11 things for 2011

i'm not big on resolutions.... but i do think setting goals is a good idea... and i like making lists... so...


11 things for 2011

1. 11 goals

1.     Read Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekial, Hosea … and perhaps the whole Bible

2.     Study Colossians, I Timothy, Exodus and Mark

3.     Get down to 159 lbs and stay in the 145-160 range (Reduce pant size to 32 waist (maybe 31))

4.     Memorize 100 verses

5.     Pray for 100 different countries… maybe 300

6.     Memorize the 4 Laws, names of the books of the Bible & our SPP in another language

7.     Run a 5K, maybe 10 K or half-marathon

8.     Learn how to cook something amazing

9.     Write/Collect at least 30 devos from Deuteronomy or Write 100 devos

10. meet with a mentor/pastor

11.  Go a week without looking at facebook, twitter or espn

2. 11 books to finish reading (as in i've already started)

1.     Shepherding a child’s heart (1)

2.     His Needs, Her Needs (2)

3.     The ME you want to be (3)

4.     Safely Home (16)

5.     The Good News we almost forgot (5)

6.     66 love letters (6)

7.     Redeeming Love (15)

8.     Trusting God

9.   Sp depression
10.  Outliers

11. An Ordinary Pastor (12)

 

3. 11 more books to read later

1.     Doctrine (7)

2.     Sex & the Supremacy of Christ (11)

3.    Leaders who Last (14)

4.     For the Fame of God’s Name (4)

5.     Marriage builder (17)

6.     Sacred Parenting (10)

7.     A God-entranced Vision for All things (13)

8.     The hole in our Gospel or Irresistible Revolution (8)
9.     Coming Back Stronger (9)

10.   Multi-Cultural Teams

11. Scandalous

( overall in parantheses)

4. 11 guys to invest time with

1.     Corey

2.     Brack

3.     Kevin

4.     Dario

5.     B

6.     Sean

7.     Ken

8.     Marc

9.     Jason

10. Mark

11. Ben

5. 11 things to do with Soo

1.     read parenting book

2.     read marriage/relationship book

3.     read Bible together/devotional

4.     pray together every day

5.     Go on a date every week

6.     Visit some place new together

7.     Pray for nations together at least once/week

8.     Go on a couple of double dates

9.     Cook together for other people

10. Take her shopping

11. Baby-sit

6. 11 things to do daily

1.     morning prayer of submission

2.     journal

3.     read Bible

4.     stretch

5.     pray for some ministry/nation/friend

6.     something fun or read or pray w/ soo

7.     interact with someone besides Soo

8.     some sort of ministry(except on Sabbath)

9.     memorize a verse

10. give thanks and/or sing praise song

11. read and/or write

7. 11 long-term goals/bucket list

1.     Write a book

2.     Write/Collect 365 devotionals

3.     Outline or write summary for every book of the Bible

4.     Go to Israel

5.     Go to Rome

6.     Go to Egypt

7.     Go to the Grand Canyon

8.     Go to Yosemite Nat Park

9.     Start a trend – or maybe get a retweet

10. Run a half-marathon… maybe marathon

11. See a toilet go the opposite direction (S. Hemisphere)

8. 11 things I’m looking forward to in 2011

1.     Our 1 year wedding anniversary

2.     Halle’s 1^st birthday

3.     Enjoying a Sabbatical: reading a bunch and writing a bunch

4.     Seeing our puppy again

5.     Showing my parents East Asia

6.     Taking a trip to Texas?

7.     Taking Soo shopping/doing something that just amazes her

8.     Halle sleeping thru the night Actually, I sleep thru the night

9.     Halle’s crawling…walking

10. Purdue winning the NCAA championship

11. Speaking at campuses

   

9. 11 things to do before heading back to E Asia

1.     spend time with my friends who live 1-2 hours away

2.     call my friends who live in the same time zone or close to it

3.     call my friends in Asia at least once

4.     go to a book store and read for chunks at a time

5.     buy stuff to take back

6.     eat skyline chilli, potbellys, TGiFridays,

7.     contact all supporters on phone or in person

8.     sit down with a Pastor/mentor

9.     share the Gospel

10. go to Purdue – a men’s basketball game & eat @xXx

11. get wings at BW3’s & watch some football

10. 11 movies I want to see

1.     HP7

2.     127 hours

3.     Dawn Treader

4.     The Fighter

5.     The Tourist

6.     Thor (May)

7.     Captain America (July)

8.     Terminator : Salvation (Dvd)

9.     Mummy 3 (Dvd)

10. Amelia (Dvd)

11. Shutter Island (DVD)

11. 11 things to eat before I leave America

1.     skyline chilli

2.     potbellys

3.     Greek food: Greek Salad

4.     Peruvian

5.     Baker’s Square

6.     Bleu cheese burgers

7.     Buffalo Wild Wings – while watching a game

8.     Gino’s East pizza

9.     TGiFridays

10. Souplantation

11. In N Out

My top tv shows and movies of 2010

Top tv shows of 2010
1. Chuck - the first 3 seasons
    love this show- reminds me of scrubs... fun, plot, on-going story, love interest, characters, mystery, etc
2. FNL (Friday Night Lights)
    i like it for the football, Soo likes for the soap opera
3. 30 Rock
4. reruns of friends
5. PTI
6. Seinfeld reruns
7. The Office
    didn't used to like it so much
8. Parenthood
    we're parents now...
9. Outsourced
   About American living in another culture... and it has Indians... even if it is awful...
10. How I met your mother (mostly reruns)
11. Raising Hope
12. Scrubs reruns (definitely not the new ones)
    still my all-time favorite show

Top movies (ones i saw for the first time in 2010)
1. The Blind Side
    i almost cried like 5 times..., true story, fun...
2. All the Harry Potter movies
    watched all of them, hard to distinguish- loved them!
3. Toy Story 3
    didn't care for the first 2... this one was great... expectations didn't let me down
4. Zombieland
    Jessie Eisenberg... i'd probably choose to watch this again, though the next was likely better overall
5. The Social Network
    Incredible casting.... great acting, great story... Sorkin & Fincher... may not be that true, but so what
6. 40 year old virgin
7. How to tame your dragon
    recommend to anyone and everyone
8. Horton hears a who
    great one to talk about faith
9. Kick Ass
    wouldn't recommend to everyone - but i quite enjoyed it
10. Inception
    It's Christopher Nolan... wasn't blown away like everyone else, but still liked it a lot
11. The Karate Kid
   More fun for me, since i've gone thru some of it...
12. Gone, baby Gone
13. Moon
   Weird & interesting
14. Date Night
15. Iron Man 2
   Didn't really think it would be that great, but quite entertaining.
16. Man on Wire
   have to give a documentary props (not to be confused with man on fire)
17. Up in the Air


i couldn't stop with 12... maybe i could have...
shows/movies i didn't like
1. LOST
2. Avatar

my top from 2009

movies i hope to see soon
1. HP 7
2. Narnia: Dawn Treader
3. 127 hours
4. The Fighter
5. The Tourist
6. True Grit
7. The Next 3 days

really wanted to see but didn't
1. The A-team
2. Knight & Day
3. dinner for schmucks
4. Salt

The thing about facebook

i took Soo out on a facebook date tonight.
It included watching "The Social Network", talking about facebook and spending some time on facebook.

The movie was great! Great story-telling & great casting (but that is to be expected with Aaron Sokin & David Fincher).
It reminded me how much i liked facebook when it was clean & simple - and not the mess of applications it is now.
And how much better the facebook was when it was exclusive.
But yeah, it was an intense movie, great character development, fun.


It also showed me how much facebook has changed the world... i mean, we can know things about people we barely know at all...

i do often wonder what my life would have been like if facebook was around when i was in college. i'd have 500+ more friends... i think it would have made dating easier (knowing who was single and who was somewhat interested) but also more difficult (b/c i wouldn't know how to talk to people in person).
And would i have graduated?


I'm interested in seeing what people interaction's will be like in a few years- when all they've known is facebook. Will they really know how to talk with each other? Will they go out and make new friends? Will friends really be friends - or will they stay at superficial levels.
Will freshman in college have to go out and make new friends, or just stay in their room staying in touch with highschool buddies?

i am thankful for facebook now, i have reconnected with a buddy from college who i haven't talked to in a decade and a buddy from high school i hadn't talked to in 12 years... + i can keep up with people while living a continent away!


On our date, we discussed how can facebook be detrimental to our walk with God?
And how can we use facebook to advance God's Kingdom, serve God's purposes, glorify God?

Detrimental:
1. obviously wasting time
2. similarly: turn to facebook instead of God as a default
3. could keep from actually knowing people, initiating
4. could judge people w/o knowing what is going on

for glorify God:
1. pray for people- reminds us to pray, know better how to pray
2. write encouraging notes on people's walls
3. write notes, status updates that could encourage, challenge others by talking about God's Word.
4. make people aware of prayer requests
5. write praises, make people aware of God
6. post sermons, videos
7. contact old friends, build relationships, use for Evangelism


There were a few more things we did, could have done... We prayed for people on the date. We uploaded some pictures. we talked about stuff in our information section: tv shows, books, activities...
It was pretty fun.


Back to facebook: My first 2 fb friends: Nate Racklyeft & Laura Shunta... when i first started fb when i accepted friend requests i would write a note to them to say why i considered them a friend... that stopped pretty quickly. Paul Gustafson was the first person to write on my wall.
And being on facebook as a staff was a key insider move. When i left Michigan i i said "I'm not a student, but i am on facebook."


Go watch the movie.
Go spend time with your wife and/or friends, and don't waste all your time on facebook.
And spend your time on facebook wisely and to serve God's purposes.

My top movies of 2009... and more

Top 25 movies i watched for first time in 2009
1. Slumdog A+
2. 500 days of summer A+
3. Star Trek A/A+
4. Up A
5. Bedtime stories
6. Fireproof B+
7. I love you man B/B+
8. Paper heart B+
9. Push B+
10. The Perfect Getaway B/B+
11. Julie & Julia B/B+
12. 7 lbs B+
13. 27 dresses
14. Bolt B
15. Reality bites B
16. Land of the lost C+/B-
17. State of play C+/B-
18. Paul Blart: Mall Cop C+
19. August Rush B
20. Funny people C+/B-
21. Taken C+
22. Music & lyrics
23. Marley & me C+
24. Lakeview Terrace C+
25. Sweet home Alabama C+

There were a bunch of movies i didn't see

Here are the Top 50 movies I want to see in 2010
1. Avatar
2. Sherlock Holmes
3. Shadowlands
4. Up in the Air
5. Zombieland
6. Fantastic Mr Fox
7. Amelia
8. Iron Man 2
9. District 9
10. The blind side
11. Horton hears a who
12. Couple’s retreat
13. Gone baby Gone
14. Greenberg
15. Harry Potter movies
16. Man on wire
17. The Informant!
18. To save a life
19. Bring it on
20. Che
21. The mummy 3
22. Infernal Affairs
23. The Men who stare at goats
24. Where the Wild things are
25. Taxi Driver
26. Postgrad
27. NY, I love you
28. Law-abiding citizen
29. Le Cirque DeFreak
30. Moon
31. The A-team
32. Shutter Island
33. The lucky ones
34. Time-Traveler’s Wife
35. The Ex
36. All about Steve
37. The book of Eli
38. T3 & Terminator: Salvation
39. Ghandi
40. Ed Wood
41. Alice in Wonderland
42. The Bounty Hunter
43. Breakfast at Tiffanies
44. Confessions of a dangerous mind
45. Brothers bloom
46. Youth in revolt
47. Knight & Day
48. The Wolfman
49. Robin Hood May
50. Clash of the Titans Mar

(Though really i have a list of over a hundred).

And since it's a new decade
the top 100 hundred movies of the decade
1. Zoolander
2. Pirates
3. Slumdog
4. Spider man 2
5. Ocean’s 11
6. Elf
7. 500 days of summer
8. Shrek
9. Batman begins
10. You, me & Dupree
11. Office Space
12. The Incredibles
13. Bend it like Beckham
14. Bubble boy
15. Harold & Kumar
16. hitch
17. My dog Skip
18. Get Smart
19. The Prestige
20. Garden State
21. Blood Diamond
22. Million Dollar Baby
23. Eternal Sunshine
24. Star Trek
25. Walk the Line
26. Cinderella Man
27. Dreamgirls
28. A Beautiful Mind
29. American Gangster
30. Bee movie
31. LotR
32. The Dark Knight
33. Adaptation
34. Mr deeds
35. X-men 1 &2
36. Up
37. Remember the Titans
38. Meet the Parents
39. The Namesake
40. Kicking & screaming
41. Bewitched
42. Be cool
43. I, robot
44. Bedtime stories
45. fireproof
46. Reign over me
47. Talk to me
48. Iron Man
49. The Holiday
50. Curious George
51. Paper heart
52. The Village
53. 50 first dates
54. Memento
55. Bourne movies
56. Catch me if you can
57. Baby mama
58. Mystic River
59. Push
60. Gladiator
61. I love you, man
62. The Perfect Getaway
63. Julie & Julia
64. My Big Fat Greek Wedding
65. superbad
66. I, spy
67. Big Fish
68. Night at the Museum
69. Seven pounds
70. Signs
71. Austin Powers Goldmember
72. Juno
73. 27 dresses
74. The Italian job
75. Bolt
76. O Brother, where art thou
77. Unbreakable
78. Land of the Lost
79. Lucky Number Slevin
80. The departed
81. Shanghai Noon
82. Enchanted
83. Little Miss Sunshine
84. 13 Going on 30
85. The Zodiac
86. State of Play
87. Paul Blart: Mall Cop
88. August Rush
89. Pride & Prejudice
90. Taken
91. Aviator
92. Funny People
93. Anchor Man
94. dodgeball
95. Legend of Bagger Vance
96. Minority Report
97. Michael Clayton
98. View from the Top
99. Music & Lyrics
100. Spy game