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  • obligatory but sincere ode to Pops 

    frankiet 1:50 pm on June 21, 2009 Permalink | Reply

    Thinking of the stereotypical Asian dad, I see a 5′6 solemn figure wearing the fatherly uniform of grey polo and khakis.  He is also sporting a thin lipped subtle frown, the kind that just barely registers a downward angle at the edges.  Not to say the guy is upset, that is just where his mouth naturally lands.  Clearly, his chin is pointed ever so slightly up as a constant reminder that he has been working and sacrificing longer than you have been alive.  He presents himself so that it is clear that beyond all else, he demands respect.  You are never required to agree or even understand his commands, all that is needed from you is blind obedience.

    You’d have to look past that guy to see my pops.  My dad will be the one sneaking up behind the stereotypical Asian dad, we’ll call him SAD, you know just because it’s shorter.  Then he’ll try to surprise SAD with a sudden abrupt slap to the back. and easily laugh off SAD’s obvious mild annoyance.  With an arm around his shoulder, my pops would invite the guy to lunch even though he’s already said twice that he’s eaten.  He’ll also  be an easy one to pick out of the crowd of SAD’s because he is the only one whose teeth and gums you can see.

    The greatest thing about my dad is he has never bought into the stereotypical serious man way of fathering.  Some guys will be all business all the time.  They won’t show open affection toward their kids because that just gets in the way of all the respect that they could be demanding.  Instead of ruling with an iron fist, his style is more like an open palm around the neck.  To this day, when I am driving with the guy he wants to hold my hand like I’m 8 and about to cross the street into oncoming traffic.  I must admit though sometimes, he does take it too far.

    For the benefit of the doubt, Dad is not a native English speaker, but one day when he picked me up after school, he goes:

    “Hey lover”

    Gaping mouthed silence followed by “Dad, WHAT?!”

    “What? I said hey lover.”

    “NO Dad! No, that’s…that’s just not right.  You don’t say that to your kids.”

    “What do you mean, I don’t get it.  Don’t you add -er for someone who does something.  You know, swim, swimmer.  Play, player?  I love you, soooooo lover. Right?”

    This is where I stammered and just muttered an “Uh…”

    He goes on, “Anyways, so lover where do you wanna eat?”

    ………………………………………………………………………………….

    Love you too pops.

    -ognut

     
    • blupen 7:10 am on June 26, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      omg. that was the cutest story ever! its funny cause we just talked about dads/moms yesterday. my dad’s like that too! well he’s not a SAD. he used to bark while he dropped me off to school or just randomly….or if me and my sister happened to mention a name in the car he’d roll down the window and and yell “HEY (fill in name)” of kids that sometimes weren’t even friends of mine. hahha your dad sounds cool! i think our dads would have fun together. =)

  • brand new old car 

    sourhippo 10:45 am on June 2, 2009 Permalink | Reply

    So my beloved Accord died last week.  But God provides!

    Friends, I just bought a new old car yesterday!  Celebrate with me! Kill the fatten calf!  Bring out the finest wine!  9571994287.255073950.IM1.MAIN.565x421_A.562x421A brand NEW 96 civic, LX manuel trans with 130,000 miles.  Me and car-friend, haggled this guy down to $2,500.  A decent deal.

    Anyway, I stalled this bad boy about 10 times last night on the way back from the dealer. There is nothing more emasculating than stalling  a car to a shaking haul while there are a line of honking cars behind you. Really…NOTHING.

    So after a humbling drive home, I pulled into a walmart parking lot at 11pm and taught myself how to drive….again.

     
    • frankiet 2:22 pm on June 3, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      another honda eh?

      hey maybe you can find four other honda’s of different colors and together you guys can create a large robot

      so did you figure it out? can you drive stick now?

    • handsomehwang 11:23 am on June 4, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      wow how did your car die? Have fun with this new car

    • Poon 12:53 am on June 10, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      yea how did ur car die? did it stop working in the middle lane on the off ramp of a huge exit in chicago where you had to call the cops cuase you were going to die from people barreling towards you?

      cause i can tell you thats not fun.

    • deeandiv 12:34 am on June 16, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      hi tim! i finally figured out how to work wordpress and blogs and subscriptions and all that junk. anyways, hello! :) ALSO. i checked out your bethany site–pretty sick, man! i also realized one of your EM pastors was my youth pastor at agape long, long ago. old news? prob. but new news for me! :)

      • deeandiv 12:35 am on June 16, 2009 Permalink | Reply

        also why are smiley faces on here so ugly?! :[

  • sourhippo 7:20 pm on May 28, 2009 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: testing

    testing 1 2 3

     
    • Poon 3:13 pm on May 29, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      wow this new theme looks nicer than the other one. the other one was a bit dreary.

  • pillows and blankets 

    frankiet 8:27 am on May 27, 2009 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: friends, winter

    * originally from http://www.basementsixpack.wordpress.com *

    With this slew of good weather lately, it might be hard to remember but Chicago winters were brutal.  I remember waking up thinking that I needed to shake icicles from my nostrils.  Or, no matter how many layers I put on, if I get out of bed, I will never be warm again.  Easily the worst was waking up, having to go to work and knowing with one hundred percent certainty that there was no place warmer on Earth than your bed at that very moment.  Yet, reality was cruel and you just had to get up and go despite how much your soul (not to mention fingers, toes and general extremities) shrieked NOOO!.

    Eventually, I developed a system.  If I were to rate it myself on a genius scale from 0 to 100, 0 being juggling chainsaws while in a daycare and 100 being Einstein and Steve Job’s lovechild, I’d say it was a solid 90.  I would plan out what I needed to wear the next day and stacked it under the covers with me before I went to sleep.  That way, it would be warmed up the entire night and when the dreadful morning finally arrived, you could get dressed in bed.  Think about it, you completely forgo that awful moment when you have to take off your jammies even though you were already too cold to function.  In other words, I would wake up, and then while still under covers, put on my dress shirt, hoody, pants, socks, parkas, scarf, gloves, polar bear skin, etc.  Throughout the winter, whenever I was cold, I would think of home, which for me was the image of my bed with its mass of pillows, blankets and comforters.

    Fast forward to present day, I am weeks away from moving to U of I to start law school.  Essentially I am on the brink of setting out on a new life.  I’m scared, possibly horrified, that this new setting will be brittle, cold and numbing to my skin.  Like the darkest Chicago winter day, I feel forced to leave home and fearful that I will never find another that is half of the one I’ve made here.  In the time I’ve spent here, the friends I’ve made have become the pillows, blankets and comforters of my life.  Really, you guys have given me support while my head saturated with stress and warmth in times when my heart iced over and true all encompassing satisfying comfort. ( get it? analogy between comforter and comfort? too direct? sigh…. )  And no matter how much I try to prepare myself to face the chill, nothing is better than just being home, in bed or with friends.  No, I don’t mean in bed with my friends.  Stop giggling Griff, you too Pat.

    On the up side, the great thing about setting out to capture the day is that when you’ve done it, you can always come back home.  Gratefully, I know exactly where home is; it’s easy to find when it can’t be lost.

    frankiet – brb

     
    • Poon 10:49 am on May 27, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      haha in bed with friends…oh of course thats ridiculous…that certainly never happened on cold winter days…

      that clothes idea of yours, i thought of that when i was in training in south dakota in the mountains. i put my uniform in my sleeping bag with me so that i would have warm clothes to change into. samesies! twin genius high five!! …no? …did finding that out just lower ur genius scale? i knew it.

    • sourhippo 6:56 pm on May 28, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      you know normal people don’t have this problem because they live in places with a genius system of vents that carry warm air from room to room.

      Anyway, i know what you mean. The longer i am out here and the more people i meet, I realize that the friendships i had back at home were truly amazing gifts. You would think that in this big wide world you could just find replacement best-friends. But you can’t…well i can’t. and i won’t.

      let me know when you leave, i’ll try to make it back home before then.

  • It's Swine Fever!! 

    Poon 4:25 pm on April 30, 2009 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: cdc, information, paranoia, prevention, Swine flu, twitter, virus

    Have you caught it yet?

    No, not the flu. The paranoia! I feel it in my fingers, I feel it in my toes. Slowly and surely the fear of this new virus is chipping away at my normally cool and ruggedly handsome exterior. It’s already starting to affect my every day life, I mean, I’ve already washed my hands like 10 times! In the past week! wait that’s not a lot? interesting…

    I’ve read that there’s this new tech tool that can track the chatter on social websites like twitter to determine swine flu outbreaks. This is GREAT! Gotta stay informed! Gotta stay on your toes! Nothing is as reliable as twitter, power to the people!

    hang on. my computer is lagging cause it can’t catch up to the rate that I’m hitting refresh on the cdc website. ugh. hurry up…gotta stay informed. GOTTA STAY INFORMED!!! oh! another forward from my family with ways to prevent swine flu! yes! can’t read the same thing TOO many times!

    Anyways, you can’t be TOO careful. Do it for the children. Won’t somebody please think of the children!!

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    Swine Flu- Ground Zero

    OMG. SCREW CHILDREN. EVERY MAN FOR HIMSELF!
    It’s the Aporkalypse! The end swines!! Eternal Hamnation! Stick a pork in us we’re done! We’re pigging our own graves! uh…hog….hogged….hogging… hogyea got nothin. that’s it.

    [Poon]

    p.s. In all seriousness, I found a great site that evaluates your symptoms and tells you if you have Swine flu. Check it out: http://doihaveswineflu.org/

    p.p.s. In all real seriousness I hope no one I know gets swine flu and makes me regret writing this.

     
  • Real Life Superheroes? 

    handsomehwang 2:03 pm on April 28, 2009 Permalink | Reply

    http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/living/2009/04/28/dnt.oh.shadowhare.superhero.wlwt

    A little bit weird, a little funny, a little confusing, but the very least interesting.

    HH

     
    • Poon 4:51 pm on April 28, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      wow i would have loved to see video of them in action…esp when he dislocated his shoulder

    • Poon 4:54 pm on April 28, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      hahah 1:41 what the heck is this this aint easter!!

      i guess i didnt get the dress up like a superhero for easter memo

    • sourhippo 7:58 pm on April 28, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      those guys are asking for a crazy beat down by real criminals that live around there

  • church websites 

    sourhippo 2:41 pm on April 23, 2009 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: Church, pointless, websites

    so i just got done pouring hours into figuring out how to make a website.  looking for webhosts, trying to figure out wtf is ftp, Cpanel, and stuff like that.  uploading, downloading, html-ing.  designing the page, adding pictures, videos…

    then suddenly it hits me…that no one will really care.  no matter how cool your church website is, honestly who actually goes and checks their church websites? besides that first time only to acknowledge, “oh look, we have a website…cool.”

    yet i carry on, i am at the “about us” page.  i am thinking about what to put.  i tried a few generic “we are a group of people committed to grow and love Jesus and…”

    really what are we?  “we are a bunch of kids who speak English at church” hows that for a missions statement?  i guess until God makes us into something more, that is all we are.picture-1

    pressing: publish website

    -hippo-

     
    • frank 1:50 pm on April 25, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      that was some genius marketing you did there sir…
      i def just checked out your church website

    • handsomehwang 2:08 pm on April 28, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      Hey cool website. You did a good job, especially considering this is your first one. I once made a website when I was 12… it was 100% awful.

  • Very Cool Stop Motion 

    handsomehwang 11:57 pm on April 15, 2009 Permalink | Reply

    Very cool. Kind of makes me dizzy though.

    HH

     
    • ognut 6:24 pm on April 16, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      that was ridiculous…i cant even imagine how long it would take to do that…

      so i didnt realize it but i was playing john mayer’s split screen sadness and it started right as the video did so i thought it was the song for the vid. it fit perfect, trippy…try it..its better

    • blupen 3:10 am on April 17, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      haha that was an awesome video!!

    • cassie 9:31 am on April 18, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      hahahah that’s cool

  • Caaaaarrl 

    Poon 8:08 pm on April 14, 2009 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: carl, hands, llamas,

    This keeps cracking me up.

    my stomach is making the rumblies!!

    -Poon

     
    • maybetomorrow3 5:19 pm on April 16, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      “i do not kill people. that is…that is my LEAST favorite thing to do”

      hahaha. ive watched this so many times since you sent me that link! why is this so funny…ahaha
      PS WHY AM I NOT ON YOUR BLOGROLL! =O

  • have you ever? 

    sourhippo 8:26 pm on April 1, 2009 Permalink | Reply

    have you ever posted an awesome blog entry about something, only to realize that the exact same thing was already  posted by a fellow page-author a few entries ago, and then you go back to cover up your blog entry by writing another blog entry over that blog entry?

    cause i never have.

    -j-

     
    • Poon 3:51 pm on April 3, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      hahahah i was like…phil just wrote about this…interesting…

      nice save…

    • ognu 7:28 pm on April 12, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      how come in our new picture, phil is the only one who is awake?

    • handsomehwang 8:38 pm on April 12, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      I guess no one ever took a picture of me passed out. What am I doing? Looks like some kind of game.

    • Poon 5:17 pm on April 13, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      i like how mine is clearly the most flattering one

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