perfect day

if i ever had a day off, i would...

wear these CLACKIN' slippers

+ celebrate the return of the slanket...this time, in "castlerock"

with these, you will find me in the club.

watching this:

triology

yo. i did some perusing for you.

and it comes in a package of threee

I. stick with it until a minute in

II. it's the boxcuttuh chick

III. a crown jewel

outties.

things you should know

so my friends, i have jams to share. 

however, blogger is gonna cancel my

account if i violate copyright issues again...

drama drama.

so here some jams that you should listen to...

Love Spaceship - Lloyd

bigger than the world - justin timberlake

Move If You Wanna (Prod. by Da Internz) - Mims

right round - flo-rida

and in honor of the honorable barack obama,

Its a New Day - will.i.am

today i went with oliver, eric, and jocelyn to sproul to watch the inaugural events on a big fat screen... my heart goes out to barack for stuttering and stumbling a little bit during his oaths, the many laborers it probably took to make aretha franklin's hat, and the poor people who have to type out closed captioning. instead of 'shouting from heaven' it came out as 'shopping from heaven' and "barack obama" came out as "about a rock obama"

word.

r.e.m. inesss

i like to reminisce...so as i was facebook stalking myself this morning (be jealous), oh boy...came upon some good memories!

and these picturas helped me remember things that i had previously forgotten! so now i share.

chapter 1: senior trip | 06.08

i think this is when winch, jeff, and chris went to the safeway that was maybe a half hour away...so we decided to play some sardines. and we were all in the garage and i found some febreeze, and nevin was in the bathroom with two chicks or something scandalous like that (watch yourself, nevster), and we tried to scare winch, jeff, and chris when they came back...but that didn't happen. and remember even before this at costco when tina demanded nevin to get him a hot dog? whipped, nevStar!

chapter 2: marine whirled | 08.08

remember when chris found that bucket on the table outside the funnel shop so he decided to take it and then an angry mom came back calling him out for stealing her son's bucket. and when we were on the rapid ride and those homies sprayed us with water...so we did it to some random chicks and the one girl like stood up and said "bring it on!" and her friend dunked her head into the water and we thought her hair would get stuck in the tracks and she'd drown...ill. and then! that one marine world worker by the tigers that was dancing and we tried to catch him on video by pretending to take a picture of erik and caroline with him in the background...oh man, ridiculous! and then i spent seventeen bucks on that airbrushed trucker hat and i don't even know where it is right now...rippin it off! that was quite enjoyable.

chapter 3: prizzin brake | 09.07

yeah i know this wasn't this past summer, but oh shoot...i miss this. and tani just lent me the dvd so i watched it in crystalline perfection...oh the facial expressions. so good, so good. but i remember this particular scene being very eventful...the one where veronica (?...tani's character) walks in on the four of us digging a hole and then she eventually becomes part of the plan for good. so i remember blogging about it way back in february 2008 but there's still stuff to say about it. i remember tani hitting kevin in the head with the shovel handle, and michael chai sniffing his armpit even though he didn't need to/have to...and i said "then they forgot about the creator and forgot about him," and the apple almost fell of the table, and ...oh boy, supah fun! miss that miss that

alrighty, thanks for taking that journey with me. 

if i had one wish...

...i'd ask for one of these

the sessy "slanket" ... in apricot

too bad it's sold out...for now

and now, some Real Talk.

so i was talking with MasterNate last night and he told me he listened to this one pastor's sermons online...and that pastor's name was Francis Chan. and i was like "hold up! yo i've heard him speak before!" which is the stone cold truth! so nate sent me this one sermon and i listened to it at like 3 am, but it was really quite good. quite memorable and thought provoking...

so here's our man, franchan... if you google him this pops up somewhere...

i guess he makes videoblogs too.

and so somewhere in his message he was talking about james 1 and trials. and he used this metaphor of "testing" silver, which i really liked. so i wrote it down for you, fans...read it:

"...when you're surrounded by trials, you're being tested. and he says that's the only way you're going to build perseverance. this is how you can consider it joy because you realize that during that painful time you're being tested by God. and that phrase, i'm sure some of you have heard before, that the testing comes from the idea of the silversmiths, and how they would test silver. they'd put a bunch of silver in a pot and they would light this huge fire and then the silver would heat up and boil and get hot. and what happens when you heat up silver is all the impurities rise to the surface- all what they would call "the dross." all the junk, all the dirt, all the impure metals would rise to the top. and then the silversmith would take a scoop..er. i dunno what he used, but he would take that top...like i know...he just used...scuba gear. and he took that top layer off and he took the layer of the dross off. then what he would do is he would heat up that same silver again. again a little more dross would rise to the surface. he'd scoop it off. he'd do this over and over again. each time less and less impurities would rise to the top. and the way a silversmith could tell that his silver was pure or tested is that he would look down at the silver and he could see his own reflection. then he would know the silver's been tested"

so i guess you need to listen to the sermon to get some of the things (like the scuba gear)...so i guess tell me if you want me (or nate) to send it to you, then i'll know i actually have weblog readers. 

basically francis, or err PastorChan...? uhh MasterFrancis is saying that every time we're going through ridiculous or difficult times, it's God working in us...helping us to become more "mature and complete, not lacking anything" so that afterwards we're closer to God and closer to being like God...that way at the end when God looks at us, if we were de-drossed silver, he'd see His reflection and see more of Him in us. and he mentions that Christians have a tendency to want to feel happy all the time and we don't embrace the hard times that leads us towards holiness...so embrace the fire cause that's when you get your beauty from pain! [heard here, featuring mulan!]

YO. there are some Pearls of Wisdom right there.

so you can imagine how awed i was when my daily bible reading was about Job...and this here verse just echoed all of francis' sermon for me:

"He replied, 'You are talking like a foolish woman. Shall we accept good from God, and not trouble?'..." job 2:10

ooh to the whee, my friends. 

so i know my blog is pretty inane [and that supah sick curious case of mastersamuel banner isn't helping it out (shoutout to ed)], and the only time i was really serious was when i ranted about faybook birthday comments (but i think only clifton saw that before i uhh deleted it), but i think i'm trying to live a less inane and more meaningful life...so i might try to write more substantive things...amongst the inanities (i wonder how many times i can use the word 'inane' in one paragraph). and even though today i basically relayed what francis chan had to say, it's a start. 

aite. go subscribe to francis chan's podcasts. and forreals watch that beauty from pain mulan song. and go buy a slanket.

outtiezzz

i feel a prophecy coming on...

...and it says:

leona lewis - run

rihanna and chris brown - bad girl

and the next sazzzha fierce-beyonce combo

ave maria and radio

there we is! make me proud, my predictions!

here are my resolutions

keep me to them...i even added italicized rhyming somethin-somethins!

1. work on my posture.

 i hunch when i sit and i slouch when i stand, when you see me like such, say "straighten up, man"

2. pay people back on time. 

borrowing one, five, and twenty dollah dollah bills...i don't want to disregard money like them beezies on The Hills

3. be consistent in saying grace. 

i'm blessed to have something to eat, so i should thank baby jesus for my plate of meat. 

4. stop being rude/degrading...even if in jest. 

everything is permissible, but not everything is beneficial. think about it

in uzzer news....

2008

as is tradition, here is some of the past year in photos (some slash most pulled from faybook...my b)

get ready for many many pictures

let the year begin...

we blindfolded adrienne and clifton in a strange ritual called the baby shower

in january, ada turned 19

on a velly special day in february, someone harked the herald and RKJ was born

christopher had a birthday...i remember it was also the first time i wore a fitted cap in public. i am grateful for these milestones.  

then, woot woot, Glen Coco took the high school bible contest title of CHAMPIONZ for the second year in a row... yee yeee.

i'm sure the war paint and courtney-designed tees helped a lil in the morale boosting

what

then i turned eighteen years old...

...with the family at boboquivari's...

...and with the friends at sushi bistro...

cindy and norm initiated the 2008 weddings

with banquet at empress of china

i took some senior portraits...and let my mama share my spotlight (and cramp my style...sike sike)

went to diva kanye's glow in the dark tour concert with jeannie, vince, christopher

floor seats!

decided to go against the grain by taking prom pic in front of a driveway instead of fireplace

and rode a cable car

sellebrated tani's 19th bday at joy sushi

and did 'cal studies' with urban...in which we:

chased chickens

ate some fruit

milked some goats (and apparently only took photos of myself...sike i just don't know if other people want their face plastered on the interweb...so get ready for a whole lot of me)

played with some hunnnny beezies

. then we visited some graduations 

like christopher's

and judith's

and juliet's

06.07.08. came along...it was quite possibly the perfect day. 

i graduated and gave my speech

posed with the fam

and the other fam

matriarch and patriarch jang came with the queen

and then we ate at the slanted door

and saw kung fu panda after posing with our cardboard homies

youth arts night happened and choir sang, dance ministry danced, and i rapped with karianne (in the temporary wheelchair)

then we went on senior trip

where horseman clawed at my camera

caroline decided to be efficient and sold some knives

and we took over the very empty streets of lake tahoe

then my beezy of a neighbor hit my car...

but it's all good because i was slow to anger (except not at all)

so to help myself, i went on wedding therapy and hit up winchell and jen's wedding on july 4th

then we had spy-themed senior dinnah

and a belated graduation dinner

- i also served in KCDC...however i am contractually obligated to not post photografias...so my b -

then my final high school camp happened...

we did some re-enactments

and put on safety gear

and posed...

viva la class of 2008

then went to disneyland with tani where we:

stood in line

 got sessy eyewear

posed with alladin and jasmine while some tourist took an off-center photo. love them fobs!

got happy

met our hero...this here parade performer

got eggzited!

back home, we had a final 2008 gathering where some tourist took an off-center picture. love them tripods!

had a KCDC P2 leader hangout (minus 2/3 of the leaders) at great america...and worked on the jumpshot

and went to marine world 

i got to perform in Surrender 2008...youth choir musical

and took only one photo with my camera...me, judith, and riley kendall jang

i also started that lil thang called college

joined intervarsity

met this fool

and perfected the jumpshot

which was useful for the 10.24.08 premiere of HSM3! (jeannie was there too, sorry masterjean)

the weddings dun ended on 11.08.08 when J.Lue and K.Lue got murrried

and we clubbed it out

holladays 2008 came...we got asian candies in the stockings

and annie proved her loyalty to..my food

we ate some dumplings and watched heavyweights

and had christmas feast!

i'm way thankful for 2008...

quite possibly my favorite year ever...it was full of a lot of goodness and a lot of blessings

i was for sure a very different person january 2008 than january 2009...praise the lord!

out.