after a week filled with midterms.. the weekend was definitely just what i needed to unwind :) although it was tiring ..it was VERY well worth it!

my best friends - christine and angela came to london for a long overdue visit last thursday. i'd been trying to get them to come for a looong time and they finally did! and it was good times. i don't laugh with anyone the way i do with them :P they only came for 1 day. but we got to visit Michaelite House - the retreat center that our church used to go to every year. it's only 10 mins away from my house! it was so great reminiscing and reliving old memories at that place. many great times were had there!

acf on friday night.. was a true testament to what God can do if you pray. i wasn't even the one who prayed but i know that ppl did. again.. it felt like the start of something new. revival. something's gonna happen. we just have to believe and expect.

I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete. My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you.
You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit—fruit that will last. Then the Father will give you whatever you ask in my name. This is my command: Love each other. John 15:11-12, 16-17 NIV

Now all glory to God, who is able, through his mighty power at work within us, to accomplish infinitely more than we might ask or think. Ephesians 3:20 NLT

saturday morning caleb came! and off we went with victoria to BIRCH RUN. ohh what a fun day! bought lots.. talked lots.. laughed lots :)

if only all weekends could be as great as this!

you know when you're having a conversation with someone.. and you can't think of something good to say in response to them? but then you think of something like an hour later? i hate that.

we saw a bunch of middle-aged koreans eating at crabby's tonight. such an odd sight. you never see older asians hanging out at a place like crabby's. someone joked that they're like acf.. 20 years from now. or kcf i suppose. i even saw them loitering in the parking lot when i left. just like we do! they were just standing around.. laughing and joking. for some reason it made me feel happy :)

someone talked about having balance today in SS. a good balance between school and spiritual life. we always talk about it. but i started thinking.. do we really want a balance? like a good dose of each..? shouldn't we want like.. a lot more of God in our lives so that our life is sorta like an imbalance in favour of God? like.. there would be more God than anything else in your life. wouldn't that just be the greatest?

i feel like i've been living in a bubble lately. a bubble of my own that revolves around stuff. stuff in my life that isn't necessarily important. is ignorance really bliss? i think it's just dumb. it's even dumber when you don't realize that u're doing it.

anyhoo. here are some more pics. thanks to jer and chris for a few of these!

on a tractor @ fall retreat?!

victoria surprised me with balloons at work on my birthday!

my surprise hairspray party @ dor's :D everyone looks fabulous!

with my hairspray + HSM girls :P love!

erin's 19th birthday tonight. why am i the only silly one!?

there's a community here that is so special. even tho ppl come and go.. i don't think the concept will ever be lost. it's something to be appreciated. it's something to be discovered too for ppl who don't know about it. and it's something to be shared by those who do know about it.