at the end of the day… i feel the weight of my heart and know that i’m not such a big deal as i think i am. only on rare nights, do i slow down enough to realize the world not spinning around me, my trivial obsessions going by unnoticed [...]

hey guys – i felt compelled to update, so here’s a post if you were wondering – even better, I’ll outline in bullet points for easy consumption: in a book club at Amazon over “From the Garden to the City” by John Dyer (professor at DTS). the book is about [...]

Last May, I received some surprising news: I learned that I had I graduated (a week or two after missing the graduation) and I learned I had been kicked out of graduate school. As a typical Asian, I felt my failure at any level of education reflected poorly on my [...]

here’s my annual recap of the year… i rarely say this, and i hope i really mean it, but i do feel like this is one of those years that i’ll remember because so much changed and i received a much larger picture of who God is, how much He [...]

[perhaps a more comprehensive version of my year... i would instead recommend checking out the MAIN post] January 1-5 – CRU’s Winter Conference in Dallas, TX 14-17 – EPIC Anthology, also in Dallas, TX. got to room with Andrew Hsieh. David Choi was the speaker for the second straight year [...]

today had a slow start, though it featured my first run (around Green Lake) and another trip to Barnes & Noble. i got the chance to meet up with Tiffany Li, an old friend from an EPIC mission trip some four years ago in California. she took me to her [...]

i don’t want to make myself out to be someone who has things together or who deserves to have had the victories in his life, especially in light of the comparable losses, struggles, and dysfunctions. in the past few weeks, i’ve been more face-to-face with my sexual sin than i [...]

when you encounter someone who comes off as arrogant or as a know-it-all, you really just want them to acknowledge their weaknesses and limitations and to be open to undergo character transformation. the actual end result isn’t as entirely important as watching that process of someone struggling against who they [...]

I’ve been here in Seattle for just about one and a half days. Since arriving, I’ve been hit with a bit of ambivalence. San Francisco was nice… and comfortable, though not as comfortable as Tulsa or Norman. But I guess I feel like I had some kind of energy capacity [...]

a few months ago, i wrote two posts titled “Everything could change,” about the possibility of a job offer from a startup company in San Francisco and postulating that everything would change – whether for better or for worse – with an offer. i later received the offer and have [...]