Got picked up from the airport at around noon and went to eat at the Korean tofu place next to H-Mart, and then just shopped around at H-Mart for a couple of hours eating all of their samples. We met Thomas and Wendy there!!
Sunday - 27 February 2011
Went to church and then went to Chipotle for buy 1 get 1 free with Thomas and Wendy! Didn't really do anything that night besides eat my mom's cooking.
Monday - 28 February 2011
Didn't do anything. Just stayed home. And played Starcraft.
Tuesday - 1 March 2011
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| Bringing Sexy Back |
Also, check out this sign outside of the mall:
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| Uhh....what? |
Wednesday - 2 March 2011
Iris and I went up to Rutgers at night and had dinner with Eric, Thomas, and Tim at Friendly's. It was a poor decision. The food stunk. I got the Grilled Cheese Burger Melt or whatever it was called, and it basically was a burger with grilled cheese sandwiches as the bun. It was gross. It made me feel gross. I remembered Friendly's as an establishment with great food and awesome ice cream, but the food really disappointed all of us. We went to CCF afterwards, where a great message about assurance of salvation was given. Here are the sermon notes.
It was nice talking over with Iris how the Rutgers CCF is like AIV and how it's different. For example, all the newcomers get a welcome bag (which is really cool), but the fellowship also feels a lot more cliquey compared to AIV. We also got a little bit of perspective, because we were the newcomers and went through the loneliness of being new, even though we had Thomas and Eric with us basically the entire time. We really are blessed to be in AIV, as we often forget really how great of a community it is.
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| Friendly's Grilled Cheese Burger Melt |
Thursday - 3 March 2011
Eric came over for lunch and we got Shanghai Bun and watched some Sportscenter and Top Chef. Didn't really do anything else that night besides have awesome hot pot for dinner and then watched the Heat collapse against Orlando. Mommy, Daddy, and I then watched the second part of an awesome 2-part Castle episode. Is it just me, or does this guy (from that episode of Castle) look a lot like Chael Sonnen? They sound alike too...
Friday - 4 March 2011
Went to Joywok. The speaker was a missionary to Romania that just got back from a trip to South Africa. The main challenge he presented was whether or not our church was a place where the weak and the vulnerable are welcome in our church, or if our church is like the "den of robbers", where the blind and the lame were forced to the outskirts instead of the temple being the house of prayer for everyone.
Saturday - 5 March 2011
Kenny is coming to visit me!! Met with Bijan at Starbucks and went to West Lake for dimsum! Iris is hanging out with Maggie and Ben and Jason and Andrea (the staff for Pitt), and I'm probably going to go watch the Duke-UNC game with Shawn and Bwuu later. Watching the Michigan-Michigan State game...on my computer...because it's not showing here in NJ =(
Update: UNC beat Duke, much to the delight of Shawn and Brian. I had a really interesting conversation with Kenny about suburbia. He says that architects and city planners or w/e think that suburbia is wasteful in the everything is superfluous. The roads are unnecessarily big, the houses are unnecessarily big, things are far apart from each other which forces driving and fuel consumption, etc. But to me, suburbia is home. It's awesome. It's comfortable. Its beautiful. Suburbia may be wasteful, but I love it.
Sunday - 6 March 2011
Jason and Andrea, the Intervarsity staff workers at University of Pittsburgh, came to our church! Jason gave a talk about why people leave the church, and he gave a very "IV"-type exposition, connecting Scripture to life. He spoke as a young man to young people, using lingo and illustrations that adults wouldn't understand (like a Halo example, which I doubt any adult understood). I got a chance to talk to Andrea about the problem of seniors of college fellowships dropping out of church after college, when they enter the real world, and she gave me a bunch of good tips about what can be done. Jason and Andrea are mad cool. It's really too bad their from that school down south. I must point out, however, that Jason was wearing Michigan colors when he spoke - he wore a yellow shirt and a blue tie. God works in mysterious ways. [Btw, the sermon notes are here.]
Also, I got to see Darren and Margaret, and a bunch of kiddies back home. MC3FTW.
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| Only in New Jersey... |
Romans 10:17 - "Consequently, faith comes from hearing the message, and the message is heard through the word of Christ."
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