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Name: Peter
Country: United States
State: California
Gender: Male
Interests:
- Playing basketball
- Cooking for friends and cute girls
- Hosting movie-marathons
- Texas Hold'em with friends
- Texas Hold'em on Party Poker
- Video Games (WoW, RPGs, RTSs, and currently Burnout Legends and Tiger Woods)
- Board Games like Bang! and Settlers
- Watching "24" in real-time
- Good books like Ender's Game (just finished "Eldest" by some kid prodigy)
- Engaging Conversations
- Music that helps me escape from everyday life.
Expertise: Video Games and kal bi (eating and marinating from scratch - thx to the Tsuis and my brother).
Occupation: Student
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Member Since:
4/25/2005
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| I am safely in Shanghai. My cellphone is working and I am
healthy! Thank the Lord! My goals for the summer are to work on
networking and
to improve my Chinese.
Have
you read the Da Vinci Code? That book was good at first, but really
started bugging me. Some of the content is just wrong, and what makes
it worse is that people are so ready to believe the controversial
"facts" the author presents. I know it's just fiction, but still, it's
so misleading.
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| God brought me to Bloomington. He has plans for me. My friend, Stephen Chen, once shared this passage with me:
8 The LORD will fulfill his purpose for me;
your love, O LORD, endures forever—
do not abandon the works of your hands.
Via e-mail, I received my acceptance. It was strange to open my
e-mail to find such a letter; a great weight has been lifted. I
had been wondering if the efforts I had put in would pay off.
Does this mean I was doubting the Lord?
The clues of God's plan were there - (1) I had a desire to go to
business school, (2) I was interested in the curriculum and teaching
style, (3) The work seems intuitive to me, (4) God made the difference
and supported me through my inadequate GMAT preparation and gave me a
good score, and (5) God provided me great help with the essays,
recommendations, and deadlines. But could they just be
coincidence? I don't know yet.
While I believe that God has a plan for me and I believe God's plan
involved my going to business school, how do these signs factor into
knowing the will of God? I'll have to think about this some more.
Anyways, Praise the Lord! I applied to one other school, the University of Michigan - we'll see where God wants me to go. 
I am sharing this to give credit where it's due, and also to testify
that God really does have a plan for us, and regardless of where and
who you are, God will not abandon you. God is awesome!
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| Back to school and busy as ever. Lots to accomplish this year around. Looking forward to spring break... already.
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| One Kind Word
I am, often times, amazed at my simplicity. Almost regardless of
my state of mind, a kind word from someone I admire, care about, or
respect cheers me up.
What do people really think?
Can we really know what other people are thinking? And if so,
what leads to this predictive ability? With all things
considered, I believe the surest answer is, time. Other
possibilities are that you are like-minded or that you have "chemistry"
- but I think the concept of "fast-friends" proves the "magic" theory
wrong.
I
tend to be gullible and prefer to trust others - and while this
generally leads to making fast friends, it has been the case on several
occasions that these so-called friends turn out to be quite different
than I orginally believed. You see what you want to see and you
hear what you want to hear. I suppose that my innate desire to
make good friends renders me somewhat oblivious to the shortcomings of
people I want to be friends with. Ultimately, I end up
disappointed by these fast-friends because of the disparity between
them and where I saw them to be, and it may be through no fault of
their own.
With that aside, the concept of fast-friends highlights two themes that
prove the "magic" theory wrong: (1) the excitement - the chemistry - of
a new friendship often times produces statements along the lines of, "I
know we just met, but it feels like we've been friends for years...",
and (2) human imperfection quickly removes any last vestiges of prior
self-induced ignorance. The point is, unless a prior long-term
friendship exists - where people have displayed the extremes of their
personality through the good and the bad, it is an untested statement
to claim the ability to know other people's thoughts.
The reason I thought about this was... as I mentioned above, I have
been prone to trusting in people too readily, and I recently caught
myself thinking that I have made some life-long friends. Perhaps
it's emotional-baggage, but I now feel the need to try to keep things
in perspective - whatever that means.
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| Monday, October 24, 2005 - 11:55pm
It's only been a day, but I miss you all already. ^_^; I had a
great time on the trip, and despite a few bumps along the way, this
past weekend will remain in my memory as an unforgettable
journey. Often times, our grand plans fall far below our most
meager expectations, but the greatest surprise in such seemingly
unredeemable circumstances is that sometimes, things turn out for the
best in ways we could never have imagined.
This trip was supposed to be a simple weekend with friends, but there
were moments when even this modest goal seemed beyond our reach.
At the time of departure, the outlook was grim - a weekend of rainy
weather with a 60% chance of thunderstorms; 4 hours of cold water
awaited us from above and below; and limited space made for
cramped quarters for travel and rest.
But this is where the magic happened... the slow progress that plagued
our drive from Bloomington to Ohiopyle gave us a chance to share our
cultures, our dreams, our songs, and our stories. The rain that
hovered ominously overhead only gracefully nuanced the idyllic beauty
that surrounded us as we paddled our way downstream. The rain
gently fell over everything, from the water, to the trees, to our
bright yellow helmets. ^_^;
Many of us carried a burdened heart before, during, or after the
trip. My motto in such situations is this: rise above the human
condition that causes people, who have experienced good things 9 out of
10 times, to dwell only on that single sad memory. As I have
said, it was my pleasure to have such wonderful company over the last
three days, and because of that, it is my sincerest hope that each of
you will also remember our time together for the good times that are
worthy of remembrance.
Best regards,
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