New Orleans

Haven't been praying for a while. But I pray that God have mercy for people of New Orleans . . .

I do not allow comment for this post 'cause I'm sure there will be people who will argue about God. Exist vs. doesn't exist, good vs. evil/don't care. NOW IS NOT THE TIME.

Here are links for what to do at this time.

http://www.redcross.org

http://www.mccormicktribune.org/mtf/hurricanerelief.htm

and I'm sure you can find more. Or if you're not comfortable sending money over the internet, go to http://maps.google.com, click on the local search, type in red cross in the "what" field, and type in your city in the "where" field.

Only One

Been obsessing about a song for a while now.

"Only One" by Yellowcard

Broken this fragile thing now
And I can't, I can't pick up the pieces
And I've thrown my words all around
But I can't, I can't give you a reason

I feel so broken up
And I give up
I just want to tell you so you know

(Chorus)
Here I go, scream my lungs out, trying to get to you
You are my only one
I let go, there's just no one that gets me like you do
You are my only, my only one

Made my mistakes, let you down
And I can't, I can't hold on for too long
Ran my whole life in the ground
And I can't, I can't get up when you're gone

And something's breaking up
I feel like giving up
I won't walk out until you know
(go to chorus)

Here I go, so dishonestly leave a note, for you my only one
And I know, you can see right through me
So let me go, and you will find some one


Here I go, scream my lungs out, trying to get to you
You are my only one
I let go, there's just no one, no one like you
You are my only my only one
My only one, my only one, my only one
You are my only my only one . . .

True Love

Sometimes I find that some think that true love, in romantic sense, is unconditional love. I'm not really sure about that. There's no unconditional love unless it's divine love. For instance, let's consider married couple for tens of years. I think their love is true love, but not unconditional. If the other partner abuse the other physically or mentally, then the love is gone. Unconditional love means the love exists with no condition. Being nice, caring, and non abusive is a condition :)

So what is true love? I don't know. I do realized that I sometimes mistaken true love with passionate love. Passionate love can only last for so long since I don't think human body can keep up with all the internal feelings of a passionate love for a long time. When the passion subside and the love is steady and becomes a conscious decision, then I think it becomes true love.

Again, this is only what I think for now. Haven't found one yet, can't say much about it.

Anyone found true love? :)

comp slow

Every morning, I turned on my laptop to check the weather. Today I realized: we have gone way fast in hardware speed, but we managed to put so much stuff, that the computer is still too slow to keep up. Compared to pda (which I haven't bought, can't decide which to get) that just turned on right away.

Microsoft, what the heck did you put on windows to make it that slow??

denver part 2

Since I'm really busy and wouldn't be able to finish my story, let me give you the short version

Went to Denver, had a ton of fun, learned the double mulan form from Grandmaster The (my kung-fu school grandmaster), travel around a bit, took lots of pictures, left my 2 days old Canon PowerShot A95 camera for 15min at the airport, someone stole it, now I'm back in L.A.

Next trip, hopefully I can bring back my camera with me

denver

Been busy for a while, haven't had time to tell my denver story. But now I'm sick at home.... I guess I have time... lol

It was amazingly fun to travel. I haven't travel for years now, so yeah.. I'm excited about it :)

In timeline format:
Thurs
1pm
Went home for lunch to see if I can catch the ups guy delivering my new Canon PowerShot A95. Found a note on my door. Darn, I missed it. Called ups to check where I can pick it up. Ate my lunch, went back to work.
6pm
Drove 30 minutes to get my camera to the UPS branch. Got to-go dinner on the way back to work

Fri
1am
Finally finish my work. It wasn't totally finish though. A company we hired to do part of the work was extremely late in giving us the material. I had to rely on my friend to finish my work when all the material arrived.
1.20am
Got home, pack up my bags and my new camera (wohoo!) :)
3.00am
Went outside to check if the shuttle to lax airport is here yet. And, yup, it was backing up from a driveway 4 houses from me. I assumed it got lost. I was right. I walked to it and got picked up.
4.30am
Arrived at the airport. Checked in and checked my bags. Had some confusion with the self-serve machine. Apparently, it was the machine that broke. I thought I was so dumb, I had my name changed and didn't know it (drum roll!)
6.15am
The plane took off. I can't believe it. I'm actually on vacation! Started to read "The Fellowship of the Ring". Sleepy, but can't really sleep. I dozed off a couple of times, after all, I haven't had any sleep at all!
8.15am Denver time
The plane arrived at Denver.

to be continue