Category Archives: Life

On Attaining a Disciplined Life…

To be honest, it’s easy to attain a disciplined life when you’re married. if you don’t live a disciplined life, your other half will discipline you. hehe. one of the more humorous (but still true) nuggets from CYC.

Day 6 – ……17??

I can’t believe I’m almost 2 weeks behind on this -_-. Time management is definitely not my strong suit, and I guess I can’t get away without being slack as a student. Lots of work and reading, yes, but also lots of time wasted and not enough personal cultivation. In no particular order, here are

Evaluating Lightroom 3 vs. Aperture 3

Today I spent pretty much the whole day trying to figure out whether I should use Adobe Lightroom 3 or Apple’s Aperture 3. Here’s what I want to ultimately accomplish: store my photos on an external drive be able to edit/retouch non-destructively select photos without being tethered to my external drive localized adjustments I downloaded

RE Mental Set Failure

This past Sabbath I taught a lesson on “Taming the Tongue” to my J1 students. For the mental set, I thought I would ask the students to recall anything that another person said (preferably also present in the classroom) that for one reason or another, sticks in their mind, good or bad. The point of

Brother MG

Brother MG and his wife JW began truthseeking at East Bay, according to my memory, about a year ago. They experienced many blessings and graces from God, both receiving the Holy Spirit before being baptized. JW received the Holy Spirit first and was baptized during last year’s spring ESSC. MG received the Holy Spirit several

Life with a CR-48

It’s been 1-2 months since I got the CR-48 (a prototype laptop/netbook that runs Google’s Chrome OS). How has it fit into my habits and workflow? When It Has Come in Handy Productivity on the BART; 100MB of free 3G data per month for 2 years is a pretty sweet deal. 100MB doesn’t seem like

Body Worlds Vital Exhibit

This past Friday I went to the San Jose Tech Museum (The Tech) with my sister, brother-in-law and dad to see the Body Worlds Vital exhibit. It was my first time going to this sort of exhibit on the human body and it was really fascinating and inspiring on two levels. The first level was