Ouch

Maybe it wasn't a good idea to train twice yesterday. butt's sore, legs sore, face sore, bruised, bleeding (stab wound from sword). on a happier note i banged on the drums, first time i've done that in a long time. wish i knew how to play well. had family dinner. great japanese food am very hyper from it, ate too much though.
went to uni today, christian meeting discussing the da vinci code. one of the guys there is v. cute! he's gonna be the commitee president. i need to smack myself and say NO!
my favourite joke of the day:
"why did the pony cough?"
"it was a little horse"

Finally loaded up photos from New Zealand

New Zealand is the most beautiful place in the world!!! these are a few photos but we ahve lots more!

blood nooose

well i tried to work off the large amounts of cake and chocolate from last night (and the waffles and ice cream and cookies and chocolate from today), so i went to kung fu twice today. morning, and night, then to studio (youth group) after. in the second session i sparred and got punched in the face and got a blood nose. my first one! it was a pain to clean up all the blood on the bathroom floor though. now its starting to hurt, bit of face ache (not headache cos its my face that hurts). been punched in the head too many times....am i getting slow?
tonight they talked about giving. and my experience is that since i started seriously giving, like from the heart, life has become so much better! even though im poor but who cares! God always provides!!!

Chocolate!

Last night i attended a God's girls event called "challenges, changes, choices and CHOCOLATE!"
and yes it included all of the above, esp. chocolate! (and no im not gonna say how much cake and chocolate i ate otherwise ppl would think me a pig)
i love these women's events!
one thing that really got to me wasn't actually the messages, it was during praise and worship, just out of the blue a lil voice said to me "this is where you belong" and i got such a sense of belonging, that sunset coast is where im meant to be.

love is in the air!

i feel nothing but love right now! love for God, for my family and friends, for life and all that has been given to me. love love love!!!
today i waitressed at a wedding, love!!! i love weddings! i nearly cried, it was beautiful, even though i have never met the bride or groom before, they were gorgeous! and in love! i felt so happy for them.
at night i went to an asian dinner and loved the ppl there. it was all good food and good times. and i found out a friend of mine is not single anymore! (God bless you anna!)
plus this morning another friend whom i spent all day with at the wedding and dinner burnt me a cd with nothing but sloppy love songs. (thank you marian!) so right now im in such a sloppy romantic loving mood. im high on love! lovey dopey!

city to surf tomorrow...gotta get some zzzs!

I am 17 going on 18....

yes i am 17 going on 18... and i am scared! i like being 17, i feel very young and carefree, and i feel like im not ready to turn 18!!! freaking out here!!! even though i don't turn 18 til late october but im doing a combined b'day party with a friend so i have to plan it now.... don't mind my ramblings...

Last night was an awesome night at church! The whole church spent the whole night in praise and worship and prayer, and even when i got home i was in still in a spirit of worship i couldn't stop praising Him! God is great!

More good news! (God's grace never ceases!) In one weekend God gave me wonderful opportunities! When i took my cousin shopping for his new marine fish tank, in one of the shops i bumped into a girl whom i haven't seen for nearly 10 yrs! we used to go to the same chuch when we were very young and she didn't go to church anymore, so io invited her to sunset coast and she seemed really interested. few days later i bumped into her again at uni. God-incidence? and she came to church last night, liked it and is coming again next week :) (and on monday to the God's girls event). then on the same weekend a girl at work was asking me about church. a friend of mine from church worked with us for a couple of shifts and explained christianity to her. this was a few months ago (thank you colin for planting the seed!). she had never been to chuch before and was interested so on the weekend while i was working she came into work and asked me about it so i gave her the address and service times, so hopefully......no wait...she'll definately be coming! Praise God!

alcohol

alcohol - an issue that i've felt strongly about quite recently. since God opened my eyes i don't understand the fun in alcohol anymore. i have seen so many families lives been torn apart by this drink. nothing good ever comes out of it. not only is it damaging for our health but it causes social problems as well. what i really don't get is ppl who get drunk, end up feeling sick and in bed with a person they would never consider if they were sober, and they keep doing it saying its fun. "it's fun to throw up! it's fun to forget everything you did last night! it's fun to act like a complete idiot and do things you wouldn't noramlly do", what's scary is that a certain drink can make your do all this! But the one thing has has been bugging me is a friend of mine. Her father was an alcoholic and passed away last yr when we were in the beginning of yr 12, and yet she would still go out on weekends and drink. i know she doesn't always get drunk and she's never thrown up b4 and sees it as 'harmless drinking', but the thing that keeps running through my head, something i've always wanted to say, is that "the same stuff she is putting into her body is the same stuff that killed her father." (there, finally i have said it...) it makes no sense!!! it's pointless!

Christians at uni, and eyelashes

Finally i've met some ppl at uni who are christians. During the week i miss hanging out with fellow christians and i can't speak to my friends cos i don't have a phone line. so i went along to a christian meeting at uni on wednesday, then on thursday night my sis and i hung out at the guy who runs the meetings place where lots of ppl came for pizza and gelato. then a girl showed us some pictures of when she went to africa. it was a very humbling experience. like when they built an orphanage for the children, it was just a small concrete room and they all got so excited when they entered it they spontaneously danced about. they all look so skinny too! really makes you appreciate what we have here, and realise how blessed we are. it was great seeing how God is moving through Africa, though we really need to pray for them.

Just a random thought, i've noticed that i lose a lot of eyelashes and they usually get stuck in my eyes and most of the time i dont get them out, so i reckon that the bags under my eyes are the eyelashes collecting up...good theory or what? :P

Teenage Non-mutant Kung Fu Rie

only have a few min but got good news...
my knug fu school is holding a sparring extravaganza on sept 3 where theyll have sparring and knug fu demos, and yours truly has been asked to demostrate sword :)
im very excited and nervous! besides my masters daughter i might be the only girl demostrating. im allowed to chicken out if i dont feel im ready but the more i think about it the more i wanna do it. its gonna be hard and im doing extra practise. right now im wondering how i am going to do my hair :p

Happy Birthday Mum

It's been a while since i've blogged. i've been at uni and living at my other house that has no computer and phone line.
There is something in the air tonight. I don't know what it is but nature is truly amazing. If only i could get a picture of it, but the moon is red and in a perfect cresent shape angled so it looks like a smile, like the cat from alice in wonderland. it was also foggy and the whole atmosphere was very beautiful! something has changed tonight, i don't know what but we'll see...

Tonight i went to club 180. It's something God's been bugging me to do and to finish. He's also been bugging a good friend of mine to get me to go, so i went tonight and bought her along. It was good tonight, some questions i've often pondered about were answered, except "why do men have nipples" lol that one hasn't crossed my mind.
A certain verse really got me:

Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths
proverbs 3:5-6

I'm not sure if i have read it before but it really is awesome! i reckon it's the kinda verse i could wake up to and be the first thing i read everyday. (plus lots of others, hey the whole bibles good)
Just those few words tell me how to live and what to do. they also encourage and convict.

Recently quite a lot of friends have had heavy burdens weighing them down. I seem to be one of the few with no issues at the mo. Since I started walking with Him He has kept me happy. I'm not sure if i've said this before but i guess there always needs to be one person without burdens to be there for those who do. But after a while it starts to take it's toll on me. especially since i guess i'm pretty compassionate it does get to me. when i see other cry i have to cry. i can't help it, even if its a movie and someone's crying i'll cry. when they're happy i'll be happy. i guess it's like it says in the bible rejoice when others rejoice and weep when they weep (something along those lines, please correct me if i'm wrong).
But still at uni the other day i couldn't concentrate cos of what was hurting my friend was hurting me i was very distracted. you really gotta admire those people who counsel on a regular basis, esp those who volunteer. it really takes a strong person to do that i reckon.

Today was my mum's b'day. i got her lovely white water lilies. apparently they were the flowers her mum got married with, and this was the first time she's been given them. God bless her