WOW!
madd long time.
I'm deciding to post weblogs now.

I am currently at the library trying to start some Psychopharmacology because I have to take the midterm early on Tuesday.  TEXAS on Wednesday-Sunday!!!!!  I really like the class, it's pretty interesting.  It's mostly about Depression and Bipolar disorders and the pharmacological aspect of treating the disorders.  It's pretty biological and very intricate.  I highly recommend it to anyone interested in biological psych.

Anyway, so far spring break has been good.  I started off the break with a fun and relaxing FM retreat.  Mindy unni was an excellent hostess and as usual I received so many blessings just being in presence of my brothers and sisters.  I'm really sad that I won't be singing with them next year, especially because singing has always been my escape from the grim world of academics.  However, I will always cherish each moment I have in practice.  I guess I really hate it when practices kind of stink because we are grouchy or "not in the mood."  I feel like it's such a waste of a practice.  Never have I experienced such closeness with God at any other time than when I feel like I'm singing right into His ear.  I could really write a book about my experience in FM so far...I wish I had started xanga earlier.    Oh well.

I got to see John on Saturday and Sunday!  After about 5 weeks of being unable to see each other our time together flew by.  But we part every time saying how excited we are for the next time we'll be able to see each other.  O jeez this is so cheesy.  Enough about my love life for you nosy people.

I am so sick right now.  You know when the pain in your throat starts to irritate your ears as well.  Yea, that's how it feels right now.  But I took some medicine and hopefully it will go away.

Yesterday, my dad and my mom were talking to me about their involvement in church.  It made me SO happy!  For those of you that don't know, my parents have been MIA for about 4 years (in terms of church-going).  Apparently, there's a chart in their bible study class that allows them to mark off the books of the bible they've read so that if they finish the whole bible they get a prize!  I laughed really hard because that's the kind of stuff we did in kindergarten, nevertheless; I am overjoyed.  I suggested to my dad that he should start from the very beginning and understand the bible from the basics.  He flat out told me that he simply can't because it bores him.  He told me that there are different levels of readers just as there are in grade school.  I agreed because I didn't start out in the beginning either.  But I showed him that it's good to take notes and it's also good to absorb the paradoxes and symbolisms.  He told me to calm down.  HHAHA. 

But I got to share my favorite verse with him which is Genesis 17:7 "I will establish my covenant as an everlasting covenant between me and you and your descendants after you for the generations to come, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you."  I explained that this is my favorite verse because it describes my God.  1)  He makes a promise-God always keeps His promises.  2)  God is so powerful but unlike Any other because He is a loving and graceful God at the same time.  3)  When God makes this covenant with Abraham, he includes me in it.

I'm so excited for my parents.  It's amazing to see how God can really break you, humble you, then raise you up with a different type of strength. 

I could write a lot more but I should get some work done.
Have a sunny day

...lyk a breath of fresh air...

Psalm 23
The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not be in want.
He makes me lie down in green pastures, he leads me beside quiet waters, he restores my soul.
He guides me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake.
Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me;
your rod and your staff they comfort me.
You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies.
You anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows.
Surely goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.

Psalm 25
To you, O Lord, I lift up my soul;
in you I trust, O my God.
Do not let me be put to shame, nor let my enemies triumph over me.
No one whose hope is in you will ever be put to shame, but they will be put to shame who are treacherous without excuse.
Show me your ways, O Lord, teach me your paths; guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are God my Savior, and my hope is in you all day long.
Remember, O Lord, your great mercy and love, for they are from of old.
Remember not the sins of my youth and my rebellious ways; according to your love remember me, for you are good, O Lord.
Good and upright is the Lord; therefore he instructs sinners in his ways.
He guides the humble in what is right and teaches them his way.
All the ways of the Lord are loving and faithful for those who keep the demands of his covenant.
For the sake of your name, O Lord, forgive my iniquity, though it is great.
Who, then, is the man that fears the Lord?
He will instruct him in the way chosen for him.
He will spend his days in prosperity, and his descendants will inherit the land.
The Lord confides in those who fear him; he makes his covenant known to thme.
My eyes are ever on the Lord, for only he will release my feet from the snare.
Turn to me and be gracious to me, for I am lonely and afflicted.
The troubles of my heart have multiplied; free me from my anguish.
Look upon my affliction and my distress and take away all my sins.
See how my enemies have increased and how fiercely they hate me!
Guard my life and rescue me; let me not be put to shame, for I take refuge in you.
May integrity and uprightness protect me, because my hope is in you.
Redeem Israel, O God, from all their troubles!