Name:Daniel Location: San Diego, California, United States Birthday:8/27/1985 Gender:Male
Interests:Guitar, Having quite time or studying in places where i am the background, looking at clouds, singing in Japanese, making songs on my guitar, listening to J-rock, leading bible study, being lead into a bible study, and Jesus Expertise:you tell me Occupation:Student
So Tomorrow at 3pm I will be boarding a 15 hour British Airways flight to London, where for the next 3 weeks I'll be traveling all around Europe with strangers who will hopefully be my friends .
I still can't believe I'm going to Europe. I think its partially because I have NO IDEA what its going to be like there. I have no sense of what it will feel like or what I will see and hear.
But this unbelief is in a way very exciting for me. I feel like I'm about to be thrown into an amazing adventure.
I can already sense that "traveler's high" burning in my heart as I pack and write this entry. Just imagining myself being on the plane all alone with nothing but myself and my backpack looking out my window. I can already just feel that smirk coming on as I see how HUGE this world is and how many people are in it. I can already hear the words of intrigue and excitement when I get off the plane to Heathrow airport. Its all very exciting. I think in addition I'm excited to feel that despite the fact that I am traveling "alone" I'm really not alone because God is with me. When I think about it I'm excited to go to Europe with a best friend who like knows everything and can do everything.
I'm wondering what sort of people I will meet on this tour. My very narrow view is of people who are crazy party people who will drag me into situations full of debauchery that will make the phrase "sex, drugs, and rock n roll" a reality for me. But this will be exactly that though process that what I will aim to avoid and stop when I meet my tour mates. When I went abroad in Japan I learned a lot about my false humility and prejudice and what sort of consequences that can come about from it. I hope to really use what I learned to not only bless my new friends in some way but also just listen, learn, and be blessed by them.
Its really crazy how much life changes. If you think about it, there are so many possibilities that is jam packed in a day. It makes me reflect more on how much God is in control of our lives and how much momentum He has.
A months ago I was giving up finding a job before I went to Europe and was gonna wait once I got home to find one, but in a span of three days I was called for an interview and got a part time job at a pretty legit place.
And its crazy. There are certain dreams and wishes that I had about my future that I know I prayed or talked to God about, but I forgot it. But here comes this job which allows me to do English and Japanese translation at a Licensing company that makes for perfect experience and for what I might want to do in Japan. Just proof that God DOES listen to you when you blabber on in your mind of what you want.
anyways, praise God for He is goood
------------------------------------------------------------------ I sent an invitation to go to an amazing Japanese church to two of my Japanese friends from ICF as well as a friend from Japan (Haruka) who attends this church to ask her if she would like to accompany them.
One of the friends who was in ICF emailed me back saying she was going through a tough time as she came back to Japan, but it was really cool hearing from her and from my friend Haruka that she is planning on going to that church to check it out. I couldn't stop smiling and being excited after reading their email. I can't explain how much joy I have when I see God moving in my international friend's lives even though they may have gone back to their country that has no outlet for christianity like I do here in the states. I really believe that my friend's struggle is really a way that God is asking her to apply the knowledge and impressions she got about Jesus through ICF and other people in her day to day life. Three cheers for intimacy.
Its crazy how much God is so close and so a part of each of our lives. I sometimes feel like at times I have to be there for my friends to show them or guide them in something about God, but in reality, regardless of what people may believe, what they are going through, or where they are, there is a loving God that is blessing them every single day. No strings attached and no restrictions. Just plain love.
Thats an amazing Being that is in control of our lives. and thats something I'd like to follow and continually be a part of to share.
My mom and dad are great. But at times they burn me out. Especially my mom when she throws at me what seems like 10 different things to do and consider. And it always drains me when my mom asks for my opinion about something but in reality she isn't asking my opinion or even asking for permission but is just telling me she is going to do it.
But that is her love and deep inside i know i love it.
So the other day i became friends with (i think?) and had a conversation with a sassy girl.
She was.... --pretty --has an attitude --acts cute when she wants you to do something --makes fun of you --won't admit when she is wrong --acts bossy
but along with all this she had a good balance of cuteness, gentleness, and genuine interest in you if you talked to her.
mmmmm very interesting
i think i liked talking to her because she would try and pick a fight with you which made things a lot interesting. She would get all stubborn when she noticed I was eating faster then she was and accused me of cheating. and then we get in a sequence of playful arguments that would end with her saying something like "well i'm right and you are wrong, end of conversation"
And when she didn't want to do something or something displeased her she would ask for my help as if it was a challenge ("can YOU do this for me or not ? because if you did that would be sooo helpful")
mmmmmHhhmmmmm
i think ultimately I'm just a guy who likes to work to make a girl feel happy in someway. Whether it be to think of interesting topics to talk about to an outgoing sassy girl who will only talk to you when she is really interested in something or on the flip side to make a shy girl smile and feel comfortable in a new enviornment. or something.
its just a tv show so theres really nothing in should be all hung up about
second of all these dancers are FAAAR better then anything i could ever attain so i can't really bag on any of them if I could
but please allow me to vent a little.
STATUS QUO SHOULD NOT BE ON THE FREAKIN FINAL SHOWDOWN WITH JABBAWOCKEZZ ON MTV'S AMERICA'S BEST DANCE CREW!!!!!!!!!!
look its about quality, its about having the best freakin competition between two well qualified teams and i gotta say...Kabba Modern should have been on there!
but i guess this makes the end result a lot easier.
BECAUSE NO WAY IN THIS WORLD, would Jabba lose to Status Quo
if for some glitch they do
I will boy cott mtv FOREVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
the end
(BTW every one vote for jabba wockeez if you can!)
I guess during Finals week its granted that I tend to do more xanga entries then any time of the year....
During my young childhood life I was very much into garnering attention from everyone due to my only childness. This resulted in a fascination and eventual mimicking of such acts as Michael Jackson or boy bands in order to gain attention.
One particular boy band that I was into was not american based but of course was Japanese based. The group name was called Hikaru Genji and they were the hottest acts in Japan during the 80s. They were essentially my heroes during the age of 5-7.
So with that said youtube has brought upon its promise of bringing up the most random crap as well as some very nostalgic footage that I use to watch as a kid.
Without further adieu, I would like to present to you this video that shows what I literally would watch countless hours of and try to learn the lyrics and songs to. (fyi i didn't have any roller blades so all i did was copy the singing :D but man i WISH did!)
Yes, i must admit the entertainer in me was blooming during my childhood years...Too bad its something thats kinda embarrasing
That there is a HUGE difference between being Jesus and Being LIKE Jesus. I was reading John today and read the part where Jesus pretty much gives an amazingly smart point about the sabbath to the people who hate him. He tells them that his knowledge is not from books or experience but from God.
As i was reading this i noticed myself being a bit envious of Jesus. I mean the guy has every kind of answer for every single situation and carries himself very well making amazingly true statements and being bold about it. Yet he isn't prideful nor does he lack being a loving and compassionate person.
I think to myself "man i wish I was Jesus so that I can do that in the life that I live"
But then that made me think of the difference between being Jesus and being like Jesus. If I strive to be Jesus then it'll never work. Its like saying "I want to become an ocean". Being Jesus would mean I want to be a divine being, which can never really happen. And thank God because if I did, I know for sure i wouldn't be able to handle 1/36 of the responsibility.
But God calls us to be LIKE Him, which means to understand where he is coming from, listen to that, and allow God to do what He loves to do within us. Its never what I need to be but what I am willing to allow God to do in me.
Because so often do I make out plans for myself to be perfect, when really all I should be doing is accept who I am and through that allow God to partner with me in loving myself and others.
So yesterday at church, I got all dressed up to basically set out to do what I said in my last post which was to dance. It was funny because at church Pastor Michelle asked us to talk to our neighbor what are true reasons were for coming to church today (what our expectation was) and mine was to dance....
But unfortunately I wasn't able to dance AGAIN. I found that I don't dance sometimes because the "mood isn't right" or there isn't enough space. Contemplating about dancing is sometimes like a spiritual warfare for me.
I found that learning to be free to dance is a good practice for me in terms of being honest with my religious background.
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? because if you did that would be sooo helpful")