Goods of Birthday (As Promised, Before Chickenpox)

So I promised some good parts about my 20th birthday, so here it is!

There's no real other picture posted from this event - but this is the cake (or what's left of it) my amazing India 2k7 team surprised me with at Chapel. You guys totally caught me way offguard! Thanks so much India 2k7. Love you guys a lot!

You sneaky people - getting me on wednesday knowing I had KCM on Thursday! Thanks a bunch for the surprise too! Psh, tricking me into helping you write a "missions support letter." Too good. Love you guys!

You KCMers plus some CCMers/KCCCers/others - I was studying/hwing and had fever and body aches (from the then unknown chickenpox that had infected me), but man it all went away when you guys came! Thanks for the everything "CHO" something stuff! I hugged every single one of you, and I was contagious and had already broken out on my scalp by then (I didn't know it was chickenpox)!... but somehow none of you guys got infected! The next day I went to the UCLA Emergency Room. 2 days later I was quarantined and sent home. Quarantine meaning kind of kicked out of the dorms, held off on classes, banned from the bathrooms, and etc. I deleted a facebook note with the picture below when they put up posters about a resident with chickenpox... I didn't want people to know the poster was about me.... but now that its been just over a month, I know I didn't give it to anyone. So here it is.

Got pox in my tongue, and 1 in the back of my throat, lost 11 lbs, knocked myself out with Benadryl everyday, missed a midterm, 1-2 weeks of 4 classes, came back straight into midterms and studied my butt off, got sick during the process, but conquered through it strong. Did not give up. I'm still not 100% fully recovered from the different ways chickenpox threw me off - it threw me off really good. And more came to add up on it. I blew up an entry ago, and ended up protected (xanga)/deleting (facebook note) it. Please pray for me. I'm going to tear down the brick walls in front of me. Not going to quit when it gets tough. Life Is Great! Trust Jesus!

My 20th Birthday... PWNED

Special thanks to Eisen Yoon and Daniel Lee for taking me to the UCLA Medical Center ER and waiting for me the entire time. Thank you guys for not being afraid of me when everyone else was/is afraid to go near me.

Special thanks to Annette, who used to give me rides to church and works at UCLA Medical Center ER. Thank you for talking to the doctors to get my discharge paperworks done earlier. I'll see you at church when I don't have chickenpox anymore!

Special thanks to Chris Kim for getting Calamine Lotion for me after watching the Dodgers game at the stadium with church. I will not itch as much because of your gracious donation of calamine lotion.

Happier entry about the brighter side of birthday to come later.
I guess my life's motto/summary still lives on...
PWNED by life, lifted by grace,

Cho

UCLA Basketball... Jackie Chan...

New quarter!!!
Well, last quarter was definitely one of my best disciplined quarters of my life, and it sure did pay off. Now... time for a new harder busier quarter! Here I come!

How was I NOT a basketball fan last year? Seriously.... I LOVE UCLA Basketball. Did I mention, Kevin Love was in my speech class 1st quarter. It was a 25 people class. I have him on video tape complementing my speaking, haha. According to my Comm 10 class from last quarter, because I am a man, this boosts up my status in the hierarchy of men.   Kevin Love is a comm major; did I mention I'm a comm major? According to Comm 10, that is more extra points for my status! But in all seriousness, and I'm being dead serious here, he does not beat Jackie Chan.

Jackie Chan is so awesome. Dale gave me the dvd of Jackie Chan's Drunken Master. I love it. My plan one day, if I can pull it off, is to have a collection of the best Jackie Chan movies (which is all of them) on dvd. 1 down, 100 to go! By the way, Jackie Chan's birthday is April 7, 1954. Yes, I have that memorized, seriously. Who wants to celebrate with me and watch a Jackie Chan movie? His birthday is 4 days before mine, extra points on my status of manliness! Oh, and Jason and I did some Jackie Chan moves in the Ralphs parking lot - more extra points for my status!

Life is Great! Trust Jesus!

Sick

Man, I got pwned. I am horribly horribly sick, but do not worry lovely mother and father of mine. Just pray for me

Last night, after NyQuil, I had one of the craziest cool dreams of my life. It was 75% Lord of the Rings, 25% Zombie stuff. If you guys don't know, Lord of the Rings is a Christian allegory story. All I can say is, I've never experienced so much creativity and God's glory in dream before. Man, what an awesome awesome fun exciting action-packed dream! I think it is every boy's dream to just be in a story like Lord of the Rings. I woke up energized and pump to the max, but... at the same time, horribly sick.

This sickness (which basically really started today; yesterday was the subtle onset) has been a blessing for me. Odd huh? All my plans have been ruined in terms of studying for finals and writing final essays have been ruined. Instead, I'm going to have to rely on God and his plans. In his heart a man plans his course, but the LORD determines his steps. Proverbs 16:9.

I slept for most of today except while in classes and at work. (I even took a nap at work, shhh - don't tell anyone. Everyone was at lunch and I was working and fell asleep accidently). I've been drinking a lot of tea, fluids - mainly water, and lots of Bible - Psalms to get me through the day. This sickness is crazy - throbbing headaches, fatigue, body aches, sore throat, difficulty at times breathing - how did it come at me so fast?! The lights in my room also died... crazy! Now I can't really study in here. But... hopefully I'll be a light in even this little dim room of mine!

I want to be a man of influence one day. But I guess today I became a man of influenza! (Get it? hAhaha!) I guess getting influenza is a step of becoming a man of influence   Mom, Dad, I know you read this - don't worry for me! Just pray for me =]  And other readers, please do the same! I could really use it

Pwned by Life... Lifted by Grace,

Cho

The Office

When I'm working at the law school office, sometimes I feel like I'm part of my own version of the Mockumentary Show - The Office. Room 3448 where I work is like a 4 person version of this very show... although... missing some very vital characters. For instance, I guess there's no Dwight! (Bummer huh?)  And there's no real Pam! (aww shucks). However... I guess I WOULD be Jim cause I'm THAT cool. But what's a Jim without a Dwight and a Pam?!

I definitely know who the Michael is... Michael is a she! And this person talks... and talks... and talks... seriously... so she's half Michael and half Kelly. But due to the fear that my supervisor finds this entry... I won't mention names!  We'll just call her, "M." Although, she can be very motherly sometimes.

Eisen also works in my office. I think Eisen is like Ryan Howard. I say this only because of his facial reactions to some of the stuff the 3448 office Michael/Kelly says/does. And because Eisen and I are both temps in the office, like Ryan, haha. I think Eisen has the best reactions and responses to things that I have no idea how to respond to/what to say back. Maybe I should blast my iPod sometimes!

So that leaves us with one person left in office 3448 - "K." My other supervisor. K I think would be kind of a Phyllis/Pam. I say this because she is very motherly (like Phyllis sometimes can be) and because she's shy and quiet but funny sometimes like Pam. Now, let me make it very clear, "M" and "K" are much much muchhhh older than Eisen and I. So nothing fishy!

So there we have it! My office therefore has Michael/Kelly, Jim, Ryan, and Phyllis/Pam. O... and I guess Professor "A" who comes in once in a while is definitely the Jan! HahAha. I love watching Professor "A" and "M" interact.

One time, I changed my computer screensaver in the office to, "Eisen does not shower!" I did this while Eisen was at lunch, so I was laughing about it for an hour while I was doing copies in the copy room. However, I came back to a post it note that said something like, "Change your screensaver or I'll hurt you." So... I changed it right away.

Welcome to UCLA Law School Office 3448. This is my work. I love it... sometimes... hahaha

 
That's Eisen on the left, me me on the right. These are the people we work with...