December 2010
38 posts
“Human history is the long terrible story of man trying to find something other...”
– CS Lewis
i am a sad ball.
ahem, babies are so cute. all i want for 2011 is for every single one of my friends to revert back to their QT PIE baby forms. kidding. as if they’re not QTPIES already.
i have been watching an insane number of movies, by insane i mean this. i feel like my eyeballs are bulging out of their sockets. also, to all you foos and friends and foes and followers and fstalkers (just tryna keep that...
arcreacting asked: Aaaargh yes miss you toooo. I wanted to send you a Christmas card but I don't know where you are now hahaha I can't keep track!! Jsyk I'm applying to Medill! But uni apps are driving me nutters.
If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for...
eskimo kisses
Christmas was swell.
I met a 70+ (or 80+? now i’m the one getting old) year old man who, in his earlier days, had worked as a publisher at SPH (Singapore Press Holdings.) We talked about journalism, about the perks and insanity and ethics and timeliness and he asked me if I wanted to travel the world for two years upon graduation - go to exotic places. meet exotic people. immerse myself in...
Psalms 51
1 Have mercy on me, O God, according to your unfailing love; according to your great compassion blot out my transgressions. 2 Wash away all my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin.
3For I know my transgressions, and my sin is always before me. 4 Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight; so you are right in your verdict and justified when you...
all this twirling
and swirling and thinking and self-reflecting makes me an overly ruminative girl
it’s legitly difficult — trying to get plugged into the asian time zone when you sleep at 4am, wake at 7 - then out of fatigue take naps from 2-6pm.
i find that with vulnerability comes honesty, and with such pure honesty one does not only come clean with others, but also to terms with accepting oneself...
bulldozers
numero uno, you won’t even be able to imagine how happy i was when i looked at the clock this morning and it DID NOT SCREAM 4AM.
my body’s just not accustomed to this multiple time zone shindig
it’s chilly!
when docks mourn for dim lighthouses
Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit lives in you? If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him; for God’s temple is sacred, and you are that temple.
1 Corinthians 3:16-17
I can’t grasp holiness. I can’t grasp sacredness.
It humbles me.
Our identities as Christ represents are God-given. A ton of us...
Day 066
365-fearnots:
The Lord has promised: your sorrow has ended, and you can celebrate. I will punish those who mistreat you. I will bring together the lame and the outcasts, then they will be praised, instead of despised in every country on earth. (Zephaniah 3:18-19 CEV)
hang a shining star upon the highest boug
Why hello - people come to mind in specific contexts. I thought of you and you and you before I fell asleep - of how I was actually mildly sad that you didn’t experience last year’s snowfall as you were out on a roadtrip - of how we stuck our tongues out to collect the snow flakes and were recklessly careless on the slippery roads - of how last year this time this place my...
Unwarranted
Did I mention that on my 14 hour flight home - I played Veggie Samurai until my iTouch ran out of battery and watched Beauty and the Beast on the kid’s channel thrice?
Got to read Francis Chan’s “Crazy Love” too.
“Whoever acknowledges me before others, I will also acknowledge before my Father in heaven. 33 But whoever disowns me before others, I will disown before my...
sweeper
Other than coming home, one of the best feelings on earth is crawling into my warm warm warm bed AAAAAAAH YAY FOR ELECTRIC BLANKETS
I had a baby mandarin orange and now my room smells just like 0307 West Fairchild because Grace often noms those oranges. This is bizarre - the whole overlapping of my life here and my life… on campus.
Woozy drowsy. My body clock tells me it’s 8 am and I...
squirrel attack
Nommynommy yawn today we woke up, stumbled around half-asleep and rushed last-minute packing when we
saw a squirrel sprawled on our window pane.
SPRAWLED.
FYI, Grace and I live on the 3rd floor. Yeeeuuhp. Squirrels are strange, strange creatures indeed.
I decided to be an overachiever like ahem moobs and -
26 Brothers and sisters, think of what you were when you were called. Not many of you...
Sugar conc.
Who, oh Lord, could save themselves, Their own soul could heal? Our shame was deeper than the sea Your grace is deeper still
18 is a number that’s 2 short of the big Two Oh. I’m going home tomorrow, and it feels surreal.
I never imagined starting my 18th out this way, but ah me oh my God works in his little quirky, surprising ways. All these deep talks are forealzies teaching me to...
so much love
I really do love people who visit me and give me presents.
But who doesn’t?
Mehhhhhhhhh six more hours to liberation.
Toooomorrow - My dad’s stopping by Evanston before heading to his business trip. It’s going to be strange seeing his (tangible) face after only seeing it 2D on the computer screen for the past three months. What’s going be even stranger is sleeping in my...
“Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.”
– H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (via kingfish76)
too many witnessed sunsets from the library makes...
Everything's a rollercoaster
Pendulums, volatile - fickle?
a rubberband far too tight, constricting around your bony wrist - fleshy imprints, indented
I have a final exam in six hours.
my life is pretty g
for when our hearts are far away, Your love goes...
It’s a never-ending chase. Cat, mouse, cat - mouse - cat -
It’s a fearless and passionate pursuit, a mighty force sweeping the nations - bringing the people back to their only hope.
There’s something greater than we’d ever be able to imagine going on right now. Something unfathomable, something divine.
Ponder. Pander. Ponder.
I’m more than thankful for this...
organized chaos and butterfly wings
flap, flap, flap.
All need to be saved, All can be saved, All can know they are saved, All can be saved completely. I want You to be my joy, my heart, my desire and my soul. My ultimate prize.
I’m on my tippy toes and I wish I could put both feet on the ground and make a firm stand with a firm stamp. No more mind games, no more trickery and no more of testing the waters.
Jason Mraz and...
i was supposed to study for an hour but because of...
It's december.
What?