Ace Attorney

I'm horrible at keeping up with this thing. My goodness. Anyway, here's some stuff that's on my mind.

As many of you might know, I love Ace Attorney. For the noobs people with lives who don't know what that is, it's a video game. It's relatively unknown in normal circles, so it's something I love to share with other people, because I want them to experience the same fun I did while playing it. I have nothing but good things to say about it, and it gives me a ridiculous sense of happiness when someone I know gives it a shot. Everyone who gave it a chance now has that same love for the game as I do (Everyone except my dear ladyfriend Joanne. Let's ignore this fact because it weakens the analogy I'm about to make). I love talking about it to people, and as absurd as it sounds, I feel this innate connection to anyone else who will know what the f I'm talking about when I yell "Objection!" and point a finger at them.

Now re-read what I just wrote, except instead of Ace Attorney, imagine that I'm talking about God.

Talk about a slap to the face.

Not everything fits perfectly, but you get the idea. The way I talk about Ace Attorney should be the way I talk about God. But that's not the case. Not even close. Something is seriously wrong with the fact that I have a stronger desire to tell people about a video game than to tell people about my Lord and Savior. I go around telling people that I'm Christian, but the things I choose to talk about and spend my time on don't really reflect that fact. I'm more of a VideogameBasketballGradesian than a Christian, honestly.

Not many people have played Ace Attorney, but I'm sure a lot of you guys can relate to my struggle. Whether it be about a TV show, a band, delicious food, new technology, the latest gossip, etc., almost all of us can say we have something that we enjoy telling others about more than we do with Christ.

Just some food for thought.

- m (o    )(    o) bs

Relativity

Another physics title! Just some random thoughts..

It's always important to remember that your views and your experiences are relative and not absolute. The way that you react or respond to certain things will most definitely be different from how somebody else would. Realizing this is essential to understanding how vastly different we are as people. I try to stop myself when I notice that I'm judging people exclusively through the lens of my own experience, because I know that there is so much to them than what I myself can comprehend. When we break out of the habit of viewing people one-dimensionally, we begin to see people as individuals who have unique personalities and stories instead of collectively judging them all the same way.

I reread what I wrote and it seems super dense. I hope I made sense.

DAT RHYMED.

But actually, feel free to comment if something didn't make sense though. Because it's 3 AM, and I'm sure I wrote something that is just completely incoherent. Call me out on it. Please.

Good night!

- m (o          )(          o) bs

Opposites Attract

You're a well of wisdom, I'm a puddle of folly
You're so full of giving, I'm the master of selfish living
Although I'm rotten deep down to the core
I'm still the apple that Your eyes adore


You functioned as a standard of humility
I'm often humbled by my dysfunctionality
The crowds surrounded you to learn to believe
But the only thing I'd teach someone is not to be like me, 'cause


You are holy, and I am wholly a mess
I'm causing trouble, while you remain blameless
You'll always love me as much as I need You
I'm so thankful that opposites attract

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These are lyrics from a song called Opposites Attract by Koo Chung. I can't even find a YouTube video for it so I'm guessing a lot of you haven't heard it. Just wanted to share these lyrics. I love this song because it really captures how flawed we are, especially in comparison to God. I believe that true acknowledgment of this disparity is what reveals the power of the Gospel. This is what I personally need to be reminded of each and every day in order to remember why I walk with God. Hope these words reminded you too!

tGif.

- m(o )( o)bs

Inertia

I started a diet a few days ago. After following an extremely carb-heavy diet for the majority of this school year, suddenly switching to a no-carb diet has been wrecking me. The radical change in the type of food I was eating led to violent and explosive diarrhea. As I sat on the can, it got me thinking. There's always intense resistance to change of any kind.

Newton's first law defines inertia as an object's ability to resistance change to its state of motion. This idea of inertia doesn't only apply to the difficulty of accelerating a certain mass, but also to habits or addictions. The more "massive" it gets, the more you reinforce it, the harder it will be to break out of it.

It's 3 AM so I hope that made some sort of sense. Just in case, here's the tl;dr version:

Be careful about the habits you form. The more you reinforce them, the harder it will be to break out of them.

Just some thoughts I've been having. Trying to keep my blog posts a bit shorter so I can get myself to update more often.

- m(o )( o)bs

Interior Design

I love interior design. Yom (who shares a similar passion for interior design) and I just finished rearranging the Men's Den lounge for the fourth time this year in preparation for the Super Bowl, but we were so happy with the end product that we decided to stay with this layout even after tomorrow's game. We've even talked about it and we both agree that "interior designer" is near the top of our if-I-could-choose-another-career-what-would-it-be list. For real though.





When I was visiting Joanne in California this past summer, she took me to the Grove because it's super pretty. Here's a picture if you don't know what it's like:

Ignore me being fabulous and get an idea of what the Grove is like. What it looks like is actually not really that important. I just wanted to post another picture because I haven't used pictures in my previous posts and I wanted to make up for it. I'm also quite the narcissist so it was almost obligatory for me to have a picture of myself eventually. But that's a subject for another time.



Anyway, while at the Grove, we went to the Crate & Barrel there because furniture is awesome. Jo and I shopped around and kept an eye out for furniture we should have in our future home (yes, we're a little weird/crazy. DEAL WITH IT). We spent an unreasonably large amount of time there, especially given that we didn't have nearly enough money to buy anything. We did, however, decide on this incredibly soft Memphis Stone Rug. I've kept it in the back of mind and will continue to do so until I can buy it. I just have to say, that rug was amazing. I'd also like to say that, for the sake of our perceived normality, I don't usually have conversations with Joanne about the very distant future. But I do consider myself an honest person, so no can do. We are a very weird couple... or do other people do that too? Anyone...?

Just thinking about being in an empty room and being in complete control over what it will look like once I finish furnishing it is absurdly exciting to me. I thought about why it seemed so enticing to me, and I figured it's because of the satisfaction I get from it. When every piece of furniture fits perfectly and when each individual item in the room impacts its overall vibe, I feel an incredible sense of accomplishment. You really begin to understand what it means for the whole to be greater than the sum of its parts. It's magical.

What's the point of this post? There really isn't one. I just wanted to talk about interior design.

Though I love this gif, I am in no way a Lakers fan. Just making that clear. Go Bulls.







Have a beautiful Super Bowl weekend, friends. Take care, black bears.

- M(o   )(   o)BS

Justin Bieber

Beauty and a Beat has been my jam for the past few weeks. Now, I'm not the biggest fan of Justin. Can't say I've contracted Bieber Fever (Is that term even used anymore? I feel so out of the loop..). Give me any random Justin Bieber song and there's a 60-70% chance I don't like it... somewhere in that range. I've disliked him more than I've liked him. But this song is fantastic. I'm definitely really late in discovering this song, mainly because I don't pay much attention to what music is on the radio. I just do my own thing. But I eventually happened upon this song and all I can say about it is that I'm very glad I had to opportunity to listen to it.

Why am I writing about Justin Bieber? Maybe I'm just forcing a new blog post. But I do have some things I want to say about him. Srsly!

I meet so many people who are just automatically turned off by anything related to this guy. More so in YouTube comments than anywhere else, but you get my drift. Now, I can understand if you listen to his music and don't like it (e.g. Boyfriend. That song is garbage), but when your view of his music spills over into your view of him as a person, that's when it becomes ridiculous. For example, I saw a video of him getting hit in the face by a water bottle during one of his concerts. I'm sure a lot of you have seen it too. A concert is an incredibly special time for any artist or musician, and for someone to do that while he sings is messed up. I don't care how bad you think someone's music is, you shouldn't throw water bottles at people while they perform. Actually, scratch that. You shouldn't throw water bottles at people EVER. Unless, of course, someone asks you for a bottle of water and they are well out of arm's reach. THIS IS THE ONLY EXCEPTION. Well, there are probably more but I'm too lazy to think of them. Sorry.

Back to the matter at hand. Why is it that collectively deriding a person for no good reason is socially acceptable? Why is it that loving or praising a person for no good reason isn't as popular? Anyone else see how this is incredibly strange? I hope we can go about changing this paradigm (Did I use that word correctly?) one step at a time through the way we live and interact with each other, whether it be with friends or with strangers.

That's all I got for ya. Peace out, river trouts.

- M(o  )(  o)BS

P.S. Though this post brings up some valid points, at the end of the day, it's still a shameless plug for the song. Go listen to it if you haven't already. And shame on you if you didn't listen to it solely because it's by JBiebs.

P.P.S. Just realized Nicki Minaj, who's featured in the song, also suffers from the same overblown criticism. Stop being mean to her too. LEAVE NICKI ALONE!

Filler

I know I just posted, but I'm looking at my blog and it's just way too empty right now. It's just like, two colors, a few lines of text, and a flattering picture of yours truly. The only reason this post exists is to make it seem like my blog has substance. Though honestly, even after a year or so of updating this thing, I really doubt my blog will have anything that can legitimately be called "substance". Especially if all I have is filler.