February 24, 2001
Saturday
"Experience is one
thing you can't get for nothing."
-Oscar Wilde
yesterday we went to poly-esthers. it's a 70's/80's type of club and all i can say is, it was quite an experience. we had a good time but i don't think i would do it again...
okay - so basically only one person responded to my question "if you could be any musical star, who would you be and why?"
peter choi: "i'd be SCC (steven curtis chapman) because he's widely respected, well liked, but not famous enough that he would get mobbed everywhere he goes (i think). and plus he has a great marriage, cute kids, tons of talent, and loves our Lord."
thanks peter! as for myself, i was thinking about it a little more, i'd like to be in a girl group just so we can have kickin harmonies... i kinda liked the attitude of en vogue but they're en gone. haha! destiny's child is okay too (i'd wanna be bionce cause she's FINE! hee hee) but then again, i'd want a stronger, huskier voice...
subject change!
here's a bit more about martin the neighbor. he's a really funny guy. did you know one time he had this red streak across his face and when i saw it i was like, "oh my gosh! what happened to your face? did you fall or something?" and he was like "no."
so i'm like "what? what happened?"...i was kinda worried...
and then he tells me HOW he got the red mark on his face.
apparently he sucked really really hard on an empty bottle and then had the brilliant idea to try and move the bottle up to his forehead - all while the bottle was sucked on to his face. he got it almost up to his temples and then the suction came out and it fell off. the result - a red mark across his face. it was like he got a really strong vacuum cleaner and dragged it across his face. haha!
subject change!
so today i updated a lot of the pictures from uganda...it seems like it was in another lifetime that i was there...for 1/6 of a year i was in africa. it's changed my perspective on life in the sense that...hmm, how do i say it...
how about this, a few friends of mine were talking about what would happen if a few years down the line we were to loose our jobs or to get into a really bad financial situation. a part of me says, "dude. that would really suck. i would cry everyday and pray for a miracle.", but another part of me says, "so what? this is a temporary existence, a fleeting moment in time in which we inhabit this sinful world where we will ultimately rejected. not only that, but in uganda, people live in mud huts with no electricity and live off God's green earth and still manage to survive and reproduce without the luxuries of running water."
simple faith. simple life. simple purpose.
all of those things turn pretty hecka darn mighty complex when we come back to our 'reality', doesn't it? we got bills bills bills, and people sayin our names behind our backs and school jumpin jumpin down our backs, people looking down at us if we're independent women, and all you're thinking is stop bugabooing me! (haha! ya like how i incorporated d-child?)
well. as for me, ironically, i must go and study so i can get good grades so i can get a good job so i can live a happy life with a white picket fence and 2.4 children. then maybe when i'm 65 i can have a nice retirement in florida.
YEAH RIGHT!
i'm actually just gonna study for my msat's so i can do what i want to do in the future - teach elementary school so i can be under paid, over worked, and looked down on because i'm JUST an elementary school teacher!!! yay! haha...at least i'll be happy...
you know what i want? i want to have plants and fish in the class room and get different students who get to water the plant or feed the fish every week. that's what i want.
and that's what i have to look forward to :D i'm so excited!
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