Currently Listening Songs We Sing By Matt Costa see related

Merry christmas to y'all! 

Today we went to church and had mass with spanish people. There, we were united by the love of God. The difference of language didn't matter at all. We prayed for their prayers, and they prayed for our prayers even if they didn't know what we were praying for. I felt--free. I felt love running through my veins and spreading throughout my entire body. We were one and nothing mattered.

Such a great feeling.

Now I think about it and I feel lucky to be able to go to church every sunday, to be religious and believe in love. It only takes 40 minutes, but during this time we feel the presence of love so intensely that it is even hard to believe in it. It's crazy how we can forget about this world as soon as mass is over.

" Venite adoremus, venite adoremus, venite adoremus dominum"

me and my lovely sister & mom.

blinded by the light- hah.

  
 

Sorry if the pics are badly taken... but I had to put these pics up because today we went to the same restaurant!
NI HAO RESTAURANTE CHINO. haha.
Reminded me of that night I ate like a pig and wasn't that full. Really, jess's dad ordered lots of dishes and we had so much food... and then Jess and Mana forced me to go walking with them because they were...yeah...full.
good memories. I wonder if we are ever going to do another "azn" get-together...My dad wants to invite the others to a korean restaurant...but without friggin RC i know it's gonna be different.

Man, I miss being sdb. I miss asia trip.

me being stupid and jess with a weird face. haw.

things are not the same now but i still like having dove next to me.

me with a frog hat and jess being very emow. at mana's.

i know i take weird pics.

well. enough for today. i'm going to greece on the 27th so i might not update until i come back.(30th).
have fun and be stupid you guys.

Currently Listening Brushfire Fairytales By Jack Johnson see related

 finally got an answer from switz. yeah i'm going on january. it's ok. too bad i cant visit my dear friend in tpe, tw. but it's in a way good because finally i get to do something. i get to meet people that i'll keep on seeing for 4.5 years. i really dont like saying goodbye to people i have gotten to know pretty well. anyway, i know i'll have fun.

today's entry is dedicated to mana. rodenta. cactus. etc.

this pic makes me happy because i can see the pic taken at prom of me and her. it's cute.

scary. but mana's cute. and super thin.

same here.

the girl really reminds me of the deaf-mute jap girl in babel. look.

see that girl?

haha. ok enough.

haha vitamina. we were so hungry the other day at like 6 and we were thinking that places wouldnt be open at that time. so hungry that we even thought of going to vitamina. and i was like, "hey, dont tell jess, though" haha. but instead we went to this italian restaurant because mal said italian food was "warm". in any case they dont really serve good food in vitamina. but man, good memories. ha.

mes chypriotes. this was at who's bar. fun. listening to good music and singing along.

miss people. especially peter! haha. what a personality. one of the best people i have met so far.

...is not as easy as it seems.

one of my favorite photos taken in paris. eglise st. germain des pres.

beautiful. love walking along the seine.

and the people selling old books. paris would be different without them.

well, enough for today. lots of pics huh. hawhaw. i'll upload tomorrow with pics of the reunion(if i end up going).

flowers. from moliere's tomb. pretty huh.

here, my frigging head.

and the eiffel tour, in all its different states.

osu to everyone

i've been doing lots of stuff lately. yesteday i went out with ppl from the french academy.. had fun..and no, i didnt get an infection. hahah. that might sound a bit weird to those who dont know the whole story but yeah. and umm oh and when I was waiting to take a bus these guys were trying to sell me drugs and i was like, hell no. so i left the station. took a bus and got off at invalides...then got lost...walked for an hour and a half and finally got home. yeah. scary night.

today i woke up, went to starbucks, had a big cappuccino, read a bit, and came back home. then i went to this english bookstore (amazing place, btw. they have everything!) and bought books:

-The Zahir, by Paulo Coelho
-The Devil and Miss Prym, by Paulo Coelho
-The Valkyries, by Paulo Coelho
-By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept, by Paulo Coelho
-Eleven Minutes, by Paulo Coelho
-Surprised by Joy, by C.S.Lewis

One of my biggest temptations, I think, is buying books. If I have money, and if I see a book I want to read, I have to buy it. scary, seriously.
Anyways, I love Paulo Coelho. probably my favorite author. he is a complete genius. I am currently reading Veronika decides to die in french (Veronika decide de mourir). It's ok. Not as good as The Alchemist, or The Pilgrimage but I still have a hundred pages left. We'll see. Anyways. oh random fact. when I was about to leave the bookstore I saw one of my classmates(korean, btw) from the alliance francaise. He was also there to buy books. What a coincidence! I mean, not everyone goes to an english bookstore on the same day and at the same time. It just made my day. Well. enough about books.

Oh on thursday i went to a korean hairdresser. thought there was gonna be a korean hairdresser but there wasnt. haha. No, I mean, she just wasnt there when I went. So the ppl there were like, come tomorrow if you want the korean hairdresser to cut your hair but I wanted to cut my hair that day...i dont know why...so I made them cut my hair. now it's super short and layered. now i have bangs and all. yay. i like it.

One thing I have learned here living by myself is that sometimes we need to trust ppl. We dont always know if they are gonna be as we want them to be or if they are gonna do what you might expect them to do but sometimes we have to sacrifice a little bit of ourselves and "wish" them to have a good heart. It's a form of listening because it is not you who is deciding whether someone will do something in a certain way. You do not stop them, you let them show you who they are. Then after that you can make a decision. It might seem that this form of listening does not change anything...but it does. It makes the whole difference. I dont think I'm explaining this clearly...but anyways, it's true. 

Ok, now I'm gonna go and finish reading the book.

byebye