Hello, I’m Jonathan, a first year college undergraduate who loves music, web design, friends, family, and Jesus. This is my personal website which also happens to be my portfolio.
What do I do?
Well right now, I’m still a student. Funny enough, I’m studying Business Economics. However, I like thinking, reading, playing music, web designing, blogging, and learning. I enjoy reading literature and pondering the issues of today, sometimes having discussions about philosophy or religion with other people. I am constantly challenging standards and preconceived notions. I believe it’s more important to know how to think that what to think.
What do I want to do?
Although my major in college is Business Economics, I am passionate about music. My dream occupation would probably have to be a rock legend with an awesome band and gbjillions of fans. Lately, I’ve actually been thinking about combining my interests and perhaps going into the music industry. However, I love music and I believe it is the language of the soul, and I am wary lest I should compromise its integrity. The lyrics I write speak from the depths of my soul, the essence of what I believe and the questions that run through my mind.
What can I do for you?
As you can see, I do have this website, and I have designed websites for people in the past. So if you’re looking for a sterling web solution for you or your business, feel free to drop me a line regarding a website.
I am also looking for any business, management, or music industry internships. If you’re looking for a fast-learning, self-motivated, diligent apprentice with excellent communication and organizational skills, I’m your guy.
Thanks for visiting!
Favorite Quotations
“We mold our time because it is subjective. We do that to give order in our lives and give reference. Time continues branching off into millions of little particles flying into everything because time is everything. All that exists is time, and time is all that exists. The only way we can control time is to control what we do with it. We cannot stop it. We cannot change it.” – Tim Lin & His Writing Class
“Your best friend is not someone you praise all the time, but someone you tell the truth to, whether it makes them feel terrible or happy.” – Levi Yun
“They didn’t feel like the type of song you wanted to die singing, and for Hello Hurricane, that became the prerequisite for the song: was, if you’re not crying why are you singing it, you know? If you don’t believe it with every ounce of you, then there’s no point in singing it.” – Jon Foreman, Switchfoot
“Storms will come and storms will go, but our response to those storms is what we are responsible for… You can’t control what’s going to happen, but you can control the way you approach a situation. That’s one of the things no one can take from you.” – Jon Foreman
“I have had moments in my life where I’ve been naive enough to think I’m going to change the world. And it’s a really incredible feeling, the day you discover that’s never going to be the case.” – Jon Foreman
“If you approach the world with the apron of a servant, then you are allowed to go places that you can’t go if you approach it with the crown of a king.” – Jon Foreman, Relevant Magazine
“For us, success is defined by doing something that you’re passionate about with people you love.” – Jon Foreman
“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.” – Søren Kierkegaard
“Every man dies but not every man truly lives.” – Walt Whitman
“True friends are like diamonds, precious and rare; fake friends are like autumn leaves, found everywhere.” – Author Unknown
“Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.”
“All men are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field. The grass withers and the flowers fall, because the breath of the Lord blows on them. Surely the people are grass. The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God stands forever.” – Isaiah 40:6b-8
“Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.” – John 15:13
“I will never leave you nor forsake you.” – Hebrews 13:5b
“…love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams. Love in dreams is greedy for immediate action, rapidly performed and in the sight of all. Men will even give their lives if only the ordeal does not last long but is soon over, with all looking on and applauding as though on the stage. But active love is labour and fortitude, and for some people too, perhaps, a complete science. But I predict that just when you see with horror that in spite of all your efforts you are getting further from your goal instead of nearer to it-at that very moment I predict that you will reach it and behold clearly the miraculous power of the Lord who has been all the time loving and mysteriously guiding you.” – Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov, 61-62
“…the stupider one is, the closer one is to reality. The stupider one is, the clearer on is. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence wriggles and hides itself. Intelligence is a knave, but stupidity is honest and straightforward.” – Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov, 219
“…the secret of man’s being is not only to live but to have something to live for.” – Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov, 236
“From the house of my childhood I have brought nothing but precious memories, for there are no memories more precious than those of early childhood in one’s first home. And that is almost always so if there is any love and harmony in the family at all. Indeed, precious memories may remain even of a bad home, if only the heart knows how to find what is precious.” – Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov, 267
“The righteous man departs, but his light remains.” – Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov, 296
“Don’t be like every one else, even if you were the only one.” – Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov, 509
“[Men] suffer, of course…but then they live, they live a real life, not a fantastic one, for suffering is life. Without suffering what would be the pleasure of it?” – Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov, 584
“…human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.” – Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
“My momma always told me that miracles happen everyday. Some people don’t think so, but they do.” – Forrest, Forrest Gump
“Death is just a part of life, something we are all destined to do.” – Mamma Gump, Forrest Gump
“We just get the one life, you know. Just one. You can’t live someone else’s or think it’s more important just because it’s more dramatic. What happens matters. May be only to us, but it matters.” – Gwen, Ghost Town
“Our integrity sells for so little, but it is all we really have. It is the very last inch of us. But within that inch we are free.” – Valerie, V for Vendetta
“A melody is like seeing someone for the first time…But then, as you get to know the person, that’s the lyrics. Their story. Who they are underneath. It’s the combination of the two that makes it magical.” – Sophie Fisher, Music and Lyrics
“Nobody ever lies about being lonely.” – Prewitt, From Here To Eternity
“I would rather spend my life close to the birds than waste it wishing I had wings.” -House, 5-1
“…music is born into a man like a heartbeat and you can’t rip it out without killing him.” – Kim (John Forsythe), Premonition, Hitchcock Presents, 1- 3
“Being sorry is far worse punishment than being dead; everybody dies. Very few people ever feel truly sorry for the bad things they’ve done. It hurts.” – The Mentalist, 1-2
“The body thrives while the heart has a mission.” – Heroes, 4-5
“Sometimes you don’t save the world; sometimes you just make your friend happy.” – Dr. Sweets, Bones, 5-6
“A family is more than blood. It’s about trust, about love, about those who embrace you, the real you, unconditionally.” – Samuel, Heroes, 4-9
“The truth doesn’t get any easier to tell, it only gets harder until it’s gone forever.” – Jack, Kings, 1-9
“Being sorry is far worse punishment than being dead; everybody dies. Very few people ever feel truly sorry for the bad things they’ve done. It hurts.” – The Mentalist, 1-2
“All the power in the world doesn’t matter if you’ve lived an unsatisfied life.” – Sylar’s Father, Heroes, 3-19
“So they say that one out of every three patients admitted to this place will die here, but some days the odds are worse than that. And on days like that, I guess the best you can hope for is that you took something from it, anything, anything at all, even if it’s just taking the time to lie on the grass and think about all the things you have left to do.” – J.D., Scrubs, 1-4
“There is no Shangri-La, you know. Every relationship is messed up. What makes it perfect is if you still wanna be there when things really suck.” – Carla, Scrubs, 2-16
“I don’t think people are meant to be by themselves. That’s why when you actually find someone you care about, it’s important to let go of the little things, even if you can’t let go all the way, because nothing sucks more than feeling all alone, no matter how many people are around.” – J.D., Scrubs, 2-18
“Some people hide from who they really are. Others eventually accept who they are. But sometimes it’s the tough moments that help you realize who you’ve finally become.” – J.D., Scrubs, 3-8
“I think the second you stop fighting it, time really is on your side, and you can go on being who you are or keep enjoying that little crush of yours.” – J.D., Scrubs, 4-13
“Nothing in this world that’s worth having comes easy.” – Dr. Kelso, Scrubs, 4-20
“When you know there’s an end, it forces you to live.” – Mrs. Wilk, Scrubs, 5-13
“In musicals there’s always a happy ending, but in life, sometimes when you get what you want, you end up missing what you left behind, whether it’s your roommate, or time spent with your child, or even the music you used to hear in your head.” – J.D., Scrubs, 6-16
“It’s all your memories, the joyful ones and the heartbreaking ones, that make up who you are as a person.” – J.D., Scrubs, 6-11
