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Friday, September 26, 2003 HAHA so I'm at Tim's in South Beach. We're getting ready to go for brunch and shopping for the trip. Tim just showed me this: ever want to see some cats singing some Destiny's Child? These are the same dudes that like the moon. okay time for brunch :) posted by Allan | 9/26/2003 09:55:00 AM | 0 comments Thursday, September 25, 2003 Tim H Liu (4:44:14 PM): vacation has officially begun Allan L Chu (4:44:31 PM): lol Allan L Chu (4:44:36 PM): you at home?? Tim H Liu (4:44:45 PM): yeah Allan L Chu (4:44:48 PM): nice Tim H Liu (4:45:38 PM): when is your flight Allan L Chu (4:48:14 PM): 7:30 Allan L Chu (4:48:17 PM): the cab is coming in 45 mins Tim H Liu (4:48:45 PM): so what are we doing tonight Allan L Chu (4:49:50 PM): no clue baby Tim H Liu (4:50:02 PM): did you just call me baby Allan L Chu (4:50:09 PM): ah yeah baby Tim H Liu (4:50:21 PM): vacation, baby Allan L Chu (4:50:56 PM): hehe Allan L Chu (4:51:00 PM): this is going up on my blog Tim H Liu (4:51:09 PM): haha posted by Allan | 9/25/2003 03:51:00 PM | 4 comments hehe so after Gary and Lisa's wedding, some people came over to my place. we played that silly game, Cranium, and mafia. here're some video clips from Song's team... Clip one: Wai acting out a... Hooker!? (4.85mb) Clip two:"Yeah..." (2.41mb) posted by Allan | 9/25/2003 10:49:00 AM | 2 comments Wednesday, September 24, 2003 Got this from Ernie... Reading Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer is at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter by itslef but the wrod as a wlohe. posted by Allan | 9/24/2003 08:52:00 AM | 2 comments Tuesday, September 23, 2003 Suits? So I'm rather annoyed. check this: the 7 night cruise dining is as follows: 4 casual nights, 1 smart night, and two formals. casual: sundresses for women, sports shirts and trousers for men smart casual: dresses or pantsuits for women and jackets for men formal: cocktail dress for women and suits ties or tuxedos for men Are you kidding me? I should just bring my tux and wear it all week long. This is ridiculous! I need to bring like 3 different pairs of shoes now. a suit, a couple pairs of slacks.. so much for just having a carry on for the flight. I will say this, though: there's no way I'm buying a sportcoat just so I can wear one for 'smart casual' night. work clothes on my vacation. ugh. posted by Allan | 9/23/2003 11:16:00 PM | 7 comments did I mention that I'm going on a cruise? :) leaving thurs for miami, then it's off to nassau, st thomas, san juan and labadee on Royal Caribbean's Navigator of the Seas. :) no clue what to pack. posted by Allan | 9/23/2003 03:33:00 PM | 0 comments Wednesday, September 17, 2003 Not sure if any of you read John Loi's Blog. I'm sure not all of you do, so I thought I'd pass this post along. Read it this morning and was very encouraged. John's just started his first semester in the pastoral MDiv track at the Westminster Theological Seminary. posted by Allan | 9/17/2003 08:34:00 AM | 0 comments Tuesday, September 16, 2003 X and I are having a blast figuring out how much it'd cost us and what would make the time worthwhile to sell our stuff. So for the curious, here are the costs of our prints. You'd be amazed at how expensive the materials are, and Steve would just shake his head at our "markup." If we wanted to make money on this, we'd need to find cheaper frames, or cheaper printers... or something. Remember, good cause! I could like, buy some fruit... or charcoal for the grill or something. And X could buy some cereal and milk for breakfast, or that LOTR: the two towers DVD that he's been eyeing. All prints framed, matted and signed :) 8x10 (print size 6.33 x9.5, art size ~ 10x14): $150 11x14 (print size 9x13.5, art size ~ 13x18): $175 16x20 (print size 13x19.5, art size ~ 19x27): $200 /me braces himself for the onslaught of print orders... posted by Allan | 9/16/2003 03:39:00 PM | 11 comments ugh... food coma posted by Allan | 9/16/2003 01:02:00 PM | 0 comments dang that hamamoto. I wanted to go to the gym at lunch, too. Instead? off to the Mercantile Grill with Gary and Han for a burger. satisfying lunch :) posted by Allan | 9/16/2003 12:45:00 PM | 0 comments was reading hamamoto's blog... man. I want a burger. posted by Allan | 9/16/2003 10:29:00 AM | 0 comments Monday, September 15, 2003 Okay if you go read X's blog you'll see this post. I figure we could sell a few of them at near cost to everyone interested. I'll get X to post some low-res copies of his photos. They're pretty great (Artist's Point, in particular, is my favorite). Mine are here. Any interest? Proceeds will go towards new toys, most likely. It's a good cause. posted by Allan | 9/15/2003 10:23:00 AM | 0 comments Here's Ade's blog. This is a special blog cause she's part of the Yelloshuga domain (everybody wants the Yelloshuga). She's in southeast asia living it up for the next couple of weeks, so you can go there to see her updates. :) posted by Allan | 9/15/2003 09:53:00 AM | 0 comments Wednesday, September 10, 2003 neat. posted by Allan | 9/10/2003 04:11:00 PM | 0 comments Tuesday, September 09, 2003 Here are some photos from the wedding that Wilson took. I should have mine online in the next couple of days. What a beautiful day. posted by Allan | 9/09/2003 01:17:00 PM | 1 comment Monday, September 08, 2003 Just got fingerprinted as part of a new security upgrade at my workplace. It was pretty cool - they use specially made fingerprinting scanners. no ink involved. neat stuff. Guess that means that I can't go off robbing banks or pulling off elaborate murders or what not. those CSIs just need a single print to catch me now. posted by Allan | 9/08/2003 02:16:00 PM | 0 comments Picture of the guys at Gary's wedding. What the heck am I lookin at? posted by Allan | 9/08/2003 08:30:00 AM | 8 comments Thursday, September 04, 2003 Read this in the September 2003 Redeemer newsletter (PDF) today. Thought it might be of interest to you guys. One Complex Solution by Dr. Timothy Keller Theater critics love complexity and ambiguity. Recently in the New York Times a critic reviewed a theater work that had what he called “an evangelical Christian bent.” He thought it was “a terrible play” because “it presumes that life’s problems have one unambiguous solution.” Instead the critic “prefers theater that probes the complexities of conflict.” This reminded me of another recent piece in the Times written when the long-running musical Les Miserables finally closed. The article called ‘Les Miz’ “sappy” because it “evokes a world we have lost, when life was...morally starker...[It] allows us to rage at the villain and bawl for the victims; it purges all the ambiguities and uncertainties of contemporary life.” I don’t want to defend these particular theatrical works nor evaluate whether they give us characters or caricatures. I’d like instead to briefly reflect on the premise being used by the reviewers, namely, that Christianity is a ‘pat’ or simplistic answer to the problems and uncertainties of life. How do we respond to that common criticism? First, we should admit that Christians often do respond moralistically—and therefore, simplistically—to the problems of life. Around Redeemer we contrast this with the gospel approach. Moralism is a relationship with God based on the assumption: “I obey God, therefore I am accepted,” while the gospel is a relationship with God based on the assumption: “I am accepted through Christ, therefore I obey.” The human heart even after conversion continues to operate on the moralistic principle as its ‘default’ mode. This leads to severe, continuing problems in the life of Christians and the church. One of them is a simplistic division of the world into “good people” who believe and obey God and “evil people” who do not. It also leads to a simplistic way of engaging the culture around us. When you don’t deeply grasp the gospel of grace, you tend toward a Pharisaical obsession with ritual purity and cleanness.You want to create rules even where there are none given by the Bible in an effort to assure yourself that you are ‘clean’ and therefore acceptable. Second, however, we should point out that there is an opposite error. Surely it is a just as pat an answer to say “there are no answers!” It is simplistic to say “everything is just so complex.” The motivation for that kind of simplisticness can be intellectual laziness—we don’t want to have to carefully weigh the competing claims and come to any conclusions. Or the motivation may be moral cowardice—we don’t want to have to take a stand. The default mode of our contemporary culture is “there are no answers to the big questions of life’s purpose nor any way to make judgments about truth so you have to accept me.” But to say “no one can know the truth” is a truth—and why should we believe that? Certainly that is every bit as much of a simple, faith pronouncement as “Jesus saves!” The premise of the reviewers seems to contain the logical fallacy of the ‘excluded middle.’ This is a form of reasoning that assumes that there are only two opposite positions when there is actually a third way to go. Instead of a ‘one simple solution’ or ‘unending complexity’ why couldn’t there be one complex solution? The Christian gospel in many ways provides the most complex possible answer to the question about the problems of life. Christians are accepted by God not on the basis of their work but Christ’s work. That means that the believing Christian is at the same moment simul iustus et peccator—simultaneously justified yet sinful. So Christians have the confidence of knowing that they are fully loved but also the deeply humbling knowledge that they are not a whit more morally deserving than those who don’t believe. What could be more complex than that? Not only so, but Jesus tells us that this kingdom power which is coming into the world to renew all creation is partially here but not fully present—“already, but not yet.” So Christians can work to heal the brokenness and injustice of the world with infinite hope about the future but without any utopian dreams and expectations for the present moment. What could be more complex than that? Further, the Bible tells us that despite the sinfulness of the world, God’s ‘common grace’ operates widely, giving wisdom, insight, and love to all sorts of people. So we know that the artistic works of Christian believers are done by sinners and therefore can be full of flaws, and also that the artistic works of nonbelievers are done by persons in the image of God and therefore can be full of wisdom and grace. Reviewers of theatrical works who have a gospel vision would be far less dismissive of works than either moralistic or secular critics. What could be more complex than that? The gospel reveals that life is complex, but there is still a solution! Jesus Christ is the one complex solution to the problems of life. posted by Allan | 9/04/2003 03:24:00 PM | 0 comments Wednesday, September 03, 2003 So I love the columbia house dvd club. you get some pretty great deals by being a member, getting the initial 5 for 1 or whatever, then buying your two mandatory selections (together to save on shipping!) and close out the account. lather, rinse, repeat. The only problem is when you don't know what to order for your mandatory selections, and end up waiting for 'another time.' invariably you forget to send back the 'do not send me the movie-of-the-month' selection and end up buying Daredevil for like 27 bucks. So the roommates and I sat down for this amazing movie. I've got a few things to say: 1) Jennifer Garner 2) .. Okay well that's about it. The rest of the movie was absolutely ridiculously horrible. Writing, action, acting, everything. Afterwards, Xavier and Steve both agreed that they were happy they didn't see it in the theatres. I was about to agree, too, but realized that I ended up paying enough for two at the big screen, and popcorn. Maybe a drink too. Ugh. posted by Allan | 9/03/2003 03:49:00 PM | 2 comments Tuesday, September 02, 2003 Do any of you read the little linked articles listed on the hotmail login page? Often they have interesting titles. Here are today's: "Jacko opens Neverland" "How to get a flat stomach" "150 easy appetizers" "See new Hubble pics of Mars" "Working with today's boss" and "5 tips to be less shy" All interesting to the procrastinator. I just had to click on this one: The unmarriage certificate. Cohabitation contracts? Are you kidding me? I thought the general idea of living together was to try to generate the intimacy without the responsibility. (Or perhaps to 'try it out' to see whether or not the spark is still there after a year of living together?) But a prenup to dating..? But cohabitation contracts aren't just about breaking up, according to Dorian Solot, who wrote the book "Unmarried to Each Other: The Essential Guide to Living Together As an Unmarried Couple" with her cohabiting partner of 10 years, Marshall Miller. "It's about how to handle money when you're together. It will make you talk about things like whether to have a joint checking account and how the money will be used," Solot says. "It can be unromantic to discuss money and property in a dry way, but think of it as an investment in your relationship. Getting on the same page will reduce stress later on. When a question comes up, you can just pull out what you wrote, which saves time, energy and arguments." Can you imagine this couple having to draft up a cohabitation contract? Or living together 10 years without getting married? Some narratives just make infinitely more sense than others. posted by Allan | 9/02/2003 10:46:00 AM | 0 comments |
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