Crack on the valve cover.
My car is opening up its heart, first time I see it like this.
Close up for the head of the engine.
Wednesday, July 28, 2004
Oil Leak Solved
Tuesday, July 27, 2004
Normally, I don't like fortune cookies or let alone believe in it. But very strangely, on Monday morning I posted a post about my evangelism this past weekend, about that we Christians needs to go out light our dark world. And that day during lunch I had some fake Chinese food, and I got this fortune cookies says the above. Regardless, I feel encouraged.
Another Oil Leak
Valve cover gasket leak.
Where are you my little leaky spot.....
3" exhaust all the way.
WRX on dyno, 345 hp from wheels... and this is all wheel drive...
Kerr-McGee Intern and Associate Bible Study
Intern and Associates Bible Study. Ross, Justin, Huan, and Kate.
We are very serious when talking about God.
But as always when people are not looking.
Monday, July 26, 2004
Lighting my world.
This weekend, I was invited to a birthday party, at first I didn’t want to go. Because I know what this kind of party usually is, probably will be lot of drinking, smoking, people are not the usual people I am accustomed to, and many temptations. I thought to myself, do I really wanted to go? No way, I don’t think I will enjoy myself there. Then I thought to myself, if the people there are like anything I imagined to be, this will be an excellent opportunity to evangelize, to be a brightly burning candle that shine onto their dark void in their soul. So I went, on my way, I prayed to God that He come tonight, shown Him self to there people tonight, I am not going to even try with my own effort, but He is going come and use me just as the way I am to do His work. I went to the party and it was just exactly what I though it is, I talked to them and made friends with them, later on that evening they invite me to bowling with them, on the way one guy I meet shared his life story with me, how he left home at 16, out on his own since, how he didn’t have a father, how his father abused him and I shared my testimonies with Him, told him that if he “Seek first his kingdom and his Righteousness, all you need will be added you.” That the Lord will provide, just do his best, all you “need” will be given to him. He told me later that evening that He is Catholic, He thank me for tonight talking to him. As I left them that evening, those guys asked for my number, they invited me to join them every Saturday at bowling. It is so true like that song says
“There is a candle in every soul
Some brightly burning, some dark and cold
There is a Spirit who brings a fire
Ignites a candle and makes His home
So Carry your candle, run to the darkness
Seek out the hopeless, confused and torn
Hold out your candle for all to see it
Take your candle, and go light your world”
Sunday, July 25, 2004
Work
Ross a "wonderful" Sooner from work.
Kate also a "wonderful" Sooners from work.
Dan a "hardworker" from England also from work.
But when people are not looking.....
(trouble view video, click here)
Thursday, July 08, 2004
"God allows the opinion of His saints to matter to you, and yet you are brought more and more out of the certainty that others understand the step you are taking. You have no business to find out where God is leading, the only thing God will explain to you is Himself. Profess to Him - I will be loyal. Immediately choose to be loyal to Jesus Christ, you are a witness against your self. Don't consult other Christians but profess before Him - I will serves Thee. Will ot be loyal."
-July 08, My utmost for His Highest.
It is so true, God I will be loyal, I will serves Thee. My life is not about finding out Your will for me, but serve you only!
Tuesday, July 06, 2004
Went to LT at Orlando this past weekend, God teached me something new at LT this weekend.
So far this summer.
Work, it is also been really great, I am learning so much from them, I just finished my 3rd project, and its been only a month, God is really teaching me a lot about his design in petroleum engineering. I meet a lot of Christians are my floor, mostly interns and new hires, we having lunch everyday, and just having awesome fellowship with each other, share about our lives. Work is providing lots for me financially, I fix some problem with my car, even get to help financially for my father, give to the church and still have enough for my needs, God is just so good. I really hope I can get hired on with Kerr-McGee, it seems so far a great company, I like the atmosphere a lot.
God is teaching me lot about pride this summer, I didn't think I was very prideful, but its becoming more clear to me that i am indeed very prideful, and God's humility is just so high that no way i can reach that through my own work. He look at us like ants, and 1) He can have compassion for our sin/suffering, 2)He not only want to help us, He can just save us by miracle, every time we suffer/sin. 3)But he chose not to do that, He choose to become a human, becoming like an ant, and drying the most awful way an ant can die, in order to take there miserable ant's suffering/sin away for eternality. It is just beyond me to think of God's humility, and it is so clear that no way I can do the same by my own work, just imaging myself willingly become an ant, that is just blow me away just to think about it. There is no way I have the humility like Christ, opposite of humility is pride, and I am very prideful indeed, only way for me to have humility like Christ, is accept Christ's help.
God blessed me with a good job this summer, people around me are giving me praises, it is easy for me think I deserve this and think highly of myself, but in reality I don't deserve this job, my grades are not so good, people with higher grades than me stilling looking for job. Praise from man are like a test, I shared with LTers I sometimes wishing I don't have to endure this test, I can just go work at universal, doing what everyone else is doing. But God want to teach me something, and next summer definitely I will go to LT, before I start working so I won't get so hot headed, and full of myself.
1 Month down, 2 more to go, I am already learned so much, I am excite to see what God has in store for me for the rest 2 month.
Thursday, July 01, 2004
Traffic in Houston
Everyday I drive 1 hour to work, 1.5 hour back home from work. 2.5 hour everyday in Houston traffic, that is 10% of my day everyday so far this summer in traffic, sad, at least I like drive my car.
As a engineer in training, we are told in school to look for pattern and model that pattern, so far I found that there is in deed some pattern in Houston traffic.
1. When there are helicopter are hovering above the road way ahead of you, traffic/delay is expected.
2. Accident/stalled vehicle are not the cause of slow down. Why? Because all Houston freeways have big roomy shoulders. People's curiosity causes the slow down, even when it is on other side of freeway.
ex. Yesterday I got on I 59, and there was big slow down, normally at 6:30 there is no such big slow down. I turn on radio, report accident at I59 Newcastle, I am here at I59 and beltway 8, I though wow must be a really big accident, cause slow down 10 mile away. As traffic slowly going, suddenly I noticed some building off side of freeway has big big pile of smoke coming out of it, wow, interesting, I thought. Immediately people in front of me speed up, velocity of my car increased from 10 mile/hour to 70 mile/hour.
3. When there are police are around people slow down, even if it is on the other side of freeway, even when they are going 50 mile/hour on the freeway.
Sigh… I am post on traffic observations on my blog, I am spending way too much time in traffic.
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