day11: went to Manly Beach (i was very disappointed that no one else was cracking "manly" jokes. =P).
day12: met up w/ my fellow Yuens @ Macquarie Univ/Centre (pronounced like macaroni minus the "on" syllable), lunch facing Darling Habour, rode the monorail, went to Paddys Market, and walked along Chinatown.
day13: sunday! Hillsong Church! speaker: Louie Giglio. =)
Manly Beach!
was pretty awesome. met a lot fellow class/schoolmates and got to spend the day w/ them at the beach, as well as exploring the areas around the beach. lots of shops, had fish and chips, walked the path along the rocks/coast, watched people surf, took pictures of remains of the Bluebottle (it may look like a jellyfish, but apparently, its not). it was burning and tiring day (my face looks like Bob the Tomato =(), but i had a blast! especially taking the ferry and going around the Opera House! it was so nice! (see facebook for pics).
but best of all, my fave moment had to be a bunch of us who were tired, decided to go home earlier instead of taking sunset pics w/ the opera house. and theres this one crazy guy (he's canadian -_-... and also in TV & Media. I DONT EVEN KNOW HIS NAME. lol), he started singing/rapping Spice Girls' Wannabe (he knew ALL the lyrics!) to a fellow student... a french guy, who didnt really know much english. he was so uncomfortable with it! lololol and others on the train were giving us funny looks, but also laughing with us. hahaha it was great! we had sucha great abs workout =P
meeting up with my fellow Yuens!
finally met up with Bev and Uncle Nelson! (a family from SCAC. Kim is currently in Melbourne and Auntie Eunice already went back to TO a week ago or so). i passed uncle Nelson some of my luggage back in early Dec, so i met up with them yesterday to get my stuff, and they also showed me around Sydney! Darling Harbour was beautiful. we had lunch there facing the waters. of course, i had fish and chips! haha... it was really good! lightly battered, and the fries come in its own little frier! plus a lil bitta greens... to stay healthy. =)
then we rode the monorail. which was a first for all 3 of us! it had a really short circular route, which took us around the city. so we rode it for a full circle and 2 stops before getting off.. instead of just 2 stops. lol! get our money's worth. =P
we got off just beside Sydney Entertainment Centre (the SEC, sorta like TO's ACC), and walked across the street to Paddy's Market! i guess its kinda similar to TO's St. Lawrence Market in terms of set up/location/building, except the stuff they sold in there was like pmall LOL. and most of the stands were operated by asians. hahaha good times.
then obviously, we had to hit up chinatown. =P and its right beside the SEC! meaning when hillsong has their conferences at the SEC, i can walk across the street and myself some good old bbt and asian food. japanese ramen, chinese bakery, dim sum... muahahaha :D
tiring, hot and sweaty, but a touristy kinda day.
Sunday: Hillsong Church!
of all ppl to speak during my second week at church, Louie Giglio! unfortunately, there wasnt anything new that i learnt from him. lol... other than a slight bit of a twist w/ his jetlag joke (how he lost an entire day when flying from LAX to SYD lol!), ive heard the rest of his message before. it was a mix of 3 different things.
1) new year, year of new things, 1/1/11. it was from Passion2011 (streamed online)
2) Colossians 3. heard him speak on colossians back at passion07. he spoke about it during the main sessions AND we studied it during community groups.
3) story of ashley/mike (fruitcake and ice cream!)
i guess Louie is more of your guest speaker, conference speaker, special guest kinda speaker. not so much your weekly Sunday pastor. he recycles a lot of his material, and he pretty much has the same message time after time: to glorify God with your life! (col3:17 in this case) i guess thats one reason why i didnt really learn much from Louie at Passion2010.
ah well. but lets move on to the rest of the service. like the band/music!
this time, the band was a lot bigger. vocalist was the same.. the panel of like 8 of them spread out in the front! as for musicians, there was a drummer, 2 electrics, 1 bass, 1 acoustic (also leader and vocalist), 2 keyboards (well.. 1 was synth).
kicked off with a song i didnt know at all. moderate tempo.
went into a song we sang last week (seemed like a united jumpy/mosh pit kinda song. it was okay.)
then... i heard the drum groove. i knew it was coming... FOREVER REIGN. YEAHHHH. ahahaha
and then.. a super smooth transition.. into a new song! called God is Able. (or so ive titled it. haha). i really like it! (msg me if you wanna hear it =P) it was recorded last Nov. album to come in july!!
okay. getting late. well, not really... its almost 9:45pm only. dunno why im feeling so tired and yawning already. =\
but yeah.. im ready to go lie on my bed and drift off into sleep, w/ the fan blowing. =)
signing off for now!
-Pris
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