I was asked to play at the SFC (Students for Christ) Retreat -- SeMeHahn and 2 other korean churches -- mostly middle school kids. Held @ Sandy Cove Resort
Comfy hotel suite + nice view Guy sleeping on the bed = Shane (one sick el drummer) Guy with the mac on his lap = Johnny (el capitan) Guy with the mohawk = JC (el bass player)
All we had to do was lead worship, rest of the time = relax + worship prep + prayer + eat relax time = sleep time + watching youtube videos
Natural History (JR: 4/5 stars -- need to have live animals)
- 81st street
Hot Pot (JR: 5/5 stars -- value for money)
-- Somewhere in Chinatown
Don't expect to be able to understand everything you read in Chinatown
Pinkberry (JR: 5/5 stars)
-- A must try if you go to NYC
"... i would kill to have some Pinkberry's"
- William Jiang, Fashion Designer, Top Spin Tennis Pro
"... i couldn't stop staring at the (Pinkberry) picture"
- Eden Chen, Warcraft 3 Pro, Business Major, Emory University
"... i would give up girls (Moody Booty) for Pinkberry's"
- Alex Yam, Future Pastor, Moody Institute, Chicago
Soho Shopping (JR: 4/5 stars, deals weren't that stellar)
Random Stuff
Chinatown Bus -- our method of transportation to NYC from MD and back
(JR: 2.5/5 stars -- nasty bathroom in the bus + loud snoring guy next to us on the way back)
Chinatown bus ticket - $45
Subway train card - $20
Food in NYC - $330
Shopping in NYC - $100
Present for Ahmedou - $40
Getting dumb with your closest buddies - PRICELESS
To sum it all up ..................
The most meaningful part of my trip to NYC was not the awesome
Chinatown food, not the flashing lights of Times Square, not the
delicious Pinkberrys, not the hole-in-your-wallet shoppping, not the
museum knowledge, not the famous places we went to, not the night
time gaming, not the long naps .........
But it was the nights where we as four friends, decided to set time
aside to share our thoughts and struggles, to be real and accountable to
another with the way we were living our lives, where we read chapters
of scripture and talked to God together. The was no hype or glamor in
the manner which we gathered, sometimes I was even reluctant to do
it, but we pushed each other to pray, read and talk every night. I will
never forget those nights, where we as broken, unworthy and sinful
people acknowledged our wretchedness in front of each other and God.
"But whatever was to my profit I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. What
is more, I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing
greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost
all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ and
be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from
the law, but that which is through faith in Christ—the righteousness
that comes from God and is by faith. I
want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the
fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, becoming like him in his
death, and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead."
I am delighted to inform you that the Clark School is ranked
13th among all engineering programs in the world in the 2007 edition
of the Academic Ranking of World Universities by Subject Fields:
Engineering/Technology and Computer Science Section, published by the Institute
of Higher Education and Center for World-Class Universities, Shanghai Jiao Tong
University, Shanghai, China.
The rankings are based on four criteria:
Total engineering-related
research expenditures
Highly cited research articles
Articles included in the
Scientific Citation Index
Percentage of articles
published in the top 20% of engineering journals.
