Now what?!

Currently listening to: Wincing the Night Away (album) by The Shins

2K8 has already begun! Let's see:
- Today (January 6) marks the 3rd month of our Feilding trip ("our" being Helen, Kiri, Nga and yours truly!). And it just so happen that right now most of the Blueprint crew are there for the Soul Survivor festival. At the mo, I wish I were there!
- I just had a MAJOR hairstyle change yesterday. All I can say is that I'm not yet ready to post a photo of me at this time. NOT YET! :)
- I'll be back at work tomorrow! (After 2 weeks' worth of holiday!) And I'm not yet that ready to face reality.. Perhaps my new hairstyle (or the lack of it, oops it just slipped out of my keyboard LOL) will break the ice for me..
- This is the year of the Beijing Olympics and the US presidential elections. Speakin' of MAJOR world events, I'm wonderin' if I will have another opportunity to travel this year. (Just in case I can't drop by NZ for this year..)
- I wanna be absolutely excited for this year. But it's the pessimistic mindset that tends to spoil the fun for me. I dunno.. I wanna break through stuff this year.. Break barriers, break walls, break hearts (nah!)
- And I'm turning 23 this year! (Man, I just turned 22 a few months back and now I'm talking about 23!)

I just feel lonely as usual! It's just 35 gigs worth of music in my laptop, the new Philip Yancey book I bought a week ago ("Soul Survivor") and me.. I know I'm by my own right now (physically with people but Im like a walled city).. The truth is I wanna talk to someone I can trust and sense that he/she is willing to be my shrink even for a few hours(!).. I just wanna spill out my mind and heart.. Even if it takes tears and bits of laughter just to make the point in expressing the funk I'm into at present..

Yeah I know I need HIM right now.. But perhaps I need someone who can go with me in going to HIM.. That's it!

Totally random, it is..

Currently listening to: Wag Ka Nang Umiyak by Sugarfree
(To my KIWI mates who intend to spend a little more time in my blog, this means "Do Not Cry Anymore")

I was flipping through my friends' Crackbook sites a while back and I noticed that Adam has a blog. We can altogether have a peek on what's behind this guy's long hair.

And yeah, it's this time of the year again. What's in store for me:

- I've got a 17-day holiday! Be back at work on January 7th! Big cheers!
- I get to catch up with heaps of zzz's (So what am I doing in front of the PC at 3AM? :D )
- I get to spend more time with my beloved family.

AND

- I look forward to listing down the top songs of the year!

Oooh! I forgot:
- I plan on Skyping my Kiwi mates on CHRISTmas day!

AND

I shouldn't forget who this season is supposedly for. Sounds cliche I know, but I realised that shouldn't confine HIM in a box! That HE occupies only this certain amount of space in my life. I want to press on in following HIM, be it CHRISTmas season or not. Press on, carry on and hold on! Until I become more like CHRIST!

P.S.: I think it's bout time for me to wake up those blog entries sleeping in my Drafts folder. LOL.

System restore..

Currently listening to: Mute Math tracks (from both Reset EP and Mute Math)

Yeah! I was able to make my webcam and my music players (iTunes7.5 and WMP11) work without having to bring my laptop to a technician. How did I manage that? SYSTEM RESTORE!

(To get there: Start Menu > All Programs > Accessories > System Tools > System Restore)

Thankfully, Windows saved my settings as of November 5, 2K7 (the day before I left WGTN). And all I had to do was to restore those settings and presto, I got my webcam and my music players working. What's more awesome is that my files aren't affected at all by this process.

Now, I need a "system restore" as well. I've been on a dry spell for days, in more ways than one. I'm experiencing my Sammy the Salmon moment. I terribly miss NZ and feel like "GOD, I'm not the same person I was in WGTN!" I need to be restored on my state while I was in WGTN, even right now that I'm in Manila. Would that be possible, as in right this very moment?

Parting words: Is there a place named "Old Zealand"? LOL.

And I'm running out of words..

Currently listening to: I Believe (album) by Rapture Ruckus

I realised that there are 3 entries currently sitting in my Drafts folder and heaps of ideas that I'm considering to post in this blog. But no, words are eluding me right now. I'm "speechless" (or should I say "word"-less?). I'm on a dry spell at the moment, and I'm on a hunt for an oasis where I can get refreshed, by all means!

Awww really..

And yeah.. Right!

You Should Play the Guitar

You're very independent - both in spirit and in the way you learn.You can teach yourself almost anything, even if it makes your fingers bleed. You're not really the type to sit patiently through a music lesson - or do things by the book.It's more your style to master the fundamentals and see where they take you. Highly creative and a bit eclectic, you need a wide range of music to play.You could emerge as a sensitive songwriter... or a manic rock star. Your dominant personality characteristic: being rebellious Your secondary personality characteristic: tenacity

What Musical Instrument Should You Play?

A break from ranting..

Just finished listening to: Dreaming Out Loud (album) by OneRepublic

I just still am missing NZ. But as a wise and wonderful friend has mentioned to me, where I am is where I am. And yeah, that's the truth. It doesn't eliminate those bits of pain still within me, but at least I know that GOD is so huge that HE can envelope me while HE's giving me a huge hug I badly need right now.

So I guess, I will choose to have HIM take charge.

Now, looking at the bright spots thus far:

It was great for me to catch up with some friends from church. It's been ages since I last saw them and man I'm really thrilled to hear great news from them. Like a friend of mine is about to graduate from the university next month. And then another friend of mine just got married to an awesome godly woman (and I really think that they're a match made in heaven since the time we were classmates in ENLI). I'm also looking forward to getting plugged in a small group come next weekend.

Another thing, my adorable 2-year old cousin Eunice was dedicated yesterday. I feel so privileged yet humbled to be her godfather. Whoa! In Filipino context, being a godparent means having to lavish your godchild with gifts come Christmas, birthday, graduation and all those events in his/her life. Hmmm, I may or may not be able to give her heaps of presents. But just the same, I wanna let her know that she's special in GOD's eyes. That GOD's so stoked every time she sees her. And in a way, I wanna have a grip on how GOD parents us. In my immaturity and slight aversion towards kids (nice to look at but touch 'em at your own risk), I wanna grow in this aspect. I'm thinking that, hey this is perhaps why I'm still single right now. I'm thinking..

And..