02/02/2026 Monday
One of the best summary of the 3 Kingdoms history (三國志 vs. the pseudohistory 三國演義 version) I've seen this far, easy to understand of the entire history of it:
Love this quote from my company's marketing newsletter today: Resonating the teaching that's very lacking in today's churches (primarily among conservative): Even Einstein knew better, but to deal with the practical folks, I think I would say it better than Einstein this way: Not doing anything that's mean you are better than those who keep failing in doing, even though we shouldn't do tasks beyond our ability:
“A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.” — Albert Einstein
The Human Genome Project (HGP): Used to cost $2.7 billion to sequence personal DNA (1990-2003 ~according to Google AI), now it's in the $100 - $200 range (obviously based on the $2.7 billion project in its novelty). This is interesting as I haven't even sent in my 23andMe (genotyping, not full genome sequencing, for ancestry and basic health reports) yet:
02/01/2026 Sunday
Best sermon I (as well as Nadia and Willy) have heard at Crossroad so far. It was delivered by Pastor David Lee, on 1 Samuel 4:1-11 (Seeking God or Using God). Perhaps it was the due to the part of the Bible, but it was very clear, to the point, full of examples. Willy gave a 9/10 when I asked, but he's the type who likes jokes in sermons. Nadia initiatively expressed to me that she liked the sermon as well.
Chatting with Al, one of their elders, reminded me to look up GCC's Matt. Because quite a few of Crossroads folks were from RCCC apparently. But because I couldn't get Matt's Chinese name correctly, nobody at Crossroads seem to recall him. So I'll just create a new entry for Matt just for myself.