Author: peterjang73

A nerdy father of two, a husband of a beautiful and understanding wife, an engineer who loves anime and tinkering with PCs and games, but most of all, loves God.
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Looking for a friend: Won Lee

I used to have a friend by the name of Won Lee, a class of ’96(?) at UT Austin.  He was KUSA president for the year ’95.  Though a bit difficult at times, he is still my friend.  However, he moved out to California and then went to Harvard for MBA program.

I’ve lost touch with him when he moved to NYC after the MBA program… that would be about 2003 or so…  If you know him or his whereabouts, tell him to give me a call please!!  Sheesh…  I am gonna smack him over his head…  He has a brother (in Chicago last time I heard) and a sister who should be MD by now.

Thanks for passing the word around… oh and he should be 35 this coming August. 

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Anna’s Fifth Birthday!!

Happy fifth birthday sweetie!!    You are now half a decade old!!  You have grown up sooo much… may you grow continuously in Christ…  love, mom & dad. 

 

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Hate Houston Traffic!!

Erg…
So we meet up at the west location of Passport Health. However, it takes me over hour and half to get there!! Sure it rained, but Friday afternoon traffic is terrible anywhere in Houston and I proved it that day! We get our vaccination shots taken care of… for the cost of over $2k! It was informative though…

What made the day just so unbearable was that it took over TWO AND HALF hours to get home!! I got home at 6:30 only to have to leave with the family to get to our Connection Group Meeting!! I am soooo sick and tired of Houston traffic!!

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Influential Music of my Past

I grew up with pop music… of the ’80s including Korean pop like Lee Mun Sae and Lee Sun Hee. Then I grew up and became a Christian. Slowly but surely, my music taste also evolved from mix of pop, classical, and jazz… into… something more. Here are the bands that have affected me the most since, with the year that I was introduced to them.

Pray for Rain (aka. PFR) 1991
Third Day 1995
Switchfoot 1997
OC Supertones 1998
Five Iron Frenzy 2001
Relient K 2005

Other bands of noteworthy are Sanctus Real, Thousand Foot Krutch, DC Talk, Petra, Newsboys, and Sixpence None the Richer.

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Relient K and mae Concert

So thanks to Joy and Joanna, I found out that these two bands were coming to town! 
This was back in February or so and I was ecstatic to go as they were some of my recent favorites… in addition to Thousand Foot Krutch, Sanctus Real, and Kutless.

However, it was turning out to be rather a difficult day… with John & Joann’s baby June’s 100th Day celebration and Yong Baek & Jenn’s baby Lauren’s 1st birthday, on top of all day rain, things were … challenging.

Still, I managed to leave at 8:20 pm or so though the concert started at 8 pm.  Soojin graciously drove home separately taking the kids home and I made it to downtowon’s Verizon Theater.  But with no cash, I had to find a street parking in the rain.  By the time I got in, it was about 8:40 pm or so already and I was worried that I had missed mae’s opening act.    However, when I called Joy to join the gang of Chris and James, I was pleasantly surprised that the opening act that just finished was not mae, but Sherwood!! 

When mae came onto the stage, I was again surprised that their “energy” was nothing like their album!  They were… “louder” than they sounded on the album… expecting more of British-invasion-like band sound, I was glad to find out that they were more like Thousand Foot Krutch in live.  And then came the Relient K!  I was thoroughly enjoying it at this point…  I almost lost my voice that night as I was singing as loud as I could along with them.  That’s the way I enjoy the concerts… I have to be able to sing along with them.  Otherwise, why bother coming, right?

However, I did feel a bit… out of place.  99% of the audience was under 20… heck maybe even under 17!    All these kids jumping and such… I did my bit of share of head banging and such but nothing compared to them!  I was there to the end as the others left just a bit earlier… I was soooo hoping that they would play “Less is more” at the end but… oh well.

On Sunday, James made a comment on the likes of how he expected me to be the type that sang hymnals all day.  LOL…  Well, I was even more glad to help him break his stereotyping!    Thanks again Joy for “organizing”.  My ears were ringing a bit for the rest of the night…  but I enjoyed it.