2010 - Look out Tokyo!

Wow I really have not been keeping you guys up to date these past few weeks, but I have been busy. Work has become quite steady and I’ve taken on a few new projects.

I had to spend a bit of time re-doing my last post because the picture codes started to not work, I’m still not sure why.

Also the most curious thing occurred about two weeks ago, I received a random email from someone telling me of a writing competition that was being held on a website called www.bookrix.com . I registered at the site and submitted an edited version of the first post of this blog “Hit the Ground Running”. Unfortunately, even though I got a majorly positive response and in a short amount of time I got a lot of votes from the bookrix community, I was probably too late in my submission and did not win the writing contest.

I did however have a lot of fun, and communicating with the other authors was quite eye opening, hearing their re-actions to my own work, and being equally impressed by their material.

I went home for a period of six days over Christmas, the whole thing was a surprise for my grandmother and grandfather whom I love very much. I had fun, I would have liked it to be a bit more relaxing but as my friends would have it, my short time at home was one big non-stop party, which I didn’t mind at all.

As a quick update, New Years was fantastic!

We spent the countdown at the Disney Land station in Disney’s own mall outside the park where we got delicious cream and chocolate filled crepes and waffles and watched an amazing live show where a Gospel group performed “You Can’t Stop the Beat” from one of my all time favourite musicals “Hairspray” along with some other Gospel Standards.

After the fireworks we all went to a karaoke complex and sang the night away, there was no stopping us, we danced and sang and paired up for duets and at one point we even has a cha-cha line circling the room.

When it got close to morning we all braved the cold and headed out to watch the sunrise at Tokyo bay, and to top a great night off we all gathered in the rising sunlight and said our first prayer for 2010 together as a group.

Looking around at the my wonderful group of friends that are like family to me, it was truly a beautiful thing, they aren’t only Japanese, but we are from all nations of the world, Australia, Japan, Indonesia, Brazil, Mexico, America, Puerto Rico, Philippines and Malaysia and through his wonderful works, the Lord brought us all together in Japan at that moment.

Having just gone home for a visit, the family and friends I had left behind were fresh in my mind but I could see how the Lord had placed us all in each others world for a reason. At Jesus Life House, so many of us are away from our families in one sense or another. Either we are travelling or living abroad or like so many of the young Christians in our church, we are the first in our family to be Christian and our beliefs have caused a separation from our families, and yet they continue to live in the faith that one day, their loved ones will come to church also.
So in a way, in the absence of our family, Jesus Life House becomes our family. And here in the sunrise of the new year, I found myself in the embrace of my second family.

We all walked away from that night with a common feeling of love and excitement.

2010! Look out, cos here we come!

Also, Also I've made quick re-cap of 2009, I put together some photo’s from the last six months and if you want a preview of what 2010 will be like, take what you see here and multiply by 100!

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As always, To be continued....