The muzak: Sleep All Day - Jason Mraz
December 04, 2005
better together(continuation from my last post)
so, the food last night wasn't that great. they didn't even serve shark's fin soup cuz they were against shark finning. i became a little against it though, after ruth filled me in on how it's done. they basically catch a shark, slice off its fin and let it bleed to death in the ocean. how cruel is that?
anyways, even though the food wasn't that great, i had fun talking to ruth, and actually got to know some new things about her. you'd think i'd know everything about her but i found out that even though she doesn't show it outwardly, she is a big supporter of green peace. then everything started to make sense. the many times i tried to toss a cereal box or milk carton into a trash can, she'd panic, stop me, and save it to throw in the recycling bin at her HDB's void deck. it all finally made sense!
the wedding dinner itself was quite cheesy. the speeches and everything; how the couple met, how they both had so many conflicts, the bride's sister began calling them "cornflakes" hahaha. yeah, so ruth and i started talking about our own weddings. we reserved each other to be bridesmaids for each other :) hahaha i want my wedding to be really romantic. good music. definitely not during the wedding dinner itself. i remember i went to this wedding dinner and the couple said their vows while everyone was eating. so people were still talking in the midst of it and it didn't help that there were loud and obnoxious old women there.
what else did i do yesterday?
oh yeah, yesterday was full of little surprises. hahaha lets see, the first surprise was seeing reuben sitting in the church office. it was reuben in the flesh! back from australia! was really nice seeing him after SO LONG. the second surprise was krispy kreme donuts! reuben bought a bunch of sugarcoated krispy kreme donuts back from australia and oh man, they were soooo yummy. i had to wait awhile til i got to eat one though, cuz donuts aren't good for singing, and worship rehearsal had to come first. the third surprise was similar. nick came in to worship rehearsal with a chocolate cake. he was like "i felt like eating chocolate cake so i baked one yesterday." hahahaha that's so cool. i wish i could do that. i had to wait til after rehearsal to eat that too though. grrr. but the cake was really good. EXTREMELY chocolatey. the extent of its chocolatey-ness: only 70g of flour was used for the entire cake. 'nuff said. hahaha aaand the fourth surprise was getting a call from ruth to rush down to york hotel for the wedding dinner i guess?
other than that, i had play practice in the morning. tried my best to sound as enthusiastic (with my two lines) even though i was so sleepy, and even though my christmas cheer hasn't kicked in at all yet. then i went to meet maria and kiyoko to help out with christmas shopping. i saw the cutest bedroom slippers, and body shop smelled so good. ralph lauren has amazing clothes. i can't help it, i just LOVE SHOPPING. after i left, i went to collect my very own christmas tree that i reserved the day before. i found one for $9.90! i haven't done anything to it but its already standing in the corner of my room. O, tannenbaum, how i love thee!
i'm really excited about the carolling thing our youth's organizing. its gonna be so much fun. we're gonna have our own van to drive around in! we're gonna bake cookies and ginger bread men to give to people too. yay! its gonna be awesome!
anyways, today's sermon was really good. it was taken from matthew 13:47-52.
v47-48 "Once again, the kingdom of heaven is like a net that was let down into the lake and caught all kinds of fish. When it was full, the fishermen pulled it up on the shore. Then they sat down and collected the good fish in the baskets but threw the bad away."
my pastor brought up a really good point. its not our job to choose who to share the gospel to. all we need to do is cast our nets and catch all kinds of fish. to preach the gospel to anyone. its not guaranteed that a fishing line would catch something, but its definitely more likely that you'd catch at least something with a net. i thought that was a very clever analogy.
v49 "This is how it will be at the end of the age. The angels will come and separate the wicked from the righteous and throw them in to fiery furnace, . . ."
so yeah, its not our job to separate the wicked from the righteous. we need to remember that the gospel isn't about us at all. it doesn't have to do with whether we're good or bad. its about Jesus' blood shed for all. its about his righteousness. so we should all share Jesus to anyone at anytime by all means.
so, right now i'm listening to the jack johnson cd i just bought! yes! i actually bought it. its sooooooooo good. i love the first song the most. i don't care, i'm putting up the lyrics. hahaha
Better Together
There is no combination of words
I could put on the back of a postcard
And no song that I could sing, but I can try for your heart
Our dreams, and they are made out of real things
Like a shoebox of photographs with sepia tone loving
Love is the answer
At least for most of the questions in my heart
Why are we here and where do we go
And how come it's so hard
It's not always easy and sometimes life can be deceiving
I'll tell you one thing
It's always better when we're together
Mmm, it's always better when we're together
Yeah, we'll look at the stars when we're together
Well, it's always better when we're together
Yeah, it's always better when we're together
And all of these moments just might find a way into my dreams tonight
But I know that they'll be gone when the morning light sings
Or brings new things for tomorrow night you see
That they'll be gone too, too many things I have to do
But if all of these dreams might find their way into my day to day scene
I'd be under the impression I was somewhere in between
With only two, just me and you, not so many things we got to do
Or places we got to be, we'll sit beneath the mango tree now
Yeah, it's always better when we're together
Mmm, we're somewhere in between together
Well, it's always better when we're together
Yeah, it's always better when we're together (mmm)
I believe in memories, they look so, so pretty when I sleep
And when I wake up, you look so pretty sleeping next to me
But there is not enough time
And there is no, no song I could sing
And there is no combination of words I could say
But I will still tell you one thing
We're better together
What goes "oom oom"?