Archive for January, 2006
trip update #1.
Pictures at http://pictures.georgechang.net.
Pictures are worth 1000 words. There are 44 of them. So basically, it’s like 44000 words. Plus captions.
off i go.
Tomorrow morning, I’ll be headed out to Taiwan for the conference, then Manila for a day, then a city in the south of the Philippines called Zamboanga for a couple weeks. I hear Al-Queda operates down there. Hopefully they won’t think I’m from the States. It’s really supposed to be a nice coastal city. Then I think it’s back up to Manila and Quezon City for a couple days before coming back to the O.C. in time for pre-training.
I’ll update whenever I can get online, and upload pictures as much as I can at http://pictures.georgechang.net so you can travel vicariously to the other side of the world through me. I think there’s an internet cafe in Zamboanga.
people of atlanta, rejoice.
First there came Fatburger.
Then there was Ikea.
Soon…
Trader Joe’s.
Now all we need is a Lee’s Sandwiches and an In-N-Out!
And maybe a Sam Woo.
2005 recap.
2005, I will have to say, was a somewhat eventful year. Honestly, I can’t remember one news thing that happened this year, save New Orleans getting blown off the map. But 2005, all in all, was a good year. It was a year of growing. It was a year of liberation. It was a year of meaning.
In 2005, there was:
- the launching of georgechang.net
- the landing of a time-consuming but sadly missed job
- the inauguration of george’s annual restaurant list
- the farewell of michelle and the embracing of misha
- the leaving of the previously mentioned job
- the beginning of the full time training
- the move of self-liberation
- the firm stance of my life and the priorities in it
- the blessing of a great campus team
- the expansion of my vision
- the exposing of my pitiful self
- the dealings of my heart
- the joys of serving the brothers and sisters
- the ongoing concern for brother dave
- the unhindered encouragement from brother dave
- the realization that i really am in the best place
- the appreciation of the constant life and light
- the living of ordinary days under the divine dispensing
- the use of my pda on a daily basis
- the death of my camera
- the capture of hundreds of memories on digital film
- the luck of giving a sister with an amazing singing voice a ride to the campus
- the falling asleep to amazing piano playing
- the emptying of many many dollars worth of starbucks gift cards
- the spending of perhaps even more dollars on whimsical cravings with my team
- the surprise of the numbers getting smaller on the scale
- the end of an 11 year long problem
- the creating of more problems
- the labor of love, the work of faith, and the endurance of hope that will have eternal value
rose bowl.
george’s projected number of times usc people will cry about vince young’s knee being down during that one pitch play for a td, costing usc the national championship: 4,483,209
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dear usc people,
please prove my projection wrong. if vince had been down, it would have been 1st and goal and he would have ran it in anyways on the next play, because your defense just can’t contain him. thank you.
george





