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| Ekklesia"A called out group of people for a specific purpose".As the year draws to an end...and as I procrastinate once again..I
reflect back at my time at CEC and the wonderful lessons and memories
it has provided over the years. The community of faith which has
nurtured and raised me for the last four years. Lessons that I've
learned that I hope will be passed on to the future classes...words
cannot begin to describe, but hopefully pictures will suffice.
This is what teamwork looks like (LIFE Cab/Core 2006 minus Tim Hong):
This is what prayer looks like
This is what a hero looks like...
This is what a brotherhood looks like:
this is what intimacy looks like
 This is what sacrifice looks like
this is what the future looks like:  this is what potential looks like  This is what determination looks like
this is what victory looks like
this is what foolishness looks like:
this is what iran chef food looks like:
This is what a bajunga looks like
This is what a dogpile looks like
this is what betrayal looks like:
This is what commitment looks like:
This is what persistance look like
This is what quality looks like
This is what TROUBLE looks like...
and this is what Family looks like:
"I've got something important to tell you guys..."
- LIFE retreat 2007 Transformation | | |
| I love you guys...haha
  whether he gave the shoutout or not...don't bash my pal DJ Mike too badly, he didn't chose this song =D
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| The Tribute: Part Deux
"Warning: If you are reading this then this warning is for you. Every
word you read of this useless fine print is another second off your
life. Don't you have other things to do? Is your life so empty that you
honestly can't think of a better way to spend these moments? Or are you
so impressed with authority that you give respect and credence to all
that claim it? Do you read everything you're supposed to read? Do you
think every thing you're supposed to think? Buy what you're told to
want? Get out of your apartment. Meet a member of the opposite sex.
Stop the excessive shopping and instant gratification. Quit your job. Start a
fight. Prove you're alive. If you don't claim your humanity you will
become a statistic. You have been warned"
It's been a while since the last time I've done one of these, and some of my taste in movies have changed...(what movie was it up there?) but I'll never forget the most memorable quotes from some of my favorite movies. So if you consider yourself a movie enthusiast, help yourself! (I cheated on some of these...but they embody the movie perfectly.) Nov 20,2004
Best Intro Monologues:
1. In the first years of the 21st century, a third World War broke out.
Those of us who survived knew mankind could never survive a fourth;
that our own volatile natures could simply no longer be risked. So we
have created a new arm of the law: The Grammaton Cleric, whose sole
task it is to seek out and eradicate the true source of man's
inhumanity to man - his ability to feel.
2. Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the
arrivals gate at Heathrow Airport. General opinion's starting to make
out that we live in a world of hatred and greed, but I don't see that.
It seems to me that love is everywhere. Often it's not particularly
dignified or newsworthy, but it's always there - fathers and sons,
mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, boyfriends, girlfriends, old
friends. When the planes hit the Twin Towers, as far as I know none of
the phone calls from the people on board were messages of hate or
revenge - they were all messages of love. If you look for it, I've got
a sneaky feeling you'll find that love actually is all around.
3. My name is Dalton Russell. Pay strict attention to what I say because I
choose my words carefully and I never repeat myself. I've told you my
name: that's the Who. The Where could most readily be described as a
prison cell. But there's a vast difference between being stuck in a
tiny cell and being in prison. The What is easy: recently I planned and
set in motion events to execute the perfect bank robbery. That's also
the When. As for the Why: beyond the obvious financial motivation, it's
exceedingly simple... because I can. Which leaves us only with the How;
and therein, as the Bard would tell us, lies the rub.
4. You know what the problem with Hollywood is? They make shit.
Unbelievable, unremarkable shit. Now I'm not some grungy wannabe
filmmaker that's searching for existentialism through a haze of bong
smoke or something. No, it's easy to pick apart bad acting,
short-sighted directing, and a purely moronic stringing together of
words that many of the studios term as "prose". No, I'm talking about
the lack of realism. Realism; not a pervasive element in today's modern
American cinematic vision. Take Dog Day Afternoon, for example.
Arguably Pacino's best work, short of Scarface and Godfather Part 1, of
course. Masterpiece of directing, easily Lumet's best. The
cinematography, the acting, the screenplay, all top-notch. But... they
didn't push the envelope. Now what if in Dog Day, Sonny REALLY wanted
to get away with it? What if - now here's the tricky part - what if he
started killing hostages right away? No mercy, no quarter. "Meet our
demands or the pretty blonde in the bellbottoms gets it the back of the
head." Bam, splat! What, still no bus? Come on! How many innocent
victims splattered across a window would it take to have the city
reverse its policy on hostage situations? And this is 1976; there's no
CNN, there's no CNBC, there's no internet! Now fast forward to today,
present time, same situation. How quickly would the modern media make a
frenzy over this? In a matter of hours, it'd be biggest story from
Boston to Budapest! Ten hostages die, twenty, thirty; bam bam, right
after another, all caught in high-def, computer-enhanced, color
corrected. You can practically taste the brain matter. All for what? A
bus, a plane? A couple of million dollars that's federally insured? I
don't think so. Just a thought. I mean, it's not within the realm of
conventional cinema... but what if?
Regular Quotes:
1. "We are an ELITE unit."
2. "Why do you wear that stupid bunny suit?
Why are you wearing that stupid man suit?
"
3. "And when you die, and die you shall. Your transition shall be to the sound of.." clap clap.
4. "I can't really remember when I last had any hope, and I certainly can't
remember when anyone else did either. Because really, since women
stopped being able to have babies, what's left to hope for?"
(never saw this movie but fell in love with the premise of the movie)
5. "THIS IS SPARTA!" (hahahaha...along with) "TONIGHT WE DINE IN HELL!"
6. "You wanna waste my time? Okay. I call my lawyer. He's the best lawyer
in Miami. He's such a good lawyer, that by tomorrow morning, you gonna
be working in Alaska. So dress warm."
7. "Hate got me in prison, love's gonna bust me out."
8. "It's not who I am underneath, but what I do that defines me.
"
9. "You know, we always called each other good fellas. Like you said to,
uh, somebody, 'You're gonna like this guy. He's all right. He's a good
fella. He's one of us.' You understand? We were good fellas. Wiseguys.
But Jimmy and I could never be made because we had Irish blood. It
didn't even matter that my mother was Sicilian. To become a member of a
crew you've got to be one hundred per cent Italian so they can trace
all your relatives back to the old country. See, it's the highest honor
they can give you. It means you belong to a family and crew. It means
that nobody can fuck around with you. It also means you could fuck
around with anybody just as long as they aren't also a member. It's
like a license to steal. It's a license to do anything. As far as Jimmy
was concerned with Tommy being made, it was like we were all being
made. We would now have one of our own as a member.
"
10. "And I see a whole army of my country men, here, in defiance of tyranny.
You've come to fight as free men, and free men you are. What will you
do with that freedom? Will you fight?...Aye, fight and you may die, run, and you'll live... at least for a
while. And dying in your beds, many years from now, would you be
willin' to trade ALL the days, from this day to that, for one chance,
just one chance, to come back here and tell our enemies that they may
take our lives, but they'll never take... OUR FREEDOM!"
11. "He exists in a world beyond your world. What we only fantasize, he
does. He lives a life where nothing is beyond him. But you know what?
It's all a facade. For all his charm and charisma, his wealth, his
expensive toys... he's a driven, unflinching, calculating machine. He
takes what he wants, when he wants... and disappears.
"
12. "Tell me I have led a good life...Tell me I'm a good man"
13. "I don't know. But who cares! Ha ha! I remembered! P. Sherman, 42 Wallaby Way, Sydney. I remembered it again!
"
14. "I have no armour left.
You've stripped it from me. Whatever is left of me - whatever is left
of me - whatever I am - I'm yours."
15. "Okay, what am I doing...I'm chasing this guy...Nope. He's chasing me.
"
"Inevitably, everyone returns to the motherland...she's too beautiful"
- Hung Hing Leader (Young and Dangerous V)
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| Had an interview tonight for Tau Beta Pi (engineering society...not a frat) it went pretty well, it was tag-team interviewing...2 of them against one. It was mandatory formal wear, so there were all these people running in holding their tennis shoes and spare clothes while waiting in line...I swear they turn up the heat sometimes in rooms where they interview people...
Interviewer #1: So whats your name?
Me: "Lawrence Hui"
Interviewer #2: (jots my answer on a pad)
#1: Ok...why do you want to join this place?
Me: blah blah (breezed through about 10 routine interview questions…this interview is gonna be easy)
#1: "So...verbally describe what the Bent looks like"
::silence::
Me: "Uh...um...(I never looked at the Tau Beta Pi symbol…but I couldn’t say that)...um...its got this circle-ish thing on the top and then underneath...there’s like two bars...and umm..."
#2: ::shakes head::
Me: "Uh...no? Well its made out of metal...and um...I...uh..."
#1: "Do you know where it is?"
Me: "Oh...yeah its next to EBU 1"
#2: scribbles something on the pad
...
#1: "So now we have some questions pertaining to your major"
#2: "Say you’re going to research about an organ...say the heart...what would the characteristic length be for a blood vessel?"
::silence::
Me: "Uh...umm...heart...vessel...uhmm what?"
#1: "What is the characteristic length of a blood vessel for your heart?"
Me: what the heck is a characteristic length?
::long pause::
Me: "Um...yeah...you'd uh...just measure...I dunno"
#2: scribbles something on pad
#1: "Don't worry about that...the 2nd question should be a lot easier"
Me: "haha...oh ok...great..."
#1: "What is Reynold's number?"
Me: "Uhhhh…oh um…(trying to fake remembering)…Reynold’s...like R-E-N..."
#2: "R-E-Y-N-O-L-D…Reynold's number"
Me: mind racing…pi = 3.14159265358979…avagadro’s # = 6. something * 10…
"Uhmm...I don't know...sorry"
#1: "Ok, that's ok...thanks for coming into the interview...you'll hear from us shortly."
So the interview didn't go all that smoothly...but oh well, whats done is done... | | |
| Last night'll prolly be remembered as the first ever Iran Chef competition...the set up was supposed to be "guys night out" in which small group leaders (Mascot, Mario, Thong, Me) were supposed to come up with an activity for guys bonding. One thing led to another at our meeting at Denny's when it suddenly hit us, this was one chance to make the guys do something for us! So then we thought, "what can we make the guys do?" and suddenly the Iran Chef competition was born.
The evening started out with no one having a clue about what was going to go down. Even the girls thought we were simply just eating pizza and watching a movie:
Eggbra (11:26:18 PM): are you guys doing anything other than eating?
Eggbra (11:28:45 PM): haha
Eggbra (11:28:47 PM): typical :O)
So anyways...we completely played it off like we were simply just eating and chilling. Even the guys didn't know what we were doing...so props to them for having such faith in us leaders...
After setting up details, the rules were this. There were three groups; each group was led by one small group leader...I was the camera man. Each person was charged $7 dollars for supplies. We got each team the following: eggs, rice, 3lbs of pork per group, and dough sheets. Based on these supplies each group had to make a specific starch dish (Group 1: Rice Pilaf, Group 2: Spaghetti/Pasta, Group 3: Fried Rice) any type of dumpling/wonton/potsticker out of dough and pork and a dish of vegetables or fruits. Each team was given $11 dollars to buy whatever supplies necessary to complete their dishes.
Group 1: Tim Hong, Stephen Hsu, MJ, Jon Liu, Tim Lui, Dan Poon
Group 2: Mascot, Adam Wong, Tony Lau, John Yao, Ben Chan, Marc Sandavol
Group 3: Mario, Ben Fung, Andrew Jiang, Austin Lee, Fon Chen, Rob Hui
*note: none of the small group leaders actually helped out in the actual cooking...it was all the guys*
The grading was based on "taste"..."aesthetics"..."creativity"..."presentation". Judges included Tim Hong, Mario Listiawan, Mascot Deng, and Uncle Dale (and Auntie Sharon kinda). For the presentation, we had some down right outrageous stories that each group fabricated to describe their food...
So the rest of the night unfolded like a dream...with everyone's repuation on the line...there was soo much food and you would never have imagined what guys were coming up with. The highlights of the night were definitely when Ben Fung and his group made noodles from scratch...flour, eggs, water! Jon Yao's group made ridiculously good wontons and the personalized "siu mai" (a dim sum thingy)...he's got all the guys' respect now for sure. Tim Lui, MJ and his group made by far one of the best wonton soup in terms of quality ever made by a college student...Rob Hui made fried rice...not just any fried rice...Thai fried rice in a pineapple bowl!!
In the end...the Iran Chef Group of 2005 belongs to...Ben Chan, Marc Sandoval, Tony Lau, John Yao, Adam Wong, Mascot Deng, Andrew (Mascot's bud).
http://www.theurl.net/lawrence...proud of all you guys...adelphotes!!
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