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| Well, I haven't written anything on xanga for over a year now, but since it's my 10 year anniversary of becoming a Christian, I will put a couple of lines up...
Well, growing up in Germany and the first couple of years in the US, I considered myself a Christian - after all, I am Catholic since a month after I was born... But I definitely didn't have a personal relationship with Jesus. I actually hadn't read through the Bible - just some stories from Genesis, Exodus and the gospels (mainly in school). After challenging discussions, and reading the Bible, and studying about water baptism, I was ready to make a personal commitment to Jesus as my King. Just before my baptism, Jesus touched and changed me. And I was baptized in a creek in Columbia, MO, on Apr 9, 2000.
It has been a great journey being a citizen of God's kingdom and following my Lord, my Savior, and my friend.
This coming Tuesday (Apr 13, 2010), we will have a baptism night at Chi Alpha Christian Fellowship at UCLA. I always look forward to these special nights, as people declare that they have made the same great decision that I have made 10 years ago. | | |
| Instructions:
1 - Go to "wikipedia." Hit “random”
or click http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
The first random wikipedia article you get is the name of your band.
2 - Go to "Random quotations"
or click http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3
The last four or five words of the very last quote of the page is the title of your first album.
3 - Go to flickr and click on “explore the last seven days”
or click http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days
Third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.
4 - Use photoshop or similar to put it all together
So: Introducing Ward Creek with their album The Words of Another...:
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| Approximately a year ago, my friend Tim Faas hired some ninjas for a report on me in Germany, and later for reports on some other friends. The ninjas eventually couldn't cope with Haiti - not too surprising, as Haiti was the Pearl of the Caribbean for a long time, where a lot of Pirates were stationed. Although those Pirates are not there anymore, I guess some ninjas came up with some excuses and disappeared; only one left a last report. I hadn't heard of them or about them since, until Frank, Fred, and Floyd contacted me on Dec 29, 2008 at the SfC conference (SfC = Students for Christ = Chi Alpha) in Berlin. Apparently they are also impacted by the financial crisis, so they asked if I needed some reconnaissance work or something like that.
I didn't really need any report, but to give these ninjas something to do, I was thinking about an easy task and asked about a report on Tim Faas. The next day, the ninjas came back and told me that Tim Faas is at the very same conference as myself and Vanesa - in Berlin. They showed me their photo evidence:
Now, that report was a surprise. The pictures are sure interesting. However,
I doubted that Tim was in Berlin. But nonetheless, Vanesa and I were calling out 'Tim' many times. Nobody answered, so apparently there was no Tim in Berlin at all... Hence, I asked the ninjas for more info and better quality pictures.
The ninjas explained that Tim was using a pseudonym and said that he claimed that he was married. Then they showed me this picture of Tim and his wife:
I immediately recognized Florian and Anne Krämer on this picture, as they are the leaders of SfC Cologne. The ninjas were embarrassed and disappeared completely.
Disappointed by the ninjas' performance, I looked for real evidence about Tim's whereabouts at the end of December. I soon found some reliable evidence that Tim Faas was at The World Missions Summit in Cincinnati, Ohio (as I had expected) through my friend Flo:
Video on facebook (access restriction apply).
So, as it turns out, the ninjas were partially right: Tim used a pseudonym (Curt Harlow) and claimed to be married to Kelly Harlow...
Tim - feel free to use the above pictures as facebook profile pictures.  | | |
| It has been a long time - so, I'm finally back...
Updates will have to wait (they will come eventually), but the Lost episode this past Feb 28 was the best TV since Episode 7, Season 2 of Twin Peaks. Wow!
The rest of this blog probably only makes sense if you have seen the episode and the show... Anyway: Let me just quote a reviewer named Ryan McGee: "...let us first take a moment to marvel at the euphoric catharsis that was the conversation between Penelope and Desmond near the end of this mind-blowing episode. That, gentle readers, is why I love Lost. The show has its mythology, and that's great. It's got its mysteries, and that's great. ... But in the end, without strong relationships between its characters, Lost would simply be another genre show, one of many. The impact and emotion of that phone call shows why Lost stands so far and above just about anything else currently on air."
Yes, I cried. Euphoric catharsis indeed. And yes, strong relationships was the most important ingredient of Twin Peaks, and it is with Lost.
Again Ryan McGee: "I was frankly shocked to see them make any type of "real world" connection this early in the show (I had that pegged as a Season 6 activity), but in that they still have a long way to go before truly meeting again, I marveled at this conversation as a way for these two to steel themselves up for the last, and most difficult, part of their journey back towards each other. I've said it before, and having this episode, I feel it more strongly than ever: these two are the romantic heart of the show. Sorry, but for having had such little screen time together, it's nothing short of a miracle on behalf of both the actors and writers to construct a relationship that anchors the actions of everyone else in the Lost universe. And it puts the squabbles over time travel, wormholes, and electromagnetic anomalies into their proper context."
The moment the need for a constant was mentioned, I knew Des and Penny would be able to talk. But the acting and the writing really brought it home. Well done!
So, I think the last scene of Season 6 might be, Desmond and Penelope actually meeting. That would be awesome. | | |
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Two years ago, when several of us moved to Los Angeles, Coke Company discontinued Vanilla Coke. It replaced it with BlackCherry Vanilla Coke. Not the same!
So, earlier this year, BlackCherry Vanilla Coke was discontinued. After a search, I found it on Wikipedia: Vanilla Coke should be reintroduced 'later this year'. At the end of last month, there finally was the press release: Vanilla Coke is back. Supposedly on Memorial Day. I saw billboards, saying Welcome back Vanilla Coke. I saw a commercial for it in the movie theatre. But no luck yet in the grocery stores.
So, today I went to Pavillions, and it was there... I bought three 2-l bottles, the check-out lady said 'Vanilla Coke is back', and I am drinking my first bottled Vanilla Coke in over 2 years (only Rubio's on the UCLA campus had fountain Vanilla Coke). I'm happy... | | |
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