I'll try to keep all my aquarium updates separate from these weekly thought entries.
After looking and reading about Zoas (Zoanthids), since I started the marine aquarium again, I am remembering that when I was young, at the sea, I sometimes found these bubbles on the rocks that I would poke and wonder what they are, and they would retract and gush out water. Now I think they are Zoas. Expensive for aquarists but free everywhere in Penang (or any tropical beaches), and I did not treasure them back then, because they were everywhere and I had always wondered what they were.
Texas housing, luxury enough for average person is around $500,000 (around 4 bed, 3 bath) with a pool, grandeur entrance. Thanks the Mr.You of NY who maybe one of the Chinese opportunists who's thinking of moving to Texas, wonder how the white folks would react to this if it's getting too obvious:
Mr.You visited Katy, East Houston, very new town, unlike old NY, and it's getting populated with Chinese. Perhaps I should ask my manager Al about Texas.
Read some pastor's kid on Facebook regarding meeting his best friends in heaven. First of all, The "after life" for believers is on Earth, the new Earth, not some fantasy spiritual realm, and the idea of such heaven or paradise is to meet with God. The notion of meeting with God should be so overwhelming that if seeing friends (or even dead pets!? seriously?) in heaven is so important that it's rather them than God, then one does not know what Christianity is all about. If meeting God is the ultimate goal, the rest is given for those who love the Lord. There's no need to even convince oneself who is saved who is not.
Just checked out YMCA in South Amboy today (7/16) regarding their membership. $34/yr. $15 per day if not member. Gym is upstairs and has good wide window view of the railroad and fountain, motivating though it may still not be enough to seduce me to use it, I'm a pool person, so heated pool, despite their Summer schedule reservation deal. Still good over all, but could be cheaper as LA Fitness is around the same price or less. Y would have been much closer for me than LA Fitness, which is a 6-10 min drive. Speaking of swimming, I am focusing on Butterfly style. Watching samples from Youtube helps a lot. Butterfly is tough in breathing. I hope that my arms would eventually be able to handle the strokes as easily as I had improved my freestyle strokes from heavy to light.
Church fellowship is a very crucial thing. I've over the years observed and experienced various forms of fellowship in a church. It's basically coming down to: the right kind, traditionalism and sociality. For the traditionalists, church fellowship is just the sake of preserving what was passed down before. Therefore, personal relationship between members could be absent, as that's not their emphasis. For the gregarious type, they really don't care about Christianity, it's a name that put on to make friends, get connections with people. Though they claim they do it for God and words of praising God may come out of their lips, they party amongst themselves. The right kind of fellowship, is the kind that couldn't get enough of God, getting close to God and as a result of that right relationship with Christ, they couldn't wait to share it with those of the same mind and heart. The Traditionalist examples are Westfield Grace OPC, Rev. Laura Lin's church, etc. The Sociality examples are Redeemer PCA, and just about every other churches I've been. The Chinese American Church in Monmouth is an exception, for now. I do not know enough about that one.