Well, NOT the REAL ACADEMY AWARDS! haha but Its going to be just as (if not more) fun!! So every year, at my house, the guys put on a night for all the girls and call it GIRLS NIGHT and then the next term all the girls put on a night for all the guys and its GUYS NIGHT! So for every event there's a theme. and there have been some amazing themes over the years like medieval knights in shining armor, travel around the world, disney princesses and all this amazing stuff. SO this year Girls Night is THE OSCARS and to invite each of us personally we have been getting ambushed at the funniest places by like 20 of our amazing guys pretending to be paparazzi!! And this is me getting invited in our church parking lot where the guys in my car pretended to be body guards and the rest had cameras and flashes and big video cameras! It was so much fun just getting invited, i cant wait for the actual night! :)

Also all the girls enjoyed their surprise so much that everyone who had been invited did not tell anyone who hadn't yet been invited so when they did get ambushed by the paparazzi it was so much more fun! I just love this! :)

In the span of a couple of hours,
I have had my name misspelled three times.
three different ways.
Jinelle
Jannelle
Jennel

I guess they're all sort of phonetically correct?
People know my name just that they don't see it around enough?
Odd.

er. snow. :(

The creator/writer of the comic Stone Soup Jan Elliot lives in my city, Eugene Oregon.
So when she writes about happenings (ie. weather)
you can assume I am experiencing the same..

And with the temperature at 29 degrees Fahrenheit (-1.6667 degrees Celcius)
I am missing hot humid Singapore weather!

This was where we had Fall Retreat a couple weeks ago.
It was beeeyooouuteeffuulll...

Just a notice to my future husband.
I don't want a huge expensive wedding or dress or anything.

All I ask for are beautiful photographs
and memories for a lifetime..

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.