{"id":21,"date":"2008-12-31T23:47:30","date_gmt":"2009-01-01T07:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/?p=21"},"modified":"2008-12-31T23:47:30","modified_gmt":"2009-01-01T07:47:30","slug":"a-year-in-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/a-year-in-review\/","title":{"rendered":"A Year in Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I approach the end of 2008 (thirty minutes to midnight, and maybe 2009 by the time I finish posting this), I just wanted to reflect on 2008.\u00a0 I can’t remember too much.\u00a0 It just flew by.\u00a0 Maybe that’s why I decided to startup the blog again.\u00a0 This won’t be really a summary of what has happened, but just my overall impressions and just memorable things going on.\u00a0 2008 was basically the start of a new stage in my life.\u00a0 May and I just graduated from the FTTA and basically we had to deal with life after the training.\u00a0 I guess the biggest thing that happened was we both decided to serve full time.\u00a0 May decided to serve full time at the training center and I started my full time service at Bibles for America<\/a>.\u00a0 Even to this day, I still can’t believe we are both serving.\u00a0 This year was filled with just normal and ordinary days.\u00a0 That’s not a bad thing at all.\u00a0 I really think the Lord provided me with just normal days in the church life.\u00a0 We rejoined our small group and I’m still learning how to serve the Lord.<\/p>\n

Anything new in 2008?\u00a0 I would one say that one thing new that definitely happened was the matter of weddings.\u00a0 Before this year, you know how many weddings I shot?\u00a0 I would say 3 weddings in all over the past 4 years.\u00a0 This year I shot 7 weddings in all.\u00a0 Now I have itch to shoot more.\u00a0 I definitely had a some inspiration…\u00a0 Todd (going to get those post processing lessons from you soon), Maryanne (great to finally meet you in person.\u00a0 Have a great time in Europe), the Becker (can’t wait to work with you on your projects), and just many other photographers.\u00a0 So far, only one wedding booked in 2009 (this Saturday), but we’ll see what comes up.<\/p>\n

Well, I don’t do new year’s resolutions, but I do have some hopes and expectations.\u00a0 I hope to definitely shoot more weddings in 2009.\u00a0 I know that Omatik<\/a> will blow up (in a good way) this year.\u00a0 Most of all, I hope and I expect that the Lord would grow in me more and just give me more normal days.<\/p>\n

Okay, nothing special or profound… and it’s still 2008.<\/p>\n

Happy New Year everyone (all 2-3 people who actually read this blog).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As I approach the end of 2008 (thirty minutes to midnight, and maybe 2009 by the time I finish posting this), I just wanted to reflect on 2008.\u00a0 I can’t remember too much.\u00a0 It just flew by.\u00a0 Maybe that’s why I decided to startup the blog again.\u00a0 This won’t be really a summary of what […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}