FRIDAY JOKE!!

It was an awkward situation. Alice's friend, Isabel, was going to have dinner with a Japanese transfer student she met on Facebook. Out of curiosity and lack of better things to do, Alice agreed to go with Isabel. At the restaurant, Isabel told Alice to eat first, while she go pick up her friend. Alone with a bowl of steaming kon pow chicken, Alice waited. Finally Isabel returned with Huah, a senior student from Tokyo University doing a study abroad program at UCI. Huah was polite and has impressive fluency at English. But then it turned out that Huah already ate, so Alice was the only one eating as she faced Isabel and Huah. Isabel didn't know what to say, and they both stared at Alice. Whenever Alice and Isabel made the smallest attempt at being funny, Huah would let out this girly and high-pitched laughter. It startled Alice at first, and then it became annoying.

"Nehehhehheh" Huah snickered again

Trying to break the ice, Alice started showing off her three years' worth of Japanese.

"You know Japanese?" Huah looked impressed.
Feeling a little proud, Alice tried to say, "Ie, nihongo wa heta desu" (No, my Japanese is poor)But what actually came out was:

"Ie, nihongo wa hentai desu" (No, my Japanese is perverted)!!!

Isabel started laughing her head off and Huah looked shocked and bewildered. Realizing her mistake, Alice immediately looked away from the two and felt the increasing heat on her face.

So kids, the moral of the story is: KNOW YOUR FOREIGN LANGUAGE BEFORE SHOWING IT OFF TO RANDOM STRANGERS!!
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WOW, today's my 18th birthday! Jesus thank You for creating me, eighteen years ago, on this very day; thank You for loving me even when I was still in the womb; thank You for guiding me all these years! I'm finally legal!!

I was looking back in my diary (I have so many of them)and I was shocked at how rebellious and suicidal I had been last year. I mean, the entry from 9/8/06 and 9/9/06 really scared me; I had written down three options for myself: (1)Gradually pull away from church by lying to church members, making myself busy,making a lot of nonChristian friends,and going to a far away school. (2)Going back to God (there was a cuss word marking this option) or (3)Kill myself and end everything at once. What's so scary about it was that I sounded so calm and so logical. Oh Jesus, how You have changed me within a single year! How You've healed me and turned me away from self-destruction! Your love brought life to my spirit and crushed the enemy's strongholds in my life. Looking back, I realized just how faithful Jesus is, patiently taking care of this arrogant and rebellious sinner. Jesus I love You! Help me not to waste another minute of my life! Help me to mature and become destiny-driven this year.

My hallmates are so sweet, they stayed up till Thursday midnight to tell me happy birthday, they posted birthday cards on my door, they took me to lunch, gave me presents and sang happy birthday. My roommate was even more awesome: she bought me this huge banquet of beautiful flowers and put them in a tall vase wrapped with ribbons. I AM SO TOTALLY LOVING IT!!!

Since lots of my family members are born in November, we are going to celebrate it together by eating hot pot and BBQ Saturday night. I can't wait! I'm so excited about Jaeson Ma's conference too!

"I will praise You forever for what You have done; in Your name I will hope, for Your name is good. I will praise You in the presence of Your saints." (Psalms52:9)