided to do one of these things too.. a lot of people have been telling me I should keep a journal since I come up with a lot of random thoughts so it would be nice to try and keep a record of them... and every night I'm just sitting around at ridiculously late hours in front of my computer even when I don't have stuff due and I'm just aimlessly browsing websites that I have already visited gazillions of times so might as well do something at least a bit useful with that time....
I don't even know what Blogger means. I just know people use the name for their internet journals.
I was registering my yahoo-geocities account and chose the name "mikeuh" as my account/email, and it tells me that name has already been taken. So I'm thinking I may have already signed up under that name and try to sign on with that name with the password help thing and it says my birthday that I entered was incorrect so I guess someone else took that name. Who in the world would use "mikeuh" as their yahoo.com email????? And I'm NOT going to believe that there is someone else out there with the name Mike Uh. So I had to settle for mikeuh46. mikeuh46 looks so much more complicated than just plain mikeuh. Man, I'm so annoyed.
Hmmm... this webpage design is really really really lame... but I'm super lazy and with the little knowledge of html that I have, I decided it would be best to use the pagebuilder thing on geocities, and I didn't feel like using those blogger sites cuz at least I could make this page somewhat personal... maybe I'll fix it up later. But most likely I won't. I wonder if people will actually look at this often since it is a public thing, after all. The counter will probably indicate how many times I have been to this site... haha. Well if you are not me and you are reading this I hope I could provide some kind of consistent entertainment, or if you are someone I knew from high school or something I hope I could keep you updated with what's been going on in my life.
I haven't cooked in a long time. And shoebox dinner couldn't have come at a worse time, I'm extremely broke (I don't even know if I will have enough money to pay all my bills for this month) and I had no time to get any new recipes, since all of us were spending the weekend for Fall Sports Fellowship. I dunno about how all this is going to work out.. I don't want to settle for cooking something ordinary... something to worry about for the next 3 days.
As of yesterday, Daniel Cho is no longer a member of KRUMC. I'm not exactly tearing up with sadness but I'm not like jumping for joy or anything either. I didn't want to go to his farewell party cuz I didn't want to go through any unnecessary negative emotions, it was best for me to not go. Now I could just put this thing behind me and be blissfully ignorant. And because of this I have decided to stay at KRUMC. I flirted with the idea of leaving but with these turn of events in the last few weeks I told David JDSN that I would stay until at least the end of the school year. I promised that I would give the "new" EM a chance. But it's kind of weird how I'm taking over the worship leader position along with the arrival of the new pastor, it's like everyone including myself is under the assumption that I'm staying for good for the rest of my life or something.
By the way, Daniel Cho was our EM pastor. I wasn't talking about Daniel Cho, my roommate. =)