1. When I was young (maybe still now), I was a very "literal" person, or at least, I took what people said very literally.  For example, I once asked my parents where babies came from.  They brushed me off, saying, "Go ask your teacher."  So I did.  As a result, my grade 3 class (or was is 2, or 1?) studied the human reproduction process for science class.


2. During my childhood years, my all time favorite tv program was Mazinger Z! It was about this super cool robot that beat up bad robots.  I loved Mazinger so much I wanted to build robots when I grew up.  This eventually sparked my interests in computers.


3. If I had a choice, I would preffer eyebrows that are unplucked rather than plucked, because plucked eyebrows look funny to me.


4. I absolutely detest english muffins, and will only eat them if I must. I don't understand why some people like them so much. I'd much rather preffer an eggo.


5. I am a sentimental pack-rat.  I like to keep anything and everything to remind me of my past (little scribbled notes, movie ticket stubs, hospital wrist tags, etc.  I still have all my school notes and assignments going way back to grade 3.  Everything before grade 3 was lost when I moved).  Unfortunately, my pack-rat tendencies do not go well with my tendencies to be disorganized.  They make locating something in my room is very difficult.

1. I'm really thankful for BSF this year because my devotions have been lacking lately, and the BSF studies have served as a weekly reminder to get into God's Word. We are currently covering Genesis this year, a very interesting and foundational book.
   
   Today, the discussion was on chapter 3 which covers the fall of man. A point  mentioned during the discussion was that one one of the tactics Satan used to tempt Eve was to downplay the seriousness and the severity of sin. ("You will not surely die," the serpent said to the woman. "For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil." Genesis 3:4). So beware of finding ourselves downplaying the severity of our own sins.  We reap what we sow.
   
   One sad thing from the chapter was that Adam and Eve had everything going for them, so much potential, and so much they could enjoy around them, especially the presence of God. Yet, Eve let herself be fixated on the one single thing that was forbidden in the entire garden. Was she treating the other good things in the garden with contempt because God withheld that single forbidden fruit from her? Did she feel God was unfair? I don't know for sure. But she decided to eat the fruit. And today, we experience the consequence of this one decision.
   
   Even for their poor decision, I'm glad God didn't abandon them. He called out to them, in hopes that they would respond, and call back to Him. Ultimately, they responded. And even though suffering and pain entered the world, there was still hope. God made garments of skin to cover their shame, as a foreshadowing of what would occur many centuries later: God sent His Son into the world to die for our sins, so that He may clothe us with His righteousness, and we would be made right with Him again.
   
   
2. My family: I've come to appreciate my family a lot more these past few years, especially my parents. Even though my parents "talk a lot" sometimes, I've realized that some of their advice actually make a lot of sense. And they've shown their love by doing a lot for me, whether it is cooking, or cleaning, or driving, or even paying for my education.
   
   
3. I'm thankful to God that I've finally completed my school requirements to graduate, yeih! This has certainly been a very humbling school experience. I thought I would almost never finish my last degree requirement, a project where I had to design a scheduling algorithm. Near the end, as I was writing my final report, the more I wrote, the more I realized I didn't know what I was doing! In the end, I only completed it because God was gracious to me. To Him be all the glory.

1 Peter 1:3-9

Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade—kept in heaven for you, who through faith are shielded by God's power until the coming of the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time. In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. These have come so that your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may be proved genuine and may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed. Though you have not seen him, you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy, for you are receiving the goal of your faith, the salvation of your souls.