Echoing Silences

So, ya. Today in my "5-minute break" during my FILM class I started writing a blog post and finished later on the 111. So, here it is:

Today I have been confronted by the idea of quiet time. Time spent listening for God to reply directly.

I do admit to not spending time in silence listening for God. I cannot say that I even try too hard in this aspect. There have been a few times where in church or something we were told to take time pray and then listen for God.

In these times I always find it really hard to silence my own thoughts. I don't remember where, but I think it was an english class at some point I read something like words are a virus, that either you are reading, writing, talking or thinking something and it just leads to more words or something and I thought it was really true. Even in dead silence, someone is thinking something. This may be one reason for why I have kind of given up on quiet time.

Also, I feel God can speak through other things like in specific events or through reading the Bible if something pops out to you as being relevant to something you have prayed about and you just know as your first thought that it was from God.

Ever since Saturday when I saw "unashamed" written on my face in the mirror I have been telling myself that I am unashamed whenever I am feeling down. Feelings come and go, but this is fact: Jesus paid for my sins on the cross so that I can stand unashamed in a relationship with Him.

Today after my conversation with JS I thought about how we do need to take time to listen for God, not because we have to so that He will speak to us, but that if we aren't trying we probably won't. The amazing thing behind this idea is that God is trying to speak to us, we just aren't listening and get lost in day to day worries. To go to such an extent as making a word appear on my face as a method of speaking to me shows how much I am not paying attention. Like if all the other less obvious methods havn't been working, so he had to resort to this.

So, ya... I really should set aside time to listen for God's answers and I suppose that at the same time I should pray less shallow prayers that mean so little.

Ya.

Oh Heavenly Father, Lord I thank you for reaching out to us and today for speaking through JS and getting me to realize we have a relationship meaning we are both contributing to it and that I need to listen more. Lord I'm sorry for not listening intently, but at the same time I thank you for going to the extent you do to show us your love and desire to be in a relationship with us. Lord, help me realize what I should be doing in this life and give me a reason to be doing them, not just because it is in my schedule. My schedule is not in control of my life. You are. Lord, help me to be a better witness to BJ and Lord, work in her heart. ... In your name I pray. Amen.

Ya. Ttyl. D.Fa

PS. I'm thinking about starting another blog. xP It would be a blog where as I study the Bible chapter by chapter (or maybe just a few verses at a time..?) I would record my thoughts and summarize the verses..? Something like that. There is only one thing that I think I should have before I start that. xP

G-rice!

So, ya. xP

I wasn't going to post right now, but I had thought about a quick post, but didn't think it warranted wasting time I should be working on my FILM paper or PHYS lab, BUT there was new stat, so I had to. xP (KENYA!!! w00t!)

So, I have on multiple occasions seen some people I know walk by my house, but had as of yet not said so. I have seen SC, OD's brother and EG walk by my house multiple times. This morning as I left for school SC had just walked by (I don't really know him. xP I learned his name from the band trip in grade 12. xP). Then I saw EG. He was shocked to see me "walk out of some random house" as I believe he put it. xP He's in the musical this year at MHS. He has a named role! We only walked together for like a minute or so. xP

Ya...

Last night I made some rice. I have not had any yet. On Saturday I cooked some ground beef with onions, garlic, parsley and oregano. I will be combining these two for lunches this week and if there is any meat left I could make spagetti..? xP I will also be adding soy sauce to the rice when I eat it.

Anyways.

Ttyl.

D.Fa

P.S. I am currently addicted to this song: Beautiful Hangover by Big Bang

Some Things That Happened Without My Knowing

So, hey.

Today was really awesome.

My Sunday School is about "Participating in the Mission of the Church". I seem to pay more attention to this. A/V went pretty well... xP The only really kinda bad thing that had happened up to this point was that RL had gone home to sleep instead of coming to church. It honestly ... idk... breaks my heart (I think that may be a bit too much, but I don't know how else to phrase it... xP) to see him skipping church to sleep... He is gaming again too... He had taken a 30-day challenge. It's like day 8 or something. He said he got bored......

Anyways, after church I had to go to work. So, at work there's this girl BJ who works in bakery. I havn't had a shift at the same time as her in like a month. Everytime I would go to work I'd be hoping she was there. I kinda really want to invite her to church and share with her. So I packed my bag for work, ie apron and hat, but I also threw in a couple Knowing God Personally booklets and a real life kit just in case.

Today in Sunday school we talked about good works and how they can affect our witness. I was going to be like 5 minutes late to work again, like I have been for a little while and I realized that isn't a good thing. I should continue to be on time for work. It is actually the only thing that I don't care about being like 10 minutes early to, I actually usually end up 10 minutes late... So I was kinda upset about being late, so I hurried up.

When I got to work I thought everything was normal. I went to get my schedule for the next week because I hadn't yet and I saw on Sunday "6-10:30 no show" and I'm thinking that isn't next Sunday... That's today..! and so I start freaking out about having misunderstood my boss. You see on Wednesday after class I went to check the schedule / book off time for the next week. The schedule wasn't made and the time off book wasn't in the drawer. That meant my boss was currently working on it. He was on the floor. I went over to him to ask to not work next Sunday night or Saturday afternoon. Before I could do so, he asked if I could work Sunday morning. I was happy because this is exactly what I wanted for next Sunday (read: potluck and concert that night) so I guess I misheard because he apparently meant this morning........

Now I was freaking out about not showing up for a shift.

Then BJ enters the backroom.

I'm thinking.... oh no... shes been here since 6, when I should have been here............. I usually act like work is very important around her, like, I'm always preoccupied with doing my work. The one time she caught me on my cell phone she kept holding it against me for like a couple weeks... so being caught 'skipping a shift' kinda completely destroys my reputation...

It turns out that produce wasn't actually behind schedule, so I wasn't actually in very much trouble... I did all the production for the night and cleaned the backroom. There wasn't too much to do. I then cleaned bakery and helped make salads in salad bar because JR was way behind schedule. I left work at 7:30ish and went to my parents' for supper. They gave me a pile of food again.

Anyways, while I was at work I talked breifly with BJ and found out that she had gone to church for a while by herself like 3 times a week then she just stopped. so I don't really know what to make of that.... I also got her cell number which will make it easier to stay in contact with my bare minimum work schedule.




So, ya. I should be in a lot of trouble, but I'm not... I don't know what to feel... embarassed or really grateful..?

Ttyl.

D.Fa

Very Cherry!

Hey, I know this post is very near to the last post, but there's somthing I havn't talked about that I did on Thursday that I can now SHOW YOU! and also, something else is IN MY HOUSE right now that I didn't notice until an hour or so ago.

So, we shall start with Thursday.

On Thursdays I normally go to YA. This Thursday I did not. Instead I went to MHS's Multicultural Show (17th Annual!)! There is one main reason why I was going: to see my brother perform. I got to see a lot of people and I got to see the show which was really good (especially VN's fan dancing). And I think that the last act was really creative and cool. It was a couple people from each of the individual acts put together to show how Canada is Multicultural and I think that was really cool. Usually the multicultural show is not very, idk... Not very Multicultural..? I don't really know how to explain it, but it doesn't matter. This year's show was pretty amazing (they even had some professional Indonesian Dancers!)! The only thing I thought, originally, was going to be bad was JF's song at the end. She wrote it herself and was going to perform it at the very end of the show... It was pretty good.

So, I am going to post a couple more videos. xP First is the Swing Dance act. The swing dancers are a really cool group of people and exist all year long, unlike most of the acts (Steel band played this year! Yay Music!!) which just work all fall to get together a dance then perform it and wait until next year. I have a bunch of friends in Swing (including my brother.) and so, here is the video :



And the second video is JF's song:



So, ya. #2! CHERRY IS BACK!!!!!!



Cherry is beyond cute.

Cute
Hairy
Energetic (and)
Really,
Really,
Yellow..? 0.o

I'm not too good at acrostic poetry... xP

Anyways, this morning I spent some time with Cherry. For a while she was barking at her reflection in the back door. LOL. Then she was in relentless pursuit of the food that has fallen between the stove and the counter. >.> And I took her for a walk earlier. For a couple minutes she was running as fast as she could while dragging me behind her. xP

I enjoy having pets.

Ttyl.

D.Fa

Twelve Charcters (or rather 10 characters and two dolls) in Search of Authors / Unashamed

So, ya. Yesterday I went to a play at Carleton, "Six Characters in Search of an Author". I had seen the same play done by MHS last week. They were pretty different. MHS's was more comical while CU's was very very intense with very good blocking and audio/visual elements that really added to the depth of the symbolism and stuff. For example in the play all the "actors" were wearing colourful shirts while all the "characters" were black and white, showing a disticnt difference between them. Also, the use of lighting made it very clear when something was a 're-enactment' or when something was 'real'. I understand that you aren't really following what I am saying right now. xP But! If you want to find out you can still go to tonight's performace (Closing Night!) at Carleton's Kailash Mital Theatre at 8pm tickets are 8$ for students and 12$ for general admission. I strongly recomend it, but doubt that anyone will either read this in time or be able to go. xP

The thing with MHS's play is that I knew everyone in it (mostly) and I thought a couple people were really really good in their roles. Especially NJ, MHC, MU and CK. TM overacts sometimes which is often very funny, but sometimes out of place.

I can't choose which is better because they are both special in their own ways and actually have a different tone to the play and don't end the same way, so really, its as if they were different plays.



Anyways, the reason that I was blogging originally was to tell you about what just happened.

I woke up. I looked outside to see the gross slushyness that is winter in ottawa. I gave into the flesh. I looked in the mirror and saw "unashamed" written on my cheek. LOL

That is honestly what happened. xPPPPPP It was so funny. Honestly. I AM unashamed. God has paid for all my sins. I prayed right there. I confessed. I thanked Him for everything he has done that I Can stand there unashamed even after such iniquity. Jesus died on the cross for our sins. We no longer deserve wrath when we confess our sins and are purified of all unrighteousness. We can demand justice because we have been bailed out by Jesus.

You may be thinking "Why was 'unashamed' written on his face..?" Well, yesterday I went to C4C and there's always a time of worship. We sang 'Unashamed' by Starfield and it was really cool, so I wrote it down on my hand so that I wouldn't forget to look it up later. I don't know when I had my hand on my face so that the ink transferred (probably when I was sleeping), but it's so funny.

Also, right after I prayed I looked outside and it was snowing, kinda blizzard-like in its wind and snow, but all the gross slushyness of winters in ottawa was covered up by fresh, pure, white snow. It stopped snowing like a minute afterwards.

So, here are two songs:

Unashamed:



and Jesus Paid It All:



So, ya. This never ending, unconditional love that is freely given to everyone is pretty amazing. If you don't fully know about it, you could go to a local church to find out, or if you wanted to you could message me about it and I could try to tell you more about it. xP

I'll talk to you later.

=D.Fa

The Name of Evil is "Beady Long Legs"!

Ok. This is mostly random. This post is coming from experience and from a certain picture I took on Canada Day. That picture. The sculpture reminds me of this monster in a video game.

The video game is called "Pikmin" and it is one of my favourite games ever. I even searched all over Ottawa to buy it a year or two ago. xP

Pikmin has strategic game play with discovery, excitement, "battling", collecting things, a time limit, and much much more.

Then there was Beady Long Legs. He flattened so many of my Pikmin.... TT.TT I rushed in with a whole pile of pikmin and he squished them! I grew an irrational fear for my Pikmin's lives whenever encountering a boss monster.

This is a video of Beady Long legs. Half of his pikmin are killed! T.T



Ttyl. xP.....

D.Fa

1 John 1:9 in a New Light

Hey, whatsup?

Today was pretty bad in some ways and pretty good in some other ways.

Lets start with the bad... xP

I skipped my first class. Actually I skipped two... xP
I forgot to pick up the course pack for film which contains a couple essay pertaining to my paper that is due in a week.
I procrastinated a lot today.
I skipped prayer meeting.

Some good things:
I can watch one of those classes later.. xP
I read "Un.Cover" a myCravings magazine thing which is a useful tool for evangelising because people can easily relate to cravings. I was also 'trained' with DK in the use of this tool.
I got to spend some time with DK. He hasn't been in class and he hasn't responded to my texts, so I had kinda given up on him... xP
I got a free meal from DK in the Res Commons Caf.
I went to RM's MDA group meeting and we went through a DG lesson that I had missed about walking in the light and confession.
It didn't rain. xP
I got a free meal from HK.

Ya. We did the whole writing your sins on a paper, scribbling 1 John 1:9 over it (I did it in red ink. xP) and then we burned them! xP. I suppose I expected 'business students' to be different, but they were normal people. xP...

I don't know. Today was cool.

D.Fa

"A Soup Spoon is NOT Asian."

Hello everybody.

So, I did not stay up last night. I decided that it was a better idea to go to sleep for a few hours and just wake up a bit earlier than I was planning to (first time this year I get to sleep in! or not... xP) and work on the video then. I mean playing guitar loudly at midnight would not have worked. Either I would severely annoy the people trying to sleep on my floor, or I would have a dishwasher in the background noise on the main floor... >.>

So, ya. I woke up at 7:30ish... I wanted to wake up at like 7... anyways, I then played guitar until like 9:30..... xP........ (After having breakfast and having a shower and gelling my hair of course. xP) When my housemates woke up they were humming / singing the song I had been playing and were not really visibly mad at me at all, so I hope I didn't annoy them... xP

So, ya. I just finished submitting the video.... its 12:30.... xP

Today was rather boring. A lot of math. Followed by a relatively boring Philosophy lecture (ok it was kinda interesting although I do not intend to blog about it. although I still may... xP). Followed by a FILM class. John Wayne is kinda funny, pilgrim.

Anyways. I kinda wanna sleep now. I could sleep in if I wanted to and watch the lecture later (CHEM is recorded, so I could watch it after my BIOL class... hmmmm sleep or waking up early..? xP but I still havn't missed a class... Hmmmm)

Whatever... xP Me and Kelvin did lesson 3 today. I will talk about those lessons later. Also, 'The Guild' is a rather funny web series.

おやすみ

Ｄ。Ｆａ

P.S. I plan to start trying to "pray every hour" as a step toward living the spirit filled life and relying on God every minute for everything and not living on my own strength which always fails. xP... so ya. That's gonna start. xP

Atsui da yo... [あついだよ。]

My coat is far too warm....

Also, I have not seen the weather network channel in a few months.

Combined with "It's Movember"

So, I have my coat and it is like 10 degrees and rainy....... I should not have my coat.... Why can't it be snowy..?

xP........

Ya....

D.Fa

Unfair

So, hey.

I've had a lot of time to think about stuff while I was at work today.

You see, before work and after school I was at home, I watched anime, ate some food that could be reffered to as lunch, did a physics assignment and then I was tempted and ended up looking breifly at some images. Telling yourself it is wrong doesn't help very much. I 'prayed' the usual 'prayer' "Lord, I'm sorry. Fill me with your spirit." 10 minutes later I was looking at similar images again, even while two of my housemates were in the other room... At this point I was getting a pretty bad headache I was also feeling pretty bad about what I had done.

I went to work. I was thinking about how much of a hypocrite I was. I'm kinda two-faced....
Then I was thinking about how selfish I was: Looking at those images one minute, praying that my headache would go away the next. It was very self-centered... Honestly, its not fair. I ask God to take away my pain, then I cause him pain by sinning. He died on the cross because I am selfcentered and would choose to sin for a brief moment of 'enjoyment' rather than relying fully on God.

After I realized this I sincerely prayed about all this stuff. Earlier I had read Psalms 31-34, somewhere in there is something about being in pain, praying then feeling better because God heals those who confess their sins. I also prayed that he would take away my headache and honestly in the middle of the prayer it just disappeared and hasn't bugged me since.

'Praying' for the sake of praying or saying the words you know you should be saying doesn't mean anything. Praying isn't a magic spell that gets you whatever you want. Praying is talking to God. In a relationship, does it mean anything if you only say the same couple of phrases a million times..? or keep at a distance by only saying things for appearances..? No. You have a relationship with God, so seriously speak to him, tell him how you are feeling, tell him honestly what is on your mind.


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Ya, there was a lot of stuff I could blog about, but that seemed most important. xP

There's this video contest to win a 50$ gift certificate to Baton Rouge in Toronto and I think I will be working on my submission now. xP. Only 2 other people have entered so far, so getting anything will increase my chances. The way I am picturing my submission right now is like a youtube video of me playing guitar (except you only see the main part of the guitar, like kinda close up and me strumming it) and singing worship songs while the actual answer to the video contest question "Why are you going to WC?" is in text over the video (the guitar is black, so I think I can put the words there..?). I have never made a video, I have never edited a video, it is midnight, I can't play guitar very well, but this is what I want my video to be like.

So, ya.

Ttyl.

D.Fa

Blessings

Hey!

I should sleep soon, so I will attempt to make this quick while properly getting my point across. Here goes. xP

Tonight, no, today was really cool. Honestly I needed a break from school. Today I went to a missions conference thingee at church. There were speakers from our congregations as well as other organizations that our church is associated with (including C4C! xP ). I missed the epic project party last night ( C4C missions projects party thing. xP) and I really wanted to go. There would be a lot of info about what projects are, which projects are available, how you can get involed, etc. and I am kinda very somewhat interested in projects. >.> I can / will learn more at WC.

Anyways, this week I was asked if I could be a replacement worship team leader, and although I did not say yes, I did not say no either... xP even though it was definately not possible........ xP Like I could go to the practice and church on Sunday, but I did not have time this week to get the setlist together... I ended up staying after the missions thingee and being on worship team (bass/vocals) because it was right after. By the way, I am not really very good at singing in Mandarin (I was about to type 'Chinese' then realized I was not singing in 'Chinese' but mandarin. I wasn't even reading chinese. I was reading pinyin..?).

Me and CW played this really cool song after practice. NC did not like the way I was playing bass. I did. =DDDDDDD (in other words: really wide smile.)

Anyways, I got a ride home (I blogged at that point) and then had instant noodles while watching 'Family Guy' with RL.

I then went to MHS's production "6 Characters in Search of an Author". It was pretty cool. I like knowing people in the play. xP At the play I got to see a bunch of people I knew. A BUNCH including VB, JC, NJ, KFA, LT, JB, SD, DS, AS, MU, JT, MB, EG, FS, SS, JB, CN, PN, CW, TM, CB, DB, OD, EB, NW, MC, CK, and a bunch of other people. Almost all of the above people are / were drama people. This means that I was interacting in the way I would normally interact with drama people (a bit differently than the way I normally interact with people).

This combined with being asked earlier "If you could be any age for the rest of your life what would it be?" and thinking about how awesome grade 12 was, it made me really miss highschool / highschool drama. It's just so much more relaxed in highschool. xP However, if it were not for the fact that I live beside MHS, in a house in which I can bring over as many people as I want at whatever hour I want, and that I have a housemate that had Toy Story 3, this night would not have been nearly as amazing.

After the play, me, VB, CB and JC came over to my house (instead of crashing the cast party (50:50 chance and JC's coin chose movie)) to watch Toy Story 3. (TOTORO!!!!!!!! OMG!) It is pretty amazing. I havn't seen Toy Story in a while. I feel like I was in Elementary School when I saw Toy Story 2..?

Anyways, the point of this blog was to point out that I have rerealized that I really am blessed in a number of complicated ways that make an even bigger bunch of blessings. How I have been blessed:
-Amazing time at MHS
--many friends
--drama
--music
--just in general
-a semi-steady income which pays for
--band trips
--rent which means I have
---a house to which I can invite friends over
---housemates
-Church
--YF/ YA
--Camping Trips
--Missions Trip
--older and younger brothers/sisters
-C4C
--experiencing the mission of the church first hand.
-a number of other things I have forgotten at the moment... xP

So, ya. I'm in a good mood right now. xP

Ttyl.

D.Fa

P.S. Do you want to go for a sandwich..?
P.P.S. Someone got engaged this week. I am very happy for him. It's like he's my older brother.

Impressions

So, this is not really random because I'm kinda in a car while he is driving, but anyways...

DW goes to my church and got married a short while ago. I hadn't really ever talked to him too much so I had the impression that he was an adult and therefore very mature.

I recently was told he still went to Carleton.

I more recently saw him breifly at Carleton.

I now cannot look at him the same way. Every time I see him I feel he is less mature than he was and I don't see him as an adult anymore... XP

I try to be honest when I blog.

I don't mean anything by that comment. It is just my honest feelings.

xP

D.Fa

[P.S. I don't really mean that he isn't an adult... because he is..? but I no longer see him as 'an adult' the way kids / YF see older people I guess... xP I suppose I've kinda grown older too, so a lot of people are no longer on the other side of this YF/YA border that is nearly uncrossable for YF especially because it is intimidating, but ya, now that I am on the other side, I suppose its different. I also realized, I'm kinda either 'an adult' already or I will be soon... xP]

Response

I have recently been shown how blogging because "you have to" produces unsatisfactory posts. This may be one of them. You cannot post an in depth post, which clearly states what you think when you are trying to compose it between classes or in a couple spare minutes.

Sometimes I end up not fully explaining my thoughts, or not being clear enough with context or other seemingly important information. I also sometimes blog as though you know everything I am talking about.

I also admit that I have problems with pride sometimes.

Don't listen to your feelings. Trust in and have faith in the truths that have been revealed in Jesus and the Bible.

I fail so much. Honestly. And yet I still have this stupid pride.

Also, I don't really think about things or have a purpose for what I am doing. Yesterday I was asked "Why do you go to YA?" and I really had nothing to say. All I know is that I like YA and 7-10 Thursday night YA is more important to me than almost anything. I don't think about why I am going, but I want to.

Is it really pride..? What if I genuenly want to help out in any way I can if someone needs help..? Is it about pleasing people..?

A number of people have said a number of very significant statements to me recently (usually through email or other textual media) and I really don't know how to think about it or what to do about it.

I feel really bad about not being able to help out. I feel really bad about having blogged certain comments with implications I did not intend. I feel like I am a terrible role model for KC.

.................................

O heavenly Father, you are perfect and powerful and mighty and can do absolutely everything. I am not. You are just and faithful and above all creation. I am not. Lord, you took away my sin, you paid for them all. While we were still your enemies, while I was still unborn, you died on the cross for my sins and the sins of the whole world forever because you loved us so. This unconditional, unending, unimaginable love you possess is indescribably amazing. Lord, I have fallen to sinful actions and sinful attitudes. I'm sorry for feeling that I should be better than KC. All of us, your children, are all equal in your sight. Lord, I'm sorry. I know that when we confess our sins to you, you forgive us and purify us from all unrighteousness. Lord reveal to me all my sin that I can confess them. Lord, I don't live the way I should. Lord, help me rely in your strength and power and not my own because I will fail on my own. Lord, I need a new attitude.

Help me.

.................................

D.Fa

No Subject

I have spent far too long on a bus today................... This is my third bus ride and I may have 2 more...... Lame.

Rice Deficit

So, hey. Whats up..? nm..? me either... xP...

I seem to answer "what's up?" based on how busy I am at the moment compared to other times, but I usually am only asked that question when I am between things, like I just got to Loeb cafe and I'm not going to work on the pile of homework for like half an hour, so I'm not doing much right now, even though I have a lot to do, like studying for a CHEM midterm. >.>

Ya. I am a yes person. I will almost always agree to do something if I am asked to. I always have a busy schedule and I will just try to fit more in. I always can. Usually by taking something 'less important' out, such as sleeping a couple more hours or unintentionally taking out a meal or taking out all my textbook readings... xP or I will just do work on the bus instead of relaxing for 20 minutes. I've just become used to this constant unprepared last-second finish for everything. It seems to work out, but only to a satisfactory degree.

I really hate focusing on one thing. I'd rather have a tiny bit of a million things... >.>

Today someone asked me if I was excited for christmas. I responded "not really" and he was all like "Isn't this your time of year..?"
1. It's Movember. not even near christmas.
2. I hate how comercial it is.
3. You don't get excited just at Christmas. You should always be excited that Christ died to forgive your sins and give you freedom from sin.
But ya... it felt funny. That conversation.

Yesterday I went out for supper with my parents for my dad's birthday. We went to "Siam Kitchen" and my parents ordered way too much... xP So when we were going to leave, they packed it all up into doggy bags and said "Oh, we'll give you rice" with a smile. I only opened the bag today. There were 3 big plates and 2 smaller bowl-like containers. There were 4 dishes and then rice, but when they say "o, we'll give you rice", you would think there would be enough for the stuff we were taking. I did not. I mean there was so much stuff left and there was not room for all the rice we would need in the bag they gave us.

Was there enough rice..? No. Not at all. One of the small containers had rice in them. That was not even enough for the other small container of stuff. Luckily JR had some rice, so he gave me some and I gave him some stuff. Free leftovers are pretty good. Especially if it's asian food. xP Yum.

Ya... I'm in Math class. I am not following our prof at all........ Integration doesn't make sense in my mind... xP...

ttyl.

D.Fa

Agape

So, I was reading "God's Smuggler" the other day and there was this amazing story.

In Rumania Brother Andrew was going around to churches and giving them Bibles. He asked where a church was and they said they wouldn't speak the same language to which he replied that Christians all speak a language he called 'agape'.

Later he had managed to find an undergriund church and got to speak with a couple people. They couldn't speak the same language though, but then he saw a bible on the desk and had this idea.

They had a conversation for over half an hour by pointing out whole verses. The part of the coversation that was in the book seemed really cool.

Back at the hotel or wherever the person said they had looked up what 'agape' was and found no language, just that it was the greek word for love.

Clearly I have done a poor job of telling the story, so you should just read it yourselves. XP...

Ttyl.

D.Fa

Deadline

So, ya.

I havn't blogged a couple days.

Mostly because of the large amount if things due today: formal bio lab, bio prelab, chem lab, chem prelab, phys assignment, phys pre class quiz, ... Wasn't there something else..? I feel like there was some more...

Anyways, I did most of it before Sunday (I thought) and only left the Bio lab and chem prelab to finish. They took much longer then expected. Oh! I also had a math test ( I didn't study, I think I aced it).

So yesterday I had work. 4-11. Lame. So most of the work was done at like 8, so I went home for dinner so that I could focus on homework when I got home.

At 1:30 I could not stay awake so I slept some hours. At 5:30 I actually woke up and did some work with smaller chores in between. I was still working on the bus there. I was still working at 8:22.

My last bio lab was at 8:35. The class mated with each other. Then we looked at garlic cells. No more waking up at 7 on Tuesdays! Yuss!

D.Fa

Sharing.

So, ya.

I was walking from CHEM to PHYS and I don't know why, but I felt like I should go sharing. Clearly I would have to go by myself. Soooo scary...

Literally I walked from southam to the food court to loeb cafe to the food court then finally I was like "ok. Just do it. You saw that guy in the terminal. Do it." So I went up to him, introduced myself and he had a paper he had to write. So I was like "just do it. You saw JC (not the same one) in the food court. Go do it." so I went back to the food court. JC was watching anime. XP.... I talked with him a bit about anime and then I was waiting until the episode of Bakuman was done before talking to him, but it turns out that he had a bio lab that was due on friday to get done, so I left him to it.

I don't know why, but it actually feels easier to approach strangers than people I already know...

Maybe I am scared of changing the image I have in people's minds. That shouldn't matter. Pleasing people or pleasing God. Clear answer.

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Cliff Hangers are lame, but Spoilers are worse!

So, Ya..

I am in the middle of trying to get a lot of things accomplished, but I have decided that I will take a 30 minute break after every 2 hours of 'getting things done'. I have spent the 30 minutes reading "God's Smugglers" and it is a really slice of life kind of book, while at the same time it is based on Brother Andrew's life and he was / is a missionary, so his life is not as normal as most slice of life genre'd media, however, it still feels really slice of life. xP

Anyways, I just finished a break. He just proposed to a girl and will hear her answer after he gets back from Hungary in a month. Cliff hanger much..? Uggg. I want to read so badly right now. >.>

Anyways...... I will try to get more accomplished.

Ttyl.

D.Fa

Skill Yo! / Have You Ever VI..?

Have you ever had a skill that you thought would never be useful to you, but then you almost win a sweet prize with it..?

You see, last year I developed this skill with a certain JC during/before a 'Once Upon A Matress' rehearsal.

This skill is the ability to catch projectile M&Ms in my mouth. I am quite skilled at this very specific task.

Last night at C4C weekly meeting I was in a competition to win a 50$ gift certificate to Baton Rouge in Toronto (where WC is) and the first round was catching M&Ms. I caught 8 of 10.

The second round was a slightly different game. It was a race of sorts. You had to roll a grape acrodd the room with only your nose.

I completely failed because I have a small nose. RM won. He had the biggest nose. I smell foul play. XP.... Not really... XP

Anyways, today was Naru2u and I hung out with LS and B(?) all day and ate Pocky. XP

I also bought a sword... XP

I am now at GM's birthday party at TailGators. HBD!! This is my first time here. XP

Ttyl.

D.Fa