• A few days ago a friend of mine sent me this fascinating Seattle Times article entitled “Are We Grown Up Brats?” The article (read it!) talks about how the current generation (Generation Y or the “iGeneration”) is being defined as increasingly narcissistic, easily dissatisfied due to growing customer expectation, impatient, easily offended, and with an…

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  • Sorry for the lack of posts lately.  It’s a bit trickier now that we do not have an Internet connection in the home we happen to be eating, sleeping, "living" in.  I have noticed my hit counts dropping and dropping every week which is a bit depressing, but what can I do? Soon enough I’ll…

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  • I have been reading this book about this guy who gets "lost" in time.  He doesn’t know when it will happen or where he will end up.  Certain things can incite his time-traveling episodes and certain other things help him to stay put, but ultimately he cannot control "when" or where he will go within…

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  • Here’s some pictures of some of the fun things the girls (and their parents!) got to do while we were in Singapore last month.  The Botanical Gardens, The Children’s Science Center, and the Singapore Zoo.  I got a little choked up by all the greenery down there.  It was amazing.  Did I mention we’ve got…

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  • Touched down in Xining this a.m.  The weather is still cold, but it’s nice to be back to our own home again.  We’ll probably be heading back to Jianzha later this week.  More news about our trip to Singapore and Thailand this week, too…

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  • …Awww, just skip it!

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  • A friend and I were having a discussion recently about what it’s like to take this journey of faith.  We were sharing our personal struggles in finding God’s guidance in light of our circumstances in this fallen world.  My friend, who lives in a different part of China from where I live, was saying that…

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  • No, no Singapore photos yet.  But these are the remainder of our vacation photos from Thailand.  The beach we were at was just amazing.  So if you are still suffering through the throes of a miserably cold winter, I wouldn’t recommend viewing these.  Just wait until the temperature warms up a few degrees. Prachuap Part…

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  • We landed in Singapore today.  We sailed through customs and got to our company headquarters without incident.  The cab driver got a little lost on the way here, but we knew where we were headed so it was only a slight detour.  I could tell you stories about the "sketchiest" youth hostel in Bangkok, but…

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  • We picked up the new passports today at the Embassy.  You wouldn’t believe the paperwork you have to fill out just to have the stamp moved from the old passport to the new though…but hey, I’m NOT complaining!  Thanks for all your vertical communication everybody.  We’ll let you know what happens next.

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