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Well I guess this is the new trend. Formspring is a site where you can ask me any question anonymously to me and I will answer it and then it will displayed on my profile for everyone to see. Here is the link is you want to try it out.

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Oh Harmonica!

Today I went on a bike trip to the mall and purchased a gift for my younger brother's birthday. While I was there I also went to Guitar Center and purchased a harmonica and a beginners book on how to play it. I have been playing it off and on today. Though being new at the instrument I have made some progress in learning some basics and also a few songs. I am hoping to get better at it and maybe buy a better quality one in the future. I know that I have some mess-ups in this video but I made just for documentation so that someday I can look back and hopefully see how much better I am.

Oh and I also got a new haircut today!

Oh Susanna-by Ian Zandi

I Gotta Doppleganger Feeling!

Earlier today I had a Spanish class and right before our first test, my class was treated to a "unique treat". I forget exactly how it came up but my Spanish professor said a sentence with the words "well I just have a feeling". From there he said "Oh wait, that reminds me of a song I like. I gotta feeling! That tonight is gonna be a good night" he then proceeded to sing more of the song to the laughing class. Because of his accent it made the whole thing a lot funnier. It was like hearing a mariachi band do a cover of the Black Eyed Peas Song "I Gotta Feeling".


This week is apparently also Doppleganger week on Facebook. I get a lot of comments at my work on how I look like "Hiccup" from the movie "How To Train Your Dragon" which doesn't even come out for another month. I don't think I look completely like him but whatever.



When I was in my scout troop last year I had some people telling me that I looked like Drake Bell. Since I didn't even watch his show I hardly knew what he even looked like, but I can see how someone could think that now.

SNOWBALLS!!!!

This scene is hilarious!

Hello my neglected blog readers!

Hello my unattended and neglected blog readers! It's been over a month since my last post so I decided to come back and do it with a bang. I will do my best to update last year's "Hey You, Look at These Pictures!" blog but will not continue my posts on "My Flick Reviews". I have not written a post truly about me in a while so here are some (somewhat) new facts about myself right now.

I just earned my license a few days before Christmas!

I am still working at the movie theater.

I recently bought an iPod Touch. Now I am saving up for my own car.

My favorite store, Lighthouse Christian Bookstores,just closed down. On the bright side I was able to get a nice stack of CD's, magazines, and posters and a very low price.

I have started my next semester of college classes while in my Junior year of high school. I am taking Spanish and tennis courses.

My current favorite CD is "Forget and Not Slow Down" by Relient k and favorite song is "Chem 6A" by Switchfoot

"The Lovely Bones" and "The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus" are my two favorite new movies right now. "Avatar" is definitely not.

It is very cold and raining/hailing here in Southern California. In fact yesterday I had to go chase neighborhood trash cans that were floating down the street in knee-high waters. Kinda fun.

That is all I can think of for now. A lot of changes in my life are about to happen so I will keep this web space occupied with the words translated from my head.

The best Christmas song........

I really thought that this song is touching and is truly makes itself what Christmas is all about. It's not cheesy or funny but serious as it praises Jesus for coming as a baby for the sole purpose to die for us. I am not saying this because it is my favorite band, I would say that this is the best Christmas song if someone else wrote it, but they didn't.

Lyrics to Relient k's "I Celebrate The Day"

And with this Christmas wish is missed
The point I could convey
If only I could find the words to say to let You know how much You've touched my life
Because here is where You're finding me, in the exact same place as New Year's eve
And from a lack of my persistency
We're less than half as close as I want to be

And the first time
That You opened Your eyes did You realize that You would be my Savior
And the first breath that left Your lips
Did You know that it would change this world forever

And so this Christmas I'll compare the things I felt in prior years
To what this midnight made so clear
That You have come to meet me here

To look back and think that
This baby would one day save me
In the hope that what You did
That you were born so I might live
To look back and think that
This baby would one day save me

And I, I celebrate the day
That You were born to die
So I could one day pray for You to save my life

FISH Christmas Concert

The Fish Christmas Concert was a holiday concert sponsored by radio station KFSH 95.9 “The Fish”. The musical artists featured the night of December 1, 2009 included Matthew West , Tenth Avenue North, and also special guest Tim Timmons. This event was located at Calvary Church in the city of Santa Ana.


The music acts started off with worship leader Tim Timmons taking the stage and starting the night with some praise songs that he wrote. From there he moved on to a short set of traditional Christmas songs such as “O Come, O Come Emmanuel”. The music set the tone for night as it gradually got everyone into the Christmas Spirit.


Soon after a short set change, two men from the contemporary band “Tenth Avenue North” came up with acoustic guitars. This was quite a change from Tim’s, who had more of an energetic performance to get the audience ready. Part of the reason that they played solely acoustic for the night was due to the fact that not all of the members of the band were there. The presences of the softer tones were actually better for the mood. It made the atmosphere of the room more thoughtful and really gave more of a holiday feeling than Timmons. The setlist for Tenth Avenue North was a mix of their own chart-topping songs, some new original songs which will be on a new album due out in May 2010, and also some Christmas songs that showed quite a variety of emotions. They also played their own rendition of the song “Go Tell It On The Mountain”, having the crowd do a sort of noise that was meant to copy the tune of trumpets playing in their recorded version. It did not mean to sound like it, but to encourage the participation of the audience and also for some laughs.


As the last performer of the night, Matthew West began his time on stage with some up-beat tunes of his own. During the first half of his time Matthew let the rest of his band play the instruments while he just sung. In the last half he began switching between his acoustic and electric guitars to play along with the rest of his group. To follow suit of the rest of the musical acts he put in some Christmas songs, some being newly made by himself specifically for the occasion as he did previously at FishFest.One example of this is his song "The Day After Christmas".

Before I left I also got to get and autographs and meet both Tenth Avenue North and Matthew West (seen in first picture). Although the only way to get tickets for the event was to win them, the church was still packed, more than it had been for the Creation Fest Tour. If you can get tickets for this next year, I am sure that you will enjoy your time!