"Saints are sinners that never give up..."

Maan, it's been ages since i last made an entry. So its 1010pm and my goal is to be an bed in an hour. So imma going to try my best to recap the whole annointed weekend at up in moval. PRaise God that im back home, it feels so nice to be 'home' again. It was a great weekend to come back, to the Heart of Worship.

Thursday: Went to skool, and then i had ran errands since it was pay day! Woo! I went to work in early for my coworkers bon voyage luncheon. It was lot of fun, im blessed ot have such great coworkers, especially a catholic boss. It helps whurr you can work in an open environment to openly shurr your faith w/others. They may not be the same faith as you, but praise God cuz you still bof believe in the same God, who is wonderful! I had made w/the kids this really good pasta! I was quite suprised with the turnout only cuz it was the first time i made it. I didnt use fettunchi sauce either. So i boiled the noodles and while the noodles boiled i created the sauce. The sauce was made up of cream of mushroom, garlic, and parmesan cheese. Wow the garlic added flavor to make it taste like regular sauce! yum! i also added carrots and broccli, imma have to cook it again sometime.

SRE was great, i had only one kid missing probably cuz i scolded her for not knowing her prayers the week before hand. Only to find out too, that she was absent for the past 3 weeks, oh well it still doest justify her not knowing her basic prayers. I had my kids go to fr. paul(hes one of my fav priests!)and he told me they did very well. Fr. ray had like 5 min. counesling sessions w/the 3rd graders with class of 25 kids he had! Oh man! thas why that class was thurr forever! AFterwards had gone out w/erin and heif to fridays at the cerritos towne center. I had bought that smirnoff sour apple, it was okay. It kinda taste like regular smirnoff to me, not much of a change. Imma try the other flavas next time. Good times, catchin up w/ol friends.

Friday: Woke up at 11am woo! Fridays are great days to sleep in! No skool or work! So i kinda sat around for a bit. Then went to get my mom's birfday present at the mall. Went to 1215pm mass and was able to get fr. paul to do the days w/the Lord retreat. Man my phone was ringing off the hook that day. It wasl ike one call after the other! Met up w/pb at the towne center for our 'annual rubios pb lenten lunch.' haha i call it that cuz it seems like thas the only time we go out to lunch is during lent! ha last april she met up at my work during my lunch and we had rubios again! haha WE were bof laughing cuz its juss funny how we meet up during lent. Went to ross to look for some stuff, didnt find anything. Went to the bp mall and i didnt find anything thurr either. Came home for a bit, i was tempted to take a nap but i wasnt too tired.

Ended up going to the cerritos mall wanting to buy pants. I was talking to grace for a while on the phone, and i decided not to. It wasnt a REAL had to neccesity. On my way out i ran into cyril and mikee, so i walked w/them around the mall. Im telling you errtime you to go to cerritos mall, youre bound to run into someone you know! I had boughten this nike bag at footlocker too, i got the hooks ups! This guy who use to be my neighbor who i also went to elementary-high skoool with, well his sister was working thurr. Anyway, she had hooked it up and gave me 50% discount! I got the bag for $5, when it was suppose to be $10! On top of that they had the free sample of gum that i took.

WEnt to the stations of the cross at sPv. Imma see maybe we can make it an SH activity each fri. nite. I was dissapointed cuz my kids werent thurr and i told them to come. Erryurr i go to the stations of the cross during lent w/my 2 aunts, my mom, and my grandma. This time i was really able to meditate and focus on each of the 14 stations. After watching the Passion, you can actually visualze each action taking place. It was really, wow, i started to get turry eyed as i was meditating on them. The stations are really good way to focus on His passion. Praise God that the sPv has it errfri during lent.

Came home, ate real quick, and packed for the evening. I was rushing ot get errthang ready and set to go. Pops came and met me up, said goodbyes to mother,moms, and the kids, then it was off to mo val. The drive wasnt that bad it wasnt much traffic. Good talks w/the pops bout the passion and bout the catholic faith on the way up thurr. We were talking bout how protestants well say, 'im christian.' When you ask wha faith they are, then they think catholics arent christians too. haha Thas funny, so by the time we exited the freeway we saw jeanne, so we followed hurr up thurr. When we got thurr, pretty much errone was thurr and errone was kinda juss chillin.

So finally the weekend began bout 10-1030 pm. We had the opening intros. and they told us the rules and regs for the weekend. They took away our watches and cell phones cuz they wanted us to be free from distraction this whole weekend. I thought at first, 'oh why?!' i need my watccch to keep track of time and eerrthang else. BUt wha they said made sense, we came to retreat from the world, and thas wha it pretty much felt like all weekend long. I guess its discipline and juss a good way to focus in prayer. Grouped up and did an icebreaker, action song and went into the first talk. Leah from LOC gave the talk on 'dettachment' really good talk bout coming out of out our shells. Meaing like our comfort zones, we get too comfortable within our areas that we cant seem dettach ourselves. Then she also touched on the basic dettachment from the world of materialisitc things.

After we were broke into what was called 'triaids' little groups to discuss our own personal trials and struggles. It was cool cuz it was like oner person from each community thurr. We had bout 5 different communities participating in the Leadership Formation Team. Darwin from SOL lead my group which included: Julie(YFC), Jasmine(LOC), & Christy(LF). It was really cool cuz it started the whole bonding experience for all of us. Then i think we all came back for praise & worship and shower sign ups and secret angels(prayer buddies). The theme song for the retreat was 'Heart of Worship.' The verse for theme of was from Rev 2:2-5.I wont go into the verse, ill let you look it up yourselves and youll see why it fits in w/errthang.

We also had a vigil nite, and we all had to take shifts to come in for bout 30min. and juss do whatever you want in thurr. I had the 530am shift w/my other pb jasmine. Real peaceful and calm, it wouldve made it better if they had adoration in thurr. Jeanne and i bof agreeded, we'd be in thurr all nite long! The house was nice and huge so thurr was sleep room for errone. Pops slept on one of the couches and as for me too. Though pops had to sleep on his stomach juss so we wouldnt reface v1. Haha Errone was pre-warned bout his sleeping style too that nite! Ha Praise God it wasnt as bad as v1 though, so i was able to get some sleep.

Saturday: We woke up @ like 6am and breakfast was made, spam, eggs and rice! haha what a filipino breakfast i tell you. Saturday was like a jam packed day, so much happened, a lot of fellowship, prayer, and more. I think sat. was a time whurr errone really bonded together. Had praise & worship, action songs and stuff like that. Nick gave a really good talk bout the Sin of omission, very convicting. Jay Paryano gave one on Spiritual Warfare, which was a good talk too, cuz its important that as leaders, it comes w/the territory. Serving God is never gonna be easy, but it will all pay off in the long run! Anyway, had lunch which was adobo and rice. Went to the purrk and we prayed the Chaplet of Divine Mercy was we wurr walking. I loved that part, then we took a group pic at the playground, which was tight!

Came back for some more talks, chris de vera gave a very detailed one how to present/give a talk. Followed by antony's talk later on on the 'Art of storytelling' an aspect to of presenting a talk. Oh man charisse started us all off on a game, 'charades!' I laugh out loud right now thinking bout how much it was fun. SHe was juss going off on all these dfferent movies! LF was on the role of knowing wah movies she was doing. IT was fun cuz errone got into the game and was participating. Darwin's 'The divine secrets of the ya-ya sisterhood' was funny! haha For some reason i was able to make out what movie he was doing after all the clues. haha AS tired i was, when we had the break i couldnt even sleep. We kept playing the game, except we changed the catagory: LFT members! ohhh man that was a trip!! Sooo funny the different impressions people were coming up with!

The nite was slowly coming to an end with mass followed by the exposition of the blessed sacrament! wow, soo powerful! It was soo tight cuz Father came by each person annointing them oil and pray over them. Then afterwards walking w/Jesus to each and err person, and so youre on your knees directly looking at Jesus. Oh my, praise God cuz it was soo impactful. Lot of healing and prayer takin place. OH yeah then we played 'who wants to be a saint?' i was so close in finishing the game, but then i got too excited and messed up. Myron is a trip, his laugh makes me laugh! He got a kick out of the whole charades game! haha We had this inside joke for the weekend too. WE made these mail bags on fri nite. SO throughout the whole weekend people were suppose to write you notes and juss drop them in the bag. I was writing small brief ones to errone, ha on freds and pops i added 'now with isda on the hotrack melt it likes it hot wax' on each of the notes! haha like how my emails have it!

After mass we had a group shurring time on issues or advice we could use for our communities. IT was a really good open forum. Praise God that our community may not get 100% parish support but we get the support we need. Then we had a really cool slideshow juss on simple reminders for life. Then ended the nite w/some more charades LFT version! We were soo loud throughout the whole weekend. Praise God we were able to make so much noise though and not have to worry bout being quiet or anything.

Sunday:WOke up early again had a really tight praise & worship session. Pops gave his talk on servanthood, which was really good. I loved how he started off the example of telling the background story of saul becoming St. Paul. When he was intro. i was so proud of him, i had to yell out, 'Thas my Pops!' haha We planned out the next short-term and long-term goals for this ministry. We broke down into our pillar groups, i was put into growth. Wow we had a bit of a hard time at first but we got it. Juss cuz growth is such a deep subject. I cant forget that i have to give a 5 min talk on my talk too next month when we meet. Then we got our bags which had our letters. The letters from our communities and LFt notes. I was really touched by jaymee's letter that she wrote to me. It really meant a lot and it brought turrs to my eyes. We left w/a slideshow showing pictures from the whole weekend. SOrry, i brought the cam but i didnt take any pics. For some reason i wasnt in the mood too! haha

Crazy thing i found out over the weekend is Chris De VEra is daily makeitclap suscriber. He knew the what picture ive had up on my blog, the # of hits on my counter, and even the new template! Whoa! i was in awe when he tol me all this! ha i guess i have suscribers that i dont even know about. Since im on the subject of chris, i got to know him better this weekend. He's got soo much compassion when he talks, that anyone who listens him is juss wow. When he talks, he tells you how its done and doesnt sugar coat or anything. Praise God!

Well thas the weekend in a nut shell for yall, im up to speed on my entries now. I juss to need to update my organizer, im bout 2 weeks behind. Praise God for a really nice weekend, but im glad im home. I agree w/Pops, its great to be back with our communities again! I love Servant's Heart and all the people who make up this community. If it wasnt for SH, geez id probably be on the streets some whurr, who knows! haha jk Forreal though thank you SH for juss being so great! And thanks to all of you who i serve God with that make serving God so fun!


OKay 4 word...sounds like...haha

"El Shaddai, El Shaddai, Erkahmka na Adonai..."im done, im out GOd bless!

"When you failed, don't consider it as a failure. Instead, get up and be stronger..."

Wow, i really havent had a real entry the past couple days. Been busy that i really havent had the chance to do it. Tons of stuff i have yet to do, its juss making the time to get to them. The past couple days have been pretty cool. The second half of prayer meeting was a trip! It turned out to be like a town hall meeting. As many of you know ever since tito jess' talk, weve filled up the room w/elders. Pretty much how im sure it use to be like back in the days. Anyway, the topic was politicis mixing in w/religon. Thas always gonna touch some nerves when you mix politics w/religon. So we had elder after elder rising up to speak their opinions on the issues. My favorite was tita cora stood up and got the crowd going! haha it was pretty crazzy!

Tuesday was pretty much the last youf alpha session. Which reminds me i need to call fr. fogarty and let him know jay is gonna be coming over to norco. Im kinda glad in a way that youf alpha is gonna be over, back into the ol routine. I know fo sho my kids are tired of it, actually they were tired of it after the first couple sessions. Its gonna be interesting to see how theyre gonna react coming back into class. The last session of youf alpha is always fun though with music min coming down. Hopefully, we can work something out whurr they can come down again this yurr. The live music REALLY gets to the kids. I think its the live music that convicts them rather then juss listening to the same CDs each week. Its the music that gets them on fire to serve God.

I found that two of the kids(whom i made friends with this yurr)went to yfc camp last weekend! Abe was like, 'hey youre in yfc?!' I said, 'yeah! howd you know?!' i forgot how he knew i was in yfc but he told me him and his friend charles went to the camp. I got this real excited feeling when he told me. I think juss knowing that the two of them have gotten themselves involved with a real community. Let alone a real youf group, gosh we all know how spy sucks. I really hate to say that, but its true. I dont consider them a youf group and i never will until i start seeing them more active in the parish. Anyway, i found out that they met a lot of my yfc friends too and they had gone to a discovery camp before. So he was excited cuz him and charles are officially yfc members like myself. Yfc is freakin d0pe, i love them kids over thurr! OH man imma miss out on next fridays, 1st friday novena and g4g rally. Ahh thas twice in a row i missed out!

Adoration was totally peaceful, i only stayed for an hour cuz i didnt want to fall asleep. Besides i had an 8am class the next day. Thatd be so cool to have your own adoration chapel like on the side of your house. You could go thurr anytime of the day, and not worry bout when to come or what not. Adoration is juss the best, i wonder who comes and watches Jesus during the wee hours of the nite. Kuya ariel is funny he emailed me this morning to tell me that he saw me at adoration last nite and he didnt say hi cuz i was reading my bible. haha

Yesterday i had my day set out and planned, the only part was trying ot see whurr i can fit mass in. Juss cuz i knew it was my mother's birfday also and so i wasnt sure if we were gonna eat or not. So im upstairs waiting for the classroom to open, and then as i saw the classroom next to us they had a sign in sheet. Which meant their class was cancelled, so im thinking, 'gosh why is our class never cancelled?' Within like 10 min this lady came out and put a sign in sheet on the door. I said praise GOd! With class being cancelled i was able to rush over to 8am mass. As i walked in Fr. breannan was bout ready to walk down for mass. He calls me over and tells me a couple of things. I thought you know maybe he neeeded help w/the mass or something, but it was to tell me i was invited to watch the Passion or something like that at their house. I dont know something like that i gotta get the details. I juss thought it was funny cuz it was so last min.

Came home after mass then i went over to krikorian to take a chance to watch the "Passion of Jesus Christ." They had an early 11am showing and i had planned on watching that one for the past couple weeks. I had meant to get pre-sale tickets but never made a way over to the box office. Im standing in line of bout 10 people in front of me waiting for the box office to open. As i was standing in line i started to pray my rosary. Juss hoping that id be able to get in and watch it. Praise God cuz i was able to get in and get a good seat. I had done some reading while inside the theatre waiting. As I gone to put my book back into the curr, i had the lady next to me saved my seats. As i came back she told me this ol man stepped on my popcorn i guess he didnt see it. BUt he was pissed cuz the lady was saving my seats. Ha great way to prepare to watch the movie huh.

The movie was intense, it was graphic, and most of it all it showed all the sorrowful mysteries in great detail. I felt as if i was honestly standing alongside with the crowd watching it. I loved how the camera angles showed it through the eyes of Jesus and through the eyes of Mama Mary. Its great how they focused a lot and emphasized her role in the movie too. Juss how she was with him throughout the last 12 hours of his life on earf. After watching it the first time i had planned for myself not to watch it a 2nd time. Ahh plans had changed last min. but i dont think i could watch it for a 3rd. Its so intense that youre speechless as you walk out of the theatre. The only real thing to really say is, 'Praise God.'

As you watch Him suffer through all the long hours of scourging, then carrying of the cross, you cant help to say, 'geez wha am i complaining bout? This suffering and pain He had gone through is not even close to wha im going through.' To think He took on that pain with great joy and suffered on that cross with great love juss so we can have life. To think how great it is, that our Blessed Mother, His mother always standing guard praying and interceeding for us. The movie leaves you in a meditative state to really focus and pray. Pray for healing, pray for strength, and yet also juss listening. Not filling ourselves with our concerns but of God's concerns.

What a great way to start off Ash Wednesday and the season of lent...Praise you Lord Jesus that through your death i am here today!

My God kicks ASH.


Go and watch the Passion of Christ!

"I want to be holy example for his innocent eyes to see..."im done, im out God bless!

"Remember that you are dust, and unto dust you shall return.Turn away from sin, and be faithful to the Gospel..."

Its funny, how some 'things' remain the same and some 'attitudes' juss never change. Nuff said...with that moving on. So the lenten season begins, a time to turn over a new life, a time for sacrafice and also a time of renewal. Most of all this season should be a growing one. Whurr you can really take this time out and truly focus on Him. Him and His ultimate sacrafice that had paid the price. Also a time not to dwell on our own misfortunes, or sufferings but a time to grow from them.

Wow i juss got back from watching the Passion of Christ! Praise God, im not sure if i can watch it again tonite, its so intense! THough it portrays exactly what was told in the 4 gospels. The theatre was packed!


Happy Birfday Mother!

"I'll be loving you forever..."im done, im out GOd bless

"What we need most in order to make progress is to be silent before this great God with our appetite and with our tongue, for the language he best hears is silent love..."

There is folks, youre looking at it right there! St. Lukes Cathoilc Church in Temple City, will hold the first ever Spirit Games on Sat. Aug. 7 2004. The meeting last nite was juss fruitful, despite we had a lot of people not show up, it was still great. Crystal was a great hostess, and i see that is her expertise. Her ministry over at St. Lukes gave us a warm welcome, we had dessert, pizza, lumpia, and a whole a box of fried chicken. She even had teens at the door welcome everyone. Im always a bit overwhelmed when i first come to the meeting. Only cuz im tryign to get the last minute things put together. There was a lot of things to discuss and we were able to get through them all. A mission statement is in the process of being put together by the committee to ensure errone is nysnc with what the purpose of these games are.

I feel whas the word, ahh yes 'blessed' to be working along side with all these different leaders. God has truly paved the way out for this ministry to get started. Through every meeting its only been fruitful with only more and more people joining in. I know though within the next several months ahead, the road is not gonna be easy. The trials are on there way and must not leave room for sin to come in. But i smile with great joy as i go through these trials and tribulations.
"Indeed, all who want to live godly life in Christ Jesus will be presecuted." 2 Timothy 3:12 As St. Paul says for when i am weak, i am made strong. I know His spirit is thurr guiding me through it all.

ANyway these past couple of days have been busy. Getting stuff prepared for yesterdays meeting, and then juss skool and all. On sunday, i had seen agaisnt the ropes that movie w/melanie griffin and omar epps. That movie is freakin tight! its about boxing and going for wha you want in life. Melanie Griffin is a boxing manger who finds omar epps and turns him in from a thug into a boxing winner. The movie teaches you a lot bout humility and all that good stuff. Its actually based on a true story! Melanie plays the character of jackie who is the first female boxing manager in history.

So ive been really reading 'The Catholic Warrior' book lately and its really good. ITs actually really helped me prepare for lent. I recommend that you go to your catholic book stores and buy it today! Had a very productive core group meeting on sunday, reirich and leslie showed up for the first time. It looks like our LSS will be in the late june, which should be pretty interesting and all. Im so excited for the Passion to come out tomorrow! Im still debating whether to watch right after skool also. Well no matter wha i sitll be able to watch it on wed. anyway. I only pray that this movie will convict the hearts of many people. I dont know if ill be able to handle watching the scourging.

Well thas it for now, enjoy this picture taken last nite after the meeting.




Temple City hurr we come!!

"I will go Lord, if You lead me, i will hold your people in my hand..."im done, im out GOd bless

"If knowledge is contagious, let us infect our communities with the truth of sin and its trappings and equip our hearts and minds with the weapons to turn away from sin and towards God..."

Maan today was a long day, i had a hard time going to sleep after adoration this morning. Youd think id be the most peaceful after being w/Jesus. So i stayed up for about 30 min. online then was able to fall alseep. Woke up at 615am the usual time i wake up for class on mon. and wed. Ahh i wanted to sleep in! I took a nice hot shower and i thought i was gonna be running late. Though i made it on time! Pretty much errone made it on time! Praise God for that! Then we ran into a small problem, we need to get upsturrs. We didnt know if any padres were gonna be around @ 7am being mass isnt till 8am. I stopped and i prayed asking God to send me a priest to open the doors. Sure enough, God answers prayers! I found Fr. Brennan in the sacristy and was able to get him to open room b.

We all help bring down all the instruments and wha not to the currs. Next we were on our way to norco, home of the cowtown! We got thurr bout right at 8am, and it was pretty cold. Maan Norco is full of ranches and field areas. Crazy part is they even have posts in front of stores whurr people can tie up their horses and wha not. Fr. Fogarty seemed pretty happy to see us, his parish is really small. Its pretty much juss right for him and fr. crilly. The youf alpha group thurr is way smaller then one at sPv. I started to get homesick and started to miss our own youf alpha kids. So the day began, and oh man the hearts of these kids were stone. We knew we had a long day ahead of us. Ha i dont think norco was ready for my engery and excitement! ha

Towards the end of the first session of praise & worship things started to slowly, real slowly ease up. I was going in and out of the blessed sacarament praying for GOd to soften up their hurrts. That theyd open themselves up to the Holy Spirit and give the day a chance. Peter gave his talk on 'Who is the Holy Spirit?' Came all decked out on his marine core gurr, gving the kids a good wake up call. Something they all totally needed, a lot of the guys put up the whole 'im hard' front. Then burr and boss lady gave their talks, the kids really liked those ones. ONly cuz it was a lot easier for them to relate to. They were amazed how they were bof able to turn their lives completly around and the trust in God's spirit.

I didnt think we were gonna be able to to 'who builds the faith' at the end, but suprisngly they enjoyed it. Praise God i was smiling cuz God touched their hurrts and broke down those barriers. Im so glad nicole and kyle came, theyre two really d0pe indivduals! I havent seen kyle in like yurrs. HE had the whole 'OC look' going on, it was pretty funny. Those two kids have some mad vokals! Next time i see them, theryre gonna do a duet for the vmail! I love nicoles singing voice, its soo wow. I can picture myself laying on a hammock listening to her sing. Her voice is so peaceful and calm that it makes you juss want to lay down. ahh

Fred and i had a good convo on the way back from norco. Man was it raining real hard! It was pretty skurry, i perfer really not to drive in the rain. Especially when its raining hardcore, the roads are too slipperly and im afraid something could happen. Anywya, so as we were singing Nktob and shai were talking bout the evolution of our comps. Like how we bof had macs first and stuff, neeeeeyooww! Then we were talking bout back in the days going to tower and getting cassette singles. Remember when it was 2 for $5! Or the times we'd try to double tape, and you couldnt put it on high speed or else it would mess up the recording! haha Then when CDs came out, recording from CD to tape. Sitting thurr next to the radio listening ot the entire CD. Or remember those pull out cassette steros, the ones whurr you had to pull out the whole system. This way no one would jack it from your car! haha oh man how tech. has changed.

Came home and took a nice nap, heif called me so we were chatting for about a good 45 min. Afterwards went out w/the room to htb at souf street. Good times, good fun, so much for errone and their projket diets. When i got home it was nice the furr place was going and the house was so comfy. I cant wait till im able to get to bed! ha I had a really fun convo w/ngfoo tonite, we played '5 ?'s' whoa we have so many things in common! haha

freekiNdOrko: you know what i think the pinnacle of a relationship is?
freekiNdOrko: when you're able to pray with somebody
freekiNdOrko: i mean intimately pray together
freekiNdOrko: wow, that's all i gotta say

Wow lent is juss around the corner, are you prepared?!

Highlight of the day: So we were bout to take a group pic w/ fr. fogarty and i was trying to get maurice's attention. I called out to him 'pops.' Fr. Fogarty was right beside me and he smiles, looks at me and asks, 'Pops?! why do you call him pops?!' haha i was like umm cuz he's my pops father! haha i thought that was funny. Maybe it was juss one of those things whurr you had to be thur also.

Tomorrow core group meeting, hopefully it wont last forever long, and then hw time! Then the weekend is over. I found a new song yall should dload, 'deeply in love.' by youf alive. Kyle and nicole suggested i dload the song. Its really d0pe and wow makes you love Jesus even more! OH man i still gotta get things ready for mondays meeting! So much to do, so little time!


Man, i couldn't live out in norco!

"My love for you, grows stronger each new day. I`ve fallen deeply in love with you..."im done, im out God bless!

"Dismiss all anger and look into yourself a little. Remember that he of whom you are speaking is your brother, and, as he is in the way of salvation, God can make him a Saint, in spite of his present weakness."

I almost forgot wha i did yesterday, ha it almost became a 'blur.' So we can take apart this quote you can get so much out of it. Even the first sentence speaks for itself, 'dismiss all anger and look into yourself a little.' How many times have we gotten angry at other people for the same actions that we tend to do. HOw we can forget that we've have made the same mistakes as our brothers and sisters, yet hurr we are condemning them for it. The next part is whurr you get all the meat from the quote. It says dont forget that the person you maybe be angry at, is still your brother/sister in Christ. Then i love how it ends saying, yet even despite his mistakes and weaknesses, God can still make this person a Saint. The point being, we ALL have the opportunity to be Saints in the making. Nothing is impossible w/God's grace and love!

Yesterday was nice, i really go to sleep in, though i wish it rained in the morning. I love laying in bed and juss listening to the rain drops falling from the rooftop. I woke up at almost 12pm and did the daily routine of checking email and blogs. Ha burr said, 'i didnt blog today.' I said, 'Thanks for the heads up!' I had to make rice for my mom and for some reason i lost my 'making rice touch.' Its hard making rice in this new cooker. ANyway, i had messed up like 3x! Thas a lot of rice i had wasted...I love fridays, cuz theyre so chill! Juss kickin back and relaxing, but yet sometimes i cant do that cuz then i feel the day was a waste. THough yesterday was pretty productive, sooo praise God!

When my mother came home, we had gone to the block and checked out some shoes i wanted. THough, they didnt have the ones i liked, so scratch that out. Ended up going back home and juss chilled, did laundry etc. Had a few phone conversations and then before you know it was time to get to mass! I went to 515pm mass @ sPv ffr. brennan celebrated it, i havent seen him in ages! He's so cool and kick back thas wha i like bout him. His homily was tight too, as he talked bout how we can all the materialistic things of the world. Errthang that our lil puso desires, yet well still have the emptiness inside of us. Were missing the cross, were missing that cross symbolizes and how much meaning it has in our lives. Great stuff, then i was able to borrow a altar server robe for suicicde skit practice.

Went to the mexcian's house, wow i love that house! It's soo cool, i love how he has that ol skool phone underneath the sturrs. So it's kinda like fresh prince of bel air, haha whurr we'd call Geoffrey! "You rang master will?' haha We practiced suicide skit real briefly, i think playing the role of Jesus is a lot easier then the sins. Thurr isnt really so much to remember when youre Jesus, so we ran through it a couple times and it we got it down. The rest of the nite we juss ate and chilled. Praise God the mexican has been so hosptiable these past couple weeks, juss inviting people over to chill in his new house. I love how the sturrs are shaped, la palma does have some nice houses thats fo sho.

Played some games w/the kids, elijiah is juss a trip i tell you! He can never get turrud of playing and running around. Jeanne and i kept telling him if he doesnt behave well throw in the furr place! haha Jeanne, the kids, and i were playing truf or durr, the durrs we did were so funny. Ahulana durred me to hug her mom! haha so she got errones attention and made me hug jaymee, which was soo hard to do! haha jk Then we sat around on the currpet and told stories. So good times with playing with the kids. Came home and i was talking to charisse for a while. Our phone convos are never short, she called me while i was at mikes and i ended up having to go charge my battery cuz it died. So we planned out our whole next spirit games meeting. It should be productive, im excited to see errone again. Those meetings are always fun! That took most of the later part of the evening, after went to adoration w/pops, fred, and burr. I love St. Dominic Savio, great place to rest after a long day.

WEll that wraps up my day for ya, until next time, keep on praying!!


Maan the weekend is almost over!

"The number is just the same as the stars in sky..."im done, im out God bless!

"One of the most frustrating sufferings Jesus bore must have been misunderstanding..."

WOw its 11pm and i dont know why im not in bed yet. I figured i was gonna be real worn out and exhausted by the end of the nite. Maybe it was the sturrbucks i had drank before SRE thas kinda keeping me up. PRaise God though, i dont feel kinda sickish as i did this morning. I had a hard time sleeping last nite, i kept shiverring. i thought i had dressed warm enough last nite, i guess not. I woke up @ 5am, and i had a hard time going back to sleep, so i started to clean up my room a bit then started to pray the rosary. I ended up getting ot the 3rd luminous mystery and then falling alseep. Only then waking up @ 615am with a slight headache, stomach pain and feelin a little warm. I didnt eat dinner last nite cuz i thought i wasnt hungry, though i was so hungry all last nite. I thought okay, ill juss lift it up.

I had gone to youf day at the Arch Diocese Annual Religous Ed COngress. This yurr was my 2nd yurr going and i was an appetizer forSOL youf rally. WE had some youf alpha kids go along w/those bad kids from spy. Oh man the bus was so crowded, they wanted some of the kids to pack up in threes so that all the chaperones could sit down. That didnt work at all cuz the kids hardly fit w/2 to a seat. I dont undertstand why some of the spy chaperones couldnt of juss driven over thurr. ANyway, i wasnt feel the best at all in the morning but i made it. THe noise on the buss juss seemed forever long! ahhH it always seems 10x louder when you dont feel very well.

They had this opening band called 'scarecrow and tin,' they sucked big time. I coudlnt even understand wha they were singing. Let alone they didnt even sing any real contemporary christian songs. The arena inside the convention center was packed! Thurr was youf ministires and life teens from all over, even a group from vegas was thurr! Some of the group shirts were pretty funny. ONe group had a shirt that said, 'whos your daddy?!' then another one had 'Jesus is my homeboy.' Anyway, i fell asleep off and on during the keynote speaker. It was mark hart from lifeteen, he's a good comedian. Then we went to the first workshop which was on relationships. I think the speaker was/is a protestant minister. He spoke bout how we have relationships w/errone and blah blah. I didnt really get much from this speaker.

Mass was the best part, seeing all the priests, bishops, deacons, coming on down. Obviosuly, the Cardinal Mahoney presided mass. I was hoping Bishop brown or one of the auxillary bishops of orange wouldve been thurr to help co-celebrate being that the congress is always held at the anaheim convention center. I wish though the cardina's homily was more personal, instead of juss having a youf give a reflection of how the gospel reflected their lives. I was biit frustrated w/one of the spy kids during mass. Right after communion as i was walking up back to my seat, one of the kids was on his cell. This is during the communion meditation part of the mass. As i walked passed him i told him to put it away. He defies me and continues to think he's hurrd, still using the cell. I told mrs. quionnes who was sitting in front of me to tel lhim to put it away. She put that foo on check! i was like yeesss!

Lunch was coo, i had spent $3 total all day! woO! i was tempted to buy this package deal cuz thurr was really cool book i wanted to get. It was like a catholic faith handbook or something, it was tight. I spent lunch kinda wandering around, and i ran into all these different people that i knew!! It was so exciting cuz it was like 'hey thurrs heaven sent! or thurrs LF!' haha I saw some of the HS girls and on the way out i saw the rest of hte youf ministry including fr. joe. I didnt know HS was going! Hmm who else did i see i saw gp and peter from LF. They were thurr w/their confirmation kids. OH! i ran into ja mess from LOG um who else, oh that white guy from SOL, he was w/a bosco tech. I saw also joey sepulveda thurr w/some other group. Oh yeah! then as i was walking i thik it was crystal from st. lukes, anyway one of the st. lukes girls saw me as i was passing by and hugged me. Wow soo many tight people!

The 2nd workshop was this speaker her name was renee and i was humbled when i saw her. SHe was in this wheelchurr and she opened up singing 'be not afraid.' It was wow, she had such a beautiful voice. Turns out 2 months prior to her wedding, she fell of her bed and ended up being paralyzed from the bottom down. SO she had all these trials come before her but she made the best of each and errone of them. She emphasized during her talk bout 'His grace' being sufficient for us. That was the best talk and it was really good! Before the praise & worship concert they had a show called 'cribs.' Whurr they went and took a tour of the 'OUr Lady of Angels Catherdal' in downtown LA.

The theme for the whole entire day was, 'You think you know, but you have no idea.' Which is the same theme to MTV's show 'diary.' OH! guess who i met!! I got to meet matt smith from real world 9 New Orleans!aka lifeteen guy aka biblegeek!! To me thas coo, i had him sign my bible! haha I tried to see if he would be interested in coming out for Spirit Games too. He gave me his events keeper's phone #. I called it and whatya know that foo is booked up for the next 10 yurrs. Oh well, it was still pretty tight walking and talking w/him!

So after the day was ova, i got left behind at congress! The bus left me at congress thinking they had errone not realizing i was missing! Hurr i was frantically walking around errwhurr, runing around looking for the group. At the same time trying to call sandy and liz, thinkin to myself, 'oh man, whurr are they?!' Finally i got a hold of liz and even after they all got out of the buss they still didnt realize i was missing! Sandy came and picked me back up. Whattas fiasco that was, but it was still coo cuz i got to talk to bible geek, so maybe God planned it out that way! haha

Came home totally beaten and exhausted! I wanted to rest my eyes, but i knew if i did that i wouldve felt even worse not being able to take a full nap. Ha i ended up closing my eyes for a bit. Woke up feeling real tired still, then had some time to get some sturrbucks. SRE was coo, juss been really preping them for next thurs. Geez, next week is juss filled with festivities, i tell ya. Pray for my 1st communion class as they prepare to make their 1st econciliation next thurs. Achie and i had them start to do an examination of conscience and write down some of their sins. Some of the girls have really boned w/achie it seems like. She had a big crowd of girls huddling around her after class asking her questions like 'if kissing a guy who isnt your bf a sin?' and stuff like that. haha i think its funny, and pretty cool too that they can bond w/her.

Another busy weekend to go, i may juss take tomorrow to rest. Since ill be in norco on sat., then sun core group meeting. Monday spirit games meeting, tues. youf alpha, wed.ash wednesday, mass, my mom's birfday and then watch passion. Thurs. 1st reconciliation w/the kids, then fri. watch passion again then head over to SOL for Leadership formation retreat in moval for the weekend. Also skool and work inbetween errthang else that goes on daily inbetween all my other outside activities.


You think you know...but you have no idea!

"The first time i looked into your eyes i cried, do you remember the first time we fell in love..."im done, im out God bless!

"The world is an ongoing play in which you play an integral part..."

What a gloomy day it was yesterday! It rained like no other on and off, though when i was in hawaiiwan gurrdens, the sun was starting ot come out. YOu ever have one of those tests whurr you think, you had done pretty well, turns out you did worse than you thought? Yeah thas wha happened w/me, its okay though its only the first one. Besides that, the instructor said not to worry cuz thurrs plenty of assignments/projkets, to make up for it. On top of that he drops 2 quizzes and he also gives us lab points by juss kinda showing up. Soo i'll juss get 'em next time and study a little hurrder.

I was suppose to go to lunch at panda inn w/my aunt and cousin yesterday. Well, if you know me, you know im real anal and punctual regarding time. So if you say to meet up @ 1pm, then i expect you to be thurr i start to get perturbed w/late people. BUrr knows cuz he's the same way as i am! haah thas why we get along so well! haha Point is i guess my cousin was running late cuz hes coming from csuf. He's finished w/skool by like 12:45pm. WEll 1pm passes and he's not hurr i waited till 115pm and i figured thurrs no point in going. I had to be at work @ 2pm, so i wouldnt of been able to make it. I was a little frustrated cuz i wanted walnut shrimp, oh well thurrs another time. I felt bad for cancelling though since it was my idea to go out to lunch.

Work was coo, real kick back being that i didnt go to the apt. complex #1 and #2 being my boss was out. Its nice when my boss is gone cuz i have no one really to direct me on wha to do. He was helping his gf's mom move. So, i had ran a few errrunds for the other supervisor and juss kinda chit-chatted hurr and thurr. My other boss and i were talking bout the new position that were opening up. He said jokingly, maybe we can get like a former nun or something haha then we were talking bout celebrating mass inside his office! haha MY boss is a trip w/the things he comes up w/sometimes, its so funny. I really admire though, cuz no matter how busy he is, he always makes time to talk to you or ask how youre doing.

Had gone later on to the yfc brother/sisterhood forum in irvine. I came at the end of their '1st annual hot hands tournament.' Im kinda glad i came at the end of it, so i didnt have to play. The forums are tight, its a way to really get to know each other better and shurr our faith w/each other. I dont even remember anymoe half of the stuff we discussed. As burr would say, 'it's a blurr to me.' Though at the end we made currds for the sisters cuz we were meeting them up for a 'fatty worship.' So we met them up at the very top of the purrking structure and it was cold! Randell led the praise & worship, which was very annointed, then we split up into 'love families.' Similiar to how liwanag has thurrs. Then we took a pretty d0pe picture too at the end! Yay! I didnt realize how cold it was cuz i came home shiverring, even after i took a shower i was still shiverring in bed.

Ive been meaning to say this on monday, but i forgot...


Happy 2nd Anniversary uPrM!

"When you've got friends, to wish you well/You'll find a point when, you will exhale..."im done, im out GOd bless!

"The person who shows love and compassion to those in any kind of affliction is blessed, not only with the virtue of good will but also with the gift of peace..."

I juss finished watching the SOL youf rally 03 on dvd. Its kinda crazy cuz i saw a lot of familiar faces that i am now friends with. As the faces passed by its like, 'hey thas so and so from such and such.' Then i was like, 'OH! thas so from such and such!' or 'Whoa i didnt know they were at youf rally or part of teh community back then.' haha Watching that dvd wore me out though, all the screaming and praising GOd. Whew i felt like i was actually thurr at that moment in time! haha ANyway, after watching that it made really look forward to going to this yurrs rally. This will be my 3rd youf rally, can ya believe it 3rd! Thas how i got to know SH was by being purrt of their youf rally skit. haha oh man that was so long ago...

Anyway, praise report for the day, my tax return came in! Woo! I was in need of some money and i was praying that hopefully soon my return would come in. The past week i was trying to check online to see if my return was approved. Obviously it was since i got the $$ direct deposited in! After skool, i was able to pay cell phone bill and i was tempted to get new shoes at the mall. Being that mall was only across the street from the cingular sturr, i resisted the temptation and drove home. Though, i did buy a new cell phone face plate! woo Its baby blue, i can only buy the nokia ones though. I dont like the ones that you can juss randomly get, i have to the nokia kind to match w/the nokia phone. Yeah, i know im anal like that.

So it looks like were gonna have a job opening at my work pretty soon. Our departmental assitant is leaving! aww i was so sad to hurr the news cuz her and i were pretty tight. We always helped each other out. She always so nice and caring, we joked around and was a total blast to work with. So whas a departmental assitant? A fancy word for saying 'clerk.' They take curr of the bills and wha not. Kinda kick back job, but thurrs a lot of responsibility to go with it. Im pretty interested to see whas gonna take place next. Her last day is march 1st, aww ijuss the best person to work with. Its gonna be weird w/her gone, it really is.

I woke up this morning w/that song, 'Come Holy Spirit of Love' in my head. I dont know why, i dont even know the lyrics, juss the first part of the CHorus. I love that song desert rose too by sting, its kinda catchy. After prayer meeting i came home and soaked my feet in hot water. It felt really good, i wish my spa was up and running again. The hot water felt so relaxing and stress free. I could juss clsoe my eyes and sleep forever...or not. ha ANyway, i wanted a foot spa for christmas, but i didnt get anything like that. Juss something simple w/jets in to massage and relax my feet. Im always up on it my feet at work, at skool, at church.

ONce again youf alpha was great the speaker had a great testimony. The topic was 'Does GOd heal?' I must admit though im not sure if the kids got anything out of her talk. Or i mean were even listening being she was an ol lady. I juss know how kids are these days. Speaking of them i think this has been the hardest youf alpha ive done so far. Only cuz majority of the kids are so relunctant to sing and dance. Its a bit of challenge and frustration too. Oh well, we got 2 weeks left and its back w/my kids. I realy miss being in the classroom and juss having that ulimate one on one experience with them. Youf alpha seemed forever long this year for some reason. IM sure though its helped a lot of the youf rekindle their relationship w/God. It was also a way for me to get to some of teh youf better, so praise God.

I had burnt a couple of youf alpha soundtracks for a couple of the girls. I asked them in return for a favor, they were like sure. I asked them to lift up a rosary for my own special intentions and to say a small prayer for me. One of the girls was funny, she was like, 'are you okay?!' I said oh yeah im fine, juss if you can pray a rosary for my special intentions that would be great! They were like yeah of course! then charles from jeanne's group asked me to buy a raffle ticket for himl. Maan thas $5! So pray that i win first place, then ill shurr the profit w/all yall! haha ANyway, i asked him in return for a favor too. Ha at first he was reluctuant thinking it was something he had to something real big for me. He was like okay, ill sing and dance on tues. haha i said no, no juss lift up a rosary for my special intentions. Hhaha

Alright i must get to sleep now, i got class at 8am. Oh why?! I dont think i want another 8am class, its too freaking early. It reminds me of my ol jr. high/hs days! agh!


Im going to youf day @ congress!

"Come Holy Spirit of love..."im done, im out God bless!

"Its not about pointing fingers or playing the blame game...its about faith, hope, love, & forgiveness..."

Im worn down for the day, its been a constant on the go day it seems like. I was planning to get some new kicks w/my momma today, but that didnt happen. My whole day kinda got messed up after my lunch meeting was postponed. Im one of those people who are anal bout the way my schedule works. Like if have a whole internary planned out for the day, it needs to go that way. If it doesnt, then im screwed and it messes my whole day. That's exactly wha had happened today, the whole day got messed up. I'll go into that a little bit later though. I woke up at like 1020am and i thought ohh juss another 10 min and ill wake up, gotta make it even. Ha i ended up waking up @ 11am.

Got ready for the day and i went over w/my dad to burrs house. The air conditioner/heating source was broken so my dad, (being the handyman he is) went over to see wha the problem was. Turns out that their compressor is shot, broken, not good anymore and they need to replace it. So after that was done, went home and cuz i had lunch plans set already, i didnt go w/my fam bam tribe to lunch. Turns out that my lunch plans ended up being postponed till later on in the evening. I ended up going to get a car wash and a birfday card for lyn lyn. Stopped by St. Peter Chanel for a brief, visit w/Jesus and my 4th day St. Therese novena.

Came home and juss kinda chilled, then charisse calls and says she's juss getting out of the All Star volunteer thing and she has to go handle some business before our meeting. I had some free time on my hands, so i went to mass @ 515. Man i havent bee to 515 sPv mass in a while. I saw a couple memebers from the football team and mike g's mother. I had to cancel on lyn lyns birfday dinner cuz i figured my postponed dinner meeting was gonna be after 5pm and i know i wouldnt of been done by 7pm. I go to the towne center and well to kill some time i was talking to babyvee at her work. Charisse calls and cancels on me due to a family emergency. Oh whY?! i thought! I ended up going back to bpc for lynlyns birday dinner.

I was glad i was able to go to the birfday dinner. Maybe God planned it out that way, who knows but it was nice. Karuta's service in the evenings is whack! It took us forever to get errthang and then on top of that our whole order was jacked up. There was no sense of organization. I think the last time i was at karutas was w/jaymee, when they asked us for tip. Last time i ever really go back thurr, our orders were all missing and were coming in at different times. The cooking show was tight, however i couldve done that at work myself. ha joking. No, it juss didnt make up for the unorganization of their service. I give them a big fat D!

Had a nice talk w/banne bout wha to discuss regarding spiritual warfare for spirit games meeting. She brought up a good point, that its not something i should really emphasize, only cuz people will start to use the 'attack currd.' They start to think errthang bad that happens to them is an attack, rather juss life happening. Which is a good point, cuz then people start to use the 'attack currd.' ANd oh my, im sure some of us can attest to the 'attack currd.' It has been used quite a lot in my time, and it still comes up errnow and then. I was told the point, that needs to be made is juss the ongoing battle w/good and evil. THe battle over our souls and how to basically stay in a state of prayer.

"Blessed are those the pure of heart, for the kingdom of God in theirs"Matthew 5:8 I was told that purity is not juss the sterotypical purity of chasity, its more then that. It made sense that a lot of people mix 'purity' with the word 'chasity.' Which have two different meanings. Purity meaning, keeping our hearts clean from all sin and juss on the guard trying to prevent sin from taking place. While chasity meaning keep our bodies chase, clean from sexual desires and feelings. Pre-martial sex, and all that stuff. The point im trying to make is, hurrs a new curd to throw at yall, 'flesh card.' Often times, people will use the 'fhesh currd' as a means of justification of letting sin happen. They like to use the scripture passage, 'The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.'

That scripture passage isnt saying its okay to use that as an excuse. THe point is we gotta go beyond the flesh and ask God's grace to strengthen our flesh. Its the whole purification process, St. Paul says it in 2 cor,'three times i begged the Lord to remove this from me, but he said, 'My grace is sufficient for you.' Keywords, My graceWe must pray that we let the Lord's grace come upon us and in us so that He may do His work. I love that song 'Eternally Yours' cuz it describes perfectally wha we need to do. As it goes...

"Lord i thank You for loving me juss i am, though i am weak bymyself in Your strength i will stand, Your grace is sufficient for me, eternally yours. Youre all that i need and that's all i can do, to surrender my will in submission, Your grace is sufficient for me, eternally Yours."

Come judgement day, we cant use the 'flesh currd' w/God. We cant say, 'Oh but God you know how it is, that darn flesh got the best of me again.' God's not gonna respond back with, 'Oh yeah ha yeah i know how that goes. After all, i only did send my only begotten Son to be flesh also.' Naw, He's gonna focus and emphasize how you were able to overcome the flesh. HOw you were able to make use His grace to strengthen the flesh so it doesnt fall into those traps. The only way to do this, is what St. John Vianney explain, "To preserve purity, three things are necessary; the practice of God, prayer and the sacraments and again, the reading of holy books-this nourishes the soul."

This quote should be self explainatory, practice of God and prayer. Pray the rosary, the chaplet, sponatneous prayer whatever prayer works for you, pray it! Pray for God's stregnthen to become spiritually stronger. Use the sacraments to the best of your advantage, thas wha theyre thurr for. We have the opportunity each and errday to go to mass and recieve Jesus. We also have the opportunity to go reconcililation as much as we need to go. Whether it's once a week, twice a month whatever you need its thurr. Lastly, the reading of holy books. Speaking of holy books im reading this book called, 'the catholic warrior.' I think i mentioned this already but its a great book. One of my lenten promises is to get back into the habbit of reading. I have so many books to catch up on. I know that was off subject, anyway as i was saying. God gives us the tools and the weapons, so thurr isnt any real excuse or justification for using the 'flesh currd.'

Im sure majority of us watch the Diane Sawyer interview w/Mel Gibson. First off, its so freakin d0peness that Mel Gibson is catholic. I think tonites showing is something errone needed to hurr and see. He was very adamant(ive been using that word a lot lately hehe)bout many things, especially bout being Catholic. He was very outspoken bout the movie depicting the Passion of Christ the way it was. I'm glad he didnt apologize bout the movie depicting the jews as the ones to blame for the crucifixition. The movie shows exactly how it was and what went on according to the 4 gospels. Mel made a good point bout if he did apologize that would be like him saying yes the jews were the ones to blame. The countdown begins...wow i wonder how long the movie is. Im debating to watch it right after skool @ 11am showing or later on in the evening. Hmm...

Well thas all i have to say for now folks! I decided not to change the color of my tagboard. Yes, i know it doesnt match but it stands out. So as you scroll down on to the bottom its eye catching. Its kinda like, 'whas this?' Im still feelin the new template layout! i love it! Maybe ill change it more often, or maybe not. Its gonna be a nice work week, 2 days of work! yess! Then im off on thurs. and mon. woOo! Best part is im getting paid for it still! woOO! It's true, His grace is sufficient for us, cuz we are Eternally His.


Anotha busy weekend on its way!

"As You work in me, cleansing all of my impurities..."im done, im out God bless

"His sufferings formed part of our redemption - ours form part of our sanctification..."

First off, it would only be right to give a huge shout out to banne for restoring makeitclap! She was able to work on a new brand new face look for my blog. Something that has been long overdue! I started this morning tagging errones blog/chatterboxes/leaving comments on blurts bout my new blog site. I realized later on why make two blog sites when i can juss keep the same one? I copied the template from the new blog and pasted it over to the ol blog. Which was the advice given to me by jaymee, so big ups to her as well. Success! i dont have to create a new blog, i deleted that one. Its gonna be weird printing out my entries now, i still gotta figure out how thas gonna work. To think i almost lost my blog!

Not too much happend today, went to mass, and thurrs this kid who gets on my nerves. Well since last week as ive finished praying, i watch the people recieve communion. The past couple weeks thurrs this kid who comes up for communion. As hes waiting in line, he walks casually w/his hands at his side. Id say this kid has to be about 13-maybe even older. Finally he comes up receieves communion, then crosses his arms agaisnt his chest. I was perturbed by his actions in a way only cuz he showed no reverence. Im sure its not exactly all his fault cuz im sure maybe he doesnt know thas Jesus he's really taking. I guess those are the people we really got pray for.

Went to the mike g's house for a last min bbq and kick back. JOvie and i we were watchin extreme elimination challenge on spike tv. Man i love that show! Its so freakin hilarious. hey jovie, 'two drink miniumum!' hahahah inside joke. I was crackin up watchin that show, its based out of tokyo japan. So you have these japanese people competting for i dont even know what really. There isnt no real prize ot the game. Its juss funny watching people do some of those events. I wanna try some of them, they look pretty fun.

Later on errone came ot watch the all star game, which was whoa hanging out of your seat game the whole time. Such talent those guys have and such money they have also! haha Im glad the west won, though they played a tough game. It was almost like when the lakers had gone to the nba finals 2 yurrs ago. It was the summer of june 02, and we were at Hb for burrs suprise birfday. The purrty was bout ova and the weather was gettin chilly. WE moved into some restaraunt/bar area to watch one of the games. Wow i can remember a lot, ask burr he'll tell you. Anyway, it was fun times, good food and some good games. Afterwards on the way home i stopped by burrs cave and we had a nice chat.

Soo glad tomorrow is a holiday, no work and skool! yess ANother day to sleep in!


Happy birfday lynlyn!!

"YOur love got me so crazy right now..."im done, im out God bless

"Since God is perfect in loving man, man must be perfect in loving his neighbor..."

My blog has been temporarly down as of yesterday and today. See i was rearranging my links(which took forever.) and i guess something messed up. WHen i clicked to see the updated changes, it said something like align right or whatever right under the makeitclap title. I was like agh! so i tried to fix by thinking i can juss backspace it back a little bit. Wrong move! I ended up screwing up my whole blog, with that big black yellow box over it. So banne is working on a new template, a fresh new look! Im always the last one to get w/the new stuff. I was the last one to get a colored screen on my celly and now im the last one to get a brand new face lift on my blog. Ha i guess im one of those ol skool people who take forever to get into the trends.

Yesterday was jennif's 27th birfday, i remember her birfday last yurr @ the block. We went to the cafe tu tango restaraunt. Thas when i did the bull ride game too, actually i did it twice. Errone pitched in for me to play it, despite the fact i totally fell off and looked stupid, it was fun. Thas when we took all these pictures too, i still have them. Anyway, on with this yurrs bash it was held at 'lucky strike' at the block again. That place is phat! Its like a dave and busters, with bowling and no arcade. Well a bit more high tech then dave and busters also. They got furntinure thats totally crazy. I always suck the first game at bowling or it takes me forever to get warmed up. OH well it was still lots of fun.

The whole day, i really didnt do anything except email charisse back and forth. My mother had the curr all morning long and part of the afternoon. When she got home we went to the Staton swapmeet, i dont like that place. Whenever i go inside thurr, i always feel gross and clasterphobic. THe last time i was thurr i think was last christmas when i was looking to buy burr a neptunes style hat. Maan i had gone all over the place looking for those type of hats. I was determined to get one and i did. Later on i had gone to the credit union and the check i wrote out to my parents was withdrawn twice! Crazy, so i had to get that all straightened out. Later on going to sPc fo confession and mass.

Today, i got a hurr cut from the burr he called and woke me up @ 9am. Then i had to run some errunds. My fam bam tribe had gone out to eat htb but i didnt go cuz i was suppose to go to philly cheese steak lunch. Unfortunately that didnt happen, so were gonna plan it for some other time. Actually, not going allowed me to really do a deep cleaning in my room. I took out everything under my fution, dusted the whole entire floor and corners. Cleaned the futon cushion, and my blankets and pillows. I also dusted the whole entire room and rearranged some stuff. Yes, my room defiently needs a face lift. Though, im not gonna touch it until spring break. Too much going right now to make the time to do it. For now its fine, i also hung up some stuff. It feels nice to have a clean room.

Jovie and i went to the mall today, we were bof looking for shoes. I saw the new jordans, but i dont know if i want them. Actually, i need 3 new purrs of kicks, one for like casual street whurr, like puma, new balance type, i want brown. Then like some jordans, then some like timbs when i whurr long sleeves or some wha dress up. So we went to the cerritos mall and i told jovie errtime i go hurr im bound to run into someone i know. No, im not being big headed its juss errone goes to the cerritos mall. Thas like the first mall errone goes then if they dont got wha theyre looking for, then they travel elsewhurr. My statement was correct, i ran into Chris tan who is now working at finish line. Maan that foo has worked at all the shoe stores. Then i ran into one of my sre studens, who is also jovie's classmate. Then i saw one of my ol SRE students from my previous class.

Jovie went shopping like no other today, she was determined to leave the mall w/something in her hands. That she did, she got some stuff at hollister, this pretty cool jacket i found at forever 21, and a pink tshirt at the tshirt whurrhouse. Not to mention the ice cream snack inbetween. We were walking and she said slow down you walk too fast. haha I realized i do walk pretty fast, whurrever i go. Even in HS i was known for that, i dont know why its juss habit i guess. Juss cuz i feel like im always rushing to get somewhurr. Every second is precious to me and i cant seem to waste it. Though it was fun, i havent really hung out w/jovie in forever.

Off to boss lady and burrs house we had gone to. The valentine's potluck was fun. If you didnt go, well you missed out. Sucks to be you! A lot of great food, im so stuffed i ate a lot. Funniest convos w/moms and pops. MOms didnt know i was born in minnesota and how i use to pick burries at my farm. haha Then had a nice chat bout politics and the hottest political issues. I think its important we keep up w/whas going in society. HOw are we suppose to help change it, if were ignorant to whas going on?! We also watched two movies that were gangsta, 'Fighting temptations' and 'Drumline.' I love watching drumline, it makes you want to learn how to play the snare. Its funny how when i was in HS, it was always known that bandos were the lower class in the popularity scale. Only cuz some of them were juss weird, though i guess in some skools the band is numba 1. Anyhow, bands are d0pe!

Im pretty exhausted so im going to end hurr, i cant wait to hop into my new, warm, clean bed! I wonder how the LOC dance went. Im so glad now i didnt go cuz oh man the dance wouldve now juss ended. Coming home wouldve been hell cuz i wouldve been so turrd. Maybe tomorrow my mmom and i can go get some new keeks. yay! Shopping w/my parents is fun! I cant wait till my new blog is done! Hopefully errthang turns out right. I need to buy some blank CDs before tues. im soo glad i have monday and thursday off.


Happy birfday jennif and ryan!

"You don't know what you talking bout/People thank I was Suge when I come out..."im done, im out GOd bless!

"In order to pray, let us believe; and for our faith not to weaken, let us pray. Faith causes prayer to grow, and when prayer grows our faith is strengthened."

I attempted to make this new dish at work yesterday and it didnt turn out. Well i shoudlnt say it didnt turn out, it was juss that i had to cook the meat in the oven. It was taking forever to bake in the oven, so i ended up jus giving the kids icecream. Note to self: never make a dish without having tried it before. ITs coo errone was supportive in helping me out, even the best chef's make mistakes! haha NExt week is gonna be tight, im only gonna be working 2 days! yay! i have monday off since it's a holiday and then i have thurs. off to go to youf congress. That should be fun, its like a mini version of the SOL youf rally.

Anyway, SRE went really well last nite. Im so excited our kids(achie and i)are making their 1st reconciliation in two weeks. For homework last week they had to memorize the first three lines of the act of contrition. Man we all know how many times that prayer has been revised. So achie and i bof tested them and they got half of the prayer memorized. PRaise God, im really happy and their progress in learning their prayers. They've got down the 3 basic prayers already, which is a great feeling to watch and see your children grow. In fact one of them rememberd last nite what we told them bout the catholic church. She remembered how we explained to them how the catholic church was founded by Jesus. The best part was she even remembered the one thing that makes the catholic church stand out from all the rest...the Eucharist. She said oh cuz we believe that its the actual body and blood of Jesus right? While they think its juss a symbol? Amen!

I was going ot go to my coworkers last nite for some mixed drinks and sushi, but she never called me back bout directions. Oh well, i went to my aunts instead and watched spike tv. I was watching that one show it was like the extreme show or something. ANyway, they were doing all these different activities in japan. Its like a competition and some of the events they had to do looked tight! I thought itd be coo to try out some of those events. Too bad we dont have an area like they did otherwise those would be d0pe events for Spirit Games.

LAter on burr and i watched the barbershop 2 at the krikorian, man i love it how the bp mall has a theatre now. So convient to go over thrur and watch movies, then knowing i dont have a long drive home either. The theatre was pretty dead, it was juss us and like 6 other people. We were the first ones in thurr, so we were throwing popcorn. The movie was funny, i think i enjoyed the 2nd one better then the first. It was a lot more comedy and man cedric the entertainer is hilarious. Ice cube is getting old hes gotta be like 40 something haa jk. Forreals though i remember back in the days. QUeen latifiah isnt in the movie as much as i thought she was gonna be. Actually, theyre put together almost like a part 3 to it. Queen latifiah owns the beauty parlor next door, so the next movie is gonna be bout the beauty parlor. The soundtrack is tight!


Go watch babershop 2!

"I'm the one you fear [why? huh?]/It's my time, feel me..."im done, im out GOd bless!

"Go to your adoration as one would go to Heaven, to the divine banquet. Tell yourself, in four hours, in two hours, in one hour our Lord will give me an audience of grace and love. He has invited me; He is waiting for me; He is longing for me..."

Yesterday was pretty cool, we had a our first bio test and i think i did alright for the most part. I like how we can work in groups for the second part. It gives us a chance to redeem ourselves if we messed up on the first part. Then i had some time to kill in between classes, so i dont even rememeber wha i did. As the burr would put it, 'it was such a blur to me.' haahha Oh i remember now, i was juss walking around and reading the paper. Had nothing else really to do, so i walked around campus getting excercise.

After skool, i picked up my mom and we attempetd to go that 'manila grille' right off the 91e exit on knott. THough when we got in, i wasnt too excited over the choices. So we ended up getting take out at matiki and ooh how i love matiki, i gotta take some of yall over thurr sometime. THey have some of the greatest teriyaki beef/chicken bowls. I think its a lot better than L & l. Its like a small hole in the wall joint owned my samoans but theyre so good. Anyway, so that was a good lunch, my mother took me out! yay!

Work was coo, apparently, thurr was no drama at city council meeting last nite. Which is good, but i wanted to hurr juicy drama! haha THe new community center name is going ot be called, 'Stanton Community Services Center.' Haha not too creative, but i guess thas what City Council chose and wanted. WEnt to the apt. complex and i did my weekly programming over thurr. It was coo, one of my supervisors came out and complimented me on my programs. I was getting good raitings from the apt. complex manager. Then at the end while was cleaning up and putting stuff away, a group of small kids had the oddesity to go and open the back of the trck and jack one of the carrom board sticks.

I started to run after them and then they dropped it. So after cleaning errthang up and juss bout ready to go, i went over to whurr the kids whurr. They all tried to hide and then came out later on. Stupid! if youre gonna hide, hide dont come out! Anyway, so i yelled at them and told them that theyre stealing city property and if they continue to do stuff like that i wont come out anymore. Besides that, they take away things from all the other kids who enjoy playing w/the carrom boards. THen i was real blunt and harsh, and i said, 'if i dont come out hurr anymore, then its gonna be your fault!' Then i said i this is your warning, but next time, i wont do this stuff anymore. Told the apt. manager and she was in full agreement.

Later on i came back and i donated blood. We had a blood drive going on all afternoon, so i figured id help out. ITs been a couple of yurrs since ive donated, so it was kinda ehh at first. My index finger still kinda hurts whurr they punch it and test your iron. The funny part was when as i was laying down, the nurse poked the needle in my vein and then blood squirrted out! hahha She goes oOoh you got a juicy vein! I always got good veins whenever they have to poke me w/needles. Man, i guess i mustve drank a lot of fluids today cuz my blood filled up a bag in like 3-5 min! Crazzy! this one lady after me she was sittign thurr for 20 min and she couldnt even fill up the whole bag. Her arm is all bruise from moving the needle around. eehh! Then afterwards whurr they have you sit down for about 15 min to regain yourself. I couldnt even do that! I only sat down for like 10 min. i couldnt even sit still, i was getting restless.

Came home and then since YFc was having a study nite, i decided to pay a visit to my friends in the LbC. So i went over to SLY and it was really cool. We did this valentines/friendship activity. WEll the guys seperated and we learned this song by Steve Curtis Chapman, 'i will be hurr.' We had to fill out these coupons also that we would grant them one favor whenever they needed it. So after learning wha we were gonna do, we all lined up outside and the girls all lined from inside. As we walked in, each girl was assigned to a guy. SO they the guys by the arm one by one and they all sang, 'Going to the chapel of love.' You that one oldie song whurr it goes, 'going to the chapel and whurr gonna get murried...'

Afterwards the girls stood in front of their guys and they recited these vows of friendship. It was really cool, it was like a 'friendship wedding.' They had recited pretty much were wedding vows edited and changed around to fit into 'friendship.' On top of that they gave us a these 'friendship rings.' Then they gave the guys a 'friendship ring' to put on the girls finger and repeating the same vows. So thas wha the girls did, the guys all lined up and started to sing, 'i will be here.' Then after the chorus we broke up to the assigned girl we were given. I had their elder auntie delia! haha All the girls each got a real like peachish/pinkish rose also. I thought that was real cool. Pretty creative too!

Then after it ws all over, cy, mikee, and i went over to dianas in carson. ITs this mexican restaraunt/fast food joint. We met up w/some other people thurr. Great times! I love hanging out w/cyril and mikee, theyre so funny. We all get along real well and juss shurr many different things in common. It cool that each time i come over thurr, i feel welcomed as if im part of their community. I think thats true hosptiality right thurr. That by the end of the prayer/youf group meeting that the person feels that they were made at home. Then in the parking lot, the three of us had this long convo bout vocations and stuff like that. Annnnnd sccccennnnnne!

Today, SRE then imma go watch barbershop 2 w/the burr. yay! We had watched barbershop 1 together like way back when it came out. So were gonna watch part 2 together. Maybe he can give me a hurr cut tomorrow morning or something too. THen friday im goign to jennif's birfday at the block and then on sat. burr and i are gonna eat philly cheese steak in fountain valley. ITs our annual philly cheese steak luncheon together! yay!! Followed by a dinner potluck at boss lady and burrs house later on. So thats gonna be fun, a lot of eating, dinning, and juss straight Christ-centred community chillin!


Doesn't lil jon from the east side boyz remind you of animal from the muppets?

"Gee, i really love you and were gonna get married..."im done, im out God bless!

"I do not promise to make you happy in this world, but in the next..."-Promise by Our Lady to St. Bernadette

Tomorrow marks the feast day of Our Lady of Lourdes, also World Day of the sick, and last but not least, Total Consecration to Jesus. PJPII desginated tomorrow as World day of the sick whurr he said in 1992, "This is a time for "prayer and sharing, of offering one's suffering for the good of the Church and of reminding us to see in our sick brother and sister the face of Christ who, by suffering, dying and rising, achieved the salvation of humankind."

Let me give you a little background history on Our Lady of Lourdes. On February 11, 1858, the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to St. Bernadette Soubirous beginning a series of apparitions that have served to rejuvenate the faith of many and bring about the conversion and healing of thousands. In her apparitions to Bernadette, Mary appeared as a humble girl with a rosary over her arm and roses at her feet. She spoke with Bernadette as an equal and treated Bernadette with dignity.

In one of the apparitions to St. Bernadette, Mary revealed that "I am the Immaculate Conception." This came only a few years after the dogma of the Immaculate Conception had been proclaimed by Pope Pius IX in the Constitution Ineffabilis Deus and served to bring more awareness to the dogma throughout the world.

Soon after Bernadette began receiving the visions of Mary, word of them spread throughout the surrounding area and eventually to the whole world. After interviews with Bernadette, the proving of many miracles at the site of the apparition and interviews with various other witnesses, the Church confirmed the authenticity of the visions. Many miracles have been confirmed at the shrine that was built to Mary on the spot where she appeared to Bernadette. The feast of Our Lady of Lourdes was declared to be a world wide feast day in 1907.

So im pretty apalled at this new article i read about our stupid govenor. He wants to raise tuition on community colleges from $18 to $26 a unit! whoa can you believe that! It was already raises last yurr and to raise it again, is juss beyond belief! I tell you those dang republicans are at again, ready to take your $$! Anyway, another thing that's pretty stupid, is that they took down that website who2take.com. A website with all the details on all colleges throughout the US. From JCs to universities. It was a great resource to use prior to registering for classes. Found which classes and which instructors were for the student's best interest. I guess others felt it was juss a venting session for many students. I think it was a great way to voice their opinions. Anyway, boo on whoever took down the website!

Im pretty excitied for this weekend to come, only cuz its a 4 day weekend for me! yay! Im going to be donating blood to the American Red Cross today. I feel thurr coud be someone out thurr who may be dying who may juss need my blood. Ha forreal though, it may juss come in handy one day. Yesterday, was nothing to exciting, skool work the usual. Council Chambers was packed last nite for council meeting. They were meeting to decide on the new name of the new community centers. Can you belive were gonna have 2-3 more community centers coming up in our city. One that is opening this late spring! Stanton is making progress and our programs are ever increasing. The city of Stanton rocks yo!

Youf alpha was once again great, though im bout ready to go back into the classrooms. I wish i coudl take back some of the kids from youf alpha into my class. YOu know wha id love to do, is take some of the kids to the SOL youf rally. Im sure theyd have a d0pe time, juss seeing so many other kids their ages and older praising and worshiping GOd. The SOL youf rally fliers are freakin d0pe. They have that glossy club flyer look, so it really catches your attention. Im excited for the youf rally, spirit rally, and not to mention...SPIRIT GAMES! Im telling you, we got a great yurr ahead of us, filled w/so many different events to help people grow. Another thing im looking forward to, is the leadership formation retreat. Yay! Were gonna be staying @ the bravo's house in mo valley. It shoudl be fun a weekend of renewal and growing. Its should be interesting! haha Can we say real world mo val?! haha

The other nite charisse and i had a serious convo. juss about whurr the progress of spirit games is moving. I brought up to her that at the next following meetings, we need to emphasize the purpose of the games. Also the basic point of these games will be in 'lieu' or replaced by the annual bball tournmanets. At the very first meeting and at last meeting, WE as a committee discussed and agreed these games will replace the annual bball tournaments. Granted, im not saying a community cant play ball or anything like that. However, if a community decides to call up other communities, to play ball and decide to call it a 'tourny,' then well we have a problem. Its fine if a community wants to juss fellowship, chill, and play ball w/other communities. Not a problem. THough if a community were to decide to put up a bball tournament, then i would ask other communities, to boycott the tournament juss as the US boycotted the russian summer olympics of 1980. Point being, bball tournaments are long gone, and now have been replaced by the Spirit Games! yay!

I still need to watch the barbershop part 2 and i want to watch that one movie w/meg ryan and mekhi phiefer. It looks pretty good, and i also need to watch you got served one more time. Then dun dun in 2 weeks, the Passion comes out! yay! Im so excited, since i get out of skool early by like 11am, im gonna straight to the Bp mall and go watch it. It was so funny, i wore my grey hooded ecko sweater, and apparently i havent worn in it a while. I had found a ticket from Harry Potter's first movie back in nov. 16 of 02. Oh man thas so ol! haha Its funny the things you find your pockets and wha not.

Id like to expand on yesterday's quote, i found it in the Neptune's CD cover. It was part of Pharrell's thanks yous. I thought it was tight cuz wha he said made a lot sense. Dreams come true, first by prayers. God is always ready to hurr and answer our prayers. He only wants the best of us and if He feels whatever you ask from Him will produce good fruits, then thurr you have it. Next by determination, if you want something you gotta be determined to get it. Youre going ot come through many closed doors and trials, but you cant give up. Be determined to be whurr you want to be. Then of course, you cant get anywhurr w/o some type of proper education. Finally as you achieved all those steps, then the action comes into place. So i guess its juss something to keep in mind.

"Now we know that for those who Love God all things work together unto good, for those who, according to His purpose, are saints through His call..."


Thank You Lord for Your Grace, Your Mercy, and Your love! -Romans 8:28

"I've finally realized, that you are my true love..." im done, im out GOd bless!

"Dreams do come true, first by prayer, second by determination and third by education, ending with action..."-Pharrell Williams

Wow so much is going in the world today. We got a deaf penalty that was suppose take place this moring but was temporarly stopped. Kevin Cooper was suppose to be executed by lethal injection @ 1201am for the murder of two parents, their ten yurr old daughter and her 11 yurr old friend, 20 yurrs ago. The decision was made by US Supreme Court letting stand a 9th US Circuit Court of appeals asking the evidence be relooked. The california superme court asked that US supreme court overturn their ruiling. THe US Supreme Court denied that request. "The application to vacate the stay of execution of sentence of death entered by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit on Feb. 9 presented to Justice [Sandra Day] O'Connor and by her referred to the court is denied."

Im kinda lost and dont know what to think about that one. Praise God that the execution has been on paused. I think no person has a right to die if thurr still is reasonable cause they might be innoncent. I read that Kevin COoper has pleaded innoncent the whole time. Im sure he was relieved for now. Though they moved him from the 'deaf watch cell' to the 'deaf row' cell, things could easily change withint the next 24hrs. It's gonna be interesting to see whas gonna take place.

So as we all know the kindnapping and murder of carlie brucia. How sad is it that it took a murder of a little girl to tighten up security in their state. I think the govenor of florida, jeb bush who happens to be the president's brohter is retarted. He shouldve tightened up security before hand so incidents lke this wont happen. I was watching the news last nite and the judge who had let joseph smith go has been getting hate mail and letters saying the blood of carlie is in his hands. The judge had let joseph go during his probation hurring saying there was no real evidence showing joseph had violated his probation. Dang, if he was juss put away before hand all this wouldve never happened. So on top of Jeb bush being stupid, so is that judge.

ANother hot political topic is the retarted govenor from connecicut. THis foo is under fire for accepting gifts and free work on his vacation cottage from politically connected friends, state employees, and a state contractor. He has said he never returned the favors and has apologized several times for lying about the gifts.

Many of republicnans have called the govenor to resign from office, but the govenor has no intentions of resigning until his term is over in 07. Under state ethics law, officials may not accept gifts valued at over $10 from anyone who does business with their office.The democrats who control bof the house and senate are not looking into the impeachment step so seriously yet. ALthough a panel of bipartisan leaders on bof sides have been put together to look into the case. Hmm, my two cents, i say impeach him.

OKay so those are juss some of the items ive been paying close attention to. My sister made this oh so d0pe walnut shrimp tonite. It is soo good, imma see if i can try making some for friday. Work was fun today, we always spend the last wha 30 min in our bosses office juss talking and messing around. Burr and i were talking bout loosing weight and etc. Well apparently he said ive gotten chubby! hahahaha oh no! No, im not gonna follow the 'project sexy' trend or 'project put it all back' either. I think imma juss be on 'project as is with work out on skool stairs.' haha Meaning the whole workout imma real do is juss going up and down the sturrs @ skool w/my heavy back pack. haha

I was watching that show 'eve,' on channel 13 tonite. Its a pretty funny show, juss like how all black comedies are. I dloaded AIM 5.5 today neeeeeeypooow, its tight! All these new features to check out. Bio lab was tight my group and i ahve this agreement that if you mess up then you gotta clean up. This one guy messed up two weeks in a row! haha So he had to clean up the mess. Charisse and i are gonna have planning lunch next fri. to plan out the next spirit games meeting. Wow thas coming up already. IM excited for the leadership formation team retreat coming up also! So many great things coming up! yay! Wouldnt that be funny if they made another joe millionare reality show but the secret at the end is joe's black! hahaha


Whurr did City High go and does anyone miss them?!

"I just want to know, if you playin me keep it on the low..."im done, im out God bless!

"If you can find it in your heart to care for someone else, then you have succeeded..."

Oh man why am i still uP?! Its almost 1am and i got be at skool by 8am for mondays are my long days. I really, really need to push myself to get to bed earlier. THough i feel like i miss out on all the action on the online world when i leave by 11pm. I know, i know its dumb. I guess id rather have mondays to be long and get it over with. Then in between bio lab, i get my daily excercise on those sturrs at skool reading blogs in the lab. FOr some weird reason it wasnt letting me check email last week. Then i got eng. lit homework to do, ahh. So much stuff so little time. Again why am i still up?! haha oh yeah i remember...

I really praise God that i have this sense of connection w/my confirmation students. Geez, for the past 2 yurrs we've really grown onto each other. Im sure banne can understand exactly whurr im coming from. I praise God that at least i think they feel comfortable enough juss to come to me with whatever they need. I mean, after all i was talking to like 3 of them online tonite. I think for the most part, they need that young-adult figure in their life. Its different w/their parents or brothers and sisters i think. Man, as much as i love my youf alpha group its not the same as having those open forum talks in the classroom.

One of the kids told me tonite she misses being in the classroom. In the classroom was really whurr she felt she 'grew up' w/a lot of those kids. I understand, and im juss as excited for youf alpha to be over as she is. My class and i shurr GOd's love together. I wonder wha they thought of the suicide skit. I waited two yurrs for them to see it. I remember emailing boss lady asking her if SH can some into my classroom and show it. Due to them having prayer meeting, she felt it'll mean more and be better if they wait to see it when they make their confirmation. Next yurr will be even more exciting as they waited 4 longs yurss to finally be sealed w/the gifts of the Holy Spirit.

I love working w/youf cuz theyre our future generation. They are the church cuz young adults are the church now and the youf is the future of tomorrow. A lot of ol blood is stepping down and letting the youf run things. I wish they had that same mentality at sPv. Its the same people whove been running around doing the same thing for yurrs and they cant seem to let it go. Wha happens is theyve been doing it for so long their job gets sloppy. Not good, tsk tsk, dont put a half way effort into it. AHh SO much potential at sPv in the youf, and im sure we could get them involved its juss capturing their attention. I can only pray until something like that happens.

Anyway, on more brighter note i attended youf mass @ sPc(St. Paul of the Cross)this afternoon. I love their music min. and juss you can see the sparkle the youf have in thurr for serving GOd. I mean they come rushing in so excited to come together to praise Him. Now thas crunk! I love the Gloria and juss the charism jackie has in leading the congregation. Geez, at times i start to think its a baptist choir! haha joking! Their music min. is like fighting temptations haha not really but i thought of fighting temptations during mass today. Like i said youf need young-adult leaders to guide them and show them the way. Exactly wha the young adults in HS do. Their core is a great collabo of different leaders from all over each specializing in a special talent. Its almost like the Super Friends! haha YOu gots your Superman, Batman & Robin, Wonder WOman, green Lantern, AQuaman etc. haha GO HS!

We did magic mic tonite at the fellowship afterwards. Errone sang, and when thurrs magic mic you know i cant stay away from it. So i was a little hesitant to sing but melissa pushed me to. I did my infamous 8151, Girls juss wanna have fun. I got raitings for that one! haha Its all for fun, as i said sometimes we gotta be foos for GOd. Besides, its helps me score a 99, having the highest score. I missed magic mic, wow we had 2 magic mics hooked up. Whoa! I have the greatest times being at church and church functions. I was thinking back to 3 yurss ago when i had surgery in my ankle. If you notice my ankle when i whurr shorts i got a line or whatever. I like to tell people i was body boarding and got bit my shurrk. HAha theyre like really?! no but it does make for a better story. I had a tumor in my ankle a size of a tennis ball and they had to take it out.

Praise God it wasnt anything serious like cancer. THough what sucked was i had to keep my ankle wrapped up tight all the time. I also had to elevate my foot and i was pretty much one legged it for a while. I was on crutches and i was hoping errwhurr. AS much as i was told to stay home, stay home, stay home i couldnt! YOu know me i cant sit still in one place. Sitting still is juss not my nature. I coudlnt drive so i had friends pick me up to take me places. It was hard not being able to do anything, but i managed. One time i even went clubbin' in irvine to kokomos on crutches! haha I was crip walking...okay that was corny im joking. Point being i was thinking back on that time and wow.

I dont know wha id do if i was like that today. Id go seriously crazzy, id have to find some way to make it to each and every single event out thurr still. haha I wish i could be so many places at one time! ha it was funny, christy's cousin walked into SCRC meeting yesterday and we bof looked at each other and wanted to laugh so bad. IT was hard to control but haha we managed, ask her why we were laughing. So thas the jist of my thoughts why im bloggin at 1am still is beyond me. Maan i cant wait till fri. comes, i love sleepin in! I love taking naps!


I hope this week goes fast!

"Share a little bit of your love my friend, share a little bit of your love..." im done, im out God bless!

For i was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty you gave me drink, a stranger and you welcomed me, naked and you clothed me...

"A Christian has a union with Jesus Christ more noble, more intimate and more perfect than the members of a human body have with their head..."

So finally my sister's room is completed. Tonight will be the first in like a month that she'll be sleeping in her room. She's been sleeping out in the garage during the reconstruction of her room. Ha joking! I guess it looks pretty cool, id love to redo my room but i juss dont got the time to do it on the weekends right now. Maybe when summer comes or durnig spring break. I do want a sliding door also in my room, then the whole house will have one. Those are pretty tight cuz they slide back and forth and are easy to use.

TOday had an long scrc meeting, but very productive. Im going to pray bout spear heading a committee, though well see. Maybe it may not be such a good idea being that i already having tons of things inside my pockets. We had Fr. Lueras thurr also in attendance to the meeting, he's a great priest. In fact he was able to hurr my confession as he was leaving. yay! We had a couple of presentations being given, i think thas why the meeting took so long. I left @ 9pm and people were still thurr juss chillin. GOod thing i only live like 20 min away from whurr the meeting was. Dave wants me to be on the 'day of renewal committee' but like i said i have to pray bout it. The day of renewal would be like retreat, soemthing for young adults to preview before going into SCRC.

This guy came in and talked to us bout something the Arch-Diocese of LA is putting together. In a way similar to the SOL formation team, but a formation of young adults. Theyre putting on a formation workshop to teach adults how to lead a ministry. I guess its a workshop with 3 different tracks. One for spirituality, one for ministyr training, and other one but i forgot. Basically, you would choose the tracks you would want to go. A little something for errone, then ending w/mass at the end of the day. Its juss something for young adults to be trained who have never lead a ministry before or wants to learn how.

Grace told me she was advertising SH to this guy who changed her oil today. Ha i know it sounds funny but supposedly the movie preview to the Passion came on. From thurr they were talking bout church stuff and wha not. She asked him wha church he goes to and i guess he mentioned sPv. So she asked if he was part of SH, and he said no but he heard announcemnents bout it. She invited him to go and bring his family one tues. Wow praise God, someone whos not even part of SH advertising for SH when she couldve been advertising her prayer group. Now that's definetly humility right thurr.

This other ministry called mustard seeds gave a presentation also during the meeting. Theyve been around for about 26 yurrs. They go out to 3rd world countries like jamica, nigeria, etc. etc. and they do errthang from teaching, fixing comp., building beds, you name it they do it all. Its like a service type of ministry whurr they travel and basically attend to the needs of the children that you see in those commercials. Many of them handicapp, many juss dont have someone for them. They were saying how these kids sit in front of the blessed sacrament errday and are able to have daily mass. Its pretty much ministering to God's children. WHas really cool the most youd pay is $200, the rest of hte $$ for the trip is sponsored by people.

As they described the trips they go on and as i watched the video, i was humbled. Then when they showed the corporal works of mercy, such as 'when i was hungry, you gave me food. When i was naked, you clothed me.'I wish i had the time to go out and attend to the needs in other countries. That'd be such a d0pe experience, i have a cousin on my dad's side who does it. ONly she's protestant, thas like her skooling though. ANyway, maybe after i graduate college i could do something like that. Im sure its a unforgettable experience.


I need a hurrcut!

"I jams more than Def, baby show me the club..."im done, im out God bless