Happy new year everyone!

Hello netizens!
This is Page, the page of opendapage. haha.
Anyway, this is my first post since this blog started. So sorry to penda and to you guys, I've been quite busy with "Panimalay" (house chores), helping out in church and entertaining my cousins.

Penda told me to convert this site into a book reviews site. So we'll be posting a lot of our opinions about the books we have read. Our circle of friends, the Girls at the back (GATB), are avid book readers and our opinions about books are quite..opinionated. hahaha.

Anyway, I hope you guys had a great 2011 year! I know I had xD despite the calamity that happened to our city in the last month, I'm still thankful for the things God has done in my life. So thank God in happy and sad times. 2012 will be another beautiful year! smile smile people! :D

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Christmas Carols.

I still wanna go caroling. Anyone up for it?

Merry Christmas!

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i hope everyone had a JOYful Christmas

PENDA

...because I know I did! My Christmas Eve wasn't very festive, contrary to what we were accustomed too. Instead, we (a few friends, sisters, Penda) went caroling at the last minute. I had a fantastic experience (it was my first time) and recommend it to everybody else. It really helps boost your confidence and best of all, you sing for the Lord, bond with your friends and earn too. It gave me a great deal of self-satisfaction. A neighbor even invited us to sing inside their home! It was very spontaneous, our friends Randy, Arnel and Isaiah came to our house with a guitar and started singing a Christmas song (one that Isaiah was not very good at apparently xD) my mother then supplied us the idea to go caroling, I grabbed my bag and we rushed outside and by the time we started, it was already about nine in the evening. We then camped out to our neighbors and spent the first few hours of Christmas there. I am just so thankful, even while writing this. Jesus is the best gift in the world!

Remember Christmas isn’t for us, it’s for JESUS. And what can we do for Jesus on his birthday? I did what the three wise men did on the day of his birth: worship him. So brothers and sisters in the Lord, let us worship him!

Yeah! My playlist for tonight: (I mixed contemporary, praise and worship. i think i realize that xD)

• Adonai – Hillsong
• Jesus Messiah – Christ Tomlin
• My Help Comes From the Lord – The Museum
• Indescribable – Laura Story
• Everything To Me - Avalon
• All of the Words – Kutless
• Beautiful Lord – Leeland
• Desert Song – Hillsong
• We Are The Reason – Avalon
• Aftermath – Hillsong

Epic Fail.

PENDA

Okay so I made a siggy. But it turns out it looks awful with the layout (the color and the size) so I decided to not use it and just post it instead. Yeah, I'm supposed to be packing gifts for tomorrow (CHRISTMAS) but I'm here blogging and procrastinating. I must stop doing this. I hope everyone's having a marvelous Christmas!

Christmas: it's not the day, it's giving LOVE

PENDA

I would like to make clear what I think Christmas is. Well, it's called Christmas for a reason and not Clausemas or anything of the sort. Second of all, I would like to emphasize that though I don't believe that Jesus Christ was born on December 25 almost 20 decades ago--one of the reasons why is because Jesus was a Jew and Jews have 12/13 months corresponding to the 12.4 month solar cycle. That makes everything confusing because right now we're using the Roman Calendar. Plus if you look it up in the bible (in the gospels of Luke and Matthew), it was night time and the shepherds were still tending their sheep. Now, I know it's uncommon for snow to hit Jerusalem but it would still be very cold for them to be tending their sheep.

But if you actually stop and think, well isn't it amazing that a divine immortal actually came down to this world of sinners to save us all from our doom? He gave us a gift--a gift of salvation and eternal life. I choose to imitate him. I want to give to others just like he gave to me. Although I cannot, by all means, give people eternal life, the Lord has blessed me enough in abling me to give what I have abundantly--love, compassion and hope (for the lost). And don't stone me for wanting to celebrate his gift! And because the Philippines generally have no classes during the Christmas season, it is the perfect opportunity to give.


And since I'm just a poor student who has no income of her own, I decided to MAKE gifts! Like Pop-up cards! Yeah, you can go knitting (but I wont since it's perfectly sunny over here).

The other half still missing.

PENDA

Yeah so its been years... and it's still Penda. Anyway, I thought it'd be a splendid idea to blog today. YAY! So I'm going to tell you about my blogging history. Well, the most recent blog that I owned is this. And Page's blog... I won't even bother posting the link because for some reason, it's become an invite only blog. NOOO! Aside from blogs, I've also managed a forum and a some other websites not so far back.  Yeah. I should get on with the post instead of yammerin' about history, huh?

Okay so I was volunteering yesterday and realized, THERE BE NO PEGGY! Okay, I'm so for being too informal, I actually meant THE PEGGSTER IS GONE WITH THE WIND (ha)! Not that '39 Movie (although that's one of my fave classics--Rhett!), not dead either, no not even the book. I mean she was busy that I had to pack and repack relief goods all by myself (oh the horror!) Fine, fine I didn't really do it all by myself, many able men and women came to my rescue (thank you able men and women!) so we finished sorting everything the other day and distributed the goods yesterday. People were very desperate but we unfortunately couldn’t give everyone in a particular area everything because others might need them too. Saying no to these frantic people is so hard it makes my heart break but we had to think of the bigger picture. Yeah I just would like to take this opportunity to thank people for the support they’ve shown. May the Lord our God bless you according to His riches in heaven! <3

oh yeah, I'm going to post more pictures. Pictures from the Operation Blessing (where I'm volunteering) FB Page.