A challenging question

Oh I'm so thankful to God for the uni holidays... because now I can finally get into reading "Disciplines of a Godly Woman." I just read a bit just then... and thought I should share it with you:

"As a pastor's wife, I have often had Christian women express to me their longing for something they do not possess. In search to find what is lacking, they casually diminish and even dismiss what they have taken for granted - the knowledge of God and His gracious provisions for us discovered in the pages of Scripture... God's provision for His children is astonishing! (2 Peter 1:3) We have everything we need! Do you believe this?"

I'm not sure if I do truly believe this. I mean... if I did... shouldn't I feel totally content with life? I guess there are days when I believe it more than other days. I've been feeling more and more content with God's plans for my life recently. I guess the more I get to know God... the easier it will be to be content. There are a lot of old people at church... and they are so pumped for God still. I hope I'll be like that. I'm guessing that contentment comes with Christian maturity.

Something I've been thinking about recently is trying to actually put into practice things I believe instead of just saying that I believe it. Just for a general example... how do you show in your everyday life that you believe God loves you. It's easy to just say... "Oh yeah I know God loves me... and I'm very thankful." (GAH! I said early in this very post that I was thankful to God for the holidays!) What is a true response to God of thankfulness. Is it enough to merely recognise God's work and give him kudos? I guess if you do it with all your heart it's good... but it just doesn't seem like enough. God's love for us is just so huge!

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an ok day

today was a balance of good day and bad day... therefore it was an ok day.

this morning after dropping mum to work... i picked up jenjen and we went to castle towers. we both had 'canadian breakfast' at cafe csaba which was very very tasty. our waiter was cracking us up. he was very interested in our meal and kept on checking to see if it was good. and it was good. :) then we walked around the shops a bit. looked at build-a-bear. it's a very cool shop... so many clothes. i think i would want one of those bears... but if i get one... i'll have to keep on spending money on clothes for it... which would mean less clothes for me... but it would be oh so cute... decisions decisions. then jen got a manicure done. i would have but because of the whole violin/nails thing... i refrained. and i didn't really feel like submitting myself to polish fumes... so i walked around myself. spent about half an hour in my favourite store (priceline) and then browsed the clothes in target. i also browsed the toys in target and by the time i got to my favourite section (the crayola section) jen called to tell me her nails were done. it was funny because i had to put on her seatbelt so that her nails wouldn't be ruined.
this evening i worked in pizzacutters. it wasn't as busy a night as saturday... but still pretty busy considering it was a stinking hot day and who wants oven cooked pizzas on a stinking hot day? (rich people of the north shore apparently). so i was pretty much moving around. and there was a whole lot of washing up! by about 8, the lady working with me left and it was just me on salads, dessert pizzas, counter and washing up. salads are quite annoying to make... and lots of people wanted salads (understandable). so yeah... washed till 10:20 and then mopped the floor till 10:35. my boss is a stickler for clean floors (which is good i guess). then i was free to go... and i got a free cheese pizza... which i've already eaten a piece of (at 11:30pm! bad me!). so work wasn't that bad... just washing was bad. i think i'm getting used to the place and i'm finding out where everthing is which makes it easier.

tomorrow... handbells practice (*sarcastic woot*) and bible study (*excited woot*)

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I'm over

for all those people who don't know what handbells are... i found this pretty swish picture on the net:

I have my concert this thursday and another practice on wednesday.

today i finished uni! had my last exam. it was pretty good. a lot easier than i expected. i think that is partly because i did study and study always seems to pay off. they also gave out practice questions before hand... so i did those... and the exam had very similar questions. so that's always good.

sam's gig was really good. he played really well... some pretty good music too. me, georgie, naomi and max went together... and anita, gavin and bob were there too. here are a few pics:

me, naomi, sam the man, max, georgie and anita

anita, gavin, bob, max, georgie, naomi and me down the front

that's all for now!

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TONIGHT!!!

see you there!

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Huzzah!!!

Today was a good day.

6.30am: Lazily got out of bed, tried my new toaster out (my raisin toast didn't get burnt!) and then...
7am: walked to violin teacher's house and we talked about new pieces to play. For the moment, I think we'll be doing Mendelssohn 2nd Mvt, Suk Une Poco Triste and this Jamaican piece. So sounds good. Got home at...
7.45am: and jumped back into bed. Woke up again at...
11am: decided to not eat breakfast and just have an earlier lunch. Was also motivated to do some motivation study. So got all my notes together and typed up notes on 4 theories! Only got about 8 theories to go! So this is very exciting. I also blogged.
1.30pm: had lunch. talked to cler on the net which was nice. Also got a phone call to say that I got a job! At this place called pizza cutters in wahroonga. I declined the other paddy's job. This pizza job sounds much nicer. I'm having training on wednesday... then will go on from there. A lil bummer now is that I wont be free on most saturday nights... so gotta plan around that. Hopefully I can still go see Beauty and the Beast.

then this arvo.. basically bummed around. did some planning for the switch E cafe this friday and also put together a bit of a music playlist for it. I also cooked dinner and washed some dishes. talked to cler some more. general things.

well that's all from me!

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Evening Update!

I've just come back from dinner with the cousins... Kevin, Hugo and Oscar. We went to infernos... and ordered 4 pizzas and a pasta... now I thought... "gosh this is gonna be way too much... but there are three guys here so it should be ok." I was right though... way too much food... (we also had garlic bread and bruschetta!). Should have remembered that asian guys don't eat that much. It was weird... I was so out of touch... haven't seen them in ages! It was good to catch up.

Elsie sent me photos!!! Here is a collage of the arts/colleges picnic. It's funny how many takes it takes to take a decent group photo! (the takes were taken by Doug... kekeke trying to fit in the word 'take' for as much as you can take it) Haha... but I do like the fuzzy ones... they remind me of the fun we had trying to fall on top of each other.



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Gen the Gem

awww jen you are a jem (or gen... you are a jem). I downloaded that performancing thing and it's really cool. This will be especially handy when I need to blog up stuff for accountability.

today I went to paddy's markets for a job interview... for this shirt stall. I'm not really sure if I wanna work there... they sell those corny (and sometime crude) t-shirts... nothing like threadless! But I guess I could bear with it... it's only one day a week. I'm trusting that if God wants me to work there... his will be done... but if not... his will be done.

hmmm what to post??? I've just discovered the coolness of dangerfield (slightly emo... but they do have some nice colourful things). They have some pretty nice clothes there and some cool bags. I got my uni bag for next year now. LOL! They also have this cool shopper enviro-like bag that they use instead of plastic bags. At cotton on you have to pay for those bags! So I was quite pleased.

I'm going out to dinner with my cousins Kevin, Oscar and Hugo tonight... inferno @ macquarie... they have tasty pizza. Don't think I could eat a whole one though.

Maybe I'll post later... got nothing to say now.

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A beautiful picnic on a rainy day!

This is just a quick blog before I go to bed...

Today the Christians in arts/colleges had a picnic in the St Matthias church hall. It was a very fun time. I got there about 12 (the 4th person to arrive) and then people came in progressively. We ate lots and lots of cookies, cake, chips and muffins.... while playing taboo. We had a nice long round of taboo. Then Keris told us about the magic knife... I understood the magic knife pretty quickly.

Then we had lunch (straight after eating so much snacks). We had sausages in rolls with salad. It was very tasty (despite the 'ugly' looking sausages). Then we played this game which is like a mixture of taboo, charades and that other game where you can only say one word... you know the one ;) We had a nice long round of this too... it was quite funny... especially Tyson's action for "Super Ted" and I'll never forget the name Francis Drake now (a cousin of Lindsay!).

Then... while deciding on what game to play next... we watched as Hayley and Anna tried to show us this telepathy thing... 'clicks' was the name of the game. It was funny... we eventually worked it out. (everyone listen, listen, some clicks, click click click, click click = Elsie)

We then shared about things we were thankful for this year and prayed. There were lots of things to be thankful for. I was very thankful that I actually got involved in CBS this year and actually went to weekend away and myc... if I didn't... I wouldn't have met any of the lovely Christian people at uni.

Then we had one final round of 'the magic knife.' After making it very very obvious... everyone understood the magic knife... except elsie.... so we had to make it even more clearer!!!
Elsie: "ooooooooooooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooo!!! I get it now!!!!"
kekeke so funny!

Then I took the bus to central with Stef, Doris and Andrew (her brother)... then me Doris and Andrew took the train to strathfield... then I switched lines and got home.

A very fun day. Elsie.. send me photos!!!

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Life Update...

This week was kinda crazy (not as crazy as last friday though). Here's what I got up to:

30/10
Had my multiple choice test for my (beloved) gen-ed. It was an ok test. The first half was a bit tricky... the questions were really vague! Like... "Which would be the BEST option?" It's hard to pick because it depends on your opinion... or the opinion of your tutor. The second half was a lot clearer... I found it much easier. Had questions like "Diabetes is a disease where..." a) you have trouble breathing, b) you are affected by bee stings, c) you have brittle bones or d) body has issues with insulin balance (or something along those lines). Haha funny!

31/10
Started the morning with a quite interesting motivation lecture... it was just revision... but the lecturer gave really good summary points.

Then I had chillax time... and CBS time... then...

VIOLIN PRAC! My Bach started off a bit fast... so was slightly out of control. But then got better. My Mozart was the best that I've ever played it! All the tricky parts that I'd practiced over and over again... the were fine! Then my Suk... I put on quite a performance if I could say so myself. It's a very fun piece and I had lots of fun playing it. [I got my marks back today and they were better than last semester... I did think I played better this semester. My examiner said my rhythm was really good... but need to work on intonation. I knew that.]

Then chilled a bit more... and then...

CBS PARTY TIME!!! First of all... me and a couple of the girls decorated the place (very limited decorations... but still classy). Then... Dorny walked through the door and I was like... wha?! Turns out he was playing with Rev!ve which was the band doing the music/entertainment for the night. We basically talked all night and ate lots of chips, bbq and red cordial. The final year people also did speeches on what they liked about CBS and prayer points. Ben Gooley also said some final year remarks. Had a nice time meeting people and hanging with friends. When we had to leave the place... the CBS party continued on the bus to central... then the CBS party continued on the train with me, Sarah and Rob... to concord west. Then me and Rob continued the party to Beecroft/Pennant Hills.

1/11
Motivation (the subject) today was good again because we did more revision and our lecturer practically spelt out what would be in the test. I felt like I learned a lot.

Bible study was good. Looked a parable. It's nice to look at the 'easy' passages and tear it apart and bombard it with questions. Some tension in the group...

2/11
Started a new blog... it's sad when friendships have to turn to a blog to help us keep accountable. But then again... maybe it's a blessing.

3/11
Music Lit test! Sucky! I should have studied a bit more than I did. Like I knew the dates... just recognising some of the pieces was a bit hard. All those damn piano concertos! And they didn't play Mendelssohn Violin Concerto!!!! That's the only one I knew heaps of stuff on!!! The sad thing is they give you the answers straight afterwards... so you can see what you got wrong. Luckily I didn't get enough wrong to fail. Don't know that my marks will be that high though... but I don't care... never have to do music lit again!!! WOOT!!!

Then us musos went to the roundhouse for lunch. Half the course was there! (that's like 20 of us!) We took up so much room... haha... they need bigger tables there.

Then went to upper campus to hang with Elsie and the arts girls. She made a scrumptious chocolate cheese cake. mmm can still taste the tasty cheesy chocolate. I don't know what I'm gonna do in the holidays without seeing Elsie every tuesday!!! [we must hang Elsie!]

For switch I took a new approach to the study... we did a bit of drawing... so it was less mechanical. I think the girls learned better that way. I think I also learned better that way. Hebrews rocks my socks!

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Peace to my fans!

This is a special shout-out to Queenie who checks my blog every day! You rock! Why don't you comment though?!?!?! I haven't had any comments in a long time! Makes me want to cry :(


hmmm have I blogged about my violin prac??? oh and CBS party! I'll blog tomorrow so that Queenie will have something to read in the future :P

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