I’m sure by now some of you if not most of you know that Kate and I
have decided to leave ACCC by end of June.  It was a tough
decision that took us over a year to pray over and consider before we
were absolutely certain.  But we see clearly how God’s will and
hand is in this.  Now it’s just a matter of us walking through by
faith and see where He’ll lead us. 

What a year 2006 is going to be.  First the decision to
leave.  Then comes Abigail.  Later on there will be my
ordination (Lord-willing) and heading off to a new church. 
Throughout all this God has been faithful and His grace is truly
sufficient for me.  But more than that, He’s given me Kate who’s
been just an awesome, encouraging, steady partner through all
this.  You can’t imagine the roller-coaster ride of emotions we’ve
already experienced in the last 4 weeks.  But through it all I
feel that I’ve learned alot more about trusting God and how much more I
need to. 

To those who wonder how does it feel to be a parent/dad? My response is
same to those who asked me awhile ago how does it feel to be
married. 

“I highly recommend it”. 

Kobe Bryant scored 81 points last night.  81!!!!!!!!!  Unbelievable.

Speaking of unblievable, Kate is unreal.  Anyone who can/is able
to handle a fussing, crying, hungry baby in middle of night AND having
to put up with my
out-of-this-world-that-wakes-up-even-my-sister-next-room kind of
snoring is UNBELIEVABLE!!!  That’s love people.

ok, here are a few more pictures of Abigail who now weighs 6.10 lbs

Abigail Zhong (Zong) Wang was born yesterday around 7:15-7:30pm at
Northside Women’s Hospital.  She weighs in at 6.7 lbs and comes
out to about 19 inches.  “Just like Pooh Bear’s size!” exclaimed
Kate.  They’re both doing fine as well as feeling exhausted. 
All I can say is PRAISE GOD!!!!  I’m heading back to the
hospital.  They’ll be discharged Monday
afternoon.  Pics to come later…

Oh yea, and my girl is cuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuute!

Has anyone ever had a one month long food craving for a specific
dish?  Kate has been bugging me since mid December to take her to
some Korean buffet for all you can eat Kaibi and bulgogi.  Well
tonight I finally made her wish come true.

Chowon Buffet.  Mmm, I can still taste the bulgogi and short ribs
from my own burps.  Very tasty.  If you’ve never been to
Chowon Buffet near Super H, you gotta go (ahem, Leo).  The service
there is excellent where they keep coming around to help you cook and
cut your meat on the table.  The sushi bar is decent and the soup
they have is quite good.  I had some Miso and it was probably the
best Miso i’ve ever had in my life!  Richer and tastier than any
Miso I’ve had in Japan or Asia.  And the selection of sweet stuff
was pretty good especially the cinnamon soup. 

Oh, and the meat.  Regular beef strips, tender strips, short ribs,
bacon, spicy pork, tender pork, squid, shrimp, spicy/sauteed
chicken…  Kate and I finished 4 huge plates of meat!  We
were so stuffed that it was hard for us to get up and leave.  And
I’ve never had such quick and strong food coma before!!  The
moment I got on 85S I started to feel it.  Next thing I know I’m
home and crashed for about 2 hours.  That was some meal… 
Jonathan, you’re missing out!!!

Ok I really should be in bed by now but for some unknown reason I’m
still up.  This morning as I was driving Kate downtown for her
interview with an INS (that’s Immigration and Naturalization Services)
officer, we witnessed something that was both dramatic and
nerve-wrecking.  As we were coming down from I-85 approaching exit
249C I believe, we heard some loud pops that sounded like firecrackers
going off.  By the 2nd pop I noticed an old red sedan (couldn’t
make out the model) parked in middle of the highway with a black man
pointing something in several different directions (including ours) and
that’s when I heard the 3rd pop.  Kate and I both were
shocked/surprised and I instinctively ducked my head a little thinking
he was shooting at us.  Soon after the 3rd shot was fired the man
got back in the car and restarted his engines.  I wasn’t about to
slow down and check him out so we along with everyone else drove by
quickly (as traffic allowed) and I saw him with my rear view mirror
getting off the exit right before G-Tech exit .  That was a scary
and crazy encounter.

I’m not sure if Kate thought much about it afterwards but I couldn’t
get my mind off it all day.  I was thankful nothing happened to us
and hopefully no one else was injured either.  However it was
difficult to imagine what would’ve happened if he had accidentally shot
me or worse yet, Kate.  Truly, all of us are in God’s hands and we
never know when it’s our time to die.  Fascinating how an incident
in a split second could change my thoughts about new birth/new life to
death and mortality. 

On a lighter note, I just realized today that our daughter’s due date
is next Friday the 13th!  Hmm…  she better not be a
nightmare for us!

Who else watched the Rose Bowl on Wednesday?  I wished it would’ve
went into OT just like the PSU-FSU game.  What an amazing game!!!!

My Aussie friend Sam is making home brewed beer and ale like Drew
Carey.  Wish I could do the same to make some root beer… 

That’s it!  I’ve taken the plunge to join the weblog
community.  If only fatherhood was that easy.  I have no
intentions of keeping an online diary since I don’t like to jot down my
thoughts.  But perhaps from time to time I may share some
reflections and update what’s going on in my life. 

I got a phone call from my sister yesterday (to my huge
surprise).  She offered to fly over once Kate delivers the baby
and cook for us for two weeks!  Too bad she won’t change the
diapers though.  Praise God for His providence because I know Kate
was going to be eating lots of microwave food and rawmen (as well as
church mom’s cooking).  I lamely asked Grace (my sister) why is
she doing this to which she replied, “Family first!”  Wow! 
I’m ashamed because I don’t know if I would do the same for her
voluntarily.  Praise God for family.

Lots have been going on in our lives as we prepare for parenthood but
we’ve been more occupied with thoughts regarding our immdediate
future.  We’d really appreciate your prayers and hopefully it’ll
be cleared up soon.