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Thursday, March 28, 2002
hello hello my wonderful friends. :) i am finally sitting here in my apartment in lovely southern california. how do we feel josh? surreal.... but nice. :D i got in to LA on tuesday the 26th after spending 3 splendid days out in God's creation - that being big sur specifically. it was fun! especially since i got to see linda for the first time in... hrmmm... 33 days? we have seen each other maybe a total of 12 days the 3 months we've been together... so my heart was most definitely joyous! (: today i unpacked all my boxes and made my room somewhat decent. its hard to think that this will be the place i call home from now on. i'm assumming it will grow on me. xD dan took me around town and then dinner in alhambra. my motorcycle is doing quite nice as well. i rode it allllll the way down here. put some 500 miles on it. :o\ alas... it was meant to be ridden no? it gave me no problems at all the entire way down... cept for a pretty sore bootie and back. (: everyone was worried that i'd fall off a cliff or get hurt or something. i'm ok i'm ok! hehe thank you for your concern... but know that i'm in God's hands! :D had some problems getting the cable modem to work with my computer... but finally got it up and running today. cable is NICE! *download frenzy* then went to trader joe's to get some groceries. it is only about a 2 block walk... God is definitely good! hmmm... i think that's enough of what i've been doing and doing. really... how do you feel josh? i feel good. a little uncertain in terms of work... anxious if you will. i don't know what to expect from the people i'll be working with, tho i know they will expect a lot of me. been praying about those co-worker relationships. i know it will be challenging... but i'm ready to be challenged and to start working hard. looking back at all the various job positions i've held... i worked at them all with no real sense of urgency or belonging. they weren't jobs that i cherished... i just did them for the quick dough baby! :D also been thinking a lot about building relationships. with dan, my roommate - i feel like i'm causing him so many problems. first, my boxes arrive and block up the doorway. then he has to lug them all into the room for me. then all of last night i was trying to get the cable modem to work with my computer. then today, tried to find a place to lock up my bike. all in all... just feel really in the way. oy vey. hmmm... on to linda. things have been won-der-ful. :D just have a little kinks to work out... like the amount of time we spend together - i don't think its healthy to be entirely consumed by each other... how we spend that time together... how we spur one another on to glorify God and lead holy and blameless lives before him and as witnesses to others, etc. etc. :) la la la... i'm a happi boi... what can i say. :) oh! i'll be going down to sd for the weekend. so if anyone wants to hangout... drop me an email. toodles! xxx Friday, March 22, 2002 last blog from northern california! we'll see y'all down south! whoop whoooop! :D xxx Thursday, March 21, 2002 yes yes... i'm sorry. i haven't been writing anything meaningful... just a bunch of lame-o pictures of me in my office counting down the days until i leave. what a loser eh? just a question... again, i don't know who visits this page or who reads all the junk i write... but if you frequent this page religiously (ha!)... why do you keep coming back? what is it that you want to see? what is it that you want to learn about me? do you have any questions? cuz i'm open to questions... *shrug* i was having dinner with my friend ling on tuesday night. we went to the "tofu cabin" - hehe - for dinner. haven't had korean tofu in a long time... very yummynummy. :D anyways... i've known ling since the summer of my sophomore when i attended this korean church in mountain view. through our conversations over dinner... i discovered many amazing things about my life. i am truly at a crossroad... ready to embark on a new journey. i am 23 years old in 5 days. i am moving to LA in just about the same time. i am a graduate of a fine college institution, UCSD. i have a job and i am working. i have a girlfriend... which is still incredulous to me at times. i just bought myself a schweeet motorcycle. God has blessed me with soooooo much. i cannot ever praise or thank His goodness enough. i think i'll just dwell in it. ;P iono... this seriously is going to be a year that i look back on. one day... i will be sitting in a rocking chair, out on the porch... surrounded by my grandchildren (haha hopefully) boring them with "when i was 23..." stories. :D ahhh... i can't wait. (: xxx Wednesday, March 20, 2002
days 4 and 3 have passed as well... xxx Tuesday, March 19, 2002
5 days!... count em!... 5 pens in all. THAS RIIIIIGHT! xD xxx Monday, March 18, 2002
6 days... gangsta style. xxx
paper-scissors-rock! um... i mean... 7days! xxx Sunday, March 17, 2002 oh yeah... i saw darren nakasugi at the game too! sat right next to him! craaaaayjeeee huh! xD xxx
bobby sura stinkin' warriors. yep... they lost again. they are now a dismal 17-46. they had their flashes of brilliance in the first half - unselfish play, penetration and dish, pick-and-rolls, rebounding, defense - giving the crowd hope in a win. by halftime, the score was 59-57, dallas leading. but then everything broke down in the second half - turn-overs, bad passes, no penetration, lackidasical defense... they sucked yo. you just wonder how a team with so much talent can lose so many games and not figure out what they're doing wrong. its sad really. it came to a point where the crowd wasn't even cheering for them anymore... they were chanting... "CHA-LU-PA... CHA-LU-PA..." you see, everytime the warriors score 100 points or over... the crowd gets free chalupa's from taco bell. so... i left oakland coliseum sayin' "stinkin' warriors" over and over again... a few hours of good times and memories with jason tong, duc troung, and petey-boy... and about a weeks lunch covered by free chalupas. joy! *does a shimmy* i also have a newfound respect for my boy bobby sura. he has great handles... very unselfish play... good dribble-drive penetration... great dishes. the other warriors just can't stinkin' handle his passes. i give him my mvp vote! an update on the bike. the stinkin' guy didn't call. oh... stinkin' is my new favorite word if you haven't noticed. (: so i finally reach him in the afternoon and he says he dunt want it! you bastard! you got my hopes up! *sigh* oh vells... God will provide? yes please. i have 6 days to sell it and get a new one! oy vey. xxx Saturday, March 16, 2002 i am very very frustrated right now. yesterday i met up with a guy who showed some genuine interest in buying my bike off of me. he said he was going to the bank and would call me late this morning... i still haven't heard from him yet. my current mood right now is *arrrrggggh* >:( ... cuz i don't know if he wants it or not. the most he could have done, out of common courtesy, was at least call me this morning. i had so much hope last night in getting it sold today. but now... *throws hands up*... i have no idea what's gonna happen. >:-o *grrr* i hope and pray that he does end up wanting it... because i've already got my eyes set on another bike. *sigh* an immediate question that comes to mind is, "why are you doing this to me God?" - not out of anger, just pure frustration. does he want me to learn patience? how is he testing me through this? i mean... half of my day is gone due to waiting. isn't that enough God? *shrug*... i guess i need to ge patient a little bit more... xxx Friday, March 15, 2002
xxx Thursday, March 14, 2002
xxx Wednesday, March 13, 2002
xxx Sunday, March 10, 2002
me getting posterized back in the day basketball is a hard game to be good at. :o\ today was a day full of basketball. we haven't had nbc for the longest time because we had a satellite dish... and it was, ghetto so it uh... didn't have nbc. this afternoon... after church in the morning, and lots of sleep into the afternoon :) i caught the lakers versus the knicks on the tube. i cannot imagine how many countless hours kobe bryant put into his game. cross over... behind the back... rising up... swish. such finesse. big boy shaq on the other hand. he's just a big boy... that's about it. i respect his game and all... but there's not really anything to it. he just parks his big caboose down low... 2 feet from the basket and hoists it up. if i was a big boy..... haha ... i'd be making millions in the nba! :D i remember sundays back in college. *realizes* gosh... i'm old. sundays at school were pretty simliar. i'd wake up... go to harvest... come back and conk out until the early afternoon. then the tv and basketball would be on the entire afternoon. as you can see... i didn't get anything done on the weekends! (: after watching a game... i'd head off to IM bball. NRB4LIFE! haha, NRB - that was our team name for the last year. uhhh... don't ask me what it means. :o\ LOL... i sure miss those days. anyways... all this basketball inspired me to hit up the Y-M-C-A. i ran a couple good games. dunked on some foolios. hahaa shyeah rite. its so nice to be able to be active. thank you God for giving me such a healthy body! and chicken legs to jump with! *sigh* life is so good. xD xxx Thursday, March 07, 2002 two very important discoveries since starting work: 1. i am a sucker for donuts 2. wash the tupperware that contained your left over pisghetti immediately!... or it will most definitely stain =\ xxx
dangit!... i had already written a whole slew of nothingness when i moved my computer to plug in my speakers which i brought to work to listen to music which then unplugged the power to the computer. and my my, what a nice run-on sentence i wrote there. :) shoooot. anyways... it was all quiet in here with just the 3 of us. denise, tri, and me. denise was paying her bills. tri was online looking for more stuff to buy. and i was sitting here writing nothingness that got erased and so here i am writing the nothingness, albeit somewhat different, all over again. *sigh* its been a pleasant day thus far tho... sitting here (can't get you off my mind... haha jk), in my cubicle, listening to my music, sheltered from the rainy cold just on the other side of the window pane... it has been raining the past 2 days. so, i have been driving instead of riding to work, which means someone doesn't have a car. thus, yesterday, after work i went to pick up dad from his office. the car ride home was quick considering we were in the carpool lane, and we exchanged the usual pleasantries between any normal father and son: "how was your day?" "was it busy?" "we should go to fry's to check out some stuff." amidst our conversations, it dawned on me - i won't be seeing dad much after i move. when us kids were younger, every once in a while, mom or dad would single one of us out and have a "one-on-one" time with us. it might have been just to get ice cream... or something we've been wanting to do for a long time... and occassionally a very big and special treat - in my case, dad took me to disney world, just the two of us, in 7th grade. so with this realization of not seeing him much, and with the knowledge that he was leaving for shanghai on saturday... not returning until the 19th (just a couple days before i'm slated to move)... i asked dad to have a one-on-one time with me. i will be taking him out to dinner tonight! even though his emotions and tone of voice didn't show it, mom told me that i made him very happy. :D i kind of like making people happy! :) xxx Tuesday, March 05, 2002 "The worth and excellency of a soul is to be measured by the object of its love..." - Henry Scougal Something to think about... xxx another day another day... i thank God for another day. i don't know why... but starting this past monday i've been having trouble getting up for work! :\ i don't know if it was from the massive amounts of sleep that i got over the weekend or what. cuz you know what they say... or... errr... this is my theory: that the more you sleep, the more your body wants. greedy greedeh! (: or in other words, the less sleep you get, the more awake you are. which hardly makes any sense. :D *hegh* so i am at work now... obviously. and on the wall in front of me, directly to the right of my monitor is a calender of march. and starting march 1st there is a 22 filled in, march 2nd a 21, and so on and so forth. a countdown if you will... of my last working days up here in northern california. mmmmm... :) its so amazing the way life's events throw themselves at you. a couple of months ago, if you asked me where i was going in life, i would have shaken my head and given you an eloquent, "i dunnnno man." my life was filled with so many uncertainties - no job, no girlfriend, no real "direction" in my life. haha. but if you propose the same question to me today - i have a job, i have a girlfriend (yay!), and i have a general sense of where i'm going (kinda...). yet these things only unravel more uncertainties. uncertainties such as: how will i get all my stuff down - will i need to rent a car, trailer for my motorcycle?... how will the close proximity change my relationship with linda?... will i be ok financially now that i'm out from under my parent's wings?... will i meet brothers that will encourage my walk and keep me accountable?... etc. etc. i know that in the end, God will take care of all these things... but alas, i am human... so it is understandable, no? so if you remember me, remember my move and my whole new "direction" in life in your prayers. i would greatly appreciate that. :D *sigh* amish juice lindie! :þ xxx |
 name: joshua chiu age: 28 birthdate: march 26, 1979 height: 6 feet weight: 172.5 lbs. location: san diego, ca loves: God, family, kids, motorcycles, sports, music, deep-meaningful relationships, competition over video games, food - any and all |
