Wednesday, November 12, 2003
sorry for the long silence...this is going to be an equally long blog. (long is relative, it's actually only been one and a half days, but that seems long). anyway, here's what i've been up to that i haven't had computer access.
last night, went to stanford for a concert by shane barnard and shane everette (if i think about it really hard, i come to the conclusion that they call themselves shane and shane). but anyway...it was at stanford, which is about an hour and a half's drive away...i was really psyched about getting to see "pretty stanford" but by the time we got there it was all dark so all i saw was the miniscule auditorium. drove up with the navs staff people, jenny, danny, milton and minh (who used to be their director when they were in LA) and jeff...since jeff and i were the only "children", "grandpapa smurf" (minh's new nickname...don't ask how it started) bought our tickets and dinner for us...felt kind of bad, but hey...not going to turn down a generous offer. shane and shane were good...but they had the support of these players from a band that opened from them, and i didn't really like those drummers and bass players, coz they were extremely punk...so much so that it was hard to hear the singers. and this was supposed to be a semi-worship concert, so some people really started worshipping, and i was really amazed they could worship with that sort of din going on. towards the end of the concert, shane and shane started playing some of their older songs, more acoustic-style, without the loud bass and drums, and very much more worship-like, and i enjoyed that a lot. but my favorite was actually the duo who opened for them...mike neagal and trent monk, very john mayer-ish, more mellow...got mike neagal's cd (signed by him too! gee...never thought i had the groupie spirit in me), danny got trent's, so we can switch...pity their combined cd doesn't come out till may, coz they sound really good together. that was the actual concert...we were planning to get dinner on the way up, but there wasn't any fast food place to stop at (palo alto is so dead! rich but dead...i'll tell you their equally dead school spirit story in a bit), so we ended up eating at 10, after the concert...was starving! junk food never tasted so good...well, junk food always tastes good, but last night it was especially so. anyway, here's stanford's "lack of school spirit" story: during the concert trent was trying to rev the crowd, so he asked, "how many of you here are stanford students?", and a measly bunch of them sort of cheer...then he asked, "how many of you are not stanford students?"...and the cheering was so much louder, someone even shouted from the front "go bears!", which is berkeley's mascot...so you see, the difference in school spirit, ha. stanford is our big rival, every year there's a "big game", essentially the most important football game of the year, and i actually heard someone say that the stanford people kind of wanted berkeley to win the game last year (it was held at berkeley) coz they knew that if stanford won they would have been trampled by over-zealous berkeley fans, ha...entirely possible.
but anyway...that was last night. came back at 11.30, went straight to bed, coz i had to get up early today. attended 7.30 prayer meeting (coz if you recall, i was rebuked by my roommate tracy into going), so got up at 6.45 to get ready and everything. it was a lovely morning, the sun was shining and all, so it was great to be praying early in the morning with a few other people. the prayer meeting lasted only half an hour coz some people have class at 8, but i went with everyone else to sproul plaza...which is like a long lane leading to the main gate of the school, so everyone has to walk past there...to table, that is, set up the navigators table so people can ask us questions and learn more about the ministry. but before i started tabling, had a long and good QT...found a warm and sunny spot and sat there praying. had the best prayer time i've had for a long time! i actually could have spent much more time there, but we were supposed to re-gather at 9, so i had to cut it short. when we were at the table, this black guy called jerome came up to us and started telling us a story about how his house was burnt down and how he had nowhere to live and all that...i have to confess i'm always suspicious when people like that tell their stories, especially since there are so many homeless bums in berkeley, but danny was full of love for him, listened to him for the longest time, prayed for him and offered to buy him lunch (the last of which i definitely wouldn't do!)...it was quite appropriate actually, coz just before jerome came along we had been talking about loving people unconditionally, and i guess danny was putting his faith into practice. so yeah...then i had class at 11, but they asked me to continue tabling from 12 to one, so i went for class, then went back to the table. spent a lot of time on sproul plaza today! and this looks like it's going to be a weekly thing, so no more coming online wednesday mornings for me anymore. i don't mind coz it's a very fulfilling experience (or very fulfilling experiences), of course i'll miss the chance to chat with everyone...but there's always the other days of the week.
attended a workshop on the psyD degree in the afternoon...it sounds fun, but really long and expensive. i've really got to pray very hard about what i want to do with my life after graduation...and hope that God speaks quickly! don't have that much time to decide. i really want to do something missions related, not necessarily in the sense of being an overseas missionary, but something that definitely furthers God's kingdom...and i don't know if a psyD would really be essential for that, or how helpful it would be. but yeah, pray for me in that area as well. ok, this has been really long...let the silence resume.
oh wait, before the silence resumes, got to tell you this really...noisy...story. i was walking home from dinner and i hear these loud sounds that sound like planks of wood falling, thought it was the construction nearby, although it doesn't make sense for them to be working so late at night. got back to my room and looked out of the window, the explosions were still going on and there was a fire going on across the road. it was coming from the pacific film archive which is a museum/theater, so we weren't sure if it was a real fire or a performance. but it was very loud and noisy, and there was lots of smoke...we were going down to check it out, when it suddenly stopped. someone said they were filming a movie, but i don't know what it was. apparently, if they were filming a movie, they didn't inform the firemen...coz 10 mins after the fire engines came blaring down the street (more noise!)...madness.
ok, silence now for real, till tomorrow that is.
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last night, went to stanford for a concert by shane barnard and shane everette (if i think about it really hard, i come to the conclusion that they call themselves shane and shane). but anyway...it was at stanford, which is about an hour and a half's drive away...i was really psyched about getting to see "pretty stanford" but by the time we got there it was all dark so all i saw was the miniscule auditorium. drove up with the navs staff people, jenny, danny, milton and minh (who used to be their director when they were in LA) and jeff...since jeff and i were the only "children", "grandpapa smurf" (minh's new nickname...don't ask how it started) bought our tickets and dinner for us...felt kind of bad, but hey...not going to turn down a generous offer. shane and shane were good...but they had the support of these players from a band that opened from them, and i didn't really like those drummers and bass players, coz they were extremely punk...so much so that it was hard to hear the singers. and this was supposed to be a semi-worship concert, so some people really started worshipping, and i was really amazed they could worship with that sort of din going on. towards the end of the concert, shane and shane started playing some of their older songs, more acoustic-style, without the loud bass and drums, and very much more worship-like, and i enjoyed that a lot. but my favorite was actually the duo who opened for them...mike neagal and trent monk, very john mayer-ish, more mellow...got mike neagal's cd (signed by him too! gee...never thought i had the groupie spirit in me), danny got trent's, so we can switch...pity their combined cd doesn't come out till may, coz they sound really good together. that was the actual concert...we were planning to get dinner on the way up, but there wasn't any fast food place to stop at (palo alto is so dead! rich but dead...i'll tell you their equally dead school spirit story in a bit), so we ended up eating at 10, after the concert...was starving! junk food never tasted so good...well, junk food always tastes good, but last night it was especially so. anyway, here's stanford's "lack of school spirit" story: during the concert trent was trying to rev the crowd, so he asked, "how many of you here are stanford students?", and a measly bunch of them sort of cheer...then he asked, "how many of you are not stanford students?"...and the cheering was so much louder, someone even shouted from the front "go bears!", which is berkeley's mascot...so you see, the difference in school spirit, ha. stanford is our big rival, every year there's a "big game", essentially the most important football game of the year, and i actually heard someone say that the stanford people kind of wanted berkeley to win the game last year (it was held at berkeley) coz they knew that if stanford won they would have been trampled by over-zealous berkeley fans, ha...entirely possible.
but anyway...that was last night. came back at 11.30, went straight to bed, coz i had to get up early today. attended 7.30 prayer meeting (coz if you recall, i was rebuked by my roommate tracy into going), so got up at 6.45 to get ready and everything. it was a lovely morning, the sun was shining and all, so it was great to be praying early in the morning with a few other people. the prayer meeting lasted only half an hour coz some people have class at 8, but i went with everyone else to sproul plaza...which is like a long lane leading to the main gate of the school, so everyone has to walk past there...to table, that is, set up the navigators table so people can ask us questions and learn more about the ministry. but before i started tabling, had a long and good QT...found a warm and sunny spot and sat there praying. had the best prayer time i've had for a long time! i actually could have spent much more time there, but we were supposed to re-gather at 9, so i had to cut it short. when we were at the table, this black guy called jerome came up to us and started telling us a story about how his house was burnt down and how he had nowhere to live and all that...i have to confess i'm always suspicious when people like that tell their stories, especially since there are so many homeless bums in berkeley, but danny was full of love for him, listened to him for the longest time, prayed for him and offered to buy him lunch (the last of which i definitely wouldn't do!)...it was quite appropriate actually, coz just before jerome came along we had been talking about loving people unconditionally, and i guess danny was putting his faith into practice. so yeah...then i had class at 11, but they asked me to continue tabling from 12 to one, so i went for class, then went back to the table. spent a lot of time on sproul plaza today! and this looks like it's going to be a weekly thing, so no more coming online wednesday mornings for me anymore. i don't mind coz it's a very fulfilling experience (or very fulfilling experiences), of course i'll miss the chance to chat with everyone...but there's always the other days of the week.
attended a workshop on the psyD degree in the afternoon...it sounds fun, but really long and expensive. i've really got to pray very hard about what i want to do with my life after graduation...and hope that God speaks quickly! don't have that much time to decide. i really want to do something missions related, not necessarily in the sense of being an overseas missionary, but something that definitely furthers God's kingdom...and i don't know if a psyD would really be essential for that, or how helpful it would be. but yeah, pray for me in that area as well. ok, this has been really long...let the silence resume.
oh wait, before the silence resumes, got to tell you this really...noisy...story. i was walking home from dinner and i hear these loud sounds that sound like planks of wood falling, thought it was the construction nearby, although it doesn't make sense for them to be working so late at night. got back to my room and looked out of the window, the explosions were still going on and there was a fire going on across the road. it was coming from the pacific film archive which is a museum/theater, so we weren't sure if it was a real fire or a performance. but it was very loud and noisy, and there was lots of smoke...we were going down to check it out, when it suddenly stopped. someone said they were filming a movie, but i don't know what it was. apparently, if they were filming a movie, they didn't inform the firemen...coz 10 mins after the fire engines came blaring down the street (more noise!)...madness.
ok, silence now for real, till tomorrow that is.
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