-In memory-
Rev Jang - *says something in korean*
Me - Oh, sorry. HangulMal Mollayo, uh i dont speak korean
Rev Jang - WHAT!? why not!?
Me - cuz im also half chinese
Rev Jang - ohhhhh.... so... do u speak chinese?
Me - uhm..... no not really
Rev Jang - HOW COME!?!?!
Me - i guess cuz my parents spoke english to one another so they could communicate so that's what i picked up
Rev Jang - aishhhh.... you should speak both languages you know that right? you should speak korean AND chinese
Me - oh... yea... sorry
Rev Jang - ... YAH! go cut the watermellon!
(we will all remember you)
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he was a great guy, and loved to pick on me the whole time in Arizona..... but ppl come and go, and its what they leave which is important... and on that note, i believe he left a small, but important legacy of God's work...
to be honest, his death didnt really affect me much at all until a couple days later..... and yet even now i feel no sorrow... nor confusion.... but the past few days at church, my pastor steve has given msg's that made me re-evaluate Rev Jang's death, and i realize that the man has done so much, and that perhaps his death is a calling for us to do the same, and pick up where the man left off.... so right now i am, in a mode of admiration... and perhaps even inspiration...
so.... in dedication to Rev Jang, and all the rest who have died still doing what god had called them to do... let's all live by this motto
No Reserves, No Retreats, No Regrets
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well alright, on a completely different note, this past weekend i found out that... god really does answer prayers..... to you skeptics out there, perhaps the following is just an unimportant, small, lucky coincidence..... then if that is the case.... life has given me a very lucky, uplifting, and important surprise...
i... didnt exactly reveal it too much, but after being rejected by VT, i was really really discouraged..... not to the point where i was depressed, cuz i bounced back from that, rather i was just sort of feeling down...... so i started asking god to please some how give me something to be encouraged about.... and well in my mind i was thinkign that the next letter i recieve would not be a rejection letter, rather another offer for admission.... and well.... lets just say i came home and rushed to check the mail every day this week...... after a while, i realized that perhaps... ive been asking for the wrong thing.... or maybe im just being impatient..... and basically i stopped being so anxious.... so on saturday i had to be out all day and i didnt even get the chance to check the mail..... however when i got home.... i found something that totally caught me off gaurd.. it was another package from UMBC, sayign congrats! at the bottom...... and yet i had already been accepted into UMBC a while ago... so i was thinking... what the freak... is this? heh... well i opened it up and... it turned out that i had received the presidents scholarship from UMBC in the ammount of 5k a yr.... at first.... i was so confused, i checked the envelope to make sure it was really addressed to me.... and everything because... i certaintly did not DESERVE an academic scholarship... im not EVEN TRYING TO BE MODEST HERE..... i have an accumaltive gpa of 2.85..... well anyhow.... it came to my realization that this is exactly what i needed, maybe not in the form i was expecting.... so from here.... im not saying im gonna go to UMBC, but im def considering it more now.... and also im gonna try to use this as leverage to try to weasal scholarships from any other school i may get accepted into....
well. that's the update on my life for now....... cya everyone
[btw, i wanted to put in pics but the place i upload them to is not working right now, check back for an edit later]