Monday, September 28, 2009

Firsts

edit// I LOVE MY PARENTS!!! hahaha, i got their GIANT package of food today!!! i could not stop laughing...at one point at unpacking, i had to stop just so i could laugh...my mom packed EVERYTHING!!! i'm SO happy! =D YAY YAY YAY!!!//

-i did my own laundry for the first time ever last night! i'm real proud of myself no matter what others have been saying on my facebook status!
-i took my first exam of the semester today! i actually just got back from it about 30min ago...this blog post was actually postponed because of this test! (look, i'm even straightening out my priorities!)
-yesterday marks first month away from tucson! so this post was supposed to happen yesterday to make it more exciting...haha oh well.
-today was also the first day i wore long sleeves (hahaha, i just wanted another "first")

i was told that my "friday: blah blah, saturday: blah blah..." was mundane, BUT i'm still gonna do it...hahaha

nothing exciting happened during the week except that on wednesday night i got to webcam with anita (thanks again, tracy~) and that made me SO happy, her laughs, her smile, her fat chubby face...TOO cute. i love that little cutie pie~ other than that, it was a typical school week...

friday: typical, yaf was interesting...our group pwned. =D then there was worship practice afterwards, oh boy! i love the feeling of just "jamming" even tho we were practicing...cause even tho i get to practice in our basement almost everyday, it's different with others and going all out, fun stuff! now all i need are the 4 other stars and that moon. ;P

saturday: woke up at 9:50, picked up by yang at around 10ish to go to church cleaning...blahblah, we barely did anything since they started at 9...then went out to lunch with the usual kids to MingTen, the only good asian restaurant here...it made me appreciate New China...hahaha, but the sushi was good, so i was still satisfied...then i came home, watched season 9 of friends AND studied psychology, haven't studied on a saturday since freshmen year of highschool...i'm in the "freshmen mode" again...hahaha

sunday: typical church, nothing exciting or i can't think of anything...soooo...yep, i did enjoy our worship tho...haha, Light of the World in chinese...bahaha, i can't think of that song without hearing it in chinese now...One Way's like that for me too...two english songs that have officially "translated" in my brain and can't be "translated" back...=/

This is 4th week of school!!! i'm quite surprised, haha it's also super exciting because it means winter break is coming up, which means home!!! eep! excite excite! and before that, thanksgiving break in ohio!!! yay!!! =D God is good!

Monday, September 21, 2009

He Loves, He Cares, He's There

edit// i forgot to add, on sunday after church, i was just bored so i asked Liu Yang to let me drive is car to the front...and after i did, he's like "why don't you drive?" and i was like "really? ok!" so i got to drive it for the rest of the night, it made me really happy, finally being at the wheel again...ooohhhh, good feeling...haha//

There is None Like You

There is none like You,

No one else can touch my heart like You do,
I can search for all eternity Lord
And find, there is none like You.

I remember just a month ago (or maybe a few weeks ago) i was blogging about stuff like "i know He has a plan for me, i just needa step out and find out"...stuff like that? stuff that i wrote to reassure my decision to come out here to "The Freezer"....it's silly how us humans have to go through something TOUGH to finally realize "oh! He's here!" when really, He's been here the whole time! Man, i've got so much testimonies to tell now...but i'll just compile it and share it sometime. In short, I've never felt this close to Him before, and it's AWESOME, feeling His presence, realizing afterwards that He had already thought about this way before i did, and knowing that I needn't be afraid cause He is there. Boy, do i love our God! =D

now that i'm done with that, onto my weekend update!

Friday: I HAVE WAITED FOR THIS DAY ALL WEEK! when class ended at 330pm, i was jollificated! then i went to yaf, it was their "normal" routine this time, i played piano for worship...i didn't know whether i should be playing the chords or the melody so i did half-half, like the chords when i heard them singing, so i knew they knew the song...anyways, then after it i came back to my dorm and wanted to shoot myself in the face...cause i was SO used to going somewhere after church that coming straight home i was like @.@ this is a new feeling! and so i felt...poopy. which also led up to a lot of complaints (my b.) i won't go into further details.

Saturday: slept till 1:30pm, i was trying to waste the day away by sleeping that way i don't spend a lot of time being in a poopy mood on how there's nothing to do...so then at dinner, i ate with Jessie, who i like to call the Indowanese (Indonesian + Taiwanese) and it made me happy to know her as i am Malaywanese...hahaha, so we had quite a few things in common, then after dinner we had this Taiwanese gathering consisting of Me, Jessie, and Jacky...then Ivy joined so it wasn't taiwanese anymore...we chilled at the lobby of SE for like 30min talking about nothing, then Jessie said that she was gonna go watch a movie with her friends, so i went with her! went to go see The Proposal eeeeee, it was cute and funny, i'm not exactly the biggest fan of Sandra Bullock, as in i really don't like her, but she wasn't too bad in this movie! Ryan Reynolds is good as always, good looking too, so the going out and watching a movie part made me really happy, as God took care of my "blah" from friday night. =)

Sunday: woke up at...12:45pm, got ready for church, wore new shirt from express, all this "wearing new clothes" is making me happy, i like pulling tags of these clothes, makes me smile, especially when i see the price too...hohohohoho...church was weird, there was a promotion for a "loving couples camp" which i obviously need, you know? so i was NOT paying attention. HOWEVER, after church, some of yaf kids decided to go cook at Tiff/Karen/Teresa's apt! so a crew of us went to go get the ingredients and a crew went back to get ready, when we got back, we got down to business! Jesse cooked ma puo tofu, and this other tofu thing, Liu Yang cooked this lotus root thing and the Jap curry was a collaboration of us two, but he was the 大廚 fasho. anyways, so it was (alphabetical order...haha) Alex, Chia-Wen 叔叔, Enoch, Jesse, Joshua, Karen, Teresa, Tiffany, and Yang at this gathering, it was fun and definitely some bonding time! i can already see some interesting, definitely amazing, quirky, friendships coming up these next few years! I'm so glad God's blessed me with this church, He's definitely providing~

I had a wonderful weekend if this post wasn't clear...it started out with quite some complaints, but that was a waste of my breathe as He had already had my weekend planned...so once again, PRAISE JEEBUS! He is good, and He loves me way too much =D

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Passion Tea Lemonade

edit// (09.17 10:55am) i forgot to mention that on sunday i was also told that i'll be the pianist for the "youth worship team" that leads on sunday every other week! sooo, this week is us! i'm excited! i also found out last night that they want me to play on friday too! this is one of the reasons i'm starting to feel "at home" with this church cause i have stuff to do! Praise Jeebus!

original// Passion Tea Lemonade (i want some.) aka PTL aka Praise The Lord!

Today makes 1 week and a day at Calvin College! For those of you wondering/been asking...classes have been alright, i don't see them being a pain in the butt...YET, i think a few classes will annoy me cause of the "stuff" there is, but i know they're not HARD work...so PTL! My roommate and i are getting along better, not that we weren't before, but we kinda just didn't talk at all the first week, but we've been talking more now, so PTL! Now aside from the complaint of last week's fellowship at this new church of mine, i REALLY enjoyed sunday service, PTL yet again!

Sunday: service was very simple, church is supah tiny, but that's ok, it's what i'm used to...they sang oldies, hahaha, but oldies that i knew, so hoorah! anyways, after service (that started at 2:30pm) they had a bbq/pot luck and i was introduced to 2 Malaysian Families, 1 Singapore lady, and a buncha other people that knew about me before i came...hahaha, and 1 of the Malaysian family knows of my parents! it was so weird! the moment i mentioned our JB church, they were like "OHHHHHHHHH!!!" O.o but it was awesome, it made me feel very much at home...=) and after church i went with 4 other youths the the grocery store and i got myself some junk food...haha, enoch's predicting that i'll gain the Freshmen 15 and he WILL make fun of me...and i said it won't happen....(hopefully! ><) sunday made me really like church and look forward to church this weekend! which is a good sign cause it means i'm starting to treat this church as home...so there's no more homesickness because i got one here =D so PRAISE JESUS!!! He is good~

I have Oral Rhetoric class because it completes a core and i thought that this would be most helpful for my future career than like...science education studies or art (which everyone knows i fail at...) and we had our first speeches due today, and since i had sent my speech to my teacher the day before for her to "edit"...she knew i had it ready, so she called on me...haha, it wasn't as bad as i thought it would be, but i spoke a lot quicker than i practiced...=/ oh well, i'm glad it's over and i don't have to worry about it for another day...one class tomorrow! yay! so all in all, life is pretty good...it's also starting to get cold...59 degrees right now...isn't this tucson winter?! @.@

Friday, September 11, 2009

Strengthened in Him

滿有能力
我的盼望 就在耶穌基督裡
在你裡面 滿有平安
生命泉源 就在耶穌基督裡
有主在我 裡面活著

我宣告在我裡面的
比世界一切的更有能力
我不屬這世界
我高舉耶穌的名

我宣告在我裡面有
活水湧流滿有能力
有耶穌在我裡面活著
我勇敢站立

有主在我裡面
沒有懼怕能戰勝仇敵
有主在我裡面
沒有懼怕還得勝有餘

this is a long one! color coded!
Today marks 2 weeks and 1 day since i've left tucson...and of course the past 5 days have been the hardest...but instead of writing about all the boo-hoo stuff, gonna start with praise!

the past weekend in ohio has been legen-wait for it-dary! haha, i'm so happy i got to spend those few days in ohio because 1) i had a really good bonding time with a few of the girls 2) it kept my mind off the whole "moving" thing 3) i saw a lot of growth in many of the youths in just half a year...anyways, for those ohioans that are reading this, i had a REALLY nice time with you guys and i even told my mom "dang it, i should've went to cedarville" (but no, i'm glad i didn't go there...hahaha) i can't wait to chill with you guys during thanksgiving break =D oh, and this trip to ohio was kinda weird...to me at least, cause i got "close" to all the people i wasn't exactly close with before...like, even though karen and i talked occasionally, this trip...WOW. hahaha, we had some intense talks. and anna too, somehow was able to talk about a lot more things this trip...and then bernard, i told him we better talk this trip cause we didn't talk at all my past two trips, and we did! so it was cool finally talking to "BMW" also got to hear a lot of his retarded stories...hahaha, i was just kinda surprised at how easy to was to get close to them even tho this is only my 3rd visit...but then again, it's cause 因著耶穌我們成為一家人!!! annndddd yeaaaahhhh, it was really nice being the ohioans, gave me that "home" feeling =)

Monday: dropped off by family around evening...didn't start the tears till the last hug with parents...anyways, later that night we had a "Dorm Mixer" so i went downstairs and stood awkwardly away from the little groups of friends that had already formed while i was in ohio...but then randomly, this girl starts talking to me, with the usual "name, major, hometown" and then asked if i was gonna go back to AZ for thanksgiving and i was like "no, but maybe ohio, cause my brother is there" she flips and says "Where?!" me: "columbus...." and it turns out, that's where she's from! hahaha, the awesome part is, i've found myself a ride to columbus during thanksgiving break! =D praise Jesus! the first night and He took care of my "biggest worry"

Tuesday: first day of class, only one class, Christian Theology, EXCITING! haha, i was also the only "religion/pre-seminary" major in the class, so professor was like =D...then the rest of the day was like reading/food/boo-hoo/etc...

Wednesday: had the other 4 classes...they all seem interesting...haha, sociology, oral rhetoric, math, psychology...i'm not sure how i REALLY feel about them yet, because i always judge a class to quickly and end up not having a good time...so yeah, i'll wait and see...i can't recall anything exciting happening here too....

Thursday: can't recall anything, and it was only yesterday...just remember calling my mom about 4 times throughout the day due to: 1) questions 2) decisions 3) home sickness 4) just because...hahaha not in that order tho....but then my mom told me the story about anita looking for me...oh my goodness, could not help but cry hearing about her...gah, i miss that little tadpole...=(

Friday: was excited for yg all day, i REALLY wanted to see what it was like and i was hoping to rely on the yg for "comfort" as i did with my yg and as i did with the ohio yg...so waiting outside at like 6:50 even though they said 7 (and they were NOT on time) i was just SO READY to go to yg...but today was the first yg of the semester so they didn't do a typical yg, they just played games the whole time (not exactly fun games...hahaha, but it was alright) and honestly, (i hope none of them reads this) i was quite disappointed... i guess i just had too high of an expectation, but praise Jesus! i got to know a few people (asians) that go here too...and that does comfort me a bit more...but after yg, i couldn't help but miss yg (MY yg) SO SO SO SO SO much...and i couldn't call any of you because all of you guys were AT yg...so that made me even more sad, and that was probably the first time i really missed yg as a whole...-sigh-. keep up the good work guys, i hope to see big, wonderful changes in the winter.

Tomorrow morning is chaos day...i finally decided to buy a dorm shirt, and they ran out...OH WELL. haha, keep on praying for me guys! i need to learn complete dependence on God! =D