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My FIRST ukulele cover for 2016!

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Neil Halstead- Digging Shelters

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Smirking is the new smile! 😁

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Copper's funny.

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Because I miss singing in Tagalog 🎶😁! Here's "Kahit Maputi na ang Buhok ko"

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A lovely orchid from Elisa & David! 😊

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Learning them Bass! Our first Bass lesson with "teacher" Brahms! 😁

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SunDate with siblings @ Lake Tahoe

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" 'Cause I am a sinner if its not one thing its another. Caught up in words, tangled in lies. You are a savior and you take Brokenness aside And me it Beautiful, beautiful."

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Lake Tahoe adventures! 😁

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Home alone...so did some Henna on my self 😁.

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Adventures & Filming! Summer continues~

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🎶Ukulele Night🎶 Singing "Lemon Tree"

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{ FEAR } I don't usually post long stuff, but today, I just feel like sharing something about myself that only a few of you guys might know. To start this off, I just realized that it's been a year since I joined the Worship Team @ UCC! Now, if you know me really well, then you know that I have this fear of being in front of people and speaking to other people I don't know too well. ( I would LOVE to talk and get to know them though! But I'm afraid of doing the first move.) I'd rather be at the very back of the room and speak to nobody in a party/ gathering or even at my College group just because I'm "scared." I don't really know what I'm scared of. It's not that I have nothing to talk about with other people, because I do. It might because I feel like I'm not interesting enough to other people so I just keep quite. Or it might also be because I'm not comfortable talking since I have this insecurities that " what if they don't understand what I'm saying because of my accent, etc." And sometimes, there are some words that I know in my Native tongue (Tagalog) but can't explain it in English. It's hard. [ But I'm really talkative when I'm around my best friends...like seriously. Non-stop.] But some of you guys might be thinking, " but you sang in front of a lot of people at Summit/Church/Catalyst/School Choir!" Yes, I do. But it took a while for me to have that courage to do that. I wouldn't be in choir if my mom didn't sign me up for my classes when I first move here. [ It was a week before the school year started when I first moved to Davis, so my mom did my class schedules.] I wouldn't be in the Summit worship band if a certain person didn't tell them I wanted to join.I would have just kept it to myself. ( Same case in Catalyst.) I wouldn't have auditioned for the UCC worship band if my brother didn't encouraged my little sister and I to just try. ( I was really scared though. I almost didn't go but my brother was there during the audition process so I had too! 😁) But now thinking about all of the things I mentioned above, I'm glad that my mom signed me up to choir. I'm thankful for that certain person who told the Summit/ Catalyst band I wanted to join and sing. And Grateful for my brother for encouraging me to join the UCC band. I feel most comfortable every time I'm singing songs/ worshipping. It feels like some part of me that's been missing before is slowly being filled. I've also met some of the most AMAZING friends upon joining the bands I'm in.I know that I still need to work on the talking to them/ have a conversation to get to know them really well, but I think the point that I want to share was ( which I also missed and just realized upon thinking about it right now), God was/is working with me. He changed me. By using the gift that God has given me, I was slowly conquering the fear within me. It's like God was saying, " I know that you hate being in front of people, talking/singing. I also know that you're scared of talking to others first and sharing your thoughts to them, but if you love me, then you will do the things that scares you. Don't be afraid. I'm with you." These past couple of months, upon hearing testimonies of people around me how God worked into their lives, I always wonder and ask myself, " why is God not working with me?" I think I was so busy doing lots of things and thinking about a lot of things that I missed to see how God is working in my life. So,if you're like me, thinking about the same thing and wondering if God is really working in your life, you should ask yourself first, are you TOO BUSY that you missed the opportunity to see how God has been working in your life? Now is the time to slow down, and think of the things that happened to you lately. Relationship to other people. Relationship to God. Well, this post is really looong now, so THANKS for reading it. I'll work on talking to you guys when I see you! If I don't, now you know that reason 😂. It's not that I don't like you ( because I do!), but I'm scared. 😂😂

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Back to "Reality." I'd rather be at Breakaway. 😭