it's been quite a while since the last time i've felt emptied enough to be filled up this way. i feel so much gratitude for god's presence being very real to me today.  for the first time in a long time, my prayer tonight was not a "help me, help me, help me" but a "thank you, thank you, thank you".  it's just too unfortunate that i had to lose ( Read more... )

I Am Sam.  During the last week of the term, I showed my Primary 6 class the movie, "I Am Sam".  I was a bit apprehensive at first because I was afraid that they might not enjoy the movie and get bored.  For those who have not seen "I Am Sam", it is a story of a mentally retarded man who fought for the custody of his 7-year-old daughter, who, in ( Read more... )

(Enter Kate Monster & Princeton.)
Both:
Everyone's a little bit racist
Sometimes.
Doesn't mean we go
Around committing hate crimes.
Look around and you will find
No one's really color blind.
Maybe it's a fact
We all should face
Everyone makes judgments
Based on race.

Ever since I moved to Jakarta to work at an international school, I had declared ( Read more... )

"World Of Our Own"

You make me feel funny
When you come around
Yeah that's what I found out honey
What am I doing without you
You make me feel happy
When I leave you behind
It plays on my mind now honey
What am I doing without you

Took for granted everything we had
As if I'd find someone
Who's just like you

We got a little world of ( Read more... )

there's a fine, fine line....

sometimes joy is a blessing, but normally it is a conquest.

Love does not rejoice in injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out.

has been loving the rain lately...except when it enters her room...and floods her floor...and wets her stuff... :( but she loves the cold bed weather nonetheless... :)

is listening to Miley Cyrus, Lady Gaga, Ennio Morricone and the Glee Soundtrack on shuffle. How's that for assorted genre?

"There are no short cuts to any place worth going."