had the weirdest dream last night
that we were doing senior banquet, and my class boys did a weird asian-inspired kungfu, choreo'd dance that they attributed to Ben Saetang.. it was my class boys plus two random asian girls that i didn't know dancing...
then some sort of funky skit that someone else did..
and we mobbed the 2011ers.. and i cried when i held sarah and sofie's.. NECKS IN MY HANDS!?
and then i was wearing a huge diamond ring on the wrong finger and it had a pearl on the other end and i was engaged.
and... hmm other stuff happened in my dream, but now i'm forgetting.
this most likely has a DIRECT correlation with my conversation with hannahw last night.. about church, our class, the split, people leaving, and engagements.
WEIRD HUH!
I decided this morning I need to be careful of what I input into my brain before I sleep. otherwise, it's CRAZY AND WEIRD!
I mean Sam Kim and DLee were doing pirhouettes and John Lee was doing something kungfu-ey. so was caleb. So. Weird.
in other news:
family is such a strange idea....... SO STRANGE SO STRANGE .. and i think when all is said and done, I can't help but be grateful, and thankful..... but.. yeah, it's so interesting.
Showing posts with label EBCB. Show all posts
Showing posts with label EBCB. Show all posts
Saturday, June 4, 2011
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
random answered prayers about church
Or stuff that I didn't even pray about that happened!
* babies.
I remember at EBCB freshman year, I was really disappointed because there were only 2 babies, Elijah and Sammy, and both babies were shy. Now, there's like a gazillion. and ALL of them LOVE me the MOST! (or they will...>:])
*youth group
Ditto above. Except they don't know me, and I'm not a part of it (yet). But I'm excited.... it's exciting. When I came to EBCB, we started EAT in order to try to reach kids that way and start a youth group. But the youth group just sort of started with other kids.. and that's just cool.
*local mercy ministries
In the beginning of this year, PJ told us that he wants our church to engage in more local, compassion work (ie expand on what we have currently). That just sounds super cool (since I'm not sure how it will practically be worked out), and it's an answered prayer!
*a bosom friend
This prayer/desire was answered differently. I think I spent the first 20 years of my life looking for my own Diana Barry. I think over the years, God taught me people come and go, and that He's created me to be able to continue to keep in touch and keep up my relationships.... I think learning that, and learning that not everyone was "like me" helped resolve a lot of hurt and has resulted in a lot of new, sweet companions.
*connection with my pastors
You know that your relationship with your pastor's not great when after your first sermon, you never wanted to come back. (To be fair, my first sermon at EBCB was on celibacy (1 Corinthians 7), the bus had broken down so I had to sit on this plastic non-seat in Sara (then Oh, now) Kwun's car, and EBCB had uncomfortable pews!). Then afterwards, if you inform the pastor that you "don't agree with most of what he has to say but you like the people".... oh golly.
Anyway, long story short, I love PJ, his family, his integrity, his teaching, his leadership. wahoo.
*older people
I think the median and mode of ages at EBCB my freshman year was .. like 22. Now, it's definitely older, more diverse... i loooooove that. I *really* didn't want to go to a "Korean" church. I think around my junior year, we hit the milestone of "maybe there's more Chinese people than Koreans!" and now, it's just a mixup (although it's still heavily Asian. but now I love Asia too. so that's great!)
*lunches
Okay, this was not a prayer request EVER. but seriously, our lunches are getting so much better. hahahha. (I mean, i came from this larger Korean church that served hefty gomtangs and bibimbaps for lunch...that I always got for free (usually $2) since I always knew the parents manning the $. hah) And please (with all due respect), I know some people like it, but can we please phase out that white rice+cheese+broccoli+chicken dish FOREVER? It's so random that even when it's fully cooked and warm with tapatio, my brain gets very confused. :-D
Okay wow, the end.
(I originally intended to only write about babies and local compassion ministries...)
* babies.
I remember at EBCB freshman year, I was really disappointed because there were only 2 babies, Elijah and Sammy, and both babies were shy. Now, there's like a gazillion. and ALL of them LOVE me the MOST! (or they will...>:])
*youth group
Ditto above. Except they don't know me, and I'm not a part of it (yet). But I'm excited.... it's exciting. When I came to EBCB, we started EAT in order to try to reach kids that way and start a youth group. But the youth group just sort of started with other kids.. and that's just cool.
*local mercy ministries
In the beginning of this year, PJ told us that he wants our church to engage in more local, compassion work (ie expand on what we have currently). That just sounds super cool (since I'm not sure how it will practically be worked out), and it's an answered prayer!
*a bosom friend
This prayer/desire was answered differently. I think I spent the first 20 years of my life looking for my own Diana Barry. I think over the years, God taught me people come and go, and that He's created me to be able to continue to keep in touch and keep up my relationships.... I think learning that, and learning that not everyone was "like me" helped resolve a lot of hurt and has resulted in a lot of new, sweet companions.
*connection with my pastors
You know that your relationship with your pastor's not great when after your first sermon, you never wanted to come back. (To be fair, my first sermon at EBCB was on celibacy (1 Corinthians 7), the bus had broken down so I had to sit on this plastic non-seat in Sara (then Oh, now) Kwun's car, and EBCB had uncomfortable pews!). Then afterwards, if you inform the pastor that you "don't agree with most of what he has to say but you like the people".... oh golly.
Anyway, long story short, I love PJ, his family, his integrity, his teaching, his leadership. wahoo.
*older people
I think the median and mode of ages at EBCB my freshman year was .. like 22. Now, it's definitely older, more diverse... i loooooove that. I *really* didn't want to go to a "Korean" church. I think around my junior year, we hit the milestone of "maybe there's more Chinese people than Koreans!" and now, it's just a mixup (although it's still heavily Asian. but now I love Asia too. so that's great!)
*lunches
Okay, this was not a prayer request EVER. but seriously, our lunches are getting so much better. hahahha. (I mean, i came from this larger Korean church that served hefty gomtangs and bibimbaps for lunch...that I always got for free (usually $2) since I always knew the parents manning the $. hah) And please (with all due respect), I know some people like it, but can we please phase out that white rice+cheese+broccoli+chicken dish FOREVER? It's so random that even when it's fully cooked and warm with tapatio, my brain gets very confused. :-D
Okay wow, the end.
(I originally intended to only write about babies and local compassion ministries...)
Friday, April 8, 2011
Goodbye Paula!
GREAT BBQ. (ate so much)
SWEET time with SWEET people.
SOU (our homegroup leader) is SOUPER competitive.
But FUN...
Anyway, this little gem gives you a peek at my homegroup's dynamics...
SWEET time with SWEET people.
SOU (our homegroup leader) is SOUPER competitive.
But FUN...
Anyway, this little gem gives you a peek at my homegroup's dynamics...
and draws attention to the fact that I'm very very single. (but happy!!)
Friday, March 18, 2011
Sunday, January 30, 2011
I decided I want to talk about my church's cultural quirks and funnies.
So it's that time of year, the beginning of a fresh new semester, and both boys and girls alike go about their daily duties with bated breath. The air heavy with the potential, the wonder - that question dripping with the same significance of a high school homecoming, "Who will ask me?"
You briefly regret not having signed up to be on the asking end. But understand that no, this semester you're already too busy and you can go about doing the same things without the heavy commitment. It's not like it's totally exclusive.. after all, there is one way to gain a ticket into glimpsing the going-ons of that society.
As time ticks by, in that week of decision, you shrug off the fact that Sweet Sue and Mild Mary were already asked twice - both by underclassmen - and you admit that yes, it's possible no one might ask you and yes that night of the banquet, while all your friends get primped up to go, you might be the perennial Cinderella, at home, cleaning up the curling irons and hanging up discarded cardigans. The girls gone in your heels (that incidentally matched their modest knee-length skirts).
But then it happens! A text? A phone call? An email? A bout of small talk that takes a sudden, exhilarating turn? And then hurray, the question. "Will you be my ET prayer partner?"
***
Hahahaha. I don't think this flowed quite like the way I wanted it to, but it was fun. And it's semi true. After all, twas Janet who aptly coined ET Banquet as EBCB's Winter Formal. LOL
(pleasepleasepleasenorebukespleasepleasepleaseidotakeprayerpartneringseriously ^.^)
My first ET Banquet:
You briefly regret not having signed up to be on the asking end. But understand that no, this semester you're already too busy and you can go about doing the same things without the heavy commitment. It's not like it's totally exclusive.. after all, there is one way to gain a ticket into glimpsing the going-ons of that society.
As time ticks by, in that week of decision, you shrug off the fact that Sweet Sue and Mild Mary were already asked twice - both by underclassmen - and you admit that yes, it's possible no one might ask you and yes that night of the banquet, while all your friends get primped up to go, you might be the perennial Cinderella, at home, cleaning up the curling irons and hanging up discarded cardigans. The girls gone in your heels (that incidentally matched their modest knee-length skirts).
But then it happens! A text? A phone call? An email? A bout of small talk that takes a sudden, exhilarating turn? And then hurray, the question. "Will you be my ET prayer partner?"
***
Hahahaha. I don't think this flowed quite like the way I wanted it to, but it was fun. And it's semi true. After all, twas Janet who aptly coined ET Banquet as EBCB's Winter Formal. LOL
(pleasepleasepleasenorebukespleasepleasepleaseidotakeprayerpartneringseriously ^.^)
My first ET Banquet:
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| I always get the awkward groups. This group was especially holy, we even went to Taiwan together. I think JChun's mad that I touched him.. oops. |
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| Love House's first ET Banquet as 2nd semester freshmen Janetshihlikestopee cassandrasoolikestopoo juniakimlikestoswim sallykimisveryslim .. except now she's a yang. |
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