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Name: Joe-Kar-Karina
Gender: Male
Interests: Joe: You-tube, Wikipedia, Movies, Break Dance, Toyota Bb Kar: Food and Nutrition Manic, Movies, Sleeping, Facebooking, Mini Cooper!BB: Play, Eat, Sleep, Learn, Laugh, Pee & Poo
Expertise: Joe: Computer, Bb care/upgrade, Stay up late!Kar: Food and Nutrition, Drums, Karaoke, Sleep in!BB: Be Spoiled!
Occupation: Joe: PC dudeKar: Nut Expert
Industry: Joe: DefenseKar: Geri care
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Member Since:
4/20/2007
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| Karen got her thankful heart back and just wanna say, God is "great"! Thank you for everything... my family, my parents, my husband, my little girl, my brothers, my friends (from HK, current/previous churches, work, schools, from the street, etc.)... Thank God for providing so that Karen and Joseph can still keep their job, house, cars, phones, all the gadgets, etc... and keep up with their bills... Thank God we are generally healthy with good spirits... Thank God our body is intact with nothing missing... Thank God we can still sing and praise the LORD and enjoy HIS words with good eye-sight and hearing... Thank God we are NOT homeless and with the ability to buy foods to satisfy our basic physical need of hunger. Thank God we are NOT in war and are actually safe, free from being physical, mental, and sexual abuse by insane, devilish soldiers but live in peace... We are just too fortunate and cannot ask for more... Thank you, God! | | |
| Karen has passed her citizenship test to become an U.S. citizen. Yay!!!!
Next plan is to successfully score well in the GRE exam so that she can decide what graduate schools she is qualify for applying. Karen is hoping to find a school that provides decent quality of education but also affordable. Karen really wants to master things learned and to use it for her dietetic career. Without the application of knowledge into daily work life, what has learned is actually a waste.... Guess everybody knows "practice makes perfect!" Same theory applies to our Chirstian's life as well. Knowing the truth without following nor doing it -> a waste of one's spirtual life...
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| Tonight, Karina and Mommy Karen had a blast dancing together with the music, "I Gotta Feeling," by Black Eyed Peas playing over and over again before bed. After we danced a little bit more with a couple of other songs, Joseph and Karen then started a conversation with Karina. Forgot why we asked Karina this question, "Do you want to have a little brother, or a little sister?" Of course we gotta provide some explanations and such to make her understand what we were asking.... Guess Karina's response? Her answer was a "YES!" and she wants a little brother!!!! How cute...  So, we prayed together and asked God to grant us a little boy if HE is willing... in HIS time, not in ours. Honestly, Joseph and Karen have been struggling and we are not sure if we really want to have another child. Without any family help or assistance, it is nearly impossible for us, two working parents, to take care of two kids (one is already a big challenge!). Besides, Joseph is now back to school and Karen also has plan to work on her master degree next year. There are things we wanna do, like traveling, enjoying our hobbies, playing sports, and such. Having another child or not is really a big decision to make. Guess we really need to trust in God for providing the best for us. Second baby or not? School first or baby first?? Time is running out... And we have no clue?
Christian friends, speak to us please? | | |
| Whenever Karen is sick, she'd love to isolate herself because she doesn't want people to suffer like her. Since Karen has been sick for the whole weekend, she's trying to stay away from Joseph and Karina as well. However, they are pretty "sticky" for some reasons and appear not taking Karen's advice at all. Oh well, Karen wanted Joseph to take Karina somewhere to play (i.e. Home Depot, Target, Church, Bowling, etc.) so this way Karen could have some rest and hopefully Karina won't get any germs from being too close to mommy. Joseph didn't want to do that and preferred to stay at home. Then, when Karen explained to Karina that mommy is sick and doesn't want to make her sick over and over again, Karina said to mommy, " 我要病病!" ("I wanna be sick" in Chinese). Guess Karen's good intention didn't get any appreciation at all!??? Or maybe Karen is just too paranoid about being sick!??? Anyway... Karen and Joseph both thought Karina's funny about wanting to be sick... 我要病病...我要病病...我要病病... 
Karina - Your wish is granted!!! Your temperature is a little higher now... 99.8F...
Joseph - You'd better take Karina to see a doctor tomorrow or something... coz' I have too much to do at work and don't have time to take any sick day at all... 
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| To be honest, it's the first time ever that Karen got a job that is so unmanageable. No matter how much extra hours she put in, things have not been getting any better... (And, she has been with this company for about a month!!!!) With different mandatory meetings everyday, Karen's work is just getting so way behind... She appears got only 2.5 days to do her work, with an consultant coming in like twice a week to help.... Still, it's still behind!!! How sad Joseph has been solely responsible to take care of Karina for most days after work, which makes Karen feels so guilty about not able to be with Karina. Guess it's another level of challenge Karen really needs to get over with. With God's grace, Karen hopes to well manage her job soon but at the same time to be able to take care of her family which she thinks that's a priority. Besides, if God is willing, please grant Karen's wisdom to deal with co-workers' wisely as politics is something Karen has no intention to be involved and she only cares about taking care of residents' needs while at work. God please help Karen because she's just too naive and straight-up! Thank God for the new job and everything.... **Need to Trust in Him More** Amen!
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