the Vow

I just finished watching the movie "The Vow" and I've got to say, it's a great movie. Very cheesy I guess and very unrealistic considering it's Hollywood... but I really liked it and apparently it's based off of a true story. What puzzled me was the mixed reviews I was hearing from different groups of people and what further shocked me was that (for the most part) the girls that had watched it thought it was lame but the guys I know who watched it were all blown away by the movie.

Now, one way to view this is that the girls I know are heartless women who have no souls, or that the guys I know are hopeless romantic saps. But what I noticed was pretty obvious, was that it is in the point of view of the man in the story. So it is much easier for a guy to relate to the story... to relate or to imagine the undesirable possibility of your loved one/spouse losing their memory.

Man, I couldn't help but feel so sorry for the main character. This sounds so sappy, but I really did feel for the guy. You can't help but pity the poor guy...

Anyway, I saw a cockroach in my house today... it was really small but really fast. You know that feeling where you see a bug and then you immediately start to feel like there are bugs all over you? Yeah, I had that feeling after that... and it was so annoying. Now, if you didn't know (Haeun and Kyungshick definitely know) that I hate bugs. I don't dislike them.... I hate them.. to the point where I used to wish that I had the superpower to gather every single bug in the world. Afterwards, I would put them all into a sphere and either burn them or throw them up into space so that they all die and we live in a world free of bugs. That is how much I used to hate bugs and that same hatred has carried through, throughout the years. The only thing that is different is that I have learned a great deal more about the ecosystem and thus have learned that this whole world (to a certain degree) depends on those bugs... so to gather them all and kill them would be killing off th world... so I decided against that... but I still hate bugs. I think the reason why I like movies so much, is because most of them somehow have outdoor scenes without a TRACE of a bug... and I think... I wish I could live like that. Forget the love stories and whatnot, I want the bugless world that Hollywood portrays.

I moved my computer downstairs to my dad's room and thus now enjoy fast (wired) internet! Come at me! Verizon FiOs for the win! I really take fast internet for granted (which is a loaded first world statement in itself) but I didn't notice this until I had to live through a cruddy internet connection upstairs in my room. I turned my room into a "study" room that is still in need of being used... Now, by study room I basically just moved my computer... so I just have an empty desk that I need to start using as my study desk. Having a computer in my face always distracts me. Now it's crunch time for GREs. God, give me perseverance to study hard not just for my sake, but for the sake of following your will!

Can't wait for my Europe trip. I feel like it's going to be epic. Very tiring but definitely will be a great experience. Can't WAIT!

What prayer can be...

Instead of praying only for relief, we begin to pray that the glory of God’s character would be on display in our lives and the lives of those for whom we are praying. We pray for the joy of discovering that the faith we have given lip service to over a lifetime is the real deal. We ask God to use the difficulty to make us less self-reliant and more God-reliant. Rather than only begging him to remove the suffering in our loved ones’ lives, we ask him to make them spiritually fruitful in the midst of suffering he chooses not to remove.