I. Introduction + Think on These Things

• How you think determines who you are. (Philippians 4:8-9)
• A leader's ability to achieve anything great for God begins in his or heart heart and mind.
• "As he thinks in his heart, so is he." - Proverbs 23:7 (NKJV)
• What enters our mind and occupies our thought process will somewhere, sometime come out of our mouth.
• Two -step formula to help make each one a different person:
  • 2 Corinthians 5:17
  • Changing your thought life - a mental "spring cleaning"
• Check the following areas:
  • In what time of environment do you live?

FEMALE

• Sabrina Fairchild (Sabrina, 1954)
• Agnes(Despicable Me, 2010)
• Bridget Jones (Bridget Jones' Diary, 2001)
• Olive Penderghast (Easy A, 2010)
• Marti Perkins (Hellcats)

MALE

• Flint Lockwood (Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, 2009)

• I strongly believe that the way we live is a consequence of the size of our God. The problem many of us have is that our God is too small. We are not convinced that we are absolutely safe in the hands of a fully competent, all-knowing, ever-present God.
• When human beings shrink God, they offer prayer without faith, work without passion, service without joy, suffering without hope. It results in fear, retreat, loss of vision, and failure to persevere.
• Worship is not about filling God's unmet ego needs. God has made us so that when we experience something transcendentally great, we have a need to praise it. Our experience is incomplete until we can wrap words around it.
• We are to worship God, not because His ego needs it, but because without worship, our experience and enjoyment of God are n..._we_ do.

• When we become more focused on the overwhelming nature of the storm than the overwhelming presence of God, we are in trouble.
• Whenever Jesus calls someone to get out of the boat, he gives the power to walk on water.
• Hope does not just motivate positive action. It actually has healing power.
• "I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength." - Philippians 4:13 (It means I have great confidence that I can face whatever life throws at me, that I never need to give up, that my efforts have potency--because of the One at work within me.)
• Optimism and hope are not quite the same thing. Optimism requires a belief in progress--that things will in fact get better for me. Hope includes all the psychological advantages of optimism, but it is roo...

• I think God says "fear not" so often because fear is the number one reason human beings are tempted to avoid doing what God asks them to do.
• Lloyd Ogilvie notes there are 366 "fear not" verses in the Bible--one for every day of the year, including one leap year!
• ... fear will sink us faster than anything else. Fear disrupts faith and becomes the biggest obstacle to trusting and obeying God.
• Trust and fear have been battling each other for the human heart--you heart--a long time now. Eventually one or the other will win.
• When you take on a challenge, it builds the core of who you are, even if you don't perform flawlessly.
• When you are in a situation that creates fear, but you face it head-on, you will feel a rush of satisfaction in knowing you...

• God generally helps people's faith grow by asking them to take the first step.
• It usually begins by my acting in faith--trusting God enough to take a step of obedience. Simply acknowledging information about his power is not enough. I have to get my feet wet.
• Never try to have more faith--just get to know God better. And because God is faithful, the better you know about Him, the more you will trust Him.
  
  the way to get to know his trustworthiness is to risk obeying Him.
• How much faith do I need? Not a feeling of certainty. Just enough to take a step. ;)
• "Without faith, it is impossible to pleas...

• There is no tragedy like the tragedy of the unopened gift. ("It's as if I've lived half my life waiting for life to begin, thinking it's somewhere off in the future.")
• Comparison will lead to pride and a false sense of superiority if I'm ahead of someone, and misery if I'm behind. Or worse, I will discount and bury the irreplaceable treasure that the Lord of the Gift has given to me alone.
• God will not ask, "What did you do with what you didn't have?" He will instead ask, "What did you do with what you had?"
• It is only in the process of accepting and solving problems that our ability to think creatively is enhanced, our persistence is strengthened, and our self-confidence is deepened. If someone gives me the answers, I may get a good score on a test, but I will not have grown.

Monday

• The Book of Eli (2010)
  • People had more than they needed. We had no idea what was precious and what wasn't. We thew away things people kill each other now.
  • In all these years I've been carrying it and reading it every day, I got so caught up in keeping it safe that I forgot to live by what I learned from it.
  • I can't imagine what it must feels like, to have something so close, that you worked so hard for, and it might as well be a million miles away.
  • Dear Lord, Thank you for giving me the strength and the conviction to complete the task you entrusted to me. Thank you for guiding me straight and true through the many obstacles in my path. And for keeping me resolute when all around seemed lost...

• Write a prayer list.
• Set your (specific) goals.
• Create five "fat files".
• Read your Bible.
  • ✔ But first, you have to get it from your mom's messy, messy room.
• Read Proverbs 31.

Wednesday

• Harry Potter and the Order of Phoenix (2007)
  • The world isn't split into good people and Death Eaters. We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are.
• Peter and Vandy (2009)
  • Oh well, I don't know of a lot of really good BBQ places around here, but there's a great barbecue place that's not so far away.
• Meet the Fockers (2004)
  • If it's yellow let it mellow, if it's brown flush it down... Oops, looks like I forgot my own rule!
  • It's not about winning or losing. It's ab...

Monday

• Veronika Decides to Die (2009)
  • Desire contradicts fear. These days, most people replace almost all their emotions with fear. And everyone has dreams but only a few realizes them. It makes cowards of the rest of us.
  • If everyone realized their dreams, this place# would be empty.

# - Vilette, the psychiatric ward

Wednesday

• The Master of Disguise (2002)
  • Am I not turtley enough for the turtle club?
• Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging (2008)
  • Libby! Stop putting Angus in the fridge.

• Titanic (1997)
• The Parent Trap (1998) - even though I already have an original VHS and VCD of it :p
• Clueless (1995) - VCD only :(
• 10 Things I Hate About You (1999) - VCD
• Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)
• Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
• Mean Girls (2004) - VCD
• What Happens in Vegas (2008)
• Beauty and the Beast (1991)
• Roman Holiday (1953)
• Romy and Michele's High School Reunion (1997) - VCD

Wednesday

• Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)
  • Poor cat! Poor slob! Poor slob without a name! The way I see it I haven't got the right to give him one. We don't belong to each other. We just took up one day by the river. I don't want to own anything until I find a place where me and things go together. I'm not sure where that is but I know what it is like. It's like Tiffany's.
  • You know those days when you get the mean reds? ... The blues are because you're getting fat and maybe it's been raining too long, you're just sad that's all. The mean reds are horrible. Suddenly you're afraid and you don't know what you're afraid of. Do you ever get that feeling? ... Well, when I get it the only thing that does any good is to jump in a cab and go to...

Monday

• Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (2009)
  • Do you know why I became a pilot? For the fun of it. Why else would anyone do anything?
  • Remember, a house divided cannot stand.
• The Proposal (2009)
  • You know what the problem is? The problem is that this woman is a gigantic pain in my ass. First there’s the whole leaving thing. I understand that. It’s a sham wedding, kind of stressful. But then she goes ahead and she leaves this note. Because she doesn’t have the decency, the humanity to do it to my face. Three year I worked with this terrorist. Never once has she had a nice thing to say, and then she goes ahead and she writes this crap!...

"It's like there are people you can like and control how much you like them, right? But then there are other people, people who when you're with them you can't--you can't make yourself safe. And it feels great but it's also kind of--"

"Scary."

______

"I met her and suddenly I was overwhelmed with... well, everything. Every time I was around her, it was like I couldn't think past her. I'd never felt like that before and it felt really great and really fucking scary at the same time."

"And now?"

"It's still scary sometimes. But mostly it's just really great."

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Sunday

• What Happens in Vegas (2008)
  • I spent my whole life pleasing other people, and in not pleasing you, I finally found myself.
  • I'd rather do nothing and be happy, than do something I don't love.

Monday

• The Classic (2003)

Tuesday

• City of Angels (2008)
  • I don't understand a God who would let us meet, if there's no way we could ever be together.
  • Some things are true whether you believe them or not.
  • I would rather have had one breath of her...

• Finish the entire Bible in a year. That's only 15 minutes of reading per day!
• Pray sincerely every night, even when I don't feel like it.
• Save PHP ______ by the end of the year. (Not disclosing the amount here. Hehe.)
• Give more. Do charity.
• Tithe regularly. 10% of salary - every payday!
• Buy a camera before my Hong Kong trip this February.
• Fix bedroom once a week in order to keep it tidy.
• Finish reading 23 books by the end of the year, because I'm already turning 23! (Copied from Donna Pua. Haha.)
• Learn how to drive a car for real, and then get a license.
• Leave the country more than once (twice?) this year if God permits.
• Be (more) fit.

• He is a true Christian.
  • who loves God more than anyone else he knows (that includes me, boohoo hehehe)
  • who chooses God over the things of this world
  • whose love for God is contagious
• He makes me a better person in many ways.
• He's effortlessly funny.
• Both my parents approve of him.
• He finds me beautiful, including my imperfections which make me real and unique.
• He laughs at the silliest and most nonsense things I do and say, and loves me more for them.
• He loves food but isn't a pig.
• He has a good relationship with his parents and siblings.
• He treats me with respect all the time.
• He isn't hot-headed, especially with me.

• Perfect Fifths by Megan McCafferty
• Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
• Love Wins by Rob Bell
• Crazy Love by Francis Chan
• When God Writes Your love Story by Eric and Leslie Ludy
• Plan B by Pete Wilson
• The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis

• I truly believe women are more successful with their goals and dreams if they have an accurate view of God and a clear reflection of how He sees them.
• "When one door of happiness closes, another opens: but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us."

• "Waiting is the hardest work of hope." - Lewis Smedes
• For good reasons, God does not always move at our frantic pace. We are too often double espresso followers of a decaf Sovereign.
• What God does in us while we wait is as important as what it is we are waiting for.
• "Delaying gratification is a process of scheduling the pain and pleasure of life in such a way as to enhance the pleasure by meeting and experiencing the pain first and getting it over with. It is the only decent way to live." - M. Scott Peck
• Paul says that while we are waiting for God to set everything right, we suffer. But suffering produces endurance; endurance, character; and character, hope.
• Waiting is not just something we have to do while we get what we want. It is part ...

• The cave (of failure) is where God does some of his best work in molding and shaping human lives.
• God wants His power to flow through your weakness.
• As long as my sense of being valuable and significant is tied to my success, it will be a fragile thing. But when I come to know in the marrow of my bones that I am just as valued and loved by God when I have fallen flat on my face, then I am gripped by a love stronger than my success or failure.
• "If I'm walking closely with God, if I have the sense of God being with me, I find that problems lose their ability to damage my spirit."
• Taking action is very powerful. The reason many people become paralyzed in discouragement is because they fail to devote the time or energy to understand what was i...

Monday

• View from the Top (2003)

• There is a big difference between faith and foolishness.
  • Peter does not immediately jump out of the boat. He begins by requesting Jesus to give him permission first.
  • It is possible for us to make courageous, high-risk decisions that are stupid.
• Water-walking requires not only the courage to take a risk, but also the wisdom to discern a call.
• Peter is not in charge of water-walking--Jesus is.
• What we do matters immensely. It is worth devoting our best energy to. We are on a mission from God.
• A calling is something you discover, not something you choose. (People will sometimes speak about "choosing their calling," but a chosen calling is an oxymoron.)
• A calling is "the place where your deep g...

Monday

• Shutter Island (2010)

Wednesday

• Kick Ass (2010)

Thursday

• Gossip Girl: The Hurt Locket (s03e12)

Wednesday

• The Memory Keeper's Daughter (2008)

Thursday

• Left Behind: World at War (2005)

Monday

• The Aristocats (1970)
  • (Why should you be first?) Because I'm a lady, that's why!
  • Ladies don't start fights, but they can finish them!

Thursday

• How I Met Your Mother: Hooked (s05e16)
  • I've been the hookee and the hooker.
• How I Met Your Mother: Of Course (s05e15)
  • Of course she is upset - take a look at yourself you dumb slut.Of course she is upset - take a look at yourself you dumb slut.
  • Wow! I knew I would be bad at being a boyfriend, but I didn't know I'd be such a b...

Monday

• Coraline (2009)
• Post Grad (2009)
• How I Met Your Mother: Rabbit or Duck (s05e15)

Wednesday

• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001)
  • Now if you two don't mind, I'm going to bed before either of you come up with another clever idea to get us killed - or worse, expelled.
  • It's spooky! She knows more about you than you do!
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)
  • It is not our abilities that show what we truly are. It is our choices.

• June Bride (1948)
• Eternally Yours (1939)
• Passion of Mind (2000)
• Private Lives (1931)
• Fools Rush In (1997)
• ✔ Sabrina (1954)

Sunday

• When Harry Met Sally (1989)
  • I'm saying that the right man for you might be out there right now, and if you don't grab him, someone else will. And you'll have to spend the rest of your life knowing that someone else is married to your husband.
  • I love that you get cold when it’s 71 degrees out, I love that it takes you an hour and a half to order a sandwich, I love that you get a little crinkle above your nose when you’re looking at me like I’m nuts, I love that after I spend a day with you I can still smell your perfume on my clothes and I love that you are the last person I want to talk to before I go to sleep at night. And it’s not because I’m lonely, and it’s not because it’s New Years Eve. I came here tonig...

Sunday

• Definitely, Maybe (2008)
  • Dad, I can't believe you smoked... and drank... and was such a slut... But I still love you.
  • I kept the book because it was the only thing that I had left of you.
  • Well, sometimes they're apart for years, but they almost always find each other. Do you know what the husband and wife penguins do after they find each other after all that time? Throw back their heads, flap their flippers, and sing as loud as they can!
• Flywheel (2003)
  • "Delight yourself in the LORD and he will give you the desires of your heart. Commit your way to the LORD; trust in him and he will do this: He will make your right...

• Dug Down Deep by Joshua Harris
• Forgotten God by Francis Chan
• Fourth Comings by Megan McCafferty
• Mini Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella
• One Day by David Nicholls
• Passion and Purity by Elisabeth Elliot
• Sun Stand Still by Steven Furtick
• The Chronicles of Narnia (Series) by C.S. Lewis
• The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin
• TO BE CONTINUED!!!

• Increase traffic by updating my blog more, hopefully with original posts.
  • Think out loud by writing down whatever thoughts and ideas I have.
• Be (more) fit.
  • Exercise regularly. Ideal is everyday but let's see...
  • Write down diet rules like the old, skinny days--and stick to them by hook or by crook! (Although, maybe it's okay to have a one-day cheat day per week?)
• Strategize how I'm finally going to fix my room. Yup, no matter how impossible that sounds like!
• Manage my time better.
  • The less important things really have to go. But, what are they?
  • Don't go online anymore once I'm home. Un...

• Two things that aid spiritual growth: surrender + purpose
• HK itinerary / to do list
• Eat, Pray, Love = what are my 3 countries?
• Enderun: Pastry event (!)

Tuesday

• Fireproof (2008)

Wednesday

• Dear John (2010)
  • No matter how many years go by, I know one thing to be as true as it ever was. I’ll see you soon, then.

Thursday

• The Last Song (2010)
  • Sometimes you have to be apart from the people you love, but that doesn't make you love them any less. Sometimes it makes you love them more.

Friday

• Fireproof (2008)

Saturday

• Your heart is revealed and your character is forged when life does not turn out the way you planned.
• It is the act of facing the storm that you discover what lies inside you and decide what lies before you.
• Faith believes that with God, we are never helpless victims.
• "Wherever you find yourself--do not easily leave."
• C.S. Lewis wrote in The Screwtape Letters that although we would think that people are most vulnerable to temptation in season when their energy levels and appetites are highest, in fact it is when we are in the valley, when we are struck by sadness or desolation, that we are in the most dangerous place.
• I don't think that it is ever enough just to run away from sin. Sin is a pretty dogged pursuer. Sooner or later, you have to turn and face the pain that makes the t...

Tuesday

• The Losers (2010)

Thursday

• Iron Man (2008)

Friday

• Iron Man 2 (2010)

• Discern between an authentic call from God and what might simply be a foolish impulse... Courage alone is not enough; it must be accompanied by wisdom and discernment.
• You've got to get out of the boat a little everyday.
• Failure does not shape you; the way you respond to failure shapes you.
• We have to learn to wait on the Lord to receive power to walk on the water. We have to wait for the Lord to make the storm disappear.
• The water is where Jesus is. The water may be dark, wet and dangerous. But Jesus is not in the boat. The main reason Peter got out of the boat is that he wanted to be where Jesus was.
• If you get out (of the boat), I believe two things will happen The first is that when you fail--and you will fail sometimes...

Monday

• Date Night (2010)
  • I'd do it again, you know? ... Us - you, me, kids - all of it. I'd do it again. I'd choose you, every time.

Thursday

• Glee: Hell-O (s01e14)
  • Did you know that dolphins are just gay sharks?

Friday

• How I Met Your Mother: Zoo or False (s05e19)
• How I Met Your Mother: The Rough Patch (s05e07)
  • Maybe this isn't a breakup. Maybe this is... two friends getting back together.

Tuesday

• The Blind Side (2009)
  • ... But honor, that’s the real reason you either do something or you don’t. It’s who you are and maybe who you want to be. If you die trying for something important then you have both honor and courage, and that’s pretty good. I think that’s what the writer was saying, that you should hope for courage and try for honor. And maybe even pray that the people telling you what to do have some too.

Wednesday

• Alice in Wonderland (1951)
  • If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary-wise; what it is it wo...

Monday

• Valley of the Dolls (1967)
  • [It's a rotten business] I know. But I love it!

Friday

• Alice in Wonderland (2010)
  • Have I gone mad? … I’m afraid so. You’re entirely bonkers. But I’ll tell you a secret. All the best people are.
  • You used to be much muchier before. Yes, you were much more Alice the last time we met. You have lost your muchness.
  • I'll miss you when I wake up.

Tuesday

• Paano na Kaya? (2010)

Friday

• Dear John (2010)
  • I love you. Not just for now, but for always, and I dream of the day that you’ll take me in your arms again.
  • Tonight you're here with me.

Saturday

• How I Met Your Mother: The Perfect Week (s05e14)
  • Ted: You guys got Wendy saying it now? Come on, like, I get it, Cook Pu is a stupid name and it gets stupider and stupider the more you say it. Cook Pu Cook Pu Cook Pu!
  • Cook Pu: Here. :(

Monday

• Sabrina (1954)
  • I hate girls that giggle all the time.
  • You hate every girl David looks at.
  • A woman happily in love, she burns the soufflé. A woman unhappily in love, she forgets to turn on the oven.
  • I decided to be sensible the other day and tore up David's picture. Could you please airmail me some Scotch tape?
  • Bonjour, mesdames et monsiuers. Yesterday we have learned the correct way how to boil water. Today we will learn the correct way how to crack an egg. Voilà! An egg. Now, an egg is not a stone; it is not made of wood, it is a living thing. It has a heart. So when we crack it, we must not torment it. We must be merciful and execute it quickly, like with the guillotine.

• ✔ Valley of the Dolls (1967)
• How to Steal a Million (1966)
• ✔ Charade (1963)
• Love in the Afternoon (1957)
• Two for the Road (1967)
• Wait Until Dark (1967)
• ✔ Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)
• Saved (2004)
• ✔ Sabrina (1954)
• Coco avant Chanel (2009)
• Singing in the Rain (1952)
• ✔ Funny Face (1957)
• ✔ Wizard of Oz (1939)
• The Audrey Hepburn Story (2000)
• The Parent Trap (1961)
• ✔ The Master of Disguise (2002)
• Garden State (2004)
• ✔ Facing the Giants (2006)
• ✔ His Girl Friday (1940)
• Big Fish (2004)
• High Fidelity (2000)

Wednesday

• The Ramen Girl (2008)
  • Somewhere along the way I just forgot what I wanted to do with my life...
  • Do foreigners eat spring onions? They must eat spinach. Popeye loves Spinach.
• Greta (2009)

Thursday

• 500 Days of Summer (2009)
  • You know what sucks? Realizing that everything you believe in is complete and utter bullshit.
  • Just because she likes the same bizzaro crap you do doesn't mean she's your soulmate.
  • I woke up one morning and I just knew what I was never sure of with you.
  • I don't know how to tell you this, but......

• Sometimes it seems like we're all living in some kind of prison. And the crime is how much we hate ourselves. It's good to get really dressed up once in a while. And admit the truth: that when you really look closely? People are so strange and so complicated that they're actually... beautiful. Possibly even me. (My So-Called Life, 2004)
• I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride; so I love you because I know no other way than this. (XVII, Pablo Neruda)
• ...if I look at the crystal moon, at the red branch of the slow autumn at my window, if I touch near the fire, the impalpable ash, or the wrinkled body of the log, everything carries me to you, as if everything that exists, aromas, light, metals, were little boats that sail toward those...

• You look good wearing my future. - Some Kind of Wonderful (1997)
• You can’t love someone for what they stand for or seem to be. You have to love them for their details, for the things that are true of them and only them. - Win a Date with Tad Hamilton (2004)
• Love is about going that extra mile even if it hurts, letting it all hang out there. Love is about finding courage inside of you that you didn’t even know was there. - Little Manhattan (2005)
• I woke up one morning and I just knew what I was never sure of with you. - 500 Days of Summer (2009)
• Love makes you do crazy things, insane things.
 Things in a million years you’d never see yourself do.
 But there you are doing them, you can’t help it. - Wicker Park (2004)
• The truth is I gave my heart away a long ...