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read my profile sign my guestbook Name: James Lee Location: Texas, United States Gender: Male Interests: church, piano, singing in both church and school choir Expertise: i'm working on that Occupation: Other Message: message me AIM: jyl11002 Member Since: 3/19/2003

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Monday, March 14, 2011

Movie Review: Toy Story 3

So after telling people how good I think this movie is multiple times, I've decided to write this review following different points.
*****************WARNING::PARTIAL SPOILER ALERT*******************

A. Why should I (whatever age I may be) watch this movie?
- This movie goes far beyond most children's movies. While a child will still find this movie extremely entertaining and fun, the no-longer-teens who essentially grew up with Andy will find many parallels to their own personal life. In addition to this, Toy Story 3 also integrates many more adult themes. For example, in the ending, the toys face and accept their own mortality. Also, just the growth and the cycle of life is very evident and touching.

B. Will I cry in this movie?
- Guys don't like to cry at the movies. This one sticks it pretty hard though. To see the toys go through an up and down of hope, despair, and acceptance, really puts one's life into perspective as well. If you see yourself in this movie, chances are, you'll be choking back a few sniffles here and there.

C. What makes it a good movie?
- Besides everything I said in part A, this movie at the end of the day is a feel-good movie. Also, I feel that as the second sequel, it had the potential to simply fall apart. However, 11 years after the second Toy Story, this story managed to remind us why we loved the first two, the wonderfully tie everything back together in a touching and spellbinding story.

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Monday, January 17, 2011

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Voices in Harmony
By Mormon Tabernacle Choir
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Taking Things for Granted

So, how often are the most basic things in our lives taken for granted? After my recent stint in the hospital, I can honestly say that my view has changed.

Number 1 thing I take for granted: waking up every time I've gone to sleep. After I was released from the hospital, I did some research on DKA and went back to the doctor for a follow up appointment. Only then did I truly realize how close to death's door I had come. Only then did I realize how God had led me through the valley of the shadow of death. The doctor told me that if I came in a few hours to a day later, my very survival would have been in question.

This experience also led me to think about the fragility and frailty of human life. A pH level of 6.9 in my blood instead of the normal 7.4 could completely drain me of all strength. Within 1-2 months, I went from perfectly healthy to lying almost comatose in the mICU. I think that God had a lesson for me to remember how without His protection, who knows where we would be.

So, do I still take things for granted? Of course I do. I'm not brave enough to say that I don't take anything for granted because I think that would be a complete and outright lie. However, I do feel that I no longer take this most basic necessity for granted.

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Monday, May 17, 2010

Entitlement

What is entitlement? By www.m-w.com entitlement is the status of being entitled which in turn means to furnish with proper grounds for seeking or claiming something. So recent thoughts from a worldly perspective of Christian Life in the word Entitlement.

Lesson 1: When we feel entitled, this is when it becomes easy to be embarrassed.
How so? For example, if you feel entitled to a person's wedding because you have known them for a long time. When you don't receive an invite, how stupid do you feel?

So how does this relate to our spiritual lives? As said before, a feeling of entitlement is where one feels that they have proper ground for claiming something. This feeling is even more dangerous in our spiritual life because we are by no means entitled to anything. However, when we begin to feel entitled, this is when we fall. This is when we begin to expect things of God. This is when our pride begins to rear its ugly head and prepares to strike with devastating force.

So, what do you think? How do we prevent feeling entitled?

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Wednesday, May 05, 2010

Just have to make a comment

Justin Bieber is an idiot...
for those of you who didn't see the story, Justin Bieber could not understand the word "German." FAIL! Granted the interviewer had a strong accent. Granted the question was badly phrased. Now, Justin Bieber, you're still an idiot... b/c:
1. Where in the world did you get the idea of the word "Jewman?"
2. You read the cue card... can't really mishear something when you read it.
3. You're canadian... don't say that we don't use that word in America when you're from Canadia...(purposely misspelled)

Now for his twitter response... "I count in GERMAN and translate my own name. Guess I know what German is. Guess home schooling is working out. Do your research next time b4 making a lame attempt at hating on a 16 year old."
Seriously?? You can't understand when someone says German but you speak it??? UTTER FAIL!!

and i really don't see why people like his music...

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On the flight back from Denver, we were in the initial descent. I was popping my ears like normal when suddenly, one ear just decided it did not want to pop... at all. I keep trying to pop it but to no avail. Finally, i'm holding my nose and blowing out slightly, and it semi-pops. and it hurt! bad! well, after a couple of minutes it felt fine again so I'm doing fine, no more problems for a while. The plane lands, get off, blah blah blah. Going to sleep, and it all seems ok. I fall asleep ZZzzz... and then it hits. At about 1 or 2 in the morning, my ear is in enough pain to wake me up and keep me up. I wander around for about 3 hours until around 3:30 ish when the pain dies down enough for me to go back to sleep. I wake up at 7:30... not hearing my 5:30 alarm clock... darn, i was supposed to be at work 30 minutes ago and i'm about 1.25 hours from work (was sleeping at johnny's), and i'm still tired and slightly in pain. So I call in sick and sleep until about 11. Then drive back to my sister's place... ughh but thank God, feeling better now. Ear's still funky, but not keeping me up anymore... Anyways...

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