Har har, another one

You Are a Cappuccino

You're fun, outgoing, and you love to try anything new. However, you tend to have strong opinions on what you like. You are a total girly girly at heart - and prefer your coffee with good conversation. You're the type that seems complex to outsiders, but in reality, you are easy to please

What Kind of Coffee Are You?

My house was recently used as a set for an indie film, "The Left Side of Night". Nothing beats the immigrant experience.

The kid actor is so cute! We played dominos and finger hockey..ahh.. so cute.

Throughout the summer now, part of my evening schedule is to come home, have dinner, shower and watch television. It's a sweet sweet routine. However my dad and i have decided to cancel cable since we have a gazillion channels available to us via satellite.

Note: the only time i have been without cable were the years before gr4.

HOWEVER as of late our satellite has not been working and Rogers has officially cut us off from their services. The only channels available are ones from China- chinese culture, chinese-culture-in-english, chinese buddhism, chinese Falun Gong, chinese..chinese..chinese..you get the point. So my NEW summer routine has been to stay at school extra long to work out because you can watch tv in the cardio room (with THREE different channels), eat dinner, and to top things off, my relaxing event is to study my anatomy notes or to browse through the pictures in my anatomy textbook.

I came home today and was really itchying for some entertainment. I went for the 'chinese-culture-in-english' channel (since it was the only non-mandar channel) and ended up falling asleep for 2hrs- until someone called my house and woke me up.

Moral of the story- don't watch chinese-culture-in-english channels.

I've found a temporary replacement, online quizzes..har har

You are Milk Chocolate

A total dreamer, you spend most of your time with your head in the clouds.You often think of the future, and you are always working toward your ideal life.Also nostelgic, you rarely forget a meaningful moment... even those from long ago.

What'>http://ynr.blogthings.com/whatkindofchocolateareyouquiz/">What Kind of Chocolate Are You?

One of the major concepts that i learned in animal behavior was sexual selection:

females seek resources, while
males seek fertility/fecundity (conveyed through female appearance)

I had a chance to see this live out in the last couple of days.
I'm reminded why i'm sticking to my two 'C's.

When will sexual selection select for superficiality?

Modesty = out of fashion ?

I was browsing through the blog world and found this link about compromising our fashion in order to be modest.. or do we have to?

This was an issue that i encountered during the retreat- how is a sister suppose to dress/act in order to help encourage our brothers in purity and not lead them further to sin. Does it mean that we have to dress like grandmas?

Part 1: http://girltalk.blogs.com/girltalk/2006/04/fashion_and_fol_1.html
Part 2: http://girltalk.blogs.com/girltalk/2006/04/fashion_and_fol_2.html
Part 3:
http://girltalk.blogs.com/girltalk/2006/04/fashion_and_fol_3.
Part 4: http://girltalk.blogs.com/girltalk/2006/04/fashion_and_fol_4.html

Here is a taste:
You see, immodest dress is more than simply wearing skimpy clothing. Often, it’s an expression of pride, the opposite of humility. Simply put, immodest clothes are pride on display. In his book Humility: True Greatness, my dad explains that “The proud person seeks to glorify himself and not God, thereby attempting in effect to deprive God of something only He is worthy to receive. In other words, the immodest girl seeks to dress in a way that draws attention to herself and to her body, instead of serving others and bringing glory to the Savior...

And so, we must consider our motives
1. A desire to be selfish- we don't want to invest the time & effort required to find modest clothing

2. A desire to show off- i want people to think that i'm trendy; i want the attention from others that i should be directing to God instead.

3. A desire to seduce- in its infancy, there can be a desire for that lustful attention. We want to feel attractive and desireable. It temps men to sin against God's holiness.

“[Do not dress] from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus…” Philippians 2:3-5

It never stops.
I'm so tired.

More to come.