Stupid Me, Stupid Bee

Something crazy just happened.

I'm sitting here on the floor with my back to the couch watching the Yankees beating the White Sox 4-1. I lean back and extend my arms on the couch, as I often do on church pews...or just chairs in general. My pose is sort of hard to describe, so I hope the following picture illustrates it. I looked something like this (also, this):

This guy isn't as good-looking as me, but this picture will have to do.

A few seconds later, I realize that my left hand kind of hurts, with a piercing sort of pain. I pull it back, wondering why my hand is hurting. I played with my hand a bit, but it didn't seem to hurt when I applied pressure to the pain. It hurt a lot when I clenched a fist, but would then disappear for a little bit. I thought it was a splinter, so I examined my hand under the light, but there doesn't seem to be any cut or any splinter. I spent a bunch of time looking for it, but as you can see pretty much, nothing:

I should be a hand model, yes?

By now, my hand was really throbbing, and the pain was becoming unbearable. I went to the freezer to get myself an ice cube to numb the pain. Walking back to the couch area, I find this on the pillow sitting on the couch. :

This is the thorn in my hand's side. Ouch. 

Yes, that is a bee, and yes, it is dead. Then hit me. When I stuck my arm back and rested it on the pillow, I inadvertently rested my hand on the stinger of the dead bee. I can't believe that just happened to me. I stung myself with a dead bee. The bee didn't sting me, I literally jammed my hand into the bee's stinger. I essentially ran into a parked car. Stupid bee. Stupid me.

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is the story of how I stung myself with a dead bee.

Medical update for all of you who are deeply worried about my well-being: 
My hand hurts a lot. I need to ice my hand twice a minute or else the sharp pain in my hand is more than my low pain tolerance can handle. I'm not positive, but I think I'll make it through this one. But hey, at least the Yankees are about to win the game 7-1!

Dang it. 7-2 now. Mariano just gave up a 9th inning HR? It has been a weird day.

Prayer in Sports

This isn't a post of any of my own particular insights, but some really cool stuff that is worth seeing, if you haven't seen it before. In our day, praying in public seems discouraged, and telling (or "pressuring") others to pray with you is even more taboo. However, God's glory is often made the most public through sports. In the interview after every sporting event, almost always God is given glory before anything else. A full video montage of athletes giving God glory would probably be hours long. Many football teams have pre-game and post-game prayers, usually on the 50-yard line, and this happens quite often, even though most haven't seen or heard about it on television. When a devastating injury happens on the field, both teams usually bend the knee and have group prayers for the injured man on the field. To many athletes, God is an integral part of the game.

As with anything religion related, giving God glory in public has drawn wide criticism. Many anti-theists say that athletes are just shamelessly throwing religion into everything, and it's foolish to thank God for what is obviously the product of superior game-planning and execution, not some divine intervention. To these people I would argue: Why is it okay for athletes to thank their mom and their dad on national television, but not okay for them to thank the God they believe in? Mom and dad didn't do anything to win the game. The critique is based not only on the assumption that athletes hold the same beliefs that they do - that no God exists. Even if God didn't exist and athletes believed in such a non-existent God, how can you fault them for merely expressing their opinions?

Then there are the Christians who critique athletes for giving glory to God even though their lives don't reflect a "Christian lifestyle." To them, I would say: "Who are you to judge whether or not a person sincerely is thanking God? What makes you a better person, that your offering is more fragrant to God than this sinner's offering? Who are you to rob God of the glory he deserves?" I know that many players have done extremely sinful things, but when God is given the glory, rejoice! Don't be a Jonah! Be a Jesus!

That all said, here's the videos I wanted to share you. Prayer happens in high school, college, and even in the pros!

MCCC Retreat 2011

I wrote 90% of this post two weeks ago, but never really finished it. Well, here it is...

Overview

Last weekend (July 4th weekend), MCCC had it's church retreat at Sandy Cove in North East, Maryland (which to me is a horrible, horrible name for a city). It was an awesome time of relaxation, enjoyment, and development of friendships. I got a chance to spend time with people I don't normally spend much time with like Bryce, Alvin, and Jeff, and I got to see all of the church Shu-shu's and Ah-yi's that I don't see very often.


The Talks

The main reason I'm even posting about the retreat is that the speaker was very, very interesting and, in his own words, provacative. If you think you're conservative, wait until you meet this guy. Pastor Andy Tso is an extremely hilarious guy with laugh-out-loud jokes, impressions, and faces. He's an ABC that grew up in Chinatown, so he related well when it came to things like Chinese School, Asian mothers, and Chinese churches. Despite his likable personality and strong credentials (NYU undergrad majorring in economics, then went to become a lawyer) his talks were extremely strong, and for the most part, poorly accepted. If you were there, the controversy would be enormously obvious. But since you weren't, here's an overview.

Pastor Andy's Beliefs
The following is a brief summary of the various beliefs he shared. Some you may agree with, some you may not. The

• ESV is better than the NIV.
• You shouldn't use mobile devices as your Bible because the primary purpose of those devices isn't the Word of God.
• Being a godly Christian will make you smart. 75% of Nobel prizes go to Christians. 9% go to Jews. What you worship, you become. You worship idols, you become them.
• The root of the problem of the US economy is abortion and gay marriage. If abortion wasn't legalized in 1973, there would be around 65 million more people in the US, which means there would be more people pumping money into social security and the economy in general.If given a choice between Barack Obama and Sarah Palin, Pastor Andy would rather have Palin as president.
• "Do you believe you have the same authority to speak about politics as you do about Scripture?" "Yes."
  
• Job 40 is proof of dinosaurs. The Behemoth refers to the "Supercroc" and the leviathan refers to the blue whale. Christianity is the only religion in the world to include dinosaurs in its holy book.
• Atheism is a prerequisite to believe in evolution. Also, the earth is very young.
• Revelation 9:1 refers to missiles, Revelation 9:7 refers to military helicopter, and Revelation 9:17-19 refers to tanks.Also, the "200 million man army" in Revelation 9:15-16 could refer to the standing army in China.
• In Isaiah 49:12, Syene (or Sinim), refers to China, indicating a specific call for believers in China to bring the gospel "Back To Jerusalem." Israel will once again become a world power, experiencing revival both spiritually and socially. This Back to Jerusalem movement is needed to bring the spiritual and economic center back to Jerusalem because Jesus will come back only after the "fig tree" (aka Israel) sprouts again.
• According to Daniel 9, Jesus' exact birthday is some day in March (though I cannot remember which day). His reasoning is that we know the exact date Daniel said the prayer, and he just does the math according to the number of years provided, and voila! We have Jesus' birthday.

My Problem with Pastor Andy's Talks

He spoke them as irrefutable truth.
I understand that if you believe something, you need to really believe it as truth. In my opinion, Pastor Andy went one step further than that. About his views on science, society, and politics, he said, "You can fight with me if you want. But you won't be fighting against me. You'll be fighting against God." This makes disagreement and discussion quite difficult - what can a mere college graduate say to a pastor who claims to hold this ultimate truth? This truth isn't even the essentials of the faith, but merely non-essential, controversial issues that aren't even held as strongly by most Christians. While Pastor Andy spoke about politics, science, and homosexuality and abortion with this in-your-face absolute certainty, (sort of to his credit) he didn't go so far as to claim his interpretations of prophecies to be absolute truth.

He was speaking to uneducated kids.
Pastor Andy was talking who "didn't know any better" when it came to the end time prophecies and much of his evolution talks. As people, when we don't really have an opinion or knowledge about something, we accept when seemingly credible people tell us what to think about them. I don't like how Pastor Andy took such a strong stand on controversial issues in front of kids who have no experience or opportunity to test and examine the things he was saying. Many of the college and post-college kids reasonably had questions or objections to many of the ideas presented, but I don't think it's possible for young middle and high school Christians who don't have any alternative answers or logical arguments against what he said, forcing them to take it for truth. I felt like he was taking advantage of their youth, and that this talk would be more suited for older Christians who can meaningfully respond to his talk.

His talks would be wildly offensive to most non-Christians.
Many of the well-intentioned things that Pastor Andy said when comparing Christianity with other religions were very condescending and insulting of other religions, making me cringe when I heard them. It isn't that what he said was false, but if I had brought a Muslim friend to the retreat, he probably would have gotten up and left and refused to listen to him anymore. Political correctness can often be a problem with modern day Christians, but perhaps my annoyance with his brazen bashing of other religions comes from the more evangelistic perspective I've gained from being in college. That said, I think that it is important to respect every individual, even if you disagree with his beliefs [Pastor Andy did an impression of Steven Hawking that I thought was quite inappropriate].

What I gained from his talks.

Despite all the things I disliked about Pastor Andy's beliefs and talks, it is our responsibility as students in the congregation to attempt to learn something from a visiting pastor. The main lesson I learned is:

I need to hate evil the way God hates evil.

In general, I think we as Christians have become tolerant to sin and evil, simply because the rest of the world doesn't see it as bad. While Pastor Andy's hatred of evil could almost be taken as over-the-top, it was a good reminder for me that I really am to be set apart for Christ. This is something that I've been thinking more and more about, and maybe I'll post more about it at some time in the future.


I often underestimate the importance of Biblical holiness to a society's health.
Currently, people hate the idea of other people "forcing" their beliefs on others and are equally cautious to not push their own religious beliefs onto others. As a result, Christianity has all of a sudden become a strictly personal decision and religion, and it's involvement in other areas of your work, such as your social, work, or political life, is greatly discouraged. I think we've forgotten that God cares about and is involved in society. God isn't merely interested in my own personal salvation, but He's interested in redeeming all aspects of culture in our society. We also know that God's laws aren't arbitrary, and that we are blessed by following them - not because God is giving us treats for doing Christian tricks, but that God's laws are inherently beneficial for those who follow them. Therefore, the more we as a society follow God's law, the more we have a chance to prosper. Unlike Pastor Andy, I don't believe that abortion and same-sex marriage is the root of our country's economic problems, but his strong stance has forced me to examine the way I view God's law in relation to society.

Nice family picture at the retreat center!

My Summer

As most of you know, I'm currently working in Columbia, Maryland for a co-op with Harris Corporation. This is just a short little post about my summer so far.

My Job

I'm currently interning at Harris Corporation, which is communications company based in Florida. Even though the company itself is pretty big (16,000 employees), I work in a small satellite office which only has 40 people. I'm one of only two interns, but the people at Harris are extremely friendly and make for a pretty comfortable and homey work environment. Ever since I got real work to do (around two weeks into the internship), work has been pretty fun, and I've gotten a chance to learn a lot of new things and work with a lot of cool tools. I've learned C#, done a bunch of automated testing, used new hardware I've never seen before, and got a real taste of how agile development works in the real world. Work is actually pretty fun, and I don't dread going to work in the morning. Yay!

Random: I'm surprised at how prevalent cursing is in the office. Maybe it's just how young most of the people in this office are, but I expected all workplaces to be pretty clean when it comes to language.

My Apartment

Harris is paying for a fully furnished apartment for my enjoyment. Management sent me the lease by accident instead of the company, and I saw that the rent is $1653 per month! This doesn't even include all the furniture and awesomeness that was already provided for me! I recorded the video below for my mother, but I'm posting it anyways just to show off my living space and hopefully entice you to come visit me here in Maryland. [Sorry about the wobbliness. I was tired.]

Dining table! I only use it to eat breakfast. 

This is where I am most of the time I'm awake...

My enormous bed. I can sleep sideways on this thing. 

I also have a TV in my room, so I can fall asleep watching The Office, baseball, soccer, etc. 

My Free Time

I don't have much free time because my work hours are from 7:45 - 5:30, but I spend most of my time eating, watching TV, reading books , and playing a game called Mount & Blade. Then I go to sleep. Every Thursday night , I attend a Bible study, but that's about the only weeknight that I actually have something to do, as I've been coming home on Fridays. Last Thursday I got to play ultimate and then go play mini-golf and go to batting cages with the people from the Bible study. That was probably the most exciting day I've spent here in Maryland, not including the retreat last week.

All in all, I'm blessed to have an enjoyable internship, a flippin sweet apartment, and a little bit of community to keep my company.

Google+ Immediate Reaction

Thanks to an awesome friend, I just got a Google+ invite, and I've been messing around with it for a little bit. Here are some quick thoughts.

Brief intro to Google+:


Con: Google+ works with the assumption that most of the things you share are meant for only a certain group of friends.

For kids who don't want to let their parents see they were drunk last night, this is nice. However, in my experience, the majority of the posts on our social networking sites aren't about getting drunk or kicking babies. They are about sports, school, frustrations, and general emotions - things that most people won't have a problem sharing with other people.Google+ makes you make the conscious decision who to share things with, which is a good thing in most cases, but really just ends up being extra clicks when you don't really care.

Con: Assuming Google+ gains some momentum, the content shared to us will be very limited.

One of the awesome time-wasting qualities about Facebook is that when you go on it, there is almost always a new update. There's always something to look at or comments on or read. Because others select what groups to share their update with, if you aren't in a group that someone shares with often, you may just end up not ever getting updates from that person. This seems intuitive (because that's generally how friendships work in real life), but it really takes away from the general feeling of connectedness I feel with my friends on Facebook. There are many times when I see an update from an acquaintance about something random that is interesting or beneficial to me. There are times when an acquaintance posts pictures of travel somewhere, and even though I may not know the person well, I could go look at the photos just to see what New Zealand looks like. It is equally satisfying when someone seemingly random "Likes" a post of mine, even if it wasn't necessarily intended for them.

My prediction is that Google+ will end up as everyone sharing things to only one or two groups, and just neglecting the other ones. This may connect us to maybe around 40-50 people, which is far less than who we are connected to Facebook on. Say what you will about Facebook, but there is always stuff to do and things to look at on Facebook, which is why we keep going back. I doubt Google+ have enough content to keep us interested and coming back.

Con: Lack of features

This is something I'm willing to give Google a pass on, simply because it is still so new and in development. That said, one of the things people like about Google+ over Facebook is how uncluttered it looks. I hate to say it, people, but if you want more features, there inevitably is going to be more clutter. Do you want to integrate Google Groups, or create events, or even integrate Google Calender? Do you want any sort of applications, the ability to play games with friends, see others' birthdays, or sell football tickets at a Marketplace? All those features need to be put somewhere, and Google+ will need to make a decision on how many features it wants to integrate.

Also, don't forget that there will definitely be ads. Where are those going to go? All I'm saying is not to expect Google+ to be this simple and bare for a while. And if it remains this way, we may be deprived of some basic and essential features.

Hopefully it doesn't end up looking like iGoogle:

Pro: Integration

This is probably the only reason I can see Google+ succeeding. Integrating Gchat and video chat into one nice spot is very nice and convenient. Could this be the Skype killer? Who knows. That said, Google Buzz and Google Wave were also pretty well-integrated, but those failed majorly too.

Really cool: Google+ integrated in your Google search menu

Conclusion

All in all, Google+ looks like a nice tool for video chat and very specific kinds of updates, but I don't see it replacing all the features and friends of Facebook. I can see people use Google+ to stay in touch with a close group of friends or a very specific network, such as a frat or a fellowship, but I doubt that anyone with over 100 friends on Facebook will find Google+ comparable to the real social networking that happens on Facebook. In the end, Google+ could be a good tool to keep in touch with friends you already know and people you normally keep in touch with, but I don't think that it will be as effective for branching out to acquaintances and people you just met (aka social networking).

Favorite Android Apps

This post is dedicated to Iris and all of those late-comers to the smartphone revolution. I think of it as a "start-up kit" for Android phones. If there are any apps that you guys use that are awesome, please comment so that I can have a chance to use it too! [Here is the Oatmeal's take on the pros and cons of owning a smart phone. Hilarious.]

Must-have Apps

Swiftkey
Price: $2.00

Swiftkey is an awesome keyboard that does word correction and word prediction. The idea of this app is that it remembers sequences of words that you type and tries to predict the next word for you, allowing you to choose words without even typing them out. For me, I usually don't need to type more than 3 or 4 letters (no matter how long the word) before it knows what word I want to type, even if I have typos in those previous letters. The absolute best feature of this keyboard, however, is the nifty swipe-delete feature. All you need to do to delete a words it is to simply swipe backwards. This lets you delete large amounts of text extremely quickly instead of needing to hold the backspace button and wait. If you don't want to pay for it, try out Swiftkey X Beta. I haven't actually tried this new version, but the reviews seem pretty good. Swiftkey may seem inaccurate at first, but give it some time to train and learn how you text, and you'll find that it improves dramatically.



Dolphin Browser HD
Price: Free

This is the best browser I've used by far. The stock browser is okay, but Dolphin offers a lot more features, is much more aesthetically pleasing, and is incredibly intuitive to use. The pinch-zoom is extremely smooth, switching tabs is easy and intuitive, and the novel gesture browsing is surprisingly robust. Dolphin HD is also very fast, having a speed comparable to that of Opera Mini, which has nowhere near the number of features Dolphin has. Dolphin is also very customizable, as there are a lot of different skins and such you can download, even though the color scheme for the stock Dolphin browser is already pretty sweet (green on black).

Handcent SMS
Price: Free

Handcent epitomizes the power of customization of Android. You can make your text messages look basically however you want. You can set your own background, choose your own font, and mess with the color scheme until your eyes explode. Because the stock SMS app is pretty bland, you have nothing to lose from downloading this free app and customizing your SMS to look the way you want it. Handcent also offers some nice layout changes and functionality (like splitting up group texts, batch mode, and calling), but the customization really is what makes this app special. Hopefully I'll get a chance to take a picture of my Handcent layout and post it here.

TeslaLED
Price: Free

TeslaLED is the most practically useful app I have, and the one I probably use the most often. It basically conveniently turns your camera's LED flash into an extremely bright flashlight. I use it when walking around in the dark when there are no streetlights and for illuminating my room at night without having to get up and turn on the lights. You also have the option of doing fun things like using it for a strobe light or sending messages using Morse code. TeslaLED also provides a handy little widget so that you can turn the LED on and off without needing to actually open the app. If you ever carry your phone in the dark without a flashlight (or enjoy watching your friends get seizures), you need this app.

Highly Recommended Apps

Twitter
Price: Free

The inclusion of Twitter here isn't as much for the app (even though it is very nice), but for the use of Twitter itself. I really think that everyone with a smartphone should use Twitter, where you can shamelessly update where you are, where you're going, or what you're doing. This kind of posting isn't as accepted in Facebook, but you really get to share about the little things on Twitter. Also, you get the awesome opportunity to have an look inside of the lives and thoughts of famous people you see on TV and in movies. When you have a smartphone, you are always connected, and Twitter is one of the ways you stay connected to the world.You hear the latest news and the latest jokes (about Lebron) faster than you would anywhere else. You don't need to hear the jokes and the news from your friends or on Facebook. You get it before that. Twitter rocks.

Twitter also gives you the opportunity to directly correspond with celebrities you wouldn't have a chance to talk to in real life. LOOK. DESMOND HOWARD REPLIED TO ME!

BatteryTime Lite
Price: Free

Every phone's battery meter is less descriptive than we would like it to be, and it would often be nice to exactly how much battery we have left instead of just "green", "orange", or "red". BatteryTime Lite gives you the exact percentage of battery you have left, letting you know when you may need to turn your 3G off or stop watching some video to preserve your battery for the rest of the day. BatteryTime adds a nice indicator in the notification bar of how much battery you have left, so you never actually need to open the application.

PowerAmp
Price: $5.15

One of the weakest stock apps of Android is its stock music player, which is primitive and, more importantly, ugly. PowerAmp is the most-bought Android app in the Market, and it is for a reason. PowerAmp is highly customizable and has a bunch of really useful features. For example, PowerAmp automatically downloads album art for your songs. You can also tweak the audio settings, which I don't do because I have no idea what I'm doing. All this said, the main reason I use PowerAmp is the awesome full-screen widget it provides and the neat feature of automatically playing songs when I stick my headphones in. It's really worth the five dollars; just take a look at the following sweet photos.

Good Time-Killer Apps

ESPN Radio
Price: $2.99

If you are a working sports fan that can't or don't want to access the radio at work, this is the app for you. It conveniently aggregates every ESPN radio station in the country and every ESPN podcast in one place so after listening to Mike and Mike live in the morning, you can listen to the podcast of yesterday's 1st and 10 or Around the Horn so you don't have to listen to Colin Cowherd and his ridiculous show. However, be warned that this app is far from perfect. If you are listening to a live stream of the radio, the radio will stop every time you get a text. It also stops randomly sometimes for no good reason. It also likes to keep its notification on the notification bar even after you have stopped listening or force killed it.

Reddit is fun
Price: Free

Take Reddit with you with this app. Many of us favor the funny pictures and rage comics on Reddit, but the small screens of our smartphones really hurts the viewing experience of images. For rage comics, I actually need to scroll from the left panel to the right panel and back to be able to read the words on them. That said, it's nice being able to check my inbox and the threads I am active in on the go, and viewing monster threads from AskReddit are actually quite rewarding. I know a lot of you go on Reddit, but don't have accounts. Stop lurking. Get an account...and be my friend.

Google Reader
Price: Free

Do you want to be able to follow this blog everywhere you go? Do you read stuff online? Can you read? If you've answered "yes" to any of those questions, this is that app for you! Like my little blurb for Twitter, this is as much a push for the use of Google Reader as it is for the mobile app itself. Google Reader basically aggregates all of the new articles and blog posts from your websites of choice, and it tells you when there are posts that you haven't yet read, and you have the option of sharing the pages you like with others (there's a link of the stuff I am sharing on the list on the right. It basically makes following a bunch of different sites extremely easy, but there's really no good way to show it here. A screen shot won't do it much justice, so just go to www.reader.google.com and try it out for yourself!

Funny Jokes
Price: Free

Funny Jokes is basically a collection of different walls where everyone rates and comments on the jokes that people post. Even though it seems like most of the users are middle school boys, there is surprising amount of original content, which is often actually quite funny. Most of the stuff I read on this app I've never read anywhere else before, and most of my "material" comes from this app. If you download this app, I highly recommend the "One-Liners" section, as it has probably the funniest stuff. If you can tolerate the adolescence of the users of this app, there's a lot of chuckling-on-the-inside moments to be had.

So that's a short rundown of my favorite apps. What are yours?

President Lebron

We all know that Lebron James calls himself the "King", but thanks to George Washington and friends (minus Paul Revere, according to Sarah Palin), we only have presidents in this country. In this post, I'll compare Lebron James with some of our US presidents.

Lebron James
Lebron James - Black

Lebron James - From Ohio

Lebron James - ESFP - "The Performer" (Meyer Briggs)

Lebron James - Likes to dance

Lebron James - Most of the country hates him

Lebron James - Pisses off the Cuban

Lebron James - Says things you know you can't believe

Lebron James - Chokes

US President

Barack Obama - Black

Presidents William Harrison, Grant, Hayes, Garfield, Benjamin Harrison, McKinley, Taft, and Harding - From Ohio

Ronald Reagan - ESFP - "The Performer" (Meyer Briggs)

Barack Obama - Likes to dance

Abraham Lincoln - Most of the country hated him

John F. Kennedy - Pissed off the Cubans

Bill Clinton - Says things you know you can't believe.

George W. Bush - Chokes

Bonus Photo:

There are many ways to look at this photo...

A post from a year ago: Lebron James - Self-destruction

NBA Finals 2011 - My Vows

Tonight is Game 4 of the NBA Finals, and the Heat are currently up 2-1 on the Mavericks. I would do anything to see the Heat lose this series. Well...almost anything. Here's the list of thing's I vow to do 100% if the Mavs win the Finals. On the other hand, I'm going to go insane if the Heat win...so they better not.

If the Mavs win the championship, I will bless the world in the following ways:

Things I vow to do if the Mavs win the Championship
1) In honor of Shaun Marion, I will make it one of my life goals to get married.
2) In honor of Jason Kidd, I will make it one of my life goals to have kids.
3) In honor of Dirk Nowitzki, I will make it one of my life goals to be tall, white, lanky,
4) In honor of Tyson Chandler, I will attempt to burn off some fat to look more like him.
5) In honor of Deshawn Stevensen, I will accept my role as the 5th best player on any basketball team at the CCRB.
6) In honor of Mahimi, I will learn to foul 5 times in 8 minutes. No easy task.
7) In honor of Jason Terry, I will be the little guy with the big mouth. I guess that's not really a good thing for the world, BUT TOO BAD.
8) In honor of JJ Barea, I will be short (but hopefully I will stop missing easy layups).
9) In honor of Peja Stojakovic, I will do nothing. He does not deserve anything for his crappy play.

I, Caleb Tseng, will do these things if the Mavericks win.

If the Heat win the championship, the world will need to feel my wrath!!!

Things I vow to do if the Heat win the Championship

1) I will tell everyone how angry I am.
2) I will burn all of my Lebron James jerseys.
3) I will never name my child "Lebron" or "Bosh" or "Dwayne".
4) I will hate the state that Lebron comes from with a deep passion.
5) I will quit watching the NBA for four months.
6) I will refuse to use any heater for five months.
7) I will do my best Lebron James impression and cry.
8) I will wear flip flops in honor of the Lebron James School of Acting.

I, Caleb Tseng, will do these things if the Heat win.

Man. Just thinking about the heat winning the Finals makes me mad. I'm like a small amount of water: it doesn't take much Heat to make me boil!

This baby is learning from one of the best.

Iris' Taiwan Mis-Adventures

Here are videos of bloopers in real life about Iris.

Broken Teapot
We were in a souvenier shop in Ying-Ge, and Iris accidentally broke a small teapot. She was trying to take off the lid when she accidentally broke off the handle. When she told me about it, we took the below video.

Poisoned at Toroko National Park

At Taroko National Park, Iris tried to pick a red flower. After she did, my aunt told her to put it down because it was poisonous. Then this happened:

Bonus Video:
We went to eat at a sushi express place. I'm not sure the English for it, but its the sushi train kind of place where all the sushi is on a plate that is rotated around the tables in a conveyor belt. If you've been to one of these places, you'll know that many of the plates are barely used, but still need to be washed. We spotted this sweet dishwasher that eats up the dishes around one every one or two seconds. It's pretty sweet.

So many plates...

Some more Iris' Taiwan Documentary

Even though we're back from Taiwan, there's still so many videos we have left! Here are two more documentaries by Iris, along with a bonus video of my dad. I'll post the rest of them tomorrow.


[Chiang Kai-Shek Memorial]


[Taroko National Park...some scary cliffs]

Bonus Video:

[Farglory Hotel in Hualian]