With mommy!

With daddy!

This one is from Hannah. Lovely ain't it? Thank you!

I LOVE this picture!

Doesn't he look so much like Jin in this picture?

-mary

so how american was Cho?

How American was Seung-hui Cho? Despite being a South Korean national living in America, his upbringing, and his problems, were distinctly American.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9658225

Notes about Virgina Tech Shooting

so this is not my own writing, but my good friend did such a good job, I'm going to quote her and just paste it here because this is exactly what I'm thinking about the whole event. So here it goes:

"The Virginia Tech shootings is a tragedy in our American history.

No question about it, the murderer was mentally ill, very disturbed and a violent person.

But one thing that frustrates me is that the American media is at a risk of politicizing the crime by overemphasizing the fact that the murderer was a "South Korean immigrant." This has a divisive effect on society- drawing a line between "them" and "us." In a time and place where we are suppose to be looking at each other for help and support, we are drawing lines and shifting blame. In this case, the ethnicity and nationality of the person should not be the focus of the discussion; rather we should try to look into deeper root causes.

So all this talk that the murderer is "South Korean…" First of all, he's technically a "1.5 generation Korean-American." He's not some new immigrant from South Korea. He was in the States since age 8 and he was 23 when he committed the crime. He's lived in the States for 15 years(He's lived in the States longer than he's lived in Korea!) So his personality/tendencies/attitude reflects more of American society than Korean. He grew up in the States; he's more American than Korean if you ask me. He went through the American education system like the rest of us, he was a student at Virginia Tech, he was majoring in English, and he spoke perfect English as demonstrated in his self-taped NBC videos.

I read on xangas that a lot of Korean-Americans and Koreans are feeling ashamed or apologetic- but again his Korean-American-ness had nothing to do with the crimes that he's committed. There's nothing in our Korean culture that is to blame.

The issue is not that he's Korean or Korean American…fact is, he was (1)mentally ill, (2)no one picked up on the warning signs, (3)the US has loose gun control laws, (4)the school did not alert the students in an appropriate manner…and the list goes on and on.

When Colombine happened, did the media zero in on the fact that they were White Americans? There was no hype of their ethnicity whatsoever.

He was a mad person, he could have been from any ethnicity. Just so happens that he was a Korean-American.

And as Americans, as human beings, we should feel responsible, mourn, and look for ways to prevent this from ever happening again."

From Sunday

Here are some pictures from Sunday. First off, look at our resident UFC fighter. Seriously looks like that picture on Pastor Joe's blog.Future UFC fighter in training. Perhaps not if his mom has anything to say about it.
Finally, look at that form.

Easter Sunday

However, I consider my life worth nothing to me, if only I may finish the race and complete the task the Lord Jesus has given me—the task of testifying to the gospel of God's grace.

-Acts 20:24

... I pray that there will be more of HIM and less of us this upcoming year...

we can do it, richmond. i believe it.

The Good Old Days :O)

You're a 90's kid if:

You can finish this [ice ice _ _ _ _ ]
You remember watching Doug, Ren & Stimpy, Pinky and the Brain, Bobby's World, Felix the cat, The Tick...
AAAAAAAH Real Monsters!
You've ever ended a sentence with the word "PSYCHE!"
You just cant resist finishing this . . . "Iiiiiiin west philidelphia born and raised . . ."
You remember TGIF, Step by Step, Family Matters, Dinosaurs, and Boy Meets World.
You remember when it was actually worth getting up early on a Saturday to watch cartoons.
You got super excited when it was Oregon Trail day in computer class at school.
You remember reading "Goosebumps"
You took plastic cartoon lunch boxes to school.
You still get the urge to say "NOT" after (almost) every sentence . . . not
If you remember seeing hot tub bubbles make bubbly sounds before every music video on VH1.
When everyhting was settled by rock paper scissors..or bubble gum bubble gum in a dish...eeny meeny
miney mo...and even better daddy had a donkey inky binky bonky.
You used to listen to the radio all day long just to record your FAVORITE song of ALL time.
"Where in the World is Carmen San Diego?" was both a game and a TV game show.
Captain Planet. He's a Hero.
You knew that Kimberly, the pink ranger, and Tommy, the green ranger, were meant to be together.
You remember when Super Nintendos and Sega Genisis became popular.
You always wanted to send in a tape to America's Funniest Home Videos . . . but never taped anything funny.
You remember watching Home Alone 1, 2 , and 3 . . . and tried to pull the pranks on "intruders"
You remember watching The Magic School Bus, Wishbone, and Reading Rainbow on PBS.
You remember when Yo-Yos were cool.
You remember those Where's Waldo books.
You remember eating Warheads.
You remember watching the 1st Batman, Aladin, Ninja Turtles, and 3 Ninjas movies.
You remember Ring Pops.
You remember drinking Surge, and Tang.
If you remember when every thing was "da BOMB!"
When they made the new lunchables so that you could make pizza AND tacos.
You remember boom boxes vs. cd players.
Making those little paper fortune cookie things, and then predicting your life with them.
You played and/or collected "Pogs"
You had at least one Tamagotchi, GigaPet, or Nano and brought it everywhere..
Saved By The Bell was the coolest show ever!
You haven't always had a computer, and it was cool to have the internet.
And Windows 95 was the best.
You watched the original cartoons of Rugrats, Power Rangers, and Ninja Turtles.
Michael Jordan was a king.
YIKES pencils and erasers were the stuff!
All your school supplies were "Lisa Frank" brand.
You remember when the new Beanie Babies and Talking Elmo were always sold out.
You collected those Beanie Babies.
Mortal Kombat was awesome--the game and the movie
Carebears
Gak was the coolest stuff invented.
Lambchop's song never ended.
The old dollar bills.
Silver dollars, which were cool to have.
You remember a time before the WB.
You collected all the Troll dolls
You had to read Weekly Reader's in class.
If you even know what an original walkman is.
You remember wanting to sit on the orange Nickelodeon couch.
You've gotten creeped out by "Are You Afraid of the Dark?"
You know the Macarena by heart.
"Talk to the hand" . . . enough said
You always said, "Then why don't you marry it!"
You remember trying to collect all 150 original pokemon cards but never could and if you did you thought you were all that!
You remember Highlight's magazine.
You know the significance of the number 23.
You went to McDonald's to play in the playplace.
You remember playing on merry go rounds at the playground.
Before the MySpace frenzy . . .
Before the Internet & text messaging . . .
Before Sidekicks & iPods . . .
Before MIKE JONES . . .
Before PlayStation2 or X-BOX . . .
Before Spongebob . . .
Back when you put off the 5 hours of homework you had every night.
When light up sneakers were cool.
When you rented VHS tapes, not DVDs.
When gas was $0.95 a gallon & Caller ID was a new thing.
When we recorded stuff on VCRs.
When we called the radio station to request songs to hear off of our walkmans.
When gameboy was a brick.
You did MASH to figure out your future
When you weren't cool unless you had a Starter jacket.
Way back.
Before we realized all this would eventually disappear.