This is seriously hillarious! If you thought Lady GaGa was bad...
Last night someone found her "singing lessons" clip and sent it to one of the guys who leads worship and we all watched it. Hillarious. Imagine everyone with a computer downstairs had a couple people crowding round, watching her videos and laughing histerically pretty much...

( if you want more... )

I think an aim I have for this year is to find a beautiful way to photograph rain/intherain? Because there's so much of it here and I'm going to be miserable if I only get excited about taking photos when its sunny(thus, very rarely)..

Wish me luck! Cause I'm going to need it..

I love wednesday nights when everyone hangs out downstairs for worship practice..



Beautiful by Phil Wickham

I see Your face in every sunrise
The colors of the morning are inside Your eyes
The world awakens in the light of the day
I look up to the sky and say
You’re beautiful

I see Your power in the moonlit night
Where planets are in motion and galaxies are bright
We are amazed in the light of the stars
It’s all proclaiming who You are
You’re beautiful, You're beautiful

I see you there hanging on a tree
You bled and then you died and then you rose again for me
Now you are sitting on Your heavenly throne
Soon we will be coming home
You’re beautiful, you're beautiful

When we arrive at eternity’s shore
Where death is just a memory and tears are no more
We’ll enter in as the wedding bells ring
Your bride will come together and we’ll sing
You’re beautiful, You're beautiful, You're beautiful

I see Your face, You're beautiful, You're beautiful, You're beautiful
I see Your face, You're beautiful, You're beautiful, You're beautiful
I see Your face, I see Your face
I see Your face, You’re beautiful, You’re beautiful, You’re beautiful

If this is the state of english in Singapore, it is shingz. I can only watch this video in 2 minute chunks. I have not been able to finish it. Yes, that bad.

I just spent 45 mins watching videos of Mat Kearney, wishing I was going to see him in concert next week. This song is about Eugene! (the town I'm in!) There's scenes at the end of our campus! He's from Eugene.

So I guess I've been watching movies, but on friday we went to watch WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE! It was good. It was based on the children's story book by Maurice Sendak which i confess I did not read as a kid but i've read a couple years ago.. I was skeptical about how they could make a movie from a book with 9 sentences. But i guess that gives them so much more freedom to make things up because most other book-to-movie adaptations get the customary "it was not as good as the book". So when you have so little to compare with, the story line can go as far as it wants.. or as far as the writers want it to?

I loved that all the humor was just so random! It would be so fun to be a writer in movies because you could incorporate all your inside jokes and make them the randomest funny things ever! But ok, the movie isn't exactly a feel good kind of movie, it is a little uncomfortable at times but deep, meaningful.. it was a children's book, but if i was 7, and could actually get past the less than aesthetically pleasing 'wild things', i would not get half of why this movie was amazing! I really think children's books are written for adults. There're always so much more to the story than what the child would get and its the parents who really appreciate it. I would totally love writing children's books! You'd get to make them beautiful, whimsical and with so much below the surface to discover!

So when it gets to SIngapore, in say 5 months, go see it and tell me what you think!

So we went to watch 500 Days of Summer last night! finally! I was waiting for it all summer and it came out a couple days after i left Singapore and its finally at the dollar theater here!! Well, i really liked it. I'm going to try very hard and not give away the ending but I just wanted to write some of the things it made me think about.

Needless to say it is a beautifully shot movie! very artistic! and the costuming! beautiful! really, i just want to wear all her clothes!! I watched it with a whole bunch of people(there were girls and guys! this is not a chick flick!) and some really liked it, some liked some of it and some really hated it. Well, lets just say that for once it is not the usual romantic comedy and its pretty real. So there were people who were like why would i want to see something that's like real life?? But thats the point! (to me!) I mean, haven't we all been brainwashed enough about all the fake happily ever afters! OK how many "Cinderella Story"s have there been?? We watch these and start believing that life always goes according to my plans.. If i like him enough he'll like me and we'll be happy forever. Or he does all this because actually he's madly in love with me! and everything in between will eventually right itself and we'll be together forever.. Finally a movie that tells the side not usually told. And i think we can all agree it is real...

So i really haven't been updating at all. But I don't know if i really want this to completely die so i'll try again. probably not a whole lot of updates but at least something to tell you guys i'm still alive over here in Oregon. Well, though it is very in fashion to have 7 page updates of my life, i doubt anyone wants to read that and i don't know if i want to write it. But just so you know, I was not picked up at the airport by a female cab driver.

I've been back in Oregon almost a week now and its been pretty sweet. I've moved house!! I had been praying about this alot last year. I felt like i needed a different kind of community, more of a family, more love and accountability. not that there was anything terribly wrong with where i lived last year, just that i needed something different in my walk right now.. and this was next to impossible for quite a few reasons. but God was teaching me to trust Him because i could do absolutely nothing to change the situation. I learned that if its Gods will for something, He is so capable if making it happen regardless of how impossible it seems so us..

And so here I am. A new resident at 1850 Onyx Street. Its what they call a co-op, run by my church and called the Onyx House! There are 30 guys and 30 girls living here.They cook for us!! We work together to keep it clean. We have College Group at the house on fridays (TODAY!) And best of all its like a family.. "Loving God with everything we've got and loving others with eveything He gives us!" I know living here is such a God-thing and He has big plans for everything..

We've been doing a whole bunch of things this week before school starts. Getting to know people, playing games,having adventures! We went to Wildwood, this waterfall, the other day (video is on fb), sand volleyball, nightly games of cutthroat mafia till the early hours of the morning. Really guys mafia can be fun with the card and the winking and all but cutthroat. whole new game. its like mafia but in real life. and in the dark. Yesterday we went to the beach and had a bonfire! it was so much fun! We're having a space dance party on Saturday too!

School is starting on tuesday. on one hand i'm sad we're going to have to stop playing so much but I'm also excited to finally do some work. i know that sounds odd but three months is almost too long of a holiday.. but i'm excited! a whole bunch of new beginings!

I'll try and keep this updated more? but no guarantees.. probably more of my thoughts and less of 'this is what i did today'  :)
take care guys! love you lots!!

For those who may still read this blog, well, I'm home for Summer!! I don't have H1N1, so if you want a break from studying for mid-years/prelims/Alevels, call me!! haha

I've just started this 'Something A Day' thing, where i aim to put up a photo or something creative everyday. I also now have a pro Flickr account thanks some awesome friends in Oregon! So i'll have all the memory i want to put up all this stuff! :)

Yup! this is what i did last weekend! 'The Rescue' to raise awareness for Joseph Kony's abducted child soldiers in Uganda. The idea was to abduct ourselves from our comforts, walk quite a distance to the camp site and wait to be rescued. Being rescued meant that we had media covering the event and someone of political or popular culture influence came and pledged to do something about what is going on in Uganda. I was in Portland with about 500 other people and we wrote letters to the political people of Oregon, made art and contacted media networks. (We were trying to get HARRISON FORD to come rescue us, plus Brendan Fraser, cos they were filming some movie nearby. But they didn't show :( ) We got rescued in the end by Amy Roloff (who i had never heard of) from the reality TV show 'Little People Big World'. So that in a sense is pretty awesome because her speech and the cause will be on their show for MORE people to watch!

I've probably been pretty skeptical about what good any protesting anything will do,(Good Singaporean mindset, plus you could get arrested in singapore) I mean what can little me do? But the point of it all is expressing your view and getting people to think about it! I can't go down to Uganda and stop the war but if i can get the attention of those who can do something about it isn't that great?

I was sitting there listening to the Watoto Childrens Choir, kids who have been rescued from Uganda, and they were awesome! They sang this song that went "I am not forgotten, I am not forgotten,I am not forgotten. God knows my name!" I realized that yeah we're here trying get attention for this forgotten injustice but its the world that has forgotten about this, because God has not forgotten them! Yes, there will still be suffering in this world but its never becase God didn't remember his creation in some part of the world. He knows. and it breaks his heart too...

I probably had more to talk abt but i better post this before it becomes too old news..