|
wewong
|
read my profile
sign my guestbook
Name: Eugene
Country: United States
State: California
Gender: Male
Interests: automobiles, photography(candids/weddings/landscape/portraits), to be a transparent christian, airsoft, paintball, karting, all sports, pool, guitar playing, working out, poetry, sleeping, and traveling(this one i just got), counterstrike
Expertise: sarcasm, being a jerk, speaking without thinking first, ballbuster
Occupation: not student yet
Industry: Legal
Message: message me
Website: visit my website
AIM:  gundamzaku
Yahoo:  gundam_zaku
Member Since:
2/3/2004
|
|
| just got back from SFand this is one of the few times when i didn't drop by my favorite spot, the GGB, and have its picture taken. i had to get a visa for my philippines mission trip, so i was there on business, tho i did have fun driving my rental pt cruiser like a taxi without traffic laws. i tell you, it's great driving a car you don't care about crashing!! now i realized that driving, no matter how much i love it, gets tiring. time to take a break and counter some strikes, then at 730pm i have worship practice...time to test out my new studio monitor headphones!!!
| | |
| interesting nightmy friend, who's a pilot was in town and we had absolutely nothing to do. finally we decided to go to a movie, but no chick flics. i had made a reservation to pick up a rental car to use tomorrow so i can drive up to SF to the philippines consulate to get a visa. yes, i do baby "Laura" a lot and i would never ride "Nicole" out to SF without chaining her down because she would be stolen the minute i park. besides, the road condition is so horrible, i wouldn't want to put her thru such a horrible experience. anyway, my friend dropped me off at SJC and i picked up a PT cruiser because i thought that the seating position on the cruiser is a bit higher than regular cars, which will definitely render a better/more comfortable ride. since we decided to watch Hangover at 1035pm, we had a bit of time to kill. first off, we "cruised" down to the cupertino verdes location to see if they're opened yet. construction is done, but empty store. then i had decided that my friend should take the wheel and make a run up foothill expressway to show me the route that i would take if i wanted to have a little fun with "Nicole" on a sunny saturday afternoon. so we drove up foothill, then merged onto highway 9 toward 4 corners, then came back down from saratoga on deanza blvd all the way back to amc cupertino16. and yes, the cruiser was convertible, and we did had to top down. while making the run thru the mountains, we had to keep the heater on full blast just to keep us warm.
so while driving toward the theater coming down from the mountain, we were stopped at a stoplight right next to a TL with two dudes in the front and two chicks in the back. i was driving and my friend noticed that they were dogging us, so my friend stared back and started flirting with the chicks in the back, and they actually responded. i assumed the position of the wingman and maintain similar car speed as the TL. the funny thing was, at the second stoplight, right when it turned green, the driver, a dude (obviously), said, "later!", and punched his accelerator. ok, my mother has the same model TL and i know the acceleration capabilities of that car, which was not that impressive. so knowing i have a 2.4L inline 4 probably punching out around 160-180 horsepower, pushing two peeps in the car, i immediately floored the accelerator like i stole the car. funny enough, i was keeping up with the TL, which embarassed the driver, which made my friend looked good, which gave him more time to spit his game. unfortunately, we found out they were heading home, at least the chicks were, so we didn't bother asking them if they wanted to go watch a movie with us. plus, there were cops flying all over cupertino, so we felt that we should play it safe and not mess around too much on the road with an ugly car like the cruiser. yeah i think it's ugly, but it is comfortable to be driving if the drive lasts more than 45 minutes.
yeah, i would say, we had a good night. on top of that, the movie was very very funny. the laughing was nonstop and i would love to watch it again, at home, from my downloads....hahaha.
| | |
| just bought some studio monitor headphones from Fry'sthey are the Sony MDR-V900HD. the box say it's for professional studio use, we'll see about that. i saw some panasonic headphones that looked like old school headphones, but they have new technology inside it. it just didn't justify me having to spend another 50 bux on a second set of headphones when i have a set of regular ones at home for counterstrike already. this helping out with the soundboard on the worship team thing might have introduced me to the new hobby of collecting audio equipment....crap. i'm just starting to pay off my camera equipment with paid gigs......oh well.
| | |
| kids are cute, at least one of themit was around dinner time, i was outside getting my gear on in preparation for a motorcycle ride to church. i had nicole started a few minutes before riding to give her time to warm up her engine. got my jacket on, got my earplugs in my ears, and i noticed a tiny little dot coming at me, which seemed to be getting larger and larger. by the time it became a big dot, it was only a few feet away from me, which turned out to be a little boy not older than 5. his father had been walking with him while he rides his tricycle. by the time he got to be a few feet away from nicole, i noticed that he had stopped, and was staring at her...for the longest time. before i put my helmet on, i smiled to the father, then to the boy, and waved. then i put my helmet on, and i noticed the little boy was still staring at her. after i had put my gloves on, i waved again, and instead of making a U turn, i rode off in the opposite direction and made a U turn a distance away so that i can avoid having nicole's exhaust gas blown right into the boy's face. as i was riding away, i turned and looked into the rear view mirror and the little boy was trying to catch up on his tricycle...and that reminded me of someone...
| | |
| it's been a whileso i have just started helping out at church with the audio part of worship and it has been interesting. i never thought that there's so much work required in preparation for just one single worship service. also, i have committed myself to a mission trip to the philippines during the month of august. i'll be gone from the 8th till the 31st. luckily, i work for the county and so getting vacation days off have been real easy. and again, i never knew there's so much to do in preparing for a mission trip. i just thought all i needed was a plane ticket to the destination, and weeks worth of clean clothing. not only do i need to worry about getting a visa, i also need to worry about flying bugs...according to my coworker, they're everywhere.
getting paid is great, and if i am getting paid for doing something i love, that's even better. finally got my "business" started, and got paid for my first "official" photoshoot. to be honest tho, the most rewarding thing wasn't the money, it was the fact that during the photo presentation, my customer and her husband said, "that's a great picture"....for every other picture i've shown them. no so much because i'm a great photographer, because i'm not. but because my work is being appreciated, that kind of reward is, in fact, priceless.
along the same train of thought, wouldn't be great if my two of my closest friends got to know Christ and became a believer. no so much thinking about being "rewarded" for leading them to Christ, but knowing that when the end comes, i'll be able to see them again! i have been praying for them and have shared during the sharing part of the worship practice.
pastor harrison's sermon reminded me of the bible verse i had to recite during winter retreat with mustard seed ministry before dinner. if we couldn't memorize it, we couldn't have dinner. during that part of my life, that particular bible verse really hit home, so i wrote a poem incorporating that bible verse into the poem. the verse was about being weak, and showing your weakness. i think knowing that you're weak is the first step, and trust in God is the second, so you boast about your weakness because His power is made complete in it. great reminder for me!
| | |
|
