//initiating bullet mode//

Bullets of grace and mercy (undeserved favor, withdrawal of deserved punishment)

• All of my classes (7:30am-7pm, no breaks) today went full blast, but i was still able to eat three decent meals
• I didn’t get to spend time with God this morning, but He used my short stay in SVCF’s missions big Fellowship to talk to me
• We get free dinuguan for dinner from lolo’s family
• Don’t have to study chapter 3 of accounting
• I made it through this long day of constant movement and i don’t feel half-dead yet ^_^
• we’ll watch Steven Curtis Chapman tomorrow
• I’ve been able to share my faith constantly even if my spiritual condition is fluctuating
• I was barely able to escape being held up the other day
• People who include me in their prayers

Gustatory Overdose, Olfactory Overload

• I think i was the only one who swallowed the aqueous solution samples from the sensory experiment
• On the average, that’s 900mg each of sugar, salt, citric acid, and caffeine in 60 mL each of water
• 900mg of citric acid is roughly 2 ascorbic acid tablets or 9 cetrinets mixed in about 1/4 cup of water
• 900 mg of caffein is approximately equal to 16 cups of instant coffee or 26 cans of coke, whith the bitter taste concentrated in 1/4 cup of water
• After that, my heart was pulsating ang my had was shaking to the point that i can’t get my signature right… (adik…)
• I still don’t feel sleepy (duh!)
• I took "bunny sniffs" from 10 random samples of odorants (super adik, rugby na lang ata kulang, certified na…)

Bulaga!

• Our money problems are carrying over to my parent’s marriage
• Class reports are starting pile up
• Responsibilities are increasing
• I’m the group leader for more than half of our class groupings (matanda na kasi…)

Lessons

• "Practice living out of your comfort zone daily. Don’t let the world stifle your interest"
• Neglect in any area will always need to be addressed, whether it be widows or people groups or academics
• Pray fervently, without ceasing. If you want to see the effects of prayer, cease from doing it, but you will regret that you did.

Things I desire

• Efficiency
• Rest
• Time
• Joy
• Optimism of a divine origin
• Strength from God
• The peace of God that transcends all understanding
• God’s glory

Sa lahat ng nagbabasa ng blog na ‘to: I praise God for every one of you! Mahal ko kayo!

Sa lahat ng nakatapos magbasa nito: bilib ako sa sipag nyo, sana may napulot kayong aral…

            "Worthy is the lamb who was slain, to receive power and wealth and wisdom                 and might and honor and glory and blessing"  -Revelations 5:12

    The other day I had a conversation with my classmates, while waiting for our prof that never arrived. After that, I realized that the word "Christian" has nearly lost its original meaning. Westerners say that the Philippines is the only Christian country in Asia. There’s at least one person in each classroom with Christian as part of his name. Many people say that their religion is Christian. How then do we define such a word?

    Another word came to my mind while trying to answer that question: Vilmanian. In the most extreme sense, Vilmanians, in their most fundamental state, are those who imitate, admire, are fans of, advocate, follow or even to some extent, worship their idol.
Perhaps in a similar manner, Christians are people who imitate, admire, are fans of, advocate, follow, and worship Christ. And what does Christ say to his fans?

"Come follow me, and I will make you fishers of men" -Mark 1:17

"I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing" - John 15:5

"I am the way, the truth and the life . No one comes to the Father except through me" -John 14:6

"If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself, take up his cross and follow me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will find it." -Matthew 16:24-25
 

What is a Christian then? He/she is someone who follows Christ, his words, and teachings. He is someone who believes that Christ is who he claims to be, the perfect son of God who died to take away the sins of the world - if only men would obey him as Lord over their lives and consider him as their sole Savior from their sins.

So, are you a Christian?
Being an advocate of other things will last a lifetime
Choosing to follow Christ would determine where you spend eternity.
Choose wisely.

//tagged by janna//

1. I eavesdrop by pretending to read a book or my phone.

2. I like drinks which other people wold describe as "lasang gamot" (c2 lychee, kiwi, one tea strawberry, etc.)

3. I stare at people and they cry 50% of the time.

4. I wake up as soon as the sun rises, regardless of what time I slept.

5. I hug a 15-year old pillow to sleep, and bring it with me on 70% of overnights and travels.

6. I can be too honest… hahahaha

7. I’m a magnet for weird people… ang mag-react, weirdo…

8. Given the same level of hunger, i may consume anywhere between 1/2 to 5 cups of rice, depende sa ulam at lugar.

9. I can develop friendships REALLY fast.

10. I USED TO collect dandruff and nail clippings in a vial.

i tag… migs, theia, ate che, ate lorah, ate jo,, jica

Stubborn Love

Artist - Kathy Troccoli

Caught again ~ Your faithless friend
Don’t You ever tire of hearing what a fool I’ve been?
Guess I should pray ~ But what can I say?
Oh it hurts to know the hundred times I’ve caused You pain
Though ‘forgive me’ sounds so empty when I never change
Yet You stay and say ‘I love you still’
Forgiving me time and time again

It’s Your stubborn love that never lets go of me
I don’t understand how You can stay
Perfect love embracing the worst in me
How I long for You ~ stubborn love

Funny me ~ Just couldn’t see
Even long before I knew You, You were loving me
Sometimes I cry ~ You must cry too
When You see the broken promises I’ve made to You
I keep saying that I’ll trust You though I seldom do
Yet You stay and say You love me still
Knowing someday I’ll be like You

And Your stubborn love, it never lets go of me
I don’t understand how You can stay
Perfect love embracing the worst in me
How I long for You ~ stubborn love

It’s Your stubborn love that never lets go of me
I don’t understand how You can stay
Perfect love embracing the worst in me
And You never let me go
I believe I finally know
I can’t live without Your stubborn love

Finally had the time to find this song.
I just came home earlier to day from our church’s worship camp. I learned a lot of things, especially the realization that worship surpasses circumstance simply because God is unchanging, and that we can never run out of things to worship God for (if we know God enough).

yun lang. baw.

I think i’m starting to get the hang of all the relatively new things in my life:

• Administering our household budget and schedules
• Releasing funds for expenditures
• Dissecting frogs every day
• Maintaining a romantic relationship relationship
• Maintaining other relationships
• Living away from my parents
• Doing errands for my parents

Yet, just when you start to get comfortable, things start to change again…
Summer class is over, and a new sem’s under way. New subjects, classmates, heartaches?
The long term plan has changed and i may be another sem away from graduation (1st sem 09-10). =(

Well, come what may, my God’s still the same, and that should be enough for me…

Sa wakas! matapos ang tatlong araw na nawalan kami ng telepono ay may internet nang muli!
As of kahapon, ako ay may sinat, dry cough, clogged and runny nose, at extra sensitivity sa dust. Haay, what a way to start the enrolment.

Nagmamaneho ako nung isang araw, at trapik sa EDSA, sobrang tagal na naming naka tigil sa usad-pagong na daanan. Sa sobrang tagal akala ko mag-ooverrheat na ang makina.  Salamat na olang sa Panginoon at di nangyari ang ganoon. Sa kalagitnaan ng mga pangyayari, ako’y biglang napaisip:

Gusto ko nang sumuko na lang sa pagmamaneho, ngunit hindi ako pwedeng tumigil hangga’t ako’y makauwi.

Ganyan din pala ang buhay Kristiyano, madalas ay gusto mo nang sumuko sa pagtakbo, kaso wala kang magagawa hangga’t kunin ka na ni Lord. Mabagal man o mabilis ang takbo, sige pa rin. Bwal umurong kundi eh mababangga ka. Hindi lang buhay mo ang hawak mo, ngunit maging ang buhay ng mga pasahero mo. Hindi maaring lumingon nang matagal papalayo sa daan, kundi ay kapahamakan ang maidudulot. At higit sa lahat, mas masaya mag maneho pag may kasama ^_^

doraemon thoughts:
nobita: doraemon, meron ka bang gamit yung mapapasagot ko agad si shizuka?
doraemon: meron
nobita: ah, pahiram ako!
doraemon: ayoko nga!
nobita: ah, ang damot mo! bakit naman?
doraemon: kung tunay kang nagmamahal, hihintayin mo sya kahit gano pa katagal.

la lang…