The Coffee + Music Remedy

In great thankfulness of Nescafe Intense Coffee c: . . .


[RANDOMS]

Lots of things bothers my mind---and the only antidote to kill all of those barbarian syndromes is to have a music remedy in my daily basis. It was not just my remedy but somehow an exercise of the mind to stretch my inspiration, into the depth of wonder to the unseen beauty and holiness that is within us.

Inspiration has many genres---and for my favorite zone to get one is to extract thoughts from my favorite musical influences. So they are the artists that I am listening for the past two months now and i love it so greatly, plus it adds a proper digestion to a song that I've been working on now.

So here they are, and maybe if you can, take a look and sip of these miniatures coffees that soothes my senses. Press play, listen to them and get lost to a found inspiration.

Brooke Fraser "Albertine"




Brooke Fraser New Single from her 3rd album " Flags" [Something In The Water]




Hillsong Live 2010 Album "A Beautiful Exchange"





Muse "Blackholes and Revelations"




Linkin Park "Meteora"




Barbie Almalbis





Mia Fieldes "There's A Reason"





Hillsong United "I-Heart Revolution : With Heart as One"

*You'll Come and None but Jesus...tracks that oh, blows me away...








and a lot more to unfold...


Josh xx

VERONICA DECIDES TO DIE

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A Generation to another

Sleep Demons; An Insomniac Memoir [Book Reads]

Currently, sinking my teeth by this beautiful memoir. . . "Sleep Demons" by Bill Hayes. .The Book was absolutely clever and witty.

Book Summary;

Book summary

Bill Hayes grew up in a family in which the question "How'd you sleep?" was as much a staple at the breakfast table as orange juice or coffee, a question that encouraged genuine reflection and a legacy of life-shaping implications. If there's such a thing as an insomnia gene, he tells us at the outset of this beautifully written memoir, my father passed it on to me, along with his green eyes and Irish melancholy.

Hayes' narrative affords an intimate look at one man's singular journey through contemporary life -- from his over-caffeinated, sleep-disturbed childhood as the son of a Coca-Cola bottler to the height of his insomnia, when his partner struggles with AIDS and Hayes must face an increasingly troubling and debilitating sleep disorder.

Armed with an infectious curiosity and an obsession with the mysteries of his personal demons, he leads readers on a fascinating exploration of sleep disorders and contends with all manner of theories and experimentation, from the conceptions of sleep in ancient mythology to today's state-of-the-art sleeping aids and clinics. [via]

Heart "thing" [MUSIC] {Certainly Randoms}

This is rush...just want to share you this a little piece of "you-will-maybe-call-it-simple" pictures, but for me this is awesome [in the sense, of really powerful to me]...
[CAPTION: ...For each one and for the one]


[CAPTION: One for another]
[CAPTION: LOVE]

See the point? Think Again.

Photos from: myhillsong.com

Albertine; In my Playlist [-music-] {Certainly Randoms}

just a rush on [what's-on-my-mind] thing. well, finally exams is over. anyway, I spend my time in here reading a book from J.K Rowling [maybe you'll already know the title]...and of course my greatest sweet escape in this panoramic world, i spent my time...in Music with Brooke Fraser, such a great musician with poetic, well-written songs, angelic voice, simple yet elegant fashion. How I love to sit and relax, chill with her awesome songs. I'm currently listening all songs in her album "Albertine" . I love the tunes of "C.S Lewis song", "Hosea's wife", and "Love is waiting"...and many more. The album is "Christian", edgy and modern, simple yet stunning, and a perfect gift.

If you can grab a copy of the album...then do patience..do YouTube..

Track List

Shadowfeet
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Deciphering Me
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Love, Where Is Your Fire?
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Love Is Waiting
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Albertine
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C.S. Lewis Song
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Epilogue
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Faithful
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Seeds
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Hosea's Wife
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Thief, The
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Hymn

Memories 1 of 10 [Certainly Randoms]

It's a little bit hard, when right now, I'm going to leave these smiling faces...Im going to graduate...and now, I started to miss them..








[take care always Ignacio people ]



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Everything is revealed in the 33rd Degree...

I have read again Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code while I'm having my Christmas Break [the book was so impressive and delightful---literally, pure genius] and it was a "ritual" for me to do it...a preparation... a warm-up before I have to read Dan Brown's much awaited book which is entitled "The Lost Symbol". At first, I was some kind of hesitant to read the book...Masons? Yes, I have heard the name for many times but I was not really sure who they are and what they are. I had an expectation before turning the first page that I'm going to "Rack" my brains. But as I continue to flip and flip the pages, I noticed that I was now at the last 20 chapter of the book. And here's my conclusion about the book. Lost Symbol was so...........magnificent. I cannot compare Dan Brown book because all of them are wonderful and amazing-----------in a way that it will lead you to a deeper understanding and enlightenment. The novel was so impossible to put down. So I should say..this book was another best-seller.

For a bite here's the plot;

The story focuses on Freemasonry, and takes place over a period of 12 hours in Washington, D.C.^[7] Robert Langdon is summoned to give a lecture in National Statuary Hall at the United States Capitol, with the invitation apparently from his mentor, a 33rd degree Mason named Peter Solomon, who is the head of the Smithsonian Institution. However, when Langdon arrives at the Capitol, instead of an audience for his lecture, he finds the severed right hand of Peter Solomon tattooed into a symbolic Hand of the Mysteries, and pointing straight upwards to the fresco The Apotheosis of Washington on the inside of the Capitol dome. Solomon has been kidnapped by the villain Mal'akh, who demands that Langdon unlock the Ancient Mysteries in return for Solomon's life.^[8] This leads to a game of cat and mouse throughout the museums and architecture of Washington. Langdon joins forces with Solomon's sister, Katherine, a researcher studying noetic science in a secret laboratory in the Smithsonian Museum Support Center. Langdon and Katherine are pursued by both Mal'akh, and Inoue Sato, the head of the CIA's Office of Security. Sato's demand is that Langdon solve the mystery as a matter of national security, since Mal'akh is planning to release a clandestine video of Washington powerbrokers engaged in secret Masonic rituals. The chase and the clues to the puzzles lead through the sub-basement of the Capitol, the Library of Congress, the George Washington Masonic National Memorial, Freedom Plaza, the United States Botanical Garden, and Washington National Cathedral. The clues center around a small stone unfinished pyramid, and a capstone that was entrusted several years ago by Solomon to Langdon. The pyramid and the box which holds it reveal several puzzles, involving a Masonic cipher, a circumpunct, an alchemical formula, and references to the 1514 engraving Melencolia I.

The House of the TempleThe Lost Symbol. is the setting for the prologue and the climax of

Mal'akh succeeds in capturing both Katherine and Langdon, torturing both of them, and then takes Peter Solomon to the top floor of the Masonic headquarters House of the Temple. Langdon and Katherine Solomon are rescued by the CIA, while in the meantime Mal'akh reveals to Peter Solomon that he is in fact Peter's own son, Zachary.

As a young man, he had been unhappy with the way he had been treated by his father, so he faked his own death in a Turkish prison. He then experienced a religious epiphany, finding the need to learn the The Lost Word (the verbum significatium or lost symbol of the title) ^[9].

He plans to complete his transformation into a godlike being by inscribing his scalp with what he mistakenly believes to be the symbol for the Ancient Mysteries, the circumpunct^[10].

Trying to recreate the Biblical story of Abraham on the verge of sacrificing his son, Zachary attempts to goad his father into killing him with Abraham' sacrificial Akedah knife on the altar of the Freemasons^[11]. But Langdon intrudes, and a CIA helicopter interrupts the data connection with a targeted EMP to prevent the distribution of the video. Zachary is fatally injured when the helicopter accidentally shatters a skylight above him, and the falling shards pierce his body.

Peter Solomon then takes Langdon to the Washington Monument, viewed from above, a dot in a circular plaza, with a Bible in its cornerstone. Peter tells him that The Word that Mal'akh was seeking was in all holy books such as the Bible, Qur'an, and Bhagavad Gita. The Ancient Mystery is the realization that people are not God's subjects, but in fact possess the ability to be gods themselves. Langdon realizes that the lost symbol is God, standing for limitless human potential and was previously only found by studying holy scriptures such as the Bible, Qur'an, Torah, Vedas and such.


P.S Thanks to my friend Julien, for immediatly grabbing a copy of The Lost Symbol as soon it was released......and for letting me borrow it.

[plot source; wikipedia.com

Deciphering Me.

Well this New year was some kind of poetic season for me...reading books, listening to Brooke Fraser's Songs was such a good time and relaxing for me...anyway here are the few lines extracted from my favorite songs, books I have read, at the television or anywhere else...

"Forgiveness is God's Greatest Gift..."
-The Da Vinci Code Dan Brown

"In that day, they will say, "Surely. This is Our God."
-Isaiah 26.6 [NIV]

"In the end, it mattered not that you could not close your mind. It was your heart that saved you."
-Albus Dumbledore [Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix]-J.K Rowling

"Faith - Acceptance of which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove."
— Dan Brown (The Da Vinci Code)

"Everything is possible. The impossible just takes longer."
— Dan Brown (Digital Fortress)

"Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand."
— Dan Brown (Angels & Demons)

"the difference between a rebel and a patriot depends upon who is in power at the moment."
— Sidney Sheldon (The Sands of Time)

"Nobody Likes a Cranky Grocer"
-Brooke Fraser

"We are more than dust...that means something"
-Brooke Fraser [Hosea's Wife"]

"Change isn't eaisy.Changing the way you live means changing the way you think, means changing what you believe about life. That's hard."
— Dean Koontz (One Door Away from Heaven)

"All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by frost."
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Ring)

"It's hard to have anything isn't it? Rare to get it, hard to keep it. This is a damn slippery planet."
— Thomas Harris (Red Dragon)

""What the hell makes you so smart?" I asked. "I wouldn't go for coffee with you, " she answered. "Listen -- I wouldn't ask you." "That, "she replied "is what makes you stupid.""
— Erich Segal (Love Story)

"Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different style."
— R.L. Stine

“How normally you can live is not determined by the degree of the disability but by how much support you have around you.”
- Keiko Tobe [With The Light]

"What is History, a fable agreed upon?"
-Napoleon Bonaparte

""My heart’s quest is that as God’s eyes search the earth, He would find me to be an extravagant worshipper. I pray this book not only finds itself in your hands, but that it finds itself planted in your heart."
- Darlene Zschech

"I loved that word! When I grew older, I used kira-kira to describe everything I liked: the beautiful blue sky, puppies, kittens, butterflies, colored Kleenex. My mother said we were misusing the word; you could not call a Kleenex kira-kira. She was dismayed over how un-Japanese we were..." Chapter 1, pgs. 1-2
- Kira Kira by Cynthia Kadohata [Never fully read the book yet but hoping I could find a copy of it....]


There are still many books I have read....but it would be too many if i post it all...so I hope you have a great time reading the quotes I have posted....

Happy New Year...

UCCP [CYF] Conference

4 days, 3 nights.
Days full of riddles and meanings of how God responded in me.

December 27-30 was the CYF 3rd annual Conference, and it was indeed a wonderful experience of how the presence of God leads us to a place of many people worshipping together in one Truth AND ONE VOICE ...GOD.

Anyway, I have quoted a verse from I Corinthans to my way journey to the conference and it says,

"And now these remains. Faith , Hope and Love...But the greatest of these is LOVE"
-I Corinthians 13.13

The verse hasa simple yet placed a big impact to my life;
Faith...in God's will and purpose.
Hope...in God's Promise.
Love...to God and to His people.


Happy Holidays and God Bless.

Ciphers In Dan Brown's Digital Fortress

Best selling author of "The dA Vinci Code" Dan Brown's first work "Digital Fortress" is a Novel I have read weeks ago and it is such a WOW, Brainy, superb techno-thriller I've ever read...

I have read it non-stop..and it show how DAN BROWN novels really captures my interests..since I have read his also great great works such as "Angels and demons", and "The dA Vinci Code".

For me, Dan Brown is one of the Mandatory Author I will ever recommed..with the perfect blending of suspense and reality which results to Non-stop page turnings.

One thing, people were just too narrow to JUDGE his work such as "the da vinci code" which was tagged as "anti-christian" by others...well people,,its just a book..it depends upon the reader If what he will be able to conclude...

anyway, heres the complete plot of the story...:

When the NSA's invincible code-breaking machine encounters a mysterious code it cannot break, the agency calls in its head cryptographer, Susan Fletcher, a brilliant and beautiful mathematician. What she uncovers sends shock waves through the corridors of power. The NSA is being held hostage...not by guns or bombs, but by a code so ingeniously complex that if released it will cripple U.S. intelligence.
[edit] Themes and issues
This book deals with issues of civil rights, the privacy of citizens from their government and the right to privacy on the internet. There are many discussions in the book concerning whether or not it is ethical for a government organization to freely access any information stored electronically by its citizens."

**check also the New release from Brown

Which is "the Lost symbol.."

Music and Life Update *_*

I've wait until the last quater of July to end, a date for the release of Hillsong 19th annual live worship entitled "Faith+hope+love" featuring the leadership of Darlene Zschech, Reuben Morgan, Joel Houston, Marty Sampson, Brooke Fraser and Jill McCloghry and the rest of the hillsong staff...

The album Consist of 13 amazing hymns of worship that talk about the magnificence and Love of God to his people.














As i scan deeply unto the list of songs in the album, I was strucked by the song called "We the redeemed" written and beautifully delivered by Jill McCloghry. Itwas a song of sincere and glorious worship to God. It shows how forgiving and loving our God is...

Everyday when i Listen to (and play it to my guitar) a few verses, I can relate it to my life story. Sometimes, when we people, forget about God and turn away form Him...still when we offer ourselves HUMBLY unto him..he still accepts us and redeem us from our sins and wrong doings... I can relate this song to a bible passage that says:

"In Your lovingkindness You have led the people whom You have redeemed; In Your strength You have guided them to Your holy habitation.
Exodus 15:13



So I just hope and pray that you can listen to this song and I really hope that it will touch your life and it will inspire you to worship and exalt God more than everything.. God Bless....

Simply,
Joshua

P.S still im continue making plans for this blog....
...Currently listening to the song...so magnificent...

Heres the track listing of the album..