Lincoln Memorial
With friends Eliot Kang (brother of Peter), Bill Hwang, Rich Halvorson, Kirk Leavy with Abraham Lincoln....uh...looking over me...my head that is.
With friends Eliot Kang (brother of Peter), Bill Hwang, Rich Halvorson, Kirk Leavy with Abraham Lincoln....uh...looking over me...my head that is.
I'm back home after a week in London with Pam and the First Prez worship team. We attended the "WorshipCentral Conference 2011," an annual training conference hosted by WorshipCentral (a school out of Holy Trinity Brompton Church) for worship leaders and their teams, and anyone who loves to worship the Lord. This year's conference was held on Oct 28 and 29 at Holy Trinity Brompton's London sites. We felt refreshed and equipped through practical workshops, inspired teachings and the amazing performances of guests like Matt Redman, Martin Smith and Nikki Fletcher. God showed up at that conference, and I'm so thankful that we did, too.
Pam and I traveled with the First Prez Honolulu worship team: Roslyn Catracchia, Mary Hicks, Chevas Wong, Cory and Loke Oliveros, Adj Larioza and staff member Gary Toh and his wife Selina Chen. We got to London two days before the conference so we had some time to catch a couple of shows and visit London's famed "Abbey Road" recording studios, made famous by the Beatles. We didn't actually go inside the studios but we did cross the road in front of it in an attempt to capture the scene depicted on the 1969 Beatles album also called Abbey Road.
We had a great and memorable time in London. And we're back refreshed an inspired to lead our church is worshiping our Lord in spirit and in truth.
Our Hawaii Worship Team in London with host Eric Jonsson. As you can see, Hawaii people think 50 degree weather is cold and so dress up appropriately for a warm blooded person.
With Nicky and Pippa Gumbel of Holy Trinity Brompton. Nicky Gumbel is the developer of the Alpha Course. 
Going up from subway in London on long escalators. This looks like an Album cover with Noelle and the Toh’s and Oliveros’. What a great trip.
I just appeared on this show Grow My Church last Wednesday. I gave an interview about FPC through Skype.
Watch the interview and read about it here: http://www.growmychurch.com/2011/09/dan-chun-humility-is-key-to-church.html
It was weird. My Life Long Friend whom I have known longer than Pam has a new relationship with me. He has been with me for every meaningful event in my life – Sports. Concerts. My conversion. My ordination. Was at my wedding and at all the births of my children. In fact, he was at MY birth! Long time friend, indeed.
I'm talking about my right eye. The change in our relationship started just a week ago. I'm driving along and I keep thinking I have some hair in front of my eye. Black thing floating in the air in front of me. Then I would see the letter "C" in black always before me, bouncing around like those images on your TV/Computer screen when it is asleep. When I wore glasses I kept cleaning them because I would see a smudge. But then I noticed I would see a spot of smudge, (like a small cobweb) even when I wore contacts. I would see flashes of light so I kept adjusting my car shade visor. Call me starry-eyed. So I go to get my eyes dilated and examined yesterday and the doc says I have Posterior Vitreous Detachment (PVD) in my right eye. No danger to my sight which didn't change from last year's exam, but it's a hassle for the rest of my life to have these symptoms. Nothing I can do about it. The optometrist said it happens as we get older and since I once had an elbow smack my right eye and a ball hit my right eye both due to sports when I was younger that probably didn't help, he said. I even remember my high school classmate, Dennis, throwing a magazine at me when I wasn't looking and it hit my right eye so hard that I saw stars. (Yeah, Punahou is a rough neck school. They don't use knives but magazines....but big, heavy ones, I tell you!). In case you want to know more about PVD -here's a cool link. http://www.rnib.org.uk/eyehealth/eyeconditions/eyeconditionsoz/Pages/posterior_vitreous_detachment.aspx
Sorry to say it will happen to all of us someday. But seeing lights can also mean a detached retina so you gotta get it checked asap. So if you think I am staring at you....I'm really just looking at the wonderful light show inside my eye. God has your back. But I don't have my eye on you.
Well, the Chuns are in New York this week! One of our stops was "Ippudo NY," a ramen shop on Fourth Avenue, and allegedly has the best ramen in the world.
What Dan ate.
What Pam ate.
Hamachi Carpaccio
Fantastic porkbuns.
Where they deliciously put it all together.
Ramen under the glass counter.
Bowls lining the walls behind the bar.
Eating at the allegedly best Ramen in the world!!
I had the all-time, very best beef lentil soup! It's from a restaurant called Il Cane Rosso (meaning "the red dog") at the Ferry Building on the wharf in San Francisco. I also had strawberry bread pudding. Incredible!
Spent the day with family visiting the Yahoo! office in San Francisco where my daughter Noelle works.
At Calafia in Palo Alto, CA with my brother Tom, niece Punky, who just graduated from Stanford, sister-in-law Judi, Pam, Quinn, and Dylan.
Punky will be starting a new job in Washington DC working for Avascent, a block away from the White House. Dylan heads to Los Angeles to work for US Trust, subsidiary of Bank of America in wealth management.
I wish I had some wealth for him to manage. But if you have $5 million or more, he would be happy to manage your assets.
My soy, quinoa and avocado burger.
