go Daiko!

Today was really blargh- I mean, it wasn't horrible, and I didn't get up late (yet not that early either) but I mostly spent my time on the computer T-T; I did do some good things- and I learned how to make chicken fingers today (they were really good and I should go make more for dinner tonight) but I don't think that spending so much time online (or so many hours on DA) is healthy- I think- no I want to limit my time on DA if I let it, it would eat like at least 20 hours in a week! *very bad*

I feel like I'm being forced into things? I don't know, it's just that at 4:44pm today my grandma was insistant that she give me this over-wayoversized skirt that she's going to alter- it was a nice thought, but I really don't want it. I let her know that and I think that she understands, but I wonder who the skirt is going to end up being for now...

I'm so out of time. I'm still online even though I should be getting my brother ready (dressed) to go to the Winter Jam concert- we need to get there really early so that we can find some good seats (first come first serve and all...). grara! I should have cooked the chicken fingers earlier!

I want to tell the world to pray for me since I need help with using my time wisely and being a good Christian who prays often and hears clearly from God everyday- I wish that I was better... at so many things *has really high standards that she loves*

I am kinda slow with updating my journal T_T *wonders if it's cheating since she's using a form to help her out* I love this form thingy for it's ease of use- for some reason, it really inspires me and I never end up picking those strange options (they don't fit me properly anyway :)

Today, I got a digital camera! Yes! I would like to say that, but no- I didn't and I didn't get one for my birthday either- s'okay though, I'd much rather have me a tablet. (more time to get things done actually would be better for me...)

hah hah, I really like the portion on this thing that says "I want to thank" and has all these interesting options... this option: "the world for absolutely fucking nothing! You all suck. I feel so alone, no one ever reads this journal, or even comments to let me know that I'm not suffering alone. It's cold here, and I want to die, but I cannot figure out how many of you to take with me when I go." reminds me of someone I know, and I wonder if he'd ever make a fake journal entry using that. (-obviously, I probably wouldn't) ...if I felt that way, I would probably ammend that to be more Daiko-like (all reserved and what not. ^^; ...)

That's enough for now. But I'll leave you with the fact that I found this option interesting too, I'd pick it but I don't need you to do that last part ^_^ "this thought - sharing your life with strangers on the internet is the cheapest form of therapy available. Leave a comment and tell me I'm beautiful" tee hee.

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I'll be back- sorry for the quickie tidbit, just that I need to take care of important things, like school and cooking meals (and cleaning up afterwards T_T -sigh-)

see you!


-Daiko~
(pray for me)
(please be well.)

blogging fun (that I forgot about...)
Mood:  happy
Now Playing: "dogfight" by MOVE (from stage 4 of Initial D)

Today was really Kabigony~

I got out of bed on time, but could have gotten up earlier if I hadn't hit the snooze button so many times!

I feel an ache in my back from sitting at my laptop in a hunched over position for too long; also, I'm not sure that I'm ready for the Christ Mass since it's coming so soon.

I want to tell the world Merry Christ Mass! ("Christ Mass" literally means "feast in celebration of the Christ, the annointed one of God" :)

I want to say thanks to God~ *would say more, but brain seems to be kinda frozen*

I'm a little tired now... but I went through this blog of mine and read through some of my old entries (mostly from 2004) and I liked what I saw- then I ended up taking old quizzes and doing stuff like this again since I haven't touched them for quite some time. (I have changed and I haven't changed much now that I look back just a little... interesting.)

That's enough for now. But I'll leave you with "this thought - sharing your life with strangers on the internet is the cheapest form of therapy available. Leave a comment and tell me I'm beautiful." that was such an interesting option to choose- I didn't choose it, but I quoted it since I agree with the whole "cheapest form of therapy available" deal- somewhat anyway.

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That was fun~
maybe I should use this to update this blog more often? ...nah!♥

later!


-Daiko~
(pray for me)
(please be well and have a Merry Christ Mass!)

Advent[ure]!!

it is truly Advent now* and fittingly enough, I have just learned that O Come, O Come, Emmanuel is a specific song for this season- for a long time though, I thought that it was one of many Christ Mass songs, but I was proven wrong (as I hope to do so for many others :)

A strange thing I have found though (well, maybe not so strange as this is a rather old hymn and all) is that there are so MANY different versions [translations really] of this song- and it has its basis in the Latin O Antiphons from the 8th century A.D.

Earlier, I had specifically sought out a line that is similar to this: "O come, Thou Day-spring, come and cheer Our spirits by Thine advent here" since I had heard that verse sung before in one of the radio-versions of this song [last year I believe] but when I looked for this verse in my Mom's Hymnal (she sings in the choir at Church♥) I found seven verses** to this song, but none that read as that line does.

Needless to say, I was quite perplexed- that is until I [hopped on Google] and [found something interesting] (actually, I read the first document that Google brought up which was a PDF- it explained a litte to me, and I became familiar with the concept of the Latin O Antiphons)

and so, I have learned a little of the history behind a song far more ancient than I
and happily so -yet, there is still so much for me to learn since this is still quite a mystery...


The seven verses as they are in the book I have at hand are as follows:

O come, O come, Emmanuel,
And ransom captive Israel,
That mourns in lonely exile here
Until the Son of God appear

Refrain: Re-joice! Re-joice! Emmanuel, shall come to thee, O Israel!

O come, Thou wisdom from on high,
Who ord'rest all~ things mightily;
To us the path of knowledge show,
And teach us in her ways to go.
(to refrain)

O come, O come, Thou Lord of might,
Who to thy tribes on Sinai's height
In ancient times didst give the law,
In cloud and majesty~ and awe.
(to refrain)

O come, Thou Rod of Jesse's stem,
From ev'ry foe deliver them
That trust thy mighty pow'r to save,
And give them vict'ry o'er the grave.
(to refrain)

O come, Thou Day-spring from on high
And cheer us by thy drawing nigh;
Disperse the gloomy clouds of night,
And death's dark shadow put~ to flight.
(to refrain)

O come, Desire of nations, bind
In one the hearts of all mankind;
Bid thou our sad divisions cease,
And be thyself our Prince of Peace.
(to refrain)
(end)



*in it's second week of celebration as I posted this
**the hymnal which I used to look up the song is Choral Praise Comprehensive Second Edition from [OCP Publications] specifically, in the text it is found in the Advent section (right before Christ Mass :) on page 213 respectively.


and for now (as short as this is) is some of my meditations on Advent (I want to do more though, but it's time for dinner...)

-have a nice night all, and I'll see you later!~♥


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EDIT: it took me long enough to post this! it's not even the same year that I intended to post this either, but I am glad that I did what I planned to do with this (although it is really laughable that it's so out of date, but I think that this will really be a boon to those who care to read blogs throughly and in chronological order too♥)

Anyway, this was finally posted here at 4:30pm+ Eastern Standard Time on Saturday- January 28th, 2006 though it was [already posted earlier somewhere else].

I'd laugh at myself, but I'm too hungry to do that now.



-Daiko~
(pray for me)
(please be well♥)

and though this place feels like home, a true home this can't be...
Now Playing: site music from DCTgarden.com
as of late, I seem to go in for really long journal entry titles- they end up being something like complete sentences o.o!!

anyway, I had been reading through [Boundless] a little while ago (more than a few minutes) and found myself at the webmag [First Things.com]

*So I ended up checking out First Things since I had not done so in awhile and found this gem amongst their most recent articles for the month of December: [God on the Internet]

...


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(*this part has been edited from the original- this was just a text URL and now it is a hyperlink complete with explanation^_^)

If I had let myself, I was about to have posted this entry on 4 December 2005 00:06 EST (that is, in the first few minutes of a Sunday when I should have been sleeping and offline) but as you can obviously see- I did indeed stop myself from doing so (as I would have broken the rule that I gave to myself and have been a bad example since I do claim Sundays to be special and use them as good unplugged (read: Offline) days) the thing is, now that this entry isn't as fresh and vital as it was a few days back I'm not as inclined to write much on it (silly me). That is my fault though- I left this to rot in my "draft entries" on this blog- still, at least I posted this and I do want to get back to this, so there's a little hope yet...

and quick thought on this from me: w00t! I'm happy that the St. Blog's Parish was mentioned- go us! (yes, I say "us" since my brother said that the has seen this blog as a part of that community o.o;... belive me, I was shocked when I heard that from him too, but he doesn't lie so it's probably the truth...)

thanks guys for reading (and don't take that as a "Daiko's closing her blog oh no!" statement, I'm just grateful... and I'm probably going to blog even more in reality... *just started doing so again* ...scary.)


-Daiko~
(pray for me)
(please be well~)

let me write seriously and fully even after emotional highs have passed...
Mood:  hungry
Now Playing: singing downstairs~
Last night, I finally got the book Deliverance from Evil Spirits a Practical Manual by Francis MacNutt
-it was well worth my two month wait and honestly, I DO recommend it strongly to all serious Christians.

The book covers quite a few subjects
from the existence of evil in demonic form
to levels of infestation
and levels of demons according to hierarchy

it also confronts the pervasive Western beliefs of Peleganism and Secularism

and after reading it...
though I don't identify myself as secular (nor conciously wish to do so) I find that I do fall into Western schools of thought -especially Pelegansim.

Now that I think about it, that is extremely foolish of me- especially since I have had the honor of encountering an angel... foolish that one who has actually seen an angel would come to believe or rather live as if she could save herself merely by being good... -sigh- it's a very common human belief though.

...I also see that there is quite a bit to myself that I was blind about earlier- and I will put a stop to all my curiosity about dark ungodly things- because that isn't anything that I want to be involved with -sigh-

Read More...

and so, I find that it is time to renew and purify myself again (and maybe after I do so, I will be able to feel more of the Joy of Advent...)

Lord, I want to come home to You- won't you help me more and more?

(let's go home together for Advent...??)

...

-Daiko~
(pray for me)
(please be well~)

it's been something like a small eternity, yet not "forever" the time I've been away
Mood:  hug me
Now Playing: oldies radio station

I haven't said much here lately- I... *long pause* haven't run out of words (or thoughts for that matter)- it's just that I've been offline for so long that I am now somewhat unnaccustomed to it all (though this stuff is not unfamiliar to me, it's rather comforting really...) Specifically, I don't feel myself to be able to report accurately all the things that have taken place since my last entry- ah, despite this it seems that things really haven't changed too much with me!

(I still have the whole crazy "I don't know what to write/if I'm writing well and getting across the message that I want to say" thing going on ^^; ...)

... that's it for now (sorry for the patheticness on my part! ugh...)

-Daiko~
(wants to get over being sick/tired)
(pray for me)
(you all, please be well~)

test entry

sorry for this, but I felt that it was necessary
I don't know if I'm the only blogger on Angelfire that's having this problem or not
but I can't seem to see my most recent entries after I've posted them

...if this problem keeps up, I'll archive all my old posts from here and MOVE to a new and better location...

I've wanted to do so (but I won't use LJ for that though) and I've been wanting to get my own little domain on the internet so I'll probably doing that some time in the future

now if I could just get hired somewhere so I could have a good job to support myself with *growls at Wal-Mart a bit*

-sigh- Pray that I'll be hired soon there... (or where ever else it that God wants me to be, like the Sam's Club nearby...)

-Daiko~
(pray for me
God is GOOD!!)

A song for myself (yeah, I'm not dead- just quiet)
Mood:  crushed out
Now Playing: see below +Heaven
(this entry is mirrored on my LJ- save for the link log)

Superchic[k]'s We Live
(lyrics taken from Let's sing it.com)

There's a cross
on the side of the road

Where a mother lost a son
how could she know
that the morning he left

Would be the last time
she'd trade with him for a little more time

[That] she could say she loved him one more time
-and hold him tight

But with life we never know
when we're coming up to the end of the road

So what do we do then -with tragedy around the bend?

Chorus:
We live, we love, we for-give and never give up~

Because the days we are given are gifts from above

So, today we remember to live and to love~ (2x)


Verse Two:
There is a man
who waits for the tests

To see if the cancer has spread yet

And now he asks, "So why did I
wait to live till it was time to die?"

If I could have the time back how I'd live~
(Life is such a gift~)

So how does the story end?

Well this is your story and it all depends

So don't let it become true, get out and do what we are meant to do!~

Return to Chorus

Bridge:
Waking up to another dark morning

People are mourning

The weather in life outside is storming

But what would it take for the clouds to break
For us to realize each day is a gift somehow, someway

So get our heads up out of the darkness
and spark this new mindset
and start to live life cuz it ain't gone yet

And tragedy is a reminder to take off the blinders
and wake up!
And live the life we're supposed to take up
Moving forward with all our heads up cuz life is worth living...

Return to Chorus one last time and fade out...

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I'll remain hopeful and alive no matter what
God will help me to perservere...

a few stops of today
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-Daiko~
(pray for me)

not having reliable internet access is NOT fun
Mood:  irritated
Now Playing: -sighs-
and not having the freedom to innocently go out and do things away from home isn't fun either- like just going to the library (from where I stand, freedom to come and go is an enviable thing and I'm an adult! -sighs-)

anyway, online stuff to visit later:
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pray for me, hopefully I'll be free in the future
and that I'll keep up with all my journaling

later...

-Daiko~
(pray for me)

what's going on? can someone explain this to me?
Mood:  quizzical
Now Playing: lots and lots of heavy rain & hail outside

something for my own good: Read More...


a strange occurrence
(explanation of events at deviantART)

approximately 3 days ago [3d 23h 31s ago to be exact], I had logged in to devART to find the community in a big uproar over something- it had to do with [Jark] so I went to his page to acertain what was going on- he'd been fired. ...one of the founders of deviantART FIRED. I couldn't believe it- I was shocked, and I still am.

I had been gone for 5 days and this happened while I was away- it's not as if the world has been flipped upside down, but this is a horrible thing to see happen to this place -sigh- I don't like this... I'm reminded of Disney- of Eisner, I hope I'm wrong in my thoughts though...

this is the art community I belong to, while I don't believe that it's perfect, I never thought that I would witness something like this-ever.

...and now, I don't understand what's going on over at [deviantART] really... I just read [Jark's explanatory journal entry] but I still don't understand exactly why Jark was involuntarily terminated (I guess that he and Spyed got into an intense disagreement, but still I don't think that that would merit Jark being fired from his original position -sigh-)

this is not good.
I wonder what's going to happen next (and I'm kinda hoping that Jark could get his job back- he did it quite well for years, I don't want it to be taken away like this)

-Daiko~