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This is some amazing news that needs attention! Maybe Living Water International needs to look into it as well! According to this, it uses the sunlight to purify the water!! The only downside is that it takes anywhere from 4 to 6 hours but dang, that’s pretty awesome for the poor countries that don’t get clean water!!
A friend from my college years, Kwon Cho, who went to same church at the time, now hosts and works for a very needed Korean-American Christian media company, KAC Media, and started his very first show! 😀 So here’s a shameless push for his show… it’s very good and insightful! His first guest, is a Korean-American Internet entrepreneur who participated in “The Apprentice 6” and became a finalist!
So we got on the flight to DFW (Dallas Fort Worth) and half hour into the flight, Anna comlained of sharp pain in her side. It was bad enough that she started to cry. Soojin got scared… her mom had appendicitis and the symptoms seemed to be similar…. pain coming and going.
When we landed, Soojin asked ME what we should do. Let me just say, it’s freakin’ huge responsibility to be responsible for one life, let alone three! I wasn’t sure of what to do… but with a child traveling and less than an hour to our connecting flight, I figured it’s better safe than sorry.
So I asked for the paramedics. They came and started to look at Anna. She was still complaining of pain. They didn’t think it was appendicitis and when they had asked me if we wanted Anna taken to hospital, I decided that we’d try to wait it out as our flight now was gone and had to get on a different flight.
At that point, I had missed a call from Paul Minifee. When I had called back, his father Dr. Paul Minifee, was next to him. You see, he’s a senior doctor at Children’s Hospital in Houston! So with such awesome knowledge available, I laid the concerns to him. He then asked if Anna’s appetite was gone. She said she was hungry. He then asked if Anna could touch her toes quickly without bending her knees. And she could. Dr. Minifee said that if she had appendicitis, she wouldn’t have appetite nor be able to bend and touch toes w/o pain in the side. Whew.
Got off the phone. I held Anna and started rubbing her back… felt bit of knots on her left spine so I massaged that away. Then everyone (except me) wanted pizza for lunch so we ate that. Anna felt better by this point and when we walked over to the other gate for our new connecting flight, I was worried that we wouldn’t get on… but I guess the other agent had left note on our case and reason for missing the previous flight ’cause the new one called me as Mr. Jang and asked me about how Anna was doing, and that they’d get us seats soon.
Though they had charged us $60 for luggage ($15 X 4), at least their service didn’t suck. We finally flew into La Guardia airport and we were welcomed with NYC’s finest drivers and 2 hour traffic. But we are home. Thank God.
Merry Christmas everyone!
1 Local Cy-Fair girl dies from a drunk driver who hits the school bus and her
2 Houston judge’s daughter sues driver she ran into while driving drunk
What the hell is the world coming to?!! If there are more things that make me madder than stupid politicians and hungry rich execs, it’s the stupid drunk drivers! Link one shows about how a drunk driver sideswipes a school bus and then hits a girl and then speeds off! He had to be pursued for miles before being caught!
And then there’s Elizabeth Shelton, whose father is a juvenile judge(?!), who got into an accident last year and ran into a pickup truck in front of her which ended up KILLING her boyfriend! Now, she’s SUING the driver that was in the front?! This is some crazy and stupid things I have seen and heard but it’s just un-freakin’-believable!
If we continue to let DWI/DUI-convicts to go around so carelessly, I shall feel obligated to move elsewhere (like Japan) where such thing will pretty much ruin your life for good! If you are drunk, WALK home or take a cab!! I hope that guy gets life in prison, and that girl gets COUNTER-SUED! And what is her father, the “venerable” judge, even thinking?!! 😡
They say information is power. I am beyond mad, and so here I am venting out about how they’ve already misused $1.6B to pay for bank execs’ salaries & bonuses and crap! What the hell!?! Are they not getting the message?! What is wrong with these people? Let all those banks go w/o help and file for bankruptcy! 😡
I need to vent… so here I am again.
I got the call from State Farm that our beloved ’99 Lincoln is officially considered totaled. 🙁 While I have been wanting to do that, the sudden reality hit harder than expected. After all, it’s never an equal trade when you try to find its replacement. And on top of that, the Admiral went out completing its duty to the end protecting its owner even though it meant taking itself out. Sniff…
So here’s where it gets somewhat worse… They valued it at roughly $4600 retail through NADA.com prices. When they re-add on taxes and other stuff, it was at $5100. But it still came back to $4600 because of our $500 deductible. State Farm rep told me that I can get the deductible back from the other party’s insurance so I call them (also ambulance cost was over $500!) only to find out … that it was never filed!
So I had to spend half hour talking to the other insurance company giving them all the info! Erg… Now I have to wait till next Monday before they assign an adjuster. What a pain. To make things more irritating, now that the car is considered totaled, they will cut the car rental short! 😡 I have to probably get the other party’s insurance to pay for the rental to be extended. So much hassle…
So as many of you know by now, Soojin was in an accident on the way to BSF leaders’ meeting. Usually, JJ would be riding with her but since it was a holiday week for Anna, Soojin asked her co-worker to watch them in the morning. Thus we are so thankful that neither of the kids were in the car.
Though I do not know the entire details, here are what is known about the accident. Soojin was on Pineloch left lane and a landscaping truck was on the right and there was a contact that made her veer off the road into the median and hit the big lamp post. The car was totaled in my opinion. The entire front was gone along with radiator, the wheels, and both of the airbags that went off. The other vehicle and 3 people were fine. I only saw a dent on the side of the drivers door. They didn’t seem to speak English or worse, didn’t have insurance and thus didn’t say anything. I felt bad for them but at the same time mad.
Soojin was bleeding badly in the eye but turned out to be due to a small gash between the eyes. My current hero(ine) is a woman named Ginger. She is the good Samaritan who saw Soojin crash and pulled over to help her get out of the car and stayed with her until I got there. Ginger is now my current favorite name of the decade!
Soojin complained of large pain in the right abdominal side and was rushed to ER. I had asked Pastor Shawn to pray for Soojin but he ended up coming out to the hospital (after I gave him the wrong hospital name! – Southwest Memorial Hermann when it should’ve been Southeast). Her CAT scan came back negative for internal damages, so we are thankful for that as well.
And Younhe with her two kids came by to see Soojin at home. This does not include all the family and friends that prayed for Soojin and gave all the kind words. So I wanted to thank everyone who took part in caring for Soojin in this difficult times.
Please pray for the car that the insurance would file it as totaled and not try to have it fixed, and that the amount for the car would be favorable. After that, we will have to shop for a replacement car. That Lincoln Continental was named as “admiral” since it felt like a boat. It served faithfully to the end protecting the driver to its end. 🙁 Now that I have to say goodbye to it, it’s a bit saddening having developed “?” (jung that means emotional bond) for it.
I don’t know why the accident happened nor will I likely find out, but since God was with her, we are trying not to question it, and just being thankful for all that came out of it… 1) no kids were involved and 2) Soojin didn’t incur any serious damage. “God is good all the time. All the time, God is good.”