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3\/28\/2026 Saturday<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We ordered takeout for the first time from Bollywood Tadka Restaurant <\/strong>on NJ-18. We love their all you can eat buffet. But take out for a lamb dish, tandoori chicken (6x), 1x lamb biryani, for about $70 is really not worth it<\/strong> because the containers are not really full portion. I told Nadia to eat their buffet (Friday - Sunday only for lamb\/goat dish), or Hyderabad Spice for take out (they have good Tuesday deals: buy one biryani get another 50% off => totaling $28).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I learned quite a lot swimming at LA Fitness today around 5pm while Nadia's taking a nap. Because I met an elderly Chinese man swimming in the next lane telling me: You swim very fast. And we started talking after I told him that \"I swim fast because I'm young\" to which he replied \"that's the key!\". So I learned that Jonathan is driving a Model Y TESLA which has full self-driving<\/strong> feature and he's been using the full self-drive all the time, claiming that the car drives even better than he. This is really remarkable to me for I knew about these technology, as Elon Musk had been trying to promote self-driving taxies and even produce cars without steering wheels. But I've never met a person that has been through this until now. Nadia thinks I want to buy TESLA now. Jonathan, who is Taiwanese, is also a member of the Monmouth Community Christian Church (MCCC) \u7f8e\u9580\u6559\u6703. He's a professor in Brooklyn once a week. What I just found out is that I should take Nadia to check out Bell Works<\/strong> (used to be Bell Labs), which is like a supersize complex mall-type business place in Holmdel. I do wish to see this Jonathan again. He seems to like Stephen Tong's Reformed sermons, but I think his son goes to CrossRoads Worship Center (Charismatic I think) in Marlboro (Cliffwood?).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I conferenced with Brian around 8pm to conclude his MySQL database project<\/strong> and he seemed to love it. We'll have dinner on Wednesday and I would be paid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3\/27\/2026 Friday<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I'm with Allie Beth Stuckey on this, Ashley Sheatz' husband (Trevor Sheatz) posting<\/strong> \"controversial\" X tweet detailing his wife's past promiscuity and bleak lifestyle contrasting with his virginity to show how God converted his wife and blessing him with a beauty. The conservative backslash came from folks like Michael Knowles [05:11<\/a>] calling the exposure of a once-whore spouse to public as inappropriate<\/strong> as there are some things considered \"too private<\/strong>\" for public [I disagree, because only sinners believe that, I'm sure St. Augustine <\/strong>would agree with me]. Stuckey rightly rebuked these \"hyper-patriarchy bros who call themselves Christians out there<\/strong>\" as this whore-calling was done by themselves, not Ashley's husband. I believe these conservatives are actually revealing a hidden part of their darkness as they are being revealed by this X posting which is something beautiful, been seen by these hypocrites as something ugly, because perhaps they have themselves viewed women under such dark light and the concealment of a past sin as something of a hypocrisy to cover their believe in work-righteousness rather than the true Gospel. Turning something glorious (new creation: 2 Corinthians 5:17) into something shameful<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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