My heart I could not trust
' Cause it lies to me too much
And my mind just couldn't
Understand it all

Sometimes when you pray for something so bad and you get it. Then you don't know what to do with it. Do you ever get that feeling? I think my mind is just trying to process it all...I am sooo ready for it though. I know it will be good if not great. Scary...but exciting!

Stumbling in the dark
Now I need you here to be my vision

You took my heart and you changed it
With your words of life
You took my eyes and you opened them
And gave me sight&mdash (Blind Third Day)

Our SG had an outing at a comedy club in Sunnyvale last night. When we got there it was fairly empty. And being the only Asians (minus Heather) we decided "lets get a table next to the stage, in the front row." Sure enough someone from another smallgroup mentioned, "are we going to be pick on?" What a naive question...of course!

So for the rest of the night there were a total of 4 stand-up comic acts. The first person was this Jewish girl from S.F. and she was pretty un-funny. Okay...she was BAD! She talked about dating, life in S.F., and then she got around to us calling us the "Asian crowd except for one white girl."

After much rumbling aboutin the lab and doing some BCS analysis of all your suggestions the winner is....

Andy and Miranda. Woohoo! And we are going with The Animaniacs. It was a close call though and I have responded (and reposted) to your suggestions:

Drew: big mac fries and soda? i haven't had a big mac for a long time and after super size me won't for awhile. :)

Arv: Star Wars characters...that would be cool. I like your smurfs idea best!

Judyjudy: Usual suspects...ooh! We'll run around in circles...just like the movie. Kobayashi is uber-cool.

Jen: 3 Stooges...are there girls in that? We'll bop each other regardless. Watch OUT!!!

Kat: PPM...thinking the apostles and Mary. Never heard of them as singers.

Thanks all for your suggestions. Hehe that was fun!

it's time for aaaaaaaaaanimaaaaaaaaniacs.

Yakko out!

After six months of work my team finally took me out to lunch. Well actually it was more like they took my new co-worker Danny (who is my ex coworker whom I helped got the job by recruiting him away from my old company.) So I am not bitter at all!

For lunch we went to Banana Leaf and afterward I didn't feel so bad after all. Haha. In the end it doesn't matter if they took me out a little later than normal, but that I got to eat good (and fairly expensive) food.

During lunch it dawned on me that all my co-workers were mostly Chinese except for one Indian engineer. When I joined there were three and they switched to another department. Hmm...I would predict that last Indian engineer would not be in our group within 6 mos. Hehe. My manager even mentioned about this during lunch. In any case I would like to officially welcome my good buddie Danny on board. Good times and good talks about spirituality ahead. Good times good times!

Work is starting to get busy and hectic/stressful. Normally I would de-stress by getting out of the office for a swim but I missed it today for lunch. Other way I de-stress is to go for a run but somehow a run in the dark isn't so fun. Unless it is for a run that was specifically in the dark with other runners. Ahhh motivation for running is at an all time low But I do go a little stir crazy if I don't go for a run...just have to get out before sunset.

This past Friday I got to participate in a unique event known as the Palo Alto Moonlight Run. Armed with my BofA statement that "proved" I registered, I approached the registration line with trepidation. You see my statement says that I paid for "Weekly Almanac", whereas my running/driving partner wuboy has a more legitimate printout.

Regardless I received my bib and sweatshirt for the event. For the next plus hour I am bib #886. But no doubt there is an electricity buzzing about in the air as runners of all age groups, shapes, and dress styles were stretching, running, and just ooh-ing and aah-ing in the middle of a baseball field. God does love variety, even when it comes to runners. As I walk around all these people, I wonder to myself if I was a parent would I be worry for my children among this chaos, getting ready to run.

I have a favor to ask you guys. The Silicon Valley Marathon is coming up pretty soon. Now wuboy, that is to say Andy, myself, and Mistriss Miranda (M&M) are running this thing. And we would like to come up with some names that come in three. Lost? Here are some examples: The Holy Trinity. The Three Amigos. The Animaniacs (Wacko Yacko Dot). X-MEN.

But and here are the tricky part. They must not be a unit that are tied together. Lost? Here are some examples.

I cannot go as "G", wuboy "R", and M&M "X". Because then we have to stay together to make GRX make sense. So the order is important. Also if possible it should include a girly part ot the three as M&M is a...girl.

The winner will get a picture of the three of us with the winning names on our tee-shirt and our shiny medals.

I remembered a conversation I had awhile back with a non-Christian that struck me today. It went something like God is powerful, don't mess with Christians, etc., even though my friend obviously at that point in his life wasn't (and isn't) a Christian.

“God is good all the time all the time God is good.” I'm paraphrasing a Christian song I think and also if God is for us who can be against us. Sometimes we need to realize this even though our days may suck big times and we find ourselves thinking, "God are you even there?" But our God is a powerful God whether we "see" it or not. And when we do receive His blessings it makes you want to— I don't know fill in the blanks for appropriate awed emotions.