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| After 9 years of xanga, I have decided to close it down. Please check out: http://tjmoon1012.blogspot.com/ Why you ask? I don't know what happened, but my xanga site just turned all green. Green is my most hated color so I took it as a sign. I'm not sure what happened (God must have hacked into my xanga.. or my wife??). Blogspot is better.. even though I think most people check blogs via rss and you'll never see it. please subscribe to my new blog. I promise to write it in often. TJ Moon | | |
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Last time I ranked Alhambra Restaurants by quantity, not I will rate by quality. According to my spreadsheet, here are my top restaurants in the Alhambra area according to me. 1. Ocean Star (4.2) – your typical dim sum place. Not sure why it has such a high score but I guess I really liked it when I went. 2. 101 Noodle Express (4.2) – Beef Roll and Jja Jjang Myun. Insanely good. 3. Luscious Dumplings (4.2) – This place is packed during lunch but their beef stew and dumpling combo is unbeatable. This place is run like a machine by their all-male waiters who are all bid-ness.. no chit chat.. no messing around.. love it!! this is how I would run a restaurant. 4. Ming Wa (4.1) – your typical dirty Chinese food filled with MSG.. but just awesome. The owners are really nice also. 5. Dips (4.0) – it’s an American style bar serving asian fusion in the middle of a Chinese complex. Serves burgers and vermicelli. Decent atmosphere. 6. Patakan (4.1) – this place is in S. Pasadena but it’s the best lunch combo Thai food in the area. 7. Daikokuya (4.0) – Best rameun in the area but better hurry as there are long lines. 8. Wahib’s (4.0) – Best middle eastern food in the area. 9. Thai purple (4.0) – almost as good as Patakan but not quite but still a pretty good thai place. 10. Savoy’s (4.0) – Hainan chicken is a must have. Forget everything else. Don’t even ask for a menu. | | |
| I am really into Jason Mraz. Everyone knows this but I remember an interview he did long time ago about what it took to be a great artist. He said that that he knew he had to put in the time and that he was pretty lazy when he was in college so he took inspiration from the rooster who is up before everyone else and starts doing work. So he decided that he needs to be a rooster (thus, the cover for his album has a lot of roosters in it).  If you want to be great at something, Outliers says you have to spend at least 10,000 hours doing it. I want to be great so I gotta find the time. I am realizing that I want to do a lot of things but I don’t have that much time. I need to spend time with my family, prepare for church discipleship, read for enlightenment, spend time with the Lord, do school work soon, do regular work, exercise, update my website, and blog for all 10 of my readers. I broke down my day and the only way to accomplish all this is to sleep less and stop wasting time. I am committing to waking up at 5:30 AM every day except Sunday (as it is Sabbath) and I am not going to check ESPN, NBA, or Facebook when I get home except on Sundays. Only when I’m in line doing something. No more games, no more wasting time. The first thing I will do this week is update my website. | | |
| 8 Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse those who have leprosy,[a] drive out demons. Freely you have received; freely give. - Matthew 8:8 Today's sermon was interesting. I've never been told that suffering is from God but I think that thought is very prevalent especially in the church. This idea that this suffering is from God to teach you something. People probably use Job as the best example. Well, this verse is clear that God doesn't want you to be sick, have demons, and basically suffer. He wants us to live life abundant. to live this life free from suffering, from disease, from depression. Be Free. Jesus set us free, it's our call to set others free. God, help me to set others free. This great thing called salvation is not just a ticket to a club but it's a way of living a whole and full life. Bring wholeness. | | |
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Matthew 10 Jesus Sends Out the Twelve 1 Jesus called his twelve disciples to him and gave them authority to drive out impure spirits and to heal every disease and sickness. Think about it. Jesus Christ. The son of God is giving us the authority to do what he did on earth. He gave the twelve disciples the authority. The amazing part of this passage is that Jesus Christ had faith in the 12 disciples to do this. He has faith in us, not we have faith in him. I remember my favorite movie, the Matrix, where Morpheus believes that Neo is the One. Neo doesn't even believe it and people think Morepheus is crazy but he has faith in Neo. As Neo and Morpheus spend more time together, Neo realizes that he is the one. It was Morpheus' faith in the Neo that activated Neo's faith. Jesus had faith in the disciples. He told them to go out and be like him. This is after spending years together, learning the craft, and ministering to different kinds of people. Jesus trusted them that they would do what he taught them. It brings me back to the early days of ekko church when PB kept saying that I would be a pastor but I was like "uh.. I don't think so" but as he kept saying that in me, I started to believe it. Then I married a pastor, started pastoring, starting raising disciples and doing exactly what PB was doing. Jesus calls us to discipleship. This apprenticeship allows us to learn from someone else that is doing it and that has done it so that we can do it by ourselves now. To bring restoration to this world. We have to spend time w/ the greatest discipler so that his faith in us allows us to bring restoration to this world. It's his faith in us that makes us great. | | |
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