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Name: Roy
Country: United States
Birthday: 12/29/1987
Interests: Music, food, eating, cooking, sleeping, hangingout w/ friends, snowboarding, sleeping on the beach, playing soccer, listening to my opera, watching movies, California, cardigans, and slippers
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AIM:  rkl2987
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2/28/2005
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| I know I've written about this topic before, but man am I in the mood for a good conversation. One of those conversations that could last for days, and you wouldn't look at the clock once. As much as I hate Starbucks, I do appreciate that they know how to make an environment both comfortable and cozy. I feel like when you are in there all you want to do is have a long, deep conversation to go along with your hot drink.
Just for fun, here are some rules that I have set for myself while engaging in conversation (listed from most important, to least)
1. Look into their eyes: I promise that this makes the conversation 10x more engaging. Something about the eyes tells you everything you need to know that isn't coming out of their mouth. Also, it's distracting when people are looking all over the place or at your lips. They can tell. Yes, for asians too. The trick is to know when to stop looking into their eyes because it only gets awkward if you stare at their eyes the entire time.
2. Silence is Golden: Our society has placed this huge negative stigma on silence, but I think it's worse when you force conversation. Be patient. The best conversations come from well thought out words. Not random ass small talk. People can tell when you force conversation.
3. Volume control: This one is a personal preference of mine, but yelling totally kills the mood. I think I've caught another pet peeve and that is yelling. Please don't yell at me, and I will try to do likewise. It just doesn't feel good when people yell at you. I think it has something to do with the association between yelling and a spanking. We have been conditioned as asians.
4. Don't keep looking at the clock/phone: It makes the other person feel small and unimportant. If this is the case, then the conversation probably shouldn't have happened to begin with.
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| I love how God tends to speak to us through the little things. Too often, we waste time waiting for those "big life defining moments" only to realize that they are often a thing of fiction. It seems more accurate, or appropriate, to say that it is the accumulation of the little things that define our lives. When I look back, the small things have made all the difference. | | |
| Have you ever wrestled with depression? It's kind of a tricky situation, especially being a Christian. I'm sitting here with all the head knowledge: what I should do, how I should feel, who I should talk to. BUT how do you control how you feel? Words are just that. Words. It doesn't mean anything unless it can somehow infect your heart to pump it to the rest of your body.
The other tricky thing about depression is that it makes you feel so so small, and when you feel this small you want to do absolutely nothing about it. Correction, you feel like you can't do anything about it. Its hard to pray and even harder to read scripture. Most of the time I just don't do it and I fall asleep.
Everyday is the same. Wake up early, go to class, come back, do some work, and sleep. It feels like one of those moments in the movie where you are just standing on the sidewalk and everyone else is rapidly moving around you. Where life has become about watching other people live it. Smile here and there. Small talk here and there. You want to tell people about it, but you don't want to be weak or even look weak. Don't want to inconvenience other people with your problem. Yah, i know what i'm saying is rather off. I KNOW.
I think I just need to get away from it all | | |
| Day before MCATs...... always such mixed emotions. I do'nt know if I feel excited or scared or sad or anxious. Its such a flurry of thoughts and emotions going through my head. I have this belief that God is going to place me where I'm meant to be, but what if I don't do my part? I still have to work my tail off......... God's not just going to hand over his kingdom on a silver platter you know? sigh......... I hope I did my part but who really knows. only God. This is one of those moments where I wish I could see where I am in 5 years so that I can just take this test with ease, but life isn't that easy no is it? Anyways, pray for me please and take care all! | | |
| What is it about College that makes it such a defining point in your life? I wonder.....
Already feeling the weight of the semester on my shoulders, but still, there is so much more to give thanks for. It seems like in the bleakest of times, you are able to treasure what really matters. When nothing else is left, you wildly grab for any hope available because lets face it, it's all we got. Kind of a cool concept if you think about it. How God built life around this idea of candle of hope, and how no matter what the circumstance, you can never blow it out. Hope will always be there.
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