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Tuesday, March 28, 2006
 *sigh* how you've grown, but still oh-so-precious! excerpt from zoe's journal (via my jieh)... 3/27/06 Zoe girl, you are a great helper and big sister. And Mommy still has to write about how smart you are. We haven't done phonics for a long time so today I pulled it out for us to review. And of course you already know everything because you're reading chapter books and everything else. I felt like we were wasting time going over it. But you wanted to so we went over probably 30+ lessons in 15 minutes. And this morning when you were playing puzzles with Didi, you were homeschooling him! This was an approximate course of your conversation. "Didi, this is Montana. Can you say Montana?" "Montana." (and he fiddles with other puzzle pieces while you grab another one) "Didi, didi, this is Ohio. The one with this picture is Ohio." "Ohio" "Oh, Didi, this one is Utah." "Utah" and then Mommy walks into the room. "Mommy! I'm homeschooling Didi!" And I never taught you the names of the states. You were just reading them yourself off the puzzle. Amazing! It's not really how well Mommy teaches you during homeschool, you're just so gifted. Praise the Lord! I got a bunch of workbooks from the dollar store (i.e. phonics, math, spelling, etc.) and you just pick one up read the instructions and go do it. I just needed to provide you with things and you will take it up yourself. You started helping with loading up the dishwasher. And you love the label maker and you're always making labels for me. You take good care of Ian. One afternoon, he didn't want me to put him down for a nap. He wanted you. And you went to (pei) him until he fell asleep and then got up and whispered to me "Mommy I put Didi down!" xxx Sunday, March 26, 2006 well, i'm 27 today. i don't feel that much older. actually... bring on the years. older people are cool, full of wisdom, and have their own families. (: its funny. i think with each year that i get older, i have this mentality change - of how i should act, how i should think, how things should or should not affect me. i'm looking forward to this year. i foresee it being tough (which year isn't?!), but one that, i hope, is my coming out year - the year i blossom into who i really am and should be. xxx Thursday, March 23, 2006  i'm gonna grow my hair/mustache out, just like him ok, i saw two of the most amazing beezer butters in college basketball tonight. ummm... maybe not the MOST exciting night of college basketball... but definitely one of the ones that i can remember in my short 26 years of life. simply AMAZING. pittsnoggle of western virginia hitting the tying 3 with 10 seconds left, and then paulino of texas hits the dagger 3 to win the game. talk about a roller coaster ride of emotions man. you're up! and then you come crashing down. the second game was ucla vs. gonzaga. adam morrison is my hero - he's super intense and wears his heart on his sleeve. i can't wait to watch him play in the nba. anyways, gonzaga lead for most of the game, but ucla somehow clawed its way back from 17 down. i give them props, but after the game, i was left feeling unfulfilled and felt that gonzaga deserved the win more than ucla. big ups to shawn for chillin' and providing the grub! now on to the main point of my post. how do some people become such die-hard fans? i expressed my feelings on the ucla/gonzaga game to a couple of ucla alum and self-proclaimed die hard fans. the response i got was pretty much, 'you're stupid, stop raining on my parade, gonzaga didn't deserve to win if they let a team come back from 17 point, etc.' now, its not that i didn't allow their perspective to be heard... but for some reason or another, die hard fans will simply disregard anything they deem as negative towards their team (which seems to be everything), become abruptly and unrealistically mad at you, and then proceed to cuss you out. um, its kind of insane... really, please don't come after my first born. i mean, isn't it just a game? i guess it goes to show that the saying, "love is blind", is true. xxx Saturday, March 18, 2006 HAHAHAHAHAHA. that was so much fun! my roommate bill and i went to vons to get some ice cream. and then we were doing e-brake donuts in the empty wet parking lot. AHAHAHAHAHAHA. :D xxx Tuesday, March 14, 2006 there's more at dropshots, but here are some of my recent favorites:  after-bath fun!  ice creeeeeam  little lady :D  wearing the hello kitty slippers i got for jiehj  self-explantory, haha!  my bike and the new 2006 R6 things have been good lately. picked up some more hours at work, so i'm not idle, sitting at home, and being unproductive. that's one thing i'm thankful for! more work = less idle hands + more money! a second thing i'm truly thankful for, is that scripps la jolla, is writing off the rest of my medical bill balance! this is no small amount, mind you... its about $3k! how awesome is that? :D so as of now, all i really have on the horizon is finishing up my pre-req classes (have human anatomy, human physiology, chem lab, and microbio left... ugh), taking the GRE's and applying to schools in the fall! oh, and paying off all the debt i've accrued. this is pretty much going to be my learn-to-be-disciplined-not-spend-a-lot-of-money-cuz-i-don't-have-any-anyways-work-study-be-a-good-boy year. :\ it hasn't been too fun so far... but i know what i want, i know what steps i need to take to get there, and i'm taking those steps! i really really really enjoy work tho. its a highlight of mine, going into work everyday. you know how you dread getting up in the morning? and sometimes even after you're up, and stepping into work, you still wish you were back in bed? its never like that for me. once i'm at work, i want to be there. the people are so nice as well. i've already gotten offers to hook me up with their daughter (but too bad she already has a boyfriend), offers of baked cookies and wild game sausage, as well as a massage - because they wanted to return the favor. HAHA. there definitely are good people out there. i aspire to be one of those people. take away my pride. grant me humility. grow in me an abundance of grace and mercy... to forgive and to love others overwhelmingly... xxx Friday, March 03, 2006 http://kevan.org/johari?name=Joshua+Chiu http://kevan.org/nohari?name=Joshua+Chiu what do you think about me? what do you think you know? can you be honest? please answer to your best ability. I WONT BE OFFENDED! xxx whoa, interesting... saw this on a friend's xanga. she saw it on her starbucks coffee cup. good follow-up to my post on the 23rd of feb. (: "The irony of commitment is that its deeply liberating -- in work, in play, in love. The act frees you from the internal critic, from the fear that likes to dress itself up and parade around as rational hesitation. To commit is to remove your head as the barrier to your life" (by Anne Morriss, Starbucks Customer in NYC :"The way I see it " #76 quote) 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 |