so much to be thankful for!

i'm thinking more and more often to open my blog up now.. maybe because i now realize how much i have to be thankful for and how much praise i owe to God that i just want to POST IT AND LET THE WHOLE WORLD KNOW the great things he has done for me. so THANK YOU GOD first and foremost.

anyway it's been a great break thus far. this school year i've been trying to be a more loving person and i think God has always been calling me to show my family that i love them more but because my family is kinda awkward sometimes it has always stopped me... BUT i decided that if i really say that i love God than He is above ALL THINGS, including awkwardness! so i've been trying to not be so temperamental (?) and to just show my appreciation for the things they do.

THEN there's showing love to my friends. i think sometimes it's easy to show love to people you don't really know but to people you know more about, especially their flaws, it's much more difficult. it's been a tough journey i suppose because university kind of caused a falling out in a sense with some of my highschool friends.. the distance, not being on msn, just not talking and seeing each other as much. i guess that made it difficult to love and it was also frustrating to see relationships die... buuuut STILL gotta love! this means a loot of humility and trying to not see people for their flaws!

HUMILITY that was an important lesson.. humbling myself. i was sharing with josh about this and i guess i never really talk about this much but i don't want to be too obnoxious sometimes i guess. i don't want to make people feel left out because i'm being too attention-seeking and i need to humble myself so i don't seek self-glory but rather to bring glory to GOD! and to do things not to seek praise from others, not to be acknowledged but to know that God is pleased with what i'm doing even if no one else does. it's always really difficult to put God on that throne in our lives but it's SOO important so gotta keep at it :)

AND THEN LASTLY i was looking through some old things.. like letters and whatever while i was unpacking and i read some and i really really miss these two people whose letter i read.. esp since i was thinking about summer and hanging out like last summer! i realized i really love these two people and wish for the BEST for them and i hope God is still a priority in their lives :) it's really unfortunate i don't talk to one of them anymore because of how things turned out =S BUT THE OTHER ONE i wrote a letter to... hopefully it was encouraging and not ... annoying. =)

this is suuuch a long post but i feel like i just need to get out everything i'm so thankful for. CCF!!! even though i'm not super tight with eeeveryone or really know anyone super well.. these people are SOO encouraging and so loving. i'm dumb and didn't appreciate these people as much as i could've. i guess like i went to western and met some people at church and they weren't very welcoming and i just felt like..super awkward the whole time :\ and this is NOT hating on western >_< but like i love how even just in frosh cell we try to connect with EVERYONE and yes. thanks to all the froshies mostly (just cause i got to know you guys more than upper years) for being wonderful God-driven people. i feel like i actually see and feel and KNOW your love for God. and it's affected me too =)

KAY i shall end it here. visiting my highschool tomorrow and seeing my buddy =)

school is over, adventures..begin!

yaay i finally finished my first year of university ahah and i don't feel any more special or anything but it is a nice relief to be off from school and knowing there's no assignments or tests coming up haha. for the most part my exams went by fairly smoothly. i don't think i flunked any ^^

anyways to begin my summer travels i am at western for the weekend. i think i really like travelling.. the feeling of going somewhere new or being somewhere different and like discovering new things is very.. appealing? aha maybe that is why i liked kino's journey! anyway getting on the greyhound was exciting. felt like i was beginning a journey ahah i was so scared from that greyhound incident awhile back and the guy behind me kept pushing into my chair and putting his hand so forward i could see it.. so scared. but josh said something before i got on the bus, along the lines of "God will protect you" so i just kept thinking that and so i slept peacefully ahha until i got to stratford, hometown of canadian super start justin bieber =P and i saw a skate park ahah very justin bieber-esque. and then passed by st. marys and saw a salina street and a very pretty river. so now i caaannoooot wait til hong kong. and when i got to western janice had to study so at first i guess i got a little bored and like sad i guess but i realized i'm really more of a burden on audriana and janice coming a day earlier than i was supposed to so i just played some zelda spirit tracks XD but it's nice to hear audriana calling me "salsal" again ahah i haven't heard that in awhile and just seeing kevin again and just him taking some time out of his busy studying to chat a bit. audriana also gave me a nice tour of campus and we just talked and catched up a bit so it was nice since i haven't been talking to her much but i feel like we are people that can just talk even if we've been apart for awhile.
yah that's about all my adventures for now. can't wait for all you can eat sushi!

travelin'

i realized that i'm someone that realllly likes to travel! there's just something so exciting and exhilirating about going to somewhere new and observing the physical space and the culture. thinking about hk, china and singapore puts a huge smile on my face haha. i'm very fortunate to be able to afford this trip and to have parents that allow me to travel alone like this. i hope in the future i have the ability to travel arounddd.

this post is very not deep

i really like code geass.... i totally shouldn't be watching during exams but i stayed up til 5am yesterday half studying but mostly watching episodes with a 9am exam in the morning... but it went okay ahaha and my cousin was up and he asked me if i had watched gundam unicorn ahah and we talk in chinese.. me with my terrible chinese but he never says anything cause he doesn't want to be mean and i'm typing chinese only because his english isn't good either but it was nice to talk to him about anime and how i am going to hong kong this summer since i'm not very close to my cousins and only recently had ways to communicate with them like through msn/fb haha but maybe he will want to hang out with me! since we both like gundams. if only i was in hk during acghk then we could've gone together.. as nerdy as that sounds but it's sooo cool.

anyways just wanted to blog because i'm reading up on ancient china for my exam and i'm SO excited for my trip this summer since i will get to see the great wall and i see a picture of it here in my book lol. i LOVE to travel and especially to asia ... clearly biased >_< but i love hong kong and just looking at pics i think i'm going to love china and the expo. just saying. YA kay back to studyin!

exams? anime?

it's exaaam time and i'm not too worried yet... taking things pretty easy =D i found a house and we signed the lease and everything so that's good. i really believe God will work out our housing issues in the end =) and code geass is really very interesting!!