I think being optimistic about today really helped, because my day wasn't that bad!! :) I thought Photo would suck because I had to present something, but it went well. My prayer warrior meeting was great too, and history class was actually good! It went by so fast it was like a miracle 'cause history class is the longest class ever ([sarcasm]you can tell I really like history[/sarcasm]). We worked on our (yay.) 5 page essays in class and it went by so fast, everyone was all freaking out, haha! And English was alright; we had a test that I'll probably get a C on, but that's okay - not really.
Lunch and after school was interesting, with Sarah :). And if you're reading this Sarah, am I the only one that spells your name right? MMMMHMM! It was quite dramatic spiritually for Sarah with Ms. Isaacs. We tried crying with Jeremy but he left us and so we tried crying by ourselves but we couldn't. This is kind of sad, if someone's actually reading this, they won't understand this at all. And then Sarah went to Lay-Miz (Lés Mis).
Bible study was great. I talked a lot...again.
Of course Daniella wasn't here but it was fun with Kay-Ann, Sarah, and Dev Patel.
ily, God :D
Tuesday, February 24, 2009 6:16 PM
I'm so happy right for some reason - even though I have a 5 page history essay due next Monday, another essay due Tuesday, a math project due Tuesday, I drank too much strawberry milk tea and the pearls are disgusting I-don't-even-know-why-I-ate-them-didn't-I-say-I-wanted-SMALL-pearls-not-big-ones?!?, I'm not photogenic and I'm taking a picture soon for my new school because for some reason they need it, and I have to figure out all this stuff on how to import my two cats to Taiwan. Ha, importing my cats... that sounds like I'm trading my cats in or something. Hah.
I guess I'm so happy because it's Wednesday tomorrow! Yay! Wednesday means middle of the week which means the week is almost OVER!! Oh wait, I just realized I had piano class that day...bleh. But I also have Prayer Warriors tomorrow, which I just love because I have Ms. Isaacs as my prayer warrior and she's amazing. :) And I getta tell my testimony kinda tomorrow, so I'm excited! I love talking about my testimony and encouraging people to follow Christ!! Well, actually, I guess that's the only 2 reasons why I'm so happy. Weird. I'm usually not this excited. :D
start of something...new :p
Sunday, February 22, 2009 11:43 PM
I woke up early, went to church, had a church meeting, and went to my cousin's house! It was amazingly fun... I always have fun with my cousins. :) Then we ate at the Alum Rock Country Club (which is like 2 min. away from my new house!), one of those fancy resturants where you have to dress up.
Unfortuently they made us eat downstairs, which was some loner place that wasn't as fancy as the upstairs because we had a lot of people (14 people) and there wasn't enough space... it was really fun though. I got scared 'cause it was night time and there was this weird Exit door that you couldn't see through, and my cousins kept saying there were zombies behind the door... :( It was really fun though!!! :D We tried talking in British accents and since I always laugh, when I ordered, I tried to talk in a British accent but ended up cracking up and not being able to breathe. And the other waiter... he was weird. Really weird. Either he was mad at us, or making fun of us, or both.
I think we ate there because it was my uncle & aunt's last day in the US. They live in Taiwan and just visited us for like 2 months. I'll see them in July again... for 3 years since I'm moving there...
Good day though. Very good. But tomorrow's school. UGH. AND a B-day. yay...
chu/go
Saturday, February 21, 2009 10:00 PM
I woke up today with a weird headache-ish, and felt really dizzy and felt like barfing when I walked. I almost fell when I microwaved my food and almost pulled it down with me haha. It was kinda scary. Apparently my blood pressure or whatever was too low from not eating... :/
And then I wasted my whole precious Saturday doing nothing, and what's after Saturday?! Sunday! And what's after Sunday?? MONDAY. Moronic Mondays. >:( That means that I wasted a great day by doing nothing at all.
My mom's finding a house again... in Taiwan this time. Actually, an apartment since it's an island and I don't know anyone who owns a house there. Luckily they're cheap (30,000 NT a month = $900 a month) and some of them include furniture. But the bad thing is bringing our cats to Taiwan... I heard that you have to put your animals in quarantine for 21 days if you bring them in. So I'm just so confused.
Ugh. Moving to another country is complicated. :/
happy cows come from KALIFORNIA
Friday, February 20, 2009 1:17 AM
i had a great day today so i decided to make a list of what makes me happy
family reunions that don't end up with people screaming at each other about $$
late nights with cousins playing video games
snuggled up in bed reading or just relaxing with a fat cat next to me
kittens with crazy fur
laughing at my hilarious cousins
drinking hot chocolate on cold days and watching tv with family
walking around santana row on a cold sunday night
biking around our neighborhood at night
running around on the beach and drawing "God" or "Jesus" in the sand in front of our florida condo at 12 am when no one's out
pretending i'm 16 so i can drive a jet ski at florida
going to school at night for a game or a play/musical
jumping into puddles and running around in the rain
then coming back home, taking off all my wet clothes and having a nice warm shower
on warm days, bringing a sleeping bag out to my backyard and just laying there with my cat
with a friend, putting rotten baloney into plastic bags and throwing them on a friend's lawn because we're too scared of ruining their grass somehow but really want to prank them
cold, winter days, where me and my aunt and uncle and cousins would walk their dog in downtown san jose
late nights around the campfire at church/bible retreats
going on a trip (retreat, missions trip, etc.) with a group of people and just bonding with them
those were the good times.
Christians = hypocrites. Oh, and so are you.
Thursday, February 19, 2009 2:39 AM
This might be a littleeeee confusing. My thoughts on this are a bit jumbled. (Wow, I sound smart :D)
I think a big issue that most people have with Christians is that they think we're hypocrites. And before you stop reading... don't stop reading, because I haven't finished what I was going to say. Read 'til the very end, then you can judge. I think one huge reason why people don't want to become a Christian is because they think we're hypocrites - although I think it's an excuse, but could defiantly* be a legitimate reason. The reason why I think it's an excuse is because EVERYONE'S a hypocrite. If you're not going to be a Christian because you don't agree with hypocrites, or you don't want to hang around them or something, then you're basically calling yourself a hypocrite. Ooh, a cycle (right?). No one in this world - except for Jesus - has not been a hypocrite before. Maybe an atheist/ unbeliever can say, "Well I don't call myself perfect or good or holy like Christians do, so it doesn't matter if I'm a hypocrite or not". I'm not really sure how to explain, but that just doesn't make sense to me. (Or maybe I'm just biased and just don't agree w/o logical thinking... hey, I'm being honest here, so I won't sound retarded and mean.)
However, I think it may be a logical reason for not becoming a Christian at the same time because Christians shouldn't be hypocrites. It's not good for a Christian to say it's wrong to have abortion, but do it anyways. If you're a hypocrite as a Christian, how can you expect to be a good earthly leader for unbelievers? If we call ourselves the sons and daughters of our Father, yet do not do as He tells us, how can we expect unbelievers to come to Christ?
(Here's kinda where the confusing part comes in...)
BUT,
First, the train analogy. I remember learning this in Bible. So imagine a train. There's the engine, the coal car?, and the caboose. The engine (beliefs, I think) is fueled by the coal car (emotions, I think). (Beliefs comes about by your emotions) The caboose is at the end, and it's your will, or your actions. Usually at the end of the train (your beliefs, in a way), a caboose is expected to be there (good actions that support your belief are expected). The train doesn't always need a caboose to be a train, but it is always expected to be there.
So you don't have to do good things to be considered a true Christian. A Christian is someone who believes in Christ and accepts Him into his/her heart. A Christian isn't really someone who gives money to the poor and gives away all his/her possessions. You don't have to go to church to be considered a Christian either, and you can probably accept Christ in your heart and kill hundreds of people, but God will still let you into heaven because you're well, still a Christian.
BUT THEN AGAIN, if you're a Christian, with your love for God and full faith in Him, you'd be WILLING to SERVE GOD and do all these great things. You don't have to do good things to be a Christian, but if you are a Christian, you'd want to anyways. Bad analogy, but if you're best friends with Frank, you don't have to hang out with Frank a lot to be considered best friends, but you'd want to anyways. I'm not saying that every person who becomes a Christian will automatically turn good and loving, I'm just saying that it will take some time. Once they realize that they truly are moved and motivated by Jesus' love, they will be willing to change.
So those Christians who are really bad hypocrites right now, they're gonna change someday (unless they're really not Christians but claim to be, then they're just... not Christians). And even if they do change, they WILL remain hypocrites (because it's impossible NOT to be a hypocrite) but probably better hypocrites. :D (Or worse hypocrites, in a way, if you know what I mean)
Second, I kind of get annoyed when Christians call other Christians hypocrites without admitting they are hypocrites first. There's this one girl I know, let's call her "Susie", who likes to hang out with our little group, but for some reason, no one really likes her and kind of tries to ditches her. There's another girl, let's call her "Lynette", who sometimes goes up to me and says, "Oh my gosh, they're jerks, I can't believe how they ditch Susie. That's mean. They're hypocrites. I can't believe how they call themselves /Christians/." I never really know what to say, because I'm scared of offending her somehow, but I sometimes feel annoyed when "Lynette" says that.
What I always want to say to her is, "Honestly, I've never heard of anyone that isn't a hypocrite, Christian or not. You're a hypocrite, and so am I." And so on. I know tons of things that she has done that was very un-Christiany, but I know tons of things that I have done that was very un-Christiany as well.
I guess it's just a dumb little pet peeve of mine, Christians calling other Christians hypocrites. Because I'm sure she realizes that she's a hypocrite sometime in her life...
And THIRD (pretty important), the people who don't want to become a Christian because we're hypocrites. Again, aren't you a hypocrite, too? And God WILL help everyone go through this. I remember we were taking a "survey" (we were evangelizing at the mall haha) and my youth pastor asked this one girl if she was a Christian. "No," she replied, and he asked her why. "Well, my dad is a Christian, but he's a hypocrite, so I don't really want to be a Christian." She answered.
And my youth pastor asked her, "Well, think about it, is this Christianity relationship supposed to be with your dad, you, and Christ; or you and Christ alone?" And he's right. If you're not going to be a Christian because you don't agree with us hypocrites, does it matter? Is your relationship with Christ supposed to be a relationship with all these people, you, and Christ; or you and Christ ONLY? (BTW, the last one is the right answer... heh, just in case you didn't know)
(I'm not saying that you shouldn't fellowship with other people, I'm just saying that it doesn't matter what other people's relationships are with Christ when you're having one with Christ. It's just you and Him.)
IN CONCLUSION, I guess what I wanna say is that WE ARE ALL HYPOCRITES, and CHRISTIANS SHOULD NOT BE HYPOCRITES, AND THEY WILL CHANGE IF THEY ARE HYPOCRITES (which we all are), BUT IT WILL TAKE TIME, AND EVEN AFTER THEY CHANGE, THEY WILL STILL REMAIN HYPOCRITES BUT BETTER (or worse hypocrites, if you know what I mean, again) HYPOCRITES. :) BECAUSE BASICALLY, IT'S IMPOSSIBLE TO BE A HYPOCRITE.
*Whenever I spell the word "definently" it always says I'm spelling it wrong. Isn't "defiantly" like deh-fie-ant-lee? Not def-en-nent-ly?
God spoke to me but i forgot what He said
Wednesday, February 18, 2009 2:59 PM
I was praying today, since there's kinda a lot going on lately, and God spoke to me (or maybe it was me, I don't know) and suddenly I felt happy and so hopeful. And... I forgot what God said to me that made me so happy. Maybe He said, "be hopeful or I'm not gonna help you" or something along the lines of that. (So maybe it was me talking to me... because God probably doesn't talk like that. Well He could, but... uh, never mind)
So my mom came home and she told me that the problem with her and our new land lord is alright (which means we can rent the house w/ no problem! Yay!). And I practiced piano and I'm finally good at that stupid annoying retarded song I've been playing for weeks because it's so stupidly stupid. And I finally made my sister do a job for once (she never does anything right, and she doesn't use common sense, so in frustration, I just do the job for her, so in the end, I'm doing all the chores while she's on the computer).
So I'm pretty happy right now. And I think I can go to tonight's Bible study at Starbucks, finally. :)
This post was probably confusing.
"yeah, I be loving it"
2:15 AM
(Quote from this YouTube video about some racist McDonald commercial or something)
Well, we finally found a house. 5 bed, 4 bath, plus a game room, so 6 bed, 4 bath. Oh, 3 masters, large backyard, up in the mountains, yep, all that great stuff. And the best part is, the land lord wants us to sign a contract with him! (AKA, we getta rent the [amazing] house) I was super stoked when I heard the news.
But they don't have a side fence, sooo my mom of course, talked them about it and now they're bargaining and I'm scared they don't want us anymore because my mom's kinda challenging them. Hard to explain. Bleh. I just hope my mom doesn't mess things up.
Need or want?
Monday, February 16, 2009 10:13 PM
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Thank you Lord Jesus! :))
4:06 PM
(Currently listening to.)
Well, I'm just amazing happy right now. We're looking for a house
right now (for renting) because when we move to Taiwan, instead
of just finding a tenant for our house right before we leave, we can
just rent out our house right now. And since we're renting our house
right now, we need a house obviously, so we're just renting a house
here in California. We've been searching since December - January,
and man, it's harder than I expected. Luckily there's a lotta houses for
rent right now, 'cause I'm extremely picky. Plus we have so much
expectations (long story) so it's hard to find a house to fit our needs.
We found a house a month ago with EVERYTHING we needed plus
more, and we were excited that we finally found one, but right when
my mom was supposed to sign a contract with the guy, he told us he
wasn't gonna move. So I was EXTREMELY disappointed. But today
we saw a house that's actually still being remodeled right now, so
it's very new. It's up the mountains and it's in a peaceful, really serene
and nice area. They actually have 6 bedrooms, (3 masters!!) and the
other house only had 5. They have a larger backyard, and it's very
new (the house itself is old, but it's being remodeled, so yeah).
Plus, it's cheaper and BIGGER! :)
I just really hope the landlord really likes us because it's an amazing
house fit for our needs, and I'm so glad we can stop searching now,
if he accepts us. Ahh! I'm so glad, thank you God!!
i think...
2:32 AM
I have found my real best friend, and realized and discovered what true (agape, selfless, unconditional) love is. It's this amazing feeling that no one can ever describe, and sometimes it hurts because it's so great.
That's all I can say.
geico
Tuesday, February 10, 2009 8:25 PM
Geico commercials suck.
I don't think they're that funny (and I laugh easily) and their commercials say NOTHING about their company. Oh wait, no, they say, "15 minutes can save 15% off car insurance" or something like that, but that's it.
Seriously, the last Geico commercial is about a guy trying to show a lizard his first dollar he made, and the lizard says, "was it rather old and wrinkly?" in that - i have to admit - cool australian accent, and they show the lizard using a vending machine. How does that show anything about their company?
I know it's how people advertise stuff nowadays, but Geico commercials are extremely ANNOYING.
christian + the killers = abandon
Friday, February 06, 2009 4:12 PM
Just last week I discovered an interesting band... Abandon.
They're so unfamous that I can not find a song by them on YouTube, but I think that's mainly because "Abandon" is such a general word.
Anyways, they sound like The Killers in a way, it's so weird. They don't sound exactly like The Killers, because they're kinda fast (?) but the lead singer's voice has the same tone (?) like the lead singer of The Killers. It's nice :)) And plus, they're Christian! <3
I'm trying to find the song "Hold On" by them because it totally sounds like The Killers and I heard it on Air1 and it was amazing but since they're not famous, I can't find the pooping song.
Yesterday I got the Fuji Finepix S1000fd, which looks like a DSLR, but apparently, it's called a "bridge camera". I love Yahoo! Answers. I learn so much things from it.
It cost $199.99 but it was on sale for $179? or so, so I was super excited. Today I went on the internet and looked up the price...and it's about $175. Bleh.
I took some pictures and I'm excited about the quality! :) It has a Panorama mode, which means you can take basically, really long pictures. I can take 3 pictures and the camera automatically stitches it up into one long pic! It also has "super macro mode" which is macro mode (close up pics) but even CLOSER. Oooh. I can take a super close up picture - so close it almost touches the lens.
