I really enjoy to organize our brothers and sisters in Faith and to form a choir were we all get to sing during the services. There are lots of young brothers and sisters who have good voices and are confident to sing in groups. As we see them singing during special music in the service, I see happy faces. With a few practice accompanied with a nice instrument, maybe a visit to a tambourine guitar center for additional accompaniment will make things much better. We can already have our musical choir.

I am glad to notice the dropping of International Performers concert line ups today and instead, we have local performers and singers. Maybe the people’s bonuses and other holidays are already consumed by now. Also, people are now busy saving for the graduation and enrollment of their children in the coming months. I am not against international performers and singers coming here but I would like to see quality concerts. I just don’t want to hear sound malfunctions during the concert. I love to find vocopro or other expensive sound system since if ever, not only the singers are affected. If there are glitches like this, the total performance itself will be affected.

Many people, not just celebrities, choose the month of February to announce their engagement. As we all know, it has been believed that February is a love month. But we all know that it is not in a day or month where relationship becomes stronger and really end in forever. As we all know, making our Almighty Father always at the center of a relationship can enable this forever. This means it is not just a matter of having women’s and mens wedding bands or rings. It is more on believing deeply in the love by someone who gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. Strength and courage will help to make a relationship stay forever.

Beyonce was criticized when she sang the American national anthem during Inauguration Day in lip sync. She admitted to this and explained many are also doing this. I remember during our younger years, we would usually see some of our local actresses doing some lip sync during their performances on TV because they know that they really can't sing that good. But lately, local celebrities who are not really singers can even sing live with just an audio adjustment. Some use amps at musicians friend with just mixing and use of sophisticated sound mixing devices. It can turn your voice into a professional singer.

More and more couples today want to have their dream wedding in Boracay. This is especially those foreigners who would like to marry a Filipina. If you are dreaming of a beach side wedding, all just surrounded by dining table and chairs and not just a church chair. Maybe a beautiful sunset or sundown beach side of garden wedding. It would just be a simple wedding gown and just a beach wear to be worn by the groom. There are lots of hotels now in Bora. They are offering venues for weddings if you want some cheap or affordable hotels for a luxury wedding package. It is no wonder that there are some reports and article about Boracay becoming a wedding destination also.

Yesterday was the very first day to attend the first sabbath service of the year. We planned to get to our assembly place early, just so we could start the year right. But I noticed lot of vacant church chairs. Maybe some of our members are not here yet as they are still on vacation. We were very thankful for the past year’s trials and blessings and believe that there will be more blessings in this coming year. Trials may come but we know or Almighty Father is always here with us.

We were blessed to have more than two weeks of vacation to spare visiting relatives in the province, reuniting with friends and family, and seeing some of the beautiful places in Negros and Panay islands. Still, it doesn’t seem enough but I knew that I had to go back to reality of facing the noisy and stressful life of the metro. These days, getting updated with real life is just a click away. Imagine you can just click here for garden frogs, get a view of the seashore from your room and spend a whole day in bed.