it's funny.. i remember this very day.. from last year haha.

about a year ago today.. it was a beautiful day. i bought daffodils at svb. and i remember carrying them to UCC where shirley filmed me for the banquet slide show. and i sat in on anthea's video too.. she was so sweet. she sang a song for us! aww if u read this anthea.. i miss you!

it was a beautiful today again.. and i bought daffodils at ASL (aka SVB). health sci council was raising money for cancer association just as they were last year. and this time.. instead of me being filmed for banquet slide show.. i was doing the filming.

and what's also weird.. is that i remember the day that's gonna be tomorrow from first year. all day prayer day. engineers are having their iron ring ceremony tomorrow.. and i remember rob coming to all day prayer in first year after his iron ring ceremony and joining us. we had a great end to all day prayer :)

it's like deja vuuuuuuu.

all day prayer tomorrow. i wait in expectation. it's gonna be a great day :D

In Christ alone my hope is found
He is my light, my strength, my song
This Cornerstone, this solid ground
Firm through the fiercest drought and storm
What heights of love, what depths of peace
When fears are stilled, when strivings cease
My Comforter, my All in All
Here in the love of Christ I stand

what a great song to remember when satan attacks.
praise the Lord because we have victory over the enemy. no need to put up with him.
praise the Lord! we are on the winner's side :D

what a blessed coffeehouse! so much hard work and dedication put into it by the organizers/performers/food ppl/etc.. all for God. and as a result many were touched and changed. you could just tell by looking at ppl afterwards. i wanted to just sit there and look at everyone. oh the joy :D

acf is blessed with so many talented individuals.. and seeing them come out and use their gifts from God and FOR God was so encouraging. the sharing by jesse and yvonne was so personal and uplifting. thanks to everyone who helped out in some way and also to everyone who came out to share the evening with us..

so many thoughts provoked.. i hate when i can't remember everything i want to remember. i almost hate it even more that i don't grab a pen and paper to write it down when i want to remember something :P

cool thing.. tristan (the guy who did the sound for coffeehouse) was on my teenmania missions team!!! the moment i saw him i was like.. man he looks familiar. and all of a sudden it clicked and i realized we both went to panama together like 3 years ago! he's originally from indiana but he came here for school i think and now goes to GTA. crrrraazy reunion. it really is a small world after all :)

sonj sent me this site with these really cute hello kitty blogger templates!!! but being the html illiterate girl i am.. couldn't figure out how to put one up :S hahaha.. i'll try again someday. they were awesome!! thanks again sonj :) i'm being bombarded with hello kitty stuff.. first the hat from shirley and dren (thanks to you TOO girls :D) and now this ..hehe.

the next few weeks are gonna be GREAT. busy.. but i'm looking fwd to it! after all..

But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own. Matthew 6:33-34

must hold onto this truth.. mmm.

fall retreat pics!


chris, nate, grace.. small group lunch prep!


eldon, samo, jon


dren and i!


justin picking on shirley.. haha.


the backstreet boys..


our beloved 4th years..

ernie's got me all excited about 1 john now too. couldn't sleep last night :P i awoke to a BEAUTIFUL morning out side.. and the excitement was still there. so i headed off to prayer meeting where we were excited about the Word together! what a great morning.

john talks a lot about making God's love complete in us.

But if anyone obeys his word, God's love is truly made complete in him. This is how we know we are in him: Whoever claims to live in him must walk as Jesus did. 1 John 2:5-6

Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us. 1 John 4:11-12

so His love is made complete in us by..

1) obeying His word
2) loving one another

they're like such elementary truths. yet we struggle to do it everyday.

And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him. In this way, love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment, because in this world we are like him. 1 John 4:16-17

what a joy to know that we are in Him and He is in us! but if we are in Him, we must walk as Jesus did. what a task! Jesus is our ultimate example. i'm challenged.. if we live in love we are like Christ.. that is a sign that God is in us. as a result we have confidence to know that we are saved on the day of judgment. woooooot!

so how do we love?

Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth. This then is how we know that we belong to the truth, and how we set our hearts at rest in his presence whenever our hearts condemn us. For God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything.
1 John 3:18-20

with actions and in truth. let's stop talking about it and do iiit! it's also such a joy to know that we belong to the truth :D *warm fuzzy feeling* i wouldn't want to belong to anything else. i love verses that talk about God and our hearts. when we let our hearts wander or get us down, which we are so prone to do, it's ok! because God is BIGGER than our hearts.. in my mind i picture my heart straying further and further and getting smaller and smaller.. but it can never get away because God's greatness just engulfs it back up and makes it new again!

maaan we would be so lost without the Word. i'm so glad we have it :)

heheh.. inspired by yvette's msn status blog.. i decided to do my own. this applies only to me and not what i think others do.

online: i'm not really up to anything so i'm quite willing to talk. msg me!

busy: doing work and don't really wanna be disturbed by msgs, the msgs "duh-nuh-nuh" sound and the ppl popping online sound. but if u do msg me.. i'll talk to you if i really want to. if i don't reply right away it means i'll reply in a bit or not at all if i don't want to talk to you. my conversation with you while i'm on this status will probably not be too fruitful unless we're talking about interesting stuff.

be right back: i really will brb. i'm probably in the bathroom or just afk for a bit.

away: i'm at the comp and not actually "away". don't mind if u msg me but i probably won't msg u first unless i really want to talk to you. OR i actually am away.. but probably not for long. this is my default status and i'm usually talking to ppl while i'm on it.

on the phone: don't use this much but it'll mean i REALLY am on the phone.

out to lunch: don't use it much but i'm probably just eating out in the dining room. since i dont leave my comp on usually when i'm actually OUT.

appear offline: i know i shouldn't be online but i still want to see ppl who are online anyways :P i'll eventually come online when i'm done my work.. or i'll come online when i see ppl i wanna talk to.

so that is it. now you know all know my secrets!!! hahaa. if u do this too.. then we can all understand you better in the world of msn. who needs real interaction (when we have no clue what the REAL status of ppl is) when we have this :P

more pics.. yay.


first acf of the year! look at all the ppl...


east side mario's after.. DENIED half-price apps :( haha..


sardines after acf one night.. i remember this is when lil and chia just told me that i'm in their sg. yaaay small group :D !!

waiting patiently for the Lord..

Wait for the LORD;
be strong and take heart
and wait for the LORD.
Psalm 27:14

vs.

seeking the Lord actively with all your heart..

You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart. Jeremiah 29:13

which one are we to do? i was faced with this question this week. but like it is with so many other things.. it's not one or the other. it's both. there are times when the Lord will ask you to wait patiently on Him. other times He will challenge you to seek Him fully with all your heart. i dont think the key is in knowing which one to do at what time.. it's in being obedient to whatever He wants. but don't you have to know which one He wants in order to be obedient? i guess the answer to that one lies only in our own hearts.

this pic was on the uwo faculty of health sciences website.

it's our very own yvette!!! awww.. what a lucky girl. go health sci! woot :P

ahh the days before school started. how great they were.. we were intending to canoe. but the place was closed or something? chilling in the sun with the girls was fun anyways :)

i had to do a seminar on this philosophical work for my religious studies class. the point was to present an exegesis (critical explanation) of the work. going into it.. i had no idea what i was doing. philosophy?? not my forte.. so you can imagine my insecurities. so the first time i sit down and try to understand the reading.. *woosh* totally over my head. i highlighted stuff i didn't even understand. however the second time around.. i made a conscious effort to UNDERSTAND the stuff.. and i summoned up a smidgen of hope that maaaybe.. i could do it. and it worked! i was actually able to make sense of it. after that.. things went pretty smoothly. consulted with the prof to make sure we were on the right track.. did the presentation and got an amazing mark! wow.. i was so happy.

it's the same when we try to understand God things.. if we're insecure about it and if we don't take the time and conscious effort to grasp things.. and if we don't believe and expect we can do it, we shouldn't expect anything.

If any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him. But when he asks, he must believe and not doubt, because he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind. That man should not think he will receive anything from the Lord; he is a double-minded man, unstable in all he does. James 1:5-8

you get what you put into it.. so true. of course that's not to say it's all on YOU either. what are we believing and expecting? that God will show you when you ask.. He alone is our source to draw from. how can we expect to do anything apart from Him? we're so foolish sometimes...

since i don't always have stuff to say here all the time.. and you all know how much i love pictures.. i think i'll post some random pics up for all of you to enjoy everyone once in awhile. just stuff from throughout this year.. i only just found out a little while ago that blogger lets you upload pics..?! yaay. yea i'm slow :P
















we started off the year by coming back for darana's and jasper's london wedding reception. look at all these pretty ladiiies. oh i miss that weather. SPRING!! i will welcome you with open arms :D