update

oh peeps by the way please update me in ur site... i change my site to

http://realdealbrooks.blogspot.com

ill c yah there

ill try....

geez...its been way too long...

i wanna be able to keep up with everyone..seems like everyone is having lots of fun blogging but me? duh such a slacker...been very busy with virtual farming..lol..addicted to fb eh..esp. farmville, well it is indeed very addicting..as i was talking to my friend i actually said that if only farmville will pay us then i will be farming 24/7...but i dont think they will..then perhaps i should continue writing on my blogs since my account in smorty,blogverstise got suspended i need to make money..yes i mean real M O N E Y.

bzness

It has been a crazy week for us.....worked alot of hours at the bookstore since classes just started..oh geez people are rude and nasty but i am soo blessed to be surrounded with very great christian people in my workplace..praise JESUS... i loved my work and i loved my co workers and managers they have been such a great blessing in my life....
oh by the way im soo glad that my family back home is not affected by that nasty typhoon that hit manila area..i pray blessings for people who lost their loved ones and hoping they will find rest and find peace in GOD'S omnipresence...

its thursday and its payday..so we are going to tumbleweed thirsty thursday....
chao and be blessed

some pics from our trip back to my hometown..

be prepared to be inspired

Every once in awhile someone sends us a story that's so beautiful we are forever changedby it. This is one of those stories.It started in Winchester, Massachusetts, 43 years ago, when Rick Hoyt was born. Somehow his umbilical cord became wrapped around his neck, leaving him brain-damaged and unable to control his limbs.The doctors told Rick's parents that he would be a vegetable for the rest of his life. But Dick Hoyt, Rick's father, didn't believe it. He noticed the way Rick's eyes followed him around the room. When Rick was 11 they took him to the engineering department at Tufts University and asked if there was anything to help the boy communicate. "No way,'' Dick says he was told. "There's nothing going on in his brain.'' "Tell him a joke,'' Dick countered. They did. Rick laughed.Turns out a lot was going on in his brain. Rigged up with a computer that allowed him to control the cursor by touching a switch with the side of his head, Rick was finally able to communicate. First words? "Go Bruins!'' And after a high school classmate was paralyzed in an accident and the school organized a charity run for him, Rick pecked out, "Dad, I want to do that.'' Yeah, right. How was Dick, a self-described "porker'' who never ran more than a mile at a time, going to push his son five miles? Still, he tried. "Then it was me who was handicapped,'' Dick says. "I was sore for two weeks.''That day changed Rick's life. "Dad,'' he typed, "when we wererunning, it felt like I wasn't disabled anymore!''And that sentence changed Dick's life. He became obsessed with giving Rick that feeling as often as he could. He got into such hard-belly shape that he and Rick were ready to try the 1979 Boston Marathon. "No way,'' Dick was told by a race official. The Hoyt's weren't quite a single runner, and they weren't quite a wheelchair competitor. So, for the first few years, Dick and Rick just joined the massive field and ran anyway.Later, they would find a way to get into the race officially: In 1983 they ran another marathon so fast they made the qualifying time for Boston the following year.Then somebody said, "Hey, Dick, why not a triathlon?'' How's a guy who never learned to swim and hadn't ridden a bike since he was six going to haul his 110-pound kid through a triathlon?Still, Dick tried.Now they've done 212 triathlons, including four grueling 15-hour Ironman Competitions in Hawaii. This year, at ages 65 and 43, Dick and Rick finished their 24th Boston Marathon, in 5,083rd place out of more than 20,000 starters. Their best time? Two hours, 40 minutes in 1992 - only 35 minutes off the world record, which, in case you don't keep track of these things, happens to be held by a guy who was not pushing another man in a wheelchair at the time.But to really appreciate the greatness of this love story, you have to watch the following video... presented here, courtesy of YouTube. (And be prepared to be inspired! ;-)

florida here we come..yay

Pretty psyched about our trip to panama,florida this friday the 21st of march with over 60 Youth on fire with GOD,with us on our church van, excited about what GOD is doing in our church, excited to do something for the expansion of HIS kingdom and just pretty much excited for evrything, and to TOP it all, im pretty excited with some warm weather gotta have some of that, kinda frustrated with this crazy ohio weather here

a VISA award

GosH....got visa gold card from a very special friend named JennyR..sorry ive mentioned your name here..i bet everyone will hunt you now coz ur giving away this gold card visa...lol....Honestly deep down inside of me im very much psyche to take this one, kNow why? i kinda view friends like visa cards in a positive way,Friends are there when you need them.

I Feel like real friends really deserve a gold visa card which i think paid for life already by the one who gives it sounds good huh!

But for now friends, love and prayers is all i can give, and with the help of this award, may you feel that you are cherished and much appreciated of being such a good Friend

Giving this award to JennyR,Shalue,Mrs.Douglas,Nova,cuzin jlou ,cindy and speedcat

FOR a change

I haven't been much in my computer for several weeks,its been crazy busy, from church activities,to family affairs to soul searching..ask why? i have been soo sad with my walk with our Lord Jesus Christ, I haven't reading much and soaking myself with GOD's omnipresence, just keep stalling around and been soo stagnant deep inside, i need some holy spirit filling or else i'll be spiritually dead and i dont want that to happen.Been feeling pretty damn stupid trying to force myself to get in tune with GOD,but alot of disturbances deep down inside that a stupid ME allowed to manipulate ME again..Trying to get some solutions from pretty substandard resources (you know what im sayin?) let me point it out, been soo much busy with my laptop,trying to watch too much TV and hey ive been into gluttony lately..which is a pretty BIG sin..i let those things that i mentioned consumed me.and you know what its pretty darn good but its not fulfilling.
Now i came to realized that those are the things that stop me from being more intimate with my LORD and SAVIOUR.
I came to realized that i settle for lesser things, things that the world offered which i know its very tempting to give in..(ive been there) those are the things that stop me from looking at the bigger picture.those silly substitutes makes me realized that only GOD can fill those holes in our lives, we are designed to have holes that everytime we leaks we need some filling from our GOD. but? we always look for some substitutes that never really satisfy us?
I pointed out some of the substitutes that i thought would fill me but it didn't...
what about you my friend?
what are those substitutes that you've been trying to patch those leaking holes in your lives?

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a TRIANGLE

like ive mention before, the marriage retreat is very sucessful one PRAISE GOD, it has been a great experience for everyone and specially for us, arrived there in quality inn in belville ohio around 4, stayed in room 210 to be exact, the marriage retreat is such a nice way to meet some married couples and build some relationship with them, things that really stands out in me in the retreat is, the atmosphere is great, the retreat is very laid back, and this is not the kind of retreat that teaches people how to be a great husband and how to be a great wife in step by step procedure,(and kinda nudge your wife or husband that did you get it?did you get no.1?2?3?) coz in reality we can't be perfect) its about knowing who really GOD is and how GOD design marriage.
Now i want to give an illustration,marriage is like a triangle, GOD is on top and husband and wife is on the other side, the more we walk closer to GOD the more we get close to each other, the more we walk away from GOD the more we get too far apart.