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Gone fishing last weekend, as a last minute thing my friend and I decided to drive down to Jacksonville, Florida to meet up with two other friends down there and go for fishing in the scorching afternoon sun. Cody’s (one of the friend) owned a boat that can take us out for sightseeing along Jacksonville and then stop whenever we ready for fishing. I had a blast out there fishing not to mention that that was my first time experience gone fishing so you can imagine how exciting I was when I caught a fish. My friends was laughing at me that I didn’t even knows how rear in the fish when I caught one. We did caught a lot of fish or I should say our friend Xiengkone’s caught a lot of fish, though we let goes all of it.

Beside trying to fishing on my own I enjoyed being able to be just relaxed on the boat watching friends did the fishing. I was really happy that I was able to escaped the office this last Saturday to do something like this with friends on the weekend. For the last three weeks I haven’t been able to enjoys any personal activity other than working, working, and more working……..my days would started at nine in the morning everyday and not end until seven or eight at night even on a Saturday so the only day that I can rest was on a Sunday and that was consisting of sleeping.

I normally don’t attend to many live concerts at all if there is one around, needless to mention attending to a concert whom artist I never knew before but for some apparent reasons I decided to go and see Steven Curtis Chapman concert today. Perhaps for one, it’s free for me because it sponsored by the USFK, and second I had nothing better to do after my little hectic day. To my surprised, I am glad that I saw the concert, and really enjoyed it. A few songs that he sang and the stories that he shared was really touching especially with one of the song that he just wrote about a month ago as a gift for men and women who scarifies their livelihood in the Armed Forces serving far a way from home, it was just so touching. The title of the song is “This is what I am fighting for” soon to be recording and release with his new album. Tomorrow he will have another concert in Seoul sponsoring by Onnuri Church and then continuing on his tour to China as he wrapping up his concert here today sponsoring by the USFK.

• What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers. Marina Horner
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• Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting. Elizabeth Bibesco (1897-1945) Writer
• Do not let time pass without accomplishing something. Otherwise you will regret it when your hair turns gray. Yue Fei (1103-1141) Army general
• I get up every day really humbled by the fact that there is so much that I don’t know. Ron Dellums Politician and social activist
• No revenge is more honorable than the one not taken. Spanish proverb
• Economy is half the battle of life; it is not so hard to earn money as to spend it wisely. Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1892) Clergyman
• Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. Margaret Storm Jameson (1891-1986) Novelist and critic
• To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly. Henri Louis Bergson (1859-1941) Philosopher
• If you want to know how rich you really are, find out what would be left of you tomorrow if you should lose every dollar you own tonight. William J. H. Boetcker (1873-1962) Clergyman
• I believe that the reason of life is for each of us simply to grow in love. Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) Writer
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• Strange as it may seem, life becomes serene and enjoyable precisely when selfish pleasures and personal success are no longer the guiding goals. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Psychologist and educator

• Through faith, man experiences the meaning of the world; through action, he is to give it a meaning. Leo Baeck (1873-1956) Rabbi and scholar
• You will find as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you have truly lived, are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love. Henry Drummond (1851-1897) Clergyman and writer
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• Before you take anything away, you must have something better to put in its place. Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) Philosopher
• We should live in such a way that in our last hours we will not regret having loved too little. Chiara Lubich Spiritualist
• Tolerance is the oil which takes the friction out of life. Wilbert E. Scheer
• Joy seems to me a step beyond happiness–happiness is a sort of atmosphere you can live in sometimes when you’re lucky. Joy is a light that fills you with hope and faith and love. Adela Rogers St. Johns (1894-1988) Journalist
• Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity. Charles Mingus (1922-1979) Musician and composer
• The best of all things is to learn. Money can be lost or stolen, health and strength may fail, but what you have committed to your mind is yours forever. Louis L’mour (1908-1988) Writer
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