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So our church sent a group along with another church, Fellowship of Memorial, to head out to El Salvador this summer to dig fresh water well for a village called Acajutla. This is a slide show of it… It is rather long (at 14 minutes) but worth the look… We are already planning on sending another team next year…
Pathways Mission Video from Shawn Kang on Vimeo.
I have lost my uncles, aunts, and grandparents, not to mention friends, to cancer. Liver cancer, lung cancer, stomach cancer, you name it. I’ve even lost my cousin to Leukemia. That’s why I searched for ways to help in whatever I can do.
Enter Stanford University. A professor there started studying the ways proteins change and become new molecules, also known as “folding”. By studying and knowing how proteins fold, a cure for cancer can be found. I have my PS3 and my 2 PCs doing this whenver I am not using them. So yes, you do pay a bit extra for electricity usage but for a 200W PC, that equates to about $20/month extra! If you have the new PS3 Slim, it only uses about $10/month of electricity!
By helping and contributing, I feel like Morpheus from Matrix…
“Now consider the alternative. What if I am right? What if the prophecy is true? What if tomorrow the war could be over? Isn’t that worth fighting for? Isn’t that worth dying for?”
Don’t you want to feel like you’ve done all you can? So as to not have regrets?! I sure do. I want to know that I’ve done all I can in help fighting cancer. Let’s make cancer history… If you need help setting this up and running it, please ask and I’d be ecstatic to help!
I first heard them on NPR last Friday. Check their video interview/concert out! So I was intrigued by their rather memerizing and VERY original works. Then I learned that these two called “The Swell Season” were brought together because of a “small” movie called “Once“. It was released in 2006 and since it was on Netflix, I decided to check them out.
Boy, was I glad I did it!! I can’t stop enjoying the movie!! And the music was even more so! It was mesmerizing and haunting, in good ways! The songs are just so original! If they had to be compared to something, dare I say it’s comparable to Simon & Garfunkel’s work! The movie story is rather simple of two people who cross path because of music. The songs are sooo original that it’s refreshing! I loved the soundtrack so much that I ended up buying it on Amazon.com! I have listend to it 4 times already!
The guy’s voice (Glen Hansard) is very gritty and his lyrics are very honest. The woman’s voice, Marketa Irglova, is gentle but not boring. And their combination is just very explosive!! I really recommend this to everyone out there! Go watch it and listen to it!
Article: Review of Wilderness of Childhood
I may not remember a whole lot about my childhood, but I remember lots of little adventures. It’s in men’s nature to seek adventure. We like going to new places, seek new challenges, and find out what is out there. I realized that when we lived in England. First few months in Harlow, once I had learned how to ride a bike, I used to ride around the little town trying to find out where each roads led to. That sense of adventure never left me. I think that’s why I loved driving. Even in my four years of college in New England area, I drove to Vermont by myself before school began to take in the countryside.
Now, I am a parent and every area and people seem like dangers to my kids. It’s true. Fatherhood changes you. The world is truly scary place. Ok, it probably has always been that very same scary but we just never knew about it. Now, thanks to the media and the Internet, we know bit too much. No, way too much. 🙁 I want my kids to be able to play wherever and whenever they want. However, part of me says it’s too dangerous. The book review of The Adventures in Childhood points out the very same things I worry about and what the kids would miss out on…
I hope that I will do well in keeping the balance on kids’ safety and allowing them to develop sense of adventure and their imagination. Sometimes, we just have to say “No, I won’t deprive them of what is due them as kids!” Say it with me!!
Yes, you read that right. After reading about this Suzuki SX4 winning the famous Pike’s Peak rally racing, I was reminded of my secret dream of my past (and still present). Ever since high school years, I developed serious interest in cars. And racing.
No, I don’t have any racing experience. I wish. It’s an expensive career to get into. You gotta start as an amateur and you need serious cash to get started. So obviously, I never got into it. If JJ wants to become one and has the means to do it, I’m very tempted to encrouage him! 😮 But it’s not just any racing that I’m interested in… it’s the rally racing. Why? It’s because I find track racing too… boring. You drive around the same track over and over and scenery doesn’t change. What’s the fun in that?! Enter the rally racing and it’s a constant change of scenery and roads! That’s why you need a co-driver in rally racing… one who navigates each turns and plans ahead!
Shucks… At this point in time of my life, I’d be happy to just drive through one course one time. 🙁
“That’s one small step for man; one giant leap for mankind“
Those words still linger in the back of my head to this day… today, July 20th, 2009, marks the 40th anniversary of the man landing on the moon. To all the space exploration haters, you need not apply. If you can’t begin to fathom the butt loads of benefits from the research alone, you won’t ever be a believer…
And to all those lunar landing hoax pushers, again, read my previous post. Obama seems to not want much of space exploration. That’s a mighty shame. But let’s not let that stop us from celebrating the 40th anniversary! Despite all the fears most people have of it, I’d be an astronaut in a heart beat! The space is indeed, in the cliche’ words of Star Trek, the final frontier. 😛
Wow… I totally wouldn’t have guessed or known that!! My son JJ loves the new Camaro thanks to the Transformers movie! It’s great to know that such cool car was designed by a Korean.