1. They don't know what they're doing to guys
2. They do know & that's why
3. My hump...my hump...my hump...
4. "It's hot"(& look, so am I)
5. It's just cute fashon/style/taste
6. Fad Pressure
(AT KUNG AYAW TALAGA MAKINIG AT MATIGAS...)
7.To keep one distracted from looking at their face, thus try to make them focus on other things

I really don't get why girls do this, esp. if the'yre christian. I asked Donita what her say was on fashon+christian modesty & she replied...

"Three simple rules of thumb for dressing decently:

1. don't wear anything that would cause a man/woman to lust after you.
2. would you wear that outfit if Jesus or your parents were standing next to you?
3. don't wear anything you wouldn't want your teenage sister or brother to wear."

Ya, that works. But it seems it needs to be constantly reminded because there are many hard headed. I remember back in the day, when it was the older kuyas/ates who would pass down their clothes to their younger siblings. Nowadays, it seems it's the other way around. It's just sad that nobody seems to care about this issue or they ignore or avoid it. I see to it not in my youth group. Oh, they get word of this all right. I get worried that if this is what kids are wearing these days, what would our kids wear in the future? & would young women have anything left to show just their husbands or have all men seen everything there is to be seen?

I'm looking for a girl who's respectable, respects herself & others enough. The kind that doesn't have to show too much skin to be sexy & yet she doesn't have to look like an old maid either. Meron pa kayang ganon? Must be rare, but that rare is sure worth waiting & searching for. She has to have a good heart cuz in the end, it's not really a fashon issue, but a matter of the heart.

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Your beauty should not come from outward adornment. Instead, it should be that of your inner self, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great worth in God's sight. 1 Peter 3:3-4

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& what's of great worth in God's sight is also to mine.

Although this is a late post, let me post it anyway. Transformers rocked! Watched it last last Saturday night with my cousin & his girl. We ended up watching the last full show at 12:40am because the ones before were full. I said since we're already here let's go for it. The wait was definitely worth it. We just had to deal with being puyat on Sunday(which is like a loaded day), still we managed to get through it like we did before. That movie was alot of fun & so I plan to watch again. Sure, the story lines & stuff weren't great, but you wouldn't mind because gosh, the special effects & other things will get you 'wee-ing' like a child again. Yeah, I almost peed my pants! The only thing I didn't like was Optimus Prime's mouth. I just wished it moved up & down rather than it being like a real mouth. Other than that, can't wait for part 2 & 3 & for Care Bears The Movie. 

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Seminary life is pretty tough, but do-able. So far, so good. I never found myself studying so hard though. I mean, back in college & highschool, the kind of studying I did  during the finals is how I'm doing it now on regular class days! To think I only grabbed a few units is a relief. I remember before, I failed so much, the only reason I passed some tough subjects was because when it came to finals week & I had my back against the wall, that's where I kicked butt. I was thinking of dropping my Hebrew subject but then I got encouraged not to when I did suprisingly well on the last quizzes. Here we have a test every meeting which is 3 times a week. God help me.

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I'm feeling pressure all around me. I need to breathe more. Last week, I suffered an insomiac attack that left me sleepless. I finally fell to sleep like 5:30am, got up around 7 for a speaking engagement in Antipolo. I went home right after to try to catch a lil more sleep but still failed to rest & I just lay there awake. Don't really know the cause, if it was the heat that night or too much coffee that day. I wasn't even really thinking too much or being troubled. Was it spiritual attacks? Well alot of things are going on. Aside from being busy with studies(which I'm also paying the tuition at the moment.), church & ministry, radio production, I just became the man of the house since my dad took off for the States last week. He's gonna be there for some months, leaving me with car+electric bills, running errands & driving mom & ate atbp. Phew, how am I gonna do all this? I guess the Lord is showing me once again how His amazing grace works again. Please pray that the Lord grant me pleasure in pressure.

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I need to find my way back to the gym again! Once I settle down a bit with this crazy new sked, when the water has cleared a bit, maybe I can squeeze in the gym again & regular basketball too! But lately, it seems I prefer sitting down playing MX vs ATV Unleashed on PC in PGIF.

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Wow, I sure feel like I'm torned between alot of lovers but still hopeless romantic. Speaking of love, I found out I can be such a hater/basher of love when single yet I'm such a sucker for it when in a relationship.

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Light it Up is gonna be back on July 26 at  Conspiracy Visayas Ave. What's LIU? It's basically a night at a bar where christian artists/bands are featured. We're hoping this to be a regular again every Thurs night so please come support the launch(I'll havehave more details up later). Thanks to Ailene, Ida & friends who I'm working with to get this going again. I just knew this concept was never to be trashed & so I'm excited to see what's up with this soon.

I know a review for this movie is late, but what the heck. Last Friday night, finally got to watch it ova at Eastwood. What can I say, the movie was fun, better than he first one. I'm a fan of the Silver Surfer and I somehow knew he was going to turn out to be a good guy in the end otherwise I wouldn't have minded if he killed the Fantastic 4. The movie wasn't really that good but at least it wasn't dissapointing to me like Pirates 3, it actually turned out funner than that.

There was alot of drama in the movie like Spiderman 3(is that like a fad now?). Well Mr. Fantastic & Invisible Woman wanted to get married but got delayed due to world chaos. A scene where Mr. Fanastic was being told to focus more on the wedding rather than saving the world got me thinking. I thought Sue Storm(Invisible Woman) was kinda selfish towards Mr. Fantastic because she really was pressuring him to choose from being a hero & her. She almost called off the wedding because she said she couldn't raise a family & live like this & so poor guy made a promise that  soon they would quit saving the world so they can be normal. So is that how some women are when comes to weddings & stuff?

The thing is I wanna be with someone who is willing to help save the world with me & not stop me from doing it. She can't be slowing me down. I figured since that woman is still invisible for now, that will give me enough time to think what kind I'd want to marry. Maybe I'm looking for someone who won't mind wearing this shirt:



It reads

I just got enrolled & it's official; I'm pursuing my Master's Degree in Divinity at Asia Pacific Nazarene Theological Seminary. I'm kinda nervous because I heard of how mean the books & papers are over here. I mean I was handed a syllabus which I first thought was a textbook!(exagg) So yeah it can be kinda tough. It's convenient however location wise because church & home are nearby & so is my office/workplace which just happens to be within the campus. I'm taking it slow & I only loaded 6 units for this sem because this shouldn't pull me back or slow me down from the things I'm doing. People may ask why I did it? These studies will help to keep challenging my weak mind & get it excercised so it won't be lazy. I desire to be more effective as a minister & so God may be wanting to use this to help me be more equipped & trained so I'm glad I did it. I will look to finish even if it takes 20 years! Pray I won't receive a PHD from this, that's P-ermanent H-ead D-amage!hehe. Here's to another learning journey. So help me God.

This was aired for CBN Asia back in April 17 on QTV.

I remember I was once asked "Kuya, what do you prefer, to be in relationship with someone from you're own church or someone from another?" Well heres another long but rather interesting discussion.

I go to a church where it's become 60% youth in population, where males outnumber females like 1 is to 3. It's not really a common thing among churches where the male population dominates because usually there are more girls. But not in our case. So, when that happens, there's a tendency of barbarians competing for a single woman when they choose someone from church(FC). Since we don't like these bitter disputes among us, I've come up with a pretty clever/funny solution to help solve this. I say to our boys 'NFC' na tayo meaning if you're gonna court someone, be it not for your own church(where there is so little to choose from), but from another. Btw, we don't mean non-believer relationships by NFC. Please note, we really mean from another Christian church by it. So why NFC? For many reasons. One being we don't want them fighting & destroying each other when there are plenty of fish out there, two is because it all comes down to distraction. I don't mean girls are bad or anything, it really depends on the person, who sometimes mismanages the relationship I guess.

Back then, me & my two cousins(who are now also youth pastors) declared that we would not have a relationship within the church because we figured theres a high risk of it being a distraction to us. As the filipino saying goes "kinain ang salita", we all ate our words & ended up having girlfriends from church at least for some time.  One of my cousins even married already, the other on the way, me, I pulled out years ago & eversince stayed & decided to stay true to my words.

When I prayed for a girlfriend back in 2003, I said Lord may she not be from Taytay. Not that there's anything wrong with people here, but just for a change, I wished she came from somewhere else. I just wanted things differently. I also figured it would be less distracting as I serve in ministry. I also thought I would get to save more money because it wouldn't be like everyday we'd get to see where if that were the case, you spend alot more on the fares for hatid/sundo, lunch or dinner or snacks etc. Unlike if the person is from afar, at least you have enough time to save up for your next meetings or dates which aren't like everyday but would happen not too much at least. Surely, I met someone all the way from Cavite. It worked out pretty well as planned, though for some reasons, it unfortunaltely came to an end. I guess the question now is: was I less distracted? or more? or was it just the same? Come to think of it, I honestly don't know. But was I alot happier, I could say yeah. I'm not saying it should be like this for everyone or that they'd be happpier. I think it's also great if one could find their true love in a churchmate. I really believe both are ok & will work depending on your situation. Let's check out this comparison of the two.


If From Church(FC):

The Good
-you can be good bonus inspiration to each other.
-you don't have to miss each other too much & you can always be there.
-you're pastor or people could also keep an eye on you & you could have good accountability.
-you become real good friends until eventually you finally get married.

The Bad:
- if you inspire each other too much that it becomes idolatry.
- you can get lost & drift off & be in your own little world which irritates those around you.
-when you have LQs(love quarrels), it's hard not to be or look affected especially if you're involved in the worship team, & if especially if you're the worship leader or drummer.
-temptation
-if you're in leadership & the person get's involved with quarrels with members, it's gonna be pretty hard not look like youre taking sides.
-if ever you break up, it takes a while till you become comfortable around each other enough even to say hello. I know of some who up to now, still avoid each other or worse, some who have disappeared from church after the break.

If Not From Church(NFC)

The Good
-you'd probably be less distracted since you wouldn't be seeing as much as to if they were from the same church or town.
-you would probably get to save alot more money
- learn alot more on being patient & waiting.
- if ever you break up & are not ok with each other yet, at least you don't have to pretend or ignore the person everytime you see(or deadmahan).

The Bad
-you'll miss each other alot, or too much, where your mind flies off & to the point of it being distracted.
-If it's too much to bear, you'll look for ways to see the person & could end up spending time & money as much as if they were FC.
-temptation
-accountability may be limited
-less communication
-priorities could also be left behind when pursuing time with the person.

In a survey taken from 100 of our church youth
when asked their preferance

If you're asking me my preference, based on experience & what fits me, it's NFC. Or is it because I really don't see anyone in my church yet or at the moment? I'm also thinking if the special someone does turn out to be NFC, she can't be an NFC for too long because eventually she will have to become FC someday.Hmmm. I guess the most important thing whether the person is FC or NFC is that the person is FG(From God).  So what about you?

Dang, there's just too many exciting things to blog on so before the stuff I wanna say leaks out & I forget, here are some quick recaps of what's been up this last month:

Rock da Church 4
I was scared & nervous about organizing this because the past 2 haven't really been as good as expected. There was one concert we did where after, I felt like dying because I was so down, I felt it had failed. But on the 11th of May, 2007, this became the top rock concert we ever did at church eversince part one. Everything seemed to just fall into place. We had a great crowd of around 300 which was bigger than last year when we had Rocksteddy. It was a fund raiser for the youth camp as well. It was tricky at first trying to confirm the main band but I thank the guys for coming through. Salamin came & indeed rocked the church! Whatta great set & everyone was loving it. Well they said we had the best church crowd & that to me is great because I want everyone enjoying & being blessed including the performers. But above all may it have been God who was enjoying most because aside from the music that night, angels we're rockin up in heaven too as an evangelistic challenge was given at the last part with a very good response. Thank you Jesus for letting us rock for you. I'm thankful for everything, & that I could breathe easy afterwards. It wasn't break even & nothing broke except a left crash cymbal but everything else was rockin!


Matt Redman Concert
The day after our church concert was another concert held at the PICC. I had to be there early because we were to have a quick interview with Matt & Louie. But, we ended up waiting till after the concert because MAtt & Co. went out for dinner. They arrived in the Phil. just this afternoon too.  Anyhow, before the show they showed the new PR/ATF spot we had just made & looped it alot of times, more than I expected. I felt embarassed seeing myself on the screen & wished no one took noticed of me. If I knew it'd be like this, I probably would've done the commercial differently, maybe less of my big face.hehe. But I'm thankful for the good promotion of the radio programs though. Anyways, alot of people came & many familiar places. Matt isn't as popular as Hillsong in the Philippines for some reason. Although in the U.S., he is what hillsong is to us. He's what I classify as songs being more popular than his name. He came on with one of his latest, the song Beautiful News. That's sucha beautiful song. Matt played a new song 'You Never Let Go' which was just killer I mean it never left our heads afterwards & we just had to learn it & start singoing it at camp. There was like 18 of us from church & we wanted to be in the mosh pit but unfortunately no one wanted to be at the front maybe because bawal.  But  I became friends with the bouncers & so when Dancing Generation came on, they gave us a go signal to go ahead & let loose! No one joined us till later. When Louie Giglio came to speak, we just sat down there & listened. He talked about the Heart of Worship & it was a powerful message. Later he told the crowd it was alright to come up front & so soon, the front was filled. Then we we're really partying when the songs 'Undignified' & 'Dancing Generation' were played again. The crowd chanted more & so Matt came out again. After the concert, me & LJ(702DZAS) were wondering if we'd still get our short interview. I was joking around LJ telling her we'd boycott Redman songs if we didn't get our interview.hehe. So we finally got to go at the backstage & meet the guys. It was much shorter than our Hillsong United interview which I was able to do a whole radio episode on. This one was good only for a segment, still it was good though short. I wasn't really into Redman music till after this concert. Fell in love with 'You Never Let Go, Beautiful news especially which is in the latest album, so go get it if ya haven't yet.
 

Youth Camp(s)
We had our much anticipated local camp up in Baguio on May 15-19. I just knew this was gonna be the best because it only get's better & beter. But I sorta had to get left behind & follow later because I had to speak at this other camp in Tanay first which was only on the other side of the planet! After that, I took off going to Baguio from there like  around 10:30 I think & was able to catch the 1:00am bus. Pretty hectic  huh? The things I would do for these youth camps! So got there all groggy around 7am, just in time for breakfast. Then later we had our morning sessions where we led worship. I got to take a good nap in the afternoon to make up sleep. Our theme was "He Came to Set the Captives Free" & our speaker was our favorite Ptr. Jesse Dedel who we had speak for the first time in a camp, though has spoken countless times at church. The brotha could preach, spirit filled with power & authority! Praise God cuz there were sure alot of captives set free from their bondages of sin, anger/hatred, past etc. The rest of the activities went great as well. The camp was a total success. Thank God for camps, I just love em! I got save in one. I imagine if you were to zoom up in the heaven above a campground, there's a continious big party going on among the angels(Luke 15:7) every time especially summer. Well I'm just mighty glad to be with heaven's party organizers.


I'd like to give a shout out to all the other camps I been at this summer: DCLM, PNYCers, JOHIA, UNIDA, FCF, Deal or No Deal Camp, Simbahan Kristyano. Nice hanging with you guys! Invite me again next year ok. hehe.

There was a bunch of other stuff/events that I wish I could blog about too but maybe later. So summer is now officially over. I actually thought last summer was the best. But now I have to take it back because this one proved I was wrong. I hope & pray I get to be wrong again next year although this one this one is gonna be pretty tough to beat, I say it's the best summer for 2007.