One of the worse days in my life

There was a time near the end of high school when all 8 of my closest friends turned their backs on me because they didn't agree with me with something that I did. Today the same feeling came back again. I guess what I learned is that you don't always have to prove your point and win an argument. Sometimes all you need to say is that "I will be by your side even though I don't agree with you right now." When Martha and Mary was crying over their dead brother, Jesus could have said "Oh ye of little faith, stop crying. I'll raise him from the dead in a second" But he didn't. Jesus wept. He wept because he saw the sorrow of death. He wept because he felt what Mary and Martha felt. Compassion. Come, passion. Oh Lord have mercy.

"Did I not tell you that if you believed, you would see the glory of God?"

---- Gosh, I'm so exhausted.

Contemplating a wedding cake business

Cake baked to perfection by Master Strampe

Raspberry Walnut filling - ingenious creation by MS

The most significant work i did - icing the bottom tier

Putting in the spine of the cake

Flowers from Agape

Voila!

Bonus: Pad thai for the 3rd year boys. They eat a lot.

So this is what it looks like to God when I cry over my "heartaches"

Don't be silly, little girl. You'll meet someone your age, someone so wonderful who will blow your mind away. You just wait, darling. Just wait.

I am morbid

The following are gchat conversation that I had this past week:


me: hm the laundry sounds like its gonna explode
Jane: oh
that's not good
me: hm..
well im gonna die first since im sitting right here
Jane: haha okay
let me knoww
me: haha ok i'll call from heaven
Jane: hahahaha okay!!


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Eric: you made it back okay?
me: nope i crushed and died im in heaven now
Eric: whoa coooool
how is it?
me: its AWESOME
Eric: what is Jesus like?
me: can't wait for you to join me
Eric: does he really have a beard?
me: jesus is awesome
well you have to come see for yourself
Eric: uh
may I get married and have kids first?
or does God want me to come sooner?
me: marriage and kids, overrated compared to heaven
Eric: yeah
i guess so
but still
haha
cool man
2:13 AM
well glad you're alright then
i will go to sleep
watch over me!
gnite!


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So, I'm heading off to CCF (Tech) retreat tomorrow and I'm super excited!
Apparently the main speaker David Sliker (IHOP) is an expert of Eschatology (Study of the end times). Let's see what I'm gonna bring back this time =)

Oh, PLEASE keep the retreat in your prayers!!!!

all about food...

A new found food treasure in Charlottesville: Korean House

Honestly I haven't been to Korean House since First Year. Last time I went was with my korean class, and I never went with GCF people because we would just drive 40 minutes to Bamboo house because it is supposed to be so much better.. but apparently not!

The daughter of the owner served us and she told us that the owner/chef came from the southern part of Korea, near the bay area, that's why he specializes in seafood dishes. The Spicy Cod Fish Stew there is just heavenly. I kept day-dreaming about it the next day at work.





You can't really see it in the picture but they use fresh cod fish for this. That's why fish meat remains intact and the texture doesn't get mushy even after all the time spent in that boiling stone pot.

We also got Bibimbap and Hae Mul Pan Jun (Seafood pancakes). Pretty standard stuff, but well executed. Oh, btw, they added a mountain of cabbage on the bibimbap. Good touch. I'm a sucker for complex texture combination. =)




Today I had to go to Waynesboro for work, so I "passed by" Klines and splurged on ice cream - a quart of Pistachio and half a gallon of Raspberry! Come eat some at Monty!


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By the way,
I just turned down the opportunity to make my boss' wedding cake...
I NEED INSPIRATION TO BAKE AGAIN!!




Poker birthday cake for my boss' fiancee

Cinnamon Bacon Rolls!

It feels weird that Jane wasn't here for this...







p.s. how come blogspot messed up the colors of my picture?

I bought a Ponyo!

Spent 9 days in hong kong and 2 hrs in Japan. Life is full of surprises. Who would have known that the best sushi I have ever tasted in my life would come from a to-go counter in an airport?







Time doesn't heal. God does.