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December 05, 2009, 12:23am

B&W Thanksgiving

I’m thankful for my mom!

And Neil :)

December 04, 2009, 4:59pm

Operation Christmas Child

“For more than fifteen years, families across the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Germany, the Netherlands and other countries have had a wonderful opportunity to impact the lives of less fortunate children across the globe. Through the ministry of Samaritan’s Purse, an international relief organization headed up by Franklin Graham, Operation Christmas Child has delivered more than 46 million shoeboxes filled with toys, personal hygiene items, booklets, school supplies, and other items not readily available locally to many of the recipients. What started out as a relatively small campaign to help homeless children in Romania has expanded into one of the largest relief and evangelical programs of its kind. It isn’t too early to start thinking about how you and your family can participate – Operation Christmas Child is your opportunity to impact young lives as well as demonstrate to your family the real meaning of Christmas: giving.”

My church dedicated a huge portion of time to this project:

Here are all the shoeboxes my small group and I collected earlier this week by going around the mall! We called up multiple stores and asked them to save up their old shoeboxes for us. Converse was quite generous, giving us 7 trashbag fulls of their boxes. Here are pix from the collecting-

1. http://photos-d.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs070.snc3/13767_215710584767_500624767_4224141_3708967_n.jpg
2. http://photos-f.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs070.snc3/13767_214099219767_500624767_4212699_3637432_n.jpg
3. http://photos-d.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs070.snc3/13767_214099214767_500624767_4212698_1023544_n.jpg

Assembly line for the youth group!

The young adult assembly line was much more organized :)

An hour later, the young adult group finishes wrapping all 100 shoeboxes (the goal reached)! Now let’s check back with the youth group…

Uh…

Working hard or hardly working?

But alas, out of the 150 shoeboxes goal they were supposed to wrap, they had only finished 30…

…not getting much done huh?

Meanwhile, the young adult group was cleaning and packing up…

Guess the youth group tired out.

Overall; the young adult group finished 105 shoeboxes out of the 100, while the youth group finished 90 out of the 150 goal (they had more people!). But it was a good experience and everyone had fun :)

November 22, 2009, 1:03pm

Campus Mural

I didn’t take these pics since I was painting, but I did some color edits.

I’m the fourth one!

November 22, 2009, 1:56am

Successful recipe (:

Hm, never thought cooking could have been a new hobby but it might be now!

Dericious broccoli salad:

4 heads of broccoli
8 (or more) slices bacon
1/2 of a large red onion
2 handfuls of raisins (~2 cups)
2 handfuls of cheddar cheese (~2 cups)
3 cups of mayo
6 tablespoons rice vinegar
1/2 cup of sugar

Cut up broccoli into small florets, cut bacon into small pieces (crumble) and cook fully, and cut the red onion into small pieces.

Mix broccoli, cooked bacon, red onion, raisins, cheese in one bowl. Mix mayo, vinegar, and sugar in the other. Pour mayo dressing over the broccoli combo.

Serves 10-12.

November 21, 2009, 12:56am

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Windows 7 is great, except for the fact that I can’t upload pics with it. Canon only has available drivers up to Vista. :(

http://www.usa.canon.com/consumer/controller?act=ModelInfoAct&tabact=DownloadDetailTabAct&fcategoryid=314&modelid=11154

Played 7 time(s).

November 19, 2009, 12:36am

I miss the sun!

Can’t wait for summer already :9 6 months away!

November 17, 2009, 12:42am

Personal Updates

The things we do, the people we see, the things we give in and give up…it all kind of makes me sad knowing how short-lived the past was, but happy in a way that everyone moves on and change can be for the better.

Life sure has been busy from balancing 5 classes, trying to apply to college, coaching dragon boat, and setting up an art club @ school. I’ve been meeting lots of new people thru the club as a leader. I never really thought about going into art, but this has definitely opened doors for me. To me, artists are some of the most open minded people I’ve ever met :) it’s pretty cool learning to airbrush and graffiti from someone else, and in return, teaching them how to use my camera and graphic design.

Regardless, 2009 hasn’t really been a good year, so I’m looking forward to 2010 (and getting out of here)!