trying a new language

i had a friend tell me that speaking languages she's not comfortable in is kind of daunting and scary but that she's gonna take a risk and take a class where she's forced to do just that.

we had our praise team potluck today and aside from the fact that i'm not eating dinner because i'm just too full, i think i came away with a greater excitement to be on praise team. but ultimately, I think i came away with the desire to try something new.

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next month, i'm going to try to play keys. which is a huge step for me because improvising is something totally non nature to me. even though i'm done piano, it's all things i was TOLD to do. trying to make my own music.. that's... haha yes

Faithful

At the comment of a friend, I've decided to get off my lazy butt and start blogging again. I'm gonna write a couple entries since some of them are saved and just not published. But SO much has happened in the last two weeks that I don't know what to make of it and whether I'm stressed or not about it all. But I'm learning to take each day as God gives it to me and to trust that He's got it all covered :)

Chris Tomlin has a new album that I now have thanks to a different friend. One of the songs, I've been listening to on repeat because it SO speaks to what i'm going through right now and it's a HUGE encouragement.




Faithful, forever You are faithful
Father to the fatherless
You uphold the one who feels forsaken
You are faithful, God

Faithful, forever You are faithful
Lover of the wounded heart
You defend the poor and the forgotten
You are faithful, God

And I will sing to the maker of Heaven and Earth
God, You reign forever and Your will endure
Faithful and true is the name of the Lord
You are faithful, God

Faithful, forever You are faithful
Shelter for the fragile soul
You lift us up, You hold us all together
You are faithful, God

You are there in every season of my soul
You are there, You're the anchor that will hold
You are there, in the valley of the shadows
You are faithful, God

iTunes Challenge: Day 1

According to itunes, i have 6.4 days worth of music. I havne't listen to all of the songs so I've decided that before the new year, i'm going to listen to everything and blog about my favourites :) It'll be good considering I just downloaded a whole bunch of albums of korean artists that are non-mainstream and I have yet to listen to all of it.

Going to organize everything by file size so I don't listen to the same artist and get sick of them. I'm not expecting much out of the first couple cuz they're all intros or snippets of songs.

chestnuts roasting by the open fire

It's snowing like crazy outside and I took this last year, but it seriously gets me every time how much it can snow in waterloo. And listening to Michael Buble while being toasty in the library

Take My Life

Take my life and let it be
consecrated, Lord, to Thee.
Take my moments and my days,
let them flow in ceaseless praise.
Take my hands and let them move
at the impulse of Thy love.
Take my feet and let them be
swift and beautiful for Thee.

Take my voice and let me sing
always, only for my King.
Take my lips and let them be
filled with messages from Thee.
Take my silver and my gold
not a mite would I withhold.
Take my intellect and use
every power as You choose.

Here am I, all of me.
Take my life, it's all for Thee.

Take my will and make it Thine
it shall be no longer mine.
Take my heart it is Thine own
it shall be Thy royal throne.
Take my love, my Lord I pour
at Your feet its treasure store
Take myself and I will be
ever, only, all for Thee.
Take myself and I will be
ever, only, all for Thee.

Here am I, all of me.
Take my life, it's all for Thee.

Take my life, Lord take my life. Take all of me)

Here am I, all of me.
Take my life, it's all for Thee

random thoughts

i don't own an umbrella. probably not a good idea considering on monday, i was drenched after walking home from the bus stop which takes no more than 3 minutes (no exaggeration). i was thinking, though, today that if i had the technology, i'd attach a tracking device to an umbrella and give it to someone who was being drenched by the rain and tell them to pay it forward. i'd try to see where and how fast the umbrella travels - are people as nice as i hope them to be?



i really like the song's lyrics - "can we pretend that airplanes in the night sky are like shooting stars; i could really use a wish right now"

today is the day

had a quarter-life crisis in which i panicked about marks, being jobless, and just what i'm going to do with the rest of my life.

re-read an email that a good friend had sent me in which she had given me a song. it's quite a good song.



Today is the Day - Paul Baloche
I’m casting my cares aside
I’m leaving my past behind
I’m setting my heart and mind on You
Jesus

I’m reaching my hand to Yours
Believing there’s so much more
Knowing that all You have in store for me is good
Is good

Today is the day You have made
I will rejoice and be glad in it
Today is the day You have made
I will rejoice and be glad in it
And I won’t worry about tomorrow
I’m trusting in what You say
Today is the day

I putting my fears aside
I’m leaving my doubts behind
I’m giving my hopes and dreams to You
Jesus

I’m reaching my hand to Yours
Believing there’s so much more
Knowing that all You have in store for me is good
Is good

I will stand upon Your truth.
(I will stand upon Your truth)
And all my days I’ll live for You
(And all my days I’ll live for You)

david choi is coming to toronto feb 24!

i might go.
i've been quite spontaneous lately
been going out whenever i need to go out
studying when i need to study
i like it.



there's been something that's bugging me for a while too
and i wish i could stop thinking about it
but the more i think about it, the more it comes to me.

kcf blessings (part 2)

Last year, I would never have done what I did tonight. I trekked in the snow to the gym just to watch the KCF people play basketball and cheer them on.

I haven't felt this sense of community in Waterloo for a long time.

I blogged a couple of weeks ago saying that I felt awkward around people. A friend told me something along the lines of if I see it as a problem, it will always be a problem. Another friend told me that to trust people, sometimes I just need to trust them first instead of waiting to see them be trustworthy.

In John 1:39, Jesus says "come and see," not "see and come."

Lately, I feel like i've been going and seeing, and God has been uber good in showing me many many many things.

I'm really looking forward to what else He has to show me.



Tear down the walls see the world
Is there something we have missed
Turn from ourselves
Look beyond
There is so much more than this

And I don’t need to see it to believe it
I don’t need to see it to believe it
Cause I can’t shake this
Fire burning deep inside my heart

Look to the skies hope arise
See His majesty revealed
More than this life there is love
There is hope and this is real

Cause I don’t need to see it to believe it
I don’t need to see it to believe it
Cause I can’t shake this fire burning
Deep inside my heart

This life is Yours and hope is rising
As Your glory floods our hearts
Let love tear down these walls
That all creation would
Come back to You
It’s all for You

Your Name is glorious
Glorious
Your love is changing us
Calling us
To worship in spirit and in truth
As all creation returns to You

Oh for all the sons and daughters
Who are walking in the darkness
You are calling us to lead them back to You
We will see Your spirit rising
As the lost come out of hiding
Every heart will see this hope we have in You

Cause I don’t need to see it to believe it
I don’t need to see it to believe it
Cause I can’t shake this fire burning
Deep inside my heart

This life is Yours and hope is rising
As Your glory floods our hearts
Let love tear down these walls
That all creation would
Come back to You
It’s all for You

Your Name is glorious
Glorious
Your love is changing us
Calling us
To worship in spirit and in truth
As all creation returns to You
(x2)

a little early...

but i LOVE this song and i think frank sinatra has a really classy voice

i'd rather

be proposed to with a house than an expensive wedding ring.
(actually.. i don't really like houses - condos are find with me.)







can you tell i have nothing to blog about?



except that 태양's new mv is super sad and that he looks super 멋있어 in it (thanks dollie)



ps. i used to really want to get married quickly. i dont know anymore. i feel like 챙겨 - ing for myself is big enough for me.

세상은 난 두렵지 않아

fly me to the moon

loving this version by diana krall

skiddadle - part 2

"You're so Indie"
What's Indie?
Popseoul labels Loveholic as "Indie"
I like loveholic.
huh?

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Logical:
I'm not going. I should tell them.
Illogical:
I'm not going. Let them figure it out.

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If only I did that yesterday
damnit.

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jPod is a funny book
I like quirky people.

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IRIS is out. Must. Watch.
T.O.P *swoon*

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Dude. Go online

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I get frustrated easily.
Not mad.
Why can't I learn to expect less of people?
Is this turning emo?

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GAH! the sinus pain.

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a capella on Youtube

I love people who can do a capella with themselves! Here are some of my all time faves from youtube.

1. ApprenticeA's tribute to John Williams' greatest hits of all time with the famous lines from Star Wars. This is my personal favourite!


2. daiyel's cover of Jason Mraz's I'm Yours


3. jibcraip's cover of michael Jackson's You Rock My World with 38 voices


4. David Choi's I Fart Like Everyone Else

Captivate(d)

You say, strength is found in weakness
Peace in incompleteness
So why do I hold on?

You look, For a heart that's open
For beauty in the broken
So why am I withdrawn?

[pre-chorus:]
My soul's screaming out
To be found in You

[chorus:]
Spirit draw me to my knees
Captivate all of me, all of me
Here before You honestly
Captivate all of me, all of me

I'm so messy and distracted
Undisciplined and tactless
Here on the inside

I thought age would tell the secrets
But the secrets are still secret
And the years are passing by

...
Teach me to wait in the moments of my need
Teach me to hear the melodies of peace