Live, Love, Laugh

Sooooo the semester just ended today! From now on, it will be just travelling and travelling! Looking back, I got the best semester of my life: Aced all classes, made a lot of new friends, organized successfully some events for Asian American Heritage Month, applied for 2 scholarships and still waiting for the results, volunteered for IPS and ISC, made all awesome plans for this summer and next year, and there are tons of small things I thought I would never  be able to finish but I made it! can’t believe I did all those things within 5 months!! and I still can’t believe it now!! I have to say I am so thankful to God for everything good He has done for me! I am very happy :)!

Beautiful day!!!

Just read all the messages/ emails I got in the past few days from friends, both old and new ones!! They are sooooo sweet!!! I love all my friends!! It feels great to be surrounded by awesome people everywhere I go!

Asian American Heritage Month is officially over. My job is done here. Now I am way behind in school, gotta need to catch up with everything. Hopefully it’s not too late. But actually I am very happy to be receiving lots of positive comments, encouragements, and congratulations from friends and all those who came to events. It makes me feel my efforts were much appreciated. I am very proud of myself for all efforts I made! :)

I read some articles about a guy named Corey Gowin today. Those articles did hit really hard on me. I have been thinking about him, his death, and everything related to him today. A friend gave me his Facebook and I cried while reading his friends’ posts on his timeline. That’s really sad when a wonderful person had to leave this world when he’s too young. I am just thinking it doesn’t matter if you die young or not, but it’s when you’re gone, people remember you as you are an important part of their lives. Corey, you are now resting in peace in heaven but you have all friends and family here— the ones who love you and will be praying for you, for your family! You lived a short but meaningful life more than many people in this world. You were disabled but your mind were totally not. I pray that you are now with God and will continue to help Him bring Happiness and all good things to this world. Rest in Peace!

A friend you never met but I am sure if we met, we would be best friends!

It doesn’t matter what you’ve heard. Impossible is not a word. It’s just a reason for someone not to try. Everybody’s scared to death when they decide to take that step out on the water. It’ll be alright. Life is so much more than what your eyes are seeing. You will find your way if you keep believing.

I’ve seen dreams that move the mountains, hope that doesn’t ever end even when the sky is falling. I’ve seen miracles just happen. Silent prayers get answered. Broken hearts become brand new.

That’s what faith can do!

April

April— the hectic month. Classes after classes. Proposals after proposals. Events after events. Meetings after meetings… And tons of other things I have to take care of. I’m dying of busy-ness!!

The joy of helping people

Happiness to me is seeing people happy and smile because of me. I love to help people and see how happy they are with my little help. I can’t help with big things but I believe giving people a little help everyday is also a good way to do God’s work. It makes me feel this life is so much more meaningful each day. Looking back and I am so happy to be blessed with so many good friends everywhere I go. I am happy to bring smiles to people around me. And yes I can tell you a zillion times I have so many good friends and I will never stop saying that because I love my friends. Thank you God for giving me this life— I am forever thankful to Your sacrifice!

A productive day!

So today ended up being a productive day!! A yay for deactivating Facebook and focusing on work. A couple weeks ago I disabled Facebook for one week and I figured I could be able to do much more than usual but then I went back to it and it started to distract me again. There are too many friends, too many updates, too many photos, news, or things like that that take up too much time. Obviously Facebook is fun but Facebook, work and study can’t happen at the same time. I always find myself wandering on Facebook the whole night since I get home from school. And yet, I check Facebook basically every hour on my phone. How can it be so addicted? I am just now tired of being kinda “famous” on a social network site. I’m tired of posting something then receiving likes and comments all the time. The upcoming April will be a hectic month for me as I am planning the Asian American Heritage Month and finals for all classes also, I need to focus on work and school more than ever. Jesus, please give me more strength to stay focus on what I should be focusing on and I pray that you will give me more wisdom to make good decisions!  

Coffee

Coffee is good. It is tasty and good for my health. I do like it, technically all kinds of coffee but I also have a love hate relationship with this type of drinks. Today is the n day I have had stomach upset because of coffee. Basically, when I drink coffee after meals, it helps me so much stay awake to work and study but I don’t often do it in the right way. I can’t count how many times I drink coffee when I am hungry and it always makes me sick. Last night at church, I decided to have a cup of coffee because I wanted to be up all night to work, but for some reasons I didn’t eat until late at night and my stomach started to annoy me. I felt sick and thought I had food poisoning. It was horrible trust me! So instead of being up all night and finishing work, I ended up lying in bed early till this morning without doing nothing but suffering from the upset. I could barely sleep last night. The night was so long to a sick person who just waited for the upset to be gone. This morning I woke up and felt like I was beaten up last night. My whole body was so sore and I still felt sick. Then when I got home for lunch, I threw up and thanks God I feel so much better but I still can’t get out of my bed. I can’t make it to group tonight either. I think this is the last time I’ve had coffee without food. I promised to myself I would do it in the right way so I won’t have to suffer from this anymore. By the way, I just learned that drinking gingerale or sprite (any kinds of white soda) helps soothing stomach very well. It’s interesting, isn’t it?

Everyone looks at half of my schedule and they freak out “how can you handle all of this? You need to get a life”. I just smile and go “what I think I can do, I can do it and things have been good so far”. I love all of my classes. I have learned so many new things this semester. I love my classmates. They are super awesome! We cooperate in every way to help each other. I love my friends. They always come offer help even though I don’t need much help. I always keep this in mind: if you are nice to people and treat them good, they will never leave you. You would be jealous but I do have awesome friends, a lot of good friends actually. I love my current jobs. I am assisting my professors in his projects. He’s a great professor who is understanding and humorous! It’s very fun working with him. I am also running UAAC. April is a hectic month for me because I am organizing events for this month. I love this job sooo much. I can socialize with people and assign work for them. You have no idea how much I love this!! I am glad I finally decided to take it. It requires lots of responsibility to be in this position but I believe I can manage it well. I love my 3 families. Everything has been good to them :). And I am visiting my home country in 2.5 months. I am getting so pumped for this trip!! I love my church and awesome people there. I am really looking forward to the Spring retreat upcoming! 

Ohhh Life has been so good to me!

Everything you do counts

An old man walked across the beach until he came across a young boy throwing something into the breaking waves. Upon closer inspection, the old man could see that the boy was tossing stranded starfish from the sandy beach, back into the ocean.

“What are you doing, young man?”  He asked. 

“If the starfish are still on the beach when the sun rises, they will die,” the boy answered.

“That is ridiculous. There are thousands of miles of beach and millions of starfish. It doesn’t matter how many you throw in; you can’t make a difference.”

“It matters to this one,” the boy said as he threw another starfish into the waves. “And it matters to this one.”