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Two key takeaways:
• Use your body undulation to create lift through the chest so your arms can focus on moving you forward. Fly is rhythm first, strength second.
• Pinch your shoulder blades on recovery. Scapular retraction lets your back muscles carry the arms instead of muscling through with the front shoulders. Flow with ease.
This is the kind of detail we love breaking down — because fast swimming is built on mechanics, not just grit.
This is a simple php database project that will imitate the school's database, but web-based. With a simple login session token as security.
I am to recall some programming skills from the past: Login mechanism with session tokens, phpMyAdmin/MySQL database: 3 foundational files: Login.php, dashboard.php, logout.php.
First, we needed to connect his godaddy nycfox.com domain with his economy hosting plan. This was done from the CPanel's domains category. After the link just wait for a few minutes (standard max is 48 hours.)
Here's outline of the project:
03/08/2026 Sunday
This marked the 2nd week of our return to Grace Church's Sunday School, thanks to Crossroads Church's split into two services. At this rate, we're going to the later service (11am) instead of the earlier one (9am) after Easter choir performance as planned. If we go to the 9am Crossroads service, we cannot go to GCC's Sunday School. After Crossroads Church service I explored Main Street a little to downtown by foot and came a cross an interesting plant store which offer classes (bonsai, terrariums): Spotted Leaf Plant Company. I had to rush back when I realized that it was already 12:53pm, because choir rehearsal was at 1pm, and I wasn't aware I started my exploration at 12:30pm, and not 12pm.
I do enjoy GCC's Pastor Chris' Sunday School in general. A lot more than his sermons. And with the help of AI, I certainly learned a ton:
For example, today, we were talking about John Calvin, these are mostly from my AI assisted learning:
There are films that go with this youtube channel. A good source of films to learn about Chinese History.
This is a good 14 video series on the study of the New Heaven and New Earth, Eschatology, debunking Premil & Postmil, etc.
03/07/2026 Saturday
We visited Princeton Art Museum in the morning and then had lunch at Lan Ramen at 4 Hulfish St. instead of Nadia's originally planned lunch at a diner. She loved their noodle and beef. I ordered N0 The Ultimate Lanzhou Beef Noodle $17 which was not bad but a bit blend and Nadia had N1 Lanzhou Beef Noodle $16. We also ordered the Taiwanese Popcorn Chicken $15. I felt the familiarity of the restaurant, which looked and located like the one I ate with my parents during the bus tour years ago (the first and only time they visited me up until today).
The museum is a mix of both modern and classical arts. I have no interest in their modern collections. But there are a few Christian themed paintings and Monet. There's also a limited collections of Asian and ancient Mediterranean arts. Entrance is free. Crowd on such Saturday was about 50%. We parked on the street using Princeton's website park meter.
A few note of interest to learn from the collections to look up:
St. Margaret (of Antioch, Martyred, AKA Margaret the Virgin, 289-304AD): Margarites means pearl in Greek. Girls are named after this martyr.
St. Cecilia (Roman virgin martyr, 200-235AD), patron saint of music. Forced marriage with pagan nobleman named Valerian, converted him to be baptized by Pope Urban. Sang to God in her heart during her pagan wedding.
03/06/2026 Friday
Allie Beth Stuckey (I think from now on I'll abbreviate ABS) has a good episode on a strip club ministry by Rachelle Starr. Once a while, ABS does something remarkable. It's called Scarlet Hope. The ministry does sound legit from a gospel perspective from the interview. Not questionable money scheme like VOM (Voice of the Martyrs). Sharing new perspectives about a ministry that brings food to strip clubs and facing skepticisms because Christians were viewed as evil Bible thumpers picketing out on the streets by their work place (strip clubs). That they believed that the free meals may even be poisoned by these Christians.
03/05/2026 Thursday
Mark Zuckerberg's $170 million island mansion in Florida becomes netizens' attention. This reminds me of John 14:2-3. The translations of the verses are not really that clear (i.e. are we talking about mansion-like luxury in a city size house or something more abstract for current understanding?). But I would say it's better than these rich folks' mansions. But the afterlife certainly is not boring.
Attended JAUC (Japanese American United Church) Bible Study online for the first time. This schedule used to conflict with other Bible Studies (GCC's or Crossroads' small group.) I joined about 10 mins late around 7:10pm. I was distracted by this and that while on zoom with them, so my participation level was really low. Then I remembered to do AI note taking using Granola half an hour in since I joined. This is the only Japanese church that I know of in the area, I visited them at least once in Manhattan years ago when I was living in Flushing. Pastor Stanley Wayne was the teacher, on the topic of 1 Samuel 25. It's really a mix of English and Japanese. But I think everyone on this hybrid (about 9 people on Zoom, and in person) session are Japanese speakers, except for myself. I didn't speak nor was asked to, especially since I was late. English is likely tolerated. I think the pastor read one verse in English and then another alternated in Japanese. I saved the Granola notes to my work drive. I believe the pastor's using either NKJV or NASB for English and JCB (リビングバイブル Japanese Contemporary Bible - I couldn't this module for e-sword). I think I would try again if given opportunity and less distractions.
03/03/2026 Tuesday
This morning I woke up with a unique dream. It has to do with the demonic supernatural. I don't remember much now, but I supposed there was an encounter of the evil forces at someone's place, which I then encountered again privately on the street or something.
Khalil Sayegh, a Palestinian Christian, testified that Israeli terrorists are worst than Hamas, this is an interesting take, as I don't know enough:
03/02/2026 Monday
This is the challenge from the center (I wouldn't put Holy Post Media on the Left) using the nation's founding fathers' quotes regarding for ALL nations and ALL religions, against the Christian Nationalists of this country. This is always interesting to me because the Right would love to argue that "religions" just means different denominations of Christianity in America, and not other religions such as Buddhism and Islam:
03/01/2026 Sunday
Today, because of the beginning of the split into two services (duplicate) at Crossroads, Nadia and I were able to attending GCC's Sunday School by Pastor Chris. I kept having to explain to Nadia that it's not about "Tim loves Pastor Chris' Sunday Schools", but more about "I respect true servant of God." Because the content of the pastor/GCC may be too shallow for my taste, in fact, GCC gives me a vibe of hard Calvinism. Antinomianism is probably an unspoken reality as a result. After that, I gladly (Nadia may be feeling a bit uncomfortable) go to Crossroad with Nadia for the Sunday Service, as planned. I told her, that she must focus on worshipping God, not men. Since she couldn't stand Pastor Chris' sermons (injection of self-righteousness, shallow, confusing terminologies, etc.), Crossroads would be a reasonable solution.
Pastor Chris' Sunday School lesson of the day was on John Calvin, still on the Church History track. I saw Eleni's notes from last week which was on The Lord's Supper and Infant Baptism, which I agree with Pastor Chris as he gave us the lesson notes saying "you missed last week's which would be more interesting on the doctrines, and now we're back at the boring historical facts again." I agree last week would be quite interesting, but I disagree that today's any more boring. Teaching Church history, especially outside of the Seminary academics, really has a lot to do with who your audience is in order to engage interest in all aspects of the history. But it was fun enough, Nadia was actually listening this time, perhaps it's John Calvin. I then tried to talk to Eleni about infant baptism, she stressed she didn't want debate, even though I wasn't nor ever did debating her on this subject before, but we were interrupted by Matt who wants to talk to me about airlines to KL, now that's boring. Another example of how "Satan" could strategize the fall of a church - by preventing true fellowship in the Lord amongst church members. Anyway, Crossroads is doing healthier goals, we'll have that Christian Nationalism discussion soon in April for the men...but as Nadia would say, why just the men?...Indeed. Pros and cons everywhere, any church.
Google AI: The Satanic Panic was a 1980s–1990s moral panic, primarily in North America, involving unsubstantiated, widespread fears of organized Satanic cults abusing children. Fuelled by the 1980 book Michelle Remembers, sensationalist media, and dubious, recovered-memory therapy, this hysteria led to numerous false accusations, ruined lives, and innocent convictions, especially against daycare operators.
I believe I learned this term from the Holy Post Media, more than once now:
This series maybe bias to the political right wing, but in the age of easy AI-fact check, all it take is some due diligence to learn properly:
2/26/2026 Thursday
Allie Beth Stuckey doesn't care: Her bias is revealed when she couldn't handle false dichotomy about left and right wing agenda, she could only side with Trump no matter what (unless it's something Trump wouldn't come at her or her father of, i.e. IVF matter, etc.): "And this is why when people send me Trump's tweets or posts or he said this or he made this joke about the women's hockey team, I'm like, I don't care!." They sure can be clever on how to treat the general public (i.e. Her Jubilee Debate, Doug Wilson's interviews, etc.) but the fundamentalist Christian light is really just an echo chamber, speaking only to her own tribe.
2/25/2026 Wednesday
Stephen Tong on pedagogy, to not practice unwise stringent rules upon the children, 郭盈恩 (Grace Quek, AKA Annabel Chong) mentioned, the Singaporean church elder's daughter who had a marathon sex with 200+ men. Google AI verified:
She was born and raised in a middle-class Protestant Singaporean Chinese family, described as a "product of Singapore's strict value system".
Listening to what I didn't realize (or forgotten) was of Handel, George Frideric' Water Music Suites:
Suite #1 Suite in F major (HWV 348), V: Air
Suite #2 (not 3. as some mistakenlystated) Suite in D major (HWV 349), II: Alla Hornpipe
2/24/2026 Tuesday
How to build Mobile Apps using Rails, by Joe Masilotti. He's written a book about it. Seems legit for beginners.
This controversy with Eileen Gu is of interest. The Right loves comparing Eileen Gu with another Alysa Liu: Boo to Gu; Woo to Liu.
I was ignoring the lame "deport this traitor" comments by American right wingers until coming across the above video by Stephen Chan, and commented:
至於古愛凌，也有可能("U.S. already has the representation"-2019,"I'm flattered"-JD Vance)是美國競爭輪不到她，所以2019年打算投別國“服事” - no problem.
It's me hinting that he's been doing his ministries in other countries too, so don't be a hypocrite. JD Vance when questioned, at least knew that it may not be a black and white background story regarding Eileen Gu, but he's also trying to make his constituents happy by saying by ignoring a dual citizenship patriotism spirit.
An old post by David Tong, which is a good quote to deal with some Christians who have bad theology on forgiveness and repentance: God does not forgive you because Christ died for you.
