Sorry its been so long!

Since we last posted many things have happened...here they are as follows:

1. Sarah is here visiting us. we are having a blast just having her around. this vacation mai kao and i tried to make it as low stress as possible. i think we've been acheiving that, hopefully. right now as we speak, sarah is at the all day spa, like in those movies getting all manicured, massaged, hot tubbed up.
2. eating well. Shanghai has some really great international food. since moving here, i've found some new loves in the cuisine world. one of my new top 5 favorites is Indian. Turkish, Japanese, any curry dish, french pastries round out my new additions. oh and i totally forgot, dirty Chinese street food...if you visit us, you will definitely fall head over heels for the dirty street food. many of us feel it is WAAAYYY better than chinese restaurant food.
3. I made it on the worship team. now i just wait for when they need me.
4. mai kao and i have been working tons lately, b/c of midterms and getting ready for sarah's arrival. we wanted to have no extra work around when sarah got here so that we could just hang out and enjoy the company.

yeah, thats it. oh except one thing...MTG. i've been booster drafting with my box that arrived with Sarah. so far the Jund deck is destroying all the other decks. its just got so much removal, nothing can last very long on the board. also, my River Kelpie, Cruel Ultimatum deck is under way. i've been thinking of changing it to either an Esper build of just standard U/B instead of a Grixis build. that would knock out the cruel ultimatums, but i think it may make the deck better. I casted one against one of my decks here and found it to be absolutely as devastating as people say it was...but, without the expensive dual lands, i found myself always checking my mana to see if i've reached 7 mana of the right colors yet. i guess that can be a good thing too, the card has so much presence that it makes your opponent aware of mana status as well, kind of distracting them. i may run one, just for this purpose in future events, but more than two is way too much.

i have a small wish list for all you Magic people out there. i can fully reimburse you. here it goes:

1 river kelpie, 2 turn to mist, 1 cancel, 3 murderous redcaps, 2 torrent of souls, 4 Glen Elendra Archmage.

if you could scrounge these up for me it'd be great. hope the ryder cup hmong tournament shapes up well. the urge to play magic for all of you is back so that only means you are hard at work making your game and decks better. cools mans.

josh out.