Tagged

- by a certain SK.
Four jobs I’ve had (What the heck is this, practice for my resume?):
1) “child caretaker”
2) “math tutor at the Kumon Math and English Tutoring Centre”
3) “shopkeeper for the University of Waterloo Bike Centre”
4) GUITAR TEACHER FFFFFFFFFFF YEAH

Four movies I can watch (and/or have watched) over and over:
1) uhhh Star Wars?…
2) …Sin City?…
3) …
4) …Max Payne 2?

Four places I’ve lived:
1) Hong Kong, Sha-tin represent!
2) Hong Kong, Kowloon
3) Sauga
4) Chicago… for a few days

Four TV Shows I love (Take the best answer):
A) Does anime downloaded here at Loo count?
B) Family Guy and Arrested Development were cool before they sold out lol
C) Reality’s entertaining enough already.
D) TV? Didn’t Bittorrent kill that awhile ago?

Four places I’ve vacationed:
1) Vancouver
2) Hong Kong
3) Hawaii
4) Chicago

Four of my favorite dishes – ie. what I CAN make here at Loo:
1) congee with Kirkland chicken breast meat!!
2) blackened banana
3) expired turkey coldcut breast
4) fishballs with wonton mein

Four sites I visit daily:
1) Gamespy – my love since Half-life came into being
2) Jobmine – let the agony stop please : (((
3) Xanga – roots.
4) Gmail – obvious

Four places I would rather be right now:
1) at my own law firm
2) at my own corporation
3) my bed
4) Hong Kong (vacation only though)

Four bloggers tagged:
1) Simon, you’re long overdue
2) Jamie, you too
3) Paul, perhaps?
4) Go for it, Kary

WordPress, your editor is a pile of deficient crap.
Blogging doesn’t come to me unless I’m really bored. Like now. Thanks accounting!

What the Dick #2

I was this bored by my religion journals that I decided to manhandle the English language in quite an ugly way. This was heavily influenced by all the poetry I’ve seen being thrown around lately. I have done my part in angering real masters of poetry! The results are displayed below. Guess the proper subject and give it a suitable title please. (and no guys, I’m not playing the emo violin)

About a Coop Student

Rarring to go
I aim to please
Please don’t reject me
I’m on my knees
My hopes in your palm
Don’t be so cruel
Be my soul’s balm
Relief from a world: cold, unforgiving, harsh, meritocratic
Take me into your arms and accept me
forevermore

edit – Jeff you honestly scare me now

Wonder

For me, one of the most important drives is the sense of wonder. Quite honestly, it is one of those drives that will keep me going for the rest of my life. For others, it may be something entirely different, something radically opposed like a sense of security and uniformity. While I don’t think that’s the right way to live, I’ll definitely respect the way they chose. But I’m off-track here already.

I’ve been reading Tim Hughes Here I Am To Worship and while much of it is simple concepts which need little debate, there was one section that really struck me. That section was Chapter 3, which talked about maintaining a sense of wonder towards Jesus to remain strong in our Christian faith. It struck me then as blindly obvious, yet I was so oblivious to that truth until I encountered it again in this book. I’ve been guilty of the past while of not really trying to search for new experiences in order to maintain a true love for Christ. Instead, I took the easy way out, or as Hughes put it, “… I’ve become legalistic …”. It’s not challenging at all to maintain a theological love of God – He did give us the best free gift of all time, after all. It’s easy though, to lose focus of what that gift was supposed to do, to inspire us to love and devote ourselves to Him in the style of a relationship, rather than a religious ritual.
My lifestyle changes have been progressing slowly but surely, and I have definitely developed a sense of wonder for how much work I actually get done if I try, haha. There are so many ways to push myself onward, and I feel like I’m missing out on a lot of opportunities right now. Let’s see where God takes me from this point!

Short post since there’s a midterm tomorrow, time to add a little more oil…

TRUE ASIANS REPRESENT

Ray and Trevor decided to visit Waterloo yesterday (Wednesday), just to see what the squalor that an university student exists with. They seemed pretty impressed with our living conditions… but that’s not the point. We were able to give Chinese people great reputations at not only one, but TWO businesses yesterday! Here they are:

1) We decided to visit Long & McQuade for picking up strings and for kicks and giggles. After arriving, we proceeded to touch pretty much every single instrument possible in the store, including the electric guitars, the acoustic guitars, the classical guitars, the pianos, the trumpets (not sure about that one), the books… you name it, we diddled with it in some way. Mind you, we were the only ones in the store so the salespeople just looked on awkwardly and asked whether we had any questions. At the end, we finally decided to leave for dinner. “Oh, we don’t have that brand of strings right now”, the salesman said when I asked for the pack of strings I was planning to get. Not wanting to be rude, I decided to buy a pick as a goodwill gesture for taking up their time. The cashier rung up the pick, which turned out to be 38 cents. Dickery dock, I only had 31 cents… so the salesman was all like “don’t worry about it”, but Simon paid the missing 7 cents right at the last moment before the cashier closed. We sure got the hell out of there then, and can only imagine what the salespeople were thinking. “Cheap Chinese people, wasting our time like that!” Yep, we definitely maintained the sterling Chinese image!

2) After the L&M debacle, we decided to go for dinner. Some debate ensued, and we decided to go to the “Rude Native”, a place that some MCBC people and I were supposed to go to but never did. And… thank goodness we didn’t go that time. After entering the restaurant and getting seated, there was a huge painting of a naked male body with handcuffs on. I don’t know about you, but I don’t think S&M when I eat. That was the first warning sign. We got to take a look at the menus, and the cheapest main course was $12.95. Our asian senses went off then, and we started brainstorming ways to sneak out with the smallest impact on our wallets as possible. After some thinking, we finally decided to order two buckets of mussels at $10.95, costing each one of us a beautiful total plus tips of about $6.50! And it was technically a legit meal too, because we might have been getting ready for a wild kegger or something. YEH YEH. In the end, we escaped unscathed minus both the restaurant’s and our egos. And… that’s another food place that we’ll be getting dirty looks from in the future :S