The Constant Wanderer

I am a techy, there's no question about that. Whenever the latest and coolest gadgets come out, I dream about them and drool (OK maybe I won't drools, but you know what I mean). One of my friends and I were talking about this once and she started calling me a "techno-whore." Lovely ... just lovely ... However, there are times when technology gets scary. Just take for example the Terminator movies where killer robots come and destroy the human race, or in War of the Worlds where robotic aliens come attack us, or even the Matrix , where humans became batteries for machines. Scary stuff! This piece of news reminds me that those movies may not be so far off after all. Those sneaky Japanese scientists have figured out how to control a robot using brain waves! Yes ... BRAIN WAVES! Doesn't this scare you? Imagine 10 years from now when we'll be driving cars with our brains, we'll be turning lights on and off with one simple thought (sadly, this will spe...

If you haven't gotten the hint already, it was my birthday a couple days ago. Woohoo! Thanks for all the cards, meals, cookies, cakes ... etc. It's a blast growing older with you guys. My friend said this about me once, "on the outside he's serious but when business is over he likes to surround himself with people who are silly and can make him laugh." I guess that's true, that's why I love this card I received this year. Enjoy!

I love the discovery channel, I think I can watch that, TLC, and the history channel non-stop for days without stopping. It's just so engaging and interesting, to find out the weird quirky thing that animals do and the dumb things that people do. Because of my love for the discovery channel, I would've loved to have seen this in person. It's not that I have ill feelings toward monkeys, as someone has suggested, but it's just that it would be a perfect illustration of the "survival of the fittest" concept. Plus, it happened at a safari park, it is supposed to emulate the wild! Kudos to the Dutch zoo keepers! So here's a moral for you: Don't mess with big bad bears or live right next to them.

Symptoms: 1) Lower back pain (detriorating muscles) 2) Aching joints (arthritis) 3) Decrease in height ( shrinking bones ) 4) Wrinkles (darn you gravity) 5) Memory Loss (losing brain cells) 6) Decrease in mobility (can't run as fast or jump as high) 7) Decrease in metabolism (fat fat fat) This is what 25 years on earth can do to you. As I ponder on this, a famous quote from Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness comes to mind: THE HORROR! THE HORROR!!!!

I don't believe in coincidences. Things happen for a reason. Sometimes you see why, but most of the time you don't. It's not your job to make sense of everything, you just roll with the punches and trust that someone out there knows what he's doing. It's interesting how once you learn about something, you start noticing it more and more in the world around you. This happens to me pretty often: I would learn an obscure word that I was certain I have never heard of before, and then the moment after I learn it, I start hearing it everywhere I go ... on the news, in the mall, at the office, on the web. It's like as if a small piece of darkness have been removed from my world, and I start seeing things in a whole new way. For example, the word Antediluvians , the name our cell group adopted for ourselves because it's somewhat related to H2O (water). Right after I found out what it meant, I started seeing the word used in the books I read, I start seeing it...

Contextual Advertising ... that's what Google claims about the ads on the side of the Gmail client. I was checking my emails as usual last week and noticed some weird "contextual ads" in some of my emails. For example: Ad: Parent to Parent Are Your Child's Play Dates Safe? Don't Take Chances www.playdatesecure.com Topic: Relating to God as our Heavenly Father Ad: Get Your Ex Back Get a powerful plan for restoring your relationship with your ex. $24 www.exback.com Topic: My friend talking about she felt unworthy of God's love for her Ad: How to Captivate a man Make Him Fall in Love with You- and want to give you the world. www.relationshipheadquarters.com Topic: Same topic as the previous entry Ad: Rap Lyrics Opportunities for singing talent of all ages and genres available now! www.talentrock.com Topic: I told my friend in EA I'll rap (codeword for pray) for them Ad: 70 Day Life Makeover Get organized, manage time, money health, esteem - Begin today! cha...

Japan is the land of wacky inventions. If you have a crazy idea that you think will never catch on in the US, just go to Japan and you'll find swarms of people buying your wacky invention. It doesn't matter what it is, as long as it can be pink, people will buy it. You'd be smart to make it cute and put some stickers on it too, because you know how Asians love the cute stuff. The latest Japanese invention has teddy bears being shot out of guns . The cuddly projectile will be wearing a parachute and will slowly descend upon wily wedding guests, all of which will be fighting each other to grab one of these bears. What a wonderful idea for a wedding. I just might have to buy one and bring it to the next one I'm attending.

It's against my principle to perpetuate evil in this world, and that is why I'm here to WARN and ALERT you of something you should NOT do. It's like when DARE came to your elementary school and showed you what drugs looked like, then proceeded convince you not to use them after they have piqued your curiosity in narcotics. My evil friend Matt just released a lesson on how to create an evil laugh . You should definitely check it out because 1) it's very informative 2) it's pretty hilarious 3) you'll know what evil sounds like from now on. Remember ... EVIL is bad. MuaHaHaaHa (oops) P.S. - As a side note, Matt thinks that Ken Makes Kids Happy ... he also seems to think I'm omniscient too! MuaHaHaaHa...HeHeeeHe (did I do it again?)

Weddings always leave me in a state of awe. I love every aspect of it, I love how two souls can become one in perfect union ... to love and cherish, to hold each other fast through the thick and the thin, to be committed to a covenant of faithfulness to each other until the dying end. When I saw Matt & AJ take their vows last Friday, I was overwhelmed with the beauty of it all ... it was just too perfect. Two people who are in passionate love relationships with God coming together in marriage, it really does leave me speechless. When I gaze on the beauty of this occasion, there lies an inner conflict of hope and shame. On the one hand, I long for the beauty of this moment for myself, but at the same time, I feel completely unworthy of such a thing. Lately I have felt the same way about my relationship with God as well, whenever I take time to reflect on the depth of love and the breadth of grace that He has shown me and continues to show me, I feel inadequate and scared. I lo...

My body is rebelling against me once again, relegating me to nothing more than a walking zombie. I fed it 8 good hours of sleep last night, but it's still craving for more. I don't blame it though, after all, I've been depriving it of sleep ever since last Thursday. It is all worth it: the late night compiling of the wedding slideshow, the 10-hour round-trip drive to the boonies of western PA, the crazy Cornell escapade to Denny's, and loitering at the hotel lobby until the wee hours of the night. Here are some photos. The highly anticipated mega reunion did not disappoint one bit, and I was reaffirmed once again how good I had it at Cornell. It's interesting to stop and see where my friends are three years after graduation: a good number of them are in law school, others working for their PhD, while others are in seminary or working ... everyone is intelligent and ambitious, but none of them have sold their souls for the fleeting things in life. That's what ...