Can't get You off my mind
What we have is hard to find
I feel this pain inside
But I know Your love
Your love it can set me free
Make me see
It's so magical, You and me

God's power is just so undescriable sometimes that it is just like magic. So this semester, I'm taking ENV 304, PS 241, and HST 115, which enviromental science, politcal science and history. Who would of ever thought that each class has been talking about Christianity. And who would of ever known that God is using me to correct those and challenge others about His Word. Take ENV for example, our prof keeps talking about evolution, while I keep trying to challenge the thought of creation to him. Then in PS, our prof keeps talking about law, and then he got to the point and asked the class, "where are my Christian theologians in here?" Boy was I excited to hear out people share what they know about God, and I got to throw my 2 cents in. And in HST, I feel like I've been giving the chance to explain the actions of early Christians way back when this nation was first formed. I feel like this is part of God's plan for me to expand back my QT times with Him because their's nothing better than a spiritual challenge that hopefully would turn into spiritual growth towards spiritual maturity.

Then in PS, their again there is that same dang girl who annoys me to death. This week she decided to sit in my seat and I was like ohhhhh no you did not do that. However, it's hard to explain but after class, I got a chance to chat with this girl, and now I understand why I she does what she does during class. She told me that she has A.D.D., and I felt bad for being mean to her, what made it worst for me personnally was that it took something out of her control to make me feel guilty on how sometimes I treated her during class. Hopefully I can show better compassion towards everyone in the future. Starting with that nerd who sits behind me, sorry I had to get that in.

Also for the past couple of weeks now, my banking specialist at Comerica, Michelle, has been talking to me about Christianity. She shared with me on what she believes in, however she said she would love it if I had time to read and teach what The Bible is trying to say. Can you believe it, God using me to do His ministry! All I can pray for is that I need to continue to grow in His Word so that I can go out better equipped to serving Him. I really pray that I can have the same passion as someone like my BSF leader, Bali, to just exhort, encourage, and assist young men and women to pursue ultimate joy by becoming passionate and obedient followers of Jesus Christ.

However that all sounds good and dandy. But like everyone else, I do have my struggles and it continues to circulate around the same annoyance factor as Mayo G. And I've noticed from what I've been reading on others bloggers that my brothers and sisters are having their own struggles as well. And I just want to let you all know for those who are reading this, that I'm praying for you as each night passes by, God bless y'all.

Why Oh Why

Well what a night it was last night. First off I was excited that finally a whole team from another church, CGC, that is, has come to invade CBC on Tuesday nights for v-ball. They weren't too bad, it was really cool playing against them because they were running plays in Taiwanese. It took a while for my team to win and I felt bad that I was a bad witness to those on my team because majority of them were non-Christians. After v-ball, Phil, JW, Vickie, and I odered Vietnamese yet again, and brought it back to my place so we could hang out. We watched Blade 2, much better than Blade 1 I must say, and after that Phil, JW, and I continued our season in Madden 2K3. I stayed up till 7 this morning playing because my team is the worst out of the 3 of us.

So I woke up this afternoon at 1:30, and did my grocery shopping again. All I did today was nap and watch DBZ because I've been so drained physically with all my bumps and bruises. But I did have some time of reflection, and I just sat on the couch just wondering where God's been leading me lately. I'm really thankful that some of these guys and gal, are home because we can hang out like we always did during the summer. However it's been just hanging out, and not fellowship, and it's been a time in work with this new small group possibly being planted at CBC. However, I don't know if I'm ready to just jump back in the leadership role at CBC. I believe that's why I haven't been at CBC on Sundays to worship for the past month now. During the summer, I was serving in every single ministry that there possibly was, and it was just so draining, in essense my personal time with God dwindled. Like I'm glad so many people can count on me to serve or help out, but towards the end it started getting to that point where I would be serving, but it would be serving just for the sake of it, pretty much serving for people and not doing it purely for God. I have this issue with saying no to people because I like to think I can handle everything on my own, you can say it is a pride thing because I always want to push my limit to see if I can go beyond it. And that's when I decided that I needed to take a step back and examine my walk with God. It's been great to just worship these past few weeks at other churches, and meeting new brothers and sisters. And I thought I this past Monday I was ready to go back to CBC, however Viv called me today asking if I wanted to go to Knox with her. And I kind of do, because I love the people at Knox, and just how the worship is setup.

Plus I want to hang out with Viv before she leaves for the Windy City. And I'm glad that God has provided both Gerald and her with jobs. I'm just a little sad that it wasn't here but nonetheless I'm very happy for the both of them. Gerald has already left, and I'm glad that I have a great friendship with him. He is probably one of the most caring, and sincere guys that I know. It's hard to find a traits like those in a guy these days. With the G Force gone, and Viv gone soon, who else am I gonna talk about our anacondas with? Well there is always Ting, ha but that would only annoy her, and it won't be long till she leaves for college. Well it's a little past 3 a.m. now and I guess I should take another nap so I can be some what awake during class in the morning.

Mind Machine

I don't know what it is, but for the past week now I've been having probs sleeping or just taking a nap. I think it is because my back is killing me too when I don't take my painkillers. And now my elbow is hurting even more after our v-ball game. Anyways, tonight we were victorious against Jones Next Door Too going 2-1 against them, so that brings our YCF record to 3-3. After the game though, I was still pissed because I didn't get to exact revenge on this guy on their team. It's one thing to get loud to fire up your team after all I like to play on emotion and intensity. It's another thing to get all dang skippy about blocking a girl. It's one thing he blocked me when I tried to dink it, but please if you're gonna get fired up, block me when I am actually killing it on your team. So all I am hoping for is that we see them in the playoffs so I can seek vengance for Thumbs.

This guy can get all skippy about blocking my weak dink that I tried. But he should reflect on how they lost because we didn't even kill the ball that many times. However, I did like my kill that to me wasn't even that powerful, but it was a great set by Leslie. And the next couple of weeks, we'll be playing against probably the weakest teams in our league. I hope that we can finish both these teams off 3-0 because the teams we play after is when we play some of the tougher teams. I'm so excited to be playing against those guys because then I get to truly test how far I've come as J-Dub would say S.S. Anyways time to try and go to bed for a little bit before I go to my 8 a.m. class, I wonder if Stan and Erin are gonna join me this week or sleep in again?

So Magical

Well today is Monday, I have no car at the time being now because I took it to the shop to get some parts done on it. I never intended on shelling out at least $700 to do this to my car but it's my own stupidity. Anyways, Saturday nite, Ro, Simon, and JW came over and we watched some VCD's. I'll be darn to end up like Tom Kan, played by Ekin, and lose my GG or as they called it their GuGu, for what they do to girls. Even though I still think I don't act like them, but others beg to differ. And yesterday, Phil, JW, Connie, Chrissy, and Ting we all went to KPC's once a year outdoor service at Kensington. I really love their pastor, and I wish we would of made it their on time (more on that later). It was a great feeling to make some new friends with some brothers and sisters in Christ. After a great lunch, mmmm Bulgogi, the guys played some football. I wish we kept stats because Phil and I just tore it up. He was like Peyton Manning and I was his Marvin Harrison, we just kept hooking up all day. Then we started working on our plays, possibly to prepare for the Turkey Bowl. I loved the type of coverage those guys gave me, a corner trying to take the middle away and a safety over top of me so I can't beat them deep. And on defense, it's nice to know that I lead everyone with 4 interceptions and one returned for a TD, thanks Peter for just throwing right at me :) Turkey Bowl 2K2 beware of the Hsu-Lee combination.

As some people know, I am badly sore and bruised when I don't take my painkillers. Yesterday, just added a new bump to me, because now I have a bone bruise in my elbow. How did that happen? Well I jumped in the air to pick a pass off that was meant for JW. I grabbed it with one hand, and JW then pushed me in mid-air to make me drop the ball. As he did, his momentum carried me over to this large gray van on the sidelines. So my elbow smashed right on top of the hood and my rib cage area landed into the headlights. I felt bad because I left a dent on top of the van. Afterwards, JW, Phil and Vickie came over and we watched the Lions home opener, while eating Vietnamese, thanks V for grabbing that.

And speaking of football, I gotta admit to what Connie said a while ago about fantasy football. It is like being addicted to drugs, like I'm so into it. The reason why we were late to the KPC service was because I went to Phil's house to use his computer to do some last minute substitutions and scouting reports for my teams, the Egg Roll Express and the GG Squad. Football baby, you gotta love this game, I wish we could get something started here.

Anyways, time for me to take my nap and shoot up on my painkillers. Because it's time to go to war tonight, as the YCF takes on Jones Next Door Too. It's time to shoot up to S.S. 2 because we're playing against a very Godzilla sized team.

Planet Pop

Ok so if you haven't noticed I've changed templates. I didn't want to but since blogger was kind of gay and not letting me post what I wanted to with my previous template it forced me to make a change. However I kind of like this template, because of all the cool fire around it, and it would be cooler if the background was black, so it could be like what DMX said, it's dark and hell is hot. Hmmm not exactly Christian like but after what I did today, gosh I should of went to hell for my stupidity.

Anyways, so what happened this week that was interesting? Well YCF got off to a slow start in our v-ball league as we now stand at 1-2. Phil and I must be the shortest players in this league because even the girls are bigger than us. On the other side, Melissa is helping me rebuild our team for IM, but on the downside she is recruiting some players that look like they can't play a lick of v-ball. And then their was yesterday, Thursday's long day of class. I really need to start praying before I enter my PS 241 class, because I don't know how much more I can tolerate of the dork that sits behind me. Like he's got his nose so far up my prof's ass (sorry for the language), that I can see brown coming out of his notrils. I mean first off, he keeps calling our prof. by his first name like he knows him or something. I don't remember our prof ever allowing us to calling him by his first name. Then there's the "Mmmm" or "yeah" or "uh huh", that just comes right out of nowhere. I'm like what the frick are you agreeing upon here, gosh it's not like his lectures are the type that makes you go hmmm.

However, finally I have something to come home to on Thursday nights though after 3 and a half hour night class. Survivor has just started once again, and dang it they had a Survivor premier in downtown Detroit with some of the previous castaways. I would of totally been down there if I knew about it a head of time. Anyways, I'm watching the show and right off the bat, I've spotted this series cuties. I have to say that Erin and Tanya are the hotties on this series and they best not be getting voted off anytime soon. And I'm glad that Vickie is getting into this show now, as she has spotted her hottie whom are Ken and Jed I believe. I find it kind of ironic, that Ken is a NYC police officer and is on this show. Watch he wins the whole thing and wouldn't be odd that he is a NYC police officer. I mean, I remember last week on 9-11 watching the Orioles play the Yanks on ESPN. The final score was 5-4 in the 11th inning. No big deal right? But if you look closely, on the night of 9-11 (1 year anniversary), add up the total runs and you get a total of 9 runs scored in the 11th inning, hence 9-11. Coincidence? Anyways going back to Survivor, John who is a pastor was the first to be voted off. Ya know for a pastor, I thought he was kind of shady. I really hope they vote off Ghandia though, she talks to fricking much and swears too much. They just need to get rid of her. Survivor Finals, Erin and Tanya baby!

Move Your Body

Yesterday, was a day of good-byes to people, first of was just waking up early to drive Kin to the airport. It was cool because it was my first time seeing the new terminal, and I must say that it looks really cool. So we parted ways, and I hope he has a safe flight to China. After that, I went straight to Ann Arbor to try to catch the rest of service at Knox. Dude I couldn't find the street that it was on until I drove right by it when Gerald, Viv, and I all went out to lunch at Friday's. After lunch then it was our turn to part ways as they went back to the Windy City. May God look after all 3 of them and bring them back home safely.

The rest of the night was filled with a couple of good phone convo's with one of my many mommy's, a lovin sista, and a great brotha. Cindy always tries to look out for me, as if I was her son, maybe that's why I always call her mommy, but I believe she gave me the right words of encouragement. Then their is SammeeQ or should I say my baby :) I really gotta stop calling her my baby because I know one day one guy will appreciate all her spiritual qualities and I don't think he would take to kind if I called her my baby. Anyways, I'm thankful that Sam and I are close friends, and this weekend made me appreciate it even more. She's one of the most thoughtful girls I know, who always tries her best to look at things from other people's perspective. I'm thankful for these two ladies, to give me strength when I was weak. Then their's my boy Emoy, I'm glad that he is doing better after talking to him last night. And I'm glad that he is in good hands since he believes that his hospital is like the safest one he's ever been too. May God continue to look after Erick and his health.

So some of you who might care whatever happened to that job offer. Well after extensive praying, I called the lady back last night to let her know my decision. And my decision was that I decided to turn it down, so yeah some of you could call me crazy or whatever since it is hard to find a job. How I looked at it was, the cool part about this job was that they would start me off with 6 hours a week. Not much right? But I looked at it was that 6 hours, as study time (when I figure out how to study), praying, serving, or just resting my body. However my ultimate question was how is my relationship with God? And I gotta admit that it isn't great because my QT's have been quite poor. And so if I accepted this job, how can I fit God in my life with this job if I couldn't even do that before this job. I mean this job wasn't even something that fits my major but it was cool to get an offer. So if I truly believe in what God provides then I know He'll provide me something more towards my goal and what I base my success upon, which is teaching and reaching out to kids who don't know Christ or helping them mature in Him. I just thank God for just giving me this opportunity to get an interview. Plus I believe the other candidates are more qualified than I am, but the lady said there was something about me that she still insisted on hiring me. I hope what really made me stick out from the others was because of You.

So now we get to today, and it is only less than 6 hours till I get ready to go lay the smackdown at JFK Middle School for our first v-ball game. I thank Connie for putting this team together and I really hope that we can go all the way. I've put the pressure on myself already to play at a higher level, and since Phil is not a 100%. Now that we have Connie, and Chrissy's friend Leslie, shouldn't the team name be The Young Christian Fellowship and Leslie, and Peter? Oh well, I just hope we all have fun in this league.

Danger At The Door

So what a turn of events that happened today, I just can't praise God enough for giving me understanding parents. So I went to the ACA today, to check out the first day of Fall Camp, and I was looking forward to seeing Crystal and Henry since I know they signed up. However, they didn't show up, so of course I was a little bummed. But ya know who did, was Jessie and Jamie and that just made things so great. Tracy was trying to hate on me to all the kids, but Aoxue, Shuang, Jessie, and Jamie all stood up for me. Oh yeah it was great, but one girl who hated on me was Amanda. Dude she was one of my favorite's from last year because she made me some personal crafts and I still have them on. She even called me crazy in cantonese! Then their is a section of all new kids about 6 of them. Dude they all speak english, but their language is cantonese and they don't understand a lick of mandarin. So one of the girls, I think her name is Sharon, she started talking smack to me and I'm like what you little ankle biter! So before I left, I threathen her in cantonese to poke some fun in and she just blew me off. I need Crystal to lay the smackdown on her!

Then today I got a call from Mandarin Fellowship asking me to babysit for them. Again, I totally thank God for just giving me this opportunity to serve, and that my parents were willing to give me the day off on such short noticed. I think it is because they are really starting to understand just how much church and children mean to me. I felt great that I was able to handle a nosebleed, however by the time I came out of the bathroom taking care of that, I had another prob. I have little Steve running around the gym totally butt naked. Now I didn't panic at first but when all the new LTU students came down and saw this, I was freaking out thinking where the GG are his clothes because it ain't looking too good as a witness when I have a kid with his GG hanging out running around CBC. All in all, it was fun because all the kids listened to me when I told them what they had to do.

Also I went to Lone Wolf to see everyone who went paintballin, I really wish I could of played with all them. Afterwards, I got to know Denise better, I've met her before but I didn't know what to say to her. I thank God the opportunity that I got to get to know her, and all I gotta say is that she is one of the coolest girls I know now. Just because she loves all types of things that guys like to do, and I read her diary, and it's just amazing that their is more that I could of talked to her about. Another blog I read was Gary's, what the G? Since when did he have one? Nonetheless, his is very entertaining, and so is Denise's.

Renegade Master

All I gotta say is wow, my thursday's are fricking long. Man I'm at class starting at 8:00 a.m. till 10:00 p.m. but luckily there are some nice breaks in between. I was so down during my night class after all it's from 6:30-10:00 and I was looking outside the window. Why? Because my Zion United teammates are practicing their butts off for whatever challenge we will face and here I am stuck in class, not being able to help them out. And this morning, Melissa was asking me about defending our title for v-ball this semester. I looked at the schedule and their is one conflict, this year the games are on Monday. That hurts because I've already committed to playing in another league, yeah go Peter and the YCF! Does that mean I'm not gonna play this year at OU and defend our title? Heck no, this is the kind of challenge I've been waiting for, to play in 2 league games at 2 different places in just 1 night. So I hope everything works out where I'll be playing with Peter and the YCF, and lead my OU Dragons to another title.

Hahaha, and I just can't get over ummm Fatty's Diary, you know who you are :) I mean she must be reading my mind or something because lately I've been getting annoyed with the same things she's been getting annoyed with. Like I agree with her on how it is annoying that people try to act cool, or just even to the point they try so hard. I mean dude it's either you're cool or you're not. Like I'm taking PS 241 with the same prof I had in PS 100 last year, and I can't believe the same girl that annoyed the heck out me in that class is in this class. She sat next to me last year, and I can still remember one of her convo's she was having with the other girl sitting next to me. She was saying "Yeah last night was the first time, I ever slept with my boyfriend". I'm like dude who gives a flying frick, does that make you cool or special now? Second, I had to take another look at her, and I wanted to ask if her boyfriend is on crack, because I think he must be if he slept with her. Just the thought of her right now, scares the crap out of me. Another reason why she is annoying is like, she would tell us about her stories that she would think ties into the lecture, when all it really does it waste my time listening to her and every time she opens her mouth, I know it's time for me to put the headphones back on. Oh and another thing is that she is sitting right by me again.

Oh but wait that's not the end of it. This one guy behind me likes to bring his laptop in to take notes, which I think is kind of convient. However it gets a little annoying when he tries to teach the class now since he can look all the info up, or when he uses fricking big works that like I wonder if it is even english. Oh but that's not the half of it yet, the other part is when he tries so hard to be funny and cool. Like dude I'm sorry but you come in with a laptop spitting out answers that are like in Greek then you try to be funny that just doesn't work with the rest of us for those who know what goes down. It's like oh my GG, I just wanna take his glasses and laptop, shine them up, turn them sideways, and stick them straight up.....well you know where.

Maybe I should of put a disclaimer on today's entry? Oh well, I'm sorry everyone if I sounded superficial, discouraging, or anything else not edifying.

Also, call me crazy, I thought I got rejected from that job interview last week because the lady said she would call me by Wednesday. But dude she kept calling me today, and said that I got the job. I'm wondering how the G is that possibly when I didn't prepare well for the interview, and when she told me that I got the job, I demanded that she would have to wait till Sunday for my answer. She kept saying Saturday and I was like uh no Sunday is better. I mean I'm trying so hard to get rejected but it's backfiring. The cool part is I'll be working less hours because of school and I get to decide my schedule which is sweet. However can I handle this job, restaurant, school, serving God, worship, and 2 v-ball leagues? Well at least I got till Sunday to do some serious praying about this because I still don't know if I want this job. Why? Because I don't know jack about business, I don't like to dress up, and I think this job would be boring for me. Ahhhhh only time will tell.

Morning Glory

Ok, so today is the 1 year anniversary of 9-11 and yesterday Kin and I were thinking it's weird how we can remember everything that we did on this exact day. He remembered getting off of work early and wanting to go to the golfing range. I remember driving to school and actually listening to the radio at 8:50 a.m. a little after the first attack, and all I could say was wow. Then by the time I got to class, the rest of the day was cancelled due to these attacks. I remembered going home and just sitting with my face glued to the tv. I was worried about my friends and family in the afternoon, and talking to some of them about this. I was kind of hurt that day that because some of them thought I was too dramatic about it because what if those attacks happened to them at work or at school. And some of them felt it was no big deal type of thing. However I remembered in the evening that I had to put away these distractions because it was a Tuesday night and it was time for v-ball. My question was, could I see myself playing if I lost a loved one in the attacks, and be like the pro's and ask for some time off, or would I try to play through it.

And I can still picture just a couple of months ago when I went to what use to be the WTC in NYC. Joyce and I were walking around Wall Street chit chatting and once we crossed that street to the site of the WTC, it was just pure silence. As everyone just stood and looked at the damage, people couldn't imagine seeing such a thing. I remember I was looking around and seeing some of the other buildings being held up by cable lines in case they would fall. It's amazing how 1 year ago this all happened yet I still remember as it was yesterday. I think I'm just gonna spend today watching all the 9-11 specials and listening to people's testimonies for those who survived it.

United We Stand

Ok so it's been a hectic past couple of days now just driving around. Sorry Ting, I'll have to give your shout out another day. Anyways, going to Knox on Sunday was soooooo tiring. Nothing better than waking up at 6 am to go worship God, but it was a real blessing when I got to AA with Gerald and Viv. I hung out at AA more than I expected and helped G get a drum set out in BFE between Jackson and AA. It was great to see everyone, Laura, Ben, Mike, Gary, Dave W, and Dustin. It was cool how Mike, and I were reminicing our high school days. I wish I could of stayed for Dustin's dinner, man I gotta tell you that kid can cook. And it was just all out fun going to Briarwood Mall and playing with Gerald's favorite statues. Or how bout him picking up a mannequin leg and using it to hit Viv's booty! However we felt out of place when we accidently walked into the lingerie section.

So zipping back from AA back to Randy's which I still feel so bad about. Ya know I call a meeting but I show up like 2 hours late, man did I feel like a butthead that night. Then yesterday, I went to Toronto to pick up my new, custom made shades. And I bought a new black light for my car, however when I got home, I fixed my old one which I thought was broken. So now I got like 3 black lights, and I'm trying to figure out what's the best way to hook them all in.

And now today I've been going to class, then fixing Naomi's car. Dude the Discount Tire I went to, to take care of it, first the guy who helped me took a lunch break of whatever it was, so he took off with the keys! Because he told me that the car would be done in a half hour so I come back by that time and he was gone with the keys. So I come back later, to only find out that they couldn't find the tire that I wanted back on there! So I waited and waited till they finally found the thing and now I'm drunk on Nyquil. What a way to get pumped for v-ball right. Anyways I better bust on outta here before this Nyquil knocks me out while I'm driving.

In The End

So it's been a while since the last time I did this. Well the past few days has just been painful for me. I felt like I went through every type of pain that I could go through from physically, mentally, and spiritually. I'm not gonna get into everything as some of it is just way too personal. I've been taking Nyquil, Dayquil, Robitussin, Dimetapp, Tylenol, Motrin, and Advil to take care of my flu. I must say my flu has gone down, but it's too bad some of this other medicine couldn't take away some of the other pain I've been experiencing. Playing b-ball with the flu today surprised me as I thought I could overcome my sickness on the court. But after a couple of trips up and down the court, I was just breathing too hard feeling as I was about to pass out. I played with all the C teammers from CBC, and in one game, I scored 10 straight points, but my team lost 15-10. And my team lost a couple other times, and it pisses me off that I couldn't carry the team despite being sick. Some other people noticed how off I was because of the flu and wondered why I kept playing.

Anyways, today it was hard to play with so many off the court distractions too along with the flu. It's been a humbling experience going through these types of pain, I'm hoping it ends soon though. Well time to hit the sack because this Nyquil is taking it's toll on me and I gotta wake up in a few hours to go to AA to go worship our God at Knox.

Papercut

Eerrrrrr as the season changes it's that time for me to get sick. I hate it how I know when I'm gonna get sick because I only get sick 2-3 times a year due to the season changes so my body would have to get use to it. I gave it my all last night at v-ball, but man everything seemed to be spinning, my nose kept getting stuffy, my throat was always dry, and I kept getting the chills. I'm glad to get that chance to see Jason one last time, I wish I had a camera at the time. Speaking of pictures, Angie and John took some great pictures of our team. Most of them were of me spiking, I wish their was one of Joyce setting to me. Then that would of been cool because I gave us our nickname duo of Sets N Violence, well till I think of a better nickname.

This past tournamet, I'm glad that not only CBC represented but Alliance, and CGC. It's too bad CGC didn't do as good as I was hoping but I'm glad to get to know some of the guys better on that team. I'm glad that Alliance whupped some CCUC booty, much love to my boyz, Jimmy, Mike, Gary, Jason, and Howie. It was last year that I remembered Phil and I dedicated our tournament to Alliyah because that was when she passed away. This year I think we would of dedicated it to Mandy Moore, since all we did Friday night was listen to A Walk To Remember soundtrack.

Well I just got back from my job interview. Now I think it went bad for me since I was out of it due to the flu. The lady seemed interested in hiring me, but after listening to everything I'm not sure if I want the job. If I do get hired, I would be working for the number 1 Asian business company in America. I would be working at a computer doing computer work I guess. Now if she does hire me, do I really want this job, it offers nice pay and flexible schedule. It would be easier if I got rejected from this job, but I guess I'll have a week to wait and find out.

Only Hope

Finally The Rattlesnake has come back home! Ok so this weekend was what I've been blogging about for the past few months. Boy was it a memorable experience for me. I had some trying times that were difficult such as missing dinner with everyone on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday night. Friday I was looking forward to eating dinner with everyone after the captain's meeting but the meeting took way longer than anticipated so by the time it was done, it turned out that everyone finished eating dinner. I was stuck with ordering carry out, however it was a great time to bond and eat a late nite dinner with Alex, and Denis. Then Saturday night, while I was waiting for food, I decided to go get Bubble Tea, but man it was hard to carry 6 bubble teas by myself and I had to wait in line for an hour. So again I missed dinner by the time I got back. And then last night, I was looking forward to eating with everyone at The CheeseCake Factory. However the wait was about 50-70 minutes, so I decided to take the train back to Chinatown while everyone waited to be seated. I wanted to hit up the bakery stores for people before they closed. So by the time I finished buying bakery, I was about to get back on the train to go back to the The CheeseCake Factory, however Ting calls and tells me that she left her stuff in CCUC. So I went to CCUC to go pick it up however, the church was closed. So I had to call my connections and wait for another hour by the time I could get back in and grab her stuff. I hopped back on the train, and ran as fast as I could back to the Cheesecake Factory, but to my dissaticfaction, everyone finished eating without me again. I'm thankful Joyce ordered me a steak so I could eat it on the car ride back home.

It might seem such a bad experience but it's one of those things that makes me remember this Chicago experience. And it was a memorable one, such as just buiding such a strong friendship with Jason. I wish he was here more often just because I think we would be really cool brothers. It was a fun ride to Chicago this year with Joyce, Lindsay, and Cassie because Lindsay just kept spilling her drinks in the car. Yup, and she spilled some of my bubble tea on me as I was driving, another funny moment. Riding back with Joyce, Cassie, and Larry was just as fun because we had some great talks going in the car. I didn't get back till 4 this morning!

So how did Team Bring it do? We took first making us back-to-back champs, undefeated the past 2 years, losing only 2 games the past 3 years now, and being in the finals the last 3 times. Can you say dynasty? However all good things come to an end right? I had a feeling that this year the competition was weak and I was right. Joyce, Lindsay and I were talking about ending our run next year and going our own ways. They were talking about making an all girls team, which would be so cool and I am 100% behind them on that. My plan, is that I'll probably go A b-ball or v-ball next year. And if I was to go A v-ball it would be Men's because I don't think there's anything left for some of us to prove now that majority of us who won this year are champs.

I've been watching my video for a little bit today and it already made me laugh, and cry at all the things that lead up to this past weekend. I mean this past weekend went by faster than all the previous ones. CCUC service was just another inspirational moment. I just find it so amazing that God always answers my prayer when I'm struggling with something towards the CCUC time, and He answers it through the message. I mean the past few weeks I kept talking about changes, and Sunday's message was about transitions. The worship was just unbelievable and throughout this whole weekend, you can feel it was just all God. I miss my teammates already and the whole Chicago experience.

One last shout out to my teammates of 2002 Team Bring It before I go to bed and end my summer to start school at 8 a.m.

God may You continue to look after such great teammates you've blessed me with, and such great people all with great gifts. Juice (Joyce), our co-captain who pumped the team up, Linz (Lindsay) who gave funny comments throughout the games, Lu (David) who'se wisdom of the game was much appreciated, Mousey (Tim) his team first attitude was and hi-fives to everyone just lifted the team up, and JBK (Jason) what more can I say but just a great bro in Christ, and a great teammate. Again Lord thank you for putting this team together.

2002 CCUC Tournament Winners: Team Bring It

A Walk To Remember