A Cat named Adam and a Oompa Loompa named Manish

Last Saturday, the 18th I had a chance to catch up with some friends from college. An Oompa Loompa man we call Manish and Hairy Bigfoot man we call Adam. There is also Jen, whom I have a lot of respect for so I have no nicknames for her. =) I did not really spent that much time with them in college but I would see them from time to time. Sometimes I look back and wonder if I spent time to solidify the friendships I had in college?

I still have few friends I kept in touch with after highschool and college. I even kept in touch with my old math teach and my sunday school teachers. I wonder if I have a criteria for picking my friends? Or do I just pick them randomly? I ran into Matt, Adam and Manish at gospel choir but I wonder is that where it got started? Or did it start when we had dinner together? playing ball together? There are certain friendships that is beyond words, it just works. Things are different, Adam now has a beautiful girlfriend, Manish is now back in California. They are still the guys I remember from college, love life and love people.

Unlike Matt's last post about his melatonin, I am going to make this post as relevant as possible about Adam and Manish. I hope to get to know these guys better in the future. And Matt too, there are still things about Matt I am not sure about. As Matt is finishing up law school and the time he still have here in San Diego, I hope we get to know each other better. Good times good times.

This last Friday 24th was my company's holiday party. Nevermind what happend at the party, but my trip there was a sight to see. Around 6pm to 6:30pm driving on Carlsbad Dr gives you a nice view of the beach and the coast line. It was beautiful, as the sun was setting, the color and the wind was just perfect. A nice golden glow as sun sets for the horizon and as the waves gently brush up on the beach I realize my week was coming to an end. There is tomorrow where the waves will be high and fierce. If I have a chance I would like to rent a glider and glide across the ocean not into the sun but maybe along the coast and second thing I would like to do is....well I keep that a secret for the time being. Till next time...


Hope you still have some steam left,

Changheim Steamroller

Dude, where's my melatonin?

Some thoughts:

I suspect that pretty much everyone over the age of 22 and under the age of 40 knows the words to My Heart Will Go On by Celine Dion. My anecdotal evidence is that I was in the car driving to school the other day and that song came on and just for fun I decided to not switch the station. Now, I have NEVER liked that song. I didn't like Titanic. I thought they were both sentimental, girls-make-your-boyfriends-buy-it trash. I honestly have made an effort to NOT listen to that song for as long as I can remember. So after I was still singing along at the end of the second verse I realized that without ever trying to, I totally had all the words memorized. This led to a disturbing thought, what other useless crap that I REALLY DON'T want to know is stuck somewhere in my brain, taking up space that I could use for some of my friends birthdays or something.


I was thinking about the term "coed" recently, as in "coed softball". I feel like 25 years ago a female college student was just referred to as a coed. Like five dollar cover charge, coeds get in free kind of thing. Anyway, I might be wrong about that but I usually assume I'm right. So then I began to think about how that's probably considered a little demeaning these days and I've never actually heard someone call a college girl a coed. What I do hear about a lot is coed sports. I'm not sure what it is, but I think there's some kind of implication there when coed used to just mean "college girl" and now it means "guys and girls playing sports together". Its up to you to pursue that thought any further.

I guess that's all I got tonight. It is after 5am, I think I'm gonna try to sleep.


Well, the night train keeps on chuggin',

Changheim Steamroller

Introduction

Hello!

This will be my first post on Changheim Steamroller. I still need to find out how Heimmer came up with the name. Knowing Matt all these years I have a feeling that he will respond with the following reasons:

1) I was up at 2:07am working on my law paper.

2) Trains are better than airplanes because if both engine fails, trains are already on the ground.

3) I was ironing my clothes....

I am not sure if it is a mix of those or just one of those.


I will ponder about what is Knowledge this week... I was reading my Bible this morning and saw the word knowledge in the following passage. Moral Excellence and knowledge. More to ponder about.....

2 Peter 1

4 For by these He has granted to us His precious and magnificent promises, so that by them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world by lust. 5 Now for this very reason also, applying all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence, and in your moral excellence, knowledge, 6 and in your knowledge, self-control, and in your self-control, perseverance, and in your perseverance, godliness, 7 and in your godliness, brotherly kindness, and in your brotherly kindness, love. 8 For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they render you neither useless nor unfruitful in the true knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Choo Choo!

All aboard! The Changheim Steamroller is up and running. Yes, its 2am on a Tuesday. This is one of the few benefits of insomnia. Fortunately for you, you get to benefit from my sleepless dream. The blog entries that follow here will be the collaborative work of Andrew Chang and Matt Heim (after I tell Andrew about this). Check back regularly to get some knowledge dropped on ya, or at least have a laugh.


Now leaving the station,

Changheim Steamroller