After a large pho tai with extra noodles, extra meat, and (yes) extra soup at Pho Binh (aka. trailer), I am ready for Ethiopia!! 
Please pray for us!!
Ghetto Transformers: Boxatron
I got this in an e-mail and just had to share this!! It’s too funny!!! LOL… It’s not even a full size box!! 😀
ER x 5
I’ve never been to ER in my life… until I lost my eye sight temporarily! 
It happened when I was a Research Assistant at UT and worked with lasers. This one particular UV lamp bounced around a chamber (as a wave) and “fried” my eyes temporarily. My eyes hurt whether I close them or not! It was my very first time at ER…
Then, I got married. Soojin cut her left index fingertip off one day cutting odang (fishcake) and went to ER only to wait several hours. She got it back together thanks to her never-giving up attitude. 
Then we went again when Anna was about a year old and her fever was over 104F!! Only to wait like 6 hours and get stupid Infant Motrin! 
We were back earlier again this year when Anna had some kinda stomach virus and kept throwing up even liquids! But we were there for 8 hours!
Then this past Sunday, Soojin and Sanghee went to Texas Children’s Hospital for JJ’s nasty gash! Out of our 5 experiences, we have learned to avoid Clear Lake Regional Medical Center with 100-yard stick and if it’s our kids and not life-threatening, we are better off driving up to Texas Children’s!! 
I avoided hospitals and ERs for so long… but having a family definitely makes that ER avoidance impossible! Oh well… at least we are all better and we have all been to ER at least once!
JJ & ER
Yikes! What a day!
So we are at church. I’m setting up the computer and others for service, and Soojin’s doing her usual greeting preparations… suddenly JJ comes running crying! And what do I see?!! A huuuuge gash on his right rear forehead!! 😮
The gash was about 1/4″ deep and half inch or so long! I’m not that worried ’cause it looked like a bad scar but nothing serious. Soojin takes a look and she is freaking out to the nth degree!!
Eventually, we decide to wait for Sanghee Samonim to get here (she’s a RN) and get her opinion who says at her arrival that JJ needs to get to ER. So Soojin and Sanghee leave for Texas Children’s Hospital.
Eventually, the doctors decide to pull the skins together to apply… some kind of crazy glue! 😮 Yikes… I never knew that there’s an alternative to the old fashioned stitches! Anyhow, Soojin later told me how well JJ was at the ER. He didn’t cry one bit! Even the nurses and the doctor were surprised! He made me so proud.
Kids play and get hurt. I’m just glad and thankful that it wasn’t worse. Boys though do play rougher and are more prone to such larger damage. Oh well. C’est la vie!
Ethiopian Mission Trip draws nigh…
Well, now there’s only 6 more days till we leave for Ethiopia!
Though I’ve been to Thailand, Mexico, Haiti, and Lousiana for mission trips, this will mark momentous occasion for me as it will be the first (and hopefully many more) time in Africa! Please pray for the preparations… Thank God that last two passports for our 7 members came in! Yeah…
Please pray for safety, health, and effectiveness of our time there…
The Astronaut Farmer – Review and Thoughts
So I got a chance to see this movie and watched it at first with reservation.
At first, it sounds like a whacked up comedy job, but as the plot thickens, I saw the dream and hope of one man, and his family. In reality, it hit home for me even more so because I have always wanted to go into space. However, chance of getting into the astronaut corps is worse than my becoming a doctor! So the fact that he’s an aerospace engineer like me hit me. On top of that, even more reality of the fact that he has a family to care for and responsible for hit even harder. Astronaut training takes a long time, and a lot out of you. I just don’t know if I could put my family through it.
In the end, I still cried for its touch on humanity, not losing hope, and chasing the dream caught my attention. The flow could’ve been better, but I didn’t watch it for that. Acting though was very well done, I must say. Dad was now a hero. Just for that alone, it was very touching. 4/5 is what I give it.
Transformers The Movie (2007): The Review
Now, they are a plane and Camaro, respectively. Whoopie… 
I wasn’t too thrilled about it… but being a fan from the yonder years, I still had to watch it.
Thanks to local Chinese church’s VBS (Vacation Bible School), I had free time! So I went to watch it tonight. It was… ok. Too much modernization for me… I guess I will be cursed as the old school when it comes to Transformers.
*SPOILER ALERT*
They killed off Megatron way too easily and way too fast, in my opinion. Plot was just meh… I felt that the original animated movie had better plot. And the action was just too fast… didn’t have time to absorb the sequences at all. Felt like the second half of the movie was just way too fast paced. Die Hard 4 was better at that… oh well.
And Starscream was way more annoying!! Frenzy?! What the… Soundwave was da man! Oh well… Still, there is a difference between “staying up to date” and trying to “woo the younger crowd with latest CG by abandoning your roots”. In this case, they came *THIS* close to abandoning the roots.