micah's 18th birthday

Last april 4 our cousin, Micah, had her debut at Metropolitan Club. this is the first time my family and i attended something together and got all dressed up, hence i am posting these pictures on my blog. it just makes me happy seeing my family together and looking gorgeous haha!

Sam, Stephen, Shoti, my mom, me and my dad

life-changing experience

My first camp was back in 2009. I was forced by my parents to attend. Of course I didn’t want to go. I didn’t know anyone. I would be out-of-place, and to think I’m the type of person who hates being in a room full of strangers. That was 3 years ago. Now I can tell you that going to camp was one of the best things that ever happened in my life.

For those who knew me in grade school and in high school,

a heart to love

It’s like every night a wonderful miracle happens. Last night it was my friend, tonight, it's my brother's friend. 

For so long, I’ve been praying to God to help me love the people around me, not only people i enjoy and like, not only people i know and people im familiar with but people i don’t know, people who hurt me, people i don't get a long with, people who im angry with, who don’t like me, etc. today, God showed me that He is able. 

what God showed me today is that every person has a story to tell.

BECAUSE OF GOD, I HAVE YOU

For the past hours I’ve been trying to invite people to our church’s youth camp. Not even realizing it, but it became an opportunity for me to live out this year’s camp’s theme, UNASHAMED. I have always feared rejection, and my inviting people to the camp- people I haven’t talked to in a while, people who would probably just laugh at me for inviting them, etc- became one testimony of my being UNASHAMED for God.

One other marvelous thing that happened today is that through my inviting, I was able to talk to other Christians on fire for God. One specifically is my friend MP. I was able to talk to her again after I think 3 years. We talked about our little testimonies. We shared thoughts and opinions. We encouraged each other and im sure we both inspired each other. MP is my guardian angel tonight. Because of her, I was encouraged to keep being UNASHAMED for God. Because of what MP said, I was able to get strengthened and keep walking. I believe that things happen for a reason, and I know that tonight God spoke to me through MP. HE used MP to comfort me and encourage me.

dreams really do come true. WAS ABLE TO LEARN TO PLAY THE UKE!

WARNING:

i'm just posting this video because i am so happy that i learned to play the ukulele. i started legit practicing this morning and by tonight i was able to finish songs, although not perfectly. 

it was so funny because last night i tried learning it and gave up so quickly cause my friend and i chose a song that obviously wasn't for beginners:)) i am very thankful that my aunt told me to start with IM YOURS by jason mraz and THE SHOW by lenka because it helped a lot. 

anyway, i started looking for other easy songs, and i found this. and im very happy. i just want to share this video of me playing and singing somewhere over the rainbow. (just the first part at least hahaha)

its not perfect. it actually would be really bad for musicians to hear but im a beginner! gah!:)) just really happy:") 

IT STARTS PRETTY ROUGH AND IT PICKS UP:> SO ITS BETTER TO FINISH THE VIDEO:))

thank you SAMANTHA MAY BUTING CHUA MONROY