Journey

A friend shared this to me: We're moving ahead as the time goes by, what is most exciting is not the destination, but the journey itself.

Its like when you go out with your family to eat. Its not the eating part that is the most important part. Its the fellowship, the communication, the conversations when you travel together and eat together.

Enjoy the journey my friend.

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I have to confess something. I've been angry with God for sometime now. Well I wanted to go down this path of road everything was moving smoothly and all the signs were ok but suddenly God stopped me from continuing on. I was frustrated, I mean I wasn't doing anything wrong. I couldn't understand Him. Then yesterday a friend asked me a question. As I was answering his questions I realized that that was the answer why God didn't want me to go down that path. God saved me from lots of trouble and dilemma. I was questioning why He even started to lead me down that path and suddenly make me stop. I guess God still was not finish teaching me a lesson. Thanks God now I realize your plan. Forgive me.

What is my life-mission?

What is my life-mission?

I think if i can answer this now then I can start making my steps. Honestly my life mission is kind of vague or maybe not that clear. I do have some clear things that i want to do. I want to serve God at church. I love praising God. I want to reach out to others about Christ. I want to be a good engineer and businessman contribute to the country. I really love the idea of how God gave man the ability to use machines and technolgy to help solve problems. I want to be good at what I do. I want to have a good family.

Well the Bible tells me that God created me for a purpose. Maybe I have a "big mission" in life. You know be some sort of a hero ( just like Hiro ;)) or maybe I'm just bound to be just a regular guy. Hey regular ain't bad, at least i dont have to buy XXXL :)

I'm thinking why would God choose me? I mean I make a lots of mistakes. And I make it over and over. I failed God lots of times. I'm not a genious. I'm an introvert. I'm not a good communicator. I'm not good in music. I have bad taste in style. I'm lazy. Quick to get discouraged. I don't like getting out of my comfort zone. well i can still keep on going on... but He still choose me.

Thank you God :)

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Things to consider:
1.) Do I really need this?
Well with the advances in technology I think I need to catch up. I want to gain more knowledge so i can improve my work.

2.) When should i start?
Thinking maybe next sem or next school year. I hope that i can just finish it in a year.

3.) What course should I take?
I love engineering specially automation. I like fixing machines and finding new ways to improve them. But on a realistic point of view its going to be hard for our country's manufacturing to pick up. So not sure if investing in manufacturing is a good option. hmm

I also like to learn more about streamlining the business. Finding ways to improve the output.

I'm torn between taking an engineering course (maybe EE prob is i'm not an EE graduate) / Mecheng sounds good too or an MBA.

Bottom line is I want to learn practical stuff. I dont want to learn things that are not just in the books i want stuff that i can apply.

4.) Where should I take it?
I hate traffic. Maybe somewhere near or place.

Thinking U.P. or Lasalle. UP for its engineering course. Lasalle for its MBA maybe or its engineering. How about AIM?

Pros
- I like learning
- Meeting new friends
- I like the challenge

Cons
-I dont like the finals
-I dont like thesis

Lord I'm so confused. help me make the right decision. Help me get the right advise to make the right decision.

Reviews

haven't written for a week cuz was busy baby sitting my niece and nephew.

Wanna do some reviews:

"Heart to Heart Conversations on Love":

I would highly recommend reading the book "Heart to Heart Conversations on Love" by William B. Girao. Based on the title the topic is obviously related to love. Its more like a Q&A type of book. What I like about it is a sense of local taste. I have nothing about foreign authors but sometimes the application part is kind of hard to do because they dont understand our culture. Its just a short book. easy reading probably finish it a day or two but sometimes you have to stop and think about what the author is trying to say. I think I got it around P100.

He has lots of good points. Like you need to consider the purpose of marriage. Realize the hardships about relationships. Knowing each others goals. Gives you tips on attracting the right person. The book is written for both Christian man and women. but reading it i think Mr. Girao is talking about 70% of the time to the sisters rather than the brothers. It also made me realize that my Christian sisters really have it hard.

speaking about authors, i feel that we lack Filipino Christian books. I dont think that we lack authors. Maybe they just dont have the opportunities.

Check out this article written by one of our youth members. Its really good. click here. I wanted to use one of her sentences as a quote but i'm afraid I might use it out of context:)

Hillsongs: United We stand

I got new CD United we stand. Well i cant say that I like all the songs on it. But there are some songs there that i really like. For ex. From the inside out, Fire fall down, The stand. It was a modern tune to it. Some i think are kinda heavy metal. It comes with a DVD music video which is cool. The price is around P550 and i got a discount cuz i hv an HOP discount card.

小孩不笨2

Finished watching the film 小孩不笨2. Its good. It has comedy, drama, action. I specially like the ackward comedy scenes. It teaches good moral values. Anyways i dont want to spoil the movie. Go watch it. Its a family movie

Worhip band Workshop

Check out these cool tips on worship band:





Strumming techniques:

Found the answer

The book i'm reading now is really speaking to me. Thanks for the lessons and the reminders.

Deut 8:2
"You shall remember all the way which the Lord your God has led you in the wilderness these forty years, that He might humble you, testing you, to know what was in you heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not."

I recently was wondering why God gave lots of problems to someone I know. To the point of him turning his back on the Lord. I guess I found the answer.

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Doesn't it seem strange. I overcome something and another one pops up. Lord, help me overcome. You know my weakness. I know You will keep me upright.

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Lets try to tackle a new book. how about Hosea?

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Lord, guide my step. Amen

Friend of God

Destiny

I just finished watching the series "Heroes". It got me thinking about Destiny. Anyways I wonder where my next step in life is?

I'm thinking of studying again. My main reason is I want to improve myself. I don't care about the degree. I just want to learn something new that I can apply in my work.
But what should I take? where would i take it? Do I have the time?

You know I hate the stuff that they teach you at school but have no way of applying it in your life. I want to take something practical that I can use in my everyday life.

anyways just got reminded by somebody, "Did you pray about it?"

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The other day I made Siobe cry. She did something wrong, so I told her in a straight face "不乖。我要打妳。“ . And she made this face that melted my heart and started crying. So I picked her up and hugged her. Importantly she knew what she did was wrong. after a few minutes of crying she was back to her old happy self.

Lamentations

You know how sometimes God is leading you somewhere. I originally planned to do something else but well the plans one by one got cancelled last minute. So I told myself ok I'm free so what should I do? I've been planning to go visit telling myself maybe next month when i'm free but since i'll be free now why dont i just do it. So I did. But a thought occured to me I might not make it on time cuz I'll be having a late nighter. So ok i told myself If I wake up on time I'll go but if I wake up late then I won't.

Well God definetly wanted to me to be there.
1.) Around 4:30am I woke up from a dream (think it had something to do with basketball). Then went back to sleep
2.) woke up around 6am cuz of power outage. Then back to sleep again.
3.) woke up around 6:30am cuz our neighbor kept on pressing his horn. Finally couldn't get back to sleep.
As I lay lying there I told myself ok God I think you want me to go. So I got up, prepared and went.

I couldn't believe it God was definitely talking to me. The sermon was on the book of Lamentations. I was doing a Bible Study on Lamentations myself and couldn't get it. I didn't know that Lamentations was an acrostic poem, where each verse is represented by an alphabet, the Herbew alphabet has only 22 letters so there are 22 verses oer chapter.

I could relate to the writer Jeremiah. He was sad and depressed as he wrote Lamentations.

Some of the things that I learned:
- God is faithful 100%
- Hope in Him
- Wait on Him
- Don't Complain
- Our happiness should not be based on our circumstances, but based on God's Faithfulness

Shortest Chapter

That was the shortest chapter in my life. I just started to write "In the beginning..." now i have to write "... the end.":(
Quick Lord turn the pages of my life. I want to start a new chapter. :)

Or maybe i should write "... to be continued" :D

Why didn't I say this...

I'm thinking why didn't I say this or why didn't I say that. How come these things just come to me at night before i go to sleep and I can't sleep thinking about the possibilities if i said this. That really sucks. Then I was reminded at translation class, when sometimes you forgot a word and it feels really bad but when the next time that word appears again its more easier for you to recall. So in short I still need lots of experience. Stop thinking about the past and move on!

No guts, no glory...

No guts, no glory. But having guts does not always mean having glory. Maybe it takes more guts to get glory. Sigh :(

Let me get my guitar to console my soul.

I could sing of Your love forever

You know sometimes when your alone and feel that nobody loves you. Just keep on rejoicing and giving thanks to God. I picked up my guitar and started singing this chorus. Thank you Lord for reminding me that You love me.


E B
I could sing of Your love forever
C#m A
I could sing of Your love forever
E B
I could sing of Your love forever
C#m A
I could sing of Your love forever

Try it with these chords:

E G#m Esus F#m B C#m
e --0-- --0-- --0-- --0-- --0-- --0--
B --0-- --0-- --0-- --0-- --0-- --5--
G --1-- --4-- --2-- --2-- --4-- --6--
D --2-- --6-- --2-- --4-- --4-- --6--
A --2-- --6-- --2-- --4-- --2-- --4--
E --0-- --4-- --0-- --2-- --X-- --X--


Lord, I will trust in You. Give me the strength to trust in You. amen

Family retreat pictures

Family retreat pictures Holy Week 2007

Pictures from May 1 outing

Pics from our choir outing. Then there are my fellow "C" people from choir.

Growing Pains

Hi do you guys still remember "Growing pains"? I grew up watching that show. If you watched it you would know about Kirk Cameron a.k.a. Mike Sever. Anyways this guy was like a superstar back then. He was famous and rich. He had everyting and he was young. See how this superstar who had everything was still missing something in his life Check this out.

Also check out his cool website. They give you some tips on sharing the gospel. The way of the master

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Well our record is 1-3. We got creamed bad by SSP. they were fast and big, and they told me they were just in High school.