The beautiful acts/dances/songs, the joyful faces, the birthday cake for Jesus, the jolly little kids, the newborn babies, the welcoming smiles and hugs. *sigh* I missed it . I’m glad to be back in Vegas.

    Last night, when “Santa” went on stage to give gifts to the children, I noticed that their gifts were empty shirt boxes. I figured out later that it was because they were already wearing their gift (a sweater) for their Christmas performance. That reminded me of my first run-in with Santa Clause.
    I remember sitting on his lap thinking, wow, Santa is Asian? When I asked my parents, they told me that Santa could be whatever he wanted. – And yes, I believed them.
    To my dismay, when I opened the present at home, it was… a toy that I already had! No, not the same KIND of toy, but the same exact toy! It was already mine and it was rewrapped! So I asked my parents about it. They told me that since I had been naughty, Santa had taken away my toy but since I was nice…he decided to give it back. I remember thinking… Ugh how cheap. I hated Santa. Ho Ho HOAX. (haha- i know..my jokes are corny)
    Anyway, now I know that it was because my parents were financially limited and they didn’t want to buy another gift for my brother and me lol.

    But…I was thinking. Santa gave them all empty boxes… and me a toy that I already had. Jesus…gave me his life. Yet, Santa gets much more attention than Jesus does.
    To me, Christmas is about Jesus’ birthday. It’s called CHRISTmas for a reason . If you ask me why I celebrate Christmas, it’s because I received the greatest gift of all from Jesus Christ and for Him, I’m thankful.

So, MERRY CHRISTMAS~!!!! Happy Birthday Jesus

The song attached is a freestyle about.. Santa and Jesus. My brother did the piano playing, I did the voice. This is back in 9th-10th grade when I couldn’t even say Jesus lol. It’s funny. If it offends anyone, sorry , not intended to do so.

Today we said bye to our favorite restaurant.

Dear Lakeside,

       We’ve had an amazing year and a half. When I have the amazing authentic aromatic meals that come from the magic land of food, I am revived and alive. You are also cheap. Oh how I love cheap Chinese food. Thank you for saving water by taking away our small dishes that we never use and for creating specials for some of us (although I never got my own special *tears*).
       I will miss my favorite dish there. The shredded pork with spicy bean sauce, #87. I ate you for the last time today. Tomorrow, you will exit my system and I will no longer have my favorite dish ever again.
       I’ll miss you so much that I even got something ‘to go’. I ordered a special of one of our fellowship members- the Kelvin Special. Although you were oftentimes unaware of the Kelvin special, you never failed to make it the best. I will eat you for dinner soon.
       You never looked pretty. Your green sign was broken, your place was crowded, and your plates and cups were chipped from head to toe. But as we learn in life, it’s not the physical appearance that gives you value, it’s what’s in your heart. In your heart, I see authenticity. You are true and not a fake. Your food is real your people are real and your style of serving us is real. You are trustworthy my friend.
        Thank you for the picture today. I will miss you oh so greatly.

                   -Saddened loyal customer and friend,
                                 Young Yim     AKA     The Korean Gangster Kid

PS: We said bye to you in video today. Remember that I love you. Oh.. Oh..so dearly. *tears*
    

Today. I drew on a chalkboard.

I had tea.

Had Thai food.

And studied.

Had coffee.

      – That was my study break! Buahaha

-Young

JESUS RULES~!

Finals. Yet so many things are happening at once.

     Such a learning experience… . Don’t you love it how you learn the most when  you feel like you’re in a deep pit? It just feels so nice that God is with me through it all.

     A lost generation in the East Coast? A gift? Ahhh lol. Such a struggle.
Cho’s insane. (in a good way).
    

       It’s funny. I read the definition of SACRIFICE today.

JESUS RULES~!!!

(CRYPTIC I know) lol

I touched a squirrel tail.

it wasn’t bristly

Hi Dad,

   I just figured out that you read my xanga. Wow. lol

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY BEAUTIFUL DOG SARAH! 10 years old.. dang you’re getting old.

I had a beautiful Thanksgiving Break! Great dinner w/my loving Living Water family at Cherry Hill, a great 24 hours at Lansdale (2 big dinners and 1 big lunch) PA with the Min’s, and now here I am. Phew, No work done at all, yet still happy .

Time to buckle-down and get my bootay movin’

JESUS RULES~!

-Young

So today, I saw a hawk on campus. Guess what it killed for food?

a. squirrel
b. pigeon
c. possum
d. mouse

  It was so close to us on Locust Walk above a tree. I took a cell-phone picture thinking YES! I got a great photo…it didn’t end up being so great. lol Here’s the picture.

Can you see it? Barely lol

You can’t even make out what it had under its claws. But it was nasty lol.

Anyway, the answer is b. Pigeon.

Yes a Hawk decided to eat a pigeon and managed to find itself in the center of campus in the city of Philadelphia. How cool is that?

   It makes me miss home though lol. Not to be all sentimental and all. I remember when I used to be all gungho about this wild-life thing. Hike hike hike, look for animals. Now I’m here, study study study? *shrugs* lol I miss the hikes lol.

   Thanksgiving is a time to go home and spend time with the family, and I miss my family lots and lots. I’ll be here though. But a great thing is, I’ll be with ‘family’ here as well . I love Perry’s family, they always take us unfortunate students in. Yippeee!

    I’m glad God found me a great family here. Really, I am .

  JESUS Rules~!

PS: HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYONE!

How I know I’m out of my mind:

1. A lack of sleep is generally a good indicator that I won’t function normally

2. The whole time during the sermon on Sunday I kept connecting his analogies to molecular biology.
     e.g.: “It’s like UPS! You store it and you deliver it!”
        My brain: Golgi….Life is like biology…whoa..

3. I went to the dining hall today and whipped out cash for my food.
    The lady looked at me weird.
      Me: “I don’t know what I’m thinking… here’s my card.” 
  (Although I must say, this was quite funny).

4. Print out the same paper 7 times trying to figure out how to get 4 pages on a sheet (costs my 7 cents a page). Then in the end, when I finally found out how, I stopped trying.

5. I… ate ice cream and finished the tub. Threw away the tub down the trash chute with… my spoon inside of it >.<.
    Bright side: I don’t have to do the dishes anymore

6. I didn’t lock the cash-box after work today so when I closed up and put it away. I picked it up by the handle and SPLOoSH. All the dumb coins fell out >.<. Had to recount again lol.

*Addition* – >.< BOO

7. I just figured out I took the House-Office binder home that they need by opening time tomorrow. AHHh lol

  Yay. My brain isn’t working .

BUT. Jesus rules ! lol

   -Young Yim

Philly is turning into a bloodbath. Pray for this city , it really needs prayer, hardcoreee.

Mini-retreat . I’m excited. An escape w00t.
I’m making pots tomorrow instead of going to Bio…haha w00t w00t.

Ahh, I remember the days when I would update xanga EVERY day.

Then college happened lol.

Then I started wondering why I even post about my days?

Then I realized that going back and reading brings back a lot of memories.

I didn’t do that yet, but my golly. I know that if I look back now, I’d be like, “whoa.. I was so young and immature.”

And now I speak as if I’m mature. But in all reality, 5 years from now, I’ll look back and call me right now immature.

Sheesh. I’m growing up. It’s scary. (And all the adults who read this go, “haha, there’s so much more to growing up than now.”)

———

Oh I might drop Pre-med and go into something else.. isn’t that scary? Dropping something that will bring you to become what you always thought you would or wanted to be? I don’t know if I want to be a doctor anymore. Ahhh. If not, then what? Consulting? Engineer?
  What’s weird is, nothing in my life EVER happens the way I plan it. (Except for this really weird time when I almost literally predicted my future on a letter to myself beginning of senior year). It’d be interesting to look back a few years from now and see what I’m doing.

Weeee, I’m tired. Good night.

And yes, of course, Jesus Rules~!