On Fire!

The bloggermania continues!
Check out the new kids on the blog (block - blog, get it?) Okay, even i'm shaking my head at myself for that one!
Cheeseburger
Tribal Kid

Its a baby girl!

Its been a long day. Half of which I spent at Christ College, which wasn't (I suppose) a complete waste. Atleast I got to see someone and know that my admission is still in consideration, although I would rather have heard that my admission has been accepted. Apparently they will tell me about that one on Friday morning. Apparently.
Anyway, that's the not-so-great part of my day. BUT, while I was waiting there, being annoyed at the stupid gaurd who wouldn't let me go and see the vice-principal, I got a message from the pastor who preaches at the church i've been going to for a couple of weeks... His wife was supposed to deliver on the 5th of June but the baby obviously had other plans and decided to come today!! And its a girl - double joy! Sorry boys, baby girls are just much better! :P So that totally had me smiling from ear to ear and hopefully i'll be able to go see the baby some time before I leave for Mumbai this weekend.
Also while I was waiting around at Christ college, I met a girl from Kolkata who happened to know Freesia from our class! Its a small world. So we went to lunch together, the three of us and it was pretty good.

Give to the Winds Thy Fears

Give the winds the fears,

Hope and be undismayed.

God hears thy sighs and counts thy tears.

God shall lift up thy head.

Through waves and clouds and storms,

He gently clears thy way;

Wait thou His time; so shall this night

Soon end in joyous day.

Far, far above thy thought,

His counsel shall appear,

When fully He the work hath wrought,

That caused thy needless fear.

Leave to His sovereign sway

To choose and to command;

So shalt thou, wondering, own that way,

How wise, how strong this hand.

- Paul Gerhardt.

Still waiting.

You humble me Lord...

"Why do you confuse the issue?
Why do you talk without knowing what you're talking about?
Pull yourself together, [Tina]!
Up on your feet! Stand tall!" - Job 38: 2-3

Fun morning today... I was volunteered to help with a playgroup for disability kids with this american girl (well, really, she's from all over the place! Yay TCK's!) from my church called Mary-Grace. She's been living in India in total for about three years volunteering with this organisation that distributes wheelchairs and stuff like that to disabled people. Once every month, this organisation arranges a little playgroup for disabled kids who come with their parents and the idea is to just have some fun and let the parents have a break for a little while and also to give them a little encouragement.

It was really great. You sort of get the chance to become a kid again yourself as you colour and play with these kids. Such a wonderful experience... Really helped to take the focus off my own life and just forget everything. Its the best thing.

Anyway, after that, Mary-Grace, this other girl, Shweta and I went to commercial street to shop, which was fun. I haven't been to commercial street in eons... although I didn't but anything but it was still fun.

Righto, that's all for now.
Love,
Tina

Oh how I miss Hockey...

Just a random photo I found.

I had my interview after waiting for a VERY long time in a VERY long queue but atleast there were some nice people next to me and we had some good laughs. Anyway, they've put me on the waiting list for admissions and they said they will let me know in one or two days, which i'm guessing means, sometime next week... It could still really swing either way but I am disappointed. I'm just really tired of doing this uni search thingy and I was hoping it would come to an end today but it didn't... There's more waiting and I'm finding it difficult... So please keep praying.

More later,

Joy, joy, joy!

WAHAY! Internet at home is FINALLY working! I really bugged them people at the phone company for the past two days. Only way to get things done in this country. Keep calling till they get the picture...
My certificate from Ooty still isn't here, which is not really good seeing as I need it for my interview tomorrow! Oh dear. I promised myself, I wouldn't freak out about it though, so I'm trying not to. Still another 4 hours till offices close so hopefully it'll get here today. They told me to be at the college at 9:30 tomorrow but you know, Indian Stretchable Time, so my interview could be any time between 9:30 and 5:30 or there may also have been some misunderstanding and I don't actually have the interview tomorrow. I know Meg is frowning at me for being such a pessimist, but trust me, in this part of the world, you have to brace yourself for anything!
Anywayyys, not much else happening.
Later,
Tina

Roobaroo....

Does that actually mean something?? Who am I asking... its a hindi word! Hmmm, I must find out.
Anyway, hello people!
I have a prayer request... I have an interview at Christ College on Friday which they told me about after I called them, so had I not decided to call them, I may well have missed my interview, because I didn't know about it!! GAH... Anyway, the point is that apparently I have an interview. And I really want to get through it... The course is a Bachelor of Arts degree with a combination of Psychology, Sociology and English and I can also learn some French as a second language and its a course that I am interested in and also I am just so tired of doing this uni thing, I want to get in and be finally enrolled in college. So please pray! I can't think of anything else to do, but to pray and I need y'all to pray with me...
All else, is fine. Nothing out of the ordinary. I called school today cause I needed to get some migration certificate and talked to Mr. George. That was nice and he sorted it all out for me, which was also nice for a change. Over the last couple of months living in Bangalore i've seen how difficult it is to get things done sometimes cause its hard to find people who do stuff simply to help you...
We now have a treadmill at home, which is quite fun! I walked to Jars of Clay this morning. They're really good!
Thanks for all the comments of the Guest Appearance. I have forwarded all of them to Taryn incase she doesn't see 'em on here... Oh and to clarify the confusion about AJ's guitar playing, I had some recordings of his jammin' on my comp which Taryn listened to...
More later,
Love,
McT

Rediscovering Delirious.

After Taryn came home, I got into listening to Delirious' songs again and discovered this amazing song called Take off my shoes.

I’ll take off my shoes, I’m coming in,
Untie this rope, I’m staying with him,
Love of my life, I’ll live and die,
Just for the moments for my king and I.

Why did you call, why did you wait,
For someone so guilty, someone so fake.
There are no words for my beautiful song,
Now I’m in the arms of my beautiful one.

Hold me, blow all the pride from my bones,
With your fire.
Hold me, breathe on this heart made of stone,
Keep it pure.
Hold me, saviour of heaven and earth,
King forever.
Hold me, love of my life lead me on,
Through the fire, lead me on...

I’ll take off this crown and fall at your feet,
The secret of joy are the moments we meet.
How could a man with all of your fame,
Pull me from darkness and call me by name.

So hold me today, as I carry your cross,
Into the desert to find who is lost.
Look at my hands, they’re still full of faith,
God keep them clean till we finish the race.

Guest Appearance...

Yello! To make things a little more interesting I thought i'd get Tazzo to blog for me today...
So over to our guest writer... Taryn!

Why, thank you, Tina. I'm honoured to be on your show...er, blog. (Actually, I've never blogged before. I like the sound of the word 'blog', don't you? It's like a blob but better. A blob and a bog put together, maybe. Ah, etymology. Okay, am I supposed to be sounding intellectual here? What do people DO on blogs?? The blobby bog is suckkkiiing me in! blub glub gargle aaargh.)

Um. Hello, readers of Tina's blog, i.e. Ajay and Meg. Yes, i'm talking to you. So you want to know what we've been up to since I arrived here yesterday evening? Exciting things! Earth-shatteringly brilliant things! I'm not going to tell you, though.

Oh all right, if you say 'pleeease' like that, I guess I could let you in on the secret of our top-um, secret activities. We started off by putting in the new Jars of Clay CD (Redemption Songs... buy it at your nearest music store. Hey, Jars should pay me for this.) and then Tina produced from her fridge a large pile of vegetables. A very large pile. By the time we cut it all up, we were surrounded by absolute mountains of multicoloured vegetables. Then Tina made prodigious amounts of pasta, and somehow combined all these vegetables in a rainbow-coloured pasta sauce. (And I grated cheese. Very skillfully. Yes, I know, my culinary skills are gaspworthy.) "No flavour" is her verdict, and she puts garlic in. "It's not spicy enough", she says. And puts green chillis in. "It's still not spicy enough" she says, and chucks in a handful of red chilli powder. "Taryn, it doesn't taste like annything" she complains, and pours in a few packs of Dominos chilli flakes and oregano and rosemary and then she wanted to put more garlic in. I thought it tasted fine. (But then again, I like Cerelac.) So. Dinner turned out surprisingly well.

We stayed up really late, reminiscing and sharing the latest news, until we got really sleepy and started talking absolute nonsense. And this is how Tina calls Lulu: "What's up dawg?" Either that's really fitting or really funny. Or both.

Anyways, these exciting activities were interspersed by much vegetating on the hammock and the beanbag, watching Hebron Highlights, listening to the SC cd, etc. (Ajay I finally heard you play! And you still haven't heard me play. Nya nya. :P Meg your song was awesome.) It's been gooooood fun. You should have been here.

Thanks Taz! Fantastic job, this is possibly the funniest post i've had!

Cool Slideshows

The little Lulu adventures...

Episode 1: Lulu discovers the use of the Hammock

hmmmmmm.... what is this thing!?

she cautiously goes in for a sniff...

ropes everywhere.... what does one use ropes for!?

of course!! to bite at!!