Dancing Baby!

Hehehe: - Music calms the baby beast!  This kid's gonna be one heck of a dancer when he grows up!

Male Restroom Etiquette

In case you need a refresher - or you're curious about what happens in the other gender's fortress: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzO1mCAVyMw (AS).  Failure to follow these rules will "...place the very fabric of our civilization in peril."

Or...if you think you already know everything, test your knowledge here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzO1mCAVyMw (YC)

Stiff Person Syndrome

I ran into this youtube video about this girl who was healthy, beautiful, and about to get married, but then became destroyed by a suspected autoimmune disorder.  Initially I thought this was a scam, but it turns out it's legit and on ABC news: http://abcnews.go.com/video/playerIndex?id=8277314. Here is the ABC 20/20 article: Steadfast Fiance Provides Lifeline for Woman With Rare Mystery Illness
Can you imagine thinking you'll be living out your fairytale story, then your body starts to deteriorate to the point where you're paralyzed? I guess that happens with a lot of illnesses, but it's just sobering to remember that we're so human.

Here's the original youtube video: 3 Weeks to Live

Quince

Have you ever heard of the fruit, Quince? - mixture between pear and apple.  I've never heard of it before!  You can make Honey Poached Quince Pie.

Doctors Without Borders

On Monday, Dr. Richard Heinzl, the founder of the Canadian Doctors Without Borders (MSF) came and spoke! It was so exciting! Just reading about his stories abroad (Uganda, Cambodia, Turkey...) is inspirational and awe-inspiring!  Before, I had been very interested in doing MSF, but after his talk, I'm almost certain this is something I would like to do once I'm out of medical school.  Granted, I'll have to worry about debt, taking time off, safety, and perhaps even family...but those are problems for me to figure out later.  For now, I just need to get through second year...

Belly Up!

My favorite e-card of all times! :D
http://www.hallmark.com/ECardDisplay/ECardDisplay/nfg2155_DK?FacetList=ecards%3EBirthday
In memory of KP and her special day!

Ridiculous Foreign Body

This has got to be one of the most ridiculous foreign bodies found!  How in the world did it get in there?

Parenting the Biblical Way

Today's pre-chili-cook-off sermon was about parenting.  Darin placed emphasis on the importance of having honor run the family and the society.  He emphasized the importance of father's participation in parenting, the myths, and the reasons and ways of honoring imperfect parents:

• Statistically, children benefit from a father's involvement in parenting: better academically, emotional/social health is better
• Everyone grew up in dysfunctional families (even the ones that look perfect) because parents are imperfect
• The center of the family is not the child because children will leave.  God is the center.
• "A family is a covenant community where worship and learning happens in the context of unconditional love."
• Different growth:
• Spouse: grow to be interdependent
• Parenting: how to be independent or codependent
• Old school:
• Center of the family is the dad - chauvinistic
• Family is an emotional support only
• Child is like a slave - parents live through kids vicariously
• Parents are just friends
• Ephesians 6:1: Children obey your parents...honor your father and mother...
• Growing up: obey parents
• As adults: honor parents (there's a difference)
• NOT obey b/c parents are imperfect
• Why honor?
• parents represent authority in our life
• authority: when God puts fallible people to discipline, protect, and teach us.
• we don't like authority, but we need it 
• teach us authority - when give God authority, we give him glory & us joy
• What honor looks like
• Take them seriously
• The Hebrew word for honor is "weighty" - so treat them like they matter, they have weight
• Find common ground with them
• Ask them for advice (Parents shouldn't expect grown children to obey, but should influence them)
• Listen to their struggles, esp. health - let them finish well
• Share your joy with them (they see themselves in you)
• Big one: forgive them.
• Even when parents die, they will still have bearing on you if you don't forgive them.
• Ephesian 4:31: ...as God forgave you.

Pandas are so cute! :)

This panda really wants to get to the top!: Panda Climb
Awww, this is a great definition of friendship: Friendship
And here's a panda clinging onto a worker after an earthquake:


The rest of this dude's pictures are really cool as well! Ah...pretty pictures and funny chinglish!

Does He Have Bones?

Wow, this guy "is not normal"....so cool!  It's really like he's rubber...or something:



And I'm pretty sure this one's fake. It is right? Somehow modified?...it has to be...
Funny Face Dance

RWIM: Lymphangioleiomyomatosis and Esophagogastroduodenoscopy

Ridiculous Words In Medicine: Lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM)- rare lung cancer that involves proliferation of disorderly smooth muscle cell in premenopausal women.

Esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD) - scope for esophagus, stomach, and duodenum

Wow! Architecture is so Amazing!

I have to visit these places some day...
http://www.noupe.com/photography/50-beautiful-examples-of-architecture-photography.html
Example:

So bizarre!

Checkout this awesome space-saving bathroom idea: http://dornob.com/7-functions-1-fixture-modular-metal-bathroom-design-idea/

Haha, really love working? Now you can take your whole desk/chair/everything with you: http://dornob.com/mobile-foam-office-compact-computer-desk-2-chair-set/

Or here: http://dornob.com/modular-office-furniture-wood-box-storage-desk-chair/

This just looks claustrophobic: http://dornob.com/office-in-a-box-wall-furniture-unit-desk-shelves-system/

Ooo..nifty desks that I want when I'm a billionaire...: Triangular Multilevel Desk and

Space-saving desk/storage

Eat and Sleep at the Same Time XD

Oh my gosh!  This has got to be one of the cutest videos ever! hehehe! Poor little girl - must be studying too hard at night! http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=10150104738109392 (KL)

YouKU - not YouTUBE + Chickens are So Cool!

Haha...checkout the chinese version of youtube: http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNzg0NDg1Njg=.html And the amazing VOR (vestibulo-ocular reflex) capabilities of chickens!  Okay, it's not actually VOR - maybe it's some insane head version of VOR...but anyhow, check it out. This gave me a new appreciation for chickens.  (video from TT)

OMG, Everyone's Getting Engaged!

"Marriage shouldn't be a picture of two people looking into each other's eyes, but of two people standing next to each other and looking out into the distance." There was a VERY interesting sermon at my church today about dating/marriage.  Highly recommend watching it (whether you're single or not)! http://journeyon.net/media/you-yours/loving-god-single-person  (Start at 4:50).  E.g. did you know dating was an euphemism for paying for sex?  Strange...But for the lazy yet curious, here are some highlights:

• Best way to find out if you really actually like someone is by hanging out with other people and seeing how they interact with other people.
• People tend to trick themselves into thinking they like someone ...but in reality, it's because they don't hang out with anyone else. (so true in the case of med school...)
• Seeing his/her interaction with other people will reveal their true self... (haha, this is something my dad told me)
• Your spouse shouldn't be a puzzle to be solved, but a mystery to be explored.  If you think you know everything about them, don't marry them.
• The purpose of marriage isn't happiness, but holiness.
• For many people, marriage is a consumerism reenactment: they look for someone who's attractive, smart, whatever to make themselves feel better.  But when you look for a partner, you don't look for a statue, you look for a marble tablet; not a perfect outcome, but a project.
• Many people also try to get more than what they put in - which in combination with above causes them to see something better and go after that instead.
• Don't be obsessed with perfection, participate in the process of making them perfect.
• Don't focus on who they are, but what they will be.  A vow is a future appointment to meet each other's needs.
• For others, marriage is a movie reenactment:
• Casual sex tries to separate the delights of sex from the responsibilities/covenant
• It damages one's ability to commit and weakens the future covenant to your partner
• C. S. Lewis wrote a book about the four kinds of love. Biblically, it should be in this order when you go through a relationship: 
• Philos: friend
• Storge: affection
• Agape: commitment to serve them
• Eros: sex
• ...But the current mainstream love is this way: Eros, Storge, Philos, Agape
• Things to look for in a partner:
• Christian
• Understands the Gospel
• Doesn't take shortcuts - do the not fun things, willing to do hard things
• And...a no brainer: be attracted to them
• Make you want to be more like Jesus
• Give you a vision for the future
• In the end, he also said people should address their social strangeness.  When I heard this, I thought, ok, maybe I should join a convent.  Haha...yes, I have that many social strangenesses.