misc ramblings n' thoughts...
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responses... First off, quick update on fasting before I get to responses/segues from other blogs. Fasting was tough, I gotta admit that. On Monday, everything was cool, but by Tuesday at around 5 or so, I started getting dizzy in the stuffy office. By then, it had been around 45 hours or so of only drinking water. So I kind of "cheated" and had to get a non-water drink, and ended up getting one of those Snapple ginseng energy fruit drinks, which helped a lot. I woke up this morning with horrible stomach cramps, and luckily I got to eat today. I know Jon was also going through weakness and other stuff as a result of not eating. But the good thing was, tonight, my mom made (here's the list!): chicken, ribs, scalloped potatoes, potato wedges, gravy, brocolli, corn, other vegetables (choy), and rice. Oh my, I can barely move right now. I'm still debating on what to do for the rest of the fast. I might just fast during the day, and eat at night. I guess I'll talk more with God about it tonight. Anyways, onto the responses. I really liked what Matt had to say about being hardcore. To sum it up, there's a discussion going on about whether or not balance (trying to balance your time among different areas of life) leads to mediocrity, and Matt's response was, no, "a half-assed job leads to mediocrity." That's why I really liked the quote from the ad agency (see last entry) that I saw today. I realized this year that I kind of became too hardcore of a person in one area: academics. I spent virtually every living, non-sleeping, non-class hour, non-God-serving hour at the library. I had my own desk there. I knew the librarians by name. You could probably reach me more often if you called the library than my home. Many nights I stayed over at the library. I was pretty hardcore. I worried about getting a 94 in soc because it dragged down my average. In short, I was a hardcore geek. Then God told me that I was kind of being too hardcore and that I was placing my studies in front of Him. Balance. Oh so hard to do. But I was so afraid that if I took time out of studying, I'd only get "mediocre" results. I learned that it's impossible to be a superstar at everything. I think there are some things that you have to be "average" at, or below average (I don't want to use the word mediocre.) The trick is learning what to put as important (and striving to be a superstar at) and what you can sacrifice at average or below average and finding an equilibrium that's pleasing to God. (That's my thoughts anyways, for more thoughts, read Gladys' page) I also liked what Jon C wrote his "Kids Can Be So Cruel" blog. To take it one step further, i think people can be so cruel, even grown adults. Today I was at Loblaws picking up some stuff and the line got extremely long for some reason. I went to explore the matter and found that some man (probably in his 30's/40's) was verbally abusing and yelling at the cashier girl (who was in high school.) Now, it's company policy of Loblaws (my friends worked there before) that you can not talk back or insult or refute a customer. So this poor girl was literally in tears bawling and just standing there taking all this profanity and crap that this full grown adult was dishing out at her. I don't even know the issue, but I'm sure that she didn't deserve that. How cruel can you be?! Everyone's looking at him, some people are yelling at him to stop, but he just keeps on going until the manager finally comes out. What a jerk! No point to this story; I was just kinda pissed off after that at people being pissed off. Ok, to end off my pointless rambling, I've been noticing that a lot of blogs have been about "things that annoy me" or "why i had a crappy day", etc. So just to change the tone a bit, here are a few things that really made my week. =) 1) Sue bringing me dim sum in the middle of the work on the one day i forgot my lunch. 2) Jon, Jer, Leo and some of the guys coming over and having a drink. 3) Mom making the man's dinner tonite. 4) Late night talks and "driveway" talks with Kar. 5) First bite of food after not eating. 6) Craving Him. 7) Bargaining for cheap World Cup flags with Dan (keon). 8) Little sis calling me to check up on me (instead of the other way around.) 9) Strawberry ice cream and Drumsticks in the middle of the night while blogging. 10) Coming to Him when I'm tired and weary and knowing that He's there. G'nite, blog more tommorrow (hopefully in response to Lyd's "Can boys/girls be good friends without liking each other?!) posted by jamescl | 9:56 PM
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Thanks to my buddies for adding colour to my otherwise dull life.