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Tuesday, 06 March 2007

hello i hope all of you are doing very well. it's been another 4 months since i last updated so i haven't been too good about keeping up with this but hopefully when things slow down a bit i'll get better at it...whenever that is .
anyways, i just wanted to share about something that happened in class today and again it revolves around my little 7-year old samuel. he comes up to me and i can tell he's having some problems with his throat and then he says, "i think i'm getting puberty."
i just thought that was the funniest, most unexpected thing to expect from a 2nd grader but little things like that are worth remembering.
i hope God is blessing you all with who He is. take care! <><

Wednesday, 08 November 2006

hi folks . hope everyone is doing well. it's been 6 months since i've last updated so i guess you can say things have been a bit busy . i've just been teaching at hope lutheran and time flies like it's nothing. there always feels like there's not enough hours in a day. but with all the challenges and rookie mistakes at this new profession have come enormous blessings. i teach 2nd graders and they're very cute . let me just share some things my kids said this week that brought joy to my heart.
my little 2nd grader samuel who is a straight A awesome student raises his hand while we're having a discussion about a story and says, "ms. kwan i know something bad. i know what hump means." so i quickly go to the next student because i didn't want the kids stirred up even though i think almost all didn't know what he was talking about. then later on we were doing religion and talking about friendship. i was asking the kids how they can be good friends to people. samuel raises his hand and says, "don't hump other people." i looked at him disappointed that he would mess around like that but he was dead serious and said, "no, it's bad to hump people!"
another thing that happened that i thought was beautiful this week was we were doing journal writing about how to show love to others like we've been learning in religion. i was checking dahlia's paper where she finished off saying she would be nice to God, the poor and her friends. when i read that i let out an "aww" and dahlia says, "it's true, i give Him a big kiss every night." when i asked her who, she says "God. i give Him a big kiss every night." is that cute or is that cute. i can just imagine our Heavenly Father smiling on this beautiful little 7-year old that loves Him so much. i'll update more hopefully soon. take care & God bless .

Wednesday, 07 June 2006

hello everybody! how y'all doing? things on this end have been wonderful. to start off with, as of this past saturday every team that has done my boys wrong has finally met their demise . ironically, everyone fell in the exact order they messed with us. starting with the san antonio spurs falling to the dallas mavs (when they prevented our club from getting a 4-peat in 02-03) then seeing the mighty detroit pistons fall to my beloved #2 team the miami heat (when they humiliated us in the finals of 03-04 when the trophy was as good as in our pockets) then finally, the nail in the coffin...FINALLY seeing the phoenix suns put away this season by the dallas mavs (when they stole our chance of advancing to round 2 from coming back from a 3-1 defecit). justice has been served and it is very sweet.

don't get me wrong, i like players on those teams...like tony parker, tim duncan on the spurs, chaunce, tayshaun on the pistons (mcdyess is also a class act), and nash & barbosa on the suns...but it's the TEAM that did us dirty...so dirty was done upon them. just the way the world works my young friends . it is also wonderful not to have to see players like ridiculous rasheed, your hand is not on fire tim thomas, and you ain't no RAJA, raja bell. yes 2006 will allow us a wonderful finals match-up to compensate for last year's finals with the spurs & pistons, which many deemed the most boring finals series ever. now 2 teams i am not mad at can try to win their clubs' first championship trophy ever. thank you dallas & miami for saving 2006 for me. let the good times roll.

in other news, going up to davis this past weekend for SAN was awesome . it was a beautiful nite with beautiful people. i was unsure about going even on the day of, but God worked everything out and i'm so blessed that i went. the warmth, the love, the smiles & joy are just priceless. that's family and it's home. i should have felt like the hugest outsider from not having been there this whole year, yet when i was there, it felt like i hadn't left. i love those guys & them being apart of my life is testimony to God's amazing love & grace towards me. He is good. i'll leave off with the funniest thing said to me all weekend by liz, who asked me..."are you the one with jungle fever?" God is good. amen <><

Wednesday, 17 May 2006

hi you guys . i'm back & have returned to normalcy. what definitely helped me get over the hump was the MIAMI HEAT advancing to the eastern conference finals . i like r. jeff and thought the nets would at least get 2 games in...but i'm joyous for D & my group of boys in the east. though the lakers moving forth would have been that much sweeter, i'll take this and remember our season for the good times...

YAY-UH. can't wait till november boo. we will come back strong.

for now shaq daddy & d-wade have our backs covered and will proceed forward in our name.

here's shaq calling next with D there to back him up. everybody...
MOVE OUT THE WAY.

Sunday, 07 May 2006

love hurts. it isn't so much that we lost but that we should have won but didn't. being up 3-1 and giving up the series is inexcusable, especially with raja bell's suspension game 6 and not closing it out at home. it's going to be one long, loooonnnggg off-season.

losing a series being up 3-1 and getting freakin blown out in game 7 brought back unwanted memories of 2 years past in a little thing we had with detroit. losing in 5 games, and then getting blown out in the last game to a team we should have trampled over was excruciating. this was no better.

at the start of the playoffs, i actually didn't believe in my boys at all. reality told me it was gonna be suns in 5 games. when we started winning & showing incredible promise to take the series, my gold & purple buddies won me over and i was all in. this was only to get left on the tracks & run over by the train.

now, i don't wanna talk about it, think about it. i just need time to get over the heartbreak. taunts, ridiculing, or any form of rubbing it in is neither welcome nor appreciated. it's not funny. it's not cute. please try to be respectful. just talking about it today got me teary-eyed. loving the game and this team so deeply doesn't come w/o risks. sometimes there's immense joy, sometimes there's heart-wrenching pain. this one's gonna take a while to get over.