Back in December, my two sisters and my brother invited a family friend, my sister’s boyfriend and my other sister’s recently-arrived-from-Spain husband to take Ruhi Book 1, Reflections of the Life of the Spirit, with us.

We get together 2 or 3 Sundays a month and go through a series of quotes from the Baha’i Writings that pertain to topics such as virtues, unity and backbiting, as well as prayer and life and death. Each of the quotes has a series of questions to answer as a group and these usually lead to discussion. These discussions can become very intruiging and are always very friendly. I had never really spent an extended amount of time talking to my siblings about these issues and it has been a really wonderful experience to do so now.

About a week and a half ago we started the Study Circle with a potluck (cabuda) Salvadorean-style brunch. It was sooooo good. I felt right at home (meaning El Salvador, not my other homes Pasadena or Burlingame). Click on the Flickr photo to the right to see all the different foods we had labeled with notes. We had beans, fried plantains, sour cream, fresh cheese, bread, avocado, but I did forget the hot chocolate at home. :(

I’ll keep this photoset updated with future photos from our study circle.

I know it’s probably not something to brag about… but, I have written down all 1000 movies I have seen in my first 23 years. Here is the list of movies. You can check if I’ve seen some movie by entering it in the text box above the list.

Together As One 2007 at the Los Angeles Sports Arena had an amazing line up of DJs including Paul Van Dyk (the current number one DJ), Deep Dish, Christopher Lawrence and Marco V.

My aunt’s friend got us some free tickets so she, my friend Nina and I all went to the Trance Concert. Due to her grandmother look at 50+ years old (she is a happy grandmother of 3), she got a ton of hugs and high fives from many of the young people at the concert as they interrupted her jumping up and down while she waved her glowstick with the music. She had a lot of fun and so did Nina and I. It was my second time at TAO (last year, Ves and I went).

Here is a little video I filmed with my digital photo camera:

I also filmed the countdown to 2007, which I might upload later. If you go to the youtube page for this video though, you will see many other countdown videos associated with it.

I also have a small flickr photoset up (I was having troubles taking pictures with my Canon SD550 in that rapidly changing light environment, any tips?) Nina took some really cool photos.

Yay! I’m Superman. Take the Superhero Quiz and find out which superhero you are.

These are some good ones from the full list:

2. There are 200 million blogs which are no longer being updated, say technology analysts. — It’s all up to me to keep this one alive. It’s weird though, Technorati only reports 22.6 million total.

9. Fathers tend to determine the height of their child, mothers their weight. — Guess I don’t need to run everyday anymore :)

23. More than one in eight people in the United States show signs of addiction to the internet, says a study. — Hmm… I only spend that much time online because my calendar is not on paper and phone calls are more expensive than instant messages…

26. Each person sends an average of 55 greetings cards per year. — Wow, that’s about 55 more than I send per year.

27. Just one cow gives off enough harmful methane gas in a single day to fill around 400 litre bottles. — Cows are cool.

45. Cows can have regional accents, says a professor of phonetics, after studying cattle in Somerset. — Cows are really cool.

57. The word “time” is the most common noun in the English language, according to the latest Oxford dictionary. — Very true… we did some research on Baha’i blogs and the words bloggers used in headlines and in posts.

68. The egg came first. — I knew it!

72. Modern teenagers are better behaved than their counterparts of 20 years ago, showing “less problematic behaviour” involving sex, drugs and drink. — Interesting, I would’ve thought the opposite due to the media, internet, etc.

80. Camel’s milk, which is widely drunk in Arab countries, has 10 times more iron than cow’s milk. — Cows are cooler though.

84. Thinking about your muscles can make you stronger. — Nice… what I should do instead of going to the gym… [there are still plenty reasons to go though :( ]

94. There are two million cars and trucks in Brazil which run on alcohol. — Wonder when the US is gonna get on board…