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| Tuesday, May 27, 2003 E-mail exchange of the week from last week - this was from one of our clients in Guatemala: __________ Dear Mr. Uh: Thank you for your prompt response. We will be waiting the notice from DHL. Thanks again. Antonio Enrique Chico Gerente Financiero Librerias Artemis Edinter ----- Original Message ----- > Dear Mr. Chico, > > Today we are sending to you the shipping documents for "Mundo Maya" book via DHL. > AWB# is 876 5908 034. Please contact me if you have any questions. Thank > you. > > > Mike Uh > P.Chan & Edward, LA Office __________ Call me a lame-o, but I found those words to be quite touching. Friday, May 23, 2003 Well, on Wednesday I got a haircut and shaved. I think Emmanuel was quite disappointed. But I didn't have much of a choice... the lady insisted that she use the clippers to shave off the facial hair as well. I'm hoping to get my own website rolling at around mid-summer. It's getting kind of annoying to do this public thoughts thing on two different websites. But basically everything depends on what type of entry I feel like writing that decides whether this website or the xanga website gets updated. Xanga isn't really used for QTs anymore because most of it is boring anyway, and most of the stuff I just don't see the point of putting them in public. It's kind of hard to pinpoint the process that a noteworthy thought goes through and turns out on which website... xanga is there for easy accessibility and comments. This website is a little bit more exclusive... stuff that would potentially last longer and I would want to go back to since I have the freedom to make as many sub-sections as I want. I'd say for me, xanga is more like a conversation through statements. But it'd be much easier to just make a website for everything and give it the capabilities of both websites. But the question is, do I really want to spend the money just to keep a personal website with my own ____.com name? Seems a little impractical... but I will have to look into it more. Monday, May 19, 2003 Just based on the events of the past week and a half alone, my Palm has become one of the best $300 investments I've ever made. I now have a pretty firm grip on my money since I could keep track/update all my finances and budget on the spot with my money management program, and I would not have been able to capture the horrendousness of the oven explosion incident in its entirety without the aid of my Palm's built in digital camera. The most talked-about topic of discussion with me these days would undoubtedly be my facial hair. To shave or not to shave? Or to shave partially? That is the question - once next Sunday comes around, when my skin is healed enough. But at least I now know that it could work if I ever come across one of those phases or whatever. My new year's resolution was to be out of debt by next year. I think I'm on the right track. So if I could pull this off, then no one will be able to say in front of me, "yeah, everyone makes new years resolutions, but they never keep them." Well, I don't want to be a part of that "everyone" category. Maybe I should start keeping a record of all the things that people have told me that I've set out to prove wrong. But here is a list of a few things that I could remember on the top of my head that peole have told me to my face and I just nodded and said "ok, sure." And today I could just smile and not have to say anything back to them at all. "Oh trust me, you'll get into a car accident within your first year of driving." (It's been 7 years without an accident, or even a traffic ticket, and still counting.) "You missed out on two years, so if you quit volleyball and play tennis you probably won't be able to keep up at the varsity level." "Realistically speaking, you probably won't get into UCLA, let alone their school of engineering, with 2 C's in your report card." "You probably can't expect to graduate in 4 years if you're going to change majors after having gone through your first two years already." "Do you really expect to find a job outside this company with the current state of the market and your limited background and experience?" (When I left the marketing job back in September) "I'll give you 10 days before you lose your patience with the kids." (Gardena Academy) But the truth of the matter is, all of these things can be attributed to the testimony of an overflowing of amazing, supernatural grace that has been imparted to me. Thursday, May 15, 2003 I recently ordered "Dreamweaver for Dummies" and followed up with today's ironic thinkerthought of the day: "People who write the 'Dummies' books are freaking geniuses." Personally, my natural tendancy is to think that the Dummies books are written for dummies, and written by dummies. I have no idea why. So if it was obvious to you that the Dummies books were written by bright people, then I suppose it's not much of an irony. Wednesday, May 14, 2003 Quotes of the Day (from yesterday): Sarah: So is your skin peeling okay? Mike: Yeah.. it's peeling pine. Hahahahaha (feeling fine) -On a Bible Study question that asked "...you must _____ alms"- Emmanuel: ...you must bear alms. Hahaha. (bear arms - the answer was GIVE alms) Monday, May 12, 2003 My first visit to the Emergency Room - Tuesday, May 6, 2003. While I was preparing dinner for Bible study, I proceeded to preheat the church oven to make garlic bread. Our church kitchen has a very old oven that needs to be manually lighted from the inside, and I didn't know about this. I turned the temperature knob to 350 degrees and turned the gas valve, thinking that was what turned the oven on. So the gas kept pumping out into the oven for a good 15 minutes while I was preparing other stuff, then the custodian comes in to ask why the kitchen smells like gas. I answer ah, that must be the oven, I wonder if it is ready. I opened the oven to check, and then the gas rises, catching the stove fire above (I was boiling water), then explodes on my face. Inside the emergency room, I waited a lot, as expected. IVs are pretty scary looking. Not to mention unpleasant. They injected morphine into my body amongst other things, and put some cream over my face, then bandaged it. I was falling asleep from the morphine but they kept waking me up every 30 minutes to do more checkups. I was transferred to LA county general hospital for more checkups. It was very fortunate that there wasn't anything critically serious, and I won't be needing any kind of operation. They said my face should heal in about two weeks, without any scarring. Most of the blackened skin is peeled off now. This has been an extremely boring recap. Irony of the week (last week): "I'm tired of resting." Friday, May 2, 2003 I haven't played video games for over a month now. Isn't that crazy??? It's not that I don't have time to play it, but it's just that the consistency is missing, and I know I'd end up playing at very choppy time intervals, so it just seems like I wouldn't get too much enjoyment out of the times I do play. I still need to get around to the new Zelda for Gamecube. Quote of the day: -On "Burn" and "Burning" related terms- Mike: Well, the obvious thing that pops out is "burning desire," but what else? Eunice: Hmm... Mike: Maybe I should just do something with Mr. Burns HA HA HA Eunice: Oooh my... *Moments later, in the same conversation* Mike: How about "burning hearts?" Eunice: Well in that case, you could just say "heart burn" HA HA HA HA! Mike: OOOH MY... |