Good Bye 2006

What an amazing year this was.  a lot has changed. hahaha.

I just want to take this time now to remember some of the great moments of this year! (in no particular order of course)

 

1. Camp!  Super super super best 4 days ever in each year! hahaha.  I met Najee there! I met Ian E there! I met Ams...ok, not really met, but really talked to for the first time.  :D  Also got close with Justin Jamon, Jeff, Jason, and the whole group. hahaha.  guys, sana we wont repeat what happened to me this year right?  or maybe this time it will end well. Heeheehee.

2. Youth LIVE Website!  Forums!  self explanitory.  It rocks!

3. I joined the worship team!  It was a hard 3 days of training, but i learned so much.  It was bitin pa.  :(  Sean ROCKS SO FRIGGIN HARD!  Wish he could continue teaching me.  I got to play in the first (of only 2 ever) live feed services. =D  It was soooooooooooo cool to serve God by leading people to worship him.  It's one of the best feelings to be playing up there and see that the people worshipping are closing their eyes....you know they are not looking at you, but singing for God. Looking forward to playing again some time in 2007

4. Became the Missions Team Head! Although it was sudden, and really stressful, its so cool that God put me in this possition.  Just before it happened, i was telling God i wanted to play a bigger role in my ministries.  Especially the missions team.  Cuz i felt like i wasn't needed there, like in cribs and stuff, cuz i could hardly help out.  I told God, "why did you bring me to this team? Please show me why."  And then this happened.  i was really freaked by the whole idea that kuya brian was leaving us.  so i set out to find us a new leader...  Then..... oh boy... God has a sence of humor talaga.  Pao Manzano pulled me aside to talk to me.  At first i thought it was about something else ;) ;)  but it wasn't. Thank God it wasn't!  He told me he thinks i can step up and take this possition.  He told me also, not to pray about it too long, as in don't use prayer as a way to delay it cuz i'm scared.  And i already knew that's where God wanted me and that was the answer to my prayer.  Soooooooo, here i am.

5.  Inside Out.  Another amazing event.  God really taught me not to trust myself and only to trust Him.  He also showed me the importance of trusting your team to get the job done.  At one point, i really tried to do everything myself, purposely giving few assignments to the others, and i almsot burned out.  I really want to just drop it all and forget about it.  But, when you have no where else to go, and you just give everything to God, He will take care of it.  man, i miss P. Ro already.

6. I met my sister Nix! =D  I first noticed her cuz the first time i sat in at Grow kids, she was wearing a youth LIVE shirt :))

7. Met Ben after camp. :D

8. got mistaken as being part of the choir countless times! wahahaha..  And part of mamalujo!

9. EK with the fellowship team! I rode the space shuttle as my first rollercoaster!  i even rode it twice.  Played paintball for the first time there too.  I Shot justin! hahaha.  Maow shot me in the face.

10. Watched WWE Raw live in manila!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Cena and Edge Rocked My Sox!!!  I also saw the smackdown superstars in galle.  Saw Lashley face to face! and King Booker!!!!!!  wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!!!!!!

wow, that's already 10 great moments.  You know what?  I'm sure there are so many more i just can't think of now.  2007 is an empty page just waiting to filled with fun memories.  And you can watch it all unfold right here on multiply! (hahaha, advertisment!)

Praise God for everything He's done. He derserves it all.  \m/

Till next time -Matt aka Matthew, Mattman, baby_webhead, Matty, Teddy Bear, Kuya Fitz, and all those other things people call me. lol

 

EDIT:  Adding two more numbers! hahaha

 

11.  being stuck outside the youth center in millenium with so many different people. Hahaha..  With Tims for like 2 or more hours, With Najee for like 30 mins, with Kyle for like an hour, with.... some of the youth bands for like an hour or more...  Woweeee.

12. Youth Sundays!!!!!!! All of them. The one with the maskara skit and the last one.  hahaha.  I love performing on stage because i get to be bad to people! hahahahaha.  First i was a sin, then i was a guest at a party/person in a church who disliked najee, then i was a bum who jason king li tried to witness to but me and luigi seriously gave him the worst time in the world!  Oh yeah... Good times. =D

Online....

These past days i've been going online a lot.  Mostly i've been looking for people to chat with on ym, but guess what? There's no one on?!?!?!  nooooooooooo!  The Tans went to Taiwan, Missions team went to nymc... others just went out of town. :(

And now school is gonna start soon, and everyone will be online at the usual time :)) 7:30-9ish.  Guess i'll chat with them then :)) 

Oh boy.. school... here we go again....

Christmazzzzzz

Hmmmmm. I don't know what to say about it really.  The days building up to christmas were awesome.  Had like best month of the year.  Christmas itself was fun too, but it really passed so fast.

Next year is gonna be interesting.  probably gonna get really stressed out with all the missions team work and stuff i have to do.  probably gonna get </3 again at camp or a bit after it. Crap, that's gonna suck.  Probably gonna... keep doing what i gotta do. "even when your hope is gone, move along, move along just to make it through.." - Move along by AAR

I really wanted to go to this nymc thing (tomorrow?)  Bummer.  darn complications.  why?!?! 

i guess i'm just feeling the "low" after the whole christmas "high".  The high wore off really fast huh?  You know, if i could have the rapture happen when i wanted, i would say now would be ok. why? i dunno. cuz things are looking down hill.... oh man. i'm raining on everyone's parade aren't i? Shucks. Ok i'll stop

Happy thoughts....come on!  ummmm, i won this thing yesterday at our christmas party.  It was like "whoever can text this number first with your full name wins"  I wasn't even really trying, but i won it :). I'm going out of town some time this week too.  be back on like jan 1.

THen mark will be coming back on jan 1. that's gonna be fun but different.  We're all gonna have to get used to him living here again and he's gonna have to get used to how things work here.  I guess living 5 years in NYC does stuff to you.  Like he totally doesn't find asian girls pretty anymore and stuff.  wierd huh? hahahaha.  we're also gonna be REALLY FREAKING crammed in our car now.  Or some of us might have to commute to places. Adjustments again... here we go.

sooooooooo yeah. that's all for now.  Thanks to everyone who helped make my christmas great. :)  Jan 6 ok? see you all and keep on TCing! \m/

----------------------> Matt

Fellowship Team Outing to EK!!!!

The Inside Out Dec 16

IT was so hard and so stressful but all worth it.  The booth had me stressed out a lot cuz i could see all the other minisrty's coming together.  But it all turned out fine.  I really gave my team a lot less credit then they deserve. Minneli, Ams, Angel, great job! YOu didn't let me down. :)

It was really great to see that all of us working on this were so devoted.  None of us were messing around or playing cuz we knew how important this was.  We were all doing it for God too.  That made a big difference.

I really wanted to give my best performnce, even if my part was like the littlest of all the little. :))  I let miko cut up my shirt and stuff before i went on stage.  I seriously looked messed up! wiiiiiii! Soooo cool!

Of course, if everything went perfectly,  we wouldn't have depended on God as much as we did.  So He decided to shake things up a bit.  He made Sarah (is her name spelled with an "H") late.  Worse then that, the phone of the person we were contacting with her died.  So we were in the dark.  We prayed a lot and really just gave the situation to HIM.  Then me and angel went out to join the praise and worship.  After the second song, p ro comes running throught and i hear him say "she's here!"

Inside out is really something i am working on.  i want to be serious about it, because inside out is the way God wants us to live.  The way God wants ME to live.  Not just doing ministry cuz i know it's right, but doing it cuz i love Him and want to give my life Him.  Living inside out means that if there is nothing else in the world, we will still be living for God, because it's not the circumstances that make us do it, but because we are just so thankful for God.  Because He is who He is. Because He is perfect.  Because He loves us.  Because He died for us.  Because He forgave us. 

Before we shout Him out, we have to let Him in.  Into our lives.

"My heart and my soul, i give You control. Consume me from the inside out..."

Inside out

It's hard to focus on God sometimes when there are so many problems blasting you in the face.  Some things that even shouldn't be bothering you at the moment just come up and do. Why? Cuz the devil wants us to screw up tomorrow. But we wont!

I lotta stuff was bothering me tonight.  Being just an extra in one scene of the skit, i wondered if my part even matters.  The truth is, it doesn't.  I can be there or not and people will still get the same effect.  BUT, God gave that little oh so little part, and i'm gonna give him my best with it.  I'm really learning to do things for God, and not just cuz i know they are the right thing to do.

I also slightly felt again like the one man missions team.  Cuz i seemed to be doing everything and the others didn't seem to care that much about our booth.  I still feel that some people are neglecting our team, but i'm probably wrong.

Another thing that was really getting to me was the fact that i'm not part of the choir.  I've always wanted to be.  Ever since i was 13 pa!  But, God didn't bless me with the talent of singing, so i'm not there...  But watching them tonight just made me remember that.  

The last thing that was bothering me was that i was spending too much time focusing one some people rather than God.

My QT tonight was about not grumbling like the israelites did.  I grumbled a lot tonight cuz my part in this seems so small. I know it was wrong, and GOd left us examples in the Bible to teach us what we should not do.  I'm not gonna repeat that tomorrow.  Tomorrow is not a time to doubt, or grumble, or give up, or get pissed off.

An old quote i heard from a friend ( and i believe it is true) says: "Not everything that happens is a consequence of sin, but God's will. And God's will is the best"

I know now that i have to start serviing God again... from the inside out.

Blogs

A lotta people use blogs for sharing stories.  others share ideas.  others just complain about stuff.  And what is my blog?  Well, i guess it just falls under the "sharing" section. 

I was reading a friend's blog today (you prolly know who you are ;) ;)) and it kinda made me think.  this is how this person thinks.  In his/her mind, these are the things she thinks about.  This is what's important to this person, and these are the things that are not.  Sometimes, i wish i could blog like that.  Like just put down what's on my mind.  But i can't.  I'd probably hurt a lotta people and my friendships. 

My blogs would be full of: I saw her today, and i hate her now.  i hate him too.  I wish i was him, but then i'd kill myself cuz i'd hate myself.  And stuff like:  God, you made a great day!  Everything went right today. Even if i didn't get to go out and do blah blah blah... it was great. :D

But that's the thing about me.  i thik these things in my mind and then they go away.  i don't need to write em anymore.  I guess it's kinda a good thing that i can deal with my problems without having to tell the whole world about it. 

Inside out is on sat!  soooooooooooooo nervous.  I hope all our booths come together ok.  I'm really nervous that someone will slack off and forget to do their job.  But no! I shouldn't think that way. Ams, Minneli, Angel, I trust you guys!  Been praying for inside out every night this week too.  During my family prayers pa! hahaha.  It's really important to me. 

I also have a really good feeling abou the missions team this year.  We just need committed members and it'll be great :D  I know i'm so off topic already, but i don't care.  I'm not an OC person.  I like to doodle in my notes :))

It seems adults hate my hair.  All the people here at the messiah office hate my hair.  I think my mom hates my hair.  i think najee's mom hates my hair too! hahaha.  But it's mine. :D  Jasper likes it.  Angel likes it.  i like it.  maow likes it (he says it's not big enough).  But i'll see what i'll do with it.  might cut it in jan... might keep it still if it looks ok. it's my hair and i'll do what i want with it and no one can stop me! (rebellious hahaha.)

So to end on a good note.... i have no load in my phone.  why is that good? i have no idea......... wierd matt!

i wanna go home soon cuz i can't seem to get my work done here at the messiah office. I can't live seeing a computer online and no one using it! i still need to write all the info for the info booth at open house.  i need to burn a cd for the worship team for inside out too.  wahhhhhh.

Hey saki, thatnks for the generic text. angel and i busted you! hahaha. :)>-  i know you still meant it.  He did, right angel?

i'm trying to think of some kinda tagline or quote to end this blog.  so that it's parang astig.  hmmmmm.  ok, i got one. it's actually lyrics to a song:

I'm not sure of
Anyone, Anyone
But I've got plans
I'm not asking
For everything
But sure I could
Use a hand

Get a little anxious
Sometimes you'll be gone
And I'll be left behind
Get a little nervous
Sometimes it'll be my turn
And I'll forget my lines
Get a little lossler
And some staring from
The corner of my eye
Never really mastered
The cintris

I can't see how
The way you leave me alone
Makes us close
I must be out of touch
I won't ask you
To give up on the things
That seem to keep you gone
But I can be gone too

Feel a little sorry
Sometimes you're not here
When I am writing
Feels a little awkward
Sometimes you won't talk
But we're not fighting
You hold onto your secrets
And I'm not privy
To what is on your mind
I can't help but feel tired
So tired
So tired

Anyone Anyone - by Dashboard Confessional

Fro

I would realy like to post about the whole weekend, but i don't think i have enough energy to type that out.  All i can say was it was both good and bad, but it was fun. And I know God is pleased with how hard we are working for him.

 

Anyway, People have been talking about my hair all weekend.  People at church, at Messiah, at GCF East, etc. Some people like it, other dont (though they don't say it to me but i can tell). If i could do my hair any way i wanted (hair including facial hair) this is what i wanna look like:

[IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v217/baby_webhead/04021X.jpg[/IMG]

CARLITO!!!!!

 

Maybe not forever (no, really not forever) just for a while =D

Youth Sunday Pics From Joanna Co

Final Youth Sunday Pics!!!

The Day Before The Last Youth Sunday

The last youth sunday

Yesterday, november 26, was our last youth sunday.  It's really sad that it's over now, but youth sundays have provided a lot of great memories. :)

On my first youth sunday, the one with the skit where P. Ro and the quest guys got together in a dream, that's when i became friends with dave.  We were both backstage people.  We had to keep running mics back and forth! HAhahaha. Then there was the one about the 7 sins.  That was really fun because i was on stage that time.  :)  Not to mention that our team was great too!

But anyway, back to this time.  When we opened in prayer that day, P. Ro said something. He said that he felt like we just had another retreat.  And the more i thought about it, that's what it felt like. There were like 30 of, practicing together on thursday, firday, saturday, and now it was sunday.  We all knew why we were doing this.  This was for God.  And it was a hard, but amazing 4 days.

I was really really tired the whole day (espeically during service team's shoot)  because i hadn't really slept well the whole week. Always got home like around 11, and slept at like 12:30ish and had to be out of the house at 8 the next day.  Cuz to make it to the practices, me and my bros had to ride with our parents to the office/college in the mornings.  Also, i had no voice!  It was really funny when i was trying to sell tickets with no voice.  I would just try to say as little as i could.  But i got a few people to go check out the booth! yey!  That day, I also learned that i am a good guesser! (right angel?) heehee....grrrr....oh man....

THe skit was good.  Me, dave, and tims, already had our own script for the party scene while the dancers were up there! it went something like this.

Me: Great party!

Tims: YOu know how much i paid for these sancers?  1000 denaury (spelling?) each!

Dave and me: Woah!

Tims: Yeah, and i'm inviting them back tomorrow! Hey, it's my son's birthday coming up! He's gonn be 200!

Me: Really? That's still young!

Tims: Hey, Isn't that Jesus beside you?

Me: Yeah.

Tims: Touch his cloak!

ME: *touches it

Dave and TIms: Woah!

Me: *Touches them

Dave and Tims: Oh my! I'm healed!

SOmething like that! hahaha.  Najee was awesome too.  She acts really well.

The whole day, i also kept joking dave that my "man dress" would fall off on stage! and at the vester it ALMOST did! hahaha.  Good thing it was ALMOST! 

I guess the day i enjoyed best was saturday.  There was something that had been bothering me for a while, but i was finally able to straighten it out then. :)  It felt good to be able not think about it anymore and know that it was all ok.  It was also PH's brithday!  he had a great party, and he even cried during the song.  awwwww.  Good job planning Tims and Angel!  Then, that night we got to play scum! hahahaha.  some people almost died in that game! hahahahaha.  Then we went to 7-11 with angel and arrow, and we tried to get angel drunk on sprite! One can isn't enough however. maybe 2 will do it? hehehe. 

There's just so much to think about now that it's all over.  it was just great. :) Praise God no ones costumes fell off on stage ;)

I'll upload the pics on tuesday or wednesday! I want full size and i'll only get use fast internet then.  so... i guess that's it. (sorry my thoughts are all jumbled on this entry) TC everyone! Come to links this saturday!

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VENOM!!! This is REAL!

0/3 so far :(

Today startd out ok.  I went with my parents to the Messiah thingy and took pictures.  It was fun being a photographer. :)

At 12:30, i left to go to galle. I had to walk maow there cause he had to go to choir.  For me, i went to GCF to see all the leaders who were going on their retreat.  I went there cuz i wanted to see angel before they left, but when i got there, they were all in the bus already.  She saw me and waced, but that's all i got.  I was supposed to go with them, but there were 3 things that made me not go.  i'll get to those in a bit.

So i went back to galle to kill time till 2:30.  I was supposed to meet najee for lunch with her mom, but she couldn't make lunch.  But we were still gonna meet at 2:30.  So anyway, i killed time by walking around till 2:30, then i was waiting for her to text me where we would meet...... NO text.  So i waited....No text.  so then i texted Ams to tell me when she would be at the youth center cause i had to meet her for a missions team meeting at 3:30.

So then, i sat in the food court till about 3.  Naj never texted.  So i was thinking to myself that there was no time left to do anything with her if she didn;t come soon.  So i waited and waited.  I literally walked in circles around galle till 3:30.  Then that was it.  There was no waiting anymore.  I had to go meet ams.

I was pretty bummed cause one of the reasons i stayed was to meet with najee.  I was supposed to join her and her mom one time, but i couldn't so this was supposed to be me making up for it.  But.....It's didn't happen.

Then while i was walking to gcf, i get a call.  And it's najee saying that she left her cellphone at home so she wasn;t getting my texts and she was sorry she couldn;t make it.  But she was still coming to the missions team meeting anyway. 

So i go t to GCF and as usual, the Youth Center was locked.  So i had to go down and tell them to open it.  It took em like 15 minutes, but they got it open eventually.

The second reason i didn;t go was cuz of this meeting. We really needed to plan something.  But for some reason i couldn't get my head in the meeting.  And jam didn't seem to like my ideas.  And i dunno.  It wasn;t that good.  I really felt like a bad leader for not being able to handle that simple meeting.

Najee told me she was really sorry about what happend.  I knew she already felt bad so i just told her it was ok.  It really wasn't so bad, it was just.....disappointing.  Oooooh, and najee, if you're reading this, it's ok.  Really. Things like that happen. :) I forgive you k? :D

Once everyone left, i just waited in the YC for my parents.  I finished up the stuff we didn't do at the meeting... It was sad for me cuz i was doing it by myself... But it was ok.  i know not everything is supposed to be fun.  it also made me feel bad cuz Ams ditched her friends to come to that meeting, and thats the kind of meeting it turned out to be.

Then, when my parents finally got me, did they ask how my day was? no. They just talked about their day.... I didn't want to bring up my day anyway. :|

So yeah.  1 reason i skipped the retreat didn't push through, and the other one didn't go well.  i kept thinking about "what if i just went."  but you know what? i'll get over it.

The last and final reason i didn;t go to the retreat was cuz maow and i are watching cyber sunday tomorrow.  It's a WWE thing and sunday is the last showing.  I don;t wanna risk being late for it cause we talked about watching this for a long time.  We've missed a lot of the PPVs already cuz i always had something.  So this one should be good!

So even though my day wasn't good, i know that God made me have it for a reason.  I dunno what it is, but God uses everything. 

ANGEL! Tell me all about it k?  :D

Sembreak Vacation

baby_webhead

A few people have asled me before why my name is baby_webhead.  I thought most people would get it, but i was wrong.

Well, one of spiderman's nick names is "webhead".  He has a few others such as "wall crawler" and "web slinger"  but i liked "webhead" the best. 

So like a few years back, there was this comic that came out called mini marvels.  It showed all the superheroes as kids.  i really liked spiderman in it. So that's where the "baby" part comes from.

so put em together and you get baby_webhead.  that's it!

Here's a picture of what the comic looked like. http://www.vzoom.com/manage/cartoon/smallpic/200412192111285195.jpghttp://www.vzoom.com/manage/cartoon/smallpic/200412192111285195.jpg

Sunday thoughts

You know, it's amazing how just a few minutes of hearing God's word can put your life in perspective.  I was feeling really crappy today, right before vesper.  For one thing, i was still sick, and another thing... well... things didn't really go my way.  FOr one, i had to go to an open house meeting instead of to the mall with maow and ben.  Then, at grow kids, i helped teach the lesson, but my teaching really sucked.  I barely used the Bible passage ben started with, and i hardly backed it up with anything from the Bible.  I know what i taught wasn't worng, but i could feel that the holy spirit wasn't with me.  i almost made Nix cry with one example i did, and i felt really bad about it.  Sorry Nix. Didn't mean to scare you.

I also kinda over exaggerated a slightly angry feeling i had right before vesper.  It was half a joke, but half wasn't.  This whole day i really let my human nature get the better of me.

And to think that two night befores, at AG, i was so blessed by everything i heard.  How God was moving in the lives of the people who went to camp and how their fire was burning for Him.  Sometimes I just let things slip away so fast.  I totally forgot about all that happend that night.  I was still serious about what i said at AG, but it just wasn't as great as i made it seem.  It just happened like once.

This whole week, I really thought i was close to God, but deep down in my heart i knew that i wasn't anymore.  I see now that is why God put my ministries on hold.  I'm not gonna be able to play in the band this week, and i haven't been able to go to cribs in months.  It's not right to be doing ministry when your heart is not on God.  God also showed me that He is the only thing constant in my life.  Friends aren't always there, and GOd should be my number 1 priiority, not them.

The message tongiht wasn't amazing, but it still really spoke to me.  From the moment i heard "ANd Jesus called Matthew", I knew God was telling me something.  He's still calling me.  He took a tax collector, one of the worst people, and used him.  I know that God is calling me to turn back to Him.  To be honest, it's the first time a message has meant something to me in months. 

This week, i'm gonna make it a serious goal to do my QT everyday.  Not just read the Bible, but pray, meditate, and grow.  I want to know God again, and love him more than anything.  If you guys wanna text me during the week to make sure i'm doing my QT, please do.  It would help me be accountable. :D  I just thanks GOd sooooooooo much that he always takes me back and forgives me, even though i don;t deserve it.

Smackdown In front of Holiday Inn

Sunday

Well actually, the night before, i felt really sick already.  I was coughing and was like feeling really bad.  I had a bit of a fever too.  The whole night i kept waking up.  Like twice an hour starting at 3am i kept waking up.  And you know that feeling when you are sick but you don't want to be lying down cause... i dunno, it just doesn't feel right?  Anyway, that's what i felt.

In the morning, I was deciding if i would even go to church or not.  But eventually, i just couldn't say no.  Right before the 8:30 ygroup started, i texted my dad to tell me when the message in the main service was almost over.  i had to go and watch angel give her testimomy.  So anyway, the ygroup was fun.  Toward the end of the the lesson, my dad texted me and said that he would go down after angel's testimony was done.  So i was like, "ok, i guess she's coming on now." 

So then i left the ygroup.  While i was waiting for the elevator, jamie saw me.  So i told her why i was going down.  While we were talking, the elevator came up and it was full.  So we started to take the stairs.  As we were going down, so many people were going up.  I don't know where they were going, but i was wondering if maybe the service was over.  When i got down, sure enough, it was over.  Jamie looked at me and said, "hala matt.  You're dead!"  I was also like, "crap! I missed angel!"

So then i went down and i saw angel and saki.  I went to angel and i told her what happened and i really felt bad about it.  She was kinda mad, but she forgave me by the end of the day. hehe.  Sorry Angel!!!

During the 11am ygroup, i really started to feel sick again.  i was coughing really badly and i felt like a was gonna throw up.  Which is not a good sign.  So i really couldn't concentrate on the lesson.  Candice made these envelope happy birthday card thingys for Ate Rhods and Aylene, and we were all secretly signing them during the class.  THe problem was, they were all glittery.   So everyone is the class was covered in it! :D

Me and maow had lunch with ben.  There were soooooooo many people in the mall that day cause there was a sale.  We had sucha  hard time finding a place to sit.  But finally we did.  I felt really sick again too.  Like everything on my body hurt. We walked around and played in Tom's World a lot.  I caught myself a stitch doll.  :D

So then we walked back to the YC with dave (who we met in tom's world) and ben went home. We met angel there too.  Then jasper showed up! yey! hahaha.  He taught me a little keyboards and we played some songs and stuff (me on the guitar and jasper on the keys).  Maow played guitar too and dave drummed a bit. 

Vesper ygroups was fun, but again, didn't feel well so i couldn't really focus on the lesson.  After, Najee brought down something that belonged to the room by accident.  So we were gonna go up with her to return it.  Then she said, "let's take the stairs! Excersice!"  So i tried to.  I made it like 3 floors up and that was it.  I like was coughing and stuff.  So i took the elevator from the 3rd to the 5th.  hahaha.

So vesper was fun.  The P&W was really good.  They did this cool part where "home" became "look to You".  That was cool! haha.

This morning, I woke up and my my muscles hurt so badly when i cough.  It feels like i excersiced the whole day yesterday!  Is it possible to build abs through coughing? hahaha. jk!  Please pray for me guys. Thanks! 

Weekend...what a weekend

I had a pretty good weekend.  :)  I worked pretty hard all week to learn the songs i was going to play.  I was late to the practice on friday so i missed the AG.  But that's ok.  I was doing something important.

I had dinner with my family cause my oldest brother went back to the states.  It's sad, but i'm trying not to think about it that much.  I'll really miss my nephew. :(

So the practice on friday went well.  I learned a lot from sean.  He helped me learn His Love cause i was playing some parts wrong.  We weren't able to finish the line up though.  So we scheduled practice before satjam. 

Now on saturday, i went for practice.  We took a while to set up, and by the time we started practicing, more then half the satjam people were there!  But it was ok.  The practice went alright, but i really had a hard time hearing myself.  That, and i kept messing uo the chords.  it was pretty frusterating.  So anyway, satjam started and we had some fun games.  Not everything they said about the boys were true. I think everything about the girls was right, cause they never objected.  hahaha.  So then it was time for P&W.  We went up and started to play.  I don;t really remember it that much cause i blocked it from my memory.  It was pretty bad, as in a kept messing up.  THEN, in the middle of one of the songs, i broke a string!  oh man!  I kind freaked out, but i kept playing.  Then Chico broke a string too!  He stopped playing, and i continued.  Then, I noticed that i was out of tune!  So i had to stop playing too!  SO it was just drums, bass, and keyboard.  I was really bummed out, but i just remembered what sean said during our training.  He said that it's our job to lead these people into worship, and we should not be distractions.  So i just calmly stopped playing and worshipped God.  I was still really bummed out the whole night.  Didn't enjoy satjam after that. 

But then we practiced the sunday line-up.  It went soooooo well and i was able to practice even if i was missing a string.  One thing i'm happy about is that we didn't play "holy holy holy" anymore.  Hahaha. I never really learned the chords to that song. 

Saturday night, i couldn't really sleep.  I slept at like past 1am.  Woke up at 6 and had to rush to get ready.  Call time was 6:30

Sunday, today, was super busy.  Like we had to practice in the morning, play the P&W, and then they made us be the time filler for when we were waiting for the adult service to move on.  Abi would run and  tell us we had to play something to buy time. so we would talk about it while walking to the instruments (that's likw 15 seconds of planning) and then play!  hahaha.  We only had to tdo that at the 8:30 though.  So we played at the 11.  I remember being kinda nervous when i went up, but then someone in the crowd a knew smiled at me, and i relaxed a bit.  That happened at vesper too. :D  So the 11 went ok. then i slept a bit.  We had our open house meeting from 3-5, practiced again, then played for vesper.  We finally got everything right at vesper.  All the sound tech was good, i didn't forget too many chords, and we could all hear ourselves playing!  It was like a super filled day.  I wasn't able to talk to people i really wanted to talk to, but it's ok.  Serving God is more important!  That's what i kept telling myself.  And it's true.  But yeah, i would have liked to talk to them. 

So i don;t really know what to feel right now.  I don;t know if i should be happy cause i played well, and i always wanted to play for sooooooooooo long now, or feel a sad cause my bro left, i didn't get to talk to some of my friends, and i had a pretty crappy saturday.  You have to understand that for me, i only see my friends on the weekends.  Other then that, ym is all i get.  maaaaaaaaaaaannnnnnnnnnnnn.  I'm looking forward to ygroups next week.  It'll be simple and fun!  But i still can't wait for the next time i'm gonna play.

So now i'm here, blogging.  And tomorrow is monday and i have to do school again. grrrrrrrrrr. i don;t wanna! hahahaha. But i really thank God for the oppertunity i got to serve Him today.  so i guess it was an ok weekend after all.

New GCF members

More millenium memories

hehehe.

- i planned my first satjam there.  The beach one. :)

- one time, my bros and i went there in the middle of the week just to play billiards.

- my family eating at sicillian after the vesper service. I'm gonna miss that. :(

- This one time, i missed all the shuttles and had to walk back to gcf.

- a long time ago (meaning like last year), me and angel would sit outside before vesper and just talk about what we did during the week.  That and also Lost! hahaha.

- And Special request by Najee: The time she was really bored and was trying to make that little mouse angry.  She asked me if i had a flashlight or a stick she could use! :))  That day, Sean also jumped in a puddle when we were walking to mcdo at the shell. :D

Can't wait to make new memories in our new building and new youth center! :D

See you guys tomorrow!

A really late "goodbye millenium"

Sat jam last week was soooooo much fun.  Not many people came though, but still there were a good ammount.  Decorating was fun.  Except for those star stickers! aaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh! no one could peel them off easily. :))  It was fun emceeing.  It was kinda hard in the begining, but Jason helped us out.  he's really used to being an emcee.  Like at Jeff's bday last year! hahaha.  Happy birthday Jeff!  and then the games worked out well. We had two broke back couples dance :))  BJ also did a great job with the lesson.  I was a bit sad that i didn't get in many pictures. :(  I was too busy doing my job! But that's alright.

Afterwards, angel asked me to saty and watch her play in quest.  I would have, but my parents were coming to get me already.  that and i had to wake up early the next day for church. 

Sunday was another great day.  We had really great praise and worship in all of the services.  I'm glad i atteneded all of them.  Vesper ygroups was really good too.  I learned a lot from it. got to sit with jasper and angel during ygroups and najee during service. it was a great vesper. :D

I'm gonna miss millenium a lot.  Just reading all of the post its up there reminded me of a lot of the cool things we had done there.  let me just name a few my good memories. :D

1. Last sunday i walked to mini stop for the first time. :)

2. This one time, was locked out of the youth center for like 3 hours.  Cause my parents had to drop me off early for band training, then we started late.

3.  one time P.Ro called me to ask me if i could join practice for the youth sunday skit.  Then when we went there, pam and najee were there too. we played guesstures and me, maow, and p.ro beat the girls so badly! hahahaha!

4. Just last sunday, before vesper, maow and jasper were playing swat team in front of the store next to us.  We even got a picture of it.  I think the guy sitting inside was kinda freaked out when i took the picture. :))

5. I met angel there during one my first missions team meetings. :D

6. One sunday, between the 11am and vesper, me, pao, amd tim, put up all the pictures that spell YOUTH L.I.V.E.

7. One saturday, P.Ro dropped me and najee off at the youth center and it was locked. It was also raining really really hard. :D

8. i started attending 9am ygroups.

9. vesper ygroups started! :D

10. Justin and I tried to play billiards once and it took us like 45 minutes to finish it!

Hahaha. Goodbye Millenium!

This week

In some ways, this week was really good.  In other ways, it wasn't good.

This week took too long to finish.  School wasn't hard this week, but it just took really long for each day to pass.  Also, i kinda got sick yesterday, so i'm not feeling to great right now.  The wheather has also been kinda crazy.  Like it rains and rains and then gets really hot for one day. 

But this week wasn't all bad.  I got have an ym meeting with the missions team to talk about open house.  It's really a lot of work planning this thing, but i know we can do it. I also found out that i'm gonna get to finally play with the band in church in a few months!  YES! been waiting for that for a long time.  I don't know yet if i'm gonna be in Dags band.  I really really super hope i am.  That would just ROCK!  I also got to see a bit of the new AAR video (joana posted it) :D

Can't wait for tomorrow cause it's sunday again! YEY!  but sadly, i'm gonna have to miss vesper ygroups cause i have an open house meeting. :(  guess i'll just have to wait till next week.  Oh wait! next week we join the adults. :| oh man.  So two weeks and then i get vesper ygroups again.  I really hope next week goes by FAST. 

Satjam: Moving Forward

This week is going by so slow

I don't know why.  This week is taking forever to finish.  Maybe it's because i did nothing the whole week, and don't plan to do anything for the rest of it.

Just heard that Jason tan is gonna be playing in the band this sunday. That's so cool. i really really really wanna play some time too.  I hope they ask me soon. :D

Well, that's all. I hope the week goes by faster. :D

Funniest thing that happened to me this weekend

Last sat, Najee and really briefly talked about magazines.  She asked me if i read any.  So i told her that the only magzines i read are about gaming.  Then she was really quiet.  She was like, "can you say that again?"  So i said, "gaming. you know, about games."  Then she started to laugh a bit and said, "Matt, i'm so sorry, but i thought i heard you say GAY MEN!"

LOL! Gay men magazines! :D

Just a few inauguration day pics

Sick

Me and my bros are all getting sick. :(  So are many other people.  I wasn't that sick this morning, so i still had to do school.  I have one more subject to do today before i sleep. grrrrrrrr.  I hope we all get better soon cause we tend to give each other the sickness we have.

oh man.... speaking of that blog entry i had, the one called "oh man"  don;t worry bout it.  I'll be ok.  I just needed to get some of my feelings out.  But i guess i'll be ok now.

well, that's really it for now.  Oh yeah, and the new GCF building is sooooooooo cool! hehehe.

oh man

I wish i could be like Davy Jones and cut my freaking heart out with a knife and put it in a box so that i'll never use it again.

it's thursday...

I'm here at Messiah cause my mom wanted me to and my bro to come and do our school here.  So i'm kinda bored now.  Just finished Chemistry, which was ok, but a bit long.  I have to go do spanish in a bit, then i'll be done for the day. 

Maow is here bugging me and trying to rub my knee. arggggggg.

So anyway, bonkers was really fun.  I glad i actually went cause for a time i was considering not going.  I was able to last the day without a voice. Although i still talked a lot and made it worse. hehehe.  I came second in scrabble.  leslie beat me, but we all knew she would win anyway! :)) 

Good, maow left! hahahaha.

My voice is almost completely back, but it could still improve.  Hope it'll be all the way back on sat, otherwise i would have had a messed up voice for a whole week.

Sunday is gonna be fun cause we get to go to the new building.  I wonder why we're not moving in yet but we're using it on sunday already?  Anyway, i hope it's good.  P Ro says it's better then millenium.

hmmmmmm, what else. I've been listening to a lot of Dashboard Confessional lately.  They're really good.  Although they get a bit depressing after a while. hehehe. 

So that's it.  Gotta go do spanish. :((

Bonkers 2006!

Bloggin' here

I know i usualy blog on friendster but i just decided to do it here for a change.

Well, I lost my voice yesterday, so I wasn't able to go to cribs this morning.  They can barely understand me when i speak english there, all the more if i can barely speak.....and in english. So no cribs today. :(  It's knida sad cause i was looking forward to seeing all of my friends in the missions team.  Also about cribs, is i found out last week that Najee can't come anymore cause she has classes. :(  I was pretty bummed out about it for like the whole night cause she was really fun to have there.  I was also getting to know her a lot, and i know i still will, but i just won't see her as often.  But like Ian E told me, everything that happens that is not a consequence of sin, is God's will.  And God's Will is always the best.

So anyway, tomorrow is bonkers! Yey! i've never been to one before so i'm excited to attened.  It's gonna be fun.  Hope i win scrabble! :D The only thing is, I still have NO voice! arrrrrrrrrrrrg.  how am i supposed to talk to people if i have no voice?!?

hmmmmmmmmmmmm, what else. Me and my bros watched The Great American Bash today.  It's a wwe thing.  It was cool!  There weren't many people watching too.

Another thing i noticed.  What's going on with everyone here on multiply?  They're all posting album's entiled things like "I'm vain" or "I just wanna be a bit vain"  There's like 3 or 4 i've seen like that just this week. hahahaha.  Maybe i should make one too! :D

So anyway, i think i'll do a lot of my blogging here for now, just to be different.  And don't worry, i won't be posting as much as i used to on friendster.  hehe.  I don't have much to write about these days.  Ok. That's all! see you guys tomorrow!

little wet foot print

Added a few more pics to the Youth Sunday!

The title says it all.  I haven't had the time to put captions on any of them.  It's ok! Pictures are enjoyed because of what they are, not their captions (although captions make them funnier) hehe. :D

Youth Sunday

The Day Before Youth Sunday

Najee and i were locked out of the youth center... so we watched the rain fall.

check back here on monday!

Well, right now i really have nothing here.  i just have like one blog entry.  But after youth sunday (that's this sunday) i'm gonna upload all my pics from it!  Yey!  I love youth sunday! 

Speaking of youth sunday, i have like an all day practice for it tomorrow.  That's gonna be so much fun.  i know practice doesn't sound like a fun thing to do, but it is. Especially cause my friends are gonna be there too. :D

Sat is gonna be a really long day.  I have missions team in the morning (8:30am) and then practice from 12-4 for our scene, and practice from 4- onwards for the whole thing wioth all the scenes. So it's gonna be tiring, but really fun.  And then the following day, we get to perform it at all of the services! Wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!!!!!!! exciting! :D  But i'm gonna be so tired by monday.  Good thing i don't have school yet. :)) 

1st Entry

This morning, i was using friendster again.  I was really getting bored of it already, so i decided to go look at some people's multiply pages.  Then i thought to myself, "why not make my own?"  I had nothing to do anyway since all my brothers were still asleep and no one else was online (because they're all in school).  So here it is.  There is still nothing on my page. So that's it for now, and i hope that eventually my page will be as interesting as everyone elses. :D