sjamesho.v3

there’s nothing like getting two hours of sleep. man! i should have just stayed up instead. but i guess that’s what happens when you wait till 1:00a to start packing. so amazingly i wake up at 5:00a because we wanted to leave for the airport at 6:00a. after waiting for our taxi till about 6:25a, my dad called up the taxi company and found out that the taxi that was dispatched to us picked up some other people. you would think that the taxi driver would inquire the name of the people being picked up. and what are the chances that there would be other people to be picked up at a completely different neighborhood at 6 o’clock in the morning? anyways, they send another taxi and we got to the airport at around 7:00a. it was a good thing that i had printed out our boarding passes while we were waiting for the second taxi because the security line was the longest that i’ve ever seen it. it actually left the airport building and went into the parking structure where it made several switchbacks. it almost felt like we were waiting in line at a Disneyland ride, except that there was no $3.00 coke stands or costumed characters to take pictures with. our concern that the line would move fast enough to reach our 8:05a boarding time was relieved when we got to the gate with about 20mins to spare. Continue reading

“you’ve been sucked into the vortex known as myspace…” – Kuonoono (aka, my cousin Jessica). i have resisted joining myspace since 2004 when my friend Andrea told me about it. the reason then was a matter of time and redundancy. i had already joined a social-networking site a few months prior and felt that managing two was just silly considering that i barely had time to manage one. as time went on and myspace’s popularity grew to even eclipse the sites that came before it, i found yet another reason to resist joining myspace for i have this odd aversion to all things popular for the moment. so you may be wondering why i eventually caved in and got a myspace account. Continue reading

yesterday was an end of an era and i wasn’t there to experience it. i was, instead working, while this event took place and when i came home from work it was gone. the era which i am referring to is the 10 year and 2 month relationship i had with my 1988 Honda Accord Coupe. it is officially no more.

it actually ended four months ago when i bought my 2006 Civic Coupe. however, while i was driving my new car i was trying to think of what to do with the Accord. i knew that i wanted to donate it but i wasn’t sure to whom or to what organization. so the Accord just sat on the street waiting for me to decide what to do with it. when i got back from Peru, i knew that whichever way the donation went the proceeds or the tax right-off amount will go to the mission in Peru. the Accord wasn’t worth much. with the fact that it would cost more to fix the compressor and front suspension than its value (which is around $1000), i wasn’t expecting a lot. in fact i would feel rather guilty to sell it for more than a couple hundred dollars since the buyer would have to sink more into it to repair it. so i decided to drive it to the the local Pick-N-Pull. Continue reading

for the past several years, my reading preferences have become somewhat short in nature. i am not meaning that i don’t like to read. in fact i read a lot everyday. my reading can be explained like taking many short sprints as opposed to a long marathon. so instead of a books, i’ll go through magazines, newspapers, and the internet for my reading. and perhaps this as developed a sort of ADD where my reading is concerned. with books there’s a committment of sorts which the length of time taken to complete the book affects how you experience the book. so say you’re reading a 300 page novel. if you took 10 days to finish it, the whole story will be very fresh and vivid as a whole. however, if it took you three years to finish it, it might not be as rich because the story didn’t unfold in a timely matter. in fact you might be hard-pressed to remember details of eariler events in the story because of how far apart your reading sessions were. magazines, newspapers, and internet articles on the other hand do not require a committment like a book for a story/article is short in comparision to the scope of a book. i recently realized that i needed to go back for that long book-reading committment. i believe it exercises a different reading skill than the reading of short articles. Continue reading

when our day is jammed-packed with stuff we need to do, we put the stuff that we want to do on hold until the stuff we need to do gets done. its a basic priority exercise. however, in those times when we are able to get to the stuff that we want to do most often times we never do them. well… we may do some of them, but rarely do i find that level of effeciency that was used for the stuff that we need to do to cross over to the stuff that we want to do. perhaps we aren’t meant to always function at such a high level all the time. so when the break comes we unconsciously decompress from all the stuff that we need to do and let the time just be.

i’m thankful that God built this need to decompress when He designed us and thus gave us the Sabbath for us to rest. so however crazy busy we are during the week there is the rhythm of a break day at the end of it. nice!