Other than God, I can't think of anything that is good and it is good, like that saying their is always 2 sides to every tale, or the pro's and con's about something. So last night I was excited because I worked out, played some b-ball, then had the back to back v-ball games. The bad part was in my first v-ball game, I ran and flew into the bleacher area. As I was sliding, I happened to slide right underneath the bleachers till my hip smashed into the bleacher leg. The whole set of bleachers shook because I was sliding at such a high speed. So now I'm stuck with this bruise on my hip, gosh did it hurt to just try to sleep on that side last night.

It did feel good to work out, and what was cool was that I followed this 6'2 monster to work on my legs. He did reps of 275 lbs. on the toe extention machine and probably saw me as a chump because of my size compared to him. But yeah I showed him up, because I was going at 300 lbs. on my feet. Then I realized a goal for me for this semester. The goal is for me to max out on the toe extention machine and the possibly max is 405 lbs. So I only got a good 105 lbs to go. This is all the good part but to every good thing their is a bad. Well the bad is that, the weight room is always filled with beautiful girls. And it's like I always try not to look but then some of the guys in there always make comments as I'm working out about who's hot in there or some of them will be staring a hole right through some of the girls. Man I tell ya men, it's like Temptation Island in there or something. That's why I gotta stick to my goal and just work out.

Today I woke up butt early to study for the dreaded MTE exam. I kept thinking about Susan because she kept telling me that she was highly considering dropping the class. And today she did because she didn't show up for the exam. That only gave me extra motivation because i was considering dropping but now I wanna stay in there to show Prof. Grossman that he ain't gonna intimidate all of us to drop out. I have to do well on this exam because I wanna show him up so however I did, it's for you Susan. God bless ya with where the Lord takes you in MTE. I praise God for giving us the chance to get to know one another. Now that was the bad part is Susan leaving. However the good part is I can join Wendy and take Susan's place in this dumb math project so I don't lose 10%. But I feel guilty for jumping in on this chance because Susan's gone so I don't want to seem heartless about it.

The good and the bad with life baby. Time to take it to the extreme, new motto for me as well,
Hit it strong, hit fast that's the way K Dawg does it.

The Reckoning

It's great to have Saturday's off from the restaurant but it sucks when you have to be a little more conservative with $$$ the following week. Anyways this weekend, I have stopped doing the Bible in year because I wanted to make sure that I am hearing how God is speaking to me. But I'll probably pick up the plan tonight as if I weren't behind enough on my readings though.

This past Sautrday, I received an award for being the outstanding volunteer of ACA. Their was this huge banquet at Golden Harvest. Again I don't think I deserve this award because I believe their are a lot more people more deserving. Anyways, the amount of people just blew me away, over 300 peeps packed into Golden Harvest. It was wierd receiving the award in front of all those people, then giving a speech to everyone about it. It's cool that a little bio of me went circulating around the tables and people could read my testimony. All I could do was just give praise to God, and I kept wondering why I would want such an award. All I did was do my job because I love kids. It was even wierder after the banquet was over, as the president and vice president of ACA came over to talk to me. Then I got to talk to Marcella Lee from NBC the tv anchor lady, I didn't even know who she was before Elaine told me. Then I got to meet the first Asian state representative of Michigan right now, but personally I still don't like politics. Plus I felt some what famous when people wanted to take pictures of me for their chinese news paper. It was great to see old faces, Tracy, Viotta, Scott, Elaine, and Emily. It was nice to meet Igun (sp?) since Elaine used my guest ticket for her. Anyways, it was a nice night but personally I'd rather get back to the kids than attend one of those again.

Then yesterday's message was just so powerful and I'm glad David and I could talk about it. It was all about being hardcore straight to da bone Christian. So after watching the all star game I did some reflecting time with God. It's just so amazing where God put me at now in my life, but have I gotten complacent? I mean I'm doing pretty good in school right now would be excellent if it weren't for MTE, I'm in pretty good shape physically, and my walk with God has never been better. Just sitting in my room, meditating, I've come to realize that I'm at a limit, but I know I can go farther. So how do I do that? It's with myself and I need to push myself harder like MJ said last night, he wanted to distance himself from everyone in terms of b-ball. That's what I want to do in all aspects of my life. And it starts now by going to work out before the v-ball games instead of sitting at home being a coach potato or sitting in the ERL surfing the web.

One Step Closer

What sucks about being in the ED building is having to keep paying for copies now. At the KL I could of made lik 100 copies for free, the price of being in a nicer building now :( Anyways yesterday seemed like the neverending day but it was great blessing. First was student teaching and I'm so blessed to have such a great teacher who has been letting me teach while she just sits and watches. Some of my other friends, like Shanon, Sarah, and Melissa in their student teaching have done nothing but just sit and watch or just make copies for teachers. I've been trying to encourage some of them to stay as late as I do at school. I dunno but it's just me about being the last one to leave type of thing. Like school ends at 4 and that's when my friends leave, but for the past 2 weeks I have stayed till 6 just to do other things around the school and I am learning just soooo much from this experience. Yesterday I took one of my kids down the the principal's office because on Tuesday, he was shooting snot rockets at kids. Man my kids are just bad to the bone, but I love them all. A lot of the teachers have been so nice to me too and I feel like I know the whole staff their too. It's wierd because I call them by Mrs., Ms., or Miss, and like Ms. Jones was like just call me Christine because she's only a year older than me. It's just so wierd that some of these teachers are only a year older than me and I'm calling them by their first name. I dunno I'm wierd like that.

After work or school, whatever you wanna call it, I went to the Moy's place to just chill. I'm thankful that Cindy made me some dinner and boy was it delicious, even her left over hot pot was just so mmmm good. It's too bad Jonathon was a lil sick but he was cute when he tried be a little statue. Benji ate more than me I think, and was just soooo happy. After dinner, Christopher pulled my arm so I could read and teach him to read, that was great hearing him trying to sound out the words. Just another blessing to share a great time with the Moy family.

Then it was time for whirly ball, boy this game takes a lot more skill than I thought. Especially when finally that last game I got to drive a fast car. This game would be a lot safer if it had steering wheels instead of those sticks. I just remember driving straight down to our goal, and I kept looking up thinking when should I release the ball into the net. So I'm getting closer and and closer, and by the time I released it, it hit the backboard, so I extended my arm back looking up the whole time trying to get the rebound. As I'm doing this, my foot is still on the pedal, and I missed the rebound, next thing you know. Wham! I drove straight into the wall and I let out a whimper of "Oh my chicken" Kelly was next to me and thought it was funny, man I could of felt my stomach shooting up. Gosh this is a dangerous game if you have a fast car. But it was fun and I hope the 5-1-4 do it again in the future, good job on the activity selection llz.

The Fire Still Burns

Wow yesterday, I can't believe I was able to be sooo productive. But after MTE, now I'm back down to reality again, gosh school stinks. So last night the table was set at OU, all eyez on probably what will be the finals this semester for v-ball, Titans vs. Grone. The game had every type of emotion that you can think of, the first game started off horrible for us. I was talking to Meagan during pre-game warm ups of how to set the rotation and their was 2 ways that we could of gone about it. So the first game we tried it and it ended up to be our downfall, plus the fact it didn't seem like we were mentally prepared. So Joey did a good job in leading his team to a 1 - 0 lead against. So Game 2 begins, and this time everyone was focused and we tried the 2nd lineup which worked out much better and it ended up to be a blowout from us, which tied the series 1 - 1 in the best of 5. Then came Game 3, we stayed the same and they adjusted their lineup because Melissa's serving was too much for them in Game 2 and they had 2 weak passers in Game 2, so Game 3 it was a dog fight with leads changing back and forth throughout the whole game. In the end, our team came out on top to give us a 2 - 1 lead. So Game 4 started and Joey got his team fired up pretty well as they took a commanding 9 point lead. But with 2 minutes left to go in the whole series, they were up 20 - 11.

So the question on my mind was, should I of told Lisa to hit the net on her serve so they could get the point for rally, which would be 21 - 11. Because if we did that then it would leave us a good amount of time to try to take the series in Game 5. Or should we of tried to go for the win in Game 4, trying to play mistake free? So we opted to continue to play Game 4 out and Lisa was leading the come back. She brought us back at 20 - 16 with 26 seconds left in the series. So they called a timeout to shake her up, but we played out one long volley which gave them the point in the end because we shanked a pass. So with 3 seconds left, Brandon asked us if we wanted to play the 5th game out with only 3 seconds left meaning pretty much do or die, or just call the game a tie at 2 - 2. I wanted to play the 3 seconds left for the 5th game because their's nothing better than a good pressure game when everything counts. But everyone else wanted to take the tie so Joey and I agreed to take the tie.

However I didn't view the game as a tie but more of a lost. Because Joey's team wanted to win more, you could tell, they were just more hungrier than we were. I mean they haven't won the championship in 2 semesters now. I again gotta say the lost is on me, I should of went S.S. I thought this year's team was strong enough where I can hold back, and you could tell Joey was not holding back but as the games went on his energy was dropping off. Another thing was Joey's team is probably the best defensive team in the league, they play their positions well. I wish our game was on tape so our girls can see where they should be on defense. The teams were even too, we were missing Stan, Nick, and Jane so the same amount of people were allowed on the court to play. What was frustrating was because we couldn't pass at certain stretches of the game, and so I kept taking majority of everyone's passes. It was hard to play because now I learned that Lisa has a medical condition, so I believe everytime she was on the court she was hurting the team. So do I ask her to take some time off from the game to let her get head back together again? I mean she is the best overall girl on our team but I'd rather have her straighten out her life first. I'm glad that Maegan and Cindy are gonna spend some time with her to see how she is doing. Then their's the setting part, I mean SpongeBob is an average setter at best. Our team lacks awareness when it comes down to it defensively and when one of them is setting. When their was good passing to Sponger she'd either put it too tight or too far away, gosh that was so frustrating. But again this game was intense as that's what everyone watching kept saying, it was like a tennis match Joey vs me after each take turns killing, then it was Joey's friend vs. Mike go back and forth.

Then afterwards as I was getting ready to go to Boulan. I asked this one girl why isn't she starting for Vertically Challenge? I mean this girl was fairly big but she played in the finals last year with Mike, and she has a great set of hands if the pass is there. Plus I believe she is one of the top 5 girls in the league and I thought she hooked up with VC. She told me as they were playing that they told her that they didn't need her on the team no more and that they are set. I was like what the G, because they let her play last week but now they cut their best girl and told her all that bullshit. I felt bad for her because as I was talking to her, her eyes began to water. I mean that's not right, you let her play with you one week then you cut her the next week. I could understand if she sucked but dude she's the real deal. Anyways because of this, I have decided to take out this out on VC next week. Praise the Lord that this will give me extra motivation to play hard next week. Hopefully tonight their will be a good competition because for the past month now, I haven't play at Tuesday night as hard as I want to due to the setup. But I can definitely tell my level of play has dropped off because of it. It's time to play The Game.

All The Things She Said

So Chinese New Year has come and gone yet again. It still amazes me how excited my sister gets when we receive money because even when I was little I never card about the "lucky money" type of thing. It also amazes me how ignorant people are when it comes to waiting for food. They should all go look at Vickie's blog to help further educate their money brain that working at a restuarant ain't easy. Another thing that amazes me is that I'm actually gonna ahead in one of my classes. Yay me! However that came across the fact that I am behind in MTE, my easily most hated class of this semester. I'm starting to understand why my advisors told me not to try and take 3 ED classes in one semester. Homework has been outrageously overwhelming, it's no wonder last night I went to take a nap at 7:00 p.m. and I just wanted to nap only for an hour. However by the time I woke up it was 9:00 a.m. Monday morning! I keep thinking back about how Monday through Wednesday I'm usually upbeat on things but once it's Thursday till the weekend, I am usually burnt from homework. Now I see why God said on the 7th day we should rest because for the past 2 Sundays I've just slept through the evening till the next morning. However on the bright side of things, I can wake up at 5:30 a.m. pretty consistently now and also it continues to remind me to be like Paul in 2 Cor. 4:7 Paul tells us that we can not do things on our own but we need strength from God to do all things. I'm thankful for God's grace that He continues to give me energy to get by the day and still do my best to continue my Bible in a year. Also it amazes me that I have yet to miss my 8:00 a.m. class even though Stan insists that I will oversleep one of these days.

Well time to finish one more assignment then off to face Grone. Finally a worthy opponent for v-ball then off to Boulan for my doubleheader. Hopefully by the end of it all I will still have energy to go to Barnes and hit up the books with Chrissy.

Wrong Way