Janice’s Blog

Holidays are a crazy fun time to begin with when you're a Cho, but this year was a little bit more special... my cousin's fiancee (so... my future cousin-in-law?), Sung Ah, joined us for Thanksgiving dinner and got a full dose of what our family life is really like :D
Actually, she ran with the best of us! It's funny when people just fit into your life -- just watching Bryan (my cousin) and Sung Ah together... well, it made me wonder how she hasn't been here from the start.

It started off as a cat fight and then progressed into the Thriller dance... sort of. Oy.

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Mmm... kimchi fried rice...
(this delicious picture was borrowed from the internet)

So Jungo and Yasuo hosted November's ASLAN event -- they slaved over a hot frying pan to make kimchi fried rice and stir fry (noodles) for all!

Cooking diligently:

Yasuo "decorating"...

Tada! Finished (:

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A lot of things were supposed to get done tonight.

They didn't (:

But... it's okay. Sometimes I think that we stress out
far too easily when things don't go exactly the way
we planned them.

Maybe we should learn to breathe.
Surrender.

The world doesn't end just because something
didn't get done by the time you thought it should.

Learn to be content in all situations and make
the most out of everything...

Everyone has a story.

Every story has two sides... maybe even three or four
if it's particularly intriguing.
People always try to get in on the fun.

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Career Fair was super amazinggg. I kid you not -- I had such a fun time, I almost felt guilty :P
I got to meet with so many wonderful people and at one point I even had the opportunity to cover the Kraft table while their representatives went to lunch. I have found that cookies really draw in a crowd...

Yay SIFE!

I have neat assortment of various pens and trinkets now too, which thrills me half to death -- my favorite has to be the stress fruit. It's a stress ball... in the shape of a fruit! A pear, specifically. They had lemon stress fruit too but the pear was so cool-looking I simply could not pass up this opportunity...

A stress ball from CCTC with the pear stress fruit:

Now tell me that you don't want one of these.

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God loves me. Like REALLY REALLY so!

You know how when a toddler that is unsteady on his/her feet is wobbling all over the room, without hesitation you reach your arms out and follow them around, just in case they fall? It's an automatic act of concern and love for the child who clearly needs to watched over and kept out of harm's way. Me, I'm that crazy baby that tries to run everywhere even though she can hardly walk without tripping over her own two feet and ends up almost falling flat on her face... yes, even at the ripe old age of 21.

I went to one of our other offices for my internship today, taking the train into center city (ridiculously early, I might add) and then basically walked the rest of the way to the office. Big Mistake. I thought the walk would be a breeze, as I clutched my handy dandy cellular device that has a GPS system built into it. The GPS told me that the office was not very far away from where I was, but I conveniently overlooked the fact that this calculation was done based upon the assumption that I would be in a car. Yeah, not quite. If anything I kind of felt like Frodo as I ventured through the unknown and walked without really knowing where I was, just aware of where I was headed... but here's some solid proof as to the fact that God desperately loves me, even though I can be such a handful: there were several instances where I had gotten myself horribly lost and/or almost got myself killed. But every time, a person miraculously (and conveniently) was there to save me. Again, this did not just once... but over... and over... and over. Until I got to my destination safely. If that isn't the hand of God swooping in and catching me before I really hurt myself, well... whatever, because it was. And is.

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When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, "I used everything You gave me."
- Erma Bombeck

I forget where I first heard this, but it has stuck with me ever since. Hmm.
To be honest... I am a person of very little talent. But the talent (if you so desire to call it such) that I do have -- well, I like to think that I utilize it well. Sort of?
On that fateful day I will be face to face with The Judge and He will flip through this massive book (purely for dramatic effect because He already knows everything in it), stop at a page that has my name scrawled across the top, nod thoughtfully as if in deep thought, and then ask me what I have done for His kingdom.

Gah!

Maybe I will end up stuttering. I might even sneeze (I have found that I am prone to sneezing when I am stressed -- and yes, I believe there will be sneezing in Heaven. For me, anyway) and have to ask to have the question repeated. Or I might ramble on for a long time and end up holding up the line behind me. I know I am putting this situation in a very human-like way... but what I am trying to get at is: all in all, I hope that my final answer would include "I used everything You gave me. Everything."

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This song has relentlessly taken over my brain the past couple of days. Not that I really mind, it's the acoustic version of a song I enjoy immensely~ but it's a little frustrating to have one song stuck in your head, regardless of how much you like it...

- Topic transition! -

Back story: a good chunk of my high school graduating class ended up at the same University, myself included. Kids from my youth group who swore they would never end up at this particular University (because everyone we knew went there at one point or another) graduated -- and you got it! They ended up at this University.
The story: so a small group of friends from PBU and I made the most interesting trip -- we made the semi-dangerous* journey to my former University and visited with my friends back home. I'm not going to lie, it was a little strange -- to have my present and my past (which has made its way into my present as well while remaining fairly distinct) collide... my friends from PBU mingled (and got along fabulously with, I might add) with the friends I've grown up with. At one point I kept thinking that we had all just grown up together and wanted to blurt out embarrassing stories about everybody there... but yeah, I realized that that would do more harm than good so I just kept smiling and smiling. It was so lovely and it thrilled me to death that two fairly separate groups of friends that had all come into my life at different times were able to all come together into my future and make it that much brighter. Am I cheesy? Yeahhh (:

On the train!

*I say "semi-dangerous" because we are a unique blend of friends... and if we don't keep an eye out for each other it is pretty much guaranteed that we will lose someone because they got distracted by something completely normal but seen in a bizarre light in their eyes and decided to follow it.

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I actually voted a month ago, via absentee ballot. Because the initial thrill of voting was over [for me], I expected Election Day to be more ordinary than anything... but instead I have found myself an excited, anxious mess the days leading up to today~ particularly today, as I talked and speculated with my peers who were finally able to cast their votes. There is a strange tension in the air as we all hold our breath in anticipation over our next president...

Ah, politics. Ahh.

This year's presidential race has been one full of surprises and will be monumental in a very unique way regardless of who wins. Of course I have my own presidential preference and all, but one thing that God has really pressed upon my heart these past several days is to trust Him. No matter who becomes our next president, he was ultimately chosen and placed by our Almighty God to lead this nation -- and really, who am I to argue this? (: so I have been praying that my heart might be filled with peace as this race slowly draws to an end, to have the assurance of His perfect will being carried out...

God bless America♥

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